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Jean Hasbrouck House (1721) on Huguenot Street in New Paltz, New York. Huguenot immigrants settled throughout pre-colonial America, including in New Amsterdam (New York City), some 21 miles north of New York in a town which they named New Rochelle, and some further upstate in New Paltz.
Louis Du Bois (21 October 1626 – 1696) was a Huguenot colonist in New Netherland who, with two of his sons and nine other refugees, founded the town of New Paltz, New York. These Protestant refugees fled Catholic persecution in France, emigrating to the Rhenish Palatinate (in present-day Germany) and then to New Netherland, where they settled ...
Historic Huguenot Street is located in New Paltz, New York, approximately 90 miles (140 km) north of New York City.The seven stone houses and several accompanying structures in the 10-acre National Landmark Historic District were likely built in the early 18th century by Huguenot settlers fleeing discrimination and religious persecution in France and what's now southern Belgium.
Peter Archambo I (1699–1759), in his time Peter Archambo, was a Huguenot silver- and goldsmith. He was the English-born son of the Huguenot refugee Archambault family from France. In 1710 he was apprenticed to the notable Huguenot goldsmith Jacob Margas (1677 – c. 1750). [1]
The tribe fought a series of conflicts against settlers from the New Netherland colony from September 1659 to September 1663, known as the Esopus Wars, in and around Kingston. At the conclusion of the conflict, the tribe sold large tracts of land to French Huguenot refugees in New Paltz and other communities. [7]
Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957), American actor, descended from Huguenot refugees in the ... founded business in 1750 that was to become ... Governor of New York.
Manakin Huguenot Church Built in 1700 by French Huguenots, Protestant refugees. Burned down in the Revolutionary War, it was later rebuilt with parts of the original building. It is in what is called the Carpenter Gothic style. Abraham Salle was first in New York in 1700, when he petitioned for privileges of citizenship of the governor and ...
Soon after his birth, the family emigrated to the Virginia colony, [3] where hundreds of Huguenot refugees had settled above the falls of the James River during the early 1700s. Maury was tutored and attended The College of William and Mary. After ordination to the Anglican ministry on July 31, 1742, he was appointed usher of its grammar school.