Dutch-English-French names did mix. Waldron and Livingston, for instance, appear to be families that were in both the Low Countries and England. Sneden is reputed to have been Snowden (although I cannot find any evidence of that pro or con). The meaning is Snow Mountain. In Morris County, some genealogies give the name Courter or even Courtier as being French, when the name is Dutch, coming from Koerte ("of Kurt"). Genung, suprisingly, is French, going back to a Huguenot Jean Guenon. (Jean married a Sneden.) Guenon meant in its earlier forms, "companion", but later came to mean the monkey or ape the accompanied musicians, then just "ape". Sorry Genung cousins for letting the ape out of the bag. And, speaking of the French, I noticed a whole group of families in Chatham (or Hanover, I forget now), from Martinique. What was the story there? Wilson Brown

Hello Wilson; If these families were Protestant, they were most likely refugees from the French sugar islands. When the Edict of Nantes was revoked, a wave of immigrants washed up on US shores as you know. The isles had a reputation for leniency, but the handwriting was on the wall. I believe this happened in the 1790's; I'm doing this off the top of my head. They came into NYC and I believe a number founded New Rochelle. That would be interesting if a 'colony' was founded in Morris County. Take care, Kevin