I have been doing a lot of research in Ulster County and have learned that shortly after the Dutch left NYC in about 1660 when the Duke of York came sailing in, a group of Huguenots purchased a very large portion of what was Ulster County at that time. Ulster then gave land to Orange and to Greene and became a lot smaller, but the French names []and their Anglicization are still very obvious in much of the research I do. I was happy to learn that the flight to Holland is what precluded their strength as Reformed Dutch Church members, because I never had made that connection. Since Ulster was a very large county and had so many French surnames, it would be a good bet to look there as well. I have du Bois, Palmatier and Alliger as surnames in Ulster so far. Jan jgrellim@sbcglobal.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <GonyaJL@aol.com> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] [LEFAUCHEUR] Researching Jean Le Faucheur (FOSHAY)from France >I have found lots of information about the Huguenots who left France in the > 15 and 1600s due to unbelievable religious persecution. In 1536 there was > a > General Edict urging extermination of all Huguenots! The worst came on > August 24, 1573, which was Saint Bartholomew's Day when the Queen, > (Catherine de > Medici) approved of a new wave of extermination of all Protestants. The > Queen > herself gave the signal for the killing to begin. 3000 were killed in > Paris, 70,000 in all of France. (Go to Google and read about it -- it > will curl > your hair!) > > My gggg grandparents were lucky to escape to Holland where after several > years they boarded De Vergulde Bever (the Gilded Beaver) on May 15, 1658 > and > arrived on Aug 18 -- a really fast trip! > > I did this research several years ago, so I don't remember all the sources > of info, but I used Google a lot and I got the Ship and Passenger > Information > from "First Settlement of New York by the Dutch" > > I believe that Cyndi's List has info about the Huguenots! > > Good Luck, > Jean > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >