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Rawlings 

 Teacher 



Beauchamp 



Allaire 



Boutineau 



was a prosperous chaudler iu Boston before the end of the 

 century. His brother James must have been established 

 in the town before the year 1690, for in that year his 

 wife Ann joined Cotton Mather's Church. James 

 was the father of four sons, James, Peter, Gabriel and 

 Alexander, and three daughters, Phillippa, Ann and 

 Marian. 



John Eawlings probably came to Boston as early as 

 1G84. In 1683 he was one of the " Euling Elders " of the 

 French Church in Southampton, England. His name has 

 come down to us as the honoured ' ' French schoolmaster 

 in Boston " for a long period of years, and he was a man 

 of marked piety and uprightness of life. In 1696 his 

 name was recorded as one of the elders of the French 

 Church. 



Jean Beauchamp was the son of a Parisian lawyer who 

 fled to England and died there in 1688. Jean came to 

 Boston the year previous to his father's death. After the 

 failure of the Narragansett settlement he became a i:)ros- 

 perous leather dresser and owned a substantial house on 

 Washington Street. In 1720 he removed to Hartford, 

 Connecticut, where one of his daughters married Allan 

 McLean, another married Thomas Elmer, a third became 

 the wife of Jean Chenevard, while the fourth married into 

 the Laurens (Lawrence) family. 



Louis Allaire, of La Eochelle, a nephew of Gabriel 

 Bernon, was the founder of the firm of "Louis Allaire 

 and Company," which carried on an extensive trade with 

 southern ports. A descendant settled in New York and 

 founded the Allaire Iron Works ; he was philanthropic 

 and established a model working men's village in New 

 Jersey, the first settlement of its kind. The enterprise 

 was not financially successful, but Allaire, the employer, 

 was recognized as a benefactor. 



Stephen Boutineau, a lawyer from La Eochelle, became 

 one of the leading French citizens of Boston. He settled 

 first in Casco, Maine (now Portland), and came to Boston 



