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In 1688 Jeau Barbaric and liis sons Pierre and Jean 

 settled in New York. Barbaric acquired considerable Barbaric • 

 wealth, wiis active in politics, and distinguished himself 

 by taking the lead in the organization of the French 

 church. His son Pierre became one of the prominent 

 membere of Trinity Church, and served at various times 

 as warden and vestryman. 



Jean Fouchart (Fouchard) a native of Duras, settled in Pouchard 

 New York in 1704. Denis Lambert, of Bergerac, came 

 in 1691. Lewis Lyron came in 1696, but made his fiual Lyron 

 home in Milford, Conn. At his death he gave £200 to the 

 French Church of Boston and £100 to the church in New 

 Rochelle. Pierre Montels, of Canet, was naturalized in Monteis 

 England and came to New York in 1702. He had been a 

 prosperous iron manufacturer, and before leaving home 

 he had deeded his property to his son-in-law, Noe Cazalet, 

 who was outwardly a ' ' new convert. ' ' When Cazalet was 

 examined by the priests as to his orthodoxy, he replied 

 that he had told his children to attend the mass, but that 

 as for himself "it must come from God." Shortly after 

 making this declaration he, too, found it best to come to 

 New York. 



From Sedan came Jacques Tiphaine, the ancestor of the 

 Tiffany family, distinguished merchants of New York. Tiphaine 

 Henry Collier, who founded the important American Family 

 family of Colliers, was a native of Paris. He reached 

 England in 1681, but setting out on a trading voyage in Coiuer 

 1686 he had the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the 

 French coast and was promptly put in prison. He made 

 good his escape a second time, however, and subsequently 

 came to New York. Claude Requa, the ancestor of the 

 Requa family of New York and Pennsylvania, was a child Requa 

 when his parents decided to come to America. The story 

 of his emigration, which is not unlike that of thousands 

 of others, is as follows : " They departed in the night, to The Escape 

 save their lives, leaving the greater part of their property, ^°"' 

 which they could not convert into money. There were 



