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Ulster County, named "Gricourt" after the old home in 

 France. 



The New York Chevaliers are descended from Jean le 

 Chevalier, who was probably related to the other emi- chevaliers 

 grants of that name who settled in Philadelphia and 

 Charleston. He married Marie de la Plaine in the Dutch 

 Church in 1692. From Normandy came Frangois le 

 Comte, who was mai'ried to Catharine Lavandier in 1693. 

 He seems to have been one of the victims of the laws LeComte 

 which allowed the priests to bring up Huguenot children in 

 the Roman faith, for before his marriage he was compelled 

 to make abjuration. 



From Rouen came Jean Cancel, Pierre Chaprou, and 

 Abraham Dupout before the close of the centm-y. Daniel 

 Marchand, of Caen, came before 1692. Andr6 Foucault, Foucauit 

 descended from a family of Poitou that was noted for the 

 sufferings it had endured in the cause of religion, was in 

 New York by the year 1691. In 1703 the governor 

 authorized him to open a French and English school in 

 the city of New York. About the same time came 

 Zacharie Angevin, likewise of Poitou. In 1701 he moved 

 out of the city to New Rochelle, where his descendants 

 were numerous for many years. Jacob Baillergeau, of 

 Loudon in Touraine, was naturalized in New York in 1701, 

 and in 1704 was licensed to j^ractice medicine in New 

 York and New Jersey. Thomas Bayeux, of Caen, came 

 to New York shortly after the Revocation, and became 

 one of the leading merchants of the city. He married 

 Madeleine Boudinot in 1703 and left a large posterity. 



Daniel Targe, of Port des Barques, was among the other 

 Narragansett settlers, and on the breaking up of the set- 

 tlement removed to New York, where his descendants 

 survive under the transformed names of Targer and Tar- 

 get. Fraugois Bouquet, a ship captain from the same 

 port, fled to England in 1681, coming to New York to- 

 wards the close of the century. He was a man of prop- 

 erty and well-known in shipping circles. The TiUou 



Families 



