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left two sons, Peter and John, whose sons became promi- 

 nent merchants of the city. His daughters married well, 

 and among their descendants may be numbered Judge 

 Samuel Breese, of New Jersey, and Professor Edward E. 

 Salisbury, of Yale. 



Other Huguenot names which occur among the emi- 

 grants to Philadelphia before 1750 are : Montadon, Le 

 Colle, Casser, Eemy, Huyett, Eemley, Eansier, Suffrance, 

 Bouton, Eena, Du Bois, Le Brant, and Piquart. 



Lancaster 

 County 



The Boyers 



Easy 

 Assimilation 



VIII 



Lancaster County was a place of refuge for many 

 Huguenots. In the days before a permanent settlement 

 had been effected, there were several Huguenots in that 

 region who were engaged in trading with the Indians. 

 Among these was Captain James Letort, who with his 

 sons is frequently mentioned as being in the government's 

 employ. He afterwards settled in Philadelphia. 



Samuel Boyer was one of the first of the regular settlers 

 to arrive, coming in 1710. The Boyer family in France 

 is a large and honourable one, and the American Boyers 

 are worthy of their heredity. Members are to be found 

 throughout Pennsylvania, and mention may be made of 

 Honourable Henry Boyer, General Philip Boyer, of the 

 War of 1812, Honourable Benjamin M. Boyer, member 

 of Congress in 1864, Colonel Zachur Boyer, of the Civil 

 War, and Honourable Henry K. Boyer, Treasurer of the 

 State and Director of the United States Mint at Phila- 

 delphia. 



As news of the colony spread among the exiles in the 

 Palatinate, they came over in large numbers. They did 

 not support any separate church organization of their 

 own, having united with other churches while in Ger- 

 many, but it is recorded that Lewis Boehm, pastor of the 

 First Eeformed Church in Lancaster in 1771, used to de- 

 liver frequent sermons in French. The following refugees 

 were members of this church : Viller, De Gaston, Mel- 



