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1: 186. “A number of Waldensian families came over from 
Holland, several of whom established themselves on Staten Island. 
Pierre Martin, Gerard Ive, and Juste Grand arrived in August, 
1662, on the ship Fox; and Jerome Bovie, Pierre Noue, and Pierre 
Parmentier—all from ‘ Walslant ’"—arrived in April, 1663, on the 
Spotted Cow.” 
In support of a further statement that “it is believed that others 
of the first settlers of Staten Island were Waldenses,’ Doctor Baird 
cites Brodhead, History of the State of New York 1: 692, whose 
sentence reads “Grants of land were presently [1661] made to 
various persons, among whom were several French Waldenses, 
and afterwards many Huguenots from Rochelle.” Brodhead 
gives references to Albany Records, Holland Documents, etc. All 
these references were reexamined by Mr. A. J. F. Van Laer, State 
Archivist, at the instance of Mr. E. C. Delavan, Jr., and no refer- 
ence to Waldenses found therein. Mr. Van Laer’s original letter 
is in the possession of the St. George Branch of the Public Library. 
1: 187. Doctor Baird says the Palatinate “ offered a refuge to 
the oppressed Huguenots, and to the Waldenses, driven from their 
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Alpine valleys,’ and cites David de Marest, Meynard Journeay, 
Philippe Casier, as among those who thus came to Staten Island 
from Mannheim, being French Protestants. 
1: 201. Here begins the account of those who went first to 
the Antilles, especially the island of St. Christopher. 
checked by Mr. A. J. F. Van Laer, State Archivist. ‘‘ Alsoo: Naer alle 
apparentie menichte vande Verdrevene Vaudoisen (:die des gewaerschout 
sullen werden:) hundaerwaerts sullen comen te begeven,”’ “since according 
to all appearances many of the exiled Waldenses, who will be notified of it, 
would desire to go there.” “ That the persons thus designated were Wal- 
denses, and not Walloons, appears further from a subsequent correspondence, 
vol. XV, fol. 12, p. 3. The directors wrote to Stuyvesant, April 16, 1663, 
correcting an impression which he had received that another body of ‘the 
oppressed inhabitants of Piedmont’ had made request to be brought over to 
New Netherland.” Baird 1: 186 says: “ Certain it is, that in the course of 
the next few years [following 1657] a number of Waldensian families came 
over from Holland, several of whom established themselves on Staten 
Island,” but offers no proof beyond the paragraph quoted above, which refers 
to the colony on South River. 
