New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-16
WHO FOUNDED NEW-YORKs
pEAsoNs FOR THINKING 1T WAS A CON-
PANY OF wALLooN FRENcHMEN.

81 c.,,rn TUE CRY Nrw-AyEsNEs-
DISCOVERY MADE bi
FRENCH STUDENT.
To the Editor OF The tribune.
Sir II will probably astonish mcs' VI '"u' -
ers to learn that the nrst name SVEN W . $50
was not New-Ams'eroa"' ~ - r,e..,,vnort
the town OF Avesnes, situa'eo III VIC ~ 80.
du Nord In France. This Information mas pee"
received in the course OF a correspondence man.
tanned BY the writer In behalf OF prominent c''-
zen OF New-York, ex-president or the Ho''sho
Society, who is making a search In Europe a. !"
his family history.
An intelligent Frenchman. NJ Lemoyne OF An
gers writes that virlet d'Aoust In his Report on
Geography" for the year 1871 No. IL. remarks AZ
follows
Tn 1907 three hundred natives of French Flanders;
from the city of Avesnes under the leaue. snp "
Jean error f9r Jesse ae rorese i,,,ated the city
nc Sav iVy.oT' Hf,erwerd Dutch co,onsts arrived
and. with the aid OF IN, Metropolitan Government
lat Amsterdam. ffoIianHl, suys"' vesres New
NeWAms'eLuiah a o erst horne nv the infant set
Element now the Empire City Of the New Worio.
Tho publication OF this remarkable statement will
probabIv revive anew an interesting discussion
which was held by our savants two years ago on
~ .a,,on wore tho French ar the Dutch the
."e ~. ,.,. o,,,o rna claim ,ha, tho French,
-, - oa,,,, yyauoons or natives OF French
Flanders were the fret 10 establish colony on
M.pb.,an Island was made by the Rev Dr. G. ".
Raird in his History of the Huguerot Emigration
to America" Under the leadership OF Jesse de
Forest who was a native OF the city OF Avesnes. Q
Marty NJ Freuchmen then resident in Leyden, Hol-
Iord had netitioned July lS 1921 the British Am.
hoesador for permission to emigrate to Virginia.
Failing in this effort they made application to the
Du,cb Government who sent over in the ship New.
Netherand thirty French families, who iindeo
on Mammalian Island in May 1923. DR.. Baird says:
only
huts at the southern end OF the isiahd' IN.
permanent occupation Of the site OF the city OF
New-York dates from the arrival OF tne snip we"
Netherland in May. 1923 Vol ], p l'3)
Dr. Baird gives fac-simile OF the petition Oh
1921 and argues that the thirty frehch anu war
loon families who arrived In 1913 were mosV! VI
the number Of the petitioners. lie THINKS ne can
identify many Of the names on the petitioh' Hc
says that there were "signers Of the Leyden pet'-
ton whose names may be recognized more or less
readily in spite Of the Batavian Dutch) DISCUSSES
in which they appear beyond the gap of fifty or
twenty years in the records OF New-Amsternalh'
Pom 10 Row. Du Pom. Ghiselin, cornlle. De Frou.
De creme, pamon,, campion. De Carpenter
Gille, Gator, De Croy MAJOR iA'hOe'' ''a'' '"'
Gaspaf ana enn some very respectable Dutch
oh the o','e' "anu' go ..Ioso 40 Eorest or any
historians aouU, o in tho
- u, A'> To,hor,ord or nv anv other vessel"
Theodore NJ. Banta, the learned secretary OF the
ttoiiand Society laws much stress upon the fact
that the year in which John Niehe was posn, '"e
first male white child born In the state OF new
York was 1914 TINS prSvea, no y,s,ea ,bis
from the Journal oi ti'e -. ,.r, VII, 1ohr
v,nnn vbo was then sixty-hve years Of age. which
-, ,rd,cote that the year of his birth was 1914
would Indicate 'ha' '"e 'e'' -
or lelo ,..s ,,o, tho birth a,
But IL can hardy oe e,au no occ,'n,,,on" AZ
one chii' "'u'' ,san coverror Winthrop's
'he SIZE vi wy, ,s.,,,n, wIu,an, Rlack.
parry iouhu one VIZ ',nsr,a stree named Bos-
Stone, Iesius ". ~ 80 soyoral y.,rs His
ION; ne hdu oee" n,e 49, s.,,,amor, ~ BOSTON
- -. o.r,,,,, ~ coverncr Winthrop with q
iio' '''e ,,I,o
goodiy NUMBER OF idnl'''es .,,.,. -,,sa
IN Manhattan Island by the party Of Frenchmen in
~ 'n sh,n Tau.vs,harIand IN Nav. 1923 is given
by contemporary historian. Wassenaer CANISTER
dam. 1s2l-1ss2) In the version of wassenaers his
tory edited ov Jon" f'o'ies" D'd W.
as follows:
IN June roS, ' ne, re tnbabtants Of the Meth
COMPANY aGs onf S mir with the decree Of the
States General gwen up k,stii5 h,ns Inc orange
pn he hge and the Love for me purpose
maintaining me cause vi ud az ,h errinp ~ the
realizing their rrst returns, IN rme shin Of iSo
asts $50 tons s burden called the Kew Neterand
perencs Captain S91nes os bTfH ae cher
" Waloons who PROBABLY bnfdre 10 Caron
ff ss En 9r Ambassador at The Hague, for
mission 70 ntoh omsnicas in order TO found COL
ony on the rivers Of NewNetherl4nd The ship
s SAB from her course by the Canary ISL
ands, aFr.vr nni at ns MAJ N Y Historical soo
N me peslli"hs N