Original Huguenot Families

In the year 1664, the city was captured by the British;
and in that same year the well known charter of Charles
II. to his brother, the Duke of York, was made, giving
him the city including the island and province of New
Amsterdam. After the cession most of the previous
inhabitants remained; and thus the Dutch as well as the
English become the ancestors of many of the present
families of the city. And connected with the Dutch
people were large numbers of the Huguenots of France
who, to avoid the persecutions to which they were sub¬
jected, fled from their native country—some direct, and
others to Holland—and thence, with the Hollanders to
the island and province of New York. Among these
Huguenots were the families of:
 

Jay,
 

Bedient,
 

Lispenard,
 

Minugh,
 

De la Montague,
 

Le Roux,
 

Dubois,
 

Angevine,
 

Le Roy,
 

Chadevoique,
 

Bedoine,
 

Guion,
 

Cutting,
 

Tillou,
 

Larue,
 

Pelletreau,
 

Segoine,
 

Gotier,
 

Boudinot,
 

Prevost,
 

De Peyster,
 

Latourette,
 

Morcein,
 

Delaval,
 

Mesier,
 

De Milt,
 

De Kay,
 

Giraud,
 

Maynard,
 

Delamater,
 

Destropes,
 

Giraud,
 

Bodine,
 

Jedine,
 

Collier,
 

Meserole,
 

Desille,
 

John Pintard,
 

Derve.
 

The Passing of the Clocks

Two old clocks that have done service for several
generations of New Yorkers reached the end of' their
career in this year of our Lord 1917, and their passing
cannot but create a little heart throb to those of us who
have been accustomed to see them day by day for ever
so many years. One of them, the City Hall, was stopped
by violence; the other, St. Paul's, by the inevitable pro¬
cess of nature, decay. The latter had ticked and tolled
for one hundred and nineteen years, and at last, worn out

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