Pierre Billiou Explained

Pierre Billiou (c.1632 – c.1708) was a French Huguenot born in Flanders.[1] [2] [3] [4] He was a founder of Old Town in 1661, one of the first permanent settlements on Staten Island, shortly before the Dutch colony of New Netherland became the British Province of New York.[5] The Dutch Colonial home whose construction Billiou began in the 1660s, now known as the Billiou–Stillwell–Perine House, is landmarked as the oldest existing building on Staten Island[6] and one of the oldest buildings in the United States. His family still lives under the modern name Bilyeu and lives in Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

Notes and References

  1. Book: A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress: A Bibliography . Marion J. . Kaminkow . Genealogical Publishing Company . 2012 . 978-0806316680 . 88 . 2018-11-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181104045951/https://books.google.com/books?id=GC2aZGVmp3oC&pg=PA88# . 2018-11-04 . live .
  2. Book: Finnell, Arthur Louis . Huguenot Genealogies: A Revised Selected Preliminary List 2001 . Genealogical Publishing Company . 2001 . 978-0806351193 . 5 . 2018-11-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181104010229/https://books.google.com/books?id=v3cyvGAlnZ0C&pg=PA5# . 2018-11-04 . live .
  3. Book: Gerlack, Elizabeth J. Harrell . They Arrived on Staten Island: Pierre Billiou, Hans Christopher, Arendt Prall and Peter Prall and Their Families . 2012.
  4. Book: Leng . Charles W. . Davis . William T. . William T. Davis . Staten Island and Its People . Vol. 5 has title:Staten Island and its people, a history, 1609-1933 . 1930 . Lewis Historical Publishing Company . New York . 863–864 . 2027/wu.89072988637 .
  5. Book: Van Name . Elmer Garfield . Pierre Billiou, the Walloon, Staten Island pioneer . 1954 . Haddonfield, N. J .
  6. Web site: The Perine House. Dongan Hills. S.I. . Staten Island Museum . November 7, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181108030017/http://www.statenislandmuseum.org/collections/history-archives/the-perine-house-dongan-hills-si# . 2018-11-08 . live .

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