New Rochelle

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Excerpt from New Rochelle: Through Seven Generations Surrounded in Westchester County by Dutch and English settlements, New Rochelle came into existence as a distinctively French Community. Its founders were the sons and grandsons of those devoted Huguenots who in 1628 stubbornly resisted the attacks of the French army in the beleaguered city of La Rochelle until reduced from twenty-seven thousand to five thousand souls, and who sur rendered in this extremity only upon promise of future liberty to practice their religion um molested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.