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To: Molly Pitcher

Yes...you bring up an interesting point about the names. When the English took over New Amsterdam in 1664, many of the descendants of the Dutch and French Walloons who originally settled there in 1626 did indeed Anglicize their names.


16 posted on 12/20/2005 5:11:00 AM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: Pharmboy

Yes, the NY-settling French Walloons are also in my family. Thanks for mentioning them, also. It was just too perfect to see that Conover name with the story!


18 posted on 12/20/2005 6:26:47 AM PST by Molly Pitcher (We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
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