My family name is Pontier. Huguenots from France.
Pointier
Nothing spelt that way..
There’s a Jean Panetier, Pierre Poinset, Jean (John) Poinsett
Names were written as they sounded though...and so written several ways sometimes :)
They have to have arrived here before 1787 when Protestants were given full rights by Louis XVI and the descendants of Huguenots who left were invited to come back to France
http://www.huguenot.netnation.com/ancestor/default.htm