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.

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