Peter Delanoy

Peter Delanoy is the 18th Maire of the town of New York.

He is the son of one of the eight colonists Protesting S Wallons who settled in 1624 on the current island of Manhattan.

Peter Delanoy is the deterioration of the patronym De Lannoy Pierre, from which the father is resulting from the Hainaut in current Belgium. It should be remembered that at the time, the Wallons were under Spanish domination. However, they constituted the majority of the colonists of this new counter of the Compagnie of the Indies with for governor Pierre Minuit, a son of farmers of Ohain (Belgium).

Bibliography and sources

  • Serge Jaumain, “Walloons in North America”, in Philippe Destatte (to dir.), Walloons abroad , Walloon Export Agency-Institute Jules Destrée, Liege, 1999, pp. 275-291.
  • C. Guériot, Walloons in Americas , Waiburlin, Stephan Dohet, 2005.
  • Jean Ducat & The Belgian American heritage (1983), Walloons in the USA, Brussels 1986.
  • United States Agency Information, Draft of the history of the United States, States Library off North Carolina.
  • Jaap Jacobs, New Netherland: In Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America , translated from Dutch by the author. Brill, Boston; Leyde, 2005,559 pages.
  • Russell Shorto, Russell, The Island At the Center off the World , New York, Doubleday, 2004,384 pages.

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