Guions in Colonial America

• Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses, 1936

• Among the earliest settlers on Staten Island were the Guyons. Jacques Guyon, a French merchant, emigrated from St. Martin en L'Isle de Re, and settled on Staten Island by 1670 as a planter and as the agent of Jean Collyn. A tract of land at New Dorp was confirmed to him in 1675. On April 18, 1692 he mortgaged his plantation to Paulus Richards, doubtless using the proceeds to build his house. He died in 1694, and his widow Sarah, daughter of Phillipe Casier of Harlem, paid off the mortgage in 1699...