The Sentinel Of Harlem: Daniel Tourneur And New York’s First Frontier Militia, 1605
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As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of NYC this year, Harlem’s Daniel “Jean” Tourneur was born March 20, 1605, in Amiens, Picardy, France, he became a French Huguenot. He left Picardy, “Valley of the Somme”, specifically because of violent religious persecution during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). He fled to Leyden, Holland, with his mother, in about…
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