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- Jacob Larzelere (LeResilere) was probably born in France and his father no doubt named Nicholas. The actual years of his birth and arrival in America can only be guessed at by what little information has been learned about him.
Certainly he would have had to arrive in America prior to the year 1667 as he married Maria Granger (Gransen, Gremjon?) by very late 1667 or very early 1668.
"Jacob LeReseleur, who came to Long Island about 1675, supposedly from Antwerp where a French merchant of that name had settled some years earlier and was probably of the same lineage as Nicholas Largilliere, the distinguished portrait painter of the age of Louis XIV (born Paris 1656, removed with his father to Antwerp, 1659)."
("History of Bucks Co., PA" by Davis, p. 446.)
The family resided in the "New Lotts" section of Flatbush
(Brooklyn), NY and were members of the Flatbush Church in the year 1677 when it is recorded that they transferred to the "French" (Huguenot) Church.
Jocob's land and livestock were recorded in the Assessment of 1683 for Flatbush. It is also indicated Jacob Larzelere had purchased land on Staten Island in 1686, the year before his death. (This was probably the land on Staten Island occupied by his widow, Mary, and family at the time of Mary's death in 1693/4 and then inherited by his oldest son, Nicholas.) That Jacob didn't write a will would indicatehis death may have been sudden and not foreseen.
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