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- Margaret is the daughter of Mary & Peter Perrine (1701-1756).
. Margaret Perine Poillon is left by her husband John Poilon, £500 pounds to be put at interest for her.
. The Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House, located on NYC highest point at 1476 Richmond Road, Dongan Hills, on Staten Island, NY. is a Dutch Colonial structure and is one of the oldest buildings still standing on Staten Island. It is a small whitewashed undressed fieldstone building with 2 windows and a narrow door and with a steeply pitched roof. But the building's most distinctive feature was the huge fireplace, with neither jambs nor sides, which still stands. The oldest section of the Richmond Road structure is believed to have been built in 1662. Remarkably, the house stands as the only remaining building on Staten Island built under Dutch rule. In 1760, the Perrine family added a chamber or bedroom in the rear and in 1790, the Perines build a kitchen onto the original Billiou portion of the home; 1830, the Perines build another kitchen onto the Stillwell portion of the home.
The 2 oldest sections of the home overlap rather oddly. It is believed that rather than demolish a large, old tree near the corner of the older home, the family decided to build the newer portion to one side of the original building.
Originally built by Pierre Billiou, a Huguenot, who arrived at New Amsterdam fleeing religious persecution in Europe in 1661 and founder of Oude Dorpe (Old Town) in the same year, subsequently received a land grant on Staten Island, erecting the original stone section about 1665. His daughter Martha (1652-1736) inherited the property and resided there with her husband, Thomas Stillwell (1651-1705), and later with her second husband, Rev. David de Bonrepos (1654-1734). She married Rev. de Bonrepos in 1711. In 1679, Thomas Stillwell, a well-to-do landowner, enlarged the house. His and Martha's descendants, the Brittons, owned it until the mid-18th century.
It was then acquired by Edward Perine in 1758. The Perine family owned it until 1913. It has a shingled, sloping roof, and a Dutch jambless fireplace, which is very high and has a large stone hearth. A secret chamber opens into a room that features a ceiling with exceptionally large beams. 2012.
. Record for further research: Richmond Co., Appears to be accounts payment book of John Bedeel Esq. To: Henry Perine for 3 years services as supervisor £ 3.19.6
Ref: Annals of Staten Island. by J J Clute.
. Indenture Tripartite, entered into between Francis Delap, of one part, James Doig and Nisbett Darby, of 2nd part, and Dorothy Thibou, of 3rd part, and dated July 1, 1745;
Witnesses: Jonathan Odell, Anne De Cow, John [Brown] Lawrence.
. 1750, Nov.13, Born Martha, dau. of Henry Perrine, by Martha, six weeks
. 1751, Aug 25, Henry, son of Dath. Perrine, deceased
. 1751, Nov. 10, John, son of X Perrine, deceased
. 1751, July 1- Rebecca, Hester & Wm Holmes, children of Matthew & Hannah Perrine, Shrewsbury.
Ref: Christ Church, Shrewsbury.
. 1769 Nov 15. Proved, by Rev. Jonathan Odell, minister of St. Mary's Church in Burlington, and John Lawrence, Mayor of said City.
Lib. 14, p. 82. 1765, Aug. 28. Read, Samuel, of Somerset Co. Int. Adm'rs - Peter Perrine and William Thompson; both of said Co. 1765, Aug. 29. Inventory, made by Daniel Perrine and Hendrick Probasco.
. 1770, April 6. Account by Peter Perrine. "Paid the lawyers, when I was cited before the Governor, when Robert Read wanted to get possession of the estate, £8.3.0. Paid Jean Read, Elizabeth Read and Robert Read, for their accounts. Paid James Anderson, the Adm'r of the estate of the widow of said Samuel Read, and was received out of the estate, £62.10.4." Lib. H, p. 521.
Ref: New Jersey Colonial Documents.
. 1779 Mar 23. Payment to Capt. Peter Perine's Acct. for recovering a Prisoner, £18 pd. by Elias Boudinot, Commissary Gen. of Prisoners of the Continental Army (Boudinot an associate of both the Perine and Lawrence families.)
Perrine, James. Teamster, "Captain Patton's Team Brigade." Wagon Master General's Dept., NJ.
. 1790 Aug 24, Abraham Perrine Marie, Sarah Rezeau Ref: Register of Marriages by Rev David Moore from his private records for his son Richard C. Moore.
Ref: Staten Island Church Records: Records of the Dutch Reformed Church of Port Richmond, 1696 - 1772.
. Watercolor: Capt. Thomas Stillwell House, later Britton's and Perine's, Staten Island, 1200x 16. Perrine House. Home of Capt. Thos Stillwell later Brittons & Perines, Built 1680 During Revolutionary War so many British were quartered there that widow Ann Perrine & her 6 children were allowed only one room. House built of undress fieldstone. Two families lived in the 2 sections for over 100 years. It has big fireplaces, huge beams, small windows 1476 Richmond.
Ref: New York Historical Society Museum, NYC.
. 1805 Apr 20 - WILL of Margaret Cairns, widow.
- my rooms furniture, linens etc, being disposed of after my decease, by my husband, John Poillon, Sr., I order my executors to comply with said Will.
- £100 pound of mine to be put at interest to be divided equally among my daughters then living.
Exectutors, son-in-aw, Alexander Cairns.
Wit: Alexander Cairns, Ann Reason?, Peter Poillon.
Probate 1815 Sept?18.
Ref: NY Wills & Probate, Richmond Co., NY, 1787-1863, p78. [film p231].
Verify identity which John Perine:
. 1780 Feb 21. & March 10th. Monmouth - WHEREAS inquisition has been found & final judgement entered against the follow persons, whole real & personal estates will be exposed to sale at public venue, at the house of Daniel Randolph, in Freehold, on the 28th March next, at. 9 o'clock - Dr. John Lawrence & Elisha Lawrence some lot of cedar swamp; Elisha Lawrence, late Sheriff, John & Wm. Perine, a well improved farm containing 300 acres lying in Upper Freehold, Christopher, Clayton, Oliver Tallman, John, Ebenezer Wardel, Ezekiel, John Tilton, Thomas Leonard, Daniel & Hendrick Vanmanter, Joseph Grover, (any many many more names). Judges of the said county Court will attend at Monmouth Courthouse on first Monday in April & May to receive and adjusts the said accounts.
Conditions of sale is ready money. Samuel Forman, Joseph Lawrence, Kenneth Hankinson, Jacob Wikoff, Commissioners.
Ref: New Jersey Gazette, 1780 Mar 14. & more names add on 1780 Apr 5.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -
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1728 - 1805 (77 years)