Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1912 — HUGUENOTS GET PAINE HOME [ARTICLE]

HUGUENOTS GET PAINE HOME

Secure Building as a Headquarters in New Rochelle—Celebration if Planned. New Rochelle,’*. Y.—Henry M. Lester, president of the* Huguenot Association of New Rochelle, turned over to the trustees of the association the house which was given by the state pf New York to Thomas Paine after the Revolution in recognition of nis patriotic services With the house goes an acre of ground on North ave nue, known as Deveau Park. House and ground are valued at 110,000 The board of trustees elected James 8 Haviland, president; Charles Fryer, secretary, and George F. Flandreaux, treasurer. Mr. Lester bought the old bouse three years ago. moved it to Its present site, and restored it It is now known as Deveau House, renamed for Its original owner, a Tory, who fled at the outbreak of the Revolution, it is the headquarters of the Huguenot association, and is used as a public museum of Huguenot and Westchester county relics. >- T|ie association la preparing f6r a celebration in 1913 to commemorate the two hundred and twenty-fifth an nlversary of the settlement of New Rochelle b j Huguenots. The common council and other city officials will be invited to take part la the event which will probably take the form of an old-fashioned festival, with pageants. An official delegation from the city of La Rochelle, France, is to be received, having accepted the invitation extended * Henry M Lew.