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Excerpt from Genealogy of Descendants of Claude Le Maitre (Delamater): Who Came From France Via Holland and Settled at New Netherlands, Now New York, in 1652 Claude Le Maitre at Flatbush and Harlem in 1653, it will be interesting to notice some of the persons who have borne the name in Europe, whose relation to our family, our researches have not enabled us to define. We have traditions and surmises and probabilities, but not records in these cases. It is believed records will yet be obtained which will be reliable and satisfactory. There is evidence of the fact that Claude Le Maitre the ancestor of the Delamaters, to whom allusion has been made, descended from an ancient house in Brittany, the, Lords of Garlaye. Their estate and house were in the parish of Dorval in the diocese of Nantes. It appears to have existed in the 13th century, and that, the first records are of Arthur Le Maitre, Lord of Boisvert, in the parish of Aubrey in the district of Nantes, who was Knight Chamberlain to John 2d, Duke of Brittany, between 1286 and 1312. Members of the family were eminent in the military service, in the church, and the law, and held commands in various parts of France. We find some of the name at Paris, some in Languedoc and some in Picardy; while Claude Le Maitre who was of the family of our Claude (and as believed, his grandfather) and allied to the Lords of Caumartin in Picardy, being a Protestant, was prosecuted, fined and imprisoned with others at Amiens in 1588, at the instance of the Catholic League. In 1593 under the White Plumed Knight of Navarre, Henry IV, John Le Maitre was president of the Parliament of Paris, and was distinguished as enforcing the orders of Parliament against the Policy of the Duke of Mayenne. (See Guizot's 6th Vol., 62-53). A few years later Antoine Le Maitre was born at or near Paris; who become an advocate in Parliament, and a savant of Port Royal. Ho was distinguished us an author, and for his learning and eloquence. He v: is born in 1008, and died in 1058. Louis Isaac Le Maitre, a brother of Antoine, who is known by his nom de plume De Saaci (a transposition of the syllables of his name Isaac), was born 1613 and died in 1684. He was equally distinguished for learning and controversial powers, against the Jesuits. He translated the Bible, and was eminent in the Port Royal establishment of which he was a savant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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