Upon the 8th of October, 1725, we find Louis Guion, Sr., conveying to Aman Guion, his son, sixty-four acres of land in that part of the manor called New Rochelle. The Guions were from La Rochelle in France; one branch of whom were lords of Salbetter, represented by Peter Guion lord of that place, and elder in the Church of Manars, who appeared for the Province of Dolphiny, at the Synod of Vitre, in 1617." Louis, the more immediate ancestor of the Guion family of New Roehelle emigrated

a Quick's Svnodican. Vol. IT., page 476. Two of this name were pastors lu the French church. First, Simon de Guyon, pastor of the church of Bordeaux : second, Mr. Paul Guion, pastor of tlir church of Dieu le sit, 1620. A branch of this family appears to have settled upon Staten Island at a very early period ; for on the 13th of October, 1664. we find Covernor Nicolls granting to Jacques Guion 200 acres, situated on that island. Of this family was John Guion, Deputy Mayor of New York in 1677.

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from England in 16S7, having fled from La Rochelle in 1681; letters of denization were granted under the great seal of the province to Louis Guion and his son Louis, Feb. 6th, 1695-6. Louis Guion, Sr., of New Rochelle, in 1710 appears to have been born in France in 1654; Mary, his wife, in 1656. Their children were Louis, Aman, Isaac, and Susanna. There was a Gregory Guion in New Rochelle in 17 10, who, by his wife Mary, had five children -- Gregory, Judy, Hester, Joanna and Anna. The oldest residence of the Guions was erected in 1696, and stands a little to the west of the more modern mansion, erected in 1800 by Mr.