Allaire estate, purchased by Alexander Allaire, the Huguenot, in 169 1; letters of Denization, under the great seal of the province were granted to Alexander Allaire, Aug. 5th, 1695. The ancestors of the Allaires claim to descend from the famous Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, who died in 1 1 1 8, and possessed a fair inheritance in France, at a very early period. The more immediate ancestor of the family, however, was Pierre Allaire Ecuyer, living at La Rochelle, in 1465. Among the pastors of the French Reformed Church in 1637, was the Rev. " Paul Allard, a Rocheller, minister of the Church of Sancerre." Sometime prior to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Alexander Allaire, fifth in descent from the fore mentioned Pierre Allaire Ecuyer, who was bom in France in 1660, fled from La Rochelle to England, and soon after from thence to America. He also owned the property now belonging to

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

James Pitcher Huntingdon, Esq. Among the inhabitants of this town in 17 10, were Alexander Allaire and Jane, his wife, with their children, Peter, Philip Jean and Isaac. Alexander was the great grandfather of the late James P. Allaire, proprietor of the Allaire Iron Works of New York. " This individual long occupied a high place in the ranks of American mechanics ; and the excellent steam machinery turned out at his extensive foundry has carried his name to every part of the world, and made him famous wherever steam is known. He attained the ripe age of seventy-three years ; and, in the course of his prolonged experience in active manufacturing business, won universal respect and esteem from all with whom he came into connection." " He died on Thursday the 20th of May, 1858, at the Howell Works, Monmouth County, New Jersey," and his remains were interred among those of his ancestors in the old French burying ground in this place.