GuioN OF New Rochelle. Louis Guion, Ecuycr, " the founder of this eminently respectable family" was b. at La Rochelle, in France, about 1640. Four years before the Revocation of the celebrated Edict of Nantes, he fled

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with his family into England, from whence he emigrated to America and settled at New Rochelle about 1687. Feb. Gth, 1695, he received letters of denization from King William of England. His son Louis, who d. at New

Rochelle cir. 1725, mar. Tomaza , and left I. Louis or Lewis, b. at sea,

who had 1. Isaac, mar. Mary Bolt and left Thomas, Frederick S., Isaac, M. D., Lsetitia, mar. Jos. Purdy, and Maria, b. 9th March, 1750. 2. Abraham,b. 1st Jan. 1719, d. Jan. 1, 1799, had issue 1. Frederick, b. 1751, d. 1831, mar. Jemima Hacketi, and left Frederick Augustus, Maria, Alethea, Julia, and Cornelia, 2 John, 3. Major Isaac of Natchez, mar. Sarah Lewis, and had Capt Frederick U. S. A., Hon. John of Vicksburgh, Hon. Lewis of Mississippi, Cipt. Walter, U. S. A., 3. David, mar. Esther Parcot, 4. Peter, d. sp., 5. John of Rye Neck, b. Feb. 1, 1723, d. June 21, 1792, mar. 1747, Anna Hart, she was b. April 11, 1728, and d. Feb. 26. 1814. The children of John and Anna were 1. Jona'han, b. January 28, 1749, mar. Phcebe Lyon, and left two sons, James and Alvy. James, ihe eldest, had Rev. Thomas Tompkins, 2. Sarah, b. April 25, 1751, d. July 15, 1808, mar. Bartholomew Hadden, 3. Peter, b. May 27, 1753, d. 1772, 4. James, b. June 22, 1755, d. at New Haven, Feb. 1, 1781. 5. Dinah, b. May 7, 1757, mar. Peter Knapp, 6. Anna, b. Jan. 12. 1760, mar. Silas Knapp, 7. John, b. March 4, 1762, mar.