Chipstone

Chipstone

On June 27, 1692, Jean Le Chevalier Jr. married Marie de la Plaine in the Dutch Reformed Church in New York. When their two daughters were born in 1693 and 1695, however, they were baptised in the new French Church. Le Chevalier’s name appears often in the records of the French Church after 1688 (the date of his arrival), a strong indication of the multiple public and private allegiances that many New York City Huguenots maintained with dominant local cultures. Marie de la Plaine was the daughter of Nicholas de la Plaine, a Huguenot from the Seigneurie de la Grand Plaine, near Bressuire, just north of La Rochelle in the Poitou. Nicholas was living in New Amsterdam by April 1657 when he took the oath of allegiance to the Dutch government. By marrying into a French Protestant family established during the period of Dutch ascendancy, Le Chevalier forged additional ties with New York’s “old” French culture. Marie’s brother, Joshua (Delaplaine), was one of New York’s most successful joiners, thus Jean may have also benefited from the commercial associations established by his brother-in-law.35

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