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 The Cresson family of Philadelphia is descended from Pierre Cresson, a 
French Huguenot, born in 1609 or 1610. The ancient family seat, it is believed, 
was Menil la Cresson (Cresson Manor), near Abbeville, Picardy. Pierre Cresson, 
fleeing from his native country at the time of the Reformation, took refuge in 
Holland, where he remained in exile about eighteen years -- in Sluis, Delft, 
Leyden and Ryswick. During the early pan of this period he acted as gardener to 
the Prince of Orange, thereby earning the soubriquet of Pierre Ie Gardinier, by 
which title he was in after life sometimes designated. He married Rachel Cloos 
or Claes, and they, in 1657, with their children, emigrated to America, settling 
first at New Amstel, on the Delaware river. But afterward going to Harlem, he 
was there one of the first magistrates, 1660, and took an active part in 
affairs. He removed to Staten Island in 1678, where be probably died, our last 
record of him being on August 3, 1681. His widow survived him some
years. They were members of the Dutch Reformed church. Of the children of Pierre 
and Rachel Cresson, Suzamie married, in 1658, at New York, Nicolas de la Plaine, 
from whom are descended the family of that name in this country. To the oldest 
son, Jacques Cresson, belongs the distinction of being ancestor of the 
Philadelphia branch of the family.

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