Historic Markers Glossary

 

  • A Protestant from France, many of whom fled Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries to escape religious prosecution. 

  • A French-speaking Protestant from modern day Belgium. 

  • The indigenous community residing in modern-day New Paltz; a sub-group of the larger Lenape people, they spoke a dialect of the Algonquian language called Munsee. iption