Daniel Perrin

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Daniel Perrin (b. 1642 d. 1719) was one of the first permanent European inhabitants of Staten Island, New York. Known as "The Huguenot", he arrived in New York Harbor from the Isle of Jersey on July 29, 1665 aboard the ship Philip, under the command of Philip Carteret. He lived in Elizabethtown, part of the Elizabethtown Tract (now Elizabeth, New Jersey), for a while before moving across the Arthur Kill and settling on Staten Island. In 1692 he was granted 80 acres of land by Governor Benjamin Fletcher in an area along the south shore of Staten Island then known as Smoking Point. During the Revolutionary War this area was known as Blazing Star, and is now known as Rossville.

Daniel Perrin was married to Maria Thorel on February 18, 1666, and they had four sons (he also had three daughters from a previous marriage). Perrin died in Staten Island on September 6, 1719. [1]

The Staten Island neighborhood of Huguenot is named after him and the other Huguenots who settled in the area during the late 17th Century and early 18th Centuries.