A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy

by John S. Major and David C. Major

A Huguenot on the Hackensack explores the life and legacy of David Demarest, a seventeenth-century French Protestant who, in middle age, emigrated to New Amsterdam and became one of the earliest settlers of the Hackensack Valley. There he founded a prosperous family that for nearly three centuries retained local influence and high status before being eclipsed by post-World War II economic and demographic changes. Transcending the narrow genealogical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611473683
• ISBN13: 9781611473681
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"