Name: Daniel Perrin
   Born: 1642
  Place: Normandy, France
Immigtd: 29 Jul 1665
   Died: 6 Sep 1719
  Place: Staten Island
 Buried: 
  Place: Stony Brook Cem, Staten Island

Wikipedia article.

From The New York Genealogical and Biographical, Volume XX., 1889, No. i. "Notes and Queries":

Next to the John Perrin who came to Braintree, Mass., 1635-40, from England, was Daniel Perrin, the first refugee of our branch of the family, who came over in the ship "Philip." sailing from the Island of Jersey, and arriving in New York Harbor July 29. 1665. Daniel Perrin took up his residence on the Elizabethtown Plantations, and on February 18, 1666, he was married to Maria Thorel, a fellow passenger of his on the "Philip." This was said to have been the first marriage solemnized on that plantation.

Daniel afterwards removed to and settled on Staten Island, where all his children were born. From what place in France he came is not now known, but it is believed that the family fled from that country in the early part of the seventeenth century, some going to England, Ireland and elsewhere. This part of the family record is very obscure, but authentic records show that Daniel Perrin set sail for America, from the Isle of Jersey, in the ship "Philip," in the spring of 1665, and it is from that year that the Penin, Perrine, or Ferine family in America dates, although fragmentary items are in my possession carrying the family record back many more generations. The old tradition so long extant in the family about the first ancestor coming to America in the ship "Caledonia," has been proved to be false by evidence in the Colonial Records which shows conclusively that such could not have been the case.

The so-called old Perine Homestead on Staten Island was built about 1713 by Joseph Homes, and at his death it passed to his only child Ann, who, in 1758, had married Edward Perine, and it has since remained in and been occupied continuously by one of that branch of the family.

Daniel Perrin married twice, first Maria Thorel, second Elizabeth. By his first wife he had, Joshua, Peter, Henry, James, Daniel, William and Francyntje. By his second wife he had, Sara, Elizabeth, and Maria S.

From The New Jersey coast in three centuries, volume 2, by Peter Ross, Fenwick Y. Hedley, 1902

page 211
Of the French refugees who fled to England in the sixteenth century were the families of du Bois and Perriri--or Perrine--Antoine du Bois as early as 1583. His descendant, Louis du Bois, settled at New Platz, New York, and his son Louis, marrying Catherine Van Brunt, settled upon Staten Island. Their son Benjamin became the pastor of the Reformed Dutch Churches of "Freehold and Middletown" in 1764. Count Perrin, a prominent Huguenot refugee from Nouere, fled to England. Daniel Perrin, descended from him, came to New Jersey in 1675 as a servant of Sir George and Philip Cartaret, and settled upon Staten Island. His descendants later settled in Monmouth county.

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From French ancestry [David V Perrine] is descended, the line being traced back to Daniel Perrine, who came to America with Philip Carteret on the ship Philip, as chronicled in Hatfield's History of Elizabeth. Anchor was dropped in New York harbor on the 29th of July, 1665, and since that time the Perrine family has been widely and favorably known in this portion of the country. Daniel Perrine was married on the 18th of February, 1666, to Maria Thorel, who had also been a passenger on the Philip when he made the voyage. Theirs is said to have been the first marriage celebrated on Elizabeth plantation. They removed to Staten Island and unto them were born seven children, the third in number being Henry Perrine, whose son John became a resident of Monmouth county. New Jersey, settling at Perrineville. His will was probated April 19, 17/9. He had ten children.

From Ship Passenger Lists: New York and New Jersey 1600-1825, by Carl Boyer:

Daniel Perrin, a son of Pierre, was of Norman French descent, a Protestant and a Huguenot. He was brought over in the ship "Philip" by Governor Philip Carteret and landed in Nieu Amsterdam July 29, 1665. He took up his abode in Elizabethtown Plantation and in February 1666 married Maria Thorrel of Rouen, France.

Daniel and Maria Perrin had sons Peter, James, Daniel, William. Peter Perrin in 1713 bought a tract of 400 acres of land on the Raritan River, then in Monmouth County. Henry bought 200 acres in Middlesex County. He lived and died there.

From http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pharrington&id=I844

Though it is unknown where Daniel and Maria are buried, a bronze tablet commemorates them in the French Episcopal Church in New York City:

Ile de Jersey - 1665 - Nova Caesarea
Pour Honorer la memoire de
DANIEL PERRIN
et de MARIE THOREL son epouse
Refugies
pour motif de conscience
Maries a Elizabethtowne
la 18 Fevrier 1666
Certains de leurs descendants
ont places ici cette inscriptions
A.D. 1903

From History of Elizabeth, New Jersey: including the early history of Union County, by Edwin Francis Hatfield, 1868, page 117. Hatfield's source for this appears to be East Jersey Records, III, [page?]6

License of Marriage.

Whereas I have recd Information of a mutual Interest and agreement betwene Daniel Perrin of Elizabeth Towne in the province of New Jarsey and Maria Thorel of the same Towne Spinster to solemnize Mariage together for which they have Requested my Lycense and there appearing no Lawfull Impediment for y^e Obstruction thereof These are to Require You or Eyther of you to Joyne the said Daniel Perrin and Marie Thorel in Matrimony and them to pronounce man and Wife, and to make record thereof according to the Lawes in that behalfe provided, for the doing Whereof this shall be to you or Eyther of you a sufficient Warrant. Given under my hand and seale the Twelft day of february An^e 1665 and in the 18th Yeare of his Ma^ties Raign King Charles the Second.

To any of the Justices of the Peace

or Ministers W'hin the Government Ph Carterett

of the province of New Jarsey

These Couple Where Joyned together in
Matrimony the 18 feb. 1665/66 by me J Bollen*

The following is of interest because it states (I've underlined it) the reason Daniel is believed to have married a second time. From Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Volume 2, by John Woolf Jordan:

Of Daniel Perrin, progenitor of the family by that name in America, little is known prior to his arrival in this country beyond that he was a son of Pierre Perrin, and was of Norman French descent, a Protestant, and a Huguenot. He came over in the ship "Philip," which sailed from a port of the Isle of Jersey under Governor Philip Carteret, in 1665, and arrived at New York harbor, July 29, 1665. In the same ship came Maria Thorel. After reaching New York bay, Daniel Perrin, with his other fellow voyagers took up his abode in the capital of the new possessions, which Governor Carteret called the Elizabethtowne Plantations. The site of the present Elizabeth, New Jersey, is now located on the site of part of the old Plantations. In February, 1666, Daniel Perrin married Maria Thorel, one of his fellow passengers. This is said to be the first marriage solemnized under this new government. Maria Thorel was of French lineage, her family having been settled in the vicinity of the ancient city of Rouen. After his marriage Daniel Perrin moved across to Staten Island and there established his home on a tract of land that was subsequently granted to him by the English governor, Benjamin Fletcher. This was on the western shore of Staten Island, at a place called Smoking Point. His homestead here was apparently a vacant piece of land of upwards of eighty acres in extent. From the official records in the county of Richmond and in the secretary-of-state's office at Albany, New York, it is found that on March i, 1687-88, Daniel Perrin gave a mortgage on this tract of eighty acres for the sum of £50. On March 18, 1696, is found the record of a conveyance of this same tract of eighty acres by Daniel Perrin and Elizabeth, his wife, to one Requea Pepane Le Flore. After this, Daniel Perrin does not appear on the records of Richmond county. It is probable after selling his farm he being then about fifty-six years of age, took up his abode with some of his sons or daughters and continued to dwell with them until his death, about 1719. After the death of his first wife, Maria (Thorel) Perrin, he married (second) about 1687, Elizabeth.

The Comte Du Perrin

Traditional genealogies state that Daniel's grandfather was the Comte Du Perrin. Was there such a title? The following article talks about the Huguenot settlement in Ireland but it appears to not have occurred until after 1688, long after Daniel had settled on Staten Island.

From Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Ulster Archaeological Society, 1854:

page 172
PERRIN.

Little more can be gleaned of the early history of the Perrin family than that they held large possessions in the fertile district of Nonere, in France. A few mutilated fragments of old French MS. papers are all that now remain among its representatives in Ireland, and these afford but scanty information. The following passage translated from one of these would seem to indicate that the MS. when complete had contained various interesting particulars. It commences thus: "In a sunny vale, not far from the banks of the Garonne, surrounded by swelling hills, the first steps of the great barrier between France and Spain, was situated a small and picturesque village. There was the residence of the Cure, there the village church, with its well-proportioned spire gracefully shooting towards the sky; while the residences of the villagers, clustering around, bore an appearance of neatness and comfort which, at the epoch we are speaking of, the traveller would have elsewhere vainly sought, for many a long mile through France. A little sparkling mountain stream danced gaily down the main street, if indeed the expanse between the two rows of cottages could be called by that name; and at the middle of its course deepened into a pool, beside which, from a broad stone pedestal, sprung a massive cross. It might be three o'clock, one Autumn day of the year 1725, that this pedestal was occupied by a man of striking and impressive appearance. Above a massive forehead waved long locks of silvery hair, the only covering it had ; the form was large and well-proportioned; the deep chest and broad shoulders indicated one whose earlier powers must have been of no common order. He was speaking in grave, earnest, and, occasionally, impassioned tones, toagroupe of the villagers which was every moment increasing; and he again and again referred to a small volume which he held open in his hand, and from which he quoted long passages in a manner that showed he held its words in deep reverence. That volume was the Bible; the speaker was Delas the celebrated Huguenot preacher. On one of his missionary journeyings he had reached and spent some days in this remote district. Among the listeners was one whose wrapt and earnest attention was not less striking than his personal appearance. He was in the vigour of early manhood, of thirty years, or thereabout; his form stalwart, yet lithe and graceful; his black hair clustered under a small hunting cap, which from time to time he reverently touched, when a name or a word uttered by the preacher claimed such an act of homage. His dress was that of an ordinary country gentleman of the age and place; the respectful bearing of the villagers towards him marked that his station was more exalted than theirs; while the air of proud affection with which, from time to time, some aged sir*

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among them gazed upon him, showed that the relation between them was not the too common one of tyrant and slave. He was indeed the representative of a family whose boast had always been the love of their tenantry. Amongst all the traditions of the Comtes de Perrin scarce was there a murmur of ill-will or strife subsisting between them and their retainers; while many noble deeds of self-devotion on the one part are related from the time when all his band fell one by one around the prostrate corpse of the old crusading lord, which they unanimously refused to leave, as still recorded in the great tombstone dedicated to their memory, in the churchyard; and on the other part of uncalculating munificence, and of resolute resistance to every invasion of their rights by King, or Church, or neighbouring Seigneur. Everything bore witness to the unbroken traditionary love, handed down on both sides from sire to son as their most precious heirloom. Yes, such was the station, such were the advantages, which to thy ardent soul, in its pursuit of truth, weighed but as dust in the balance, ! Louis Perrin, when, resigning rank and honours and wealth, thou wentest forth from thy ancestral home, and cheerfully became a penniless exile: amid the scorn of the worldling and the wonder of the careless, thou, and all thy house in thee, bade an eternal farewell to the land to whose glories they had contributed, and whose" ****** [Here the manuscript becomes illegible]

It appears from some fragments of the Comte du Perrin's correspondence that many enticements were held out by the King to induce him to change his religion; but all without effect. An unrelenting persecution then commenced, to which he makes frequent allusion in his letters: one of his friends was sentenced to the galleys for three years. He at length contrived to escape from France, and settled in Lisburn for several years; subsequently removing to Waterford. His descendants have become honoured members of the Irish Bar. One of the family was long known as an excellent French teacher in Lisburn, and the author of a good grammar of that language.

For additional information, see also J. Percy Crayon, Rockaway Records of Morris County, N. J. Families, (Rockaway, N.J., Rockaway Publishing Co., 1902).