Pierre Billiou

Pierre Billiou (c.1632 – c.1708) was a French Huguenot born in Flanders.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GC2aZGVmp3oC&pg=PA88 |title=A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress: A Bibliography |editor-first=Marion J. |editor-last=Kaminkow |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company |year=2012 |isbn=978-0806316680 |page=88 |access-date=2018-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104045951/https://books.google.com/books?id=GC2aZGVmp3oC&pg=PA88# |archive-date=2018-11-04 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3cyvGAlnZ0C&pg=PA5 |title=Huguenot Genealogies: A Revised Selected Preliminary List 2001 |first=Arthur Louis |last=Finnell |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Company |year=2001 |isbn=978-0806351193 |page=5 |access-date=2018-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104010229/https://books.google.com/books?id=v3cyvGAlnZ0C&pg=PA5# |archive-date=2018-11-04 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJXUlAEACAAJ |title=They Arrived on Staten Island: Pierre Billiou, Hans Christopher, Arendt Prall and Peter Prall and Their Families |first=Elizabeth J. Harrell |last=Gerlack |year=2012}}{{cite book |last1=Leng |first1=Charles W. |last2=Davis |first2=William T. |authorlink2=William T. Davis |title=Staten Island and Its People |series=Vol. 5 has title:Staten Island and its people, a history, 1609-1933 |date=1930 |publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company |location=New York |pages=863–864 |hdl=2027/wu.89072988637 }} He was a founder of Old Town in 1661, one of the first permanent settlements on Staten Island, shortly before the Dutch colony of New Netherland became the British Province of New York.{{cite book |last1=Van Name |first1=Elmer Garfield |title=Pierre Billiou, the Walloon, Staten Island pioneer |date=1954 |location=Haddonfield, N. J |url=https://archive.org/details/pierrebilliouwal00vann/page/n0}} The Dutch Colonial home whose construction Billiou began in the 1660s, now known as the Billiou–Stillwell–Perine House, is landmarked as the oldest existing building on Staten Island{{cite web |url=http://www.statenislandmuseum.org/collections/history-archives/the-perine-house-dongan-hills-si |title=The Perine House. Dongan Hills. S.I. |publisher=Staten Island Museum |accessdate=November 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108030017/http://www.statenislandmuseum.org/collections/history-archives/the-perine-house-dongan-hills-si# |archive-date=2018-11-08 |url-status=live }} and one of the oldest buildings in the United States. His family still lives under the modern name Bilyeu and lives in Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma.