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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 392316, member: 2844&quot;]Some of the early Dutch settlers were in fact Huguenots. They were called Walen, Walloons, along with other French-speaking Dutch people.</p><p>There were 30 Walen (Waalse) families, some of which were probably Huguenot, on the ship &quot;Nieuw Nederlandt&quot;, which left the Netherlands for the New World in 1624.</p><p>The name Wall Street is probably derived from the Dutch name Walenstraat or Waalse straat, Walloon street. There are a few Walenstraten in the Netherlands as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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