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Belgian Migrations: Walloons Arrived Early in America

'If your roots go back to the early settlements in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania or the Middle Atlantic States you may have Walloons — people from the southern parts of Belgium — for ancestors. The fact that the Walloons sailed from Holland has caused many to believe, erroneously, that they were Dutch,' writes Myra Vanderpool Gormley.

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