Pierre Billiou (c.1632 – c.1708) was a French Huguenot born in Flanders.[1][2][3][4] 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.[5] 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[6] 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.
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "The Perine House. Dongan Hills. S.I." Staten Island Museum. Archived from the original on 2018-11-08. Retrieved November 7, 2018.