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Flandreau Cemetery
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Flandreau Cemetery was founded circa 1800 as the private cemetery of the Flandreau family. It is located in in New Rochelle, New York. The last recorded burial at the cemetery took place in 1892. The Flandreau and Seacord families, some of whom are also buried at the cemetery, were among the founding members of the community of La Rochelle. Jacques Flandreau, born ca. 1667 (or perhaps 1664) was a Huguenot exile who, like many other French Protestants, left the country after the Edict of Nantes was revoked. Many of the Huguenots left France via the harbor city of La Rochelle, France, and settled in what was soon called New Rochelle, NY. Flandreau married in London in 1695, and married a second time in 1703 in the New Rochelle Church. In 1707 he buys land from Jacob Leisler, Jr., on Boston Road; The cemetery has been left mostly abandoned and unkempt since, except for community cleanup efforts. The cemetery is located at N40 55.198, W73 45.780, on Chester Place in New Rochelle, two blocks behind the Boston Post Road. Originally the cemetery was housed on a dead end but an access road has been established. Flandreau cemetery burials *1800 - Benjamin Flandreau *1801 - Mary Flandreau *1807 - Benjamin Flandreau *1817 - Susan Badeau *1822 - Elizabeth Flandreau *1892 - Isabelle Flandreau 
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