The first two chapters present the story of the Latourrette family of Osse, Bearn and Jean Latourrette's flight from Osse in with Pastor Pierre Peiret and his family.
A more extensive treatment of that alleged aspect of his life is presented on this webpage under "Tales, Fables and Hoaxes", where all the invented stories about him and the family are demonstrated to be false.
The reader is also directed to the two sections found on this webpage about Jean's father David Latourrette and Gassiot Latourrette, the first Protestant minister of Osse in , which provide additional background about the family in Osse. Note : Following this entry, short statements have been added to the original text to update the reader on the results of research after and to add information or clarify the text.
The footnotes cited in the chapters appear after Chapter 3. The three chapters presented in this monograph, supported by eight appendices found under "Tales, Fables and Hoaxes" describe the background of two well-known French Protestant refugees. Jean Latourrette original spelling and Pastor Pierre Peiret frequently written as Peyret, but signed as Peiret came to New York City from Osse, Bearn in the fall of , where they became part of the lore of American Huguenot history.
For the first time, their origins in Osse now Osse-en-Aspe and flight to America are described in considerable detail. The story of these two refugees represents an interest which traces back more than fifty years. The genealogical research of Lyman E. Latourette and Mrs. Verna A. Hill Jacob came to the attention of the author in the s. Jacob's widely circulated notes of that decade, later consolidated into a Compilation: The Latourette Family and Associated Families , paint a captivating portrait of what Jean's life in Osse might have been before his marriage to Marie Mercereau in the French Church of New York on July 16, The stories about Jean's origins in Lyman's Annals and Mrs.
