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Frenchtown

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Frenchtown includes Top Town, which takes its name from the many French families who followed Paul Henri Mallet-Prevost, a Swiss refugee from the French Revolution who moved here in 1794, and Bottom, which was called Sunbeam in 1759, later Sherrard's Ferry, and received its present name from the Prevost family, refugees from the French Revolution.
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