The New York Times, May 31, 1911. PAGE NUMBER 4 https://nyti.ms/4xThwdw
IN HONOR OF THOMAS PAINE.
Portrait of His Adopted Son Placed Among Relics of the Patriot.
Special to The New York Times.
NEW ROCHELLE, May 30. — Descendants of the Huguenots who founded New Rochelle in 1688, and admirers of Thomas Paine, the author-patriot, assembled at the old Paine house, now known as the Deveaux House, on North Avenue this afternoon to do honor to their memory.
The principal feature of the exercises was the presentation to the Huguenot Association of New Rochelle of a portrait of Gen. Benjamin Bonneville, which has been hung in the Deveaux House among Huguenot relics.
Gen. Bonneville was a native of New Rochelle and the adopted son of Paine. Paine willed to the Bonneville family his farm, which was presented to him by the State of New York for his services to the Union. It is now a part of Quaker Ridge Park, a new residential tract which was recently sold by John H. Ranger to the New York Central Realty Company for more than $1,000,000.