Pierre Billiou (c.1632 – c.1708) was a French Huguenot born in Flanders. 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. 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 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.