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French
Huguenots
Some of
the settlers chose the Virginia Colony, and formed communities in present-day Chesterfield County and Powhatan County
just west of Richmond, Virginia, where their descendants continue
to reside. The Huguenot Memorial Bridge across the James River was named in their honor, as were
many local features including several schools.
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The
Huguenot Society of America
Huguenot Society
of America is a hereditary patriotic society, organized in New York City
on April 12, 1883, and incorporated on June 12, 1885. Its objects were to perpetuate the memory and to foster and promote
the principles and virtues of the Huguenots; to commemorate publicly at stated times the principal events in the history of
the Huguenots; and to collect and preserve all existing documents, monuments, etc, relating to the genealogy or history of
the Huguenots of America. Membership was extended to descendants of families which emigrated to America or to other countries prior to the promulgation of the Edict of Toleration,
November 28, 1787, as well as to writers who had made the history of the Huguenots a special subject of study.
The society
headquarters are in New York City, where a valuable library,
consisting of Huguenot books, manuscripts, etc., had been collected. There were branch societies in several States and cities,
notably in Virginia, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, and New Jersey. Its publications were
known as Collections of the Huguenot Society of America. In 1898 it celebrated the tercentenary anniversary of the promulgation
of the Edict of Nantes, at which delegates from societies abroad were present. A memorial volume containing a full account
of the exercises was published in 1900.
The Huguenot Society
of America is sometimes confused with the similarly named but unaffiliated National Huguenot Society, which was founded in
1956.
From
The Huguenot Society of America
History
When the first measures of Louis XIV convinced many
that it was wiser to prepare for worse days than to hope for better ones, the exodus became a river; and after 1685 with the
repeal of the Edict of Nantes, it rose to a torrent. There is no colony on the East Coast of North America that did not get
its fair share of French. As the persecutions continued, these people arrived in a state of exhaustion and destitution that
the subscription lists traveled from house to house and from farm to farm.
Several hundred arrived at one time in Pennsylvania led by a brave woman, Madame Ferree. Maryland
naturalized all French Protestants, and Virginia followed
suit. Some settled near Jamestown, others in Norfolk County;
still others joined the Huguenot colonists around Manakin. Descendants from this area include the Fontain family, Jim Bowie, and Davey Crockett.
List of Manakintowne Huguenot Settlers, published in The Huguenot,
1933
http://manakin.addr.com/founders.htm#list
Patentees of the French Land
From Turff & Twigg, Patricia Harris Cabell, pp. 26-35
http://manakin.addr.com/patents.html
Lists from 1700 1701/02
From English Duplicates
of Lost Virginia Records, Louis des Cognets., Jr., pp. 264-6
http://manakin.addr.com/1700-01lists.htm
Registered Lineages
http://manakin.addr.com/lineage.html
