Promise of certain “Walloons and French” to emigrate to Virginia. In the centre of a large sheet of paper is written in French, “We promise my Lord Ambassador of the Most Serene King of Great Britain to go and inhabit in Virginia, a land under his Majesty’s obedience, as soon as conveniently may be, and this under the conditions to be carried out in the articles we have coomunicated to the said Ambassador, and not otherwise, on the faith of which we have unanimously signed this present with our sign manual.” The signatures and the calling of each are appended in the form of a round robin, and in a outer circle the person signing states whether he is married, and the number of his children. Endorsed by Sir Dudley Carleton, “Signature of such Wallons and French as offer themselfs to goe into Verginia.”
The names with an * have only signed their marks. Total 227, including 55 men, 41 women, 129 children, and two servants.
Mousnier de la Montagne, medical student; marrying man
Mousnier de la Montagne, apothecary and surgeon; marrying man
Jacque Conne, tiller of the earth; wife and two children
Henry Lambert, woolen draper; wife
*George Béava, porter; wife and one child
Michel Du Pon, hatter; wife and two children
Jan Bullt, labourer; wife and four children
Paul de Pasar, weaver; wife and two children
Antoine Grenier, gardener; wife
Jean Gourdeman, labourer; wife and five children
Jean Campion, wool carder; wife and four children
*Jan De La Met, labourer; young man
*Antoine Martin; wife and one child
Francois Fourdrin, leather dresser; young man
*Jan Leca, labourer; wife and five children
Theodore Dufour, draper; wife and two children
*Gillain Broque, labourer; young man
George Wauter, musician; wife and four children
*Jan Sage, serge maker; wife and six children
*Marie Flit, in the name of her husband, a miller; wife and two children
P. Gantois, student in theology; young man
Jacques de Lecheilles, brewer; marrying man
*Jan Le Rou, printer; wife and six children
*Jan de Croy, sawyer; wife and five children
*Charles Chancy, labourer; wife and two children
*François Clitdeu, labourer; wife and five children
*Phillipe Campion, draper; wife and one child
*Robert Broque, labourer; young man
Phillipe De le Mer, carpenter; young man
*Jeanne Martin; young girl
Pierre Cornille, vine-dresser; young man
Jan de Carpentry, labourer; wife and two children
*Martin de Carpentier, brass founder; young man
Thomas Farnarcque, locksmith; wife and seven children
Pierre Gaspar
*Gregoire Le Jeune, shoemaker; wife and four children
Martin Framerie, musician; wife and one child
Pierre Quesnée, brewer; marrying man
Pontus Le Gean, bolting-cloth weaver; wife and three children
*Barthelemy Digaud, sawyer; wife and eight children
Jesse de Forest, dyer; wife and five children
*Nicolas De la Marlier, dyer; wife and two children
*Jan Damont, labourer; wife
*Jan Gille, labourer; wife and three children
*Jan de Trou, wool carder; wife and five children
Philippe Maton, dyer, and two servants; wife and five children
Anthoine de Lielate, vinedresser; wife and four children
Ernou Catoir, wool carder; wife and five children
Anthoin Desendre, labourer; wife and one child
Abel de Crepy, shuttle worker; wife and four children
*Adrian Barbe, dyer; wife and four children
*Michel Leusier, cloth weaver; wife and one child
*Jerome Le Roy, cloth weaver; wife and four children
*Claude Ghiselin, tailor; young man
*Jan de Crenne, glass maker? [fritteur]; wife and one child
*Louis Broque, labourer; wife and two children
Sainsbury, W. Noel, ed., Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series (Volume 1), America and West Indies, 1574-1660, Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty’s Public Record Office (Vaduz: Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1964) First Published London: HMSO, 1860. pp. 498-499.
More information about French Huguenots in America can be found in the books:
History of the Huguenot Emigration to America
and:
Huguenot Genealogies: A Selected Preliminary List
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