See The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia at huguenot-manakin.org. Information for these Huguenot founders comes from many sources: Priscilla Cabell Harris's Turff and Twigg (1988), various parish records for Goochland and Powhatan counties, The History of Woodford County by Thomas Bailey, R. A. Brock's Documents Chiefly Unpublished, Relating to the Huguenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin-town with an Appendix of Genealogies (1886, 1936), as well as information collected by Sallie Tompson Craig. See Martin Family Line for succeeding generations. John
[Jean] Martin [Martain, Mautin] (1674 France-after 1738) and Margaret LeCaze [Lacase,
Cayce] (--after 1744?) A list of Huguenot prisoners at the Citadelles de Marseille includes "Jean Martin natif de las Ondes prés de St. Martin de Courconas en Sevenes agée 21 ans fut pris dans sa maison Le 7 Mars 1692 pour avoir donné de vivres aidé pauvre Relig. fugitifs. Pour cele condemné á Montpeilier Le 15 dud. mois aux Galéres perpètuelles, ou il arriva enfin Le 20 dud. mois de mars 1692 auquel lieu il persèvre en la confession du St.Nom de Jésus." [Les Galéres de France et les Galériens Protestants des XVII et XVIII Siècles, Gaston Tournier, III, 353.] Basically it says that Jean Martin, native of Las Ondes near St. Martin de Courconas in Sevenes (in Cevannes) 21 years old was taken prisoner in his house the 7th of March 1692 for having given life (aid?) to poor religious fugitives. For that he was condemned at Monpelier the 15th ? to life in prison or the galleys, where he arrived finally the 20th of March 1692 at which place he persevered in confessing the name of Jesus. Another source [The Torments of Protestant Slaves in the French King's Galleys, & in the Dungeons of Marseilles, 1686-1707] lists Jean Martin of Cevennes as sentenced to the galley ship the "Magnanime" or "Magnanimous" [ironic!] in 1692. I assume this is the same person. Obviously, he did escape, if this is our Jean Martin. Jean Martin arrived on the Peter and Anthony, the second ship arriving in 1700, listing as living with Isaac Lefevre in 1701. He is listed as eventually having a number of slaves. He had more French patents than anyone else (#894, 895, 897, 900, 908) and the largest total acreage, 1298 acres. (See Cabell's book for a map of his grant holdings; the largest grant included the land around the present Old Gun Road). He and Margaret were married by 11/1/1703 in Manakintown VA (although Cobb, Register of Huguenot Ancestors, says they married in 1697). As dowry his wife brought land with coal pits on it (#903), inherited from her father, James [born in Nare, Guienne, France C. 1675, d. 1707, m. Marguritte Coop, born in France, died before 1725, Henrico]. Jean and Margaret evidently lived north of the James River on land next to the William Randolph land (Tuckahoe plantation) at the time of his death. In 1732 the value of improvements on his plantation was 1569.5 pounds; he had 60 head of cattle then and owned only patent 900 (bequeathed to James). Margaret married John Four/Fore after her husband died. Children: · James, m. Janne by 1727: Jaque (9/8/1727-), Jean Pierre (7/2/1730-), Guilleaume (5/241735-) · John (-1735/6), m. Mary Forcuron (?): William, John, Matthew · Peter (Pierre) Martin (before 1714-1742/3 Goochland Co), m. Mary Anne Rapine (--1747) who later m. Thomas Smith: Jean · Judith (1710-1786), m (1) Thomas Gevaudan (1702-1730): John [Jeffodon, Givodan, Jividen] (1729-Albemarle Co VA) , m (2) Rene Chastain. John married Magdalene Chastain, daughter of Pierre Chastain. Their daughter Ann married Joseph Foree; Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush are descendants of this line, through Dorothy Walker Bush. ( See Legacy: A Genealogy by Chester E. Bartram) · Jane
Will
of John Martin of St. James Parish, Goochland Co., 2 March 1736 Executors:
wife and son James
Antoine [Anthoine] Rapine (--1737 Manakintown) and Margaret (--after 1755 Manakintown).
Anthony Rapine came on the third ship in 1700/1701 with his first wife and two children; only one son is listed in 1714. He had 4 land patents; only one was French (#783). In the vestry records he is listed with his Negroes Dick, Sara, Kate, Peter, and Jinc. His will, written 4/10/1737, recorded 11/15/1737, left "To wife Margaret, 1/2 of negroes, household goods, land, etc., for life, then all to Mary Ann Marton and Peter Marton." However the estate was divided according to his will, between Margaret Rapeen, his widow, and Thomas Smith, husband of his dec'd daughter. Share to Smith is 204 [pounds]/3/6. 24 Aug 1747. (Goochland County Va: Wills and Deeds, 1742-1749). In Margaret Rapine's will, she anticipated an inheritance from relations in Holland and England which would be divided between her son Daniel Perrow, her daughter Mary Force, and the children of her two deceased daughters, Mary Ann and Ann. Children: Mary Ann (before 1714-1747), m. 1 Pierre Martin, m. 2 Thomas Smith Ann (died before 1755)
Daniel Guerin(1/5/1663 Saintonge, France-1721) and Marie L'Orange (ca. 1663 Rochelle, France-after 1721)
Marie was the daughter of Francis L'Orange of La Rochelle, France (ca. 1633-? VA), granddaughter of Jean Velas L'Orange, and greatgranddaughter of Sir Velas Orange, according to William Pullin, Guerrant Family of Virginia (at Virginia Historical Society). Children: Pierre (Peter) (1697 France-1750 Cumberland Co VA), m. Magdelene Trabue (1715-) ca. 1732. Jean, b. France Daniel, (ca. 1693/4-1731), m. Francoise L'Orange (ca. 1699-after 1769), daughter of Jean Velas L'Orange (brother of Marie) and Francoise, before Sept. 1720: Daniel (1721-50), Peter (1725-before 1750), Francoise (1728-) Jane
Inventory of Daniel Guerrant, Jr.
Following
are the items listed:
Antoine Trabue (9/21/1669-1/29/1724) and Magdelaine Verrueil (1/28/1683, The Hague-1731).
Antoine Trabue (either listed as Dupuy in second convoy arriving in 1700 or in the third ship) was a native of Montauban on the Tarn River in the province of Guyenne. Daniel Trabue's book says the family name was originally Strabo, but William Byrd changed it to Trabue. Julia Trabue Yates (The Trabue Family in America, 1700-1983) finds it to be Trabuc in parish records, born to Antoine Trabuc, tanner, (b. 27 Mar 1585, m. 4 Feb. 1646) and Bernarde Chibailhe (dau of Jean and Marie Chilailhe): David, Jean, Marie, Andre, Anne, Marguerite, Antoine. Antoine Trabuc was the son of Guillaume Trabuc, merchant middleman of Montauban (-before 1615) and Ann Azam (dau. Jean and Naude de Marty); siblings were Anne, Pierre, David. Antoine escaped--one story says, hidden in a wine barrel on a farm wagon--and got over the border to Switzerland. [See account of Montauban persecution in 1685] In 1687 Antoine was described in a Lausanne document as a saddle maker around 19 years of age, as "of good size, fine carriage, dark complexion, having a scar under his left eye"; It adds that he has always professed the Reformed religion, as do his parents, and that he has not committed any known scandal. Unfortunately, his name is worn through. This slip of parchment or vellum, much worn but surprisingly legible, is at the Virginia Historical Society. Antoine was granted patent #904 (163 acres) in 1715. In 1717 he was granted 522 acres on the gr fork of Swift Creek; under the headrights of 11 person, including Katherine Trabue (his first wife?) He appears on tithe lists from 1710-20, alone. In 1723 he is listed with four tithes; himself, Jacob Trabue, 2 slaves. Another list in 1714 records him with his wife and three sons. Magdelaine's father was Moise Verrüeil (1651--ca. 1701), a French merchant from Rouen, tenth child of Jean Vereul (1606/7-ca. 1691 Zuid, Netherlands) and Madeleine Du Fay of Rouen (m.2-2-1633, 1612-after 1688, Zuid). Magdelaine's mother, Magdalene Prodhomme (Prodon), was born between 1650-1660 at The Hague, daughter of Magdalaine Tevening (ca. 1633-1721 Zuid; married Sept 18, 1653, Walloon Church, Den Haag, Zuid) and Nicolas Louis Prud-'Homme (Prodon, 1620 Berne-before 1662) and died after 1722. She married Jacob Flournoy 12/19/1703 after Moses died. Moise and Magdalene came to Virginia on the Peter and Anthony in 1700 with their five children. (from The Trabue Family in America: 1700-1983, Julia Trabue Yates) Priscilla Harris in Turff and Twigg believes that Magdalen was the child of Jacob Flournoy's first marriage, but married Antoine Trabue before coming (1699?) and so is not listed with Flournoy's second wife and children. But that would mean that she married Trabue at 14 or so. Yates presents convincing evidence that she was Flournoy's stepdaughter by his third marriage to her widowed mother in 1703; Francis Flournoy, mentioned in her will, is her stepbrother then. Magdalen and Francis had grandchildren who married, Martha Trabue and Josiah Wooldridge. Children: Jacob (1705-67) m. Mary Wooldridge 1732: Joseph, Jean, David, William, Elizabeth, Marie, Joshua, Daniel, Thomas; family built Trabues Tavern on Old Buckingham Rd] Anthony Jr., (1708/9-1743) m. Clare Vermeil(?): Caroline (m. George Smith 1758), John (m. Ollan DuPuy Magdalene, 1715-1787, m. Pierre Guerrant, Thomas Smith Judith, (1717/8-1809), m. Stephen Watkins, son of Henry and Mary Watkins: Joseph (1744/45-800), Judith (1744-), m. Walker, Benjaamin (1755-1831), John, David, Francis, Henry · John James (1722-1775), m. 1744 Olympia Dupuy (1729-1822), daughter of James Du Puy>: James Trabue (1745-1803), m. Jane Porter (1756-1833) 6 children; Magdelen Trabue (1748-1815) m. Edward Clay, 10 children; Phoe Trabue (1750-1767); Jane (1752-1802) m. Joseph Minter (1754-1814), 14 children; John (1754-1788) m. Margaret Pierce; William (1756-86) m. Elizabeth Haskins, 1 child; Mary (1758-1792) m. Lewis Sublett, 5 children; David (1760-1840) m. Mary Haskins, 8 children; Martha (1762) m. Josiah Woolridge, 11 children; Edward (1762-1814) m. Mattie Haskins, 4 children and Jane E. Clay, 8 children; Stephen (1766-1833) m Jane Haskins (1767-1833), 9 children; Elizabeth (1768-1835) m. F. R.Wilson, 3 children; Samuel (1770-77); Susanna (1772-1862) m. Thomas Major, 3 children; Judith (1740-) m. John Major, 6 children. [Daniel Trabue, b. 1760, wrote a Journal published in Colonial Men and Times (Philadelphia 1916) which tells of his fighting the Indians in Kentucky in 1774-5, his conversion to the Baptist faith, his fighting during the Revolution (including Yorktown), and his moving his family (he married Mary Haskins) to Woodford County Kentucky in 1785, in Fayette on Grear's Creek near the Kentucky River. [Yates suggests another, Moses, 1712-before 1724; and another 1720-before 1729)
"The Escape of Anthony Trabue" by Daniel Trabue
The original certificate on vellum given Anthony Trabue by the ministers and civil officers of Lausanne, attesting to his place of origin, Protestantism, and character, is dated in Lausanne 7/15/1687. This small, burnt and tattered piece of history is in the Virginia Historical Society Library (although one source claims it was burned in a fire). In his Journal, Daniel Trabue also tells about the Huguenots' religious beginnings. He says they were a sect of dissenters called Congregationalists. In Virginia the King of England allowed them their "privilege of conscience; and to have their religious worship, and it was never taken away from them, and they were never compelled to pay anything to the separate church, but paid their own, and what they were pleased to pay." Becoming Anglicans, then, was achieved painlessly. In 1771 Baptist ministers began coming to the settlement, and 7 were in jail at one time. However, others came to visit, and many, including Daniel, were converted by John Waller. He later "backslid" and was converted again, as were others in a big revival and much baptizing, in 1785, just before removing to Kentucky. Papers of the
Guerrants/Guerrands
Will
of Magdalene Verreuill Trabue Chastain. First, I resign my soul to God Almighty, from where it came, in hopes of a forgiveness of all my sins, and a joyful resurrection; and secondly, my body to be decently buried after my decease, as my executor shall see fit. Item: I leave and bequeath unto my well beloved son, Anthony Trabue, my negro woman, Betty, and her child, Jenny, for him and his heirs, forever; my riding horse called Spark with a man saddle and bridle belonging to it; one of my gold rings marked "M.C." the large Psalm Book, a silver seal, and ten barrels of corn, and my desire is, that he may be freely virtue of this my present will and testament. Item: To my well beloved daughter, Magdalene Trabue, I leave and bequeath my cupboard, my side saddle, one box, iron, my black silk suit of clothes, and my calico, which is not yet made up, one gold ring with red stones, one pair of gold bobs, my small Psalm Book, my silver girt buckle, one silver bodkin, and thimble with my spectacles. Item: To my well beloved daughter, Judith Trabue, I leave and bequeath my chest, my red suit of clothes, my striped silk lined with red silk, a Dutch iron, one gold ring marked"M.T", one pair of gold bobs with small red stones, one pair of silver buckles, and one bodkin. Item: To my well beloved son, John James Trabue, I leave and bequeath one chain, gold ring, and a silver teaspoon. Item: I will and bequeath the remainder part of my clothes to be equally divided betwixt my two mentioned daughters. Item: I will and desire that my daughter Magdalene be boarded at my son, Jacob Trabue's, her brother, or at her godmother's, Elizabeth Dutois, which herself shall like best. And I will and desire that my daughter, Judith, be placed or boarded with her brother Jacob, he being willing to it; if not, with her Aunt Mary Flournoy. Item: I will and bequeath the remainder part of my estate after debts and other demands are paid and satisfied, to my son Jacob Trabue. Item: I will and ordain and constitute my beloved brother Francis Flournoy to be executor and administrator of this my present last will and testament. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this second day of June, 1729. |