...mainly of English and Irish extraction, with some Protestant and Huguenot families that had come hither from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Virginia and the Northern New England States had contributed many fortune-hunters. There were...

...well known on the Tweed. On my mother's side we are descended from M. le Fevre, one of the refugees from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes ; he was a London merchant, and took the name of Smith.8 His great-grandson was made a baronet...

...parents were of Scotch-Irish descent. His father and mother were both born in Xova Scotia in 1801. At the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes his ancestors emigrated from France to America. His father's family subsequently left Xova Scotia and settled...

...Switzerland. The Pellet family was originally from Brittany, France. They were Huguenots, and were banished from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and settled in Switzerland. They live in San Francisco, Cal. Children: Edith Angus (319), b....

...intercourse with her own family, which was settled at Stuttgart. The Chapusets had come originally from France, at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and Mrs Hastings' father married a lady named St Valentin, who was apparently of similar descent....

...Lancey family is one of Huguenot origin, the founder of the family,! Etienne De Lancey, having fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The following extracts treating of the family history are taken from Appleton's Cyclopaedia...

...acquainted with a Frenchman, Charles de la Serre, who was descended from a Huguenot family which had fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in Guernsey. La Serre had abandoned his English home for a life of travel and sport...

...acquainted with a Frenchman, Charles de la Serre, who was descended from a Huguenot family which had fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in Guernsey. La Serre had abandoned his English home for a life of travel and sport...

...most picturesque of the foreigners were the French Protestants, or Huguenots, whose ancestors fled from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. Most of the Huguenots went first to England and thence found their way to American...

...impressions made upon it in bygone centuries. John Jay was a Huguenot. His ancestors had been exiled from France at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The tragic results of that famous act have burned in the soul and followed the blood of the...