Not all of them. Some ended up in New York, where they founded a settlement they named Nouvelle Rochelle (New Rochelle.) It's in Westchester County and was made famous by The Dick Van Dyke Show.
That was mostly BEFORE the period of persecution that led to the Edict of Nantes.
In Brittany, the nobility was split ~ the rural nobles who owned land became hard core Protestants. The urban nobles who engaged in trade and finance became hard core Catholics. Earlier I'm sure both sides were more interested in throwing out French interests and bringing in Spain (and the Hapsburg crown) to conduct affairs of state for them.
Some families were very split with brothers adhering to Spain, or to the Bourbons, or to Guise ~ and in the end they all had to flee ~ they managed to chose all the wrong sides! America was like a bright and shining beacon on a hill drawing them to these shores.
We can thank the earlier Huguenots for our second amendment. They were among the first people to realize that firearms meant freedom of conscience was possible even in a totalitarian dictatorship. The later Huguenots taught that it was important to limit the tyrant, or others who might like to be tyrants, by prohibiting the quartering of soldiers in private homes (SEE: Dragonettes Orders). All of them together with their other co-religionists in other countries came up with the First Amendment ~ there's everything in there that has to do with freedom to be one's self. The writers ~ Mason and Leland, had Huguenot ancestors!
Today America's proudest accomplishment is freedom of speech and freedom of conscience ~ still unique in the world ~ like Margaret Thatcher said, when it comes to free speech, the world is divided into two parts. First there's America, and then there's the rest of the world.
This is precisely the reason the Huguenots kept their guns and refused to stack arms at the end of the French Religious Wars. It's also the reason we don't want the government coming into our homes, bedding their girlfriends at our expense, eating our food, riding our horses, and making us worship the wame as them.
Obama and his running dog lackeys are no different than Louis XIV ~ and must be opposed in every respect possible.
No, wrong century...
wrong lot of Huguenots...
The huguenots who went to floridaq were all murdered by the Catholic Spaniards...
ONR HUNDRED YEARS LATER ...1680...after the revoking of the Edict of Nantes, Huguenots arrived in New York and founded New Rochelle...
Granted Jesse De Forest was a Huguenot/Walloon, but he didnt send his group to New York until 1623/24...
He tried to send them to Virginia and the info in Post #1 is interesting because they might well have landed there after all...
They were mostly from France and had fled to Amsterdam and had petitioned the English Ambassador there to intercede oon their behalf to the English king
After waiting around for a couple of years and finding that the English wouldnt let them go to Virginai, they asked the Dutch for a ship and got at least 2...
The Neiuw Netherlandt and the Pigeon...
The NN camt to New York, Jesse De Forest took the Pigeon to Dutch Guiana in South America first intending to go on to New York after dropping of some of the settlers...
The settlers took one look at Guiana and insisted they be taken back to Holland...
Jesse De Forest died waiting for the ship to return...
He was my 9th great grandfather...
However I had family on the other ship too...
Phillip Du Trieux and his family were on board the Neiuw Netherlandt...
Three of his daughters were all my ancestors...Maria, Sarah, Rebecca.. ..
Maria marriad Jan Peeck of Jan Peeck’s Creek or kill later called Peekskill...
Sara Du Trieux married Isaac De Forest the son of Jesse
Rerbecca married Simon Simonse Groot...
Later Huguenot families like the Badeaus, the Sicards and the Parcots came to New York and help found New Rochelle after 1680...
Again all ancestors of mine...