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To: twigs
Actually, a Huguenot trader/explorer (identified as John Bo) built a house right at Martin's Hundred circa 1590-1598, and an early Huguenot settlement is at Breton Beach. It has not been subject to intense research but it dates from the mid 1500s ~ circa 1541 when the Protestants in France set out an expedition to study the St. Lawrence estuary as a place of refuge. At the same time a group of mostly Protestant Spaniards set out to look for such a place in Florida ~ see DeSoto.

Presumably a third group checked the "middle" and hence the settlement in Maryland.

Many Huguenots are late comers. My own people are among those who arrived rather early.

BTW, when Jamestown was founded the former Spanish settlement at the mission at Hopewell, Virginia, disbanded and most of them moved to Jamestown and signed up with the Episcopal church. The actual notes kept by a Spaniard named Cruz. He disappears from the records just at the time the Crews family shows up. There were others. Unfortunately the Virginia Company records were destroyed.

176 posted on 09/28/2006 11:03:32 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Thank you for the VA info. Genealogy is my hobby, but I haven't been working recently at it like I once did. My entire family is from Virginia. I'll have to go back at the latest to the early 1800's, and probably much before, to move out of the state--on all of my lines. Yep, my ancestors married each other until about two generations ago. I knew about an early Huguenot settlement in SC, DeSoto and of course, the melungeons. I've read Carl Bridenbaugh's works on early VA settlements. But I didn't know about the Spanish mission who went with the Episcopal church. I'd like to find out more. The name Crews marries into my family a lot later. I also know that a map of early VA was found in some Spanish archives some time in the last century. I'd like to know more about Bo. Although I'm mostly very early English (I think probably from Devon, although I can't prove it), I could well trace back to early Huguenots as well. Thank you for an informative post.


178 posted on 09/28/2006 12:21:01 PM PDT by twigs
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