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(2.) Ensign John Fontaine (pp. 26-30), whose birth in 1693 is mentioned above, entered the army in 1611; but after the Peace, being among the disbanded, he was adrift in 1713. After establishing his brothers and other relatives in Virginia, he settled in London as a watch-maker, but retired to Wales in 1754, as the proprietor of Cwm Castle, where he was still living in 1764. I give many details regarding his brothers in America and their wives.

(3.) The Maury Family (pp. 30-32) were connected with John Fontaine through his sister, Mary Ann (see above). Her Husband was Matthew Maury, late of Castel Mauron in Gascony, a Huguenot refugee in Dublin. John settled them in America. She was left a widow in 1752; she herself died in 1755, in her 66th year. Her son was Rev. James Maury of Fredericksviile, father of James Maury, Esq., who came over and settled at Liverpool. The eldest son of Rev. James Maury was Matthew, and the third was Walter, from one of whom descends the celebrated American author, Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury.

The following names occur in this Chapter:— Forestier (p. 17), Marquis De Ruvigny (p. 17), Boursiquot (pp. 17, 18), Rabainiferes (p. 20), De la Croix (p. 20), Earl of Galway (p. 20), Marcomb (p. 20), Roussier (p. 22), Arnauld (p. 22).

Page 24. Maureau, Mausy, Juliet, Travernier, Garaché, Abelin, Caillon, Renue, Cesteau, Ardouin, Hanneton, Thomas, Gourbould, Bonnet, La Lande.

Earl of Peterborough (p. 27), Earl of Galway (p. 27), Boulay (p. 28), Fourreau (p. 28), Forestier (p. 28), Glanisson (p. 29).  

(1.) Elie Neau, of Soubise (pp. 32-38), was a French naval officer who settled as a refugee in New York, and was naturalised as a British subject (see List XVII.) He owned and commanded a trading vessel, in which he was captured and condemned to the French Galleys in 1692. After inhuman and dreadful treatment, he was released in 169S, during the negotiations for the Peace of Ryswick, the Earl of Portland having represented that he was a naturalised Englishman.

(2.) Anthony Benezet (pp. 38-42), the esteemed philanthropist and antagonist of slavery, was the son of John Stephen Benezet, a refugee gentleman from St Quentin; he was educated in London, but removed with his parents to America in 1731 — (born 1714, died 1784).

The following names occur:— Chandler (p. 38), Crommelin (p. 38), Granville Sharp (pp. 39, 41), George Wallace (p. 40), Thomas Clarkson (p. 42), Fonnereau (p. 42).

Page 41. In a foot-note I mention three American presidents who were of Huguenot descent, namely, Laurens, Jay, and Boudinot. Henry Laurens (born 1724, died 1792) had sailed as Ambassador to Holland, when he was captured and imprisoned in the Tower of London. In a petition to the House of Commons, dated 1st Dec. 1781, he says, “Your representer for many years, at the peril of his life and fortune, evidently laboured to preserve and strengthen the ancient friendship between Great Britain and the colonies; in no instance he ever excited on either side the discussions which separated them. The commencement of the present war was a subject of great grief to him, inasmuch as he foresaw, and foretold in letters now extant, the distresses which both countries experience at this day. In the rise and progress of the war he extended every act of kindness in his power to persons called Loyalists and Quietists, as well as to British prisoners of war.” His son. Colonel John Laurens, was killed in action in 1782; he also had a daughter, Mrs Martha Laurens Ramsay, whose Memoirs were published in 1811. Pierre Jay of La Rochelle (whose wife was Judith François),