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Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker
James Rochelle
其他書名
Civil War Classic Library
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012-11-22
主題History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN14810703989781481070393
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pIpOzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋JAMES HENRY ROCHELLE, the author of the following pages, and the subject of this sketch, was of French-English and Celtic, or Scotch-Irish, extraction-English through his paternal great-grandmother, who was the daughter of Hinchia Gilliam, and his wife (née) Harrison; Scotch-Irish through his maternal ancestry. The name itself proclaims its French (Huguenot) origin.It is well known that when Louis XIV revoked the edict of Nantes many French Protestants, called Huguenots, fled from their homes to escape persecutions worse than death. About forty thousand took refuge in England, and in 1690 William III sent a number of them to America. A party of them made their way up the James river and made a settlement, which they called Mannakintown, or "Manacan," because the lands formerly belonged to the Manacan Indians. Feeling that they no longer had to defend themselves against oppression and cruelty, and that in a free country their religion was no stigma, the characteristics of the race came out. With order and work Manacan became a flourishing town. Among those who had made a temporary home there was John Rochelle, who came with the other Huguenot exiles, and, if Pope be right, he soon enjoyed"All the joys of sense-Health, peace and competence."