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Resources on Virginia Huguenots

Selected Books and Articles

Our prime research sources

You may search the library catalog and the index of published genealogy material in the Index of The Huguenot

Full index to The Huguenot on our site

R. A. Brock, Documents Chiefly Unpublished, Relating to the Huguenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin-town with an Appendix of Genealogies (1886, 1936).

"Virginia Records to Come Home" [about the Brock Collection]
See Brock Miscellaneous Files Search at the Library of Virginia

Index to The Huguenot (periodical published by the society including history and genealogies). Note that most volumes are available for sale.

Selections from French Place Names in Virginia, James W. Gordon, Jr., 1933.

"An Act for Naturalization on Claud Phillippe de Richebourg, Francis Ribot, Peter Faure, John Joanny, James Champagne, and others.[1705]

Ship List for the Nassau (1700/1701)

Histoire de Protestants de Monflanquin sous l'Ancien Régime 1518 - 1789 [in French]

Bugg, James L., Jr. "The French Huguenot Frontier Settlement of Manakin Town."

"The Huguenots in Virginia" from The French Blood in America. Lucien Fosdick.

A Brief History of the Manakin Huguenots, Rev. Wilbur M. Sims

History of the Religious Wars in France before the Edict of Nantes

Huguenots and the Galleys from The Huguenots in France and America. Hannah Lee.

The King and the Huguenots. From Will and Ariel Durant, The Age of Louis XIV.

The Edict of Nantes.

The Journey to Manakin Town, Virginia, in 1700, Ann Woodlief

The Huguenot Exiles, or, The Times of Louis XIV. Historical novel by Eliza A. DuPuy, 1856, on Lefevre, Chastain families.

Engravings of Huguenot Flights from France

The Huguenot Cross

The Monacan Indians

"Our French Connection" by Ted Klein. Article on French Huguenot heritages of Melungeons (including Crockett, Mullins, and Ramey--all Va Huguenots)

Here's to the Ladies, Carol Cason

The Huguenots. Harry Kollatz, Jr. Richmond Magazine, April 2003.

Experiences of the French Huguenots in America - The King's Refugees. Colonel James Tompkins Watson, 1908. Excerpts.

A Huguenot Family of the XVI Century. The Memoirs of Philippe de Mornay, Sieur du Plessis Marly, Written by His Wife. Translated by Lucy Crump. [1926?]

The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society.Jon Butler. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 1983.

Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora. Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy Sparks, editors.

Diligence and Disappearance of the Manakintown Huguenots. Alison Wehr Alterich.

The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier, 1997.[novel]

Huguenot Heritage: the History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain. English Historical Review, Nov, 2002, by John Miller

Huguenot Heritage: The History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain by Robin Gwynn. 2nd edition, 2000.

Huguenot Heartland: Montauban and Southern French Calvinism during the Wars of Religion by Philip Conner. (St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History). Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2002.

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