Help with Huguenot Stickers and Categories

Question

Hi. I'm trying to get in touch with people from the Huguenot project. My 9th GGF was an orphan so I adopted him. However, I really do not know much about the Huguenots. I am working on sourcing his profile and I did find that he migrated from France, then to England, and finally to the colony of Virginia, where he settled at Manakintown.

I have two questions. First, if I wanted to put a sticker on his page would it be the Huguenot Emigrant? Second, I've consulted three different sources and I still cannot figure out what county Manakintown should be listed as - Powhatan, Henrico, or Goochland?

Comments

from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Manakin%2C_Virginia - Manakintown was in King William Parish in Henrico County until 1727, when Goochland County was created - taking Manakintown with it.

See the WikiTree page "Category: King William Parish, Virginia Colony" for information about King William Parish, which was formed to serve the French Protestant settlers of Manakin and served the counties listed above (Henrico, Goochland, Cumberland, Chesterfield, and Powhatan counties).

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Thanks for your help. I'm checking it out.

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Some of the Hugeunots that settled in the "lower settlement" patented land from the second 5,000 acres that was in that part of Henrico county that eventually ended up in Chesterfield county.

Answer 1

"Huguenot Emigrant" is the proper sticker, and Manakin was originally in Henrico County (there is a category that has more information which you may want to add Jean Souillé's profile to).

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Thanks for your help!

Answer 2

Henrico is correct since the others hadn’t been founded yet. Have you checked the Huguenot Manakintown website? They would have the ships name and more.

I handle many of the manakintown Huguenots. If you have questions, you can ask me.