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Warder Cresson (1798–1860), American writer, first US consul to Jerusalem, convert from Quakerism to Judaism, had Huguenot ancestors. [390] John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers (1842–1914), Chief Justice of the Cape of Good Hope. [42] [391] Anne Dubourg, lawyer, parliamentarian, first member of the nobility to be martyred. [392]
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The Huguenot cemetery, or the "Huguenot Burial Ground", has since been recognised as a historic cemetery that is the final resting place for a wide range of the Huguenot founders, early settlers and prominent citizens dating back more than three centuries. Some Huguenot immigrants settled in central and eastern Pennsylvania.
Emblem of The Huguenot Society of America. The Huguenot Society of America is a New York City–based genealogical organization. On April 12, 1883, the Society was inaugurated by a group of descendants of Huguenots who had fled persecution in France and who (or whose descendants) settled in what is now the United States of America.
Huguenot participants in the American Revolution (67 P) Pages in category "Huguenot history in the United States" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
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Joseph Desha was born to Robert and Eleanor (Wheeler) Desha in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on December 9, 1768. [1] He was of part French Huguenot ancestry, and his ancestors had fled from France to Pennsylvania after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which had largely protected the Huguenots from religious persecution. [2]
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.