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Shakespeare used the word Walloon: "A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace/Thrust Talbot with a spear in the back." A note in Henry VI, Part I says, "At this time, the Walloons [were] the inhabitants of the area, now in south Belgium, still known as the 'Pays wallon'."
Flemish surnames are also common, due to Flemish economic immigration from 1850 to 1950. See Flanders name. There are also a lot of typical Walloon surnames, like Monami (fr: Mon ami, en: My friend), Dehasse (fr: de Hasselt, en: from Hasselt), Delcroix (fr: de la Croix, en: from the Cross), Delhaize or Donnay (some famous tennis equipment in ...
Key work: Memoirs of a Huguenot Family. [336] François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian, statesman. Key work: History of France. [337] Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French historian and geographer. [338] Francis Labilliere (1840–1895), Australian historian and imperialist, son of Huguenot-descended Charles Edgar de Labilliere. He was ...
In 1924, the US issued a commemorative half dollar, known as the "Huguenot-Walloon half dollar", [145] to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Huguenots' settlement in what is now the United States. Frenchtown, New Jersey, part of the larger Delaware River Valley, was a settling area in the early 1700s.
Walloon Monument. There is a monument in the Battery Park section of lower Manhattan, New York City called the Walloon Settlers Memorial.That monument was given to the City of New York by the Belgian Province of Hainaut in honor of the inspiration of Jessé de Forest in founding New York City.
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Samuel Bacot (1745-1795), grandson. Early land records indicate he settled in the back country of South Carolina about 1770. He served in the State Militia during the Revolution, was taken prisoner by the British in 1780, but with his companions made his escape, avoiding confinement in a Charles Town prison.