The Huguenot Family

France, 1637. Young French Huguenot Ambroise Sicard and his family desperately seek a life free from religious persecution. Determined to travel to the New World, they leave their home in France, bring only a few possessions, and depend on the kindness of strangers to stay safe. Ambroise the Huguenot follows the Sicard family as they bravely leave behind everything they know to come to a foreign, unsettled country. Told from Ambroise's viewpoint, this biography follows the young Ambroise from his home in France and his journey across the ocean to a new beginning in what would eventually become the United States of America. Esther Secor Cleveland, a direct descendant of Ambroise Sicard, thoroughly researched life in France during the 1600s to deliver this compelling tale of her ancestors' courage. With highly detailed information about seventeenth-century local history, people, food, and customs, Ambroise the Huguenot is destined to garner a worthy place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in Huguenot ancestry.

Piere Targe was born in 1689 probably in No Kings, R.I. His family had come from France during a period of Huguenot persecution. When they arrived in Rhode Island they again met with intolerance. He reacted like many Huguenots by marrying into the English society when in 1722 he married Mary Smith. His family was quickly integrated into the community and since that time have become stalwarts of New England society. This book chronicles many of their stories.

The DuBourdieu family originally of France settled in Great Britain, France and America.