The Sublett Soblet Family Of Manakintown King William Parish Virginia

Comprising more than four decades of research into an American Huguenot family, this 50th Anniversary edition includes Cameron Allen's original articles on "The Sublett (Soblet) Family of Manakintown, King William Parish, Virginia," published since 1963 by the Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, Cameron Allen's chapter on "Huguenot Migrations" from the 1971 book "Genealogical Research, Volume 2," as well as a Preface and two new articles by Cameron Allen published in The American Genealogist: "The Soblets of the European Refuge" and "Ancestral Table of Susanne Brian, Wife of Abraham Soblet." With more than 1,000 footnotes and an index of names, this book is the essential starting point for all researchers of Soblet/Sublett/Sublette family genealogy.

Abraham Soblet and his wife, Susanne Brian, were french huguenots living in Sédan, France. In 1700 they emigrated with their four children and settled in King William Parish, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Illinois and elsewhere.

The volume at hand--a reprint of Volume II of the printed records of Cambridge--is a transcription of the records of Cambridge town meetings and meetings of selectmen from the town's beginnings until 1703.

A collection of two articles by Cameron H. Allen, F.A.S.G.: "The Chastain Families of Manakin Town in Virginia and their Origin Abroad" and "Pierre Chastain Revisited," documenting the genealogy of Huguenot refugees in America in the 1700s, and their European origins. This collection is reprinted with permission by the Pierre Chastain Family Association. * About the Author: Cameron Harrison Allen, J.D., retired as a law librarian at Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, N.J., and was a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists since 1962. In addition to researching and publishing articles on the Chastains, Soblets, and other Huguenot families over four decades, he was a contributing editor to The American Genealogist and a popular lecturer at genealogy conferences. Cameron Allen is also the author of "The Sublett (Soblet) Family of Manakintown, King William Parish, Virginia," documenting the family of Pierre Chastain's wife Anne Soblet, her siblings, and parents.

Samuel Drury, Sr. of Vermont, born ca. 1770, married Hannah Brownson, born in 1774. They were probably married in 1791 in Bennington County, Vermont. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Kentucky, Virginia, Kansas and elsewhere.