The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

Chap. I.
136 BARTHOLOMEW DUPUY IN HISTORY.
life, I have been frequently told, is still preserved
by one of the descendants through his
son John James, and his granddaughter
Olympia Trabue. On reaching German soil
and dismounting, it was the 40th Psalm which
he and his wife chanted. It seems to have been
his original intention to go at once to England,
but for some reason he and his wife remained
in Germany, or elsewhere, fourteen years, of
which time we have no account of them at all.
1699. In 1699, they went, (we think from Geneva,
England. Switzerland), to England upon the public
invitation of King William, promising to
refugee emigrants to the colonies, in a free
passage, and to give them freedom of religion.
Beginning in the spring of the year 1700,
Four seven hundred French Protestant refugees, in
^jjll^' four separate fleets, at intervals of some
months, embarked from England to America^
with Marquis de la Muce at their head, and
were finally landed in Virginia. There were
three ministers of the Gospel and two physicians
who accompanied the expedition. The
ministers were Claude Philippe de Richeburg,
Benjamin de Joux, and Louis Latane. The
physicians were Castaing (Chastain'?), and
La Sosee. Of some two hundred of those
Huguenot refugees, a settlement was formed
at Manakintown in King William Parish,
about eighteen miles above Richmond, on the
south side of James River, in that part of
Henrico which is now Powhatan County, Va.
King The King William Parish was a bodv of land,
Paris 0^ ^6^ thousand acres, which was granted by
act of the General Assembly, December 5,
1700, to Huguenot refugees. It had been occupied
by the Monacan Indians, a warlike tribe,
which had withstood the power of Powhatan,