Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . ieth generation, adopted the orthography ofConyers. In Navarre, in the century, theresidence of a family of this name was known asthe Chateau de Coigniers. Tliose bearing the name were Huguenots orFrench Protestants. In the massacre on St. Bar-tholomews day, in 1572, many of this family fell\ictinis to the rage of the Iapists, and PierreCoignie
Some of the ancestors and descendants of Samuel Converse, jr., of Thompson parish, Killingly, Conn.; Major James Convers, of Woburn, Mass.; HonHeman Allen, MC., of Milton and Burlington, Vermont; Captain Jonathan Bixby, srof Killingly, Conn . ieth generation, adopted the orthography ofConyers. In Navarre, in the century, theresidence of a family of this name was known asthe Chateau de Coigniers. Tliose bearing the name were Huguenots orFrench Protestants. In the massacre on St. Bar-tholomews day, in 1572, many of this family fell\ictinis to the rage of the Iapists, and PierreCoigniers, who was attached to the Court ofHenry IV of France, having witnessed the assassin-ation of his kinsman, Admiral Coliguy, and fear-ful of his own safety, escaped with liis wife andtwo infants to England, and settled in the Countyof Essex, where his son married a lady of con-siderable pcssessious in tliat and an adjoinmg county. It was Ralph, a son of this marriage, who ?History of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire, from the date of tlie Rowley Canada orMassachusetts Charter to the present time, 1736-1874, with a Genealogical Register of the RindgeFamilies by Ezra S. Stearns. , George H. Ellis, 187-5. pp. 483 rl scj/. (857). «^ Some IKccou^s in ]elUJla^^ an^ jfrancc was created a baronet by ]ving Charles II. From the same locality there possiljly were otheremigrations of members of this family to Kiiglaiid, where tlie name was naturally olianged toConvers, corresponding with the Knglish pronunciation, and members of the family still spell thename in this manner, wliile others in the change of a single letter have talcen the name of some of emigrations to ICngland is descended the Converse family of this name was spelled Convers for .several generations after the emigration to -New Kngland. The Coat of Arms of Coigniers, Conyers, and Convers, is essentially the same, which sustainsthe tradition tliat all are of a common origin. Tlie eng
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