. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. and picturesque pro-ducts the furs, tobacco, and building timber of thenorthern continent seemed comparatively unim-portant ; they certainly did not tempt with the sameglamour. Therefore, Jesse eagerly petitioned the West IndiaCompany that his families might be employed inthe service of the Company and transported toSouth America. Holland was now swarming withrefugees whose only plea was for employment, andJesse also was ready to be satisfied if the companywould convey his families across the seas and prom-ise to emp
. A Walloon family in America; Lockwood de Forest and his forbears 1500-1848. and picturesque pro-ducts the furs, tobacco, and building timber of thenorthern continent seemed comparatively unim-portant ; they certainly did not tempt with the sameglamour. Therefore, Jesse eagerly petitioned the West IndiaCompany that his families might be employed inthe service of the Company and transported toSouth America. Holland was now swarming withrefugees whose only plea was for employment, andJesse also was ready to be satisfied if the companywould convey his families across the seas and prom-ise to employ them after arrival. The directors with obvious wisdom objected tothe wholesale experiment of transporting families atonce, but offered to take Jesse and some of the headsof families — Pères de familles, as they calledthem — to the Wild Coast to select for themselvesan advantageous site and to prepare it for thecolony before risking the lives of women and chil-dren. A small band of men was therefore selected —ten besides our friend Jesse. We quote once more [26]. THE BURGHER GUARD, 1626Painted by Mr. David Bailey. In the Lakenhal, Leyden The Petitioner for Freedom from the Journal : There were chosen for this pur- Lc-^jienpose Louis Le Maire, Barthelemi Digan, AnthoineDescendre, Anthoine Beaumont, Jehan Godebon,Abraham Douillets, Dominique Masure, Jehan andGilles Daynes brothers and Jehan Mousnier de laMontagne, over whom when landed the said Jessedesforest was to have command. A few words are necessary regarding the membersof this party and their leader. Four of the menselected had signed the Round Robin in July, 1621,and now two years later were still eager for emigra-tion — Jesse de Forest (or, as in the Round Robin,Jesse de Forest, tincturier); Barthelemi Digan(or ^Barthélémy Digand, scyeur de bois) ; AnthoineDescendre (or Anthoin Desendre, laboureur);and Jehan Mousnier de la Montagne (Mousnierde la Montagne, estudient en medicine). As wehave just heard, Jesse
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