The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . from La Eochelle, one of whose descendants, James Bowdoin, bearingthe name of his grandfather, the son of Pierre, afterwards foundedBowdoin College. In 1(590 the settlement was destroyed by the In-dians, though several of the French families returned to Portland,where a small French colony existed for a numl^er of years. THE VIRGINIA COLONY. Unlike other English colonies in America, Virginia seems to haveattiactcd l)ut few Huguenot settlers before the close of the seventeenthcentury. The right of citizenship was freely given to foreigne
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . from La Eochelle, one of whose descendants, James Bowdoin, bearingthe name of his grandfather, the son of Pierre, afterwards foundedBowdoin College. In 1(590 the settlement was destroyed by the In-dians, though several of the French families returned to Portland,where a small French colony existed for a numl^er of years. THE VIRGINIA COLONY. Unlike other English colonies in America, Virginia seems to haveattiactcd l)ut few Huguenot settlers before the close of the seventeenthcentury. The right of citizenship was freely given to foreigners asearly as 1G71, and the colonial records show that a small number ofFrenchmen were naturalized in the immediately succeeding the Act of Toleration, which had practically established freedomof worship since 1689, was not promulgated in Virginia until al)out1699 ; and in the mean time the great mass of the Huguenots, whosecreed and polity were Presbjterian, naturally turned their attention toother provinces. The tardy promulgation of the Tol
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