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were not recognized as French. In this way families like 

 those of Agassiz and Audubon are known ;is Swiss, while 

 there is little doubt that their origin was French. When 

 the Cabots, the Lefavours, the Beadles, the Valpys and 

 Philip English had established themselves in Salem, they 

 began to bring over their fellow countrymen. English, 

 whose real name was L'Auglois, became owner of a large 



Philip English numbcr of ships and a great deal of other property. For 

 years he imported young men to be apprenticed as sailors 

 and young girls to be employed as domestics. They were 

 all of Huguenot ancestry and their descendants to-day 

 disclose their French origin in their personal appearance. 

 Between the Connecticut Eiver and Massachusetts Bay, 

 young men of that line of ancestry ai'e by no means rare, 

 with large brown eyes, black hair and slender, graceful 

 figures, which proclaim them Frenchmen in everything 

 except speech ; and yet their forefathers have been in- 

 habitants of eastern Massachusetts since the beginning of 

 the seventeenth century. In a little seaport near Salem 

 there are to be found to-day at least fifty family names 

 which are distinetl}^ French ; yet those who bear them 

 now have never suspected that they were of other than 

 English origin. 



Julia Ward In tliis conncctiou, it may be asked how many New 



Euglauders would at first thought suppose or admit that 

 Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, American of the Americans, and 

 author of the "Battle Hymn of the Eepublic," had 

 Huguenot blood in her ancestry. Yet she was the great- 

 . graudniece of General Francis Marion, which explains 

 the strain that made a battle hymn her natural expres- 

 sion. Her mother had the high type of French beauty, 

 and through all the French side of the family ran the 

 best traits of the Huguenot blood. 



How extended may have been this influence flowing 



An Estimate iuto our national life may be inferred from the fact that of 

 the twentj^-five thousand or more English who were to be 

 found in New England towards the middle or latter part 



