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"When Mr. I'liilipe had ihiislied the service of the . . . the 

 first thing he did was to demand the Register of Christenings to he de- 

 livered up to him . . . and in case he (Salle ) refuse to do it he 

 would excommuniciite him ; he was pleased to say this with a rage 

 very unbecoming the place, which made me intreat him to have a lit- 

 tle patience . . . upon this he flew out into a greater passion 

 than before and frankly told us that he acknowledged no Vestry there 

 was, neither would he have the people acknowledge any. Immedi- 

 ately upon his nameing the People, sevarol of his party . 

 stood up . . . and took the liberty to utter many injurious 

 things against me , . . and Michael . . . prest thro' the 

 whole congregation to get up to where I was, and then catching me by 

 the coat he threatened me very hardly, and by his Example sevarol of 

 the crowd were heard to say, we must assassinate that fellow with the 

 black beard. The said Philipe was — lowder than anybody. 



VI 



Eev. W. H. Foote writes of the colonists in Virginia as Enterprise 

 follows : ' ' The colonists that remained at Manakin town, ^"'^ ^'""^^^ 

 disappointed in their efforts to introduce the manufac- 

 tures and productions of France, conformed their labours 

 to the soil and climate and conditions of a frontier set- 

 tlement ; and went on increasing and multiplying, and 

 subduing the earth, according to the command of God in 

 Eden. The ten thousand acres were soon too few for this 

 enterprising people. They lengthened their cords and 

 strengthened their stakes, and soon began to emigrate to 

 portions of the unoccupied wilderness of Virginia. 

 Goochland, and Fluvanna, and Louisa, and Albermarle, 

 and Buckingham, and Powhatan, and Chesterfield, and 

 Prince Edward, and Cumberland, and Charlotte, and 

 Appomattox, and Campbell, and Pittsylvania, and Hali- 

 fax, and Mecklinburg, all gave these emigrants a home. 

 And then county after county to the west and south 

 beckoned them on ; and they went on and grew and 

 multiplied according to the blessing of Jacob on Joseph's 

 children. Go over Virginia and ask for the descendants Assimilation 

 of those Huguenot families, that cast their lot, on their i^i^J^J" 

 first lauding, among the English neighboui-hoods, and as 



