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Belmont, Bellomont, Bea^imont. Beaumonts abound in Huguenot liter- 

 ature. LeSleur do Beaumont was a refugee in Acadia in KJO-l. Richard 

 Coot, Earl of Bellomont, governor of Now York and Massachusetts iu 

 1696, was of Flemish origin. Coot is a Huguenot name in Canterbury 

 Church recor<ls. While the Belmouts come from the Palatinate, llhenish 

 Prussia, the family is French iu origin. 



Oarrison. William Lloyd Garrison's grandfather Joseph was an Eng- 

 lish settler on the St. John's Kiver in 1767. His origin is obscure. Gar- 

 rison was a common Walloon name in England after the Huguenot 

 refugees had gone thither. Isaac Garrison, a Huguenot from Moutau- 

 bon. Franco, became a citizen of New York in 1765. It is not at all im- 

 probable that the great Abolitionist had Huguenot blood in his veins. 



Eustis. William Eustis, governor of Massachusetts in 1825, was a de- 

 scendant of W^illiam Eustis of England. The family is of Norman blood, 

 Eustace the Count of Boulogne being the English progenitor. 



Hale. Nathan Hale, of Connecticut, who was executed as a spy in the 

 War of the llevolutlon, was descended from the Hales of Kent, England, 

 of whom Sir Nicholas de Hales was the Norman ancestor. 



Faitntleroy. Moore Fauntleroy, founder of the Virginia Fauntleroys, 

 was of Huguenot origin, his father being John Fauntleroy of Southamp- 

 ton, England. Moore, the immigrant, was a man of property, member 

 of the Virginia House of Burgesses. 



Moultrie. General William Moultrie, who defended Sullivan's Island 

 from British attack in 1776, was of the Huguenot blood, as the South Car- 

 olina records show. His brother John was governor of East Florida in 

 1775. The family is one of the first in South Carolina. 



Lyon. General Nathaniel Lyon, of Connecticut, a brave commander in 

 the Civil War who died at Wilson's Creek, August 9, 1861, was a descend- 

 ant of William Lyons, who came to Roxbury from England in 1635 in the 

 ship Hopewell. The English ancestor was Sir Roger de Leoune, a native 

 of France. 



Legare. Hugh Swinton Legar^, born in Charleston, S. C, Jan. 2, 1789, 

 died in Boston June 20, 1843, was attorney-general in President Tyler's 

 cabinet, and was attending the dedication of Bunker Hill Monument 

 when stricken with fatal illness. He was a direct descendant of Solomon 

 Legare, a Huguenot refugee from Bristol, England, to Charleston, S. C, 

 in 1686. Solomon Legar^ was one of the founders of the Congregational 

 Church — Circular Church — in Charleston. 



Jioss. Mrs. Betsey Ross, who made the first United States flag, very 

 likely had French blood in her veins, although proof positive is wanting. 

 She came from the Griseom family, and the name is in the Huguenot 

 records frequently. The name of Ross, also, is common among the 

 Huguenots as Ros. The flag was made upon an order from a committee 

 consisting of General Washington and Colonel George Ross, her hus- 

 band's uncle. Her ancestor, Samuel Griseom, built the first brick house 

 in Philadelphia in 1682. 



Jtussell. This family is of Norman origin, and Huguenot. The family 



