[176] Brock, Documents relating to the Huguenot Emigration to Virginia, Va. Hist. Soc. Coll. N. S. v.; cf. Hayden’s Virginia Genealogies, Wilkes-Barré, 1891.
[177] Chesapeake Bay, says Rev. Francis Makemie, is “a bay in most respects scarce to be outdone by the universe, having so many large and spacious rivers, branching and running on both sides; ... and each of these rivers richly supplied, and divided into sundry smaller rivers, spreading themselves ... to innumerable creeks and coves, admirably carved out and contrived by the omnipotent hand of our wise Creator, for the advantage and conveniency of its inhabitants; ... so that I have oft, with no small admiration, compared the many rivers, creeks, and rivulets of water ... to veins in human bodies.” A Plain and Friendly Perswasive, London, 1705, p. 5. “One receives the impression in reading of colonial Virginia that all the world lived in country-houses, on the banks of rivers. And the Virginia world did live very much in this way.” Miss Rowland’s Life of George Mason, i. 90.
[178] The Huguenots seem to have preferred a French wine, for one of the first things they did (in 1704) was to “begin an essay of wine, which they made of the wild grapes gathered in the woods; the effect of which was noble, strong-bodied claret, of a curious flavour.” Beverley, History of Virginia, London, 1705, part iv. p. 46. This has the earmark of truth. American clarets are to this day strong-bodied, with a curious flavour!
[179] Bruce, Economic History of Virginia, ii. 340-342.
[180] Weeden, Economic and Social History of New England, ii. 501.
[181] Bruce, op. cit. ii. 471, where we are also told that “in many cases the wealthy planters imported from England the clothes worn by these servants and slaves.”
[182] Bruce, op. cit. ii. 395, 399, 403, 405.
[183] Beverley, History and Present State of Virginia, book iv. pp. 58, 83.
[184] Hening, ii. 172-176.
[185] Hening, ii. 471-478; iii. 53-69.