Maybe they used the same travel agent ? > Can anyone give me a hint why so many of the Huguenots settling in Palatinate > (Mannheim etc) around 1651 left the Thierache at that time? Kind Regards, Peter Leroy

-----Original Message----- From: peter@leroy.ws [mailto:peter@leroy.ws] Maybe they used the same travel agent ? MD: Not so funny as it sounds. The David Demarest mentioned in Ina's inquiry (the father, not the son) clearly traveled in a pack...several of the people at Mannheim during his time there (and with whom he founded and built the Temple) are also listed in the manifest of the ship in which he traveled from Amsterdam to New Amsterdam and/or noted among the citizenry of New Amsterdam immediately before or after David's arrival there. And the names of his fellow-travelers are *not* all (or mostly) French names.... One gets a sense of a kind of extended international family -- French-speaking, Dutch-speaking and later English-speaking -- united by religious persuasion, traveling around Europe and ultimately to the New World, looking for commercial opportunities.