Hello, I have been watching the posts on the Huguenots on the list. I see you have mentioned the LeGrand Surname. I have a book, Pierre LeGrand in VA 1700, if you are interested. I might be able to help you. Johnnie Mc ----- Original Message ----- From: <Bebenjohn@aol.com> To: <NCHALIFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [NCHALIFA] John Hardy "imported" to NC > > In a message dated 2/9/00 11:15:56 AM, turniproots@coastalnet.com writes: > > << "About 1707 a group of Huguenots from Virginia, -considerable in > numbers- crossed the Pamlico River and took up lands along the Neuse and > Trent.">> > > Thanks, Trish, for all of the information! As for the Huguenots, John Lawson > wrote about them in his travel journal in the first decade of the 1700's > saying that Manakintowne in Va. would soon be emptied of Huguenots (was > getting too crowded in Va.) as so many were arriving along the Trent River. > Wouldn't you love to see a list of those settlers! I have seen surname > LeGrand down that way. Of course I am guessing but would seem easier to > travel over land to the area of current I-95 and come into NC that way rather > than overland to a place in the rocky James river, at least near Richmond it > is, until reach navigatable part of the James, them board ship, then cross > the Chesapeake and out into the Atlantic before heading south then into > inland waterway into the general Albemarle, etc., region of NC. Just a guess. > > Bebe > > Bebe > >