Antoine TRABUE

1667 - 1724  (57 years)

• Name	Antoine TRABUE
  Birth	1667	France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	4739CFA5B0B0457D9BD1A851EBBE59CF4CDC
  Death	1724	Manakintown, Virginia, USA   [1]
  Notes	The following is extracted from an excerpt from 'A Few Old Franklin Families', which can be found at Ancestry via the Davis Family Tree (and others): "The Trabues, who so long resided at "Weehawken", were of distinguished Huguenot ancestry. The first of the family in America was Antoine Trabue a native of Montabaun,** France, and a member of the Huguenot church there, who being compelled to flee from France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, found refuge from religious persecution in the Huguenot colony at Lausanne, Switzerland, from whence he came to the French settlement in America, located at the old Indian Manakin-town, on James river, above Richmond, Virginia, where he died in 1724, aged fifty-seven years. After his death, his wife, Magdalen, married Pierre Chastain. **In the possession of Mrs. Z. F. Smith, a direct decendant of Antoine Trabue, is a copy in French, of the church letter given to him on his departure from France, signed by the Pastor and deacons, translated as follows: "We, the undersigned, certify that Antoine Trabue, native of the city of Montauban, twenty or nineteen years of age, dark chesnut hair, having a small cicatrice under the left eye, has always professed the reform religion, just as his parents did, without his ever having committed any scandal that has come to our knowledge, other than that which the violence of the late persecutions in France have caused him to commit; which God has given him the grace to abandon, and for which he has made reparation. We recommend him to the divine Providence and to the love of our brethren. Done at Lausanne, this 15th day of September 1689. (Signatures) Verhers, formerly minister of the church of Dittemare and of Montauban. Balli, pastor of the church in Langueduc, and five Deacons."
  Person ID	I381	America
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2012

  
  

  Family	Magdelaine FLOURNOY,   b. 1685, Netherlands d. 1731, Manakintown, Virginia, USA (Age 46 years)
  Children	1. Judith TRABUE,   b. 1717, Manakintown, Virginia, USA d. 1809, Powhatan County, Virginia, USA (Age 92 years)   2. John James TRABUE,   b. 1722, Manakintown, Virginia, USA d. 1775, Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F129	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2012

  
  

• Sources

  [S26] Davis familty tree at Ancestry, March 2012.