 1686 - 1754 (68 years)
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| Name |
SOBLET Pierre Louis |
| Birth |
1686 |
Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Land |
Henrico County, VA |
| Land Grant 285 acres |
| Death |
24 Nov 1754 |
Cumberland County, VA |
- King Williams Parrish, Cumberland County, Va
Family Data Collection - Deaths
about Pierre Louis Soblet
Name:Pierre Louis Soblet
Death Date:24 Nov 1754
County:Cumberland
State:VA
Country:USA
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| Notes |
- Notes for Abraham Sublett, IV son of Pierre Lewis
He was one of the Hugenots at Manaking Towne, Va.
Pierre's second wife Anne was the daughter of ABRAHAM SOBLET49 and SUSANNE BRIAN SOBLET. They, too, were Huguenot refugees but from Sédan, in Champagne. Here religious toleration survived the longest in France because from medieval times until 1685 Sédan functioned as an independent principality within France. It may even have had a majority of Protestants. Abraham was born in Sédan on December 4, 1648, and was baptized there two days later; Susanne was born about 1652. Abraham and Susanne were married in Sédan on March 31, 1674.50The Soblets took a quite different route to Virginia than the Chastains did. This family had arrived in Sédan only in 1637 (their original domicile is unknown). They fled to Protestant Germany sometime between 1681 and 1686; here they lived in Mannheim and then in Wesel. Abraham joined the army of the Dutch sovereign, William of Orange. William's army invaded England at Torbay in Devon and won a quick victory over King James II, after which William of Orange was crowned King William III of England in what is known as the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. Soon afterwards, Abraham Soblet sent for his family to join him in England, where they lived in Littlebury on the outskirts of London.51 Abraham and two of the children left for Virginia aboard the Mary and Ann with the Chastain family in April 1700, but his wife and some other children \endash including Anne \endash sailed later (on September 20, 1700) aboard a second ship called the Peter and Anthony. In Virginia, Abraham plied \endash perhaps first had had to learn \endash his trade as an ouvrier en tabac, a "worker in tobacco." He too was prominent in the leadership of the Anglican church the Huguenots founded at Manakintown, like Pierre serving as a church warden. Abraham Soblet died in Manakintown sometime between 1716 and 1719.52We know something about the lines of both of Anne SobletChastain's parents. Her mother Susanne was the daughter of JACQUES BRIAN and SUSAN GERARD BRIAN, who were married on October 6, 1637. Susan was born about 1612 and died in Corcy, France, on April 10, 1659. We know her parents were named JEAN GERARD and JEANNE D'ORLEANS GERARD but nothing more about them. Jacques Brian was the son of PIERRE BRIAN and MARIE POUPART BRIAN, who were married on August 6, 1609.53 Pierre had been born about 1581 and died in February 1641. He was the son of GUILLAUM BRIAN. Marie was the daughter of a man named MATHIAS POUPART. We do not know the mothers of either Pierre or Marie.Anne's father, Abraham, was the son of JEAN SOBLET and JUDITH LOMBARD SOBLET. Jean, born in Beaumont, France, was the son of ELIE SOUBLET and SUSANNE RENAUDIN SOUBLET. Jean died in Virginia. We know nothing more about the Soublet line, but Susanne was born about 1590 and died in Sédan on February 7, 1653.
More history
Originally submitted by starrangel85 to Kopischke Mollenhour Family Tree on 30 Mar 2007
Abraham Soblet and his brother Jean Soblet both moved their families from Sedan, France, to Mannheim, Germany, before Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes. A decade later, Abraham Soblet moved his family again to Wesel, Germany, where his son Pierre Soblet was born on August 15, 1695.
Many of the Huguenot refugees immigrating to England were skilled craftsmen and merchants, and there was increasing concern among the English workers about the foreigners taking their jobs. There were also differences in the Anglican Protestant church and the French Reformed religion of the Huguenots.
Many French refugees wanted to find a permanent home for the Huguenots in the American colonies, including the Marquis Olivier de la Muce, who, with his partner Charles de Sailly, had spent nearly a decade trying to get King William's support for a Huguenot colony in America.
Several influential landowners from America submitted proposals to have the Huguenots settle on their land. Dr. Daniel Coxe offered de la Muce and de Sailly land on the Gulf of Mexico in Florida, but King William rejected that location as being indefensible. Coxe then offered land in Norfolk County, Virginia, near North Carolina. William Byrd, whose land was on the James River, at the Western frontier of Virginia, offered his land for settlement, and had the support of Virginia's Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson. Ultimately, though, the English government selected Coxe's Norfolk land, and King William approved funding for food, supplies, and ships to transport the Huguenots to their new home.
On April 19, 1700, the first of four ships, the Mary and Ann, left England with over 200 French and Swiss passengers, and would arrive that summer in Virginia. Among the passengers listed were Abraham Soblet and two children; also aboard that ship was Pierre Chastain, his wife and five children.
When the ship reached the mouth of the James River, it was met by Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson, who redirected the Huguenot settlers to William Byrd's land up the James river, rather than their intended destination on Dr. Coxe's Norfolk land.
Byrd's land included an old Indian village recently abandoned by the Monacan tribe. The land was fertile, but was in the remote Virginia wilderness, far from any established towns. This made transporting food, water, and supplies extremely difficult. Since many Huguenots were urban artisans and merchants, not farmers, life in this frontier land would be challenging.
The second ship, the Peter and Anthony, arrived in Jamestown in October 1700; included on that ship were Abraham's wife, Susanne Soblet, and their three remaining children.
By the time the third ship arrived later in the fall, word had spread about the hardship in the new settlement called Manakintown, and many Huguenots on the ship settled elsewhere.
That first year, despite illness and supply shortages, the Manakintown settlers managed to construct a church and establish King William Parish. That winter, with severe illness and food shortages, expedition organizer Olivier de la Muce appealed to Governor Nicholson for assistance. The governor, along with William Byrd and others, donated food, livestock, supplies and money to the Huguenot settlers to help them through the winter. In the spring of 1701, Byrd advised them to plant crops in order to sustain themselves.
When the fourth ship from England, the Nasseau, arrived in March 1701, most of the passengers settled near the York River, with only a few continuing to the Manakintown settlement. Over the first few years, many settlers would abandon Manakintown, seeking an easier life elsewhere, but those who remained eventually were able to establish a self-sustaining colony.
After the death of his first wife, Pierre Chastain married Anne Soblet, the daughter of Abraham Soblet and Susanne Briant. Together they would have eight children and dozens of grandchildren.
Abraham Soblet's son, Pierre Louis Soblet, married Marte Martain, and they would have several children as well. Pierre Louis Soblet's brother, Jacques Soblet, had a son, James, who would have many descendants. Abraham Soblet's youngest son, Robert Soblet, born in London, would die in childhood, and his son Abraham Soblet, Jr., also would have no descendants.
THE FRENCH HUGUENOTS - written by Icle (Johnson) Smith
The Protestants of France were called "Huguenots" during the period from 1640 to 1700, whether from one of their obscure religious or from one Hugh, King of France, is uncertain. This period was one of the bloodiest ages for France. Many of them were punished for their religious beliefs, many Kings were dethroned and the kingdom taken by imposters.
In 1584, Henry of Navarre became heir to the throne of France. He soon formed a league with the Pope of Spain with avowed intention of exterminating the Huguenot Heresy". This resulted in the "war of the Three Henries". After much fighting and the assassination of a number of the claimants to the Crown, Henry ascended to the throne as Henry IV.
The Edict of Nantes, issued on April 13, 1593, became one of the most important decrees ever issued by any member of the French Kings. By it religious freedom was guaranteed with certain limitations. In the mean time, Henry IV had gone over to the Catholics in order to maintain his hold on the French throne. Throughout the sixteenth century and until late in the seventeenth century there was continual conflict. Finally, on October 23, 1685, Louis XIV revoked the Edit of Nantes.
This act of revocation was followed by horrible persecutions, executions of the ministers, murdering of innocent women and children, and the closings of their convents. Many Protestants sought refuge in Germany, Holland, and England. Long before this many Huguenots had settled in America. Some in New York, a few Virginia and quite a few in the Carolinas.
Now with this group so badly scattered, it became necessary that an effort should be made to found a colony for themselves in the New World. With this in mind, a group organized at Littleberry, England, for the purpose of establishing a colony in Virginia. To this end, they petitioned the Crown of England for permission to settle in Virginia. The Crown readily gave them a charter.
Having perfected their organization they set about final preparations. Three vessels were chartered for trip. The following receipt, copied from the Douglas Registry will explain the movement.
Jamestown, Virginia July 31, 1700
Received of Marquis de LeMuce and Charles de Le Sailly ye sum of nine hundred forty five pounds in full for ye passage of two hundred five persons aboard the ship "Mary Ann" bound for Virginia. I say received this sum the 19th day of April, 1700.
Geo. Hawes. Witness Alexander Cleere.
This "Mary Ann" was the first of three ships. Following this receipt was a list of the families the number in each. Among was the following names: Chastaine, Tuly, LeVerne, Saye, Perry, Chambures, Ligon, Mullon, Debort, Bernard, Soblet, LeFavour, Aubry, before, Farcy, Remy, Boshard, Outartro, Dupu, Martin, Dibrell, Trabue, and Jordins.
Then group went on up the James River to the upper part of what was then Henrico County but soon became known as Goochland County and were settled "between the creeks". There they organized the village known as "Manakin Town". No doubt the name was chosen from the Indian tribe of Manaccins that occupied the region.
In this organization was Abraham Soblett, by now spelled sublet, and his son Jacque or James H. In the incorporation charter Abraham is named as one of the Parish vestrymen and J.H. as the clerk of the Parish.
Before any crops could be planted, the colony ran into a "Starving Time" similar to the John Smith starving time. The Colony of Virginia came to the rescue by furnishing foods for a time. The record shows that they were furnished "one Bu. Indian corn meal per head per month". Abraham Sublett was given supplies for "Himself, wife, and three male children". This establishes that his family consisted of only three sons in 1700.
Soon after this better days came and they began to be encouraged. The Virginia House of Burgesses granted them "The Full Rights of Citizenship". Since this narrative has to do only with the Subletts, we will now drop the others , try to tell only of the Subletts except where they are intermarried with the other French settlers.
Abraham resided at nearby Saint-Menges. He fled France by 1681 for Mannheim, Germany and by 1693 he was residing in Wesel where the family continued to grow. He took his family and migrated to Holland and then Littleberry, England where their youngest son, Littleberry, was born, and from there to Virginia in 1700. He and his wife Susanne traveled separately to the new world. Abraham made the trip first along with his two oldest sons while Susanne cared for their three youngest children.
From Ed Crabtree, "Thus, on a quiet summer's day, July 23, 1700, Capt. George Homes' ship the "Mary and Ann" dropped anchor at Kickotan, the harbor for colonial VA at the mouth of the James River. The vessel had left London on March 24th and after an uneventful passage of 13 weeks reached its destination. On board the "Mary and Ann" came the first contingent of America bound Huguenot refugees under the leadership of Oliver de la Muce and Charles d Sailly. The ship's complement consisted of 207 French exiles (the first muster accounted for 59 women, 38 children, 110 men. Brock, Huguenot Docts.. 12;; dat of departure from London is given in Mrs. H.D. Pittman, ed. American of Gentle Birth and Their Ancestors, 2 vols. St. Louis, 1903-07, 1, 181.) Among the passengers aboard the "Mary and Ann" who sought this New World domicile was one Abraham Soblet, accompanied by his two eldest sons, Abraham Jr., and Jacques. On the following September 20th, 1700, when Capt. Danew Perreau's ship "Peter and Anthony", disembarked it's company of refugees in the second emigrant expedition led by Claude Phillipe de Richebourg, came Susanne Soblet, his wife, with the other three children, Pierre Louis, Littlebury, and Anne. Happily, the family was then reunited at Manakin Town (Muster taken at Jamestown, July 31, 1700 R[obert] A. Brock, ed. Miscellaneous Papers, 1622-1865 (Collections of Virginia Historical Society, New Series) [Richmond, 1887], VI, 633-6; muster taken by Capt. Perreau, Jamestown, September 20, 1700 and by the Rev. Benjamin de Joux, December 1, 1700. Brock, Huguenot Docts. 14,24; Samuel A. Sublett, A Partial History of the French Huguenots by Name Soblets...(Richmond, 1896), t, 8. There is an error in an entry made by William Byrd November 10, 1701, wherein, he lists the entire Soblet family as coming in the first refugee ship. Brock, Huguenot Docts. 46; Pitman, 1, 181."
95+% of all Americans & Canadians are descendents of
Abraham Soblet...who arrived with his family in Virginia
in the year 1700
Source - The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and His Descendants, Rev. B.H.Dupuy, (Louisville, KY: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1908), p 263: Abraham and Susanna escaped from France to Germany, 1685, with their sons, Abraham and James, thence they went to Holland, where their daughter, Anne, was born, and thence to Littleberry, England, where their youngest son, Littleberry, was born. Abraham Sublett with his sons, Abraham and James, left London, March 24, 1700, on the ship, "Mary Ann", commanded by Capt. Homes, and arrived at Jamestown, VA, June 23, 1700. His wife and the other children, Peter Lewis, Littlebury, and Anne, whom he left in England, Arrived at Jamestown, VA., September 20, 1700, in the ship, "Ye Peter and Anthony", Galley of London, commanded by Capt. Daniel Perreau. They settled in King William Parish, VA. The land which they settled is still known as "Sublett's Post Office". Seven of the Virginia Subletts were in the Richmond Howitzers, CSA. Those descendants who went West were early pioneers of the country and became noted Indian Fighters.
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Henrico County, Patent Book 10, p 267
March 23, 1715, Abraham Soblet, 88 acres in Henrico County, on S side of the James River being part of the 1st 5,000 acres of land surveyed for Franch refugees.
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The Vestry Book of King WIlliam Parish, Goochland Co, Virginia, lists the following Tithable Persons:
Abraham Soblet, l'aine - 1709, 1710, 1711, 1712 (pere), 1713, 1714, 1715
Abraham listed as a Church Warden at the December 10, 1707 , vestry meeting
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Henrico County, VA Court Records, June 6, 1720, p 26
Will of Abraham Soblet presented by Mary Soblet, executrix and proved by Thomas Brian and Peter David, witnessess and English translation sworn to by Daniel Duerrant; Thomas Brian and Peter David, Security
Revolutionary War Veteran
From Icle Smith: Abstracts of Pension Applications. Virginia Soldiers. Sublett, Abraham, S31397
One Abraham applied for in Lincoln County, Kentucky, on August 10, 1832. In his application he said that he was living seven miles from Charlotte County Courthouse at the time of the Revolution. He declared he enlisted January 9, 1778, served 3 months in Capt. Richard Gaines' Company, Col. Charles Fleming's Regiment of Virginia. That he enlisted again in July 1781, served 3 months in Captain Gideon Spencer's Co., Col. Tucker's Virginia Reg. and was in the siege of Yorktown. He moved to Lincoln County, Kentucky in 1798 or 99 where he was living at this time, age about 76 years in 1832. His application was approved.
Husband: Abraham Sublett, III
Born: 1726 at: Virginia
Married: 1751 at:
Died: BET 13 JUN 1781 AND 6 MAat: Parish of Cornwall, Charlotte County, Virginia 1
Father: Pierre Louis Soblet
Mother: Marte Martain
Other Spouses:
NOTES
Wife: Elizabeth Swanna Keirsey **********************Most trees have Elizabeth Unknown or Elizabeth DUPUY
Jayne Schrimsher
Born: at:
Died: BET 1791 AND 1805at: Charlotte County, Virginia
Father:Thomas Keirsey
Mother: Lucy
CHILDREN
Name: Martha Sublett
Born: 1752 at: Charlotte County, Virginia
Married: at:
Died: at:
Spouses:
Name: William Sublett, Sr
Born: 1754 at: Charlotte County, Virginia 2
Married: at:
Died: BET 16 DEC 1811 AND 6 JAat: Charlotte County, Virginia 1 Spouses: Susannah Keirsey
NOTES
Name: Abraham Sublett, IV
Born: 1756 at: Charlotte County, Virginia 3
Married: 9 MAY 1782 at: Charlotte County Virginia
Died: 1 MAR 1844 at: Lincoln County, Kentucky (?) applied for pension
Spouses: Celia Sublett
NOTES
Name: Sarah Sublett
Born: 1758 at: Charlotte County, Virginia
Married: at:
Died: BEF 1805 at: Charlotte County, Virginia 1
Spouses: Samuel Pugh
Name: Elizabeth Sublett
Born: 1760 at: Charlotte County, Virginia
Married: 3 JAN 1781 at: Charlotte County Virginia
Died: at:
Spouses: Campbell Daniel
Name: Jean Sublett
Born: 1764 at: Charlotte County, Virginia
Married: 1 APR 1782 at: Charlotte County Virginia
Died: at:
Spouses: Edward Eanes
Name: Nancy Sublett
Born: 1770 at: Charlotte County, Virginia 3 Married: 24 OCT 1785 at: Charlotte County Virginia 4
Died: at:
Spouses: Caldwell Wood
NOTES
SOURCES
1) Charlotte County, Virginia
2) 1810 Census Charlotte County Virginia
3) Revoluntionary War Pension Application File
4) Virginia Marriages
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| Person ID |
I11567 |
Booth Family |
| Last Modified |
22 Aug 2013 |
| Father |
SOBLET ABRAHAM, b. 4 Dec 1648, Sedan, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France d. 1716, Manakin, Goochland County, VA (Age 67 years) |
| Mother |
BRIAN SUSANNE, b. 23 Jan 1660, Sedan, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France d. 1714, Manakin, Goochland County, VA (Age 53 years) |
| Marriage |
31 Mar 1674 |
Sedan, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France |
| Family ID |
F3897 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
MARTAIN Marte, b. 21 Jan 1682, Sedan, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France d. 1755, Cumberland County, VA (Age 72 years) |
| Marriage |
1722 |
Henrico County, VA |
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
about Pierre-Louis Soblet
Name:Pierre-Louis Soblet
Gender:Male
Birth Year:1686
Spouse Name:Marte Martain
Spouse Birth Place:VA
Marriage Year:1722
Marriage State:VA
Number Pages:1
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| Children |
| | 1. SUBLETT Abraham, III, b. 1726, VA d. Between 13 Jun and 6 Mar 1781, Parish of Cornwall, Charlotte County, VA |
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| Family ID |
F3896 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 May 2012 |
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