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The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia is the history of a Huguenot emigrant community established in eight counties along the Rappahannock River of Virginia in 1687, with the arrival of an Anglican-ordained Huguenot minister from Cozes, France named John Bertrand. This Huguenot community, effectively hidden to researchers for more than 300 years, comes to life through the examination of county court records cross-referenced with French Protestant records in England and France. The 261 households and fifty-three indentured servants documented in this study, including a significant group from Bertrand’s hometown of Cozes, comprise a large Huguenot migration to English America and the only one to fully embrace Anglicanism from its inception. In July 1687 a French exile named Durand de Dauphiné published a tract at The Hague outlining the pattern and geography of this migration. The tract included a short list of inducements Virginia officials were offering to attract Huguenot settlers to Rappahannock County. These included access to French preaching by a Huguenot minister who would also serve an established Anglican parish, and the availability of inexpensive land. John Bertrand was the first of five French exile ministers performing this dual track ministry in the Rappahannock region between 1687 and 1767.

What academic journals are saying about The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia

The Huguenot Society Journal of Great Britain and Ireland
“This well-researched, and engagingly written book is a valuable contribution for family historians, historians of colonial British America, and Virginia in particular, and students of the complicated and shifting religious policies of late Stuart England.”

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
“In exploring the Huguenot migration to the Rappahannock area, Lonnie H. Lee deepens our understanding of the settlement and religion of early Virginia, all within the context of European politics and English imperialistic ambitions.”

Journal of Southern History
”In this remarkable study built on painstaking research into local records … Lonnie H. Lee reconstructs what may have been the largest Huguenot community in British North America. Lee’s richly documented account is a valuable contribution to Virginia social and religious history, showing it to be less English and Anglican than is usually thought.”