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Jacques Bilbaud arrived in Virginia w/ his wife & son fleeing religious
persecution. He was a Huguenot refugee. He came in 1700 on "Ye First
Shippe" the Mary and Ann from England after departing Port des Barques,
Xaintonge Province, France.

Bilbo, Jacques (Billiebo) (? - 1735)
b. in Port des Saintorge, Barques France
d. 1735 in Manakin town, Va-will made Sept 19, 1735,pro Feb 8,1736
Jacques fled from Part des Barques France in 1681 to England. In the summer of 1700 he came to the colonies of America. Port des Barques was in the Province of Saintonge which no longer exists. Old maps indicates the location as the southwest coast of France, opposite the Ile d Oleron, on the Bay of Biscay, and the Charente river. The following is a copy of his pass to England, found in the bible of a great great grandson, James Bilbo, 1779/1849 Chatham Co, Ga. " By the Honorable Thomas Collier" " Lt. Governor and commander and chief of his majesties castles, forts, forces and island of Jersey, sugger the bearer hereof, Jacques Bilbo, quietly to pass from hence into England, without let trouble, molestation or hindrance, he behaving himself as becometh. Given under my hand at his majestys castle England the 28th day of March 1699. Thomas Collier-to all whom these it may concern". In England, King Wm. III was sympathetic with the plight of the Huguenots in his country, so he and the protestant relief fund financed the settling in America of a great number of them then in England. Ten thousand acres of land was reserved for them in Virginia, in an area abandoned by the Monean Indians. This land was located on the James River, twenty miles west of the present city of Richmond. It was called Manakin Town for the Indian tribe. Located in 1700 in Henrico Co, it was in 1727 cut off into Goochland, then Cumberland in 1749 and finally Powhatan in 1777. Over 500 french refugees landed at James City, Va. in four ships, about July 1700. Jacques Billiebo was in "Ye first Shippe" which was the "Mary and Ann". From James city it was necessary for them to make their way up the James River to Manakin. From the records it was a perilous trip which many perished. James (Jacques) Bilbo was given two land grants, the first on March 23, 1715 containing 119 acres, the 2nd one was on Oct 1, 1716 for 43 acres. both were located on the south side of the James River. In 1723, his son Jean Pierre Billiebeau was living in the house with Pierre Dutoi, which indicates that his parents were probably deceased. The fact that he was taken in by the Dutoi family, and later they left a tract of land to Isaac Dutoi in his will, might surmise that his mother was a Dutoi. The only other record found of another Bilbo In Manakin Va. at this time was: "The 28th May 1728 was born to Jacques Billiebo a black named Jacque". I believe this was a slave and not a son, but it could be either one? NOTE: I believe he had a sister Jeanne who married Pierre Guerin, son of Mathurin Guerin native of St Nazaire, en Xaintonge who arrived on the ship "Mary and Ann". Some records are mi crofilm #850402, the national library of the daughters of the American Rev. Florida records, family and bible on file in the latter day Saints library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
spouse: (Dutoit, Susannah Dutoy) Dutoi (? - 1751)

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Burks John [Male]

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Smith Jeptha E. [Male] b. 20 NOV 1822 Hancock County, Miss. - d. 21 JUL 1900 Ryan Chapel Cemetery Lufkin, Texas

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Moved from Poplarville to Texas after he was married.

Genforum Posted by: Susan Tucker July 14, 1999
Andrew J. Smith III, s/o Andrew J Smith Jr. and Nancy Roberts, married Rebecca Stockstill, d/o Joshua and Mary Lavinia Knight Stockstill. They moved to Texas and we have their children listed as W illiam H., Benjamin F., Nancy C., Joshua J., Melissa, John Jeptha, James Monroe, and Hiram.
Jeptha E. Smith brother to Andrew J. III, md Anne Jane E. Stockstill, sister to Rebecca, also moved to Texas. We have their childen listed as Florida (maybe Anne Jane E.'s child by first marriage) Martha, Hiram, Mary, Nancy and William.

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Rester George Frederich [Male] b. 1807

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This family lived in the Will Smith Community just west of the Juniper Grove Church in Pearl River County.

After Mary Goldman died, Frederick Rester III married Priscilla Smith-Bilbo, the widow of George Washington Bilbo who was killed by Cal Wages of the Wages-
James Copeland gang in 1860.

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