General Notes

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Due to Huguenot persecution, fled to England, then Virginia. Indentured to Nicholas Spencer, landed at Westmoreland County, VA in1655. Nicholas Spencer was appointed Secretary of the Colony of Virginia during the pleasure of King Charles II.

Westmoreland County, VA Deed book 1, p 403 , shows Jacob Remey is deeded 200 acres in Nominee Forestin Cople Parish 21 Jul 1671


Birth: BET 1630 AND 1635 in Picardy, Lorraine, France 1 2
Death: 5 DEC 1721 in Caple, Westmoreland County, Virginia 3
Will: JUL 1702
Note:
RAMEY, JACOB, Snr., July 1702; 5 Dec. 1721.
Furniture in her room to wife Mary; youngest son Jacob 200 acres ofland; eldest son William 1 shilling upon demand

Jacob and Francoise fled to England because of Huguenot persecution.
Jacob was also a Huguenot. During his childhood and after his marriage to Francoise he experienced religious persecution by the Catholic goverment of France. Because he had left all his posessions in France and could not afford passage to America, Jacob a Huguenot refugee and a nobleman by birth, was brought to Virginia in 1654 by Nicholas Spencer, under the indenture system. Francoise started for Virginia under the indenture system to John Brayton also in 1654, but she died at sea. Jacob served his indenture in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He worked as a freeman for other people until he was able to become a landowner in that county in 1671. That same year he married Mary Miles.