General Notes

Name has  been spelled both:  "de La Noye"  (of the drowned) or: "de LaNoue" (of the valley).  Some records show his name as "Jan de Lannoy"

The coat of arms used by the grandson of Jean; Jonathan,Tolland Conn.1772 is:
"de La Noue",  from Bretagne (Brittany), La Noue, Parish of Fresnay,Nantes Co.
France. The same armes used by Francois de la Noue, surnamed"Bras de fer" or
"Iron armed"

See:

" Armorial General, Dictionnaire Des Termes Du Blason"  by:  J.B.Rietstap

Tome II, Deuxieme Edition, 1887. :

* Noue(de la) - Bretagne. D'arg. treillisse de sa.; au chef de gu., ch.de trois
tetes de loup d'or.  armes du celebre capitaine calviniste,Francois de la Noue,
surnomme "Bras de fer". ****** Translation:  Arms:Argent (silver), Fretty Sable
(black) on a Chief (top 1/4 of shield)Gules (red), 3 Wolves Heads, Erased, Or
(gold).  Arms of the famous Calvinist captain Francois de la Noue nicknamed
"Bras de Fer".)

See:

Watertown Records Volume 6

Author: Watertown Historical Society Call Number: F74.W33W3

This book contains the historical records, such as land grants, birth,marriage
and death information of the town of Watertown, Massachusetts.

Bibliographic Information: Watertown Historical Society. WatertownRecords
Volume 6. Press of Fred G. Barker. Massachusetts. 1894.



The Huguenot Emigration to America Volume 2

Author: Charles W. Baird

This book contains the history of the Huguenot emigration to Massachusetts.

Bibliographic Information: Baird, Charles W. History of the Huguenot Emigration
to America Volume 2. Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1885.

December 30, 1620. Not far from the city of Nantes, in southern Bretagne,was
the seat of the noble house of La Muce-**Ponthus**. Bonaventure Chauvin,
seigneur de la Muce- Ponthus, the head of this house in theearly days of the
French Reformation, was one of the first among thenobility of the province to
embrace the new faith. He became its mostearnest supporter, "consumed with
zeal" for the cause of religion;  (See#1)  and his descendants inherited the
same devotion. His three sonsfought in the Huguenot armies under Henry

IV.; and his grandson David, marquis de la Muce, presided over thepolitical
assembly of the Protestants, held in La Rochelle in the year1621. For his
attendance upon that assembly, contrary to the King'scommands, he was condemned
to be drawn and quartered; a sentence whichwas executed upon him in effigy;
whilst his beautiful castle was actuallydemolished and razed to the ground.
Ceasar, his son, and Olivier, his grandson, were elders in the Reformed Church
of Nantes. Under the provisions of the Edict of Nantes, the seigneurs de la Muce
claimed the right of holding religious services in their own house; and besides years. His
sister survived until the year1780. It was  in this family that the invaluable
"Liste des Fran+ois etSuisses r,fugiez en Caroline," which we have had frequent
occasion toquote from, was preserved.

(#1) La France Protestante, seconde ,dition, vol. IV., p. 266.--On

the margin of the register of the Protestant Church of

Vitr,, opposite the record of his decease, these words are

written: "Va-t-en au nombre des ,lus, Bonaventure de la

Musse!"--(Vaurigaud, hist. des ,gl. r,f. de Bret., III., 181.)

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supporting this worship, they contributed generously to the funds of
the"temple" in the adjoining village of Suc,. The church of Suc, had
twopastors, one of whom preached also in the chteau of La Muce.
Theministrations of these pastors were frequently attended by Protestantsfrom
Nantes, who went to Suc, by water, singing their psalms in the goodold Huguenot
fashion, as they rowed along the banks of the little riverErdre, which flows
past that village, and empties into the Loire atNantes. Urseline de la Muce,
widow of C,sar, renounced Protestantism atthe period of the Revocation; though
complaint was made that she gave no signs of a true conversion. But herson
Olivier, worthy of his Huguenot ancestors,  (See #2) remained inflexible. Soon
after the Revocation, he fled from his home, and wasarrested on the island of
R,, while waiting for an opportunity to makehis escape to England. Imprisoned
for two years, first in La Rochelle,and afterwards in the castle of Nantes, he
resisted every effort topersuade him to deny his faith. At length an order was
given for theexpulsion of the marquis de la Muce from the kingdom, as an
obstinateheretic. Accordingly, he was placed on board a foreign ship, the
captainof which received orders to land him in England, but carefully to
conceal from him the fact that he was about to be set free. This method was

(#2) Among them was the famous Huguenot leader, Francois, sieur de la Noue.
Nicknamed  "Bras-de-fer" (Iron armed)

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occasionally resorted to by the government, in dealing with Protestantsof high
rank, whose prolonged imprisonment or summary execution would belikely to
attract public notice and occasion remonstrance from abroad.The mystery
maintained to the last in such cases was designed to deepenthe terror of the
prisoner, and perhaps induce him to recant before themoment set for his actual
liberation. Ignorant of his destination--supposing that like many others at
that period he was but to exchange a  prison for slavery in the West
Indies--his suspense terminated only when the vessel came in sight of the
English coast.(See #3 )  Founder of theSettlement on the James River. Twelve
years later, we find Olivier de laMuce at the head of a large expedition
sailing from England for America.The Breton nobleman became the founder of the
Huguenot settlement on theJames river, known as Manakintown, or King William
Parish, in Virginia.He was a man of recognized excellence of character. The
historian Benoistspeaks of him as a young nobleman of substantial piety, of
which he gaveadmirable proofs during his long imprisonment. A younger sister
ofOlivier de la Muce, who died in 1681, at the age of sixteen years, was
akindred spirit.

( #3 ) Benoist, Histoire de l'Edit de Nantes, tome troisiSme,

seconde partie, pp. 1000, 1001.--Vaurigaud, Hist. des ,gl.

r,f. de Bretagne, III., 99-144. La France Protestante,

seconde ,dition, gives these facts, but does not narrate the

subsequent career of Olivier de la Muce.