General Notes

1. Family History: Virginia Genealogies #1, pre-1600s to 1900
Genealogies of Virginia Families IV, He-S, The Huguent Abraham Michaux and Descendants, p 318,
J. D. Eggleston.

The story of "Little Nightcap" is well known to Michaux descendants. Brtiefly it is as follows: After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Moses Rochet tried to get his youngest daughter Susanne to Amsterdam, Holland, where many refugees had fled to escape persecution received by Christian friends. They wrote their father to send their little sister to them, but fearing that their letters might fall into the hands of enemies of the Huguenots, they asked him to send the little nightcap they had left behind.

After several unsuccessful attempts to get little Susanne out of France, her father arranged to have her shipped in a large cask, or hogshead, which was entrusted to a friendly sea-captain, who had the cask placed on board his ship. When they had sailed and were safely past the guards who were posted on vessels in the harbour, the cask was opened and Susanne was lifted out of her narrow, dark chamber, and brought safely to Amsterdam, where her sisters received her with great joy.