Was Vincent Rongnion a Huguenot?
Aug 23, 2003 13:21:42 GMT -5
Post by Ira A. Runyan on Aug 23, 2003 13:21:42 GMT -5
Was Vincent Rongnion a Huguenot?
Vincent Rongnion was a French Huguenot (French Protestants who in the seventeenth century were engaged in religious wars with the dominant Catholics, and were the followers of John Calvin.). The Huguenots were always a minority in France, but powerful with their strength centered in the southwestern part of the country. After Charles II of England was restored to the throne, he rewarded Lord Phillip Carteret, who had remained loyal to the Stuarts, and in his position as commander of the forces on the Isle of Jersey (Island off the coast of France where Huguenots went to escape the religious strife in their native land.), had offered refuge to the Prince. Charles' brother, the Duke of York, gave what is now New Jersey to Carteret and a fellow loyalist, Lord Berkeley.
Phillip Carteret as the new Govenor of New Jersey went to America in 1665 and several Huguenots from the Isle of Jersey accompanied him. That same year, he went back to Europe and returned in 1666, bringing more immigrants with him. It is beleived that Vincent Rngnion came to America from the Isle Of Jersey, with Phillip Carteret on a ship named the "Phillip", however his name has not as of this date been documented from records relating to the ship "Phillip". The "Phillip" was commissioned to support Phillip Carteret, the newly appointed governor of East Jersey, and was reportedly named after him. It brought Carteret and a number of French craftsmen to Elizabethtown, East Jersey, on or about 28 July 1665.
Apparently, most of this information came from "First Settlers of Ye Plantation of Piscataway and Woodbridge" by Orra Eugene Monnette.
Harman Clark, Jr. at one time, said of this work "...A 7-volume series to be avoided at all costs....Monnette has so many outright errors and inconsistencies that it can be dangerous. Monnette had a tremendous ego, so that even when he uses the term "probably" you get the impression that it is actual fact based upon thorough study and analysis --unfortunately, almost more times than not, it is fiction."
Many Runyon/Runyan family researchers are beginning to question that Vincent Rongnion was a French Huguenot. Generations of Runyon's have searched for records in France on Vincent Rongnion without success, and many question that he was a Huguenot and that he arrived in our country from France.
What do you think?
Vincent Rongnion was a French Huguenot (French Protestants who in the seventeenth century were engaged in religious wars with the dominant Catholics, and were the followers of John Calvin.). The Huguenots were always a minority in France, but powerful with their strength centered in the southwestern part of the country. After Charles II of England was restored to the throne, he rewarded Lord Phillip Carteret, who had remained loyal to the Stuarts, and in his position as commander of the forces on the Isle of Jersey (Island off the coast of France where Huguenots went to escape the religious strife in their native land.), had offered refuge to the Prince. Charles' brother, the Duke of York, gave what is now New Jersey to Carteret and a fellow loyalist, Lord Berkeley.
Phillip Carteret as the new Govenor of New Jersey went to America in 1665 and several Huguenots from the Isle of Jersey accompanied him. That same year, he went back to Europe and returned in 1666, bringing more immigrants with him. It is beleived that Vincent Rngnion came to America from the Isle Of Jersey, with Phillip Carteret on a ship named the "Phillip", however his name has not as of this date been documented from records relating to the ship "Phillip". The "Phillip" was commissioned to support Phillip Carteret, the newly appointed governor of East Jersey, and was reportedly named after him. It brought Carteret and a number of French craftsmen to Elizabethtown, East Jersey, on or about 28 July 1665.
Apparently, most of this information came from "First Settlers of Ye Plantation of Piscataway and Woodbridge" by Orra Eugene Monnette.
Harman Clark, Jr. at one time, said of this work "...A 7-volume series to be avoided at all costs....Monnette has so many outright errors and inconsistencies that it can be dangerous. Monnette had a tremendous ego, so that even when he uses the term "probably" you get the impression that it is actual fact based upon thorough study and analysis --unfortunately, almost more times than not, it is fiction."
Many Runyon/Runyan family researchers are beginning to question that Vincent Rongnion was a French Huguenot. Generations of Runyon's have searched for records in France on Vincent Rongnion without success, and many question that he was a Huguenot and that he arrived in our country from France.
What do you think?
