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From: "Frank L Fry, jr." <>
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 09:07:04 -0700


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> Huguenot-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 166
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 [Huguenot-L] Re: Perigny-Perrigin [David DuBuisson <]
> #2 Re: [Huguenot-L] Newsletter [B Frank Secor Jr KB5VSY <bfsecor@s]
> #3 [Huguenot-L] RE: List Owner []
> #4 Re: [Huguenot-L] RE: List Owner ["Holley Fox" <>]
> #5 [Huguenot-L] The First Thanksgivin [" Ronald Jaudon \"Don\" Berry" <ro]
> #6 [Huguenot-L] post by Eileen Arnold []
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> Subject: [Huguenot-L] Re: Perigny-Perrigin
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 11:00:59 -0800
> From: David DuBuisson <>
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> Have you considered the surname Perrin? I have been in correspondence
> (on another matter) with a professor at Dartmouth named Noel Perrin. His
> e-mail address is
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> Subject: Re: [Huguenot-L] Newsletter
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:50:35 -0600
> From: B Frank Secor Jr KB5VSY <>
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> You got through to me. Congratulations.
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> B. Frank Secor, Jr. (SECOR/SICARD)
> Houston, Texas
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> Susan Chapman wrote:
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> > This is a test to see if this goes through.
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> > Susie
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> Subject: [Huguenot-L] RE: List Owner
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:45:49 EST
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> I sent a subscribe e-mail on 11/21, and have not received the automatic
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> Thanks.
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> Wilson DeCamp
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> Subject: Re: [Huguenot-L] RE: List Owner
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:52:42 -0500
> From: "Holley Fox" <>
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> Hi,
> evidently you are subscribed cause I got this one with no problem.
> Holley
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> Subject: [Huguenot-L] The First Thanksgiving
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:16:09 -0500
> From: " Ronald Jaudon \"Don\" Berry" <>
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> Happy Thanksgiving, Fellow Huguenots
>
> 'Secure in the knowledge that subscribers to this List are, by
> definition, seekers after
> historic facts and highly intelligent and motivated--I offer these facts
> for your edification:
>
> Question: Where was the First (European settlement & documented)
> Thanksgiving celebration held in America?
> Answer: 'Sorry, Pilgrims, not New England but right here in River City,
> Jacksonville--specifically at our Huguenot ancestors settlement, Ft.
> Caroline, June 30th, 1564. "-- no Indians, no food*, and the colony
> didn't last long---." It was wiped out by the Roman Catholic
> Spanish under Pedro Menendez, in 1565.
> See: Welcome to the First Thanksgiving.
> http://www.welcometo.com/firstthanks.htm
>
> Question: Where was the first produced-by-Europeans wine made in
> America?
> Answer: 'Sorry, California---again, "right here in River City--at Ft.
> Caroline".
> Ah, those French--who needs turkey and Indians if there's wine?!*
>
> Question: Where was the Second Thanksgiving in America held?
> Answer: Right here on Florida's First Coast at St. Augustine, Fl., Sept.
> 8, 1565
> Question: What was on the menu and what Indians attended?
> Answer: Cocido and the Seloys.
> See:The Welcome to The First Thanksgiving Website.
>
> Question: What American President declared the first day of
> Thanksgiving?
> Answer: 'Sorry, not Abraham Lincoln in 1863, but President, Jefferson
> Davis, CSA.
> in 1862.
>
> Listed below are some great Websites with history, pictures of the
> Reconstructed Ft. Caroline and links.
> When I can find it in my hard-copy archives, I'll post a list of the
> original
> colonists & crew---some of whom escaped the Massacre at Ft.Caroline and
> at Matanzas.
>
> I wish you could see the full colored engravings by Le Moyne ,the
> cartographer, historian, and artist who sailed with Laudoniere on the
> 1564
> expedition that established la Caroline, in my treasured book
> "Settlement of Florida", compiled by Congressman/writer/historian
> Charles E. Bennett, 1968, University of Florida Press. Depictions of
> the 6 to 7 foot tall, full body tatooed, Timucuan Indians at
> war, play, mining gold, and hunting "crocodiles".
>
> Someday I hope to make the time to become active again with my local
> archaeology society. One of our members has discovered what may well be
> the original settlement site and fragments of the orignal monument.
> There are many Indian burial sites and middens along the banks of the
> St. Johns River along Ft. Caroline Road.
>
> See: Mike Strong
> http://www.mikestrong.com/fortcar/index.html
> History, photos of the reconstructed fort, links
>
> Ft.Caroline Nat'l Parks Service Site
> http://www.nps.gov/foca/
>
> Great Outdoors Recreation Resource---Ft. Caroline Nat'l Memorial
> http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/US_nmem/fl_ftcar.htm
>
> A Short History
>
> Originally Ft. Caroline was to be a commercial venture, but persecution
> of French Protestants caused a powerful Huguenot, Admiral Gaspard de
> Coligny, to offer
> the colony as refuge for Huguenots. Jean Ribault, commanded an
> expedition from France , February 1562. They erected a monument, ( the
> large replica obelisk still stands on the bluffs of the St. Johns River,
> at the River of May --now St. Johns ). Sailing north,Ribault left a
> small garrison at Charlesfort near Port Royal Sound (recent
> excavations--on the Paris Island Marine Base golf course --have
> discovered
> the foundations of the French, and later Spanish forts.)
>
> Coligny urged another attempt in Another attempt in April 1564,
> planning for a permanent settlement of some 200 soldiers and artisans,
> as well as a few women. Led by Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere, who had
> accompanied Ribault on his previous expedition. The colonists began
> building a village and fort, naming the area La Caroline ("land of
> Charles") after their king, Charles IX.
>
> Now "stuffed' with Huguenot beginnings in America, may you stuff
> yourselves (it's
> an American tradition) with good food, fellowship and above all
> remembering and thanking our Gracious God who truly Blessed America
> ---and us--with the faith of
> our forefathers. And in our case, our Huguenot keepers of their faith.
>
> Be Blessed!
>
> Don
>
> --
> Huguenot Ft. Caroline,Jacksonville,Fl Here held,1565, First Documented
> (EuropeanChristian)Thanksgiving and here made the First American wine.
> Poems at: http://www.dhc.net/~fuzzy1/HisHands/main.htm &
> http://www.NewOrleansWeb.org/easter1.html http://www.christianpoets.com
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> Subject: [Huguenot-L] post by Eileen Arnold
> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:29:40 EST
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> I am not able to respond by the specified method. Please e-mail me directly
> concerning your post about Alamander Grant Watkins. Betty.

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