Jacques Remy (1630-1721)

He was a "French Huguenot refugee of noble birth, son of Pierre Remy (French

37242). Fleeing from France on account of Huguenot Persecution he got to England. He came to Virginia from England in 1654 under the "Indenture System", bound to Nicolas Spencer, Esq., who was appointed Secretary of the colony of Virginia, during the pleasure of the King Charles II (1606-1702) - March 2."

Originial Lists of Emigrants, Vol. 1-1600 to 1637; Vol. 2-1662 to 1700, by John C. Hotten, 1874, p.271, Vol1: "Fra. [Francois] Rame to Westmoreland Co., Va., by John Drayton, 1654." His wife Francoise evidently did not survive the trip to Virginia, and he married 2nd in 1671 Mary Miles. He became a land owner in this year and was naturalized in 1680. He died in 1721.

"Westmoreland Co., Va., Court Records, Deed Book 5, p.628; "Francis Spencer vs. Corderoyy Vaughan, July 27, 1715; Deposition of Jacob Remey, that in the year 1661 he carried chains in a survey that was made on the land, which Nicholas Spencer, Esq., his then master, afterward purchased, and lived on by the afaresaid Nicholas Spencer, and the aforesaid JACOB REMEY, that John Armsbys successors did live in the old field a little above where we began the survey, stc., that they (Jacob and Mary Remey) never knew the aforesaid John Armsby, but they heard and always understood that he lived there and that the land was called his, etc."

Note: As John Armsby died in 1659 and above deposition shows Jacob Remy living there in 1661, this places his importation at 1654 or before. His first wife, Francois, was imported in 1654 under Indecture to John Drayton, while Jacob was Indentured ot Nicholas Spencer. Under this Indenture System large land owners and other influential men in the colonies made a contract whereby many worthy men and women were obligated to work out their passage monery as servants to their "masters by indenture". These so called Masters received from the crown 50 additional acres for each person so imported.

Jacques or Jacob

(from notes in all.paf -Bryan Kingsford)