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A Sketch of the Among the inhabitants of this war stricken and war desolated country was a numerous and brave sect of Protestants known as the Huguenots, ardent adherents to Calvinism, and named after a man named Hugh, or Huge an active worker and expounder of the cause of John Calvin, one of the prominent fig-ureheads in reformation history, whose teachings and doctrines are held and represented among the denominations of the present day known as Baptist who practice and believe that baptism by immersion is the only scriptural performance of that ordinance. Among the worst sufferers in these disastrous times were the Huguenots for not only were they exposed to the ravages of the marauding armies but also victims of the bitterest persecution by other citizens who were not of the same religious belief, and again, under the ban of the French government who, desiring to hold on their side and influence wielded by the pope, at Rome, these unfortunate people were in a sorry plight, everything being taken from them by the warring element, persecuted and driven from one place to an-other by the religious zealots, and whatever property they possessed, real or personal confiscated by the government and their persons seized by conscription to fight in the French army whenever they could be located, the condition of these unfortunates can be better imagined than described. To escape from this, to them, a land of horror, imprisonment,
torture, and eventual death, was the only hope of salvation and England
whose throne at that time was occupied by Queen Ann although numbered with
the allies fighting against France, was popularly known as a land of
greater freedom and religious tolerance, was the only hope for the
unfortunate fugitives, and those that could escape by any ways or means
found a refuge in that country.
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Last Update 8/06
by J W Bashore &
John Damron
