300 – Jean Dumas, a weaver, probably born about 1671 at or near St. Fort, Saintonge, France, died after 1723 in London, son of Jeremie Dumas (200) and Susanne Faure (201). He was married Jan. 24, 1691 at the Church of La Patente de Soho in London to Marguerite (Marie) de Gentillot (301), born ______ died ________, daughter of Jean Gentillot and Marguerite (Marie) Faure of St. Foy, Guinne, France. .

Children:

400 – Marie Dumas, born Feb. 18, 1685 to Jean Dumas of St. Fort-sur Gironde in Saintonge and Marie (Ge)Jantillot. Baptized Feb. 20, 1685. Probably died young.

402 – Jean Dumas, born Jan. 18, 1692, baptized Jan. 24, 1692. Probably died young.

404 – Marie Dumas, born July 11, 1695

406 – Marguerite Dumas, born Aug. 23, 1698

408 – Jean Dumas, born June 3, 1705

410 – Marie Ann Dumas, baptised Oct. 5, 1708

412 – Marie Dumas, baptised Aug. 6, 1710

414 – Jacques Dumas baptised May 10, 1713

416 – Daniel Dumas, son of Jean Dumas and wife at Spittalsfield Market, Stepney Parish (Register of the Church of the Tabernacle of Milch Alley). Baptized Dec. 25, 1715

Notes:

1. Some of the information is from French churches in London collected by Annasue Wilson (Mrs. John H. Wilson III). Additional information from 46 volume publication of Huguenot Society of London obtained by Yvette Longstaff.
2. Jean Dumas and his brother Jeremie of St. Fort, France were in Frankfort Germany in Sept. 1687 and had been in Lausoane Switzerland in Aug. 1687.

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304 – Jeremie Dumas

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302 - Jerome (Jeremiah) Dumas, born about 1681 in St. Fort, Saintonge, France, died January 1734 in Goochland County, Virginia; son of Jeremie Dumas and Susanne Faure, married about 1702 to Unity Smith (303) of New Kent County, Virginia and granddaughter of Mary Croshaw White.

Children:

420 – Mathen (?), baptised October 10, 1703 (Register St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent County, Va.) Record is illegible after "Math" and could be Mathen, Mather, Mathew, Mathieu. She probably died young.

422 – Benjamin Dumas (I), born 1705 in New Kent County, Virginia, died 1766 in Anson County, N.C., married: 1) Frances Clark (423A), 2) Mrs. Martha Culpepper (423B)

424 – Jermiah Dumas (II) Sr., born about 1707. In 1744 he was living on land in Louisa County, Virginia that had belonged to his father. One report says he had a son named Benjamin (?).

426 – Sarah Dumas, born about 1709, died July 1753, married June 17, 1737 to Benjamin Harris (427), a Quaker.

428 – Temperance Dumas, born about 1711, married: 1) Robert Yancey (429A), will dated 1745, 2) Prewid Hix (Hicks) (429B) of Louisa county, Virginia.

Additional children poorly documented and possibly in error:

430 – _________ Dumas m. _____________ Lane (431)

432 – Esther Dumas m. John Jones (433)

Notes:

1. Jerome Dumas arrived on the ship "Mary and Ann" in the James River near Hampton, Virginia Colony on July 20, 1700 in the first load of settlers for the Marquis de la Muce and Charles Sailly settlement later made at Manakin on James River above Richmond. References are: a) The Huguenot Migration in Europe and America" by Gilman 1962, b) Virginia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 6 p. 45, c) Douglas Register, vol 6, p. 63, d) "The Huguenot" Pub 6, p. 66 by H.R. McIlwaine, e) The Huguenot" Society Pub. 25, p. 181.
2. Early family histories generally showed birth place of Jerome Dumas as Languedoc. In 1969, the Murphy-Perdue-Perry Quarterly was issued in El Dorado, Arkansas and gave his birth place as Antraigues, in what is now the department of Ardeche, and it gave his wife as Unity Lucy. We have been unable to verify this and became suspicious that they might not be correct. In 1983, Antraigues, Aubenas, Val des Bains and Privas were visited. This is a very mountainous country of volcanic (basaltic) rocks and was long a center of Huguenot resistance to the French King. The services of Abbe Jean Charay, Curator of the Chateau at Aubenas, was enlisted; however, he became ill, was hospitalized and had to discontinue any effort on the Dumas. He did tell us that the Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Utah had spent two years photographing both Catholic and Protestant Church records in Ardeche and government records at Privas and surrounding area. Mrs. Yvette Longstaff was enlisted to study these records and did an excellent job but after several months was unable to find any direct reference to a Jerome Dumas in the Ardeche area. According to some publications, the Dumas family settled at St. Just in diocese of St. Flour (Auvergne) and a branch settled at Vesseau near Val des Bains in the 17^th century and this group are the ancestors of many of the Dumas of Aubenas, and other parts of what is now Ardeche. There were prominent people among the Dumas of Ardeche. Louis DuMas was bailli (chief civil magistrate) from Aubenas to the Vivarais (old name for people of Ardeche) in 1535-48. He was Lord DuMas of Chapdenac (later LeBlou). He was not survived by any male heirs and his daughter married Claude de la Riviore, extinguishing this Dumas line.
3. There is a graphic family tree of the descendants of Jerome Dumas prepared about 1902 probably in connection with claims for Choctaw land and it is a little difficult to interpret but the following are shown as though they were brothers and sisters:

This information is very questionable. It is believed the names are of other Dumas that lived in Virginia during, or soon after, the lifetime of Jerome (Jeremiah) Dumas. No evidence has been found that these people are related. Ther was a Peter Dumas with son Peter that came to Virginia about 1725. There was a Louis dumas who came to Virginia about 175, died 1743 in Frederick County, Va. Whose children were reported (letter Aug. 20, 1973) by Mrs. Frances Starr, a descendant, to be:

	Louis Dumas, Jr. b. Nov. 1, 1713
	William Dumas b. Sept. 23, 1716
	John Dumas b. Aug. 9, 1718
	Peter Dumas b. Oct. 25, 1719
	Prince Dumas b. Oct. 25 1723
	Thomas Dumas b. Sept. 1726(?)
	Charles Dumas b. Nov. 2, 1731
	Catherine Dumas m. James Crabtree

This family lived in Maryland, Virginia, etc. Some changed their name to DeMoss. There is a book by Mrs. Susan Caughran on "The DeMoss Family in America" (copy in Newberry Library in Chicago). This family appears to be the source of some of the names in the graphic chart but there is no evidence of any close connection between these Dumas and Jerome Dumas. In Cartmell’s "History of Old Frederick County, Va." On p. 9 is a statement "immigrants on the Apequon. This was Dumas – the Irish immigrants party that arrived between 1737 and 1740. There were there, however, beside Irish Louis Dumas and two sons Louis and Thomas were among the French". Louis Dumas, Sr. will was proved in Frederick County, Virginia Mar. 9, 1743. There was a Huguenot colony from France in the City of Cork, Ireland before 1656 containing some Dumas families.

4. One report show Jerome with a daughter "Esther" but we have been unable to verify this. Lois Mitchell showed she married John Jones.
5. The "Mary and Ann" on which Jerome Dumas came to Virginia was the first of four shiploads of French Protestant Refugees (Huguenots) promoted by the Marquis de la Muce and his assistant Charles de Sailly. There had been requests from Virginia for a settlement of the French Protestant refugees which met with favor by the King and Queen and they supported sending of the ships. A Dr. Daniel Cox, Court Physician to the Queen, was active in the matter hoping to settle them on the Virginia-Carolina line where he had land grants. However, when the refugees arrived in Virginia, Governor Nicholson and his council decide the Virginia-Carolina line was too unhealthy and changed their destination to the vicinity of Manikintown 20 miles above the falls on the James River. Only a few of the second shipload in the Peter and Anthony" (Daniel Perreau, commanding) which arrived Sept. 20, 1700 and only a few of the third shipload which arrived Oct. 20. 1700 went to Manakintown. They received no colonial funds and all assistance was in the form of voluntary contributions.

At first the settlers were given 133 acres including some bottom land (10,000 acres in all) but some authorities indicate that they received 1200 acres with some frontage on the James River. Jerome Dumas’ place was reported to be on Fire Creek where it enters the James River. By 1714 there were only 291 people at Manakintown.

Col. Rawlinson collected all the documents he could find relating to Manakintown and its settlement and deposited them in the Bodelian Library at Oxford England. Cathy Wilson (Mrs. Tony Wilson) inspected them their but did not see any reference to Jerome Dumas.

Jerome Dumas, from his residence in England from before 1683 to 1700, probably spoke English fluently. He married a Virginia woman of English descent soon after his arrival and his first child was baptized in the English Church and the family was apparently more closely related to the English. Possibly for that reason and his age he was not in the forefront of the French activity and is not always included in the lists of the settlers of Manakintown.

6. According to Dr. John E. Manahan (letter Aug. 25, 1984) and Pub. 25 "The Huguenots" the ancestory of Unity Smith is as follows: Gov. Sr. George Yeardley (of Va.) m. Lady Temperance Flowerdew (daughter Elizabeth), Elizabeth yeardley m. Maj. Joseph Croshaw son of Capt. Raleigh Croshaw (daughter Mary), Mary Croshaw m. ______ White (daughter Mary), Mary White m. George Smith son of Capt. Raleigh Smith (daughter Unity), and Unity Smith m. Jerome Dumas of Fire Creek, Goochland County, Va.

Sir George Yeardley or (Yardley), Governor and Captain-General of Virginia 1618-1627, was born in England between 1577 and 1580, came to Virginia in the "Deliverance" in 1609, died in Virginia in 1627, married 1618 to Lady Temperance Flowerdew. He was probably a son of John Yardley of Gorcot Hall and Anne Harmon of Morehall, County Warwick but records are a little confusing.

Lady Temperance Flowerdew, born in England in ______ came to Virginia in 1609 in the ship "Falcon" (Capt. Nelson Martin, Master). She was a daughter of Anthony Flowerdew, Esq. of Hethersett, County Norfolk, and Martha Stanley. After Sir George died in 1627 she married Francis West but she died soon after this marriage.

The children of Sire George Yeardley and Lady Temperance Flowerdew:

1. Elizabeth Yeardley, married Major Joseph Croshaw, son of Capt. Raleigh Croshaw
2. Col. Argall Yeardley, born about 1621, died about 1655, married (1) 1641 to _____ who died 1648. Married (2) to Ann Custis. Sons John, William and Joseph Yeardley. After his death she married John Wilcox. Col. Argall Yeardley is buried in Northhampton, Va. Will filed 1683.
3. Capt. Francis Yeardley. In charge of Virginia Militia at age 21. He was member of Virginia Council. Estate inventory Norfolk County 1655.

   Sir George Yardley was sued in 1621 by Thomas Etheridge.

   In 1617 and 1618 Governor Yardley acquired land south of the James River and west of a creek. He named the land after his wife "Flowerdieu hundred" and also the creek – Flowerdieu Creek.

   References:

   0. Sir George Yeardley (or Yardsley) by Thomas Teckle Upshur
   1. Gen. Notes and Charts – Yeardley, Dec. 4, 1920
   2. Pedigree of the family of Yardley, of Chatham County, Keat compiled by Wm. Brigg. 1891. 8pp. Coat of Arms. Copy in Library of Congress.
   3. Sir George Yeardley or Yardley, Governor and Captain-General of Virginia, and Temperance Lady Yardley, 1894. Reprinted from American Historical Magazine Oct. 1896. 36 pp. Copy in Library of Congress.

7. In "An Act for the Naturalization of Naturalization of Phillippe De Richbourg, Francis Ribut, Peter Faure, James Champagne and others" passed May 12, 1705 the name of Jeremiah DuMas appears. (British Foreign Records Office (London) Colonial Office Papers (C.O. 5/1384 ff 28-29). On the same line as though belonging to the same family is the name of Jean Faure. We could speculate that he was Jeremiah’s uncle, but there is no proof. Descendants say Jean Faure and Daniel Faure are the same man. Descendants of Faure settlers at Manakin became rather numerous and one branch of the family is said to have changed their name from Faure to Ford – thus Marie Faure became Mary Ford.
8. In 1701 Jeremiah Dumas is shown with 250 acres in New Kent County, Va. (Quit Rent Rolls). Jere Dumas owned land in New Kent and Hanover Counties, Va. (St. Paul’s Vestry Book June 12, 17214).

John Blair, Esq., of Williamsburg obtained patent to 400 acres in Hanover County, Va. Between lines of Lancelot Armstrong, Ann Owen and Jeremiah Dumas bounded by Hickory Bee Creek, Mar. 17, 1736 (Vol. 7 of Va. Patents, p. 236)

The lands of Houghton House, Thomas Lucy, Jeremiah Dumas lying adjacent to each other were included in one precinct (Returns to vestry of St. Pauls Parish Mar. 14, 1708/9). On Oct. 11, 1715 lands of John Shelton, Edward Bullock, Mr. Richardson and Jere Dumas were grouped together.

In Book 15 Virginia Land Patents, the following patents are shown adjoining Jeremiah Dumas: 1) Richard Bullock, Jr. of Hanover County 400 acres new land (p. 91) in County aforesaid between the lines of Thomas Carr, Jr., John Henson, Jeremiah Dumas and Benjamin Brown, a branch of Long Creek, June 20, 1733; 2) Thomas Glass, Jr. of Hanover County 414 acres of new land in County aforesaid between the lines of Jeremiah Dumas, Ann Owen and Mr. Matthew Anderson by Rocky Branch, p. 139 June 28, 1733.

9. 400 acres on south side of Little Creek to south side of Rock Creek was patented to Jeremiah Dumas March 24, 1725. ("History of Louise County" by Malcolm Harris, p. 7). The Index to Virginia Patents for period 1725-1730 shows 400 acres to Jeremiah Dumas (Book 13, p. 468) and again 400 acres to Jeremiah Dumas (Book 13, p. 470)

   Later Jeremiah Dumas, presumably the son of the original Jeremiah above received a patent for 566 acres (Index to Patent Book 33, p. 97, 1756-1761) and another for 400 acres (Index to Patent Book 34, p. 180 1756-1762).

   Jeremiah Dumas of Anson County, NC on Jan 28, 1755 sold for 95 pounds 850 acres on a branch of Snow Quarter Creek, tributary of the Willis River, Cumberland County, Virginia to John Armistead (Virginia Genealogist Vol. 12 (1968) p. 53).

   Jeremiah Dumas of the Parish of St. Pauls, Hanover County, Va. Sold May 15, 1729 to Thomas Prosser of same Parish for 561 pounds 325 acres in Parish King William, Goochland County. Jeremiah Dumas bought this land from John Joanigg Oct. 19, 1727. DR Goochland County Book 1, p. 84.

10. At the Court of Goochland County, Virginia held Jan. 26, 1734, Benjamin Dumas, son of Jerome (Jeremiah) Dumas submitted an inventory of the Estate of Jeremiah Dumas with a total value of 20 pounds, 10 shillings, 4 pence including: 1 horse, 1 mare with colt, 1 gold ring, Clothes and linen, shoe buckles, books, carpenter tools, 5 pounds, 12 shillings cash, 1 quire paper, ink glass, silk handkerchief, 2 skins, 1 knife and fork, 1 saddle, 1 beaver hat, 3 pair garters etc.
11. There are several references to Dr. Jerome Dumas. We have seen no evidence that Jerome (Jeremiah) Dumas ever attended a medical school. He could have picked up some information on the known remedies of the time and acted as a Doctor in treating family and neighbors or the title could have been entirely honorary.
12. There are some references to Jerome Dumas of Antogoy. Mrs. Yvette Longstaff searched French maps, lists of post offices, gazetteers of that period but was unable to find such a place. She says ther is a town Antogny in Indre-et-Loire. The objection to this town as possible residence at one time of Jerome Dumas is that this department has very few Protestants. Mrs. Longstaff had a check made of the records of Antogny and no reference to Dumas or Faure could be found.
13. So far we have found no information to substantiate the pedigree from Sir George Yardley to Unity Smith except letter from Dr. Manahan. Other letters to Dr. Manahan for clarification have gone unanswered. In particular, the Elizabeth Yardley – Joseph Croshaw wedding needs verification as some biographers of the Yardley families could find no record of her marriage.
14. In a letter dated Oct. 31, 1986, Mariana Bachman Haritos, a descendant of Moses Dumas wrote "The reason I am writing this letter is so that I may relay to you the little bits of handed down, word of mouth information which was the result of front porch talks back in Memphis, Tennessee during the 1920’s. A distant cousin from Alabama shared the traditions with the Memphis hosts. These things were told to me when I lived in Mission, Texas about 1955. First of all they said that our Dumas were Huguenots….then they said that our Dumas family lived in Alsace in France and that they were compelled to fight now and then in order to hold their land. It was thought to be very rich and desirable land. They raised horses. Then our Dumas ancestors were very fine swordsmen because they fought with their swords when defending the land…. You may already have heard and dismissed the stories, but I wanted you to know." This lead is being investigated.
15. The Dumas woman that married a Lane (430) could be from one of the nine or more Dumas families in America in the 1700’s but not descendants of Jerome Dumas. If a descendant of Jerome Dumas, she may be the one listed as Mathen (?) (420). Dumas Lane was a soldier in Capt. Christian’s Company of Rangers from Louisa County, Va. in 1760.