Our Lamoreaux, Masse’ & Mercereau Family



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A timeline and document list of Daniel Lamoreaux and Jeanne Massé

Our Lamoreaux, Masse’ & Mercereau Family

Our Mercereau / Massé Family were in New York by 1689

Our Lamoreaux Family was there by 1700

The Huguenots – Late 1600’s- Early 1700’s - England and New York

Much is included about New York and New Rochelle

For previous France, Holland and England see “André and Suzanne Timeline”

Several families from the same area went into Holland before coming to America. DID WE?

[Please be kind as you read this. It was created as a labor of love for these wonderful people who are my ancestors. It is not professionally done. It was written so that I could list and evaluate all the sources available for my people. They didn’t write their own histories so, like many of you, I have tried to piece it together. The stories are awesome. I share this with everyone so they won’t have to rediscover anything I have spent valuable time finding. My hope is that others will also share and we can discover a more complete and accurate story of their lives.] Dec 1999- May 2007, april coleman – akcoleman1@

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In a letter to H D L’Amoureux dated 21 Sept 1954, Kim Erdman says:

“Jeanne Masse christened. 5 July 1696 in the French Church of New York, daughter of Pierre Masse and Elizabeth Mercereau. Both parents were immigrants from Moise (now Moese) in the old province of Saintonge. …had 2 children before they immigrated, one of which was Elie Masse, chr. 25 Jan 1682. The other was born during the persecutions and there is no record.[We found her records from La Rochelle in Holland.] Pierre was probably born between 1642 and 1654 or 1664. He was the son of Daniel Masse. I might have the name of his mother but I need to check more closely. Pierre had at least one brother, Daniel, and three sisters, Suzanne, Madelene, and Jeanne.

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“…Huguenots tended to travel and settle in the company of their friends and relations.” P 183

“Protestants being ‘people of the book’, the reformed churches always stressed the need for education. It was in the best Calvinistic tradition that both Walloons and Huguenots were concerned to educate refugee children and made important contributions to English schooling. …there were many men of letters among the refugees. …All education in the early modern Europe had a strong religious bent, and Protestant refugees were ideal teachers of foreign languages to Englishmen.” P 80

Robin D Gwynn, Huguenot Heritage, 1986, London

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“…France was now bled white by the migration of these religious people.

“For they constituted the cream of France; teachers, philosophers, craftsmen, artists, weavers, farmers, stone workers, merchants, sailors, gunsmiths, iron workers, lapidaries, sculptors, writers, architects, bankers, and a dozen other arts and sciences, not to forget ministers and soldiers leaders.”

“Peter Stuyvesant, first Governor of New Netherlands, …said: ‘They are the most respected, respectable, and valuable accession ever made to the population of our country.’”

The Huguenot Migration in Europe and America, It’s Cause & Effect, C. Malcolm B Gilman

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“France owed a debt …to the Protestants for the sudden impulse which maritime commerce received from their hands at Bordeaux, at La Rochelle, and in the ports of Normandy. The English and Dutch had greater confidence in them than in the Roman Catholic merchants, and were far more willing to enter into correspondence with them. The French Reformed deserved the high reputation of commercial probity …perpetual constraint upon themselves, they forces public esteem by their austerity of morals and irreproachable loyalty. …with respect to the law, …attachment to duty, the ancient economy and frugality of the burger class, all qualities of a Christian, that is to say, a lively love for their religion, a marked inclination to render their conduct comfortable to their conscience, and constant apprehension of the judgements of God.

“Renowned for their commercial intelligence and activity, they were no less famous for their industry. More devoted to labor than the other subjects of the realm, because they could only hope to equal them by surpassing them in the quality of their work, they were still farther stimulated and advanced by the principles of their religion. Those principles constantly urged them to instruct and enlighten themselves.”

M. Charles Weiss, History of the French Protestant Refugee from…, 1854, p 36-7

[This may have been how Andre was able to leave France and go to England. He may have had commerce between himself and the English or Dutch merchant ships, etc.]

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Daniel & Jeanne Timeline and Document List

1650-60 LaCorberaie de Lusignan, Andre’ Lamoureux is born

France [Birth date estimated from his children’s birth & etc.]

"Lamoureaux, Andre, originally from La Corberaie de Lusignan, he left the

Catholic church about 29.6.1678, along with two others. …

He was from Meschers and Judith was baptized in Bristol on 5.7.1689, as was a son, Daniel, 1695. They moved to New York in 1700."

The Gold Book, Vol IV, handwritten, by Jean Rivierre, found in France,

Jan 2000 by Allen Steele ................
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