The Chastain Families of Manakin Town

Download or read book The Chastain Families of Manakin Town written by Cameron Allen and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of two articles by Cameron H. Allen, F.A.S.G.: "The Chastain Families of Manakin Town in Virginia and their Origin Abroad" and "Pierre Chastain Revisited," documenting the genealogy of Huguenot refugees in America in the 1700s, and their European origins. This collection is reprinted with permission by the Pierre Chastain Family Association. * About the Author: Cameron Harrison Allen, J.D., retired as a law librarian at Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, N.J., and was a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists since 1962. In addition to researching and publishing articles on the Chastains, Soblets, and other Huguenot families over four decades, he was a contributing editor to The American Genealogist and a popular lecturer at genealogy conferences. Cameron Allen is also the author of "The Sublett (Soblet) Family of Manakintown, King William Parish, Virginia," documenting the family of Pierre Chastain's wife Anne Soblet, her siblings, and parents.