Published in 1938 HIS book was written to meet the need of a permanent record of the history of the descendants of four brothers of the old Virginia family of Col. Samuel DuVal of “Mt. Comfort,” Henrico County, Va. On this plantation of five hundred acres was built the Chestnut Hill and Highland Park additions…
Tag: The Duvalls of Virginia were French Huguenots who Fled France because of Religious Persecution
My Family Was Part of the Movement to America to Flee Religious Persecution
Persecution of the Protestant French Huguenots The Bartholomew’s Day Massacre “The St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by…