Abraham Sallé, Sr.

From

Wendell E. Wilson, The Huguenot Ancestry of Jane “Jinny” Sally of Kentucky, http://www.minrec.org/wilson/pdfs/16A.%20%20Sally.pdf

Abraham Sallé (1673-1719)

Abraham Sallé was born on 22 February 1673 in the town of St. Martin, on the Isle of Ré, Aunis province, France. His godfather was Abraham Ribier, and his godmother was Damelle Suzanne Michaud.

The Edict of Nantes, which had protected the Protestants from serious persecution, was revoked by King Louis XVI in October of 1685, when Abraham was just 12 years old. The revocation specified that “all Protestant forms of worship are to cease, and all Protestant churches and temples are to be immediately destroyed.” Huguenot ministers were given two weeks to leave France, but all other Protestants were forbidden from emigrating.

Nevertheless, it is estimated that as many as two million French Protestants left the country as a result of persecution, seeking sanctuary in England, Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland, Scandinavia, South Africa, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada and America.

Abraham's parents, according to the Protestant Register on the Isle of Ré, were illiterate; but Abraham was an educated man, able to write fluently in both French and English. His parents and two of his brothers renounced their Protestant faith (probably at gunpoint) on June 5, 1686, the year after the Revocation, but Abraham remained staunchly Protestant.

The King of England, head of the Protestant Church of England, was naturally sympathetic to the Huguenot cause and gave sanctuary to thousands of emigrants. Shortly after the Revocation, Abraham Salle´ and his father left France for England, and established themselves in London. Jean Sallé died in London in 1691; Abraham applied for citizenship in 1698. The following year he married Olive Olympia Perrault in the church of St. Catherine'sby-the-Tower, London. [The fact that they were not married in a French church suggests that perhaps the bride was English.] In 1700 Abraham and his wife left London for New York City and began a new life in the New World.

Abraham and Olive met up with other French refugees already living in New York, and joined the French Church there, applying for citizenship in 1700. Their first child, Abraham Jr., was born in New York on 3 September 1700, and their son Jacob was born on 28 July 1701, both baptized in the French Church.

The King of England, eager to colonize his holdings in Virginia, had set aside 10,000 acres of land for the Huguenots, each person to receive 133 acres in the area of Manakin town. This was sufficient attraction for Abraham to move his family south to Virginia: the chance to have his own homestead in a French Protestant community.

Other Huguenot families had already arrived in Virginia. In July of 1700, the Mary Ann had sailed into Hampton, Virginia carrying 207 Huguenot refugees. Shortly thereafter came the Peter and Anthony, the Nassau, and a fourth ship whose name is lost to history. All together over 500 Huguenots arrived to claim the offer of a free homestead. They were pointed upstream toward an old Indian settlement that had been abandoned by the Monikan tribe.

Another group of refugees arrived in October, and Governor Nicholson provided support by soliciting charitable donations throughout the colony. To further aid the settlers, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed an act in December of 1700 granting the new settlement (called Manikintown after the original inhabitants) parish status and making the residents tax-exempt for seven years. Within a year the French (many of whom had been businessmen and tradesmen) had established successful farms and cattle herds in the rich bottom land adjacent to the river. Their first church was built in 1701; it was a small octagonal building.

Abraham Sallé arrived in Manakintown in 1701, in the company of his wife, two sons, and a female negro slave. He soon became a prominent member of the community, a Vestryman and the town clerk. He was not afraid of argument, even getting into a nasty dispute with the settlement's arrogant appointed (though never ordained) minister bringing charges against Abraham before the town council.

Sallé´s defense was as follows:

Mr. Philippe [has] complained that I affronted him on the 30th day of March last, while he was in the pulpit, by calling him seditious. I beg leave to represent to your honors the whole fact as it happened, which I flatter myself will be a complete justification.

When Mr. Philippe had finished the service of the day, he continued in the pulpit as his custom is where there is any parish business to be done. The first thing he did was to demand the Register of Christenings to be delivered up to him by the Clerk of the Vestry [an elected 12-man governing body for both church and civil affairs], and in case he refused to do it he would excommunicate him! He was pleased to say this with a rage very unbecoming a church, which made me entreat him to have a little patience til the dispute should be ended, as to whether the Registry book should be in the Vestry's custody or his. I assured him that the Vestry had no intention to encroach upon his rights, or to give up their own, and therefore desired to inform themselves more fully on the matter.

Upon this he flew out into a greater passion than before, and frankly told us that he acknowledged no Vestry, neither would he have the people acknowledge any. Immediately several of his people stood up, and in the church took the liberty to utter many in injurious things against me; and the last [who spoke] pressed the whole congregation to get up to the place where I was, and then catching me by the coat, he threatened me very hardly, and by his example several of the crowd were heard to say, “we must assassinate that damned fellow with the black beard,” and “that Bougre de Chien [dog of a man] ought to be hanged up out of the way,” and several other violent expressions not very proper for [use in] the Church.

Philippe, far from endeavoring to appease their tumult, did his best to inflame it, and was louder and more outrageous than anybody. When I found matters in that dangerous condition, I thought it prudent to withdraw, and when I came to the Church door I told Mr. Philippe that it was obvious he had fomented that sedition, and he therefore was a seditious person, and even the chief of the Seditious. This is the naked fact as it happened, which I am ready to prove to your honors by sufficient testimony.

Abraham went on to say that the Vestry had been duly elected, and was recognized as such by de Richbourg who applied to them for his salary, but since having a quarrel with one of them now wanted to replace the whole body with his own supporters who “would be ready to sacrifice the parish to his extravagance and arbitrary humor.”

Sallé won his case, and disgruntled Philippe de Richbourg moved to South Carolina a year later, in 1711.

Abraham and his wife Olive both died in 1719. Their six children, Abraham Jr. (1700), Jacob (1701), Isaac (1703), Guillaume (1704), Pierre (1705) and Olive (1710), all survived them, though Jacob died unmarried at the age of 19, in 1720.

Our direct ancestor is Guillaume (1704), who married the daughter of one of the founders of Manakintown.

Abraham Sallé, like most of the more affluent Huguenots in America, was a slaveowner. In his will he left the following slaves:

• (1) To his oldest son Abraham (Jr.): “one negro woman called Aigy”
• (2) To his son Jacob: “one negro man called Bob”
• (3) To his son William: “one little mulatto boy called George”
• (4) To his son Peter: “ one little negro boy called James”

It is possible that he had already sold off any adult male farmhands when he retired from farming his own lands, and retained only household staff. Many negroes belonging to Sallé family members are noted in the birth records of Manakintown.

Abraham Sallé (Jr.), in his will, left six slaves: a negro woman named Agar, a negro woman named Jenny, a negro man named Bob, a negro woman named Mary, a negro girl called Sarah, and a negro boy named Robin.

Origins

"Registre Protestant de St. Martin de Re' - 1674: [translation] 25 February, Statement of Action of the Baptism of Abraham, son of Jean Salle, master shoemaker and Marie Martin; his father and mother living in St. Martin from which the Godfather, Abraham Ribier, exquire, a Lieutenant in the company of the regiment of the Dauphin [of France] and Godmother Miss Suzanne Michaud, residents of the city of St. Martin, who state that the infant was born on the 22nd. of the present month [February] and Salle' declares this by his sworn word. Signed: S. Micheau, Rocour, E. Barbauld, minister

Family

From Wilson Family History HOME PAGE: http://mineralogicalrecord.com/wilson/family.asp
by Wendell E. Wilson

He was married to Olive Olympia Perrault in 1699 in London, England. Olive Olympia Perrault was born in 1678 in England. She died in 1714 in Virginia.

Marcus Abraham Sallee and Olive Olympia Perrault had the following children:

• +10 i. Abraham II Sallee.
• 11 ii. Jacob Sallee was born on Jul 28 1701 in New York City, New York. He died in 1720. Jacob died unmarried at the age of 19, in 1720
• +12 iii. Isacc Sallee.
• +13 iv. William (Guillieuame) Sallee.
• +14 v. Peter Sallee.
• +15 vi. Olive Magdaleleine Sallee.

Abraham Salle (Jr.), in his will, left six slaves: a negro woman named AGAR, a negro woman named JENNY, a negro man named BOB, a negro woman named MARY, a negro girl called SARAH, and a negro boy named ROBIN.

Family Notes

https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?o=0&m=612.1.1.1.1.1.2&p...

gleaned mostly from “The Family History of the French Huguenot Abraham Sallé and His Descendants” compiled by Jack Dalton Bailey:

• 1. Abraham Sallee – Olive Perrault
  • 2. 1. Pierre (Peter) – Frances Bondurant (actually Francoise Jeanne Bondurant)
    • 3. Isaac Sallee (b. 5 Oct 1734) m. 6 May 1759 - Elizabeth Bryant (Brian, Bryan, Briant), d/o James Bryant and Elizabeth LeFevre, d/o Isaac LeFevre
  • 2. 2. Guillaume (William) Sallee – Elizabeth Givaudan 1st wifeGuillaume (William) Sallee – Magdelaine Chastain 2nd wife
    • 3. Isaac Sallee (b. 22 Apr 1741 – Listed in the “Douglas Register")“may” have married ca. 1763 Frances Eden (Eddins?)

Will

WILL OF ABRAHAM SALLE

I Abraham Salle late of St. Martin Island of Re in the Province of Aunix in France visited with sickness of my Body and calling to remembrance the uncertainty at all time of this Fragill and mortall life at present in the Parish of King William County of Henrico in Virginia by the Grace of God being now of Sound and perfect mind and memory praise be to God therefore I now make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following. Viz.

First I resign my soul to Allmighty God my Creator that gave it in hope of pardon and remission of all my sins in and through the merrits and passion of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and my body to be decently Interred (by my dear wife) at the discretion of my hereafter named Executors.

ITEM. I give and bequeath to my oldest Son Abraham Salle one hundred Acres of Land upon the Plantation where I live and all the houses, appertenances and dependances which are upon and ONE NEGRO WOMAN CALLED AIGY on Condition that if she brought any children hereafter, be boy or girl, the first shall be given to my dear beloved Daughter Olive Magdaline Salle when she shall Attain the age of twenty one year, and all the rest of the increase of the said negro woman afterward shall be be for the said Abraham my Son as well as the said woman and for their heirs forever as well as the land for him and his heirs forever.

ITEM. I give and bequeath to my son Jacob Salle one hundred thirty two acres of Land belonging to the said plantation above mentioned to be taken from the great Monocantown lower Creek and from the line of Abraham Micheaux, till the little run commonly called the little Creek and if there was not the Complement of 132 Acres the rest shall be taken to the back side of the said Plantation for to not Spoil the other and ONE NEGRO MAN CALLED BOB for him in possess and injoy the said land and negro and his heirs forever and also un consideration that there is no building upon said land I give and allow him the Sum of twenty Pounds Sterling or five thousand weight of Tobacco in Cask to his (illegible) which shall be levied upon my estate.

ITEM. I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac Salle one Plantation and all the land and houses belonging to Situated between Abraham Micheaux and Anthony Gevaudans plantation and ONE NEGRO WOMAN CALLED FRANK and all her increase for him to possess and Injoy the said land and negro and his heirs forever and also I give and allow him the said Sum or quantity of Tobacco for the same Consideration that I allow to my son Jacob.

ITEM. I give and bequeath to my son William Salle one plantation and all the land and house belonging to Scituated between Abraham Micheaux Plantation and Monocantown lower Creek and ONE LITTLE MULAATTO BOY CALLED GEORGE for him to possess and Injoy the said land and mulatto and his heirs forever after he shall Attain the age of twenty one years and also I give and allow him the said Sum or quantity of Tobacco that I allow to each of my Son Jacob and Isaac Salle my son.

ITEM. I give and bequeath to my Son Peter Salle one hundred and thirty three acres of land being and lying as pattent directs of the second (?) ligne and to the back side of Abra: Remy and Anthony Trabue Plantation and ONE LITTLE NEGRO BOY for him to possess and Injoy the said land and negro his heirs forever after he shall Attain the age of twenty one years and I also give and allow him the said sum or quantity of Tobacco that I allow to each of my Son Jacob, Isaac, and William Salle.

ITEM. I give and bequeath to my dear and beloved Daughter Olive Magdaline Salle all her late mothers bodily apparel generally and three pair of the largest and finest Sheets, four dozen of the best and finest napkins, four of the finest and largest Table Cloths, nine ells of fine Shifting holland a green furniture of Curtains for a bed, one East Indian Curtepoint and (illegible)one for children, one white D.o of Cotton damask one necklace of fine pearls, one Silver porringer, two Salt Seller six spoons, six forks (illegible) with rattles and a great chain and heum (?) and one bucle for a girt all of Silver and besides I declare that I give and allow to my said daughter the Sum of Sixty pounds Sterling to be taken out of my Brother first Invoice to me and to be put to Interest in England as Esq. Byrd (?) shall be pleased to direct, which I humbly request him to do and for my dear Daughter to Injoy and possess all these things and her heirs forever after she shall Attain the age of twenty one years, or before if she marry herself.

ITEM. I declare that I do appoint and institute for my heirs all the state who shall be found after my death in England or France movable or immovable of my late Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Father in Law and Uncle, and all the rights and title I have in the Dominion of France my dear and beloved Children Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, William, Peter and Olive Magdaline Salle by Equal portion after the said Sixty pounds Sterling shall be payed to my said daughter and i do declare that all the rest of that movable state shall be found after my death in Virginia after what have before disposed shall be levyd, I give and bequeath the Same to my five sons above named and to their heirs forever by equal portion.

ITEM. I declare that I SET MY CHILDREN ABRAHAM, JACOB, and ISSAC FREE THE VERY DAY OF MY DEATH. I do appoint also the same to be Executors of this my last will and Testament which I desire to be Executed after my death as a testament Codicill or donation or gift (illegible) death in the best form as possible be according to law and Customs derogating to all other laws and Customs notwithstanding contrary (illegible).

In testimony and for Confrimation of this my Testament I have hereunto Sett my hands and Seal this 9th day of August 1718.
Abra: Salle (Seal)

The will was presented for probate in March, 1719. Isaac and Jacob were appointed executors by A. Spotswood 30 April, 1720.

[This will is published in "The Huguenot #15 ]

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Wendell E. Wilson, The Huguenot Ancestry of Jane “Jinny” Sally of Kentucky,http://www.minrec.org/wilson/pdfs/16A.%20%20Sally.pdf

Abraham Sallé (1673-1719)

Abraham Sallé was born on 22 February 1673 in the town of St. Martin, on the Isle of Ré, Aunis province, France. His godfather was Abraham Ribier, and his godmother was Damelle Suzanne Michaud.

The Edict of Nantes, which had protected the Protestants from serious persecution, was revoked by King Louis XVI in October of 1685, when Abraham was just 12 years old. The revocation specified that “all Protestant forms of worship are to cease, and all Protestant churches and temples are to be immediately destroyed.” Huguenot ministers were given two weeks to leave France, but all other Protestants were forbidden from emigrating.

Nevertheless, it is estimated that as many as two million French Protestants left the country as a result of persecution, seeking sanctuary in England, Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland, Scandinavia, South Africa, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada and America.

Abraham's parents, according to the Protestant Register on the Isle of Ré, were illiterate; but Abraham was an educated man, able to write fluently in both French and English. His parents and two of his brothers renounced their Protestant faith (probably at gunpoint) on June 5, 1686, the year after the Revocation, but Abraham remained staunchly Protestant.

The King of England, head of the Protestant Church of England, was naturally sympathetic to the Huguenot cause and gave sanctuary to thousands of emigrants. Shortly after the Revocation, Abraham Salle´ and his father left France for England, and established themselves in London. Jean Sallé died in London in 1691; Abraham applied for citizenship in 1698. The following year he married Olive Olympia Perrault in the church of St. Catherine'sby-the-Tower, London. [The fact that they were not married in a French church suggests that perhaps the bride was English.] In 1700 Abraham and his wife left London for New York City and began a new life in the New World.

Abraham and Olive met up with other French refugees already living in New York, and joined the French Church there, applying for citizenship in 1700. Their first child, Abraham Jr., was born in New York on 3 September 1700, and their son Jacob was born on 28 July 1701, both baptized in the French Church.

The King of England, eager to colonize his holdings in Virginia, had set aside 10,000 acres of land for the Huguenots, each person to receive 133 acres in the area of Manakin town. This was sufficient attraction for Abraham to move his family south to Virginia: the chance to have his own homestead in a French Protestant community.

Other Huguenot families had already arrived in Virginia. In July of 1700, the Mary Ann had sailed into Hampton, Virginia carrying 207 Huguenot refugees. Shortly thereafter came the Peter and Anthony, the Nassau, and a fourth ship whose name is lost to history. All together over 500 Huguenots arrived to claim the offer of a free homestead. They were pointed upstream toward an old Indian settlement that had been abandoned by the Monikan tribe.

Another group of refugees arrived in October, and Governor Nicholson provided support by soliciting charitable donations throughout the colony. To further aid the settlers, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed an act in December of 1700 granting the new settlement (called Manikintown after the original inhabitants) parish status and making the residents tax-exempt for seven years. Within a year the French (many of whom had been businessmen and tradesmen) had established successful farms and cattle herds in the rich bottom land adjacent to the river. Their first church was built in 1701; it was a small octagonal building.

Abraham Sallé arrived in Manakintown in 1701, in the company of his wife, two sons, and a female negro slave. He soon became a prominent member of the community, a Vestryman and the town clerk. He was not afraid of argument, even getting into a nasty dispute with the settlement's arrogant appointed (though never ordained) minister bringing charges against Abraham before the town council.

Sallé won his case, and disgruntled Philippe de Richbourg moved to South Carolina a year later, in 1711.

Abraham and his wife Olive both died in 1719. Their six children, Abraham Jr. (1700), Jacob (1701), Isaac (1703), Guillaume (1704), Pierre (1705) and Olive (1710), all survived them, though Jacob died unmarried at the age of 19, in 1720.

Our direct ancestor is Guillaume (1704), who married the daughter of one of the founders of Manakintown.

Abraham Sallé, like most of the more affluent Huguenots in America, was a slaveowner. In his will he left the following slaves:

(1) To his oldest son Abraham (Jr.): “one negro woman called Aigy” (2) To his son Jacob: “one negro man called Bob” (3) To his son William: “one little mulatto boy called George” (4) To his son Peter: “ one little negro boy called James”

It is possible that he had already sold off any adult male farmhands when he retired from farming his own lands, and retained only household staff. Many negroes belonging to Sallé family members are noted in the birth records of Manakintown.

Abraham Sallé (Jr.), in his will, left six slaves: a negro woman named Agar, a negro woman named Jenny, a negro man named Bob, a negro woman named Mary, a negro girl called Sarah, and a negro boy named Robin.

Children
Abraham Salle' 1700–1731

Jacob Salle' 1701–1720

Isaac Salle' 1704–1730

Pierre Salle' 1705–1752

Guillaume Sallee 1705–1789

Judith Salle' 1708 – unknown

Olive Magdalaine Salle' 1710–1762

from findagrave.com

Birthplace:Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Île de Ré, Charente-Maritime department, Poitou-Charentes, France Death:Died March 1, 1720 in Henrico County, Virginia, USAOccupation:Shoemaker, Merchant, Justice of the Peace, Interpreter Managed by:Lindsay MatthewsLast Updated:March 16, 2013

References

1. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jeansalle... (dead link)
2. Boddie, John Bennett "Mallett and Salle of Manakintown, Va." Historical Southern families.v. Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co. 1957, reprinted 1994. Vol. 1, Page 143 < AncestrySharing; Page 144 < AncestrySharing >