James "Jacques" Pineo - Escape from the King's men

Started by Terence Kelley on Saturday, June 4, 2016
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6/4/2016 at 5:56 AM

Family lore is that Jacques was at a meeting when the King's soldiers came to the front door. Jacques and others were praying, and that was against the wishes of the French King. Jacques jumped out the back window to escape, fled to Holland and then the New World. Has anyone more details on this event?

8/4/2017 at 4:52 AM

Terence: James Jacques Pineo is my 5th great grandfather. Our family lore is that James Jacques Pineo was a French Huguenot, a group of French protestants who were much persecuted by the Roman Catholic majority in France. Wikipedia has a fair account of the movement at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenots. This article points out that Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s prompted the abolishment of their political and military privileges. Wikipedia also has a good description of a series of Huguenot rebellions in the 1620's just as opportunities for colonization were opening in New England, America. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenot_rebellions
The history of the Huguenots being driven out if France is summarized in a timeline at http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1501-160...
Huguenot settlers immigrated to the American colonies directly from France and indirectly from the Protestant countries of Europe, including the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Switzerland. Before the Mayflower sailed to America the French already had established a presence in Quebec, but that presence was dominated by Roman Catholics so was not an appeal for Huguenots who looked further south to New England instead.

8/5/2017 at 6:32 AM

Jacques is my ancestor ---8th great grandfather.

1 Charles Du Pinneau b: BEF 1650
2 James Pineo b: 1666 d: 1727
+ Dorothy Babcock b: 19 JAN 1683/84 d: 1737
3 Submit Pineo b: 19 OCT 1717 d: 12 FEB 1804
+ Silas Newcomb b: 2 SEP 1717 d: 1773
4 Daniel Newcomb b: 18 NOV 1741 d: 9 SEP 1794
+ Irene Field d: 1816
5 Daniel Newcomb b: 14 JUN 1776 d: 15 AUG 1830
+ Electa Day b: 28 DEC 1786 d: 15 SEP 1823
6 Irene Newcomb b: 11 AUG 1806 d: 13 NOV 1864
+ Joseph Ostrander b: 6 MAR 1808 d: 22 DEC 1851
7 Daniel Newcomb Ostrander b: 4 OCT 1832
+ Ermina Buck b: 1838
8 Isabelle Irene Ostrander b: 15 MAY 1857 d: OCT 1951
+ Othello Reed Ostrander b: 22 JUN 1843 d: 18 JUL 1916
9 Hazel E. Ostrander b: 8 OCT 1895 d: MAR 1983
+ Vincent Floyd Kelley b: 17 MAR 1888 d: 1961
10 Floyd Frederick Kelley b: 18 OCT 1917 d: 14 APR 1991
+ Eileen Mary Leeburn b: 17 SEP 1921 d: SEP 1996
11 Terence Kelley. 1944

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