Antoine Francois Agee

1639 - 1685  (46 years)

• Name	Antoine Francois Agee
  Birth	1639	Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	1685	France, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France
  Person ID	I18699	Master
  Last Modified	11 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	Mathieu James Agee,   b. 1613, La Tranchée, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France d. 1642, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 29 years)
  Mother	Julin DeSage,   b. 1613, St Malo, Nievre, Bourgogne, France d. Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
  Marriage	1638
  Family ID	F6602	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Judith Chastain,   b. 1638, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France d. 1737, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 99 years)
  Marriage	1659
  Children	1. Judith Chastain Agee,   b. 1665, Lorie, Et Loire, Maine, USA d. 1709, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France (Age 44 years)  [Father: Natural]   2. Frances Jane Agee,   b. 1667, Lorie, Et Loire, Maine, USA d. 1709, , , Maine, USA (Age 42 years)  [Father: Natural]   3. Jacob Agee,   b. 1669, Maine Et Loire, Poitou-Charentes, France d. 1709, , Goochland, Virginia, USA (Age 40 years)  [Father: Natural] + 4. John Mathieu Isaac Agee,   b. 1 Jan 1670, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France d. 1 Jan 1735, Manakin, Goochland, Virginia, USA (Age 65 years) + 5. Mary Elizabeth Agee,   b. 1677, Berry, Cher, Centre, France d. 1709, Manakin, Goochland, Virginia, USA (Age 32 years)  [Father: Natural]   6. Judith Faure Agee,   b. 1682, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France d. 29 Apr 1744, , Goochland, Virginia, USA (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F4715	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2016

  
  

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  This record would not be possible without the report by Katherine Cox Gottschalk, Genealogist, Washington, D.C. found in Huguenot #8 p. 178. The compiler is indebted to the many records in the Los Angeles City Library, Los Angeles, California; the Genealogical Library, West Los Angeles, California; the Lawson-McGee Library, Knoxville, Tennessee; Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; The County Court records of: Goochland, Cumberland, Powhattan, and Chesterfield Counties, Virginia; Roy Gentry, Recorder of Deeds, Houston, Missouri; Grand Lodge of Missouri, Ancient Free and Acceptable Masons, Grand Secretary, Elmer W. Wagner, St. Louis, Missouri; The Huguenot Society Founders of Manakin Town publications; Adjutant General’s Office, Jefferson City, Missouri; Family records of the descendents of Charles Ford. THE HUGUENOT FAMILY OF FAURE, FORE, FOARD, FORD Of the army of William of Orange, numbering eleven thousand, which sailed from Holland, and by whose aid he obtained the Crown of England, three regiments, each containing seven hundred and fifty effective men, were Huguenots. To these were added a squadron of horse. In gratitude to these zealous and effective supporters, and in sympathy with the great multitude of their suffering brethren driven violently from their homes and native country simply for their religion the King invited them to make their home in his new dominions in America. A large number sought a home in Virginia and settled along the Potomac, Rappahannock and James Rivers. In the year 1700, more than five hundred emigrants, at the head of whom was the Marquis de la Muce, were landed in Virginia by four successive debarkations. (Beverly’s History of Virginia p. 244.) They appear to have settled at different points; a portion about James Town, some in Northfolk County, others in Surry, and two hundred or more at a spot some twenty miles above Richmond, on the south side of James River (now in Powhatan County), where then thousand acres of land, which had been occupied by the extinct Manakin tribe of Indians were given to them. They were also exempt from the payment of taxes for seven years, and were allowed to support their minister in their own way. The records relating to the emigration to Virginia in 1700 of the Huguenot refugees, are taken from the originals now deposited at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, England. These originals consist of a vellum bound volume of MSS. endorsed: “ORIGINAL PAPERS RELATING TO THE FRENCH PLANTATION IN THE WEST INDIES.” AGEE (Des Ages) MATHEW AGEE (Original French Coat of Arms) Mathieu Agee, or Age, is the progenitor of all the Agee family in America. He was born in France in 1660, and died in Virginia 1741. He was of the Des Ages of the old Bishopric of Saint Malo, in or near Nantes, France, who were of noble birth. On account of their espousal of the cause of the Huguenots, their claim to nobility was abrogated and their lands confiscated in 1688, as were the titles and lands of many Huguenots and other non-conformists. Mathieu Agee’s fathers name was Anthony Des Ages, born 1639. There is a well founded, and we believe true, tradition, which has been handed down from generation to generation, which states that Mathieu Agee left France in 1688, going to Holland where he, with some two thousand Huguenots, attached himself to William of Orange and was a part of the expedition to England, where William dethroned the then Catholic King James, and himself assumed the duties of the Crown. Mathieu Ages came to Virginia from England in 1690, and in recognition of his service, was granted extensive tracts of land by King William. Later he became one of the founders of Manakin, in the Colony of Virginia, and was long time Vestryman in King William Parish. He was a man of sterling character and winsome personality, possessing a strong business ability. His wife was Cecelia Ann Gandoven, and they had four children, two of whom, James and Anthony, had issue and thus became the ancestors of all the family. Their children were: 1. Isaac Agee, of whom there is no record of marriage. 2. James Agee, married Mary Elizabeth Ford 3. Anthony Agee, married and had twelve children. 4. A daughter who married ________ Austin. James Agee, son of Mathieu, was born 1725, near Manakin Town, Virginia; died 1821, near Maysville, Buckingham County, Virginia; married 1747, Mary Elizabeth Ford (1729/30-1821). He and his wife were married 76 years, and most of their married life was spent in their home in Buckingham County, in which preaching services were held for seventy years. James Agee was a Revolutionary soldier in the Seventh Virginia Regiment. They had 12 children. (Va. Magazine volume 3; Huguenot #5). Certification that Sally, wife of James Ford, Jr., was Sally Agee was not found, but tradition tells us she was the daugher of Isaac Agee, son of Anthony Agee, and grandson of the emigrant Mathew Agee. This tradition has been handed down in this Ford and Agee family. At a Ford reunion held in Knoxville, Tennessee, July 4, 1904 a number of Agee relatives attended at the invitation of Isiah Ford, on whose lawn the reunion was held. (Johnson & Simpson Familes by J.G. Johnson & K.B. Johnson, the descendents of Joseph Ford older brother of Elisha Ford, this manuscript is in the records room of the Lawson-McGee Library, Knoxville, Tennessee.)