John DeJarnette

  General Notes:

From "Tidewaters of Virginia" Jean deJarnat petitioned the General Ass embly, summoned to meet at her Majesty's Royal College of William andM ary on March 17, 1702 for naturalization. The Assembly met on March 19 , "in the second year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne by theGr ace of God of England, Scotland and France and Ireland, Queen Defende r of the Faith." Thence, by several prorogations, the Assembly continu ed to meet at the Royal Capitol. On the 18th day of April 1705, the pe tition was considered. Jean, along with Jean deLaune, John James Veill on, John Guy Rey and Gabriel Maupin, became a British subject and citi zen of the Colony of Virginia.

Jean deJarnet was living in Gloucester County in Abingdon Parish, forh e and he wife, Mary had thier son, Elias baptized, on August 30, 1704 , and the information entered in the parish register. That Jean becam e a naturalized citizen, and was living in Gloucester County by 1704,a re recorded information. There is little else that is known with certa inty about Jean De Jarnet.

There is every reason to believe that Jean was a French Hugenot, and w as forced to flee France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.I t is thought that he left France by way of port of La Rochelle becaus e it was the stronghold of the Hugenots.

John married Mary Mumford, daughter of Edward Mumford and Mary Watkins, in 1703 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., VA. (Mary Mumford was born in 1683 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co., VA and died in 1765 in Prince Edward Co., VA.)