Anne (Soblet) Chastain (1675 - 1723)

Born 27 Oct 1675 in Sedan, Ardennes, France

Ancestors

Wife of Pierre Chastain Sr. — married 1 Nov 1701 (to 3 Apr 1723) in Manakin-Town, Goochland, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died 3 Apr 1723 at age 47 in King William, Goochland, English Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Anne Soblet was baptized at birth as a Reformed (Protestant) Christian on October 27, 1675 in Sedan, Ardennes, France. ^[1] She was the daughter of Abraham Soblet and his wife Susanne (Brian) Soblet. Sedan, joined to France only in 1651, was considered a "safe-haven" for French-speaking Protestants during the Religious Wars of the 16th Century; after it became part of the Roman Catholic Kingdom of France, however, this earlier toleration evaporated, and local Protestants, known as "Huguenots," became increasingly pressured to renounce their faith and convert to Roman Catholicism. This was especially true during the 1680s under French King Louis XIV. ^[2]

The Soblet family fled Sedan and France in 1686 after Louis XIV revoked the "Edict of Nantes," of 1598, signed by his grandfather, that had guaranteed at least limited tolerance for French Protestants. Abraham Soblet, his wife Susanne, and their children: Anne, Abraham and Jacques Soblet, first sought refuge in the neighboring, Protestant-ruled, Rhineland-Palatinate; later they moved to Holland and then to England. From there, the family set sail for the English Royal Colony of Virginia in 1700. Anne Soblet, her mother, Susanne Soblet, and Anne's younger brothers, Pierre Louis and Littleberry Soblet, arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in October 1700 on the ship Peter and Anthony. Her father and two older brothers, Abraham and Jacques Soblet, had arrived earlier on the ship Mary and Ann on July 12, 1700. It was the first of four ships carrying Huguenot refugees under an agreement with the English government. Dr. Pierre Chastain and his family, from the Province de Berry, in central France, were on that first ship, Mary and Ann.^[3]

On November 1, 1701, at Manakin town, Henrico County, Virginia, Anne Soblet became Dr. Pierre Chastain's 2nd wife, following the death of Susanne (Reynaud) Chastain, whom Pierre had married Jan. 28, 1687, in France, and who had died during the first "starving winter' in rural Virginia (the French colonists arrived too late to plant food crops and many were not prepared for the hard agricultural life they found at Manakin-Town, an abandoned Native American village, 25 miles from the nearest English colonial settlement). ^[4] Dr. Pierre Chastain and Anne Soblet had 8 children:

1. Judith Chastain, b: 1703 (m. 1st., Gille Ballew and 2nd., Thomas Walker)
2. Pierre Chastain, b: 1707 (m. Mildred "Middy" Archer)
3. Mary Chastain, b: 1709
4. Elizabeth Chastain, b: 1711 (m. David LeSueur, Jr.)
5. Rene Chastain, b: 1713 (m. Mrs., Judith Martin Gevedon, m. 1st., Thomas Gevedon)
6. Susanna Chastain, b: 1715 (m. James Robinson)
7. Janne Chastain, b: 1716
8. Marie/Mary Magdalene Chastain, b: 1720 (m. Guillaume Salle)

Unfortunately, Anne (Soblet) Chastain caught a fever and died on April 3, 1723 in Manakin-Town, Goochland County, Colony of Virginia. The local Register of Deaths stated:

"3 April 1723, died Anne Soblet, the [wife of] Sieur Pierre Chastain, aged about [48] years was buried the fourth of the month."^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial# 46384965 - Anne Soblet
2. ↑ Sedan, Ardennes Article on Wikipedia. Sedan had a large fortress, making it vital to protect France's North-East frontier.
3. ↑ Soblet Family History; http://soblet.com/history.htm
4. ↑ "Pierre Chastain And His Descendants, First Five Generations in America" (Vol. I). By the Pierre Chastain Family Association, 1995.
5. ↑ Brock, R. A. Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town, with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families. "Fragment of a Register of Deaths" p 110. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1962. Text in [brackets] missing in fragment recovered; added from other facts.

• World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1 Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Publication: Release date: November 29, 1995 Note: ABBR World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1 CONT Customer pedigree. CONT CONT Source Media Type: Family Archive CD

• U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. Births [database on-line] and Deaths [database on-line].

• Soblet Family History

• Pierre Chastain Family Association

• Chastain Central

• "Pierre Chastain and His Descendants, First Five Generations in America" '95 (p. 17)

• Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches. Vol. I Abstracts of Land Patents - Henrico County pg 48

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profiles created by:
• Molly Rice.
• Todd Call
• Ernie Kapphahn
• Chet B. Snow, Leader of the Huguenot Migration Project, merged these profiles, re-wrote the Biography, added Sources, and added the Project as a Profile Manager for this Project-protected Profile (PPP), on February 27, 2018.