Mathieu Agee (1670 - abt. 1761)

Born 1670 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France

Ancestors

Husband of Cecelia Anne (Gandovin) Agee — married 1714 in Manakin, Goochland, Virginia, British Colonial America [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1761 at about age 91 in Buckingham County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Mathieu Agee was a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

Mathieu Agee migrated from France to Virginia.

Mathieu Agee was the first of the family to come to America. A Huguenot, he left France in 1688, went to Holland and with some two thousand Huguenots, joined the ranks of William of Orange and accompanied his troops to England where William deposed the catholic King James and assumed the crown. In recognition of the aid rendered to his cause, William offered passage to the new world. A large number of these French refugees Including Mathieu took advantage of this offer.

Mathieu Agee arrived in Virginia in 1690, received land grants west of Richmond and built a plantation about seven miles where the Huguenots founded the town of Manikin^[1]

Mathieu Isaac Agée (ca. 1670 - ca. 1761), a Huguenot (French Protestant) of noble birth, emigrated from France to the English colony of Virginia in about 1700/1701. It's likely that he had previously fled France for England, due to the persecution of French Huguenots after King Louis XIV revoked the religious-toleration "Edict of Nantes" in 1685.

In Virginia, he married fellow-Huguenot refugee, Ann Gandovin, in about 1714.^[2] They had at least 4 children: Isaac, James, Judith and Anthony. The family settled in Powhatan County, Virginia, and later moved to Buckingham County, Virginia. Mathieu died in about 1761 in Buckingham County, Virginia.

Their descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Agee) live in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, New Mexico, California and elsewhere.

Mathieu Age', A French Protestant Refugee to Virginia, was born before before 1685 and died after 1761. He was Naturalized with the other Manakintowne Huguenots in April or May 1705. ^[3]

"The family was of noble birth, but because of its espousal of the Huguenot Faith was forced to give up, or voluntarily gave up its claim to nobility when its lands were confiscated by the French Government after the revocationof the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. This act of revocation precipitated a crisis in France which resulted in the egress of thousands of the best citizens of the Kingdom. The far reaching results of this exodus are felt to this day in France

Mathieu Age', being a young man at this time, doubtless witnessed the persecutions rampant then, and foresaw that worse conditions were yet to come, arrived at the conclusion that freedom of worship and unhampered citizenship were conditions no longer to be hoped for in his native land, and being unwilling to surrender his firmly grounded and fixed belief in the desirability and necessity of an unmolested citizenship, decided to flee from his former home.

That this man was of sturdy character and strong convictions is attested by the fact that he gave up his home and became a pioneer in a new and rugged land rather than suffer the humiliation sure to occur to those who remained at home and refused to accede to the demands of the State Church. Only the strong possessed the fortitude for such monumentous action. In Virginia he became a leading citizen and a man of influence in his community and was ever true and faithful in all activities and contacts." The above in quotes is, in part, what Dr. Purl Agee wrote of Mathieu Age' in his book the Agee Family.

Mathew Age' very probably came in one of the five ships bring Huguenots to Virginia in 1700 or 1701. No passenger lists have been found for the third and fifth ships. He appears regularly in the tithe lists of King William Parish as shown in the Vestry Book. An undated list of ca. 1714 shows him with wife and no children; this list may be found in Brock's "Huguenot Immigration to Virginia", page 74.

He was given a patent (PB 10,page 282 -ca. 1715) for 221 acres in the "upper part of the last 5000 acres set aside for the French Refugees." This tract was at a place now called Five Forks on State Rt. 711, Powhatan Co., Va. He next patented (PB 12, page 337 - ca. 1725) 400 acres on Jones Creek and east side of Mathieu's Branch and 400 acres on the west side of Mathiew's Branch adjoining land of Jean-Pierre Bondurant. In 1738, he patented (PB 18, page 221) 300 acres near Magnum Lapis (Flat Rock). He gave his son, Anthony, 100 acres of this last tract. In 1749 he patented (PB 29, page 1) 400 acres on branches of Troublesome Creek in Buckingham Co. Va.

Then in 1756 he patented 1280 acres on Hubbards Creek near present Dillwyn, Va. He sold his land in Powhatan Co., Va. on July 25, 1755 and moved to Buckingham Co., Va.

Mathieu Age' and his wife, Ann, deeded 400 acres to "my beloved son, James: in 1761 and this is the last record that has been found on him. The local records of Buckingham Co., Va were destroyed by fire in 1869.^[4]

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 View Record NameMathieu AgeeGenderMaleBirth PlaceFrBirth Year1670Spouse NameAnn GandovinSpouse Birth PlaceWISpouse Birth Year1672Marriage Year1714Marriage StateVANumber Pages1Household Members NameAge Name Mathieu Agee Name Ann Gandovin

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DNA

A triangulated group has been discovered that shares Mattieu Agée and Cecelia (Gandovin) Agee. as most-recent common ancestors. They share an 8.9 cM segment on chromosome 9.

• Duane Kelly, KF, OB, and KDM are descendants of Jane/Susannah (Agee) Anglin
• TW, MH, CW, and FM are descendants of Anthony Agee
• CM, EM, and JAK are descendants of Anne (Agee) Bernard
• KM is a descendant of James Agee Sr.

Note: More paper research needs to be done to confirm Jane/Susannah (Agee) Anglin and Anne (Agee) Bernard as daughters of Mathieu and Cecelia, but the DNA connection is considerable.

A triangulated group on GEDmatch has also been discovered for this couple consisting of Shannon Dufour, LJ (grandchild of Burnard Agee), and SH (grandchild of Lillie Jones) who share a 14.3 cM segment across chromosome 5. Shannon is descended from James Agee and LJ and SH are descended from Anthony Matthew by his sons Daniel Agee and Matthew Agee. Shannon and LJ are 7C1R; Shannon and SH are 7C1R; and LJ and SH are 6C. Their most recent common ancestors are Matthieu Agee and Cecelia Gandovin.

Mathieu was born about 1685. He passed away about 1761.

Sources

1. ↑ The Agee Family in America
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
3. ↑ Winfree's Supplement to Henings Statutes p. 40)
4. ↑ The Agee Register by Louis N. Agee

• The Agée Register

• Agee Lineages: Descendants of Mathieu Agee, The Immigrant and Related Families, Compiled by Constance J. Christopherson Barnum, Payson, Utah; C.J.C. Barnum, 2008

• The National Huguenot Society Who Were the Huguenots?

• Registered Lineages Ancestor 2nd Generation 3rd Generation Agee, Mathieu Agee, Anthony Agee, Daniel

Chateau du Houx Minichy Ille-et-Villane NOTE: I had noted that Matthieu DESAGES, born in 1658, had lived at the Manor and had emigrated in the United States in 1688. I do not have the sources of this information. I do not know the exact relationship between Mathieu DESAGES and the DESAGES above.

• http://huguenot-manakin.org/manakin/lineages.php

• http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.agee/444.2/mb.ashx

Re: Chateau du Houx Minichy Ille-et-Villane Bruno Margelidon

• http://genealogyandfamilyhistory.weebly.com/mathieu-agee-lineages-cd.html
• family history