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==== French Immigrants ==== | ==== French Immigrants ==== | ||
Huguenots came in | Huguenots came in 1700. Their settlement, in [[King_William_Parish,_Virginia|King William Parish]], near Richmond on the James River, was known as Manakin Town.<ref>"Manakin Town: The French Huguenot Settlement in Virginia 1700-ca. 1750," ''National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox. Becoming American: The British Atlantic Colonies, 1690-1763,'' http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/frenchvirginia.pdf, accessed 23 June 2012.</ref> | ||
==== German Immigrants ==== | ==== German Immigrants ==== | ||