huguenot

His family was of French Huguenot stock, and was said to have been in South Africa since the 1760s.

Hamilton's mother was Rachel Facuette, the daughter of a French Huguenot physician and an Englishwoman.

Before John's eighth birthday, he was sent to school in nearby New Rochelle, where he received lessons from a Huguenot schoolmaster Peter Stoupe for three years.

Run out of France with the Huguenots, run out of England with the Cavaliers, run out of Scotland with Bonnie Prince Charlie, run out of Haiti by the niggers and now licked by the Yankees.

Peter Jay's father, Auguste, was a French Huguenot who fled from religious persecution in his native country across the Atlantic to North America, eventually settling in New York City where he adopted the name Augustus Jay and became a prosperous merchant.