Notes for Louis Amis: There was a setlement of Huguenots on the James River, in Virginia, called Manakin Town. It was settled some time in the early part of the eighteenth century, and among them was the family of Amis. It is supposed that this family left France at the time there was such a great exodus of the best citizens of that country, just after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantz, but some years previous to this time there was a family of Amis in South Carolina. Louis Amis, according to our first records, lived in Virginia during the Colonial times. He had three sons. One or two of them moved to North Carolina; one Thomas Amis remained in Virginia, and Amisville, Rappahannock County, was founded by him and calledby his name. His son, Thomas Amis, was born at this place. he left two daughters, namely: Mrs. John Green (Annie Amis), of 1612 Third Street, Louisville, Ky., and Mrs. Leonard GQuinlin (Mary Amis), 18 East Twenty-fourth Street, New York, N.Y Mrs. William Layman, of St. Helena, Cal., says her father, Thomas Amis of North Carolina, told her that the family were Huguenots who left France, going first to the French West Indies, then to Virginia, and that the name was Ami'e, not Amis, as it was afterward spelled in America. Another member of this family says that the family tradition has always been that upon leaving France, just after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantz, the family sailed for Barbados, and remained there only a short time; then went to the Colony of Virginia, and settled in Rappahannock County, establishing themselves in a home, and called the settlement Amisville.
More About Louis Amis: Residence: 1699, Manakintown, Virginia.130, 131
Louis Amis (b. 1670, d. 1750)
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