Posted By:	Charles Brashear
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	Subject:	Re: ROBERT BRASSEUR - VA
	Post Date:	May 08, 2002 at 07:01:46
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	Forum:	Brasseur Family Genealogy Forum
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Hi, I've got a copy of Henry Sinclair Brashear's book, have had it for many years (my great Uncle Isaac Brashear, of Sweetwater, TX, contributed page 100 to that book), and I've never seen the data in it that you mention. First, Allemand is never called a Brasseur in that book. He's always a "deBrassier" or a "deBrassier deJocas." If you do a little arithmetic, you can also see that it is impossible for him to be the parent of any of those Huguenots in America, not to mention that Allemand was a devout Catholic. Second, Allemand is never mentioned as parent of Robert Brasseur. I don't know who Robert Brasseur's parents were, but Robert was only a few years younger than Allemand. An impossible situation! The land records of VA are quite clear that the Huguenot that showed up in VA c1635 was Robert Brasseur, and he had seven of his chidren with him (no wife is ever mentioned in any document, unless the "Mary" mentioned first in the 1653 land patent was a wife, rather than a daughter). Robert Brasseur's oldest son was Benois Brasseur/Brashear, who is listed first in most of the old genealogies, mostly because the researchers couldn't unravel the Roberts. Benois Brasseur/Brashear had a father, a brother, and a son named Robert (not to mention a grandson, a bunch of great-grandsons, and possibly a grandfather). In some of the old court records, even the courts get them confused. There's one court record having to do with the estate of Robert, II, (Benois's brother) where the court had to come back at a later time and correct itself. Robert, II, died in 1665 in Calvert Co, MD. Land records in Nansemond Co, VA, show that Robert, I, died in 1667 in Nansemond Co, and his land went to his second son, John Brasseur, because his oldest son, Benois, was already dead. Robert, III, died 1712 in Maryland and left an estate that was not even worth as much as his burial expenses. The documents are reproduced in A BRASHEAR(S) FAMILY HISTORY, Vol 1 "The First 200 Years of Brashear(s) in America." Cheers, Charles Brashear P.O.Box 38 Clearlake Oaks, CA 95423