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Ambroise Sicard (c. 1631–c. 1712) was a French Huguenot salt worker who fled religious persecution and became a founding settler of New Rochelle, New York.[1]
Born around 1631 in Mornac-sur-Seudre, south of La Rochelle, he worked as a saunier—a salt harvester from the coastal salt marshes—and also owned a modest vineyard valued at 40 livres. Facing the threat of forcible conversion to Catholicism, Sicard fled France with his family, first seeking refuge on the Île de Ré and later in London. While in London, his eldest son married.
In 1688, Ambroise joined a group of Huguenots sailing for New York. The baptism of his first grandchild, Madeline Sicard, on October 22, 1688, is recorded in the registers of L’Eglise Française à la Nouvelle York. The following year, he moved from the city to nearby Westchester County, where he joined other Huguenots in founding the settlement of New Rochelle on land purchased from Pelham Manor. He went on to acquire several tracts of land, helped establish the French Church at New Rochelle, and remained active in local government. On February 6, 1696, Sicard and his three sons swore allegiance to King William and Queen Mary of England.[2]
Ambroise had six children, though family tradition holds there may have been others who died in infancy, and that his wife and one child perished before the family reached New York.[3][4] He died around 1712 in New Rochelle and was survived by his three sons and two daughters.[2]
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edit- ↑ "The 2008 Heritage Award Properties". New Rochelle, NY.
- 1 2 Moulton, R. Kirk (2019). "Early Sicard-Secor Families of New York: Origins of United Empire Loyalist William Secord." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. 150: 5–19, 123–132, 209–220, 302–316; 151: 51–66.
- ↑ Dunn, Mary M. (1899). "A Sketch of Some of the Secords from 1775 until 1866". United Empire Loyalists' Association of Ontario Annual Transactions, March 9, 1899.
- ↑ "That Their Sentiments Might Be Known: A Loyalist Meeting at Abraham Hatfield's". Founder of the Day. Retrieved 13 December 2024.