Jessé de Forest
Jessé de Forest , born with Avesnes-on-Helpe in Hainaut in 1576, leaves its native soil in 1615 and leaves to settle with Leyde in Holland, mainly to flee religious persecutions which always prevail in the south of the Netherlands. Dice this moment, its only objective is to be able to emigrate with his and other Walloon families towards the New World. It will côtoiera Puritain S English, future passengers of the Mayflower.
Following a petition addressed on February 5th, 1621 to Sir Dudley Carleton, ambassador of its Majesty the king of England with $the Hague (connu under the name of Round Robin, this document is preserved today at British Public Office Record), soliciting, in the name of about fifty Walloon and French families, the right to be established in Virginia on a territory of eight English miles to the round, the Virginia Company answers, on August 11th, 1621, by an agreement in principle, together with certain restrictions, of which principal the interdict with the Walloon families to form only one colony. This restriction is inadmissible for Jessé de Forest which declines the offer.
They propose its services and those of its compatriots to the Company of the Western Indies this time, while insisting on the fact that they would prefer to emigrate for the Company of the Western Indies rather than on behalf of the English. It specifies, moreover, that it wishes a prompt response and that the offer is to be taken without concessions or to leave.
The States of Holland, seeing a unique opportunity to establish colonies to counter the Spaniards, consult the very same day, the directors of the Company (Bewindhebbers), at this meeting in $the Hague.
August 27th, 1622, the official authorization to emigrate with the candidates families in the Western Indies is given, rewarding for the years of effort on behalf of Willem Usselinx and Jessé de Forest.
Jessé de Forest dies on October 22nd, 1624 at the edge of the Oyapok (today border between the Brésil and the French Guiana) during a recognition on the coasts of Guyana.
His/her daughter and her sons (Rachel, Isaac and Henri) will emigrate with the New-Country-Low ten years later.
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