A Round Robin
The term round-robin was originally used to describe a
document signed by multiple parties in a circle to make it more difficult to
determine the order in which it was signed, thus preventing the instigator from being identified. Each signature in a round robin is of equal
importance and thus, political retribution is avoidable. This form of
petitioning was in common usage.
The Walloons and French at Jamestown in 1621
c. 2010 by Billie Jo Monger
The 1621 promise of certain "Walloons and French" to emigrate to Virginia maybe verified in Martha W. McCartney’s Virginia Immigrants and Adventures as it is an index where many of the following individuals are cited by name. Just as other Virginia colonists, many of their individual land records are also later documented in Nugent’s Cavaliers and Pioneers.
A Round Robin agreement was signed by the Walloons [French-speaking people of southern Belgium] and French in 1621 in which they stated their intention to come to inhabit the Virginia colony/Jamestowne. The following statement was found in the centre of a large sheet of paper written in French, "We promise my Lord Ambassador of the Most Serene King of Great Britain to go and inhabit in Virginia, a land under his Majesty's obedience, as soon as conveniently may be, and this under the conditions to be carried out in the articles we have cocumunicated to the said Ambassador, and not otherwise, on the faith of which we have unanimously signed this present with our sign manual."
The signatures and the calling of each person are appended in the form of a round robin, and in an outer circle the person signing states whether he is married, and the number of his children. This document, "Signature of such Wallons and French as offer themselfs to goe into Verginia" was endorsed by Sir Dudley Carleton.
The names with an asterisk have only signed their marks. There were a total of 227, including 55 men, 41 women, 129 children, and two servants:
Mousnier de la Montagne, medical student; marrying man
Mousnier de la Montagne, apothecary and surgeon; marrying man
Jacque Conne, tiller of the earth; wife and two children
Henry Lambert, woolen draper; wife
*George Béava, porter; wife and one child
Michel Du Pon, hatter; wife and two children
Jan Bullt, labourer; wife and four children
Paul de Pasar, weaver; wife and two children
Antoine Grenier, gardener; wife
*George Béava, porter; wife and one child
Michel Du Pon, hatter; wife and two children
Jan Bullt, labourer; wife and four children
Paul de Pasar, weaver; wife and two children
Antoine Grenier, gardener; wife
Jean Gourdeman, labourer; wife and five children
Jean Campion, wool carder; wife and four children
*Jan De La Met, labourer; young man
*Antoine Martin; wife and one child
Jean Campion, wool carder; wife and four children
*Jan De La Met, labourer; young man
*Antoine Martin; wife and one child
Francois Fourdrin, leather dresser; young man
*Jan Leca, labourer; wife and five children
Theodore Dufour, draper; wife and two children
*Gillain Broque, labourer; young man
*Jan Leca, labourer; wife and five children
Theodore Dufour, draper; wife and two children
*Gillain Broque, labourer; young man
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