Elias Neau

Elias Neau (1662 – 7 September 1722), born Élie Neau, in Moëze, Saintonge, was a French Huguenot. After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, he was a Huguenot refugee in New York where he was a prosperous merchant. In 1692, he was captured by a French privateer near Jamaica, and later, as a Protestant, was sentenced to a life sentence as a galley slave then imprisoned in Marseille.[1] He was released in 1698, following the intercession of King William III.[1] He was then elected to the position of elder of the French church in New York.[1] In 1706, he secured passage of a bill in New York stating that slaves could be catechized.[2][3] The Episcopal Church commemorates him as a "witness to the faith" on September 7.

Elias Neau, Elie Naud
Born	Élie Neau 1662 Moëze, Saintonge, France
Died	7 September 1722
Nationality	French

See also

Château d'If

References

Citations

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3. Leone & Potter 1999.

Sources

• Agnew, David Carnegie Andrew (1886). Protestant exiles from France, chiefly in the reign of Louis XIV; or, The Huguenot refugees and their descendants in Great Britain and Ireland (3 ed.). pp. 178–182. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
• Arber, Edward (1907). The torments of Protestant slaves in the French king's galleys, and in the dungeons of Marseilles, 1686-1707 A. D. London: Priv. print. pp. 259–270.
• Briggs, Charles, A. (1891). "Elias Neau, the confessor and catechist of negro and indian slaves". Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of America. 3: 103–116. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
• Morin, J. (1749). A Short Account of the Life and Sufferings of Elias Neau: Upon the Gallies, and in the Dungeons of Marseilles; for the Constant Profession of the Protestant Religion. Newly Translated from the French, by John Christian Jacobi, Gent. This Treatise was Printed at the End of The New Book of Martyrs, Lately Published by the Recommendation of the Rev. Mr. Bateman, ... London: John Lewis. pp. 1–86. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
• Norton, John N. (1859). Life of Bishop Provoost, of New York. New York: General Protestant Episcopal S. School Union, and Church Book Society. pp. 120–127. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
• Leone, Mark P.; Potter, Parker B. (1999). Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publisher. p. 89. ISBN 030646067X.
• Wheeler Carlo, Paula (1999). "Neau, Elias". American National Biography (online ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0802386. (subscription required)
• Wheeler Carlo, Paula (2005). Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York: Becoming American in the Hudson Valley. Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press. p. 61. ISBN 9781845190590.

Further reading

• Whelan, Ruth (2011). "The extraordinary voyage of Elie Neau (1662-1722) naturalized Englishman and French protestant galley slave". Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 29 (4): 499–527.
• Van H. Sauter, Suzanne (14 April 2012). "Elias Neau (c.1622-1722). Also known as Elie Naud: Huguenot, refugee, Ship Captain, Prisoner, Poet, Merchant, Catechist, Teacher". Presentation to the Huguenot Society of North Carolina.