One Huguenot’s Flight from Religious Persecution Creates the Bondurant Family in America

Chester, VA Residence Inn
The 2010 BFA Annual Meeting was held at the Residence Inn in Chester, VA on October 22-23. A Meet Your Kin gathering was held on Friday evening at the hotel. On Saturday, the group visited Merchants Hope Church, Bacon’s Castle, and Henricus Historical Park. Lunch was at the Surrey House Restaurant in Surry, VA. The annual business meeting followed dinner on Saturday evening.
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Residence Inn, Chester

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BFA Sign on Door

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BFA Banner

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President Marcelle Hoffman Welcome

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Past Presidents Carroll & Ginny Wray

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Mary Bondurant Lanier, BFA Secretary

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Betty Bondurant Brown

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Ruby Talley Smith and Mary Warren

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Rev. Wayne Bondurant introduces wife, Dorothy

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Fil Bondurant, Jennifer Bennet, Scott Bondurant

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Wayne Ballie and wife, Twila

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Introductions

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Bonnie Marks and her daughter

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Paula Meadors

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Marily Cummings and husband on left

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Ben Bondurant and wife Anne

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Meet and Greet

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Meet and Greet

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Meet and Greet

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Meet and Greet

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Know Your Kin

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Know Your Kin

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Know Your Kin

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Know Your Kin

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Mechants Hope Episcopal Church

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Mechants Hope Episcopal Church

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Our Intrepreter with Mary Warren

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Merchants Hope Episcopal Church

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Merchants Hope Episcopal Church

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David Earhart in pulpit

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Communion Table

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Tetragrammation on Wall

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Entrance to Church

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Merchants Hope

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Merchants Hope

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Jean Pierre Bondurant gravesite

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Jean Pierre Bondurant gravesite

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Jean Pierre Bondurant gravesite

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Lunch at Surrey House

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Lunch at Surrey House

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Lunch at Surrey House

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Lunch at Surrey House

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Bacon Castle

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Bacon Castle

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Bacon Castle

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Bacon Castle

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Bacon Castle

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Wayne and Twila Ballie by Smokehouse

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Lawn's Creek Church Marker

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Lawn's Creek Church Ruins at Bacon Castle

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Marcelle Hoffman at Ruins

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Bridge on I-295 over James River

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Henricus Sign

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Henricus Scene

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Loading a matchlock rifle

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Cannon

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Hut

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Carpenters Shop

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Carpenters Shop

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Listeners

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Listeners

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Blacksmith shop

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Kiln

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Mount Malady

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In Hospital