Dr. Pierre Chastain was born Charost, Berri Province, France.

Son of Estienne Chastain (#81846551) and Jeanne Laurent (#81846670)

Dr. Pierre Chastain was the husband of the following:

1st., Mary Magdalaine "Marie" (DeRochefaucald) Chastain ~ #107139706
2nd., Susanne (Renaud) Chastain ~ #102013390
3rd., Anne (Soblet/Sublett) Chastain ~ #46384965

(widow of Antione Trabue, Sr.).

The Chastain family cemetery where Pierre Chastain was buried is located a few yards from the family home known as Monacan Farm (private property) and across from Manakin Episcopal Church on Huguenot Road, Midlothian, Powathan Co., Virginia. It contained sereral field stones and as many as thirty graves. Originally there was a brick wall surrounding the family plot. In 1929, the brick wall was torn down by a farmer who used the bricks to build a house.

In 1982, Lowell Chastain who was President of the Chastain Association, he erected a grave marker for Dr. Pierre Chastain and constructed a chain-link fence around his grave.

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Dr. Pierre Chastain Biography The year was 1659 when Pierre Chastain was born in the ancient Province of Berry, in or near the village of Charost, which is almost the geographic center of France. Pierre Chastain was the son of Estienne Chastain and Jeanne Laurent. Pierre's father, Estienne and this grandfather, Jacques Chastain, had both served as notaire royal at Charost. Estienne was born circa 1625, the son of Jacques and Jeanne Audet Chastain. It is thought that Jacques, born circa 1598-1600, was either the son or grandson of the Estienne Chastain who fled the city of Bourges at the time of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. Proof of Pierre's first wife comes from the registers of Vevey in cantonal archives in Lausanne, Switzerland. This proof also corrects the assumption that Mary Magdalaine de la Rochefaucald was Pierre's first wife. Pierre Chastain married Susanne Reynaud, daughter of Pierre Reynaud, from the village of Issoudun. By 1696, the Pierre Chastain family had fled from Charost across the Jura Mountains to Vevey, Canton Vaud, Switzerland to escape religious persecution. Sometime after September 1698, the family departed Vevey and was found at The Haque in The Netherlands (Holland). From there, the family moved to London, England where they remained a short time while Pierre became active in gathering together a group of French Huguenot refugees for colonization in Virginia. Pierre Chastain, his wife Susanne Reynaud Chastain and five children were among the group of 207 passengers who embarked from Gravesend, England on April 19, 1700 aboard the ship Mary and Ann of London. This ship arrived at the mouth of the James River on July 12, 1700. The group settled in Manakin, Virginia about twenty miles up the James River. The group was given a 10,000 acre tract of land south of the James in an area once occupied by the Monacan Tribe of Indians. Pierre's wife, Susanne, died after February 1701 and before November 1701, two of the children also had died. Pierre then married Anne Soblet. Ann was the daughter of Abraham Soblet and Susanne Brian. The marriage to Anne Soblet produced eight children. Anne Soblet Chastain died on April 3, 1723. Pierre married a third time to Mary Magdaline (Verrueil) Trabue, daughter of Moise and Madelene Verrueil and widow of Antoine Trabue. Pierre Chastain died in Goochland County, Virginia in the fall of 1728. He had made his will on October 3, 1728 and this will was probated on November 20, 1728.

Photo taken by Carol aka Georgia Girl (#46981215), October, 1995.

Dr. Pierre Chastain and his 3rd. wife, Anne Soblet were my 6th Great Grandparents.

Pierre CHASTAIN 1659-1728
from Genealogical Society of Bas-Berry, France

Pierre CHASTAIN 1659-1728
from Genealogical Society of Bas-Berry, France

Pierre CHASTAIN & Suzanne REGNAULT 1687 Marriage Certificate from Genealogical Society of Bas-Berry, France

Pierre CHASTAIN & Suzanne REGNAULT 1687 Marriage Certificate from Genealogical Society of Bas-Berry, France