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Many people came to the shores of the New World as a way to escape religious persecution. For the Gillet family, the flight to freedom had begun two generations, and nearly a hundred years before. Jonathan Gilletts grandfather was Reverend jacques de Gylet, a resident of Bergerac in France, and a minister in the French Reformed or Huguenot church.
In August 1572, in Paris, on Saint Bartholomews Day, the Catholics, under the influence of Catherine de Medicis, the other of King Charles of France, killed between 5,000 and 10,000 Protestants in a massacre that lasted three days and nights. Revrend Gylet escaped the massacre, but was banished from Bergerac, and so fled to Scotland with is family were they resided for about 57 years. King Henry 11 was the ruling monarch at this time. The Gillett family started an exodus to England;
Many French Huguenots found safety in England, Switazerland, Holland or Germany, leading to the end of Frances commercia superiority and the enhancements o the other countries.