Nicholas Martiau, a native of Belgium, was among the few French Walloons who actually settled in Virginia after applying to the London Company in 1621 to settle in the colony. Most who had applied settled in New York, the Dutch having offered them better terms. Upon arrival in Virginia on the Francis Bonadventure, he settled in what was then Charles River County, but later renamed York County. He died in Yorktown in 1657, leaving issue.

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