| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy. By David C. Major and John S. Major. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 261 pp. $29.50, ISBN 978-0-8386-4152-1.)

A Huguenot on the Hackensack is genealogical work at its best. David C. Major and John S. Major provide a well-contextualized history of a Huguenot family who moved from a small town in Picardy to New Jersey by way of Middleburg, Mannheim, and New Amsterdam. Although understandably written in honor of an ancestor, David Demarest (1620–1693), the book does not fall into the typical pitfalls of the genealogical genre. As the authors state, Demarest was not an aristocrat, a religious refugee, or a pioneer (pp. 159–60). He was simply an enterprising man who moved from place to place in seventeenth-century northern Europe and across the Atlantic following economic opportunities.

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