Col. George & Elizabeth Martiau Reade

In reading of the markers in Yorktown, I wonder if all the descendants know that there is also a marker to Nicholas Martiau in the Huguenot Church in Charleston, S.C. This handsome palm-lined gothic-revival church still uses the French liturgy (tho spoken by a pastor with a Scotch-Irish name and an upcountry accent) every Sunday. (Do I recall that it is here that Martiau is listed as "George Washington's earliest American forbear," or is that another place?) Our family descends through Judge Thomas Reade Rootes of "Federal Hill" in Fredericksburg, Va. to his grandsons in Athens, Ga., Confederate Gens. Howell and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb. I once heard a cousin at a family reunion expound on how much of the Cobbs' "highmindedness" came through the Rootes and Reade family lines. Maybe.....