Huguenot

A member of the Calvinistic or Reformed communion of France in the 16th and 17th century; a French Protestant.

This term appears in //Light in August////,// describing the religious affiliation of Calvin Burden's wife (Miss Joanna Burden's grandmother).

//Three weeks after he arrived he was married, to the daughter of a family of Huguenot stock which had emigrated from Carolina by way of Kentucky// (LIA 241).