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Memorial Plaque for Gideon Macon
On a rock in front of the monument and to the left is this bronze memorial plaque. It reads:
Huguenot
Gideon Macon
(1648 - 1702)
Forfather
of
Martha Washington
and Countless Thousands
of French Protestant Blood.
His memory is a light unto our feet,
A chart to enrich our lives, and
A heritage to cherish in our hearts.
Society of the founders of Manakin
In the Colony of Virginia
1973
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