 4,000 emigrated to the Thirteen Colonies, where they settled, especially in New York, the Delaware River Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia.The English authorities welcomed the French refugees, providing money from both government and private agencies to aid their relocation.Those Huguenots who stayed in France were subsequently forcibly converted to Roman Catholicism and were called "new converts".<ref>John Wolf, "Louis XIV", ch 24; Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, "Escape from Babylon", "Christian History" 2001 20(3)