 Some settlers landed in present-day Chesterfield County.On 12 May 1705, the Virginia General Assembly passed an act to naturalise the 148 Huguenots still resident at Manakintown.Of the original 390 settlers in the isolated settlement, many had died; others lived outside town on farms in the English style; and others moved to different areas.<ref></ref> Gradually they intermarried with their English neighbours.