 Some Huguenot immigrants settled in central and eastern Pennsylvania.They assimilated with the predominantly Pennsylvania German settlers of the area.In 1700 several hundred French Huguenots migrated from England to the colony of Virginia, where the King William III of England had promised them land grants in Lower Norfolk County.<ref></ref> When they arrived, colonial authorities offered them instead land 20 miles above the falls of the James River, at the abandoned Monacan village known as Manakin Town, now in Goochland County.