Wow! I am impressed that you know for sure about the link to your Huguenot ancestors. I have heard that one of mine may have been from the Huguenots, but haven’t been able to link it.
What was your family name ???
“Official” Huguenots arrived here by about 1787 before the promulgation of the Edict of Toleration on 28 November 1787.
Louis XVI said that any descendant of Huguenots could return to France, worship how they pleased and be full French citizens...
Few took him up on his offer...
Without the Huguenot army, Louis was alone...
and Madame Guillotine was sharp...
http://www.huguenot.netnation.com/ancestor/default.htm
Ditto.....
.....It has been in our family lore. The name was FORCE. Specifically, one name is Solomon Force. They came to the Midwest from NY in the 1830's. Earlier than that I haven't been able to trace with certainty.
I think these FORCE ancestors were Patriots in the American Revolution. A nice book end to my other ancestors who I think were Loyalists who fled to Canada.