Legarde was employed by Anthonie Bonall, who was a French silk maker and vigneron (cultivator of vineyards for winemaking), one of the men from Languedoc sent to the colony by John Bonall, keeper of the silkworms of King James I. volume 31 of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register published 1877, By David Clapp, 1877, page In 1628 Legarde leased 100 acres on the west side of Harris Creek in Elizabeth City.