Sublette
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Sublette is an American variant of the French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 surname Soblet
Soblet
Soblet is a surname originating in France before the 17th century.- Soblet descendants in America :In America, the Soblet family name traces back to French Huguenot refugee Abraham Soblet and his family, who arrived in Virginia in 1700 and settled in Manakintown.After 1700, the family name became...

. Other variants include Sublett, Sublet, and Soublet. In the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 the name is traced to the French Huguenot
Huguenot
The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...

 Abraham Soblet
Soblet
Soblet is a surname originating in France before the 17th century.- Soblet descendants in America :In America, the Soblet family name traces back to French Huguenot refugee Abraham Soblet and his family, who arrived in Virginia in 1700 and settled in Manakintown.After 1700, the family name became...

, who arrived in 1700. The name apparently originated near Sedan, France
Sedan, France
Sedan is a commune in France, a sub-prefecture of the Ardennes department in northern France.-Geography:The historic centre is built on a peninsula formed by an arc of the Meuse River. It is around from the Belgian border.-History:...

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It may refer to:

Places
  • Sublette, New Mexico
    Sublette, New Mexico
    Sublette is an old railroad section town in northern Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, located north-east of Chama, just south of the Colorado state line and at milepost 306.1 of the former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. It sits at an elevation of 9281 ft...

  • Sublette, Colorado
    Sublette, Colorado
    Sublette is a section station built in 1880 by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad at milepost 306 on its narrow gauge San Juan Extension from Antonito, Colorado to Durango, Colorado...

  • Sublette, Illinois
    Sublette, Illinois
    Sublette is a village in Lee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 449 at the 2010 census, down from 456 at the 2000 census. Sublette is notable as being home to the world's largest private camping resort, Woodhaven Lakes.-Geography:...

  • Sublette, Kansas
    Sublette, Kansas
    Sublette is a city in and the county seat of Haskell County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,453.-History:...

  • Sublette County, Wyoming


People
  • Bill Sublette
    Bill Sublette
    Bill Sublette is a former Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001.Bill Sublette was born April 12, 1963 in Walnut Creek, California....

    , Floridian politician
  • Ned Sublette
    Ned Sublette
    Ned Sublette is an American composer, musician, record producer and musicologist. Sublette studied Spanish Classical Guitar with Hector Garcia at the University of New Mexico and with Emilio Pujol in Spain. He studied composition with Kenneth Gaburo at the University of California, San Diego...

    , singer and Cuban scholar
  • William Sublette
    William Sublette
    William Lewis Sublette Born near Stamford, Lincoln County, Kentucky on September 21, 1798. Died on July 23, 1845 in Pittsburg. W.L. Sublette was a fur trapper, pioneer and mountain man, who with his brothers after 1823 became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company exploiting the riches of the...

    , mountain man


Websites
http://sublette.ws/
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