John Manesca (d. 1838), teacher, translator, and author, immigrated to the United States from Saint Domingue. From at least 1816 until his death he taught French in New York City. Manesca created an oral method of language instruction and authored works on that subject as well as on phrenology. In 1837 he was a founder of a New York society that promoted the beliefs of the French utopian philosopher Charles Fourier in the United States (Louis Manesca, The Serial and Oral Method of Teaching Languages; Adapted to the French [1856], xxii–xxiv; New-York Evening Post, 23 Oct. 1816; Longworth’s New York Directory description begins Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory, New York, 1796–1842 (title varies; cited by year of publication) description ends [1817]: 300; [1819]: 269; [1838]: 427; DNA: RG 29, CS, N.Y., New York, 1820; Carl J. Guarneri, The Utopian Alternative: Fourierism in Nineteenth-Century America [1991], 31–2; New York Evening Post, 3 Sept. 1838; New York Morning Herald, 4 Sept. 1838).

Victor Value (ca. 1792–ca. 1859), teacher and author, was a native of Saint Domingue who studied at the Collège de Sorèze in France. By 1819 he was teaching French in Mantua, near Philadelphia, and in the 1820s he served as principal of the Mantua Academy. Value continued to teach and administer schools at various locations in Philadelphia for the remainder of his life. He wrote books on mathematics and on language education, and in 1835 he was elected a curator of the newly formed Pennsylvania Lyceum of Teachers. In 1844–45 Value was a teacher of French at the University of Pennsylvania. He was living in Philadelphia at the time of his death (Nicholas B. Wainwright, “The Diary of Samuel Breck, 1814–1822,” PMHB description begins Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1877–  description ends 102 [1978]: 503; Phyllis Kihn, “The Value Family in Connecticut,” Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 34, no. 3 [1969]: 79–93; John Adems Paxton, The Philadelphia Directory and Register, for 1819 [Philadelphia, 1819]; New York National Advocate, 30 Apr. 1823; DNA: RG 29, CS, Pa., Philadelphia, 1830–50; Charles H. Pennypacker, History of Downington, Chester County, Pa. [1909], 56, 58–9; Catalogue of the Trustees, Officers, & Students of the University of Pennsylvania. 1844–45 [1845], 7; McElroy’s Philadelphia City Directory [1859]: 726; [1860]: 1014).