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I have seen nothing in the records to suggest John Vause of Middlesex County, VA was a Huguenot. To the contrary, when he died, he left a will in Middlesex County [which I have seen] which has a wax seal that Lyon G. Tyler, editor of Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, described as follows: “The seal is much defaced, but apparently the same as that of Vaux of Catterlyn; gules, a fesse chequy or, and of the field between three garbs of the second. The garbs can be plainly made out.” Burke’s General Armoury lists the same arms (name spelled Vaulx) for the Catterlyn Vaulxes of Cumberland England. This line came over to England at the time of the Norman conquest. Hubert de Vaux [or de Vallibus in Latin] was the first Lord of Parliament for the Barony of Gillesland after the Conquest, which was located in what became known as Cumbria, England. There were also several younger branches of the family De Vallibus in Cumberland. One of these was Vaux or Vaulx of Caterlen. This branch came from a younger son of the House of Gillesland and this line possessed this Barony for many generations. Rowland Vaux was representative of the City of Carlisle in the Parliament of 31 Henry VI, AD 1453. The arms of this family are those of John Vause of Middlesex. In the old Virginia records, you will find the names Vaux, Vaulx, Vaus, Vause and even Vass interchanged.
I believe John Vause of Middlesex County, Virginia is the same man as the John Voss, age 22, whose name is included in a list of those to be transported to Virginia in the ship, “Transport of London,” Edward Walker, master. The list is dated 4 Jul 1635 suggesting this John Voss was born ca. 1613. James Horsfall, in his text on the family, suggests John may have been a brother or otherwise related to the brothers Robert, Thomas and Humphrey Vaulx [Vaux, Vaus, Vauxe] who came to Tidewater Virginia beginning in the 1640s as they too were descended from the Catterlen family and bore the same arms as John Vause.
The John "Voss" who came to Virginia in the "Transport of London," is probably the man who appears in the Virginia records on 25 Jul 1638 when he was claimed as a headright by John George of Charles Cittie County.
Vaux does not appear in a list of tithables of Lancaster County taken in 1654. However, as John Vaux, he appears in the records of old Rappahanock County (Lancaster at the time) on 4 Jun 1655, when Richard Coleman conveyed 600 acres in that county to him and to William Neale. The tract was described as being a patent to the said Richard Coleman bearing date 14 7ber 1650 (14 Sep 1650). This tract, which adjoined the land of George Mosely, was on the south side of the Rappahannock. On 21 Nov 1655, Vause assigned 300 acres of this tract to Richard Beauford. Vause was apparently still in possession of part of this tract in 1663 since, on 7 Oct 1663, Richard Coleman confirmed the title to Vaux as an “Estate of Fee Simple,” apparently because there was some confusion over the quality of the title conveyed under the terms of the 4 Jun 1655 agreement.
Some early writers construted the "assignment" of land by Vaux/Vause to Richard Beauford as evidence of some kind of familial relationship between the two families, but anyone who has studied the old records knows that headrights were assigned all the time and the transactions were almost always for some kind of consideration such as money or other land. In other words, this was almost surely not a "gift" of land from Vause to Beauford.
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