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Carolina Huguenots 1690-1700 |
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Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina IMMIGRANTS FROM 1690 TO 1700. Humphrey, in his historical account of the incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, etc., published in 1728, informs us that "Carolina, although peopled at its first settlement with the natives of these kingdoms - England, Scotland and Ireland - until the year 1701 had no minister of the Church of England resident therein." In which statement he was, no doubt, mistaken. Whether the church contemplated to be built on the eastern branch of Cooper river, near the T, by Cæsar Moze, was ever erected, agreeably to its mention in his will, is not known, but it being mentioned would seem to prove that at the time, at least an irregular service was held by the Huguenots in that vicinity.
Hewitt, in his History of South Carolina, says: "In 1690 King
William sent a large body of Huguenots to Virginia. Lands were allotted
them on the James river, which by their diligence and industry,
they soon improved into excellent estates. Others purchased land
from the Proprietors of Carolina, transported Judge James, in his Life of Marion, says: About seventeen years
after the first settlement of Carolina, in 1690, and a short time
subsequently, between seventy and eighty French families, fleeing
from the bloody persecutions exerted against them in their mother
country, settled on the banks of the Santee. These extended themselves
at first only from the lower ferry at South Santee - Mazyck's Ferry
- about two miles below Wambaw Creek, in St. James Parish, to within
a few miles of Lenud's Ferry and back from the river into the Parish
of St. Denis, called the Orange Quarter. From this point, says Simms,
they gradually spread themselves out so as to embrace in partial
settlement the spacious tract of country stretching to the Winyaw
on the one hand and the sources of Cooper river on the other, then
extending upwards into the interior, following the course of the
Santee nearly to the point where it loses its identity in receiving
the descending streams of the Wateree and Congaree. Oldmixon, in
his history of Carolina, published in 1708, remarks of Craven County,
that it is pretty well inhabited by English and French. Of the latter
there is a settlement on the Santee river. The English settlement
embraced within the Parish of St. Stephens, was designated as English
Santee, while that below, composed of Huguenots in the Parish of
St. James, was called French Santee. A French dancing master, settling
in Craven County, says Oldmixon taught the Indians country dances,
and to play on the flute and hautbois - thus raising himself to
a good estate. It seems that the barbarians encouraged him with
the same extravagance as we do the dancers, singers and fiddlers
- his countrymen. The Huguenots on the Santee had established residences north of the river, within ten years of the supposed period of their first settlement in that region of country. Although concurrent opinions have designated the year 1690 as that in which a colony was first seated there, circumstances would indicate an earlier period. This will be more particularly referred to hereafter. There is on record a power of attorney given by Peter de St. Julien de Malacare to his son John, dated July, 1690, and witnessed by Henry le Noble, René Ravenel, Peter Girard and Peter de la Salle residents on that river. This, then, is a legal transaction which can scarcely be supposed to have occurred in the first year of their migration, - although somewhat possible.
The several grantees were residents of Jamestown, on the Santee. Pierre and Gabriel Manigault located there for a short time after their arrival in Carolina, but the conditions did not seem favorable to them and they returned to Charleston. If the date of their arrival was 1686, it would prove that a partial settlement was made previous to 1690.
Dalcho very erroneously attributes it to the year 1694 and assigns the same date to the arrival of Daniel Huger. In the journals of the Governor and Council, commencing from 1670 is the following memorandum viz., Whereas, Benjamin Marion hath made it appear yt he hath at his proper cost and charge imported into the province of Carolina seven persons, aged above sixteen years, to plant and inhabit in ye sd province, named Benjamin Marion, Judith, his wife, Andrew Dealean, Madeleine Bulnatt, Mary and Nicholas, servants, Toby, and Rosa, a negro woman, and persons under yt age mentioned, ye names of all which persons were registered in ye Secretary's office, within fourteen days after their arrival in ye province aforesaid. You are therefore to survey and admeasure out for the said Benjamin Marion, three hundred and fifty acres of land according to ye rules and portions appointed by ye Lords Proprietors. Instructions for granting of land bearing date ye 6th February, 1692, of which survey you are to make certificate, ye wch, together with a plott of ye sd land, and you are to take notice yt if ye sd Benjamin Marion doth not, within ye space of ninety days after ye surveying and admeasuring out ye sd land of 350 acres, take out grants for the same, according as it is appointed by the power to me given and granted by William, Earl of Craven, Pallatine, Anthony, Lord Ashley, George, Lord Carteret, Sir Peter Colleton, Baronet ; Lith Lothill, Tho Archdale and Thomas Amye, Esquires, for conveying land that then ye sd land is free to be made choice of, surveyed or granted to any other person whatever.
This record would seem to determine the period of his arrival, as having been between the 6th February, 1692-3, and the 13th March, 1693-4. Nothing conclusive, however, on the subject can be inferred from it. The conjecture of Richard Yeadon is, therefore, probably correct.
List of Immigrent Families aboard Ship Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina 20. LISTE 1. *ELIAS PRIOLEAU, fils de Samuel Prioleau, et
de Jeanne 2. LAURENT PHILIPPE TROUILLART, né à
la fette Regnault 3. JACQUES BOYD. 4. *PAUL BRUNEAU DE RIUEDOUX, Escuyer, fils de
Arnaud 5. JACQUES LE SERURIER, né à St.
Quantin en Picardie 6. *PIERRE DE ST. JULIEN, Malacare, né à
Vitre en Bretagne, 7. ABRAHAM FLEURY, De la Pleine, né à
Tours, fils de 8. *DANIEL HUGER, né à Loudun,
fils de Jean Huger, et Anne Rassin. That means 3 Kids - Margueritte, Daniel and Madeleine 21 9. *ISAAC CAILLABEUF, né à Ste. Soline,
fils de Louis Caillabeuf 10. PIERRE LA SALLE, né à Bourdeaux,
fils de Charles La Salle, 11. FRANÇOIS DE ROUSSERIE, né à
Monpelier, fils d'Alexandre DeRousserye, 12. PIERRE BURETEL, né à la Rochelle,
fils de Charles Buretel, 13. DANIEL BONNEL, fils de Jean Bonnel, et de Marie
Lalon. 14. JONAS BONHOSTE, né à Paris, fils
de Pierre Bonhoste et de Marie Garlin. 15. PIERRE DUGUÉ, Isaac Dugué, son
frère, et Élizabeth Dugué, leur sæur, 16. JACQUES DU BOSC, né à St. Ambroise
en Languedoc, 17. PHILIPE NORMAND, né à Germain
en Poitou, 18. ANTHOINE BONNEAU, né à la Rochelle, 19. PIERRE COLLIN, né en L'isle de Ré,
fils de Jean Collin, 20. PIERRE POINSET, l' aîné, né
à Soubize, fils de Pierre Poinset, 21. PIERRE POINSET, le jeune, né à
Soubize, fils du dit
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