Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina
No. 5. pp 14-18, Charleston, South Carolina, 1897.
Press of Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co.

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.

These, doubtless, formed the germ of the population of the parish of St. Denis, in that part of it subsequently known as French or Orange Quarter. It was not until the year 1703 that the first Episcopal Church out of Charleston was built. This was at Pompion Hill, on the Eastern branch of the Cooper river, midway between the T and Huger's Bridge, in the parish of St. Thomas, adjoining St. Denis, the two having afterwards been incorporated and known until the present day as the parish of St. Thomas and St. Denis. The Pompion Hill Church was first built of cypress and afterwards substantially of brick. Concurrent circumstances prove that the French Protestant refugees organized religious congregations for public worship in every instance immediately after their first arrival in any part of the country, and preceded all the denominations of Christians in the introduction of the public worship of God wherever they became established.

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
themselves and families to that quarter, and settled a colony on the Santee river. Others, who were merchants and mechanics, took up their residence in Charleston, and followed their different occupations. At this period these new settlers were a great acquisition to Carolina. They had taken the oath of
allegince to the king, and promised fidelity to the Proprietors. They were disposed to look on the settlers, whom they had joined, in the favorable light of bretheren and fellow adventurers, and though they understood not the English language, yet they were desirous of living in peace and harmony with their
neighbors, and willing to stand forth on all occasions of danger with them for
the common safety and defense.

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.

We find on record another instrument of the same import, drawn by Bartholomew Gaillard, vesting similar powers in his brother John, dated May 22d, 1692. It appears that there were three brothers, all residents on the Santee, the name of the third being Peter. We find also a warrant under the name and seal of James Colleton, Governor. dated 5th April, 1687, by virtue of which 200 acres of land were surveyed and laid out for Henry Augustus Chastaigner and Alexander Thesée Chastaigner on the Santee, in April, 1693. A grant for the same was issued March 12th, 1698-9. Another warrant of survey is recorded in favor of John Francis Gignilliat for 200 acres of land, dated January, 1688-9. Also an order to the same effect from Joseph Morton, Governor, for 100 acres of land to Nicholas de Longuemare, dated January 5th, 1685-6.

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.

About this time Benjamin Marion, the immigrant, arrived in the province. The writer of "The Marion Family" Richard Yeadon, assigns the date of this event to the year 1690, without any positive evidence whatever.

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.

Given under my hand and seal this thirteenth day of March, Ano Dmi 1693-4.
THO. SMITH, Governor.
To Job Howes, Surveyor.

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.

By order of Tho. Smith, Governor, dated 1693-4, 300 acres of land were admeasured and laid out for Isaac Caillabæuf, he having, at his own expense, brought into the province the following persons, etc., their names having been registered in the office within fourteen days after their arrival, viz.: Isaac Caillabæuf, Rachael Caillabæuf, his wife, Peter Gaillard, Magdalen Gaillard, Mary Rambert, and James Bonneau. As early as the year 1686, Paul Bruneau, whose name is in a catalogue of Huguenot refugees resident on the Santee, was the owner of land in Carolina.

List of Immigrent Families aboard Ship

Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina
No. 5. pp 20, Charleston, South Carolina, 1897.
Press of Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co.

20.

LISTE
Des François et Suisses Refugiez en Caroline qui souhaittent d' être naturalizés
Anglois.

1. *ELIAS PRIOLEAU, fils de Samuel Prioleau, et de Jeanne
Merlat, né à en Xaintonge en France.
Jeanne Burgeaud, sa femme, né en L'isle de Ré.
Jeanne, leur fille, née à St. Jean D' Angely.
Sameul, Marie, et Marie Ester, leurs enfans néz en Caroline.

2. LAURENT PHILIPPE TROUILLART, né à la fette Regnault
Roidam, fils de Pierre Trouillart et de Marie.
Madeleine Maslet, sa femme née à cet.
Élizabet et Madeleine leurs filles néz en Caroline.

3. JACQUES BOYD.
Jean Boyd, Gabriel Boyd, frères néz à Bourdeaux,
et fils de Jean Boyd et de Jeanne.
Jeanne Berchaud, femme du dit Jean Boyd.
Jeanne Élizabet Boyd, Jacques Boyd, Jean Auguste Boyd,
enfans du dit Jean Boyd, et de la dite Jeanne Berchaud,
néz en Caroline.

4. *PAUL BRUNEAU DE RIUEDOUX, Escuyer, fils de Arnaud
Bruneau, et de né à la Rochelle.
Henri Bruneau, est fils de Henri Bruneau, et de Marie,
né à la Rochelle.

5. JACQUES LE SERURIER, né à St. Quantin en Picardie
fils de Jacques Le Serurier, et de Marie Le Comte.
Élizabet Leger, sa femme.

6. *PIERRE DE ST. JULIEN, Malacare, né à Vitre en Bretagne,
fils de Pierre St. Julien, Malacare, et de Jeanne Le Febure,
Damaris Élizabet Le Serurier, sa femme.
Pierre et Jacques, leurs enfans, néz en Caroline.

7. ABRAHAM FLEURY, De la Pleine, né à Tours, fils de
Charles Fleury, et de Madeleine Soupzmain.
Marianne Fleury, sa fille, veuve de Jacques Dugué, née
à Paris, et Marianne Dugué, fille du défunct Jacques
Dugué, et du dit Marianne Fleury, née en Caroline.

8. *DANIEL HUGER, né à Loudun, fils de Jean Huger, et Anne Rassin.
Margueritte Perdriau, sa femme.
Margueritte Huger, leur fille, née à Rochelle.
Daniel et Madeleine Huger, leurs enfans, néz en Caroline.

That means 3 Kids - Margueritte, Daniel and Madeleine

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9. *ISAAC CAILLABEUF, né à Ste. Soline, fils de Louis Caillabeuf
et de marie Charuyer.
Rachel, Fanton, sa femme.
Isaac, Etienne et Anne Caillabeuf, leurs enfans, néz en Caroline.

10. PIERRE LA SALLE, né à Bourdeaux, fils de Charles La Salle,
et de Susanne Hugla.
Élizabeth Messett, sa femme.
Pierre et Élizabeth La Salle, leurs enfans néz en Caroline.

11. FRANÇOIS DE ROUSSERIE, né à Monpelier, fils d'Alexandre DeRousserye,
et de Marie Suranne.

12. PIERRE BURETEL, né à la Rochelle, fils de Charles Buretel,
et de Sara Bouhier.
Élizabeth Chintrie, sa femme.

13. DANIEL BONNEL, fils de Jean Bonnel, et de Marie Lalon.
Marie Izambert, sa femme.
Susanne Bonnell, leur fille, née en Caroline.

14. JONAS BONHOSTE, né à Paris, fils de Pierre Bonhoste et de Marie Garlin.
Catherine Allaire, sa femme.
Jonas Bonhoste, leur fils né en Caroline.

15. PIERRE DUGUÉ, Isaac Dugué, son frère, et Élizabeth Dugué, leur sæur,
néz à Bésance en Bery, enfans de Jacques Dugué et d'Élizabet Dupuy.

16. JACQUES DU BOSC, né à St. Ambroise en Languedoc,
fils d' André Du Bosc, et de Marie Le Stoade.
Marie Dugué, sa femme.
Marie Du Bosc, leur fille née en Caroline.

17. PHILIPE NORMAND, né à Germain en Poitou,
fils de Philipe Normand, et de Jeanne Pineau.
Élizabet Juin, sa femme,

18. ANTHOINE BONNEAU, né à la Rochelle,
fils de Jean Bonneau et de Catherine Roi.
Catherine Du Bliss, sa femme.
Anthoine Bonneau, Jean Henri Bonneau, leurs enfans néz en France,
et Jacob Bonneau, leur fils né en Caroline.

19. PIERRE COLLIN, né en L'isle de Ré, fils de Jean Collin,
et de Judith Vasleau.

20. PIERRE POINSET, l' aîné, né à Soubize, fils de Pierre Poinset,
et Marie sa femme.

21. PIERRE POINSET, le jeune, né à Soubize, fils du dit
Pierre et Sara Fouchereau.
Anne Gobard sa femme,