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French Santee
At the end of the 17th century, driven by terrible persecution in France, thousands of Huguenots fled their country in search of religious freedom. A large number found what they sought in the fledgling colony of (South) Carolina in the New World Here these noblemen, craftsmen and artisans took up axes and guns and struggled to build their homes and survive in the wilderness with their wives and children. Nowhere was this more evident than on the banks of the Santee River where a group of French and Swiss Protestant refugees arrived in 1687 and where, "a sail from a boat was our first house and the earth our bed. A cabin like that of savages...was our second house" Through their letters and ...
A Contribution to the History of the Huguenots of South Carolina
Excerpt from A Contribution to the History of the Huguenots of South Carolina: Consisting of Pamphlets The accompanying historical sketches of the Huguenot families which settled in the rich alluvial regions within fifty miles Of Charleston will prove of interest to but few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Contribution to the History of the Huguenots of South Carolin
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The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina
This scarce work pulls together much important information on early settlers of Jamaica, including seventy pedigrees of early Jamaicans, a table showing the starting date for baptismal, marriage, and burial records as found in all Jamaican parishes, and an early census of 700 Jamaican landowners.
The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina
By: Arthur Henry Hirsch, Phd., Pub. 1928, reprinted 2022, 398 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN 978-1-63914-061-9. The first group of French Huguenot settlers arrived in South Carolina around 1669. This book provides a historical background to their emigration with extensive discussion of their religious and political affairs, along with their role in the development of the colony. The author also provides a detailed discussion of their settlements at Charleston, Santee, St. Thomas, St. Dennis, the Orange Quarter, St. John's Berkley, St. Stephen's, Purrysburg and Hillsboro. The genealogist will find the biographical sketches of many of these early settlers quite helpful with those relatives who found their way to the South Carolina low-country.
From New Babylon to Eden
In a volume devoted to the first generation of Carolina Huguenots, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke describes in detail their gradual transformation from French refugees to South Carolina planters."--Jacket.
