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The Huguenot HeraldThe Huguenot Society of South Carolina
Volume 22, Number 2Summer 2012
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• HuguenotSocietyofSCAutumnService,FrenchProtestant(Huguenot)Church,Sunday,October21stat10:30am
The Huguenot Society of SC138 Logan StreetCharleston, SC 29401
(843) 723-3235Fax: (843) 853-8476
Dear Society Members:
In May, we commemorated the 450th Anniversary of Jean Ribault’s landing near the May River in Jacksonville, Florida and his subsequent establishment of Charlesfort at Parris Island, South Carolina. As your President, I had the privilege of representing the Huguenot Society of South Carolina at several significant events in both Jacksonville, Florida and at Parris Island. It is my pleasure to share my experiences with you.
On Tuesday, May 1, at the invitation of the City of Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Historical Society, I participated in a series of events in Jacksonville which were part of Jacksonville’s larger “French Week” celebration. We began in the morning with the re-dedication of the Ribault Column at Fort Caroline, a property operated by the U.S. National Park Service. Among those in attendance were the Consul Honoraire de France from Jacksonville, the Consul Général de France from Miami, and direct descendants of Jean Ribault and René de Laudonnière. As part of the ceremony, a 23rd generation descendant of Jean Ribault presented the City of Jacksonville with a gold coin from the year 1562 which had been passed down through generations of Ribaults. I later attended a luncheon at the Ribault Club, a tree planting in Huguenot Memorial Park, and the unveiling of a beautiful and newly restored mural entitled “Ribault’s Landing” inside the Jacksonville Library. Later that evening, I attended the Jacksonville Historical Society’s presentation of “Readings from Ribault’s Journals.” As part of that event, I was introduced to the more than 200 guests in attendance, brought greetings from the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, and spoke about our Society and its work. It was a memorable day in every respect.
On Friday, May 25, 2012, a commemoration service was held on Parris Island in honor of Ribault’s landing there. This outstanding service was made possible
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Memorial wreaths at Parris Island Bob Prioleau, John Cuttino and Stuart Dawsonat Parris Island
Board of Directors
John E. CuttinoPresident
Ford Prioleau Menefee1st Vice President
Helga Preston Wrenn Billings Secretary
C. Stuart Dawson, Jr.Treasurer
Vice Presidents:Daniel Ravenel, M.D.J. Palmer Gaillard III
Charlton deSaussure, Jr.John E. Huguley, Jr.
Dianne Watts RessingerCharles B. Upshaw III
Russell B. Guerard
Chaplain:Rev. Philip Gendron Porcher
Legal Advisor:John Bacot Williams
StaffRenee LaHue Marshall
Executive DirectorHarriott Cheves Leland Archivist/Researcher
Dorothy Mercer Huff, Registrar
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by the United States Marine Corps, and was financially supported by several other groups, including the Huguenot Society of South Carolina. The ceremony was held at the Ribault Monument, which is on a bluff with a stunning view of Port Royal Sound. It was a beautiful day and shade from the moss-draped oaks and a nice breeze kept the temperature comfortable. The Huguenot Society of South Carolina was well-represented. In attendance were past Presidents Bob Prioleau and Henry Laffitte, current Treasurer Stuart Dawson, Executive Director Renée Marshall and Archivist Cheves Leland. Special thanks go to Immediate Past President Robert M. Prioleau who was the Society’s liaison to the committee which organized this distinguished event.
Brigadier General L. E. Reynolds, Commanding General of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island; Dr. Lawrence Roland, professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina; Dr. Stanley South and Dr. Chester DePratter of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and Dr. Pascal Le Deunff, Consul Général of France at Atlanta, all made remarks to the crowd of approximately 100. Memorial wreaths were presented by the sponsors of the event and a new poster was unveiled as part of the new National Historic Landmark series “Defending our Cultural Heritage.”
The Rev. Philip C. Bryant, Pastor of the French Protestant (Huguenot) Church of Charleston gave the benediction in which he reminded us of the devotion and courage of our Huguenot ancestors: “God of our Fathers, who kindled in those souls who came to this island 450 years ago a love of liberty and gave them such faith that they were able to sail vast rolling seas and explore strange shores, we ask you to bestow upon us, their descendants, a love of liberty such as theirs and to support us in all our endeavors so we neither grow faint in our faith nor fail in our courage to meet our challenges. Amen.” Ours is a rich and proud heritage, and these recent events in Jacksonville and at Parris Island were a wonderful reminder of that heritage.
John E. Cuttino
Pastor Phil Bryant of the French Protestant (Huguenot) Church giving the benediction
GIFTS FROM THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
BOOKSBaynard: An Ancient Family Bearing Arms by Annie Baynard Simons Hasell ........................................$10.00The French Huguenots by Janet Gray ........................................................................................................$20.00From New Babylon to Eden by Bertrand Van Ruymbeke ..........................................................................$49.95Historic Ramblin’s Through Berkeley by J. Russell Cross ........................................................................$25.00History of the Cuttino Family by G.P. Cuttino...........................................................................................$10.00The Huguenot Crosses of South Carolina, complied by Dr. & Mrs. J. Sanders Pike ..................................$2.00Huguenot Footprints: The Journey to America .........................................................................................$15.00Huguenot Garden by Douglas M. Jones, III ..............................................................................................$10.00Memoirs of Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet by Dianne W. Ressinger ............................................................$43.50Memoirs of the Reverend Jaques Fontaine 1658-1728, ed. by Dianne W. Reissinger ..............................$30.00Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora, edited by Bertrand Ruymbeke and Randy Sparks .............................................................................................................................................$34.95Painter in a Savage Land by Miles Harvey ...............................................................................................$27.00Pierre Gibert, Esq., The Devoted Huguenot by Ann C. Gibert .................................................................$15.00Plantations, Pineland Villages, Pinopolis and Its People by Dr. Norma Sinkler Walsh ...........................$45.00Ravenel Records, E Supplement ...................................................................................................................$1.50St. James Santee Plantation Parish by Ann Leland Bridges & Roy Williams ..........................................$37.50Transactions of The Huguenot Society of South Carolina, Vol. 1-21* ......................................................$20.00Transactions of The Huguenot Society of South Carolina, Vol. 22-present* .............................................$10.00
(*There are no copies of Volumes 1, 3-9, 13-23, 34, 44, 46, 50, 51, 68, 70, 72, 74-75, 77-79, 81, 82, 110.)Transactions #110 Supplement: The Jean Boyd Map and Letters, Charles Towne ...................................$10.00Index to the Transactions of The Huguenot Society of South Carolina (Vols. 1-96) ................................$25.00Vol. I Records of the Secretary of the Province, 1675-95, by Susan Bates & Cheves Leland ......................... $24.99Vol II Records of the Register of the Province, 1675-96, by Susan Bates & Cheves Leland .......................... $24.99Vol. III Records of the Surveyor General of the Province, 1678-98, by Susan Bates & Cheves Leland ...$26.99A World Turned Upside Down-The Palmers of South Santee by Louis P. Towles ....................................$20.00
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NEW MEMBERSWe welcome the following new members into the Society:
Alessandro Barbaglia ……………….Pleasanton, CAPierre Guerri and Jeanne Broussard
Maeve Howard Dilley Barbaglia…….Pleasanton, CAPierre Guerri and Jeanne Broussard
Charles Bartow Branan III .....................Charleston, SCFrancis Marion and Judith Baluet
Edward Buckley Brown, Jr. ..................Bella Vista, ARPierre Bacot and Jacquine Mercier
Martha Miller Gaffney ........................... Greenville, SCClaude Philippe Richebourg and Anne Chastain
Nancy Wright Gaffney ........................... Greenville, SCClaude Philippe Richebourg and Anne Chastain
John Raymond Gourdin ............................Florence, SCLouis Gourdin
Henry Hughes Ham, Jr. ........................... Leesville, SCIsaac DuBose and Susanne Couillandeau
Martha Jane DuBose Hart ............................Sumter, SCIsaac DuBose and Susanne Couillandeau
William Edward Hooker III ...............Junction City, KSPierre Bacot and Jacquine Mercier
Polly Ann Hawkins Jarrett ........................Raleigh, NCJacob Forney and Marie Bergner
William Guy Jarrett, Jr. .............................Raleigh, NCJacob Forney and Marie Bergner
Glen Peyton Johnson ....................................Trinity, FLJean François Gignilliat and Susanne Le Serrurier
Morris Slade Johnson .......................... Saint Louis, MOJean François Gignilliat and Susanne Le Serrurier
Patricia LeRoy Leaptrot ...............Scaly Mountain, NCPierre Michel LeRoy and Marie Michelle LeBrun
Daniel DuBose Lelong ...................... Falls Church, VAFrançois Solomon L ‘Egaré and Anne Lançois
Kathryn Kahrs Matthew ........................Charleston, SCHenri Peronneau
Sean St. Claire Dilley Tyler ................... Columbia, SCPierre Guerri and Jeanne Broussard
Cynthia Johnson Weatherby .............St. Petersburg, FLJames LaRoche
Mary Elizabeth Vallotton Yarbrough ..... Greenville, SCJérémie-Olivier Vallotton
PRacTicE YouR SENSE of PuRPoSE!
In Proverbs 20:5 we read “the purpose in a man’s mind is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.” How do we all identify and fulfill worthy purposes in our lives?
Surely the Huguenots in France in the 16th and 17th centuries had a strong sense of their purpose to sustain them in their tribulations. The 200,000 or more Huguenots who fled France in the 17th century were driven by the purpose to be free. Here in this country, over 7,000 descendants of Huguenots have joined the Huguenot Society of South Carolina since 1885 to honor the memory of their ancestors.
Shouldn’t one of your purposes be to join the 1685 Society by establishing a bequest to the Huguenot Society in your will? Call our Executive Director at (843) 723-3235 to learn how easy it is to become a member of this honorary society.
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RESEaRch NoTES fRoM ThE aRchiviST
To those of you with access to the Internet, don’t stop now. New sites and documents continually turn up and provide access to hitherto difficult to find information. Such a site was mentioned in a recent article in The New York Researcher. After trying the website it suggested with no luck, I eventually found a wonderful new/old trove of information about some of the French Protestant refugees who fled through The Netherlands on their way to Carolina.
As most of you know, Amsterdam was the port from which many of the immigrants who had fled France embarked for England, the West Indies and mainland America during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The website of the Amsterdam Municipal Archives has just added an index to a register of marriage intentions dating from 1565 to 1811 to its website. I found the easiest way to access the register was by entering Ondertrouwregisters 1565 – 1811 in Google and then using the translation feature to translate some of the information provided.
What you will find is a searchable index of names, but you need to be a bit inventive with spelling in order to find some entries. The names are listed chronologically by spelling, so you can easily rule out those which are from a later period than what you want. If you click on the “see more” notation, you can see a tiny thumbnail photo of the original page from the register, as well as a typescript of some of the information entered. Copies of the scans of the original pages can be ordered by following the directions for payment. The original documents may include the nationality of the bride and groom, birth dates, parents’ names, names of witnesses (best man/woman), as well as other information.
Although I would happily spend hours looking up the names of the ancestors used by members of the Society, I cannot, but I did find references for several Huguenots. One of these was for Jean François Gignilliat and his first wife Louisa Pineau, dated 5 Nov 1685. Another was for one of my own ancestors, Louis Timothée and his intended bride Elisabet Villin dated 7 July 1724. I have not (yet) ordered copies of the original documents, so I do not know what other information is included in the Register for these two entries. I did not find a reference as I hoped I would for possible parents of Benjamin Simons, but they may have married in Middleburg and so not be entered in the Amsterdam volumes.
A lot of cross-checking will need to be completed to determine, for example, if the entry for Pieter Michau and Mariken Knobbaert (other wife Anna Rousion) dated 17 June 1662 is for Pierre Michau of Carolina or not. If so, he had married twice prior to his marriage to Sara Bertonneau, widow of Elie Jaudon and we do not know if Mariken Knobbaert came with him to Carolina and died either en voyage or in Carolina. Is the entry dated 28 June 1692 for bridegroom Abraham Michaux and bride Susanna Rochet for Pierre’s brother who had married Ester Jaudon by 1696 and had three daughters by her, all born in Carolina? Copies of the actual records may clear up some of these questions.
If you enjoy such research, I hope you will let us know what you find. Once the new HSSC website is organized and on-line, we will be able to add this kind of information to it as we find it and keep our members and the general public up-to-date with our research. Happy hunting.
Cheves Leland
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The Huguenot Society of SC 138 Logan StreetCharleston, SC 29401
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autumn Service of the huguenot Society
of South carolina
The Autumn Service of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina will be held on Sunday, October 21st at 10:30 am at the French Protestant (Huguenot) Church of Charleston.
