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French Florida in 1562, by N. Bellin, 18th century Floride françoise ("French Florida"), by Pierre du Val, 17th century. Charlesfort was established when a French expedition, organized by Huguenot leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and led by the Norman navigator Jean Ribault, landed at the site on the May River in May 1562, before moving north to Port Royal Sound.
Born in Tours, France, Pierre was the son of Pierre Bacot (1637-1702) and Jacquine Mercier (1649-1709), and grandson of Pierre Bacot (1597-1637) and Jacqueline Menessier (1615-). To escape religious persecution after the Edict of Nantes, Pierre fled France with his parents and brother Daniel, arriving in Charles Town, South Carolina in 1685. [1]
New Paltz (named by French Huguenots) New Rochelle (founded by French Huguenots and named after La Rochelle, France.) Orleans; Orleans County (possibly named in honor of the House of Orléans) Portage; Raquette River; Rouses Point (named after early settler Jacques Rouse.) Point Au Roche State Park (park located on the shores of Lake Champlain)
Middleburg Plantation is a historic colonial-era plantation on the Cooper River near Huger, South Carolina.The plantation house, built in 1697 by the French Huguenot Benjamin Simons, is probably the oldest standing wood-frame building in South Carolina, and is consequently an architecturally important example of period construction.
French Huguenots made two attempts to establish a haven in North America. In 1562, naval officer Jean Ribault led an expedition that explored Florida and the present-day Southeastern US, and founded the outpost of Charlesfort on Parris Island, South Carolina. The French Wars of Religion precluded a return voyage, and the outpost was abandoned.
Abbeville is a city and county seat of Abbeville County, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. [5] [6] It is located 86 miles (138 km) west of Columbia and 45 miles (72 km) south of Greenville. [7] Its population was 5,237 at the 2010 census. [4] Settled by French Huguenot settlers, it was named, along with the county, for the French town of the ...
The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720 (U of South Carolina Press, 2019). Quintana, Ryan A. Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina (U of North Carolina Press, 2018) online review [dead link ]. Rogers, George C. Evolution of a Federalist: William Loughton Smith of Charleston (1758-1812)
Hanover House was built by Paul de St. Julien, an ethnic French Huguenot, on land by the Cooper River that was a 1688 grant to his grandfather by the Lords Proprietors of South Carolina. His grandfather had sought refuge in the colony from religious persecution by Catholics in France. The house is a 1½-story cypress wood house with a gambrel ...