At 09:30 AM 1/28/00 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 01/19/2000 8:47:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, >boan@mciworld.com writes: > ><< Mr Ervin visited the area in > July of 1971, and found nothing there indicating its historic past except a > simple monument erected by the Huguenot Society of SC to mark the spot where > the church stood. > >> >Pam, > >May I ask who is this Mr. Ervin? Could this be Sam Ervin who did a lot of >research in the 1960's on the Ervin families. > >>From your study of these Church records, did you note surnames of other >families that settled in Sumter district along with Claude and Unity >Richbourgh > >Regards, Gene > > This is a reference that comes from the TRANSACTIONS OF THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (you are right, the our good cousin the senator) "The Richbourgh Family of South Carolina," TRANSACTIONS OF THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Vol. 78 (1973) pp. 61-79. I use Senator Sam's article and quote extensively from it in Chapter Two of my book on the Life and Descendants of The Reverend Claude Philippe de Richebourg and His Wife Anne Chastain. I have visited the site he is referencing. It is the original Jamestown on the bluff above the Santee River, near present-day Jamestown, South Carolina. Sorry for interrupting the correspondence! Bill Simpson >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >