Pam, You are right. Do not pay attention to me. I just started the research on Richbourg this week. I was confused and trying to type from memory. But you have to have something up there to work with :) Janet At 08:55 AM 1/20/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hi again Janet >I wanted to ask you about the marriage of Claude and Ann 's son Claudius to >Elizabeth. Do you know anything about this such as a date of marriage? I >have Claudius marriage to Unity Rigdill Fox in 1740 so was guessing that >maybe Elizabeth was a first or second wife. >Take care >Pam >----- Original Message ----- >From: Janet Gardner <jgardner@tca.net> >To: <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 6:21 AM >Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Sumter County Map > > >> Wow! Do you share or What! I've been on this mailing list such a short >> time and have already met several cousins. >> >> I am willing to share any and everything I have. However, that is not >much >> compared to what you have done. Below is my descent from Claude >Richbourg: >> >> Claude Richbourg m Ann Chastain >> Their son, Claudius Richbourg m Elizabeth >> Their son, James Joel Richbourg m Rebecca >> Their daughter, Elizabeth Richbourg m William Gerald >> Their son, James G. Gerald m Artia Loflin >> Their daughter, Emily S. Gerald m John Wesley Clayton >> Their son, Robert Clayton m Carrie O. Stafford >> Their son, Hiram Clayton m Evie Eubanks >> Thier son, Percy Clayton m Eva Loyd >> Their daughter, Janet Clayton Gardner (me!) m Quinton Dean Gardner >> >> Elizabeth Richbourg and William Gerald went to Amite County Mississippi. >> Their granddaugher, Emily S. Gerald Clayton and her husband were married >in >> Livingston Parish, Louisiana where they spent the rest of their lives. >> John was from that part of Louisiana. Robert's family moved to Houston, >> Texas in 1918. However, they traveled from Texas to Louisiana during the >> next 25 years. Finally settling in Houston. This is where I was born and >> reared. >> >> I have information from Elizabeth Richbourg and William Gerald. Actually >> from William's father, Rev. Gabriel Gerald, Baptist Minister at High Hills >> of Santee. I have their children on down to my generation. Documenting >> the family from Amite County, Mississippi to Louisiana to Texas. >> >> Try my homepage at http://pages.tca.net/jgardner. >> >> Thanks again, >> Janet >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> At 08:46 AM 1/19/00 -0500, you wrote: >> >Hi Janet >> >just wanted to say hello and that I too am a descendant of the Rev. >Claudius >> >Richbourgh and his wife Ann. >> >This is what I have on them so far. Hope there may be something new for >> >you. >> > >> >Claude was a Huguenot minister who fled France after King Louis XIV >revoked >> >the Edict of Nantes in 1685. This revocation subjected the Protestants >to >> >persecution under the Roman Catholic church. He probably went to England >> >first and then to Manakin Town, Virginia(about 20 miles from Richmond on >the >> >James River) about 1699 or 1700. Manakin Town had been etablished about >> >1690 by william of Orange on the James River about 20 miles above >Richmond. >> >About 700 Huguenots came to Manakin Town in 1699 under the leadership of >> >Marquis de la Muce. They sailed from Gravesend, England and were >> >accompanied by their pastor, Claude Phillipe de Richebourg, who served as >> >pastor at Manakin Town, until his departure to NC in 1708. Unhappy >> >differences of opinions had arisen at Manakin Town, so a great number >left >> >and settled on the Trent River in NC. >> > >> >The Huguenots were driven from their settlement on the Trent River by the >> >Tuscarora and Coree Indians, who unexpectedly took to the war path on >> >September 11, 1711 and brutally massacred 111 of the white population in >> >eastern NC. As a result of this tragedy, Richebourg and some of his >> >compatriots moved to the Province of South Carolina in 1712, where >Huguenots >> >had preceded them. Richebourg settled in the center of the French >village >> >of Jamestown on a high bluff abutting and overlooking the Santee River in >> >Berkeley county, SC. His home was near the Huguenot church. When >> >Richebourge arrived, there was a pastor of the Huguenot church already >there >> >by the name Pierre Robert. >> > >> >Dr. George Howe, History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina >> > Columbia SC, 1870): writes about Claude Phillip de Richbourg:" the >> >character which has been transmitted to us of this persecuted minister of >> >the gospel, exhibits as its peculiar trait a devotedness to the cause of >> >Christ. He appears to have been a man of unobtrusive manners, of deep >and >> >fervent piety, and of a serious temper of mind. >> >Adversities and poverty seem to have been his portion in the lot of life. >> >He seems to have lived, after his removal to SC, for two or three years >> >without a spiritual charge, and without any pecuniary resources for the >> >maintenance of his family; and, we are informed by Humphrey, contemplated >a >> >removal out of the colony on an account of his great want. The >infirmities >> >of age creeping upon him, Pierre Robert resigned his charge, and >Richebourg >> >was called by the congregation to succed him in 1715. He continued in >the >> >pastorship until his death in 1718-19. His will ( the original >manuscript >> >in the French lanuage) is still preserved in the Public office in >Charleston >> >(however when I tried to obtain a copy it was not to be found - 7-1999) >and >> >breathes the true spirit of the Christian, resigned under the >dispensation >> >of Province, steadfast in the faith, and triumphant at his approaching >> >death. His wife, Anne Chastain, and six children survived him. some of >his >> >descendants, who are not numerous, have attained wealth: and in instance >is >> >known of any of them having been destitute of the comforts of life." >> > >> >Dr. Howe believes that the church at Jamestown stayed a Huguenot chuch >until >> >Claude died, but Dr. Hirsch, who wrote, The Huguenots of Colonial SC, >page >> >133- 134, believes that the Huguenot church converted to an Anglican >church >> >in 1706 at the request of its French founders and members. >Subsequently, >> >its pastor, Pierre Robert took Anglican orders and so did his sucessor, >> >Richebourg. Richebourg, accepted ordination in the Anglican communion >and >> >forsook the Calvinistic theology, but he continued administering the >> >sacraments in the French language in accordance with Calvinistic theology >> >and liturgy, which greatly angered the Anglican clery. The Commissary >> >Johnston, the chief representative in the Province in SC of the Society >of >> >the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and adjunt of the >Anglican >> >church, threatened to "deprive Richebourg of his cure and salary and >remove >> >him from the province unless he desisted"; that Richebourg "confessed >his >> >error and promised never to commit it again"; and that Richebourg >> >"temporarily submitted" to Johnston's demand but soon returned to his >> >Calvinistic ways. >> > >> >The French village of Jamestown on the Santee was located about a mile >north >> >of the existing municipality of Jamestown in Berkeley County. This >village >> >did not prosper because the Santee River was subject ot frequent freshets >at >> >this point and the climate was not healthful. As the years passed, the >> >orginal French settlers died, and their progeny moved to more favorable >> >agricultural areas in the Parish of St. John's Berkely, the Parish of St. >> >Stephen's and Craven County, where they achieved substantial property by >> >cultivating indigo and reice, the money crops of the age and region. As >> >more years passed, the village and the church disintegrated and >disappeared, >> >and their site was recaptured by wilderness. 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. >> > >> >His will is dated January 15, 1718-1719, and died soon after he wrote it. >> >The exact time of his death is not known. He was still living on June >02, >> >1718, because on that day Pierre St. Julian of Berkeley Co. made his >will, >> >which gave a legacy of twenty pounds to "Monsieur Claude Philippe de >> >Richebourg, Minister." He was widely mourned however for his piety and >> >usefulness to the parish. This is a testament to the forceful >personality >> >of Richebourg, for , unwilling after the Act of 1706 to accommodate >himself >> >to the Anglican forms, this French-Anglican clergyman continued to >baptize >> >without the sign of the cross and without godfathers or godmothers. He >> >administered the communion kneeling, sitting or standing. >> > >> > A book titled "ST. James Santee Plantation Parish 1685-1925" (975.791 >> >Bridges-Published 1997) referring to the church records does mention Rev. >> >Claude P. Richbourgh. A Roman Catholic by birth and an Anglican by >adoption. >> >Richebourg did not always win approbation, for Francis LeJau (1665-1717) >> >wrote in 1712 of swords being drawn after a divisive quarrel at the >church >> >door after services. >> > >> >Claude Phillipe de Richebourg, was in the area of St. James on the Santee >> >River during the Yamassee unrisings of 1715. >> > >> >I am descended through their son Claudius and his wife Unity. I have a >copy >> >of his will from the archives in SC if you would be interested in that. >> > >> >If you have anything else that you are willing to share I would most >> >certainly appreciate the information. I tried to get a copy of the REv >will >> >but the archives can not find it so next will try the Huguenot church to >see >> >if they have it in their archives in Charleston. >> >Best regards >> >Pam >> >boan@mciworld.com >> > >> > >> > >> >==== 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 >> > >> > >> >> >> ==== 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 >> >> > > >==== 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 > >