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 > >