The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina 
By Arthur Henry Hirsch, Ph.D.
1928, Duke University Press
reprinted 1962 by Archon Books
(pp 236)

   The will of Antoine Prudhomme, written in 1695, one of the first of the
extant wills of South Carolina Huguenots, though it does not dispose of vast
land areas and hoarded treasures, is one of the most interesting of the
preserved documents.[125] It portrays a man thrifty, yet benevolent, possessing
a plantation well stocked and successfully managed. It shows that as early as
1695 the Huguenots possessed the propensities that were so marked throughout the
period of their activities in this province in the accumulations of land and
money. In the will he bequeathed to the Goose Creek congregation a cow with a
heifer following her and another heifer, to constitute a nucleus for a fund to
help provide for the poor of the parish.
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125 MS Pr. Ct. Rcd., 1671-1727, 51 ; 1692-3, 227.

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