. 
         "LISTE DES FRANÇOIS ET SUISSES."

          FROM AN OLD MANUSCRIPT LIST OF

          French and Swiss Protestants,

                     SETTLED

       IN CHARLESTON, ON THE SANTEE, AND AT
           ORANGE QUARTER, IN CAROLINA,

            WHO DESIRED NATURALIZATION,

             PREPARED PROBABLY ABOUT

                     1695-6.

            WITH INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

             ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN
   THE "SOUTHERN INTELLIGENCER." CHARLESTON, 1822,
         AND RE-PUBLISHED IN MAY 1826, IN
         THE "CITY GAZETTE," OF CHARLESTON

                  -----•<>•-----

                 CHARLESTON, S. C.
       WM. G. MAZYCK, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER,
CHARLESTON LIBRARY BUILDING COR. BROAD AND CHURCH STS.
                       1868.



ERRATA.
Page 21, after No. 12 insert *
  "  23, after No. 44 insert *
  "  26, last line but one, for 'de' read 'du dits'.
  "  26, last line erase 'de'.
  "  31, No. 137, for 'Solomon' read 'Salomon'.


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PREFATORY NOTE.

    THE Articles, of which this pamphlet is a re-publication, were contributed
by me in June 1822 to the "Southern Intelligencer", a religious paper, then
issued weekly in Charleston.  The object was to furnish the Descendants of the
French and Swiss Refugees, in print, the contents of an old manuscript List of
Refugees, in the possession of our family.  Of this manuscript therefore some
account is given in No. 4 of the Articles.  To what is there said I may add that
it was found among sundry old papers, most of them of little or no value, at the
plantation known as Wantoot, in St. John's, Berkley, which had been the
residence of my father and grandfather.  It is not a general list of the
Refugees; it purports to be a list of such as desired an Act of Naturalization. 
Its character was found to give it an interest beyond the purpose for which it
was designed.  To the names of persons on the list are added their places of
nativity, their parentage, the persons they married, the children born before,
and those born after their arrival in Carolina; and the mothers and wives are
with few exceptions, mentioned by their maiden names.  This last feature is in
accordance with the rights of married persons under the Civil Law, which is the
basis of the French Code.  Under the English Common Law "Husband and Wife are
one person" and their legal rights are modified by this principle.  "In the
Civil Law the husband and wife are considered two distinct persons, and may have
different Estates, &c."*  The preservation of the born names of women thus has
importance in France.  To us the interest of the paper consists chiefly in the
genealogies it records.
    The Manuscript is in my possession; and although mutilated by age, will be
cheerfully submitted to the inspection of persons interested in the genealogies.
    The Manuscript occupies seventeen pages of fool's-cap paper.  The first part
paged from 1 to 13, the remainder not paged.
    The portions are 

    1. The principal List, numbered from 1 to 119 inclusive, which is the list
published in 1822.

    2. The portion marked No. 2, purporting to be names of persons at Orange
Quarter, which, from the note at its close was imperfect and collected in aid of
a Committee.

    3. The portion marked No. 3, which has been, and is now, supposed to consist
of notes used in compiling the principal list; and this formed the envelope of
all the sheets and is endorsed "Liste des François et Suisses."

    For the reasons stated, Nos. 2 and 3 were not published in 1822: it is now
deemed advisable to print them also.
    The writing of these last is read with difficulty and I am indebted for aid
in making these transcripts, to the kindness of Mr. LOUIS MANIGAULT of this
City, whose familiarity with old French chirography has enabled me to present
them.
    Soon after the original publication Mr. HENRY H. BACOT of this City, visited
France and became acquainted with the BACOT family, residing 

    * Blackstone Comm. ch. 15

ii

a few miles from Tours.  He had with him the "Southern Intelligencer" containing
this list.  The identity of the families was recognized; and the Baron BACOT DE
ROMAINE extended many kindnesses to his remote relative, and also accorded
civilities to others from So. Carolina.  In consequence of this pleasant result,
the late venerable THOMAS WRIGHT BACOT, brother of Mr. H. H. BACOT, (remembered
by many as the first Postmaster of Charleston under the Federal Government,)
caused the articles to be re-published in the "City Gazette" in May, 1826.
    I have been unable to find a copy of the original publication in the
"Southern Intelligencer," or even to ascertain if its files have been
preserved.  The present publication is made from a volume of the "City Gazette"
in the Treasury Office of Charleston, kindly lent me for the purpose by the Hon.
P. C. GAILLARD, Mayor.
    The spelling, both of names and words in the List, is not uniform.  Some
names, we know from other documents to be erroneously written, for instance
"MANIGAUD" for "MANIGAULT", "GOURDAIN" for "GOURDIN", but, as the purpose is to
give copies of the papers, we have endeavoured to follow the orthography in all
its variations and errors.  In this effort I am indebted to Mr. WM. G. MAZYCK,
by whom the proofs have been carefully compared with the original manuscript as
far as its partial mutilation permitted.  It may be proper to state that the
original publication was printed from a copy made by myself with care before the
manuscript had suffered mutilation.
    The names with an asterisk (*) have the word "Fridenizons" or "Fridenizé" in
the margin of the manuscript.  Opposite the name of I. CAILLABEUF, the note is
"Fridenizé 2 fois."
    These notes refer, no doubt, to grants of civil privileges from the Lords
Proprietors, or from the King.  One of the names with the asterisk is that of
the Rev. ELIAS PRIOLEAU.  I am in possession of a notarial certificate of
"Letters Patent of Denization" granted to him and his family on the 15th of
April, in the third year of James 2d.  It is dated "London, 25 April, 1687.  As
the document belongs to the history of the Colony at that period a copy is added
in an appendix.
    It does not appear that the list was presented to the General Assembly, but
at its supposed date the Subject of Naturalization occupied largely the minds of
the Colonists.  Applications for Naturalization were before the General
Assembly, as appears from the Naturalization Act of 10 March, 1696.  It is
probable that the provisions of that Act made the presentment of this List
unnecessary.  Having one of the Certificates of Naturalization issued by
Governor Blake under that Act, I add a copy in the Appendix.
    The names are not numbered in the manuscript List.  The numbers have been
added for the purpose of giving Alphabetical Indexes.
    One more remark.  From the entry opposite the first name on list No. 3, and
the words "passer gratis," opposite another name on the same list, some expense
probably attended the collection of the information required which was met by
contributions.

                                       DANIEL RAVENEL,

   CHARLESTON, September, 1867.

[to be continued ...]

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Spelling and capitalizations all sic, forgiving any transcription errors.

Transcribed by Steven James Coker from a copy of an original in the holdings of
the Caroliniana Library in Columbia, South Carolina. 

Catalog number:
s.c. 
p975.793
R19l
1868

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