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 From the "City Gazette," of Monday, May 15th 1826.

         From the Southern Intelligencer.

              THE FRENCH REFUGEES.

                    NO. IV.

   The paper of which the subjoined List is a copy, has been deemed worthy of
publication, on account both of its matter and its antiquity.  As a document
relating to the early history of our state, it is interesting; and may perhaps
be useful.  The descendants of many of the persons included in it, will
doubtlers be gratified by an opportunity of possessing a copy in print, and
particularly those, to whom it will afford information respecting their
ancestors, of which, from the want or the loss of family records, they have been
ignorant.
   It was discovered in a parcel of old papers which belonged to Henry De St.
Julien, of St. John's, Berkley; who died in that parish at about 70 years of
age, in 1768 or 9, and who was the youngest son of Pierre De St. Julien - whose
name is included in the list.  His papers passed into the hands of a sister who
survived all the family, and died at an advanced age, in the year 1780.
   The present possessor of the paper, is one of her lineal descendants.
   We can scarcely doubt that this compilation was intended to accompany an
application for naturalization.  The Caption by which it purports to be a list
of French and Swiss Refugees who wished to be naturalized; the fulness and
minuteness of its details; and the unpleasant differences between the French and
English settlers on the subject of citizenship, noticed in the second of these
numbers, all lead to this conclusion.
   The following considerations render it probable that it was prepared with a
view to the provisions of the act of naturalization of 1696.
   It will be recollected that this act confers the rights and privileges of
citizens on 63 persons who petitioned the general assembey and who are specially
named therein; and that it then provides, that all the benefits of the act
should be extended to such other persons as should petition therefor, 

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within three months; requiring that "for the further manifestation and proof of
their having petitioned," Gov. Blake should give to each a certificate of his
having done so, of having complied with the other requisites of the act, and of
being consequently entitled to the privileges conferred by it.  The writer of
these remarks has in his possession one of the certificates of Gov. Blake,
issued in conformity with this act, and referring to it by its date and title. 
It is the certificate of citizenship of one of the refugees on this list, and
bears date the 3d of June, 1697.
   There are two circumstances however, which show that it must have been
prepared before the passage of the act of 1696, though they do not affect the
conclusion with respect to its object.  The one is, that several of the persons
included in it, are made citizens by name in the act of 1696; the other, that
upon consulting the family Bible of one the individuals on the list, now in the
possession of a descendant in this city, it appears that a child whose name is
given in the list, was born in May, 1694, and died in Sept. 1695 - The inference
From which circumstance is that the paper was prepared, or its materials
collected, between these dates.
   It is believed that no complete list of the French Refugees has ever been
published; probably none has been compiled.  This list, with that in Ramsay's
History of South Carolina, and that in the act of 1696, will probably afford the
names of most if not all of the class of settlers who made this state their
asylum immediately after the revocation of the Edict of Nantz.
   I will only add that the two persons first named on the list were clergymen,
viz. Elias Prioleau and L.P. Trouillart; the latter being no doubt, the pastor
of the small French congregation in St. John's, Berkley, noticed in the second
of these numbers.

                                A Descendant of the Refugees.

[to be continued ...]

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Spelling and capitalization all sic, forgiving any transcription errors.

Transcribed by Steven James Coker, another descendant of the Refugees, by use of
a copy made of an original. Said original is in the holdings of the Caroliniana
Library in Columbia, South Carolina, 

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

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