Subject: Henry Le Noble From: Steven J. Coker Date: September 22, 1998 The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina By Arthur Henry Hirsch, Ph.D. 1928, Duke University Press reprinted 1962 by Archon Books (pp 226-227) Henry Le Noble was a conspicuous figure in the early political history of Carolina. Born in Paris, the son of John Le Noble and Susanna leMercier, he found it necessary to remove his ancestral limitations by becoming an English subject.[61] With his widowed mother and his three brothers, John, Peter, and James, and five sisters, Mary, Susanna, Magdalena, Charlotte, and Anne, he fled From France to England.[62] There he was naturalized June 27, 1685. So he went to Carolina vested with all of the powers of an English subject. He proved to be a man of more than ordinary powers of political leadership. Though naturalized in 1685, he does not seem to have gone to Carolina until several years later.[63] He and his wife, Katherine Le Serrurier, went to Charles Town, probably in the year 1694-5. At any rate July 13, 1695,[64] is the date of his land warrant for a 350 acre lot in Charles Town. In 1698, Lord Ashley, one of the Proprietors, residing in London, named Henry Le Noble his Deputy in the province.[65] He was a member of the Governor's Council from 1698 to 1706. He was a Commissioner of the Church Act of 1706.[66] Like many of his French associates he anglicized his name to Noble, soon after his arrival. Henry Le Noble was a large landowner in St. John's Berkeley and St. Stephen's.[67] but most of his life was spent in political activities in Charleston. His wife, after his death, retired to the estates in St. John's. A splendid original oil portrait of her, painted in the early part of the eighteenth century, represents her as a beautiful and fashionable woman of middle age.[68] Her will, dated January 25, 1725-6, disposes of two and one-third lots in Charles Town, several plantations, slaves, horses, promissory notes, bonds and money. How extensive the estate was cannot be gathered from the will. ___________________ 61 P.H. Soc. London, XXVIII. 159-60, 172. 62 Ibid. 63 MS Council Jrnl., 1671-1721, 88; March 4. 64 MS Land War., 1692-1712, 88. 65 MS Sec'y. Rcds., 1685-1712, 143. 66 Cooper, Statutes, II. 288. MS Col. Dames Archives, no. 27; MS Assembly Jrnl., 1692-1701, 190. 67 MS Sec'y. Rcds., 1685-1712, 153. 68 In possession of Mrs. R. Y. Dwight, Pinopolis, S. C. ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |