The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-29

-I y fleeing the wrath to coma had left rrance before the severity of perse- cution began. carrying with them much of their property as the Maxycka St Juliens. and others
 Those who remained until after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes were happy if they escaped with life and unbroken families.
 The stories of the flight are pa- here. We'll treated in Enriand. hirhIv commanded by the Archbishop of Can teroury. and protected by the King, the colony who came in the Richmond sailed under royal patronage, sent by King Charles himself. to cultivate wine. on and silk: in all of which they abso- iuteiy failed. The proprietors recom- rnended them strongly to the Cover nor. and they were kindly received The merchants and artisans. of whom there were many, both in this and sue ceedins migrations settled generally Tn the town. The others took up land on the lower part of the Sanfee River then called French Santee.. and on the Coouer. in what was then known as Orange Quarter, now the parishes of St. Denis and St. Johns Berkeley.
 rne greater number who came to Car oiina were people of humble station yet there were among them some of superior rank: Sleeves Marchands danthemer.' clergymen and physicians but all came for one cause, all had made the same sacrifice, all were bound in one brotherhood of kindii- ness.
 Inspired by faith as strong, a moral
 ity as pure. as the most rigid Puritan
 ism could demand they escaped its harsher and grimmer features, and dwelt more on the mercy of the Fath-
 CTS than on the vengeance of the Judge This strikes one in the values in the fear family Bibles of the emil grants still preserved. in which thanks for preservation are strangely unmixed with denunciations of their relentless prosecutors.
 The emigrant Daniel Huger writes:
 Oh. Lord in Christ our blessed Re- deemer. I here acknowledge with all humiiiaty that the chastisement had been mixed with wonderful mercies. Thou hast preserved us from the per- secutors of Thy blessed GospIe, and hast brought us into this remote part of the world. where Thou hast guided us and blessed us here in a wonderful manner, and we now enjoy the benefits of Thy dear gospel in peace and quiet- ness through our dear Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen"
 They cast no longing backward glances as men who had left home un- der fortunes would have don, ana grateful to the country which shelter- ed them became her devoted children. It has been supposed that lands were given to these immigrants but this Ia 1 shown to be mistake. as only two Tree grants are an record. They bought on the same terms aN other set I tiers. and took up some large estates. The de .Chastsigners Seigneurs de | Cramache ct de Lisle, three thousand | acres Gouiand de Verrant twelve | thousand. etc. Neither of these fam | liies survives in Carolina except in | the female line"
 List of French who desired naturalf- sation in South Carolina"-EdIted bv theodore Gaillard Thomas, M. D. New II Fork Knickerbocker Press, 1868.
 namsey gives a list of a number 'i respectable and influential famiIiea which spring from this stock; to-wit.
 Bonneau. Beauoist Bounetheau. Bois- 'au. Bordeaux, Bocquet, Bacot. Fay- 'oux, Chevalier, Gaillard, Cordes. Gen lroux 0cuterier, Gegnilliut, Chastaig- Ter, Guerard. DuFFe, Godln, De Ivsie siraroeau, Du Bose Guerin, Du Bois sourdine, Descaux, Horny, Dutaroue auger, De la Cousiliere, Jeanertte. rpe 'eiseline. Legare, Doux Saint, Laurena.