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Interesting Facts About
the BouehiNon FamiIo

Joseph III DIS vile MhFlei
nee Majinnett. their son Jean Buuch-
illon, Andre GuIllebeau, Peter Rogue
more, his wife Jane, nee Seguin, Ma
thew Beraud, his wife Elizabeth, nee
Gregorie. Matthew Beraud, unmarri-
ed, and Mary Anne Leroy were
among the members of the Huguenot
colony which settled at Bordeaux in
AbbevIlle County, South Carolina,
in 1854.
Joseph BouchillOn becomes a widow
er and on December Is, l766, married
Elizabeth Beraud, the widow of Ma
thew Beraud, and on the, same day
(December l6, 1867 Andre Guillebeau
was married to Jane Roguemofe, the
: widow of Peter Roquemore.
In the early part of the Revolution
Matthew Baraud was Captln OF the mil
lila company into which the Hugunot
settlers at Bordeaux were organized. He
was under Maior Andrew Williamson
at Ninety Six in November, ITS, where
tue first blood in the Revolution in
south Carolina was, shed (Draytons'
Memoirs of the American Revolution,
Vol. 2, page $50; McCrady's History OF
South Carolina in the Revolution, ITO
1880, page 90). but he was Killed at the
siege of Savannah, in October, !1I9
(McCrady, ditto, lare All; Ramsay, -
History of the Revolution in South
Carolina, Vol. 2,pag- $3.50.
SepleInber ID 10 Oc.ober 8, 1873,
was the p+rind for which the State
puid for the services of Beraud ~ Cap.
lain Of Militia. =,
After the d-at:i Of Buraud, jos phi
Bouchillou becauir Captain of Tue Conn
pany which the H%uguenot. coloni-ts
maintained for r. siStance against The
Tories and the Indians, rs well -
against the British. The first pay
ment to him by the Slate for duty as
Captin of militia was for the period
November % to December s, l7T9.
During that period he lost zone Black
Horse", which bad been taken into
the service" and which, according to
to the certificate endorsed by Major
Alexander Noble upon the, report of
the three appraisers who had valued it,,
was lost "while on duty at the Two
Sisters" --- place on the Savan
nah River below Augusta, Georgia.
The horse was declared by the ap-
praisers to be worth n thousand Il
hundred pounds. In August previous,
while rendering militia duty to the
4 State as Lieutenant under General
Andrew Williamson in an e. peditioD
against the Indians, Joseph Bouchillon
lost a "Bay Mare',. which was valued
by the appraisers at seventeen hun
dred pounds. The period for. which
he was paid by the State for services
at that time az Lieutenant of militia
was August 5 to September IL, 1779,
Joseph Bouchillon, additional to the
period of Is days above mentioned
November 20 to December s, 1779) was
paid by the State for 3lS days service
as Captain of militia within the period
January 10, l78O, to May 81, 1882. Un-
der date of September II, 1882, Colon.
ell Robert Anderson certifies that
"Capt, Bouchillon, Lieut.. Gilbert Lieut.
Rogers and their people Qhe French
settlers at Bordeaux) had furnished 700
weight If good wheat flour for the
expedition against the CherOkees".
Mary Anne Leroy, who married
Jean Bouchillou, lived to be the last
survivor of the last colony of emigrant
Huguenots which settled in this oun
try 1.-The colony which settled at
Bordeaux in the county to which 81
years afterwards they were to give the
name that leads all other counties in
South Carolina 49, AbbeVil!e. .Bereft
of her husband during the Revolution
she was a widow, with small children,
harrassed, as the fest of her people,
with Tories and the Indians.
Marrying again in 1901 she became
hy her second husband = : Lazarus
Gown - the mother of four children.
Becoming again a widow in 1919 she
lived on for twenty years thereafter,
herself not dying until November 6,
1899, sprightliness of spirits and an
active body characterizing her to the
end. Her second husband, Lazarus
Gown, like the others of his race who
hal settled at Bordeaux, served in
arms for their new homes during the
Revolution. For service performed in
the militia under Captain Joseph
Bouchillon the State paid Lazarus
Gown for 2l4 days within the period
January IS. 1880, to May 81, 1852.
The emigrant Andre Guillebeau,
who died iu 1914, limped to the day
of his death as the result off wound
in the hip received in the Revolution.
Ofthe persons who constituted the
colony which emigrated TO South
Carolina and settled at Bordeaux in
1854, q list of 1873 names, with the
family relationship, is given in Trans
actions of the Huguenot Society Of
South Caroliua' No. 5 at pages 77-7S.
The settlement at Bordeaux Is men-
toned by McCrady in his History Of
South Carolina inder the Royal Gov
eminent, 17l9-1776" at pages 36S.37O.