Family of Anthione Dr. CORDES and Esther Madaleine BALLUET

Husband:	Anthione Dr. CORDES (1666-1712)
Wife:	Esther Madaleine BALLUET ( - )
Children:	Isaac CORDES (1692- )
	Magdalen CORDES (1693-1745)
	Esther CORDES (1695- )
	Thomas CORDES (1697- )
	James Paul CORDES (1699-1774)
	Francis CORDES (1701- )
	Ann CORDES (1703-1772)

Husband: Anthione Dr. CORDES

Name:	Anthione Dr. CORDES
Sex:	Male
Father:	Paul CORDES ( - )
Mother:	Marie DEPEUCH ( - )
Birth	19 Apr 1666	Mazamet, Languedoc, France
Death	22 Feb 1711/12 (age 45)

Wife: Esther Madaleine BALLUET

Name:	Esther Madaleine BALLUET
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-

Child 1: Isaac CORDES

Name:	Isaac CORDES
Sex:	Male
Birth	1692

Child 2: Magdalen CORDES

Name:	Magdalen CORDES
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Peter SIMONS (1693-1724)
Birth	1693
Death	1745 (age 51-52)

Child 3: Esther CORDES

Name:	Esther CORDES
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Gabriel MARION ( -1750)
Birth	1695

Child 4: Thomas CORDES

Name:	Thomas CORDES
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Rebecca JAMIESON ( - )
Birth	1697

Child 5: James Paul CORDES

Name:	James Paul CORDES
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Elizabeth SIMONS (1704- )
Birth	1699
Death	2 Dec 1774 (age 74-75)

Child 6: Francis CORDES

Name:	Francis CORDES
Sex:	Male
Spouse 1:	Marianne PORCHER ( - )
Spouse 2:	Susannah BENOIST ( - )
Birth	1701

Child 7: Ann CORDES

Name:	Ann CORDES
Sex:	Female
Spouse 1:	Francis SIMONS (1697-1731)
Spouse 2:	Henry Joseph VIDEAU (1700?-1773)
Birth	1703
Death	1772 (age 68-69)
Burial	9 Oct 1772 (age 68-69)	Pompion (Pumpkin) Hill

Note on Husband: Anthione Dr. CORDES

Cordesville, settled in 1686 was named for Dr. Anthony Cordes who was responsible for the settlement of Huguenots there. "Palmetto Place Names"

 

WILL OF

ANTHONY CORDES

 

SOUTH CAROLINA

 

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Anthony Cordes of Berkly County in the province of South Carolina Phisician being Sick in my body but of Sound and perfect mind and Memory praise be given to Almighty God, Therefore, I do make and Ordaine this my last will & Testamt in Manner and forme following, first I Bequeath my Soul into ye Hands of almighty God hopeing and Afsuredly believing the Salvation of the Same, through the alone Merritts of Jesus Christ my Blefsed Saviour and redeemer, and my body I commit to ye Earth to be Decently buried at ye Discretion of my Executrs hereafter named, being in full & Certain hope of a resurrection unto Eternal Life---AND for my Estate Which it hath pleased god to bestow upon me in this World; I DO GIVE and Dispose of the Same as following

 

Vizt

 

IMPRIMIS I will yt all my Just debts & funeral expences shall be first payd & discharged

 

2ly I Give and bequeath unto my Daughter Magdalena one Indian Girle going by the name of Jenny

 

3ly I Give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Esther one Negroe Girle going by the name of Mariana

 

4ly I Give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Anna, One Negroe Girle going by ye name of Peguy

 

5ly I Give and Bequeath unto my Dear and beloved Elder son Isaac Cordes my Plantation that I now live on Containing two hundred Acres of land, Together with Six hundred of land Which I Cause to be measured Joyning the Said two hundred Acres of land

 

6ly AND all ye rest of my Estate both real and Personall I Give and Bequeath to be Equally Parted and Divided between all my dear and beloved Children by Name, Isaac, Thomas, James, francis, Magdaln Esther and Ann: but in cafe that any of them Shall dye before they Shall Come to ye age of twenty one years or marriage, then I will yt ye Share that Should have his or her shall be equally divided among all the rest of my Children

 

WILL OF ANTHONY CORDES---PAGE 2----

 

ITEM I Do nominate, Constitute And appoint my loveing Brother, James Cordes, and my loveing friend Rone Ravenel, Paul Peter Johns Esqr and Peter Deft Julian Esqr Executors of this my last Will & Testamt

 

LASTLY and Do by these pesents revoake, renounce & made void all former and other Wills and Testamts by me heretofore made & do Declare and appoint this to be my last Will & Testamt----------IN WITNEFS whereof I the Said Anthony Cordes have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal this Six and twentieth day of January in ye year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred Eleven and Twelve------

 

SIGNED, Sealed & Published & Declared by

 

the above named Anthon Cordes to be his last will

 

& Testamt,

 

In ye pesence of Troiillar Anthony Cordes (SEAL)

 

Jean Perineau

 

Moses Carion

 

the mark

 

James (capital I) Dabor

 

Moses Carion Junr

 

SWORNE TO BEFORE ME

 

Robt Gibbes

 

Recorded in Original Will Book 1711-1718

 

Recorded on Page 26

 

Memorandm On this 22d. of February Ano. Dom: 1711-2 personally

 

Came and appeared before me the Honorble. the Governr, & Ordinary Mr. Mofses Carion Senr. Mr. Mofses Carion Junr. & Mr.

John Perineau three of the Subscribeing Witnefses to the within Will who being duly Sworne Say & each of them Saith Yt. they &

each of them was prsent & did see Dr. Antho. Cordes Sign Seal publish & Declare Ye wth in Written to be & Contain his last

Will & Testament & Yt. at Ye Doing thereof he was of Sound Mind & Memory, to Ye best of their Knowledge

 

[Microfilm: “All Record of Wills”, Charleston County, SC, Vol. 1; pages 37, 38.]

Note on Child 3: Esther CORDES

Registered with the DAR in Lineage Book 4-185 and 5-175.

Note on Child 4: Thomas CORDES

Commisioner of Free Schools, 1733 Goose Creek. (page 153, Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina, Chap VII)

Note on Child 5: James Paul CORDES

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, Vol. 43.

p. 137. James Paul Cordes was born ca 1699. He married Jan. 1, 1728/29, Elizabeth Simons, dau. of Benjamin Simons and his wife, Mary Esther DuPre.

Note on Child 6: Francis CORDES

http://members.tripod.com/~The_Huguenot/cord.htm

Note on Child 7: Ann CORDES

SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, Vol. 43.

p. 138. Anne Cordes, born ca 1703; married ca 1703 Francis Simons, son of Benjamin Simons, a wife Mary Esther DuPre. He was born Dec. 7, 1697.