Notes for Benjamin SIMONS
Warrant 15 July 1697, 100 A., in Berkley Co, Grant 5 May 1704 for 350 A. SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, Vol. XVIII, p. 21, as quoted in THE DUPRE TRAIL, Vol. 1, p. 145
From http://www.rootsweb.com/~scbchs/
Grant of Land From The Lords Proprietors to
Benjamin Simons, 7 May 1709
WHEREAS His Excellency William Lord Craven Palatine John Lord Carteret Maurice Ashly Esqr. John Colleton Barrt. & the rest of the true & absolute Lords & Proprietors of Carolina, By their Commission & under their hands & seals bearing date this eighth day of March Anno Domini 170- [1704] Have empowered us the Right Honble Sr. William Johnson Knt. Governor: of South & North Carolina The Honble Nicholas Trott Thos. Broughton Robt. Gibbs Henry Noble & John Ashby Esqrs or any of them to give and grant land whose names are hereunder written Do for an.d in consideration of the Sum of seventy pounds current money to our Receiver Genl in hand paid Give and Grant unto Benjamin Simmons a Plantaton containing One Thousand acres of Land English Measure now in the possession of the said Benjamin Simmons situate & lying in Berkley County and butting & bounding as appears by a plot thereof hereunto annexed To Have and Hold the said plantation to The said Benjamin Simmons his heirs and assigns for Ever in Free and Common Soccage with the privilege of hawking hunting fishing & fowling within bounds of the same with all woods and trees & waters thereon standing & Growing or therein being or thereunto by any manner of ways or means belonging or in any wise appertaining wtsoever Except all Royal Mines & Quarrys of Gemms & precious stones & one sixth part of all base mines after these same be Digged & washed & one Tenth part of the Same when & after Refined he or they Yielding& Paying therefor yearly to the Lords Proprietors their heirs or assigns or to their Receivers by them or the Maj or part of them authorized on every first of Xber after Xber 1709 after ye rate of Ten Shillings and or the value thereof in such Commodities & at such prices as are ascertained by Directions of an Act Entitled an Act to ascertain ye prices of Lands & the forms of Conveyance & the manner for Recovery of Rents for Lands & the prices of the Several Commodities the sums may be paid in Lieu of & for all Manner of Service due to the Lords proprietor and Lords of the Fee Given under the Great Seal appointed for that purpose at Charles Town the seventh Day of May Anno Domini 1709 [endorsed]
The Lords Proprietors
to
Benjamin Simons } Granted for 1000 acres of Land in Berkley County
Date 7 May 1709
[A memorial of Five Hundred acres of Land bequeathed to Samuel Simons son of Benjamin Simons was entered in the auditor's office the 18th day of April 1733]
http://members.tripod.com/~The_Huguenot/fam.htm
Benjamin Simons I ( 1672-1717 ) was born in 1672 in the region of LaRochelle and the Ile de Re on the Bay of Biscay. Orphaned early, he was adopted by his aunt Martha DuPre, the wife of Josias DuPre, a Huguenot minister. When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, the DuPre family was among the Huguenots who fled from France. Benjamin went with his foster parents to the Netherlands - to Middleburg -, the capital of the Province of Zeeland, Walcheron Island, at the mouth of the River Schelde. From here the family proceeded to England and soon crossed the Atlantic to Carolina; and, although there is no evidence that they came in the Royal Navy Frigate, Richmond, which made several trips, it is known that by 1686 they were in Carolina, living in the Orange Quarter on the south bank of the East Branch of the Cooper River.
When he was twenty years old, he married his first cousin Mary Esther DuPre, the daughter of his foster parents. ( Josias DuPre, Jr., the brother of Mary Esther, married Sarah Garnier in 1701 and had five children. However, "the two sons of M. DuPre, unaccustomed to the privations and labors incident to emigrant life soon became tired of it and returned to La Belle France.") Their first three children were baptized "in the house of Maptica." As there is no record of a house or plantation of that name, it is believed that this may have been an Indian name applied to the place afterwards called "Middleburg,"
or possibly to the house of the Rev. Josias DuPre nearby. Their fourth child was baptized in the house near Pompion Hill which Benjamin Simons built and called "Middleburg" in remembrance of his first place of refuge.
The Early Families of Berkeley County, John J. Simons III, Home Page: Berkeley County Historical Society
The oral history handed down of this worthy man is that the family of Josias DuPre who were respectable people in France had to fly from thence to England at the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and while in England they found Benjamin Simons, a French child, whom they took into their family and brought him to settle in the wilderness of South Carolina, and that he afterwards married one of the daughters of Mr. DuPre by the name of Mary Esther, but there is no record to be found of the time of their marriage. Benjamin Simons died the 18th of August, 1717 and was buried at Pumpkin Hill and the little children were taken out of the garden and buried close by their father. He was the father of fourteen children.
Grant of Land From The Lords Proprietors to
Benjamin Simons, 7 May 1709
WHEREAS His Excellency William Lord Craven Palatine John Lord Carteret Maurice Ashly Esqr John Colleton Barrt. & the rest of the true & absolute Lords & Proprietors of Carolina, By their Commission & under their hands & seals bearing date this eighth day of March Anno Domini 170- [1704] Have empowered us the Right Honble Sr. William Johnson Knt. Governor: of South & North Carolina The Honble Nicholas Trott Thos. Broughton Robt. Gibbs Henry Noble & John Ashby Esqrs or any of them to give and grant land whose names are hereunder written Do for an.d in consideration of the Sum of seventy pounds current money to our Receiver Genl in hand paid Give and Grant unto Benjamin Simmons a Plantaton containing One Thousand acres of Land English Measure now in the possession of the said Benjamin Simmons situate & lying in Berkley County and butting & bounding as appears by a plot thereof hereunto annexed To Have and Hold the said plantation to The said Benjamin Simmons his heirs and assigns for Ever in Free and Common Soccage with the privilege of hawking hunting fishing & fowling within bounds of the same with all woods and trees & waters thereon standing & Growing or therein being or thereunto by any manner of ways or means belonging or in any wise appertaining wtsoever Except all Royal Mines & Quarrys of Gemms & precious stones & one sixth part of all base mines after these same be Digged & washed & one Tenth part of the Same when & after Refined he or they Yielding& Paying therefor yearly to the Lords Proprietors their heirs or assigns or to their Receivers by them or the Maj or part of them authorized on every first of Xber after Xber 1709 after ye rate of Ten Shillings and or the value thereof in such Commodities & at such prices as are ascertained by Directions of an Act Entitled an Act to ascertain ye prices of Lands & the forms of Conveyance & the manner for Recovery of Rents for Lands & the prices of the Several Commodities the sums may be paid in Lieu of & for all Manner of Service due to the Lords proprietor and Lords of the Fee Given under the Great Seal appointed for that purpose at Charles Town the seventh Day of May Anno Domini 1709 [endorsed]
The Lords Proprietors
to } Granted for 1000 acres
Benjamin Simons of Land in Berkley County
Date 7 May 1709
[A memorial of Five Hundred acres of Land bequeathed to Samuel Simons son of Benjamin Simons was entered in the auditor's office the 18th day of April 1733]
The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina, Chapter II, The Huguenot Settlements. Page 22.
{46} S. C. Gaz., July 27, 1734; Sept. 14, 1734; Dec. 21, 1738; Jan. 4, 1739; Feb. 26, 1741; March 5, 1741; June 8, 1747; Sept. 14, 1747; May 21, 1753. Daniel Jaudon, James Bilbeau, the Trezvants, Varambants, Henry Videau, Anthony Bonneau, Henry Mouzon, John Dutarque, and Benjamin Simons.
Ile de Ré has the following Communes:
Portes-en-Ré (Les) -This is where several SIMON families lived.
Ars-en-Ré
Bois-Plage-en-Ré (Le)
Brée-les-Bains (La)
Château-d'Oléron (Le)
Couarde-sur-Mer (La)
Dolus-d'Oléron
Flotte (La)
Grand-Village-Plage (Le)
Loix
Rivedoux-Plage
Saint-Clément-des-Baleines
Saint-Denis-d'Oléron
Sainte-Marie-de-Ré
Saint-Georges-d'Oléron
Saint-Martin-de-Ré (Huguenot Church here)
Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron
Saint-Trojan-les-Bains
Nearby island Ile-d'Aix
Page 10 of folder 2 of the Andrea SIMON file says -
"The Simons family is said, and believed to be, descended from
the distinguished family of St. Simon in France; and this
was confirmed by a gentleman in England, among the best informed
in the study of heraldry, to Dr. Benjamon B. Simons."
Saint-Simon is a commune in the Charente region of France. However, Saint Simon of Trent
was a 2 1/2 year old boy that disappeared, so we could not be descended from him. Saint
Simon Stock, lived in England, but died on a trip to France.
From SC Historical Society, Simons folder, Mrs. Logerris (Spelling?) C.D.Q. papers -
Benj. Simons (1st) - Member Commons House 1718, 1714 and Justice of the Peace.
Source of parents, Joe Lee.
Middleburg, Zeeland, Netherlands, is just North of Belguim.
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