Notes for Josias DUPRE
http://users.sitestar.net/~gcs/dupre.htm, scott@gabrielson.us
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=syf&id=I1528, John J. Simmons III.
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He and his wife were Huguenots, were from Normandy, France, and came to this country in 1686. In Charleston, South Carolina, he filed for a land claim in 1694.He was granted land in the Orange Quarter on 20 Jan 1702 - "Bounding North west on the eastern branch of the Cooper River". In 1703 he was granted an additional 730 a., and in 1711 he and his wife conveyed to Reverend Thomas Hassel 140 a. on the east bank of the river, and to Thomas Hartley 80 a., Isaac Varry, servant to Josias, was granted 50 a., 1694. 1. Transactions of the Huguenot Soceity, No. 55, pp. 30-34, 41. 2. Warrents for Lands in South Carolina, 1692 - 1711, ed. A. S. Salley, Junior., Columbia, South Carolina, 1915, pp. 24-25. 3. Ravenel Records, Henry E. Ravenel, Atlanta, Georgia, 1898, p. 19. 4. The Annals and Parrish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parrish, 1680 - 1884, Charleston, South Carolina, 1884, p. 12. 5. Ye 1st of July:1695. . .for the arraivell if him Selfe, his wife,Martha, & four negros." He had another warrent dated Aug 10, 1697. Salley, Warrents for Lands, 1692-1711, pp. 77,147.
TRANSACTIONS OF THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Vol. 54 (1949). Exports From Charles Town, 1690, by St. Julien Ravenel Childs.
Josias Du Pre came to South Carolina in 1686, bringing at least one manservant and probably a numerous family. That was the year following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Almost the only immigrants to the Province were Huguenots, but they arrived in large numbers. It seems beyond doubt that Du Pre' was of this group. In 1687, he was groomsman at a Huguenot wedding in the district later known as the French or Orange Quarter, and there he eventually took up the land to which his headrights entitled him. In 1697, "Josias Dupree sen, mercht, Josias Dupree jr. shipwright, Cornelius Dupre planter", were among the foreign Protestants naturalized by the South Carolina Assembly. However, as no Du Pre is on the St. Julien List of Huguenot congregations in South Carolina about 1696, it is probable that the family affiliated early with the: Anglican Church or one of the English dissenting sects.
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