THE ISAAC DUBOSC FAMILY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
The family of Isaac DuBosc is found among the earliest families in the Province of Carolina. Isaac DuBosc came to Charles Towne ca. 1685/87 and settled along the Santee River. The "List of French and Swiss Refugees in the Province of Carolina who wished to be Naturalized English" was prepared 1695/96 and included Isaac DuBosc, son of Louis DuBosc, and Anne DuBosc, of Dieppe in Normandy, France; Suzanne DuBosc, his wife, daughter of Pierre and Susane Couillandeau, native of "La Tramblade" in Xaintonge. The mother of Suzanne DuBosc was Marie (not Susane) Fougeraut Coullandeau, who married 2nd Moise Brigaud and who sold Lot #90 in Charles Towne that she had purchased in 1688 from Henry Hughes. This was in the Plat and Draught of the said Charles Towne. Henry Hughes was granted the lot in 1680. This would have been the original Draught of Charles Towne. In the deed she refers to her daughter Suzanne Dubose and her son-in-law Isaac Dubose. On this document, Isaac Dubose signed his name as "--Dubos". "The Royal Land Grants" books in the Dept. of Archives, Columbia, S.C., show Grants of land for Isaac DuBosek, Dubose etc. and also for Isaac (2nd), Andrew, Daniel, John, Peter, Stephen, Joseph, Samuel, Benjamin, William, and many others. The name is spelled different ways and the Dubose family had many grants and plats. Isaac Dubose, the emigrant, made a Will dated 6-19-1714 which cannot now be located but is referred to in a Document of his widow in 1733 in Memorial Vol. 8, p. 245, Archives, Columbia, S.C
THE HUGUENOTS
The mass exodus of Huguenot immigrants from France to Geneva, Amsterdam, London, and other places started in 1572 after the "St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre" on 24 August.
The Huguenots began arriving in South Carolina in 1669.
The revocation of the "Edict of Nantes" was in 1685.
In 1699/1700 there were five embarkations from England to Virginia and Carolina. The names of 3 of the 5 ships which trasported Huguenots were 'Peter and Anthony,' 'Nassau' and 'Mary Ann.' The 'Mary Ann' was the first ship to arrive in Virginia (at the mouth of the James River.
About five hundred Huguenots settled in Carolina by 1700. Many of these were artisans, following trades in the New World that they had learned in the Old: blacksmiths, coopers, gunsmiths, and clockmakers. And many were young and newly married, a younger population being more willing to undertake the long and dangerous ocean voyage. These French-speaking settlers quickly moved into the political life of the young colony, also quickly organized their own church in Charlestown. Source "A Religious History of America", Gaustad, Edwin Scott. p. 100. HarperSanFrancisco, 1990.
In 1700-1701 over three hundred French Huguenot refugees were settled by the colonial authorities on the south bank of the James River in King William Parish (ten thousand acres donated by King William III), Manakin, Goochland County, Virginia. Manakin is about 15 miles west of Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia on Rt 6 (Patterson Ave.) & River Road. A bridge across the James River on River Road in the West-End of Richmond is called the Huguenot Bridge.
Some Huguenots later moved to Colonial Williamsburg, James City County, Virginia; Essex County, Virginia; and Hanover County, Virginia.
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