INTRODUCTION. 



The accompanying historical sketches of the 

 Huguenot famiHes which settled in the rich alluvial 

 regions within fifty miles of Charleston will prove 

 of interest to but few. 



While the modern historian seeks with eagerness 

 all records which tell of the Knickerbocker and the 

 Puritan, who left their impress clear, distinct, and 

 strong upon the country of their adoption, little in- 

 terest attaches to the Huguenot, who played a less 

 important role in making history and in writing his 

 name upon its pages. 



To a certain number of the descendants of those 

 devoted men, however, who, in consequence of the 

 revocation of the Edict of Nantes by the harsh and 

 impolitic act of Louis XIV., settled in various parts 

 of this country, faithful sketches like these to which 

 this serves as preface, will be prized as contributions 

 towards that thus far unwritten '' History of the 

 Huguenot Emigrants to America," which I feel sure 

 must erelong appear. 



Actuated by these considerations, I have thought 

 that a reproduction of the simple, modest, and 

 faithful recitals of things which came under the 



