34 History of Methodism 



ganizatiou is attested by tlie fact that Caesar Moze be- 

 queathed, June 20, 1687, to this Church of Protestant 

 French refugees thirty-seven livres (trente sept lieures) 

 to assist in building a house of worship in the neigh- 

 borhood of his plantation on the eastern branch of 

 Cooper River. 



Prior to this date many Huguenots had entered the 

 colony. At the redistribution of lots in old Charles- 

 town, July 22, 1672, their names appear among the 

 freeholders ; from year to year grants continued to be 

 made to Huguenots, and in 1680, Charles II., in re- 

 sponse to a petition from Rene Petit for transporting 

 French Protestant families to Carolina, sent out forty- 

 five refugees at his own expense, in the frigate Rich- 

 mond, and a yet larger number in another vessel at 

 the expense of the government. These French refu- 

 gees planted on the east side of Cooper River a settle- 

 ment which was called Orange Quarter, from the 

 principality of that name in Avignon in France, and 

 afterward the Parish of St. Denis, from the battle- 

 field in the vicinity of Paris, where Admiral Coligny 

 and the Prince of Condi met the Catholic forces in 

 hostile array and slew their commander, Montmorency. 

 In the course of five years some thirty-two families 

 had gathered in this quarter, and in continuance of 

 their former occupation, and in compliance with the 

 wishes of the proprietaries, engaged in the culture of 

 the vine and the olive, and the manufacture of wine, 

 oil, and silk. They had the advantages of public 

 worship only as occasionally performed by the Rev. 

 Mr. Priolau, of Charleston, who owned a plantation in 

 the neighborhood, till they came under the pastoral 

 care of the Rev. Mr. Lapiere. The settlement at the 

 first division of the country into parishes was in St. 



