Carl,

Was Rev. Le Jau operating an SPG mission? If so, perhaps his abode was 
"beyond the settlements" and that's why he experienced so many atrocities 
"at his door?"

I think Thomas Jefferson aptly characterized the SPG missionaries as 
"Anglican Jesuits," and considered them the bulwark of support for the Crown 
diring the times leading-up to the Revolution (at least in New England).

But, here again, South Carolina was a distinctly different animal. Whereas 
the northern/Tory SPG continuously petitioned London for a bishop, one 
prominent South Carolina Anglican advised that it would not be safe for a 
bishop to set foot in Charleston:

http://books.google.com/books?id=-tsir90xfo4C&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=spg+anglican&source=web&ots=y9HCYdMRsn&sig=rvGcE4N-6HfG-tHExas0RFXXG5I

I, for one, will be most interested in what understandings come forth from 
your further readings of Le Jau.

Bob Skiles

Kind of hard to get a handle on what to believe
> or  dismiss. But he was also teaching black and indian slaves (and free
> indians) to  read and learn the catechism. He and the SPG were very 
> interested in
> Christianizing the Indians and he said that he had sent copies of the 
> Lords
> Prayer and other things in the most common languages back to England.
>
> I recorded the parsonage as a site back in the 1980s, if anyone wants a 
> cool
> dissertation topic.
>
> Anyway, if anyone is interested let me know and I'll keep you apprised of
> what I find out...
>
> Carl
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