In a message dated 8/15/2007 10:40:41 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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Next question for all: how about written records of the Huguenot diaspora
and experience? Diaries? Wills, estate, or probate documents? Shipping records
or manifests? Biographies or (even better) autobiographies? Town planning
(someone earlier mentioned that, I think)? Observations by neighbors?
Mil gracias,
Jeff
Jeff -
the South Carolina Historical Society has many, many such documents. Their
index is online. Arthur Hirsch's (1927) The Huguenots of Colonial SC has
recently been reprinted by the USC Press. It's a great introduction for SC at
least. Huguenots were a sizable proportion of the early population here, and
had a great influence on the development of the colony.
Carl
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