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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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