PASSENGERS ON THE MARGARET,1685
by Cheves Leland, a sketch published as a supplemental to her talk presented at the 2025 annual Anniversary Meeting of the Society.
On 15 July 1685 a list of 115 passengers “To embark on the Margaret pink of London, Ralph Crow commander,” was entered in the Calendar of State Papers in London. The list of names includes both English and French surnames, family groups, single people, servants, men, women and children. The first entries list two men “to go to Dublin” and a family group of six and a single man “to go to Holland.” The next 106 entries were all “bound for Carolina.” The passenger list of the Margaret is the second known list of French Protestant refugees (Huguenots) who left England for Carolina. A rough estimate of 43 family groups, some with only one person in them, show 12 were English and 30 were French. Whether or not the Margaret sailed first to Holland, then to Ireland and then across the Atlantic is not known, nor is it known whether this list was the final, official passenger list or not. Based upon the arrival date given in a warrant for one of the English passengers, it appears that the Margaret sailed into Charles Towne harbor in Carolina on 5 September 1685, a relatively short passage of less than two months.
Five years earlier, at the end of April 1680, the Richmond had brought the first known group of Huguenots to the province. During the ensuing years, other Huguenots undoubtedly arrived, but almost nothing is known about how they arrived. Those who came on the Richmond were organized by Jacob Guérard and René Petit who had arranged for their passage to be subsidized by the King and the Lords Proprietors of Carolina. Nothing is known of how the passengers on the Margaret were organized and brought together. As happened with the passengers listed on the Richmond, some of those listed as passengers on the Margaret may not have boarded the ship, some may have died en voyage or soon after disembarking, some are known to have left Carolina for other colonies and some returned England. One outcome of the voyage of the Margaret is the number of shipboard romances which seem to have occurred as connections were made between passengers from different parts of France either prior to embarkation, during the voyage or after arrival in Carolina. At least two of the Margaret passengers had family connections to passengers on the Richmond and there may have been other as yet undiscovered connections.
An alphabetical list of the passengers and their servants follows with a brief outline of what was found out about each of them. The names all in English on the original list and the French names of French passengers have been added. More information about some of the passenger may be found in the record of other colonies or in records in England. The Huguenot Society of South Carolina would appreciate being notified of any future documented sources.
PASSENGERS ON THE MARGARET LIST OF 15 JULY 1685
[NOTE: The sketches which follow are by no means complete. They include enough information to identify the passengers when possible, but do not include comprehensive studies of each person. Passengers with a connection to French Santee may have a fuller sketch in Bates and Leland, French Santee A Huguenot Settlement in Colonial South Carolina and there may be more information in the member and vertical files of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.]
KATHERINE/CATHERINE BAUDRY. The surname is in the Quarto, but no entries for Catherine were found in it or in the records of Carolina.
JAMES/JACQUES BENEST/BENOIT and his son JOHN/JEAN were both identified as servants of Pierre Moynee/Mounier. Jacques Benoit was from Sussay in Poitou, the son of Jacques Benoit and Gabrielle Mercier. In 1694 Jacques Benoit’s arrival rights were claimed by Isaac Cailleboeuf who claimed arrival rights for himself and five of the passengers on the Margaret. At some point after his arrival, Jacques Benoit married Sarah Mounier, daughter of Pierre Mounier and his wife Louise Robinet. Possibly a shipboard romance? By 1697 Jacques and Sarah Mounier Benoit were identified as living in French Santee with their sons Jacques and Pierre born in Carolina and Jacques’ son Jean born in France. No other records for Jacques Benoit were found, but he had died by 1703 when his widow Sarah and her children Francis and Jane were named in the will of Francis Blanchard, who had arrived in Carolina in 1692. Jean Benoit may have been a storekeeper and planter in the Parish of St. Thomas and St. Denis, with a wife named Madeleine.
BOLTON, ANNE and SARAH, mother and daughter, English. This group proved interesting and underlined the need to look at all of the passengers and not only the French ones. There was no Thomas Bolton listed among the passengers on the Margaret, but there is a warrant, dated 4 Mar 1685/6 for 500 acres due to Thomas Bolton for arrival of himself, Anne his wife, Thomas Bolton Junr and for Martin, Maria & Tom, Negroes who arrived the 5th of September 1685, and for the arrival of St. Mayo, Michaell & Antonio Negroes who arrived the 16th July1681. The date of the arrival of the Margaret has not been known and it is believed that the date of 5 Sep 1685 mentioned in Bolton’s warrant is the date the ship arrived in Charles Towne. A second warrant dated 4 Mar 1685/6 was made out to Bolton for 490 acres for Francisco, Osepha, Hannah, Savidore, Chandler, Emanuell & Jacke “who arrived the 16 July 1681 and are assigned over to him.” It is unclear whether Bolton and his son were passengers on the Margaret or if they had arrived in 1681. Sarah Bolton was not named and could have been underaged or deceased. On 24 July 1694 Bolton received warrants for two town lots in Charles Towne. Not quite two years later, he made his mark on his will dated 10 Jan 1695/6. He left his entire estate to his two daughters, Rebecca and Ann, both under 21 years of age and unmarried and mentioned his brother Randolph Bolton of London and Phoebe Codner and the congregation of Friends in Carolina, leaving £10 to repair the fence of the burying ground and to build a house to shelter people from bad weather, indicating that no building had yet been erected. Bolton was a Quaker and a merchant and owned several lots in Charles Towne, as well as tracts of land outside the town. No further records were found for his wife Ann or their children, Thomas and Sarah.
BONNEAU, ANTOINE, his wife CATHERINE DE BLOYS and their children ANTOINE, JEAN and MARIE BONNEAU. Antoine Bonneau was born 27 Jan 1647 in La Rochelle, France, the son of Jean Bonneau and Catherine Roy. He was a cooper and probably married Catherine de Bloys about 1676. Their daughter Marie was born 8 Aug 1778 and sons Antoine on 31 Jan 1680 and Jean-Henri on 11 May 1682, respectively. By 1685 Antoine Bonneau was identified as a “cooper of the RPR” and then as “fugitive” with his wife and three children. They escaped to England and then boarded the Margaret “bound for Carolina.” Barely two moths after their arrival, Bonneau was given a warrant for 3000 acres, rent free (except for an ear of Indian corn if demanded) which indicates that he probably had something to do with the arrival of a large group of settlers, although there is no record of his having done so. Was he one of the organizers of the passengers on the Margaret? He also owned two town lots, #41 on the southwest corner and #39 on the northwest corner of Tradd and Church Streets. Interestingly, Lot #39 was formerly owned by Thomas Bolton who may have been on the Margaret with the Bonneau family. Bonneau gave the middle third of Lot 39 to it to his daughter Marie on 19 Jun 1697. She married Nicolas de Longuemare who had crossed the Atlantic on the Margaret with his father and brother – a possible shipboard romance between two young people from different parts of France – Marie from La Rochelle and Nicolas from Dieppe. Antoine Bonneau died about 1699 and Catherine de Bloys had probably died before 24 Sep 1702 when the betrothal agreement between their eldest son Antoine Bonneau and Jeanne Elisabet Videau was signed by members of both families. Antoine was a cooper and the young couple lived in Charles Towne. His brother Jean Henri Bonneau was a joiner and he and his wife Anne lived on John’s Island and in St. Andrew’s Parish. The youngest sibling Jacob, born in Carolina, married Jeanne Videau, Jeanne Elisabeth’s sister. Jacob and Jeanne Videau Bonneau lived in Orange Quarter.
BONO/BONNEAU, LEWIS/LOUIS with Pierre Fonilleau do not appear in the records of Carolina. It is likely that they either did not board the ship or that they left Charles Towne soon after disembarking and sailed to New York, where records for Louis Bonneau can be found. He was the son of Nicolas Bonneau and Jeanne Torterue and was born in La Rochelle about 1646, possibly a cousin of Antoine Bonneau. On 9 Jan 1675 in France, when he was 29 years of age, Louis married Marie Mesnard. She was eight years younger, the daughter of Nicolas Mesnard and Anne Collin. They had four children: Louis born 19 Sep 1675, Marianne born 7 Oct 1676, Jacques born 13 Oct 1680 and Nicolas born 28 Aug 1683. According to Forlacroix, Louis Bonneau may have been a Nouveau Catholique who received the goods of fugitives. He was associated with Alexander Allaire in New York and New Rochelle and may have come through Carolina first. No trace of Pierre Fonilleau was found.
BON DE CON/BONTECOU, MARGARET/MARGUERITE (née Collinot) and her children RACHEL, MARGERET/MARGUERITE, SARAH, PETER/PIERRE and DANIEL BONTECOU were all listed as passengers on the Margaret with “Mary Lisambert (sic) her servant.” PIERRE BONTECOU, husband and father of the children, was not, but according to Baird a record in the French National Archives states, “Pierre Bontecou, his wife, five children, fugitives from Ile de Ré, had gone, it was supposed, to ‘la Caroline’ in 1684.” Did Pierre Bontecou accompany the family on the Margaret and, if so, why was his name not on the passenger list? Did he come to Carolina before his family, leaving them in England to join him later or did he join them after their arrival in Charles Towne? From records, we know he was in Carolina by 1686 and in New York by 1688.
BRANDFORD, WILLIAM, JOHN his brother and MARY his mother were listed as passengers, but no further records were found for them in Carolina. There was a William Branford who purchased land in Carolina in early 1685 and who appears in the records several times after that.
CAILLEBOEUF, ISAAC from St. Soline, was the son of Louis Cailleboeuf and Marie Charuyer. He escaped from France to England where he received help from the relief Fund of the French Church of London, Threadneedle Street on 7 Oct 1783 and received denization on 24 Mar 1784/5. Cailleboeuf was listed alone on the 1685 passenger list for the Margaret and it was not until 2 Feb 1693/4, almost nine years after his arrival in Carolina that he received warrants for three town lots in Charles Towne. He had married fellow Margaret passenger Rachel Fanton by 19 Mar 1693/4 when he received warrants for the arrival rights of himself and Rachel Cailleboeuf and those for fellow Margaret passengers Peter and Magdalene Gaellaert, Mary Isembert and James Benoit. Rachel Fanton had travelled to Carolina on the Margaret with her married sister Elisabeth Fanton Garnier’s family, so her marriage to Cailleboeuf could have been the result of a shipboard romance. No explanation for why Cailleboeuf waited nine years to claim land or how he obtained the arrival rights of Isambert and Benoit who were servants of Bontecou and Mounier, respectively, is not known. The Cailleboeuf family lived on lot #12 in Charles Towne and what is now known as Bedon’s Alley was known as Cailleboeuf Lane for several years. By 1697 when the Liste was made, Isaac and Rachel Fanton Cailleboeuf had three children, Isaac, Etienne and Anne. Anne was not named in her father’s will, written 11 Sep 1699, but a sister Mary was. His widow’s petition to sell some of the real estate was approved 3 Mar 1701 and she sold “one tenement where [Cailleboeuf] lived known as town lot #12” to John Thomas, chirugien, a fellow passenger on the Margaret. No record of the death of Rachel Fanton Cailleboeuf was found; her children Stephen and Mary both died intestate and her son Isaac had moved to French Santee by 1707. He probably died there, leaving two daughters and a son. The Cailleboeuf surname has daughtered out, but there may be descendants in the Layson and Farrow families.
COCK, MARGARET and her children HANNAH, MARTHA, CATHERINE and JOHN COCK. A reference was found for John Cock, but not for any of his siblings or his mother. Between 1691 and 1700 a John Cock, Sr. and Jr. in one instance, witnessed a number of documents in Carolina. His identity is not certain.
COLEMAN, ANNE, servant of Daniel Garnier – nothing was found and it is not known if she was French or English.
CONSTANTINE, DANIEL, servant of Daniel Garnier – nothing was found and his background is not known.
CROW, RALPH, COMMANDER OF THE MARGARET was not found again in the records of Carolina.
DUCKINS, ANTHONY – nothing was found, but he was probably English.
FELLON, NICOLAS AND PIERRE – nothing was found, but they were probably French.
FONILLEAU, PIERRE, with Louis Bono/Bonneau, was on the passenger list, but no records were found for him.
FORMÉ, ISAAC, servant of Jacques Le Sade, was born in London 14 Jun 1674, son of Paul Formé and Catherine Crompton. Jacques Le Sade was a witness to the baptism of Isaac’s brother Adam 15 Apr 1677 in London. Isaac Formé had just turned nine when he left England with the Le Sade family and sailed to Carolina on the Margaret. No further information about him was found, but there are more records for his family in the Quarto.
FRANCE, ARNOLD/ARNAUD, his wife ANNE MAZYCK and their sons ARNOLD/ARNAUD and PAUL were on the Margaret. They left Ile de Ré, just off the coast of La Rochelle, France in 1685, escaping to England and then sailing to Carolina. Arnaud France and Anne Mazyck were married in St. Martin on Ile de Ré during the morning service on 15 Jun 1681. The marriage document was signed by the bride and groom and witnessed and signed by their brothers, Sieurs Servas and Jacob Arnaud and Sieurs Paul and Etienne Mazyck. Arnaud’s father Gaspard recovered his son’s estate in France in 1687, but Arnaud France died in Carolina circa 1688. In an undated and incomplete copy of his will, he left 50 shillings to the poor of the French Church or “if there is no church to be used for the construction of a temple or repairs of the one which was built.” Since his wife and sons were not mentioned in his will, they had evidently died before he wrote it. In 1695 a tract of 500 acres, “formerly possessed by one Mr. France who deserted it several years since,” was sold to Mr. John Stroud of Barbados. No further information on the family was found.
GAELLAERT/GAILLARD, PIERRE AND MAGDALENE were on the Margaret passenger list, but not much is known about them. The name Pierre Gaillard does appear in the records of Carolina a few times. Pierre Gaillard may have been a stonecutter from Cherneux in Poitou, France, the son of Pierre Gaillard and Jacquette Jolain. If so, his wife Magdalene had died by 1697 when the Liste was made, because at that time his wife was identified as Elisabeth Le Clair, widow of Jean Melet. Also listed were her two daughters by Melet, Elizabet and Martine Melet, both born in New York, and Cleremonde Gaillard, born in Carolina. He was probably the same man who, with some thirty French immigrants in Carolina describing themselves as “Inhabitants thereof many years” petitioned the Governor for naturalization by an Act of Assembly on 30 Mar 1696/7. It was probably this Pierre Gaillard, a joyner of Charles Towne, who sold James Risbee part of a town lot which he had bought in 1693. No dower was mentioned in the deed, so his wife was presumably dead, possibly indicating that Magdalene had died and that he had not yet married Elisabeth Le Clair, widow Melet. Pierre Gaillard was dead by 1710 when an entry was made for his will which is not extant. No other references were found for either Magdalene or Cleremonde Gaillard.
GALLOPINE, JACQUES was identified as the servant of Le Sade on the passenger list of the Margaret. No warrants were found in his name or for his arrival rights. His name appears twice on the Liste, both times he was listed as a single man, born in Laigle in Normandy the son of Simeon Gallopin and of Louise Malherbe. No other references for him were found.
GARNIER, DANIEL, his wife ELIZABETH FANTON, their children ETIENNE, RACHEL, SARAH, MARGUERITE, ANNE and his sister-in-law RACHEL FANTON and three servants, Anne Coleman, Daniel Constantine and Matthew Spadfoe. Daniel Garnier was from Ile de Ré, the son of Daniel Garnier and Marie Chevallier. He was a merchant. The French records say he left the island for Carolina with six children. The name of his daughter Elizabeth was not on the passenger list, but she was probably also on the Margaret. She married Daniel Horry on 23 Aug 1692. Isaac Mazyck, Pierre La Salle and Daniel Horry stood bond. Horry had arrived barely four months earlier on the Loyal Jamaica, said to have been either a pirate ship or privateer. How and when they met is not known. Five years later when the Liste was made, Elizabeth Garnier Horry was listed as Horry’s widow with three daughters, Elizabeth Marie, Lidie and Marie, all born in Carolina. Her parents Daniel and Elizabeth were listed with four children, Etienne, Rachel, Marguerite and Anne. Later that year, in Nov 1697 Daniel Garnier bought 75 acres on the Charles Towne peninsula from Isaac Mazÿck. When Daniel Garnier wrote his will 4 Oct 1708, he gave the name of his wife as Magdalen. The date of death for his wife Elizabeth Fanton is not known and Daniel Garnier had died by 20 Jan 1709 when Magdalen Garnier sold their plantation. No records for the other Garnier children, Etienne, Rachel, Marguerite and Anne, were found in the Carolina records.
GILBERT, RENÉ and his sons JACQUES AND RENÉ were on the Margaret passenger list, but no mention was found for them in the Carolina records. The death of René Gilbert, native of Niort, Poitou Province, France, was recorded 23 December 1689 in the register of Saint Esprit, the French Church of New York. Peiret, Minister, and Gabriel Le Boyteulx, Elder, were present at his burial the next day in the public cemetery.
GODDARD, JEAN boarded the Margaret alone. A year after his arrival, he entered a caveat against the estate of fellow passenger Abraham Richardson as principal creditor on 14 Apr 1686. No more references to him were found, but in 1715 Francis Goddard de la Plaine witnessed a deed for Thomas Fitch. His daughters Mary and Jane married Timothy and Philip Britton in 1729 and 1735, respectively.
GOLLEAU, DANIEL was on the passenger list of the Margaret, but no references in the Carolina records were found for him.
GUILLART, ANNE was entered as a servant of Peter Moynee/Mounier. No other references to her in the Carolina records were found.
HILL, THOMAS AND SUSAN were on the Margaret and in Carolina, although there seems to have been more than one Thomas Hill in Carolina. A year after his arrival, he entered a caveat against the estate of Abraham Richardson, fellow passenger on the Margaret, as creditor on 14 Apr 1686. On 13 Jan 1692 /3 Mr. Nicolos Townsend and Stephen Williamson requested Letters of Administration as next of “Kindre” for Susannah Hill, orphan of Thomas Hill. On 9 Mar 1692/3 Sarah Hill, widow and administrix of the estate of Thomas Hill, deceased was instructed to have an inventory of his estate made within 90 days, with authorization given to the appointed appraisers “to go that part of province from Cape Fear, S and W, as directed by Sarah Hill.”
HUGER, DANIEL was listed by himself on the passenger list of the Margaret 15 July 1685. Six months earlier, on 15 February 1685 an entry in the register of the French Church of London indicates that four men were going to find out “what was being offered [to settlers] for Carolina and Pennsylvania.” A note states, “Daniel Huger and other Poor French Protestants going to Pennsylvania att or about the month of June 1685.” Did Huger’s plans change later that year or was the entry incorrect? At the time, Daniel Huger a merchant from Loudon had been married to Marguerite Perdriau since 1677 and had two children. They had all escaped from Ile de Ré to London by October 1681. Huger may have left his wife and children in London and sailed for Carolina alone to check it out, either returning to England for them or sending for them later. Since his warrant states they arrived in 1686, it seems more likely that he and his wife and daughter came later. By 16 March 1688, the Huger family was probably settled on Wambaw Creek in French Santee when he wrote, “at 5 o’clock in the morning my wife was brought to bed of her 12th child, a son…and was baptized …and was named Daniel.” Marguerite Perdriau Huger, married in La Rochelle in May 1677, was evidently a strong and very capable woman. She had her first child, Marguerite, in France on 21 February 1678 and ten years later, after crossing the English Channel to London and then the Atlantic Ocean to Charles Towne, she gave birth to her 12th child, Daniel, in the wilds of French Santee, founded only one year previously. Her daughter Magdalen was born in Carolina in either 1686 or 1687. Of her 12 children only these three survived and Magdalen died when she was 18 and “lies buried in the French Church in Charleston,” according to her father. Her older sister Marguerite married Elie Horry and their younger brother Daniel married Elisabeth Gendron. Daniel Huger the elder was 61 years of age when he died on Christmas Eve of 1711. His wife Marguerite Perdriau died in 1717. They were buried on their land in French Santee. An obelisk marked the gravesites until it was moved to the graveyard of Wambaw (Brick) Church where it still stands.
HUSEMAIN, ISAIAH de was listed as a passenger. No records were found for him in Carolina.
ISAMBERT, MARIE was listed as the servant of Marguerite Bontecou who had left the province by 1688. By 1697 Marie Isambert was the wife of Daniel Bonnel and had one child, a daughter named Susanne born in Carolina. Marie had died by 14 October 1699 when letters of administration for her estate were granted to Elisha Prioleau, Peter Chevalier and Daniel DuRouresreau (sic). By 5 February 1699/1700 Daniel Bonnell had also died when letters of administration for the estate of Mary Bauval were granted to Elisha Prioleau “for benefit of John and Susanna Bonnell, son and dau. of David Bonnell and Mary his wife, dec, exors of said Mary Bauval.”
JENKINS, ELIZABETH was listed as a servant of William Newman. No other reference to her was found in the records of Carolina.
JONES, HENRY was listed as a servant to Thomas Hill on the Margaret passenger list. No other references to him were found in Carolina. There are earlier references to Henry Jones who was one of the original settlers of Carolina in 1670.
[LE] SADE, JACQUES and ELISABETH d’AMBERBAUT with his mother-in-law Marguerite Poitevin and his servants James Gallopine, John Lenecall, James Letellier and Isaac Formé. Jacques Le Sade was from Eurville in Caux, Normandy, the son of Adam Le Sade and Anne Gerard. His mother is said to have been a relative of Jacob Guérard, one of the undertakers of the 1680 Richmond voyage to Carolina. The Le Sade and d’Amberbaut families had been in London since the early 1670s. Elisabeth d’Amberbaud was born in Amsterdam about 1656 to Etienne d’Amberbaut and Marguerite Le Motteux. Her family moved to London where several more children were born and baptized and where her mother married second Jacques Poitevin in the mid-1660s after the death of her first husband. In 1674, Elisabeth d’Amberbaud was godmother to Isaac Varin, son of Jacques Varin and Susanne Horry, who had arrived in Carolina in 1680 on the Richmond.
On 28 May 1676 Jacques Le Sade made his temoinage at the French Church of London, Threadneedle Street. Six months later, on 25 Oct 1676, he and Elisabeth d’Amberbaut were married in “the English Church,” having received permission from the French Church of London’s Consistory, to do so earlier that month. During the ensuing nine years, they were godparents to numerous children of both friends and relatives in London, beginning in 1677 with the baptism of Adam Formé, whose older brother Isaac came to Carolina with the Le Sades when he was nine years of age. No further references to him have been found, but Jacques and Elisabeth Le Sade settled in Carolina, acquiring several large tracts of land. They made their home at “Old Town Plantation” on Old Town Creek, the site of the 1670 settlement of Charles Towne. When he wrote his will on 3 November 1703 (proved 26 November 1703), Jacques Le Sade left his estate to his brother Peter Le Sade, giving life interest in the real estate to his wife Elisabeth d’Amberbaut. She was probably the Mrs. Le Sade who was buried in St. Andrew’s Parish 25 May 1722. According to Van Ruymbeke her mother Marguerite Le Motteux returned to England where members of the Le Motteux family lived.
LENECALL, JOHN was listed as a servant of Jacques Le Sade. No further references to him were found in the Carolina records.
LETELLIER, JAMES was listed as a servant of Jacques Le Sade. No further references to him were found in the records of Carolina. The surname Le Tellier /Lesltelier is in the Registers of the French Church of New York after 1700.
LONGUEMARE, NICOLAS de and his sons NICOLAS AND JACOB de LONGUEMARE were passengers on the Margaret. Nicolas, the elder, was born in Lyons-la-Forêt a few miles east of Rouen, the son of Jacque de Longuemare and Adrienne Aracheguene. He married Anne LeRoy and they moved to Dieppe where he was a watchmaker. Their eldest son Nicolas was born in Dieppe c. 1672. By 1685 Anne LeRoy had died and Nicolas the elder was in London with two sons, Nicolas and Jacob. On 23 June of that year he bought 100 acres of land in Carolina from the Lords Proprietors. He paid £5 for the land and then had his name and his sons names added to the passenger list for the Margaret, pinque of London, bound for Carolina. On 5 January 1686, Longuemare had his land surveyed and, not unusual for the time, received his grant three years later in March 1689. His was the first recorded French holding in what was known as Orange Quarter on the east branch of the Cooper River. Two years earlier he had witnessed the wedding of René Ravenel and Charlotte de St. Julien at her father’s plantation near Pompion Hill on 24 October. Longuemare bought another 100 acres from the Lords Proprietors in 1692. That tract was part of Middleburg Plantation by 1717 and is now part of Halidon Hill where an old rice reserve is called Logmore, probably a local rendition of the original French. In 1693 and 1694 Longuemare received grants for Lots 191 and 192, both on the west side of present-day Church Street between Queen and Cumberland Streets. In September 1695 his eldest son Nicolas married Marie Bonneau, daughter of Antoine Bonneau and Catherine de Blois, all fellow passengers on the Margaret. A year later Nicolas de Longuemare, the younger, entered his cattle mark, stating he was “of pumkin hill.” In 1697 his father-in-law deeded part of Lot 39 on the west side of Church Street below Tradd to his daughter Mary for “love and affection.” Their three children Alexandre, Marie and Floride were probably born there. That same year, both men named Nicolas de Longuemare were on the general Liste (#110, #111 and #153) of those wishing to be naturalized. Two years later, both Nicolas de Longuemare, the elder, and his daughter-in-law Marie Bonneau died, presumably of smallpox. Before his death, the elder Nicolas wrote a letter of condolence to his eldest son. The name of his younger son, Jacob de Longemare, was not found in the records of Carolina, so he had probably died either en voyage or after their arrival.
A few last notes about Nicolas de Longuemare, the younger. His account book was begun in 1703 and continued until December 1711. His right to vote was questioned in 1702, despite his naturalization in 1697, but by 1707 he was making paper money and seals for South Carolina. It was probably in early 1708 that he married Marie Soyer, widow of his Orange Quarter neighbor Jean Aunant. Longuemare was a gold and silversmith and a silk merchant and his account book, written in English for English clients and in French for French clients, gives in-depth insights into the lives of his fellow Carolinians and the colony. Nicolas de Longuemare (II) was buried 15 Jan 1712. His widow, Marie Soyer, wrote her will eight months later on 12 October. In her will, she left specific belongings of her second husband to his children. She and her first husband also left money to Françoise Nederton who later married Isaac Lesesne and whose mother, more importantly, they identified in their wills. She also freed her Indian slave Marie and left her 10 acres of land, a feather bed and freed Marie’s two children, Charles and Elizabeth, and left money for their education.
LORIVAL, PETER was on the passenger list of the Margaret, but no references were found for him in the Carolina records.
MAZYCK, ANNE/ALMAZETT, wife of Arnaud France. See also France, Arnaud. Anne Mazick was the daughter of Paul Mazyck and Helesabeth VanEwick and the sister of fellow Carolinian refugee Isaac Mazyck. She was born on Ile de Ré where she married Arnaud France in St. Martin during the morning service on 15 Jun 1681. The marriage document was signed by the bride and groom and witnessed and signed by their brothers, Sieurs Servas and Jacob Arnaud and Sieurs Paul and Etienne Mazyck. They escaped to England with their sons Arnaud and Paul and sailed to Carolina on the Margaret in 1685. Anne Mazyck and her sons had died before her husband wrote his will and died in Carolina c. 1688.
MERRITT, RICHARD, son-in-law of William and Susannah Newman, was not found in the records of Carolina except for a reference in a document dated 8 July 1685 from Sir Nathaniel Johnson appointing John Beresford, Jr. of Charles Towne, his attorney. Johnson states that he is sending William Newman and his wife Susanna and Richard Merritt to his plantation in Carolina. See Newman for more information.
MOYNEE/MOUNIER, Peter/PIERRE, his wife LEWIS/LOUISE ROBINET, their daughter SARAH MOUNIER and three servants, Jacques and Jean Benoit and Anne Guillard sailed to Carolina on the Margaret. Pierre Mounier was the son of Louis Mounier and Elizabeth Martineau and was born on Ile de Ré. Louise Robinet, probably also from Ile de Ré was the daughter of Louis Robinet. By 1697 when the Liste was made in Carolina, their daughter Sarah had married Jacques Benoit and had two children born in Carolina. The surname Mounier changed to Monier and was then anglicized to Miller by about 1720 in Carolina.
NEWMAN, WILLIAM, SUSANAH NEWMAN his wife, Richard Merritt his son-in-law, Elizabeth Jenkins and John Strawne his servants. The only reference to Newman and his wife found in the Carolina records was in a document dated 8 July 1685 from Sir Nathaniel Johnson appointing John Beresford, Jr. of Charles Towne, his attorney. In the document Johnson stated that he was sending William Newman and his wife Susanna and Richard Merritt to his plantation in Carolina; “sd Newman to have ye sole order & command of other servants and to manage all other my affaires and accounts jointly with sd [William] Wells [already in Carolina]; now Beresford to from time to time demand from Wells and Newman such accounts, papers and other concerns relating to the plantation.” The document was proved 3 June 1686 in Carolina and recorded the next day.
POINSETT, PETER/PIERRE and his son PETER/PIERRE POINSETT were both on the Margaret passenger list. Pierre Poinset, the elder, was born at Soubise, the son of Pierre Poinset and his wife Marie. Pierre Poinset married Sara Faucheraud, sister of Charles Faucheraud, also born in Soubise. The dates of their births and their marriage are not known and her name does not appear on the Margaret passenger list, but there are references to her in Carolina, so she may have followed her husband and son at a later date. In 1696 they were both in Carolina and she was named as the mother of their son Pierre who had married Anne Gobard by then. Later that year their daughter Catherine Poinset married Jean Chevalier of St. George de Didonne in Saintonge at the French Church of London, Threadneedle Street on 22 June 1697. A later deed stated that Joel Poinset was also a son of Pierre and Sara. Both Pierre Poinset and his son Pierre were listed as [black]smiths on the Naturalization List passed 10 March 1696/7. They both probably died before 1700: The bundle index entry for the will of Peter Poinsett Sr. was dated 1698-1699 and that for his son 1699-1700. His son’s will was dated 22 September 1699, but is not extant.
POITEVIN, MARGARET le MOTTEUX, mother of Elisabeth d’Amberbaut and mother-in-law of James Le Sade. See also Le Sade, James. After her husband died in the mid-1660s, Marguerite Le Motteux married Jacques Poitevin. Their son Jean Poitevin was born in 1668. By mid-1675, Jacques Poitevin had died. On 25 Jul 1675, Marguerite Le Motteux d’Amberbaud Poitevin, widow, was godmother to Susanne Varin, daughter of Jacques Varin and his wife Susanne Horry who had arrived in Carolina on the Richmond in 1680. Whether the families had met in England or known each other prior to their arrival is not known.
POWIS, JOHN was listed alone on the Margaret passenger list. John Powys, Gentleman of Berkeley County, wrote his will 24 July 1686 leaving his whole estate to his wife Sarah. His will was not proved until 16 July 1693 after several caveats against the estate had been settled. Since he witnessed two wills in 1688, he probably died closer to the date the will was proved, but his date of death is not known. When he married Sarah and what her maiden name was is not known, but she bought and sold land and town lots during the 1690s. The last record found for her was 13 Dec 1695 when she witnessed the will of Paul Grimball of Edisto Island, although she was named in the butts and bounds of several later deeds.
RIBOULLEAU, GABRIEL was listed as the servant of Philip Trouillart, who was a French Protestant minister. Ribouleau’s sister Anne was also in Carolina but she arrived in 1686 according to a warrant issued to Daniel Huger claiming her arrival rights. Gabriel Riboulleau appeared in several deeds as a witness. He was named in the will of Pierre Berterand of Ile de Ré as one of the trustees for Berterand’s children. Anne Ribouleau, Berterand’s widow, was left one third of his estate and was named executrix. The will was written 11 October 1692 at 8 o’clock in the morning and proved on 11 October. Nothing was found to indicate what happened to the children, but by 1697 Anne Riboulleau was the wife of Moïse Carion of Faugère in Languedoc with a son named Moise Carion and they were listed as living in French Santee. Her brother Gabriel Riboulleau (Ribouteau) was listed on the general list, identified as born in Lachame in Poitou, the son of Estienne Riboutau and Catherine Girardot. He was not married and had no children. His estate was probated on 12 July 1706, but no will or other papers have survived.
RICHARDSON, ABRAHAM was listed by himself on the Margaret passenger list. Only two records were found for him, both regarding his estate. One was the appointment of Henry Russell and fellow passengers William Rousham and Thomas Hill on 5 Feb 1685/6 to make an inventory of his estate. The other was a caveat against the estate dated 4 Apr 1686 and made by fellow passenger Thomas Hill.
ROUSHAM, WILLIAM, his wife SUSAN and their children WILLIAM, SARAH, SUSAN and MARY ROUSHAM were on the Margaret passenger list. On 5 Feb 1685/6, less than a year after their arrival, William Rousham was appointed to make an inventory of the estate of fellow passenger Abraham Richardson. Ten years later in May and June 1695 three lots in Charles Towne were laid out for William Rousham. Two (#135, #136) were on the west side of present-day King Street near Beaufain Street and the third (#137) was on the east side of present-day Archdale Street near Beaufain Street. Rousham received other warrants for land, 300 acres in 1697, 400 acres 1701 and 500 acres on Combe Island in 1707. William Rousham Sr. and Jr. had bundle index entries in 1716.
RUELL, JOHN and his wife ANNE were both listed as passengers on the Margaret, but no records were found for them in Carolina.
SMITH, SAMUEL and his wife ELISABETH were on the Margaret passenger list but no further references were found for them in the Carolina records.
SPADFOE, MATTHEW was listed as a servant of Daniel Garnier on the Margaret passenger list. No other reference was found for him in the records of Carolina.
SPEED, ELIZABETH was listed as a servant of William Newman. No other reference to her was found in the records of Carolina.
STRAWNE, JOHN was listed as a servant of William Newman. The only other reference to him was found in a 1702 list of those not qualified to vote because they were aliens or not freemen.
TANNE, JAMES/JACQUES was listed as a servant of Stephen Valleau. No further references to him were found in the records of Carolina.
THOMAS, JOHN/JEAN was listed by himself on the Margaret passenger list. In April of 1692 he stood bond in Carolina for François Blanchard who had arrived in Charles Towne on the Loyal Jamaica, reported to have been either a smuggling ship or a privateer. That year and the following several years, Thomas witnessed the wills of a number of French Protestants. In 1697 he was identified as a chirugion, or surgeon and “was the only person that deserves the name of a Physician in this Place” according to Gideon Johnston, Anglican commissary in Charles Towne.. On the Liste #37 from that same year his birthplace was given as St. Jean d’Angely and his parents as Jean Thomas and Anne Dupon. He was still unmarried. In 1701 he entered his cattle mark with John DuBusk (DuBose) and he owned a lot in Charles Towne by 1714 and also owned land on Charles Towne Neck.
TROUILLARD/T, PHILIP was on the passenger list with his servant Gabriel Riboulleau. Laurant or Florent Philippe Trouillart was born in 1646 in Ferté-Vidame near Paris, France, a son of the well-known Protestant minister Pierre Trouillart and Marie Fillette. He studied theology in Geneva, graduating in 1668 and serving as minister at Aÿ for nine years. His father died in 1680 and in 1684 Philippe Trouillart received a warrant signed by King Louis XIV of France giving him permission to sell his estate. His brother Pierre and their sister Marie ended up in Canterbury, England by 1687. Once in Carolina, Trouillart was the second minister of the French Protestant Church of Charles Towne, following the departure of Laurentius van den Bosch who had left for Boston in 1685, leaving the church with no minister. Trouillart officiated at the marriage of Charlotte de St. Julien and René Ravenel on 24 October 1687 at Pomkinhill on the East Branch of the Cooper River and signed the marriage certificate which was written in Latin. He also served the French churches in Goose Creek and Orange Quarter. By 1697 he had married Madeleine Maslet and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Madeleine. He also owned land near Goose Creek. In 1700 he left Charles Towne for Orange Quarter and was listed as a boundary neighbor for land in St John’s Berkeley. By 1707 he had moved to St. John’s Berkeley. Florent Philippe Trouillard’s will was dated 3 March 1712 and he had died by 29 November of that year when his plantation at Pooshee Swamp was sold. After his death his widow (possibly a second wife since she was identified as Ann) and daughter returned to England where his widow, aged 66 years, received an allowance from the Royal Bounty.
VALLEAU, ETIENNE, his wife MARIE, their children ETIENNE, SARAH, MARIE, MARIANNE, ANNE and servant James Tanne were on the Margaret passenger list. Their names were not found in the records of Carolina. According to one source, Etienne Valleau was a merchant on Ile de Ré. He escaped to England with his family in 1682 and arrived in New York in November 1686 from the West Indies and was naturalized in New York 27 September 1697 and settled in Kingston, Ulster Co, NY. There are references for the Valleau family in the Registers of the French Church of New York beginning in 1692.
YOUNG, JAMES, listed on the Margaret passenger list, was one of at least two men of the same name in Carolina before 1700. More research is needed.