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The first Poitevent to come to the United States was Antoine Poitevent, Huguenot emigrant 1685, who came from Crleanais, France, to Orange Quarter, South Carolina, bringing a family group which numbered ten.
An account of these emigrants appears in Charles Washington Baird's Huguenot Emigration to America, Volume
II,	page 96. I quote direct from Baird:
1681-1686
"Few, comparatively, of the Huguenot exiles from the more central provinces of France reached America .... Several of the settlers of Orange Quarter, South Carolina, were natives of the Orlfanais. Antoine Poitevin, the elder, was born in Orsemont; Antoine, the younger, in Maintenon; Pierre Dutartre, his brother-in-law, was of Chateaudun; and Daniel Trezevant, another relative, of Authon en Perche, in the northern part of the neighboring province of Maine.
"These refugees were accompanied to South Carolina by an excellent Minister of the Gospel from the same region. Laurent Philippe Trouillard, the first pastor of the little colony of Orange Quarter, was born in La Ferte-au-Vidame, at the time when his father, Pierre Trouillard, was settled in that place."
There is a footnote in French giving information from "Liste des Francois et Suisses refugiez en Caroline" concern ing these people. Translated into English the footnote says
"Anthony Poitevent, native of Orsemont, province of Gaule in France, son of Jacques Poitevent and Jenne Modemen; and Gabrielle Berou, his wife, native of Ormey in Bause, daughter of Utrope Berou and of Andree Le Prou.
"Anthony Poitevent, his son, born at Maintenon, son of Anthony Poitevent and of Gabrielle Berou. Margueritte de Bourdeaux, his wife, native of Grenoble en Dof'ine, daughter of Jacque de Bourdeaux and of Madalenne Garilian.