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There are numerous references to Anthony Poitevent in South Carolina in the early seventeen hundreds. My concern now is in tracing Pierre or Peter Poitevent, younger brother of Anthony, and the one from whom we are descended.
The Annals and Parish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis~~Parish In South Carolina from l68o to 1BH4,' collected and arranged by Robert F. Clute, rector, has the following information:
"The peninsula formed by the Cooper and Wando Rivers, was probably settled by a few families, before Old Charlestown was removed to Oyster Point. Gradually others found homes on the banks of both streams, until about 1680 they had extended to the limit of navigation. These were chiefly from England. During the next five years, thirty-two French families settled in the interior, mostly from French Quarter Creek to the Cooper. The greater number had been sent to the Province by King Charles II., at nis own expense, in two vessels, at the earlier date. They cultivated the vine, olive and mulberry, and engaged in the manufacture cf wine, oil and silk. A small church was erected, in which divine worship was occasionally celebrated by the Rev. Mr. Prioleau and the Rev. Dr. LeJeau. The services were well attended. The names of these Huguenot families, as the earliest on record in the Parish Register, are supposed to have been Bonneau, Bochett,
Beilin, Bremar, Bratant, Bossard, Carriere, DuPre, Dutarque, DeLonguemar, Durant, Duberdeaux, Dubois, Guerin, Joly, Jaudon, LeJeau, Leroux, Lesesne,
Mouzon, Marbeuf, Poitvine, Roulain, St. Martin,
Simons or Symonds, Syer, Sallens, Tresvin, Verine, Verone, Videau and Warbeuf."