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From: "Sharilyn" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] A Baptist Huguenot?
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:54:56 -0800
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Interesting. What time frame are we speaking of here. I mean for the
Charleston SC Baptist Church?

Sharilyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Timmons" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] A Baptist Huguenot?


> Hi Sharilyn,
>
> I wondered how my one of my Huguenot lines became Baptist and another
> Methodist. This was partially explained when I heard that the
> wife of the founder of the First Baptist Church of Charleston, SC was
> a Huguenot (this was the first Southern Baptist Church).
>
> Ray
>
> > Subject: [Huguenot] A Baptist Huguenot?
> > From: "Sharilyn" <>
> > Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:21:40 -0800
> > To:
> >
> > Georganna Klaas-Willits in her Beselie work, describes
> > Etienne Beselie, brother of Jan Beselie, as the husband of Sarah Morgan,
"aunt of Daniel Boone".
> >
> >>From Baird we have:
> >
> > BESLY family on pg. 307, Vol 1, of
> > Charles E. Baird's "Huguenot Emigration to America".
> > "Oliver Besly, famille protestante de la Rochelle et de L'Ile de
Re'.--(La
> > France Protestant.) Jean and Etienne Besly, fugitifs de I'isle de
> > Re'.---(Arch. Nat.) Oliver Besly was one of the leading inhabitants of
New
> > Rochelle, NY in 1694."
> >
> >
> > Etienne obviously is the French form of Stephen.
> >
> > However, from the Morgan genealogy we learn that Sarah Morgan was from a
titled family in England, and that she married
> > Stephen Beasley there and converted to HIS Baptist faith, and they then
emigrated with her brother Edward Morgan to Pennsylvania.
> > Stephen Beasley and Sarah Morgan are said to be buried "in one grave" in
the Baptist burying ground in La Grange Place, Philadelphia.
> >
> > I got to thinking about this, and realized I had never before heard of a
Baptist Huguenot.
> >
> > I find Huguenot's described as Protestant followers of John Calvin and
his reformation, and that most were comfortable worshipping with the
Episcopals, and so on.
> >
> > But a Huguenot Baptist just seems very strange.
> >
> > Does "Huguenot refugee from the L'lle de Re", and "Baptist" seem
compatible or incompatible to you experienced Huguenot listers?
> >
> > Sharilyn
> >
>
>
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