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From: "Robert Ward DeLozier" <>
Subject: [Huguenot] Delozier, DeLozier, de Lozier, de Lazier, etc.
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:10:19 -0600


I have been monitoring this list for quite some time and learned much from List
Daddy and many others who are also knowledgeable researchers. I have not posted
before and would like to determine if there are others that have knowledge of
the Delozier line and particularly if there has been a documented verification
of the Delozier's as Huguenots. Family tradition through four generations
indicates a direct connection.

Earliest known Delozier was Leonard Delozier (also Dozier) circa 1685. There
was also Daniel, Thomas, Edward, Jesse, George and Asa all of which first
appeared in the early to mid-1700's. Migration was from entry points near
Baltimore and Frederick, MD thence to Altoona, PA. The southern branch removed
from there south to Martinsville, Va (Henry County), thence to Charleston and
Columbia SC and along the Santee Riv. for a generation before migrating to east
Tennessee. After another generation, Edward moved on to Henry Co., Missouri.
This was circa 1790 to 1810.

The earliest known Daniel was a surveyor. Daniel surveyed and laid out the city
of Baltimore and lived his entire life on his land holdings on the western
outskirts of that city.

For many years, DeLozier researchers have been puzzled as to why the several
families during the 1790's all migrated to the Charleston and Columbia, SC
areas. Having now seen all of the correspondence about the Huguenot movements
in that direction and the clustering of many other Huguenots in that vicinity,
it seems to lend credence to the possibility that the Delozier clans were indeed
connected by close family association to others they had known in the "mother"
country around Calvados, Fr., particularly the village of ATHIS, where this
researcher met many modern-day DeLozier's.

It would be very helpful if anyone can confirm that the De Loziers were actually
Huguenots, as we have always understood, and as handed down by our family
tradition. Can anyone help? We will be most appreciative of any shred of
information you can provide.

Robert W. DeLozier
Crossville, TN
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