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The first civil war between the Catholics and Huguenots took place in 1562, in the reign of Charles IX. After a sanguinary conflict at Dreux, peace was concluded on terms favorable to the latter. From this time until the issuing of the Edict of Nantz (or Nantes), only thirty-six years, France experienced no less than six civil wars, founded on differences in religious faith.
The Edict which was to guarantee Protestants the full enjoyment of their faith and worship was revoked about eighty-seven years later. It became necessary for over half a million Protestants to leave the dominions of Louis XIV and seek liberty in other countries. South Carolina participated in the benefits which these people of great industry and fine moral habits afforded the countries in which they settled.
A large portion of the refugees settled on the south side of the Santee River where a town, called Jamestown, was laid out. This area was called French Santee. Many settled in Charleston and its vicinity. There was also a settlement in the part of Berkeley County called Orange Quarter. This later became the parish of St. Dennis. About ten families settled in St. John’s, Berkeley.
In the list of refugees "en Caroline qui souhaittent d’etre naturalizes Anglois," prepared before 1696, we find "de Santee," Isaac DuBosc, "fils de Louis Dubosc et d’Anne Dubosc, de Dieppe en Normandie, Suzanne Dubosc, sa femme, fille de Pierre Couillandeau, et de Susane Couillandeau, native de la Tramblade en Zaintonge."
Isaac DuBose was born in Dieppe, France c. 1665. He died in SC c 1718. He settled in Jamestown on the Santee River c 1686. Around 1688 he married Suzanne Couillandeau who died in 1740 in SC. Isaac and his father-in-law were among the founders of the now extinct town of Jamestown, SC which was laid out in 1705-06. The railway station near the historic spot was, in 1917, renamed Jamestown in honor of these Huguenot pioneer settlers. Isaac purchased Lot #12, in 1705, and his father-in-law purchased Lots # 28 and 33. His children are well documented: Elizabeth, b. 1691, Isaac, b. 1693, Daniel, b. 1695, John, b. 1706, Andrew, b. 1699, Stephen, b. 1701, Peter, b. 1703. We believe we are descended through the Stephen line. Aunt Irma Gray worked on this for many years and there was much debate about whether our family came from Stephen or Peter. Very little was known about the family. William James DuBose, Ollie Bradley Anderson and Irma Gray’s grandfather had written a letter that somehow never got mailed and Aunt Irma found it. It was written to a cousin in DuBose, GA. and in it he states that his father was Joel, his grandfather, Jeptha, and his father was John. John’s father was Stephen DuBose, but there was not sufficient of proof to decide which brother was Jeptha’s father.
Jeptha DuBose was born in 1775. We do not know the name of his first wife, but he married Sarah Salter in 1802 in Georgia. He was in Georgia for a while and then went back to SC and finally settled in Pike County, AL. Later, he was in Barbour County, AL. His oldest son, Joel Peter was born in 1798 and died in Choctaw Co., AL He married Annie Lee, b. 1802 in SC. Eleven children were born to this union: Hezekiah, Ellison, Middleton, William James, b. Nov.11, 1828 Sumter county, SC. d. Aug. 15, 1907 Ellisville, MS., Elizabeth, Saphronia, Nancy, Jeptha, Susan, Timothy, and Luela Louisa.
William James DuBose m Lucinda Ann Bell, b.1828 They married March 28, 1832 Barbour County, AL. Their children were as follows:
- LOUISIANA b. 1850
- THEODORE b. 1853
- DELLAWARE b. 1857
- BEAUREGARD b. 1860
- MAGNOLIA b. 1862 (died of measles on her honeymoon. Ollie was named for her)
- ADA b. 1866 married John Oliver Bradley on Nov. 11, 1883 and had Ollie Bradley Anderson, and then she married John Quitman Gray on Dec. 18, 1895 and had Irma, Sept 24, 1896, Alvah Leston, May 7, 1899, Roderick, Nov. 5, 1903. Ada died Oct. 6, 1944 and is buried in the Bynum Cemetery
More information about the numerous DuBose cousins can be found in DUBOSE GENEALOGY BY MACDOWELL although she doesn’t have our family where it should be!
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