1768 SHIP ARRIVALS, CHARLESTON, SC

Passengers who sailed from G Britain to Charleston, SC in 1768 and 

who were granted land in Hillsborough Township.

(Charleston was not the original destination, Nova Scotia was)
The following passengers arrived in Charleston, South Carolina in 1768 aboard a ship 
piloted by a Frenchman named Jean Louis du Mesnil de St. Pierre of Normandy. The 
record of St. Pierre's passengers petition for land under the Bounty Act of 1761 is found 
in Council Journal 34, page 101-103. Meeting of 9th March 1768. "His Excellency the 
Governor informed the Board that Monsieur Dumese De St. Pierre a french Gentleman 
having presented to him a Memorial to him setting forth that he sailed from Great Britain 
with an intention of going to Halifax with a number of Protestant Colonists but they have 
been drove into this port by distress of Weather he had determined to remain here and 
settle in this province which Memorial His Excellency has referred to the Commons 
House of Assembly who had thereupon resolved to allow them the Bounty given persons 
attending and having taken the oaths of allegiance His Excellency was pleased to direct 
that Public Treasurer should out of any money in his Hands belonging to the public pay to 
the said Dumese De. St. Pierre the sum of One Thousand One Hundred and Ninety Seven 
Pounds Currency the sum resolved by the Assembly to be granted to them by the said 
Resolution. The following petitions for Warrants of Survey on the Bounty were then 
presented and read VIZ	Acres

Adam De MARTILE				 			100
Laurens REVERE 				[Laurens RIVIERRE]	100
Abraham PAW					[Abram PAUX]	        150
Jacob Dilli CHAUX				[Jacob DELACHEAU] 	250
John James STEIFEL				[John Jacob STIFFELL]	100
Johannes Gerlough FLICK				[John George FLICK] 	250
Henrick DRYER 					[Henry DRAYER]       	200
Ann Dorothea Elizabeth YEASON						100
Robert CASTLE								150
John DUVALL					[John DUVAL]         	100
Elizabeth FORRESTER	  						100
Archibald HEYNARD							100
Peter Michl, KING				[Peter Mich'l LeROY] 	200
John Due DEPRE				[John LEDUE DESPREZ]	100
Ann HUGHES								
Henrick GASPER				[Henry GASPERD]         100
Robert ROGERS								100
Thomas GOGUETT							100
Francis La. LANDE				[Francis DELALANDE] 	100
James Sezor BOULONGE				[Cezar BOULONGE] 	100
Francis KELLET					[??Francis HELLER??] 	100
Magdeline LeQUE							150
Jean Louis DEMESNE De ST. PIERRE					150

In Hillsborough Township or on Savannah River ORDERED that the Secretary do 
prepare Warrants of Survey as prayed for by the petitioners." *Note - the names in 
brackets are taken from the Council Journal 34, 175-176, Meeting 8th July 1768. Petition 
for Town and Vineyard Lotts in Hillsborough Township.

This data was submitted by Nicole Kilgore Pinson