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depart meat.The Casta Ings. or Chastains. descend from an ancient family of Manve*ln, which He* at the foot of*the Pyrenees In the extreme south of France and upon the northern frontier of Spatn. It la wlthho the little Protestant province of Bearn, which was one. of the strongholds of the Protestant religion during the reign of beat? XIII, and It was due to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. during the retgn of King Louis XIV. that several hun-dred Huguenot refugees, the Castatus amongthem, sought religious liberty and political safety In the Southern colonlea of America bordering upon the Atlantic Ocean.Mrs. St. Julies Ravejiel, In her delightful book : Charleston, the Place and the People.® devolt;tes the second chapter to the founding of the city of Charleston and the coming of the Huguenots, those religious refugees fleeing from France who entered South Carolina from 1680 to 1688, and who also settled In large numbers In Virginia. The refugees to Charleaton nnm-be'r**d shout 450 persons, who took up land either In the town Itself or upon the lower part of the Santee river lt;then called French Santee) or upon the Cooper In what was then known as Orange Quarter. now the parishes of St. Dents and St. John's,; Berkeley. The writer states that the greater number who *ettled In Carolina atthis time were Huguenots of humble station, vet there were among them some of superior rank: sleurs, marchands d*outre mer. clergymen and physlclana.0uiu, hi, iu(, jiuiiin V napimu, nit*oeuRhter of Jean iind Charlotte Chastain; baptised, May 18, by Rev. Zacharla Brooke, of Hanover county; godparents, David Chastain, Anne David and Mogdalalne Chastain. Born, August IS, 1727, Marie Magdelalne Chastain, daughter of Etienne and Martha Chastain. Born, February 24, -5728-2J), Pierre Chastain, won of Jean and Charlotte Chastain. Born, November 3, 1728* a son to Etienne Chastain. Born, March 1, 1729. Etienne Chastain, son of Etienne and Martha (Isastaln. Born. January 6, 1731, Migdelnlne Chastain, daughter of Jean and Charlotte Chastain; godmother, Elisabeth Chastain. Bom. March 15, 1733, Isaac Chastain, son of Bene and Judith Chastain; was presented for baptism by Jean Chastain. Born, 1734, Janne Chastain, daughter of Jenn and Judith Chastain. Born, 1736, Pierre Chastain, son of Rene and Judith Chaatain. Born, 1737, Etienne Chastain, son of Jean and Charlotte Chastain; had for godfathers Pierre David and Jean Chastain, his brother. Born. June 30, 1741. Rene Chastain, son of Rene and Judith Chastain; hsd for godfsther his father and for godmother Judith Chastain, wife of Jean Chsstain. Born, January 23. 1748, Magdelaine Chastain, daughter of Jean and Judith Chastain; godfather, Gulileaume Salle: for godmother, the wife of Gulileaume Salle and Marguerite Salle, her aunt.Jean Chastain was clerk of King William's Parish from 1726 to 1754, when the register of births ends. He was evidently
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