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Record of Peter Gitton the sum of seventy five pounds being in full for my passage to Carolina of him the paid Peter Gitton tours Gitton Magdalene Colton Judith Gitton and Francis Bonnd written my hand this 27th M day of Elle 1685

An excerpt from the escape account of Judith Gitton (Baird): “ For eight months we had suffered from the contributions and the quartering of the soldiers, on accounts of religion, enduring many inconveniences. We therefore resolved on quitting France at night, leaving the soldiers in their beds, and abandoning the house with its furniture. We […]

To: Mr. Manigault In South Carolina Hon’d Sir Bristol 5th June 1750 We arrived here last Sunday after a pleasant though dangerous Passage, for off of the Banks of Newfoundland we met with several monstrous Islands of Ice, which with the Help of a Gale of Wind, had like to have shortened our Passage some […]

To: Mrs. Gabriel Manigault In South Carolina Jan. 28th, 1751 Hon’d Madam, London, February 20th, 1750 Without any apology, I sit down to trouble you with a long letter. I received about two months ago a letter from you dated the 30th of Sep, wherin you very kindly inform me, you had not then heard […]

The following documents are records and accounts of the process that was involved in Huguenot efforts to seek freedom from persecution and opportunity for the accumulation of wealth. Conditions for Huguenots remaining in France were perilous – “the South Carolina refugee Judith Giton, who then lived in the town of La Voulte, Vivarais, had her […]

Peter Manigault’s letters to his parents during some of his travels are important pieces of history for several reasons. For one, they display the financial differences of the time – the rich in England were far more extravagant than those in America, even after colonization had begun. Second, we are offered a look into cultural […]