General Notes

Custom Field:<_FA#> One spelling has his last name spelt: JEANERETTE@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
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The name Jeanerette is spelled several different ways and has changed in
its spelling, depending on how a particular genearation or official
decided to spell it. The following are some of the spellings seen so far
as of 10 Jun 2001: Jeannret, Jenerette, Jenerett, Jenrette, Jenrett, and
Jinright. Ron Bridges
He enlisted in the Fourth Regiment on 20 September 1776 and was gunner on
20 October 1777.  He re-enlisted on 1 January 1780.
ELIAS JEANERETTE came to America with his father around 1765. He
served in the American Revolutionary War as a Sergeant - 4th South
Carolina Regiment of Artillery, commanded by Col. Beekman, in the Company
of Capt. James Mitchell. He fought in many engagements, was wounded in
the battle of Stono and is listed on the roster of American troops who
served during the war at Fort Sullivan, later named Fort Moultrie, in
Charleston Harbor.
After the war he settled in what is now Columbus County, North
Carolina and fathered - according to family legend - 26 children. His
last wife was Margaret Poitevint, the daughter of Lieutenant Peter
Poitevint and his wife Amelia. The Poitevint lineage was French Huguenot
and Peter's grandmother was Margaret Conde, the niece of the Bourbon
Protestant leader, Louis de Conde, who lead Huguenot forces in the French
Wars of Religion during the sixteenth century.
Samuel Thomas Jenerette, Elias and Margaret's youngest son, served in
the Confederate Army during the War of Southern Independence in Company
"B" Manigault's Battalion of South Carolina Artillery and Samuel's oldest
son, Wilson, who served with the 14th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry
was captured by the Federals in battle and died in a prisoner of war camp
in Frederick, Maryland on September 8, 1862.
One of Samuel Thomas' great-grandsons carried Wilson's name to the US
Congress - John Wilson Jenrette,  Jr. The name carries on - In 1993,
Christian David Paul Jenerette was born in Charleston South Carolina;
James Ian Jenrette was born in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Lieutenant
Vandon Jenerette IV graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in
Colorado Springs ... in November 1997 Drake Katherine Marie Jenerette was
born in Myrtle Beach South Carolina and as the year closed on December
29, 1997 - Haley Madison Jenerette was born in Denver, Colorado...
The first Jeanerette's had arrived in the new world over two
centuries earlier. They were Protestant's, also known as Huguenots, who
left Europe to begin a new life in America. There is a growing body of
information that indicates the early Jeanerette's may have come to
America from or via the French area of Switzerland. It appears that most
of the Jenerette families that are living in the United States today may
have origins from the Neuchatel area of Switzerland from either of two
villages, Le Locle or Travers. There are many families named Jeanneret
still living in those regions - but more research of this connection is
needed.
The migrations of Huguenots to the American colonies began in the
late 17th-century and continued up unto just before the American
revolution.There were three great migrations of Huguenot refugees to
South Carolina; the first in 1687 numbering six hundred; the next in
1732, the Purrisburg settlers; and a final migration landed in 1764, when
371 French Protestants arrived. On the 22nd and 23rd of December, 1732,
among a group to arrive was listed, "...Anne Vallo, veuvre de Pierre
Jeannerrett, 49; Henry, son fils, 19; Jacques Abram, son fils, 17; Jean
Pierre, son fils, 14; Marie, sa fille, age de 21; Rose Marie, sa fille,
9...." She joined the growing list of Jeanerette colonists in South
Carolina. In short time, the name began to show up in greater frequency
in historical documents; militia listings; land bounties