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Pierre Bacot Jr. emigrated to the States from France by 1685. Land rec
or ds show that Pierre received grants of land in 1696 and 1700, lan
ds in pa rt upon which now are located the grounds of Middleton Place. T
he two so ns of their marriage had by 1709 removed into the Goose Creek ar
ea some ni neteen miles from Charleston, about where the present town of L
adson, Sou th Carolina, stands. Huguenots had been settled at Goose Cre
ek as ear ly as 1680, and are thought to have had their own place of worsh
ip in th is vicinity, a small church which had disappeared or had been swa
llow ed up when the French lost their Huguenot ecclesiastical identi
ty in 17 06 to the Established Church. Probably Pierre and Jacquine we
re buri ed at the church site, as Peter Bacot, their son, is said to be bu
ried ne ar his father, either at Cherry Hill Plantation or at the Huguen
ot Chapel.
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Pierre Bacot Jr. emigrated to the States from France by 1685. Land rec
or ds show that Pierre received grants of land in 1696 and 1700, lan
ds in pa rt upon which now are located the grounds of Middleton Place. T
he two so ns of their marriage had by 1709 removed into the Goose Creek ar
ea some ni neteen miles from Charleston, about where the present town of L
adson, Sou th Carolina, stands. Huguenots had been settled at Goose Cre
ek as ear ly as 1680, and are thought to have had their own place of worsh
ip in th is vicinity, a small church which had disappeared or had been swa
llow ed up when the French lost their Huguenot ecclesiastical identi
ty in 17 06 to the Established Church. Probably Pierre and Jacquine we
re buri ed at the church site, as Peter Bacot, their son, is said to be bu
ried ne ar his father, either at Cherry Hill Plantation or at the Huguen
ot Chapel.
Refer to: Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina by Arthur Henry Hirsch