Posted on 09/28/2020 7:43:38 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1724, four members of a colonial religious cult were hanged together at the gallows of Charleston, South Carolina.
The Dutartre family, whose members comprise two of those executed four, numbered among many Huguenot refugees to settle around Charleston in the late 17th century fleeing religious persecution after France revoked the Edict of Nantes. They settled into the young town’s “Orange Quarter” where for many years French was heard in the streets and from the pulpits.*
The Dutartres would turn the orange quarter crimson in the early 1720s, when they fell under the spell of two newly-arrived Moravian prophets, Christian George and Peter Rombert, who pulled the family into a millenial free-love commune.**
These colonial Branch Davidians were also slated with civic transgressions such as refusal of taxes and militia duty.
At last, a constable named Peter Simmons was dispatched with a small posse to arrest the cult. The Dutartres fired back, killing Simmons — but the other seven members in the bunker were overwhelmed by the Charleston militia....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
I’m probably going to be up late tomorrow night watching the post debate analysis and will be dragging on Wednesday, so here is Wednesday’s post.
None of my family names but I did have distant cousins among the Charleston Huguenots...Jandron/Gendron etc
my direct ancestors settled in New Rochelle, NY area...some had siblings or cousins in Charleston...
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