| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1705/01/15 | Bartholomew Gaillard | Owner | Henry Bruneau, Bartholomew Gaillard and Rene Ravenel are granted 360 acres of land on Santee River from the plantation of Philip Gendron "for a town by the name of James Town on Santee." The site was on the south bank, E of US 17A and Lenud's Ferry site. | |||
| 1706/01/29 | Bartholomew Gaillard | Work | A resolution is adopted to establish a town on 140 acres of land on the bank of the James river. The remaining acres are to be disposed to the best advantage. Bartholomew Gaillard is appointed surveyor, and Thomas Gaillard assistant surveyor. | |||
| 1706/04/00 | A wooden Huguenot church (lost) is built on a brick foundation at James Town, probably between April 1706 and December 1706, where it will serve as the parish church until 11 May 1754. The site is on the south bank of the Santee river, east of US 17A. | |||||
| 1706/11/30 | The Church Act establishes the Church of England as the official, tax-supported church of Carolina. The status will remain for seven decades. Dividing the province into 10 parishes, it sets aside land for churches, cemeteries, messuages and glebes. | |||||
| 1707/00/00 | Rev Pierre Robert serves as the first minister of the Hugunot church in James Town (lost). The first Calvinistic minister in South Carolina, he immigrated to Santee in 1686 from Bale, Switzlerland, and died in Santee in 1715. | |||||
| 1708/00/00 | By 1708, settlers begin leaving James Town for the parish of St Stephen and St John's Berkeley. Although 27 lots were sold, there is no evidence that houses were built on any of them. The town will be abandoned by 1760 and reclaimed by the wilderness. | |||||
| 1715/00/00 | Claude Phillippee de Richbourg succeeds Pierre Robert serves as pastor at the church in James Town (lost). A Huguenot, he came to Virginia in 1699 as minister of the French Colony at Manakin Town on the James River and died at Santee in 1719. | |||||
| 1830/00/00 | Theodore Gourdin II, executor for his father's estate, conveys Mount Moriah plantation to Samuel J Palmer. The 490-acre plantation includes the former Jamestown site. |
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| Locale Type | Village |
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