Jamestown, Purysburg and New Bordeaux settlements, South Carolina

http://shapiro.anthro.uga.edu/Lamar/images/PDFs/publication_79.pdf

When we are ready to work on Jamestown, founded 1705 and Purysburg, founded 1732, this document will come in handy. The New Bordeaux settlements are covered in the Abbeville project. Excerpts from the text follow:

Jamestown, the earliest of the three towns, was established in 1705/6 as the seat of power of the St. James Santee French settlement. This was the largest of the French Huguenot settlements in South Carolina (Hirsch 1928). Jamestown was located on a bluff on the Santee River in present day Berkeley County. Historians think that Jamestown was effectively abandoned as an urban center long
before 1760, but the area continued to be used during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth century as a plantation known as Mount Moriah.

Purysburg, established in 1732 under the guidance of Jean Pierre Pury, was the primary French settlement in southwestern South Carolina (Purry 1837; Migliazzo 1982). This town was located on a bluff on the Savannah River in present day Jasper County.
Purysburg was rectangular shaped and measured 6,996 feet by 3300-4488 feet. A detailed plat of the town made in 1735 shows 455 numbered house lots (Bull 1735; Bryan 1735; SCDAH 2006a). The town also contained 100 acres for glebe land and a 260
acre common. A church, built in 1744, was located at the corner of Church and Savannah Streets. The estimated population at its zenith was around 600 who lived in fewer than 100 houses. The town served as a the primary headquarters for the Southern forces under Benjamin Lincoln during the American Revolution. The Revolutionary War history of Purysburg is little known, although recent research has increased the recognition of its importance as a headquarters complex (c.f. Elliott 2001).