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The Fripp family of South Carolina

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Elias Prioleau

Research by Bettye Darby found that the Prioleau family flourished in the Kingdom of Hungary prior to 1000. Some of them settled in Venice in 1097. Bettye's line of desent was traced, in 1932, in the Archives of Venice by the Comtesse Priuli-Bon by special permission of Benito Mussolini.

The following notes were based on research found here. Please see website for full details and ancestors.

Elias (Elizée) was the progenitor of the Prioleau family in South Carolina. He studied theology at Geneva and was Pastor at La Mothe - Saint Heraye after 1678. In 1683, he followed his father as minister at Pons, France. His sermons were distorted by a monk named La Roussie, who then reported them to the Deputy Commissary.

After the Edict of Nantes, on 22 Oct 1685, protestant churches were ordered destroyed, ministers were ordered to leave France within 15 days. After a few months of secret assemblies, his church was burned and destroyed by a mob on 15 April 1686.

He then fled to England where he stayed for over a year, before obtaining rights of denization to Carolina on 15 April 1687. He arrived in Charles Town with his wife and daughter, and a group of Huguenots in 1686 or 1687. It is thought that a few of this group may have been from Pons.

Elias is buried at a plantation in Charleston, called Medway, on the Back River.

Mary Magdelen Prioleau

14 (no month) 1744 Mary Magdalen Daughter of Samuel & Providence Prioleau was born