Rene de Saint Julien

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2. RENE² JULIEN (FATHER¹) was born 1660 in Paris, France, and died 1745 in Frederick County, Winchester, Virginia. He married MARY MARGARET BULLOCK 1700 in Isle of Bermuda, daughter of STEPHEN BULLOCK and MARY. She was born 1682 in Bermuda, and died 1750 in Frederick County, Winchester, Virginia.

  He was a Huguenot who fought at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690 and came to America about 1700. Family tradition has him stopping at the island of Bermuda where he married Mary Bullock. He became a soldier in his youth and was in the army of James II in the English Revolution of 1688. From reasons of preference, he is said to have deserted to the standard of King William along with many others. For his services to King William he was given a grant of land on the Mississippi River another source says it was the James River District in what is now Maryland. His grown children were not inclined to go to what was then a savage region and they persuaded him to buy land. He went first to the shores of the Carolinas, and loosing two sons there, he moved to the more healthy region on the Eastern shore of Chesapeak Bay. (There was a colony of French families on the Santee River in South Carolina who began to migrate about 1712, due to the unhealthy climate. This family may well have been among them.) Rene Julien and his family were living in Cecil County, Maryland in 1712. The earliest record of Rene in Bohemia Manor is in 1720 as shown by land leases. The rest of the period from 1712 until 1720 is blank so far as he is concerned except for the record of the birth of his son Isaac in 1716, which appears in the Register of St. Ann's Parish at Annapolis which is now in the Hall of Records there. Rene and Mary had seven sons and three daughters who grew up in Bohemia Manor. Whether or not they were born there is uncertain. It is known that the two daughters were married there, and it is probable that some of the other children were also. By 1737, when Rene assigned his lease in Bohemia Manor to Henry McCoy he was 68 years old. It is assumed that this was the date of his going to Winchester, Fredrick County, Virginia. Rene was still living in 1744, the last documentary date of him known to exist. It is thought that he and his wife are buried in old Opequon Cemetery near Winchester (land for this cemetery was given by William Hoge, into whose family son Isaac married). Shortly after Braddock's Defeat in 1755, during The French and Indian War, the five sons who went with Rene to Winchester from Bohemia Manor, fled with their families due to terror of the Indians to Orange County, North Carolina (which later became Randolph and Gulliford Counties), where they took land grants. Two sons did not accompany Rene to Winchester, remaining in Maryland, Stephen (who is named in the lease from Ephraim Augustus Herman to Rene in 1720) and Jacob. They moved to Prince County, Maryland, where the first record of them appears in 1743. Rene Julien in America became a slave holder and a Presbyterian, and hated the Quakers for their testimony against war and slavery. He was large and tall and said to have red hair and to have been a perverse man with fiery disposition. Among present generations of his descendants, many branches have red-haired members. Mary Bullock Julien was said to have been a great lady. She was of Spanish decent. Search of Bermuda records fails to reveal her marriage to Rene but evidence seems to point to her having been a daughter of Captain Stephen Bullock who came from a Quaker family. If this is correct, the attitude of Rene and Mary must have sometimes conflicted. Some of their descendants in North Carolina bacame Quakers. .................................................................................................................................................................... The Julien Family in Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, Maryland Little seems to be known in Bohemia Manor today about one of its early families, that of Rene Julien. The writer of these notes about him offers them for publication, not so much because the family deserves recognition, as in the sincere hope that someone who reads them may help to clarify the period of his residence there, which is definitely known to have been from 1720 to 1737, as shown by the following records of his land transactions, and the period preceding it. The following records of Rene Julien's land transactions are in the court house at Elkton. Volume 7, page 414, May 1, 1720 Deed of lease made by Ephraim Augustine Herman to Rene Julien, "his heirs for and during 3 natural lives of said Rene Julien and of Stephen Julien, son of Rene Julien, and Peter Julien", "the land being part of Bohemia Manor being a vacancy between Charles Mullins and land of Henry Dehoofs land, John Sidler's land and New Castle Road". Volume 5, page 408, March 15, 1737 Rene Julien transferred this lease to Henry McCoy for sum of 40 pounds current money of Province of Pennsylvania. Sealed and delivered in presence of Hugh Wallter and Thomas Yorkson. (Refers to S K 5 pages 138 to 139 of lease from Ephraim Augistine Herman May 1, 1720, but incorrectly copied as 1728. S K 5 is lost, but the original provided the information). Volume 6, page 22, April 17, 1740 Henry McCoy transferred this lease of land in "Noblestown" to Abraham Allman for 70 pounds current money of Maryland. Volume W K 2, page 337, May 9, 1752 (recorded) Joseph Allman (son of Abraham Allman), Teresa Allman, widow, and Doctor Hugh Matthews, Jr. (uncertain if last mentioned is grantor or grantee) transferred this lease to ? Doctor Hugh Matthews, Jr. and to Anthony Fartade (Fartado?) Witnessed by Richard Thompson and Adam Van Bibber. Volume 7, page 414, April 3, 1751 Cornelius Woolaston, Farmer (? grantor or grantee) and Anthony Fartade, wife Susan. Volume 9, page 300, date ? Anthony Fartade to Joseph Ensor. Volume 9, page 300, February 5, 1861 Joseph Ensor, gentleman, to Edward Mitchell, merchant, "for sum of one hundred and four pounds, sixteen shillings, and eight pence, plantation or tenements of land situate in Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, Maryland; originally on the 1st of May 1720 granted by lease to a certain Reese (Rene) Julian for 3 natural lives that is to say of him, said Reese Julien and sons Stephen and Peter Julien by Colonel Ephrain Augustine Herman, Lord of Bohemia Manor." ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Rene de Saint Julien, was a Huguenot who fought at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690 and came to America about 1700, having stopped at the Island of Bermuda en route by tradition, where he married Mary Bullock. He became a soldier as a youth and was in the army of James II in the English Revolution of 1688, during which time he was Roman Catholic. From reasons of preference, he is said to have deserted to the standard of King William along with many others. For his services to King William he was given a grant of land on the Mississippi River and he used to tell his family that they need never consider themselves settled until they were established there. But his children, when grown, were not inclined to go to what was then a savage region, and persuaded him to buy land. He went first to the shores of the Carolinas and, losing two sons there, he decided to remove to the healthy region on the Eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay. There was a colony of French families on the Santee River in South Carolina which began to migrate about 1712, due to the unhealthy climate. This family may well have been among them. An article published by the Chattanooga Times 1-14-1934 in its department of "Leaves from the Family Tree" on the Julian Family, page 4, states that Rene Julien and his wife were living in Cecil County, Maryland in 1712. Just where the author, the Reverend John Morgan Wooton, now deceased, got his information is not known. The earliest record of Rene Julien in Bohemia Manor is in 1720 as shown by the fore going land leases. The period from 1700 until 1720 is blank so far as he is concerned, excepting for the record of the birth of his son Isaac in 1716 which appears in the Register of Saint Ann's Parish at Annapolis which is now in the Hall of Records there. It is not known where he is living at the time of this son's birth. It is a coincidence that, on the same page with the record of Isaac Julien's birth (Rene's son) in the Saint Ann's Parish Register, there appears also the record of the birth of Sarah Thompson 9-14-1716 "daughter of Richard and Mary Thompson". This is probably Richard Thompson, Sr. born 1667 of the Saint Stephen Parish Records of Bohemia Manor in Cecil County, Maryland, who had a daughter Sarah Young. It suggests that the people of Bohemia Manor may have registered births of their children across the bay in Annapolis, perhaps by courier. A comperative study of the two registers of Saint Ann's and Saint Stephen's Parishes might reveal other coincidences which would be profitable to know genealogically. Rene' Saint Julien may have been a brother of Pierre de Saint Julien, whose daughter Charlotte married in 1687 Rene' Ravenel in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a Huguenot from Vitry, Brittany, who went to Dublin, Ireland, with his family, and thence to America. Shortly after his daughter's marriage he returned to Dublin, where he died in 1705, leaving at least a son Pierre (Peter) in South Carolina. The family of Doctor John Julian, son of Charles, who was a surgeon in the Revolution lived in Spottsylvania County, Virginia and is not of Rene' Julien's family, so far as is now known. Rene' and Mary Bullock Julien had seven sons and three daughters who grew up in Bohemia Manor. Whether or not they were born there is uncertain. It is known that two daughters were married there, and it is probable that some of the other children were also, records of which are missing at present and are desired. By 1737, when Rene' Julien assigned his lease in Bohemia Manor to Henry McCoy, he was a very old man. It is assumed that this was the date of his going to Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia with five of his sons, three of whom purchased land from Lord Fairfax, though not until 1750. The record of the afore mentioned son Isaac's marriage there in 1741 shows that of him known to exist. It is assumed that he and his wife lie buried in old Opueqon Cemetery near Winchester, Virginia, land for which was given by William Hoge into whose family the son Isaac married. Shortly after "Braddock's Defeat" in 1755, the five sons who went with him to Virginia from Bohemia Manor in Cecil County, Maryland fled through terror of the Indians with their families to Orange County, North Carolina which later became Randolph County and Guilford County, where they took land grants. They left behind them what could not be taken in covered wagons, two sons did not go from Bohemia Manor to Virginia with their father, the eldest, Stephen, who is named in the lease from Ephraim Augustine Herman to Rene' Julien in 1720, and Jacob. They removed to Prince George's County, Maryland (Frederick County 1748), where the first record of them appears in 1743. Rene' Julien, in America, became a slave holder and a Presbyterian, and hated the Quakers for their testimony against war and slavery. He was large and tall, and is said to have had red hair, and to have been a perverse man of fiery disposition. Among the present generations of his descendents, many branches have a red haired member in them. Mary Bullock Julien, wife of Rene' Saint Julien, is said to have been "a great lady". She was of Spanish descent. Search of Bermuda records fails to reveal her marriage to Rene' Saint Julien. But evidence seems to point to her having been a daughter of Captain Stephen Bullock who came from a Quaker family. If this is correct, the attitudes of Rene' and Mary Bullock Julien must sometimes have conflicted. Some of their descendants in North Carolina became Quakers. Descendants of Rene' and Mary Bullock Julien include many statesmen, teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors from the beginning, as well as some without benefit of education, but all have been people of character. .................................................................................................................................................................................................... Rene Saint Julian, The First Julien (Julian) in America The first of the Julian family in America was Rene Saint Julien of France, whose parents died in his infancy or childhood. "Rene Saint Julien, the founder of this branch of the family in the United States, was a native of Paris and a Huguenot, who left France on the occasion of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and went to Holland, attaching himself to the fortunes of William of Orange. He accompanied Prince William in his expedition to England in 1688, and for his services at the Battle of the Boyne two years later received from that monarch, now become King William III of England, a grant of land beyond the Mississippi." "Saint Julien at this time was upwards of forty years of age, but, although he had grown weary of soldiering, the spirit of adventure was still strong within him. In his various rovings he had heard much of the New World, and, the religious atmosphere of France continuing to be inhospitable to men of his views, he determined to seek his distant land grant. Accordingly, probably early in the decade beginning with 1690, he set sail for America, tarrying a year on the Island of Bermuda, where he married Margaret Bulloch, a lady, half Spanish and half Scotch, reputed to have been possessed of wealth and beauty. On reaching this country and learning that the Mississippi was far in the wilderness, the idea of immediate occupancy of the land grant was abandoned, but Rene was said to have impressed upon his children that they were not to consider themselves permanently established until they reached the Mississippi." All such claims were outlawed, of course, by the Revolutionary War. The Saint Juliens first purchased an estate in Cecil County, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay. Later, they settled in the vicinity of the present city of Winchester, Virginia. This was probably very early in the settlement of that locality. While the precise date of removal has not been indicated, the very circumstances indicate the time and place of settlement. Kercheval's History of the Valley states that Joist Hite and relatives and associates from Pennsylvania, which included sixteen families, were the first emigrants who settled west of the Blue Ridge. They were however, very soon followed by numerous others. Hite settled on Opequon Creek. According to the story, he received from the Governor a large grant of land in that region, dividing that particular territory, however, with Lord Fairfax, the early friend of George Washington. Foote wrote: "It was the condition of the grant, by which Hite came into possession of the beautiful country, that he should persuade other emigrants from adjacent regions and European countries to settle on his lands." Hite, Beverly, and Burden, grantees in the valley, sent advertisements abroad, setting forth the fertility and beauty of the country and offering favorable terms to actual settlers. It is presumed that some of these advertisements reached other potions of Virginia and adjoining colonies, and it was stated by Foote that soon after Hite had removed his family to the Opequon, other emigrants came in and began to build their dwellings around him, some taking their titles from Hite, others from Fairfax. The great probability is that Rene Saint Julien and his family were members of this primitive community. Other facts and circumstances point to the same conclusion. Foote records the fact that William Hoge, a native of Paisley, Scotland, and ancester of a long line of ministers, heads of colleges, and publicists in America, also settled here and, about 1740, donated a parcel of land for a burial place, a site for a church, and a schoolhouse. The church became known as Opequon Church and was Presbyterian in faith, and also was the first place of worship in that region. By the time of Braddock's defeat, according to Foote, the congregation assembling at this place was large and composed of the foremost families of moral worth. While Washington was encamped at Winchester, this was the only place of religious worship in the vicinity of the fort. Congregations assembled here when Winchester could scarce show a cluster of houses. Rene Saint Julien was a Presbyterian of Huguenotic antecedents. What Foote happily remarks of General Roberdeau, of Revolutionary fame, may with equal appropriateness be said of our ancestors: "The name declares the origin and the fatherland." There can be no reasonable doubt that Rene Saint Julien and his wife, Margaret, were communicants of Opequon Church, and that their mortal remains rest on the graves in the Church burial grounds. Rene Saint Julien had six sons who reached manhood-Stephen, George, John, Peter, Isaac, and Rene. Tradition also gives him three daughters, but their record is less clearly established. Descendants are scattered over many states, especially in the South. Rene Saint Julien is reputed to have been a giant in stature, with red hair, a quick temper and an indomitable will. It is also said that he was a Presbyterian of the strictest sort and that he bitterly disliked Quakers because of their testimonies against war and slavery. Whether he or his children made the change in name is not known, but since his day it has been spelled Julian or Julien. One of his sons was Isaac Julian I, the great grandfather of Isaac Julian IV, who wrote an article, "Winchester in Colonial Days", in which he gave a brief history of the Julian family. Because of this writing, the record of Isaac Julian I is sustained by unquestionable documentary and historic evidences which establish the status of the family as pioneer settlers in Winchester, Virginia. As related by Isaac H. Julian IV, a resident of Winchester for many years, but a native of Wayne County, Indiana, his parents, Isaac Julian, the third of the name in regular succession, and Rebecca Hoover Julian, daughter of Elizabeth Waymire Hoover and her husband, Andrew Hoover, were both of Randolph County, North Carolina. Elizabeth Waymire was the daughter of John Rudolph Waymire. Prior to their marriage they emigrated with their parents to Indiana Territory near the beginning of the nineteenth centry. They settled near the present site of the city of Richmond, Indiana, with whose beginning they were closely identified. The grandparents of Isaac Julian IV, on both sides of the house, were members of the Society of Friends, a predominant element in the early history of Indiana. A large majority of the first settlers of that part of Indiana came from the southern states, chiefly from North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia. This is indicated by the geographical and family names. During the boyhood of Isaac Julian IV, he visited his grandmother, who died in 1844 at eighty-five years of age, and from her, and later from uncles and aunts, he learned a great deal concerning the antecedents of the paternal line of the family. Richard Thompson and Adam Van Bibber witnessed the release of Abraham Allman's land, through his son Joseph and widow Teresa Allman, recorded 1752, to Doctor Hugh Matthews, Jr. and Anthony Fartade. This land was leased to Rene Julien May 1, 1720 by Ephriam Augustine Herman. This was Richard Thompson, Jr. who married Mary Allman November 12, 1739, daughter of Abraham Allman. The Hoges, Whites, and Rene and Mary Bullock Julien lie buried in old Opequon Cemetery at Winchester, Virginia, land for which was donated by William Hoge. The soldiers of the Civil War used it as a barracks, and the tomb stones as tables, and when this writer visited it in 1919, there were no marked graves. This ends the family of Rene and Mary Bullock Julien as it relates to Bohemia Manor, so far as data possessed by this writer is concerned.

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Burial: Opequon Cemetery, Frederick Co., Winchester, Virginia