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From: ray <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Historical perspective
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:16:06 -0500
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> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 11:03:33 +0200
> From: "Herman Labuschagne" <>
> Subject: [HWE] Historical perspective re. Huguenots, Cathars &
> Waldensians
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Hi Herman,

Also of interest to me is the other end of Huguenot history - how the
Huguenots drifted into other religions. In South Carolina, those that
changed to Anglican (close to Catholicism on the religion spectrum) can
best be explained by political and economic alliances.

In researching how my line became Baptist, it seems that they first
became Particular Baptist. Particular Baptists were Calvinists and
during their formation in England, they sent a council to Holland to
gain guidance from French Huguenot pastors that had moved to the
Netherlands.

Strangely, that while most books say that the Huguenots were most like
Presbyterians, they disliked each other in South Carolina. One of my
ancestors wrote a letter to fellow Huguenots that if they did not turn
out and defeat Presbyterian candidates at the next vote, the
Presbyterians would bring a plague on them worse than Moses sent on the
Egyptians.

Ray

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