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Subject: [Huguenot-L] Mazyck 3
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:14:07 EST

Isaac Mazyck Esq. youngest son of the said Paul Mazyck of the Isle of
Rhe in France, by Elizabeth Van Vick his wife, was born at the Town of
St. Martins in 1660 and was very genteely educated as a Protestant in
the City of Rochelle where he soon made great profictionancy in the arts
and sciencies and among other polite accomplishments, he had a taste for
drawing. I have seen several plans and elegant views of fortified places
in France and Flanders done by him. One of Rochelle and some others of
his are now in the posession of Alexander Mazyck one of his Grandsons,
and I have a drawing of a very fine Flying Fish which he caught at sea
on his voyage to South Carolina in Dec. 1686 and took a drawing of it.
His father intended to have brought him up as a Merchant and to have
settled him in trade in Rochelle and he had just entered into the
mercantile business there with a very genteel fortune and amiable
character, but just at that time the famous Edict of Nantes was revoked
in 1685 by Louis XIV of France and the Protestants cruelly persecuted on
account of their religion, and the said Isaac Mazyck being a very
zealous Protestant, and a young man of great piety he chose to leave his
native country, his relatives, friends, and estates, and everything else
that was dear to him and fly to a strange country to enjoy that liberty
of conscience and the Protestant religion which was denied him in his
own, and as the Protestants were not allowed to sell their lands, houses
ect., he was obliged to leave a very handsome estate in houses in St.
Martins and Rochelle, and only carry what money he could hastily collect
together with him, which being about 1500 pounds sterling, he set off
for Holland and Amsterdam in 1685, where he made some stay, and laid out
his money in goods, and in 1686, embarked for England with his elder
brother Stephen Mazyck Esq; but the Protestants being unfavorable
received in England under King James II, on account of their religion,
and finding he might quietly enjoy his religion in the British Dominion,
in North America; and Carolina being just settled by Lords Proprieters,
and much liberty enjoyed there, he determined to go over as it being
just settled, lands might be easily got there, and he might with what
money and goods he carried enter into a very extensive trade as a
Merchant, and be with many other pious and worthy French Protestant
families who fled for the same cause, embarked and sailed from London
for South Carolina in October 1686, and happily arrived at Charleston in
December 1686 as appears by a memorandum I have of his. He brought with
him a large cargo of about 1000 pounds sterling worth of goods,
merchandise ect., and he immediately settled at Charleston as a
merchant. James Colleton Esq. was the Govenor of Carolina. The said
Isaac Mazyck immediately laid out a part of the money he brought with
him and bought for a small value a large body of land about 35 acres,
the upper or West end of Broad St., which piece of land now contains
many streets, and almost the whole of the said land is now in the
possession of his decendants, the family of Mazyck and others, my
Brother and my-self possessing a number of fine lots. The said Isaac
Mazyck selling his goods to great advantage carried on a good trade in
the West Indies and he made a voyage to the Island of Barbados in 1688
on a scheme of trade, and went there again in 1689, and soon after
buying vessels he carried on a considerable trade with England,
Portugal, Madereira, the West Indies and North America. In the year 1693
he went to England to settle correspondents and other business, and
bought of one Mrs. Smith of Hammershett for 20 pounds sterling, a very
large body of land joining Charleston, containing many acres of land, on
which now stands the large and elligant village of Ansenborough. On his
return to Carolina in 1693 with a large cargo, he married Miss Marrianne
Serrurier, a young lady who came out in the same ship with him in 1686.
Soon after this he bought 25 acres of land joining the town which is now
between the town and the Village of Hampstead, and the said land is now
possessed by his Grandson Alexander Mazyck. The said Isaac Mazyck also
bought a large quantity of land, the upper end of King St. on both sides
right to Trotts Point on Cooper River, and on the other side to the
parsonage, being many acres, so that he at once possessed more land in
and about Charleston than any other person in Carolina, or in any Town
in North America, which would now have been a immence estate to his
heirs, but he unfortunately sold all the land now called Ansonborough
some years before he died, to Gadsden Esq., who again sold it to Capt.
George Anson, afterwards Lord Anson, who laid out the village of
Ansonborough. The said Isaac Mazyck also sold all the land called Trotts
Point from the Govenors Bridge to Ansonborough to Mrs. Trott, and also
all the land belonging to Christopher Gadsden, Col. Henry Laurens, the
South Carolina Society, and the land on the other side of King St. from
the White Gate to the Parsonage and lower down the street, being now
about one half of Charleston. He also possessed several other lots and
houses in the said town and a plantation and 60 or 70 negros, on Goose
Creek now belonging to his son Benjamin Mazyck, and a large estate in
money and interest, and was in his time the most eminent Merchant in
Carolina, and made one of the largest estates, and with a fair upright
and amiable character, being just in his dealings, honorable and humane
and charitable to all, and a sincere Christian. He was a most loyal
subject to the illustrious House of Hanover and never spoke of their
late Majesties King William, Queen Mary, Kings George I and II of
glorious and blessed memory, but with the greatest veneration and real
affection and respect. And he always with the greatest gratitude and
thankfulness expressed his acknowledgments of the civil and religious
liberty he enjoyed under their happy and mild government, and always had
the highest opinion of the British Constitution, and the greatest love
and affection for the government, and always endeavored to instill these
principals into the minds of his children, and strongly recomended it to
them in his last will on his deathbed, in which he gave them as much
good advice as a parent could possibly give to his children. As he
always brought them up in the principals of piety and virtue, and gave
them all very good and polite educations and sent his sons to Europe to
see the world.In his will he left several charitable legacies, and
among others a very genteel sum ofmoney to be laid out and the whole
interest thereof to be paid annually towards the support of the Colonist
Minister of the French Church in Charleston forever. He had beforebeen
the greatest contributor towards building the said Church endowing it.
As he was fond of private life he declined to enter into any public
station, though he was a very useful member of the community, and as he
lived respected and beloved, he died lamented. He was an affectionate
husband, a tender Father, a humane Master and a sincere Friend. The said
Isaac Mazyck enjoyed his health and all his faculties to the age of
upwards to 75 years and died of an apoplectic fit after a few hours
illness, on the 11th of March 1735-36 and was greatly regretted. His
remains were buried in the French Church Yard Charleston, South
Carolina, near his dear wife. He was married in 1693 by
the Rev. My Williamson the first Rector of Charlestown to Miss Marrianne
Le Sorurrier, a beautiful, amiable and accomplished young lady, daughter
of James Le Sorurrier, late of St. Quentinsin Picardy in France, but
then of Charlestown South Carolina. By Elizabeth his wife, dauthere of
----Leger Esq. of the Kingdom of France. The said James Le Sorurrier was
a gentleman of a very ancient honorable and worth family in Picardy, and
the familyof Leger was one of the most honorable and respectable there,
and they both quitted France on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The said Miss Marriane Le Sorurrier wasa lady of great piety and
exemplary virtue and possessed every quality that
could render aperson truly respectable, being a sincere and good
Christian, and an affectionate Wife, Parent, and Friend. She was born in
the Town of St. Quintins in in 1675, and diedin Charlestown So.
Carolina the 4th. of April 1732 aged 57 years, greatly lamented by all
who knew her. She was buried in the French Church Yard in
Charlestown.The said Isaac Mazyck by the said Marrianne his wife had
the following issue who were all born in Charlestown; namely five sons
and seven daughters. (1) Isaac Mazyck born March 6th. 1700 of whom I
shall give an account hereafter. (2) Paul Mazyck, bornin 1702, of whom
I shall hereafter give an account. (3) Peter Mazyck of whom I shall give
an account hereafter. (5) Stephen born 1718, of whom I shall hereafter
give an account.----The daughters were ( l )Maarrianne born in 169-and
died an infant. (2) Marrianne born in 1696 married to Benjamin Godin, of
whom I shall give an account hereafter. (3) Elizabeth, married to John
Gendron, of whose issue I shall give an account hereafter. (4) Susanna,
born in 17--and died an infant. (5) Mary, married to Isaac Chardon, of
whome I shall give an account hereafter. (6) Penelope, bom 17-- and so
named after Penelope, Lady Tynte mother of his Excellency Edward Tynte
Govenor of Carolina, whowas her Godfather, the said Penelope died an
infant. (7) Susanne born in 17-- and married to Richard Woodward, of
whome I shall hereafter give an account.

to be continued

Chris Shelley

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