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From: "Sharilyn" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] A Baptist Huguenot?
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:53:29 -0800
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I recently posted some information that was erroneous, and I would like to
correct the record for the Huguenot list archives.

"Georganna Klaas-Willits in her Beselie work, describes Etienne Beselie,
brother of Jan Beselie, as the husband of Sarah Morgan, "aunt of Daniel
Boone"."

Georganna Klaas-Willits was a very careful researcher of the Beselie family,
and she wrote a good deal about them, but the assertion that Huguenot
Etienne Beselie, brother of the Jan Beselie who married Grace Cerant, and
probable cousin to better known Oliver Beselie of New Rochelle, was the same
person as
Baptist Stephen Beasley who married Sarah Morgan in England DID NOT come
from her.

This information was transmitted to me from someone else, and having
belatedly questioned it, after finding no connection myself between the two
men, I learned that this was not asserted to have been the case by Ms.
Willits in either of her two Beselie manuscripts.

I apologize for this error.

Sharilyn Whitaker





I said:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharilyn" <>
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Subject: [Huguenot] A Baptist Huguenot?


> Georganna Klaas-Willits in her Beselie work, describes
> Etienne Beselie, brother of Jan Beselie, as the husband of Sarah Morgan,
"aunt of Daniel Boone".
>
> >From Baird we have:
>
> BESLY family on pg. 307, Vol 1, of
> Charles E. Baird's "Huguenot Emigration to America".
> "Oliver Besly, famille protestante de la Rochelle et de L'Ile de Re'.--(La
> France Protestant.) Jean and Etienne Besly, fugitifs de I'isle de
> Re'.---(Arch. Nat.) Oliver Besly was one of the leading inhabitants of New
> Rochelle, NY in 1694."
>
>
> Etienne obviously is the French form of Stephen.
>
> However, from the Morgan genealogy we learn that Sarah Morgan was from a
titled family in England, and that she married
> Stephen Beasley there and converted to HIS Baptist faith, and they then
emigrated with her brother Edward Morgan to Pennsylvania.
> Stephen Beasley and Sarah Morgan are said to be buried "in one grave" in
the Baptist burying ground in La Grange Place, Philadelphia.
>
> I got to thinking about this, and realized I had never before heard of a
Baptist Huguenot.
>
> I find Huguenot's described as Protestant followers of John Calvin and
his reformation, and that most were comfortable worshipping with the
Episcopals, and so on.
>
> But a Huguenot Baptist just seems very strange.
>
> Does "Huguenot refugee from the L'lle de Re", and "Baptist" seem
compatible or incompatible to you experienced Huguenot listers?
>
> Sharilyn
>
>
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