Re: Benedict Bourquin, GA
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Re: Benedict Bourquin, GA
john hornady 6/03/02
John,
I sent the following to your e-mail address current in 2002. Please note that the Federal Records which were in East Point are now in a new Federal Records library at Clayton State University at Morrow, just east of I-75 below Atlanta. The Georgia Archives building is next to it. Very convenient.
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I just found the Bourquin site on GenForum. I have researched this family for 50
years and have much information from many sources.
I saw your messages andhope this will reach you at an address seven years old.
The Morel account would be good to see.
Henri Francois Bourquin was not a physician or surgeon.His older brother, Jean
Baptiste Bourquin, was a surgeon in Europe and continued to be called Doctor in
the colony of SC where he lived and died.
I copied part of the Bellinger, Deveaux et al acccount some years ago when a
friend found it in a used book sale.I have tried to prove for a long time
Major David Francis Bourquin's service in the War for Independence.This
account gives some traditional information, which does not mesh with known
history in some details. However, I have little doubt D.F. was in the fighting
around Savannah. He was a militia major soon after the war and was almost surely
a leader and officer during the War. Do you have anything on his service?
The Deveaux family lived next door to Bern where D.F. was born and reared, the
home place of Benedict Bourquin, the third brother.TheDeveaux place, now
called Lebanon, is owned by Howard Morrison. He has done some archeological work
at the original Deveaux house site and at other spots.The Union Army camped
there in 1864, attacking the Confederate line along Salt Creek.They took the
captured Confederates from Ft. McAllister Dec. 13, 1864, to Lebanon, the home of
the commander of the Fort.Federal troops camped, too, on the south end of Bern
near the Little Ogeechee marshes and the mounds for their tents are visible
today.A Bourquin cemetery is located nearby, where Benedict Bourquin and his
wife Judith Chatelaine Bourquin might be buried. Two graves are well marked.
There were more and I suspect some of the slabs might have been moved by the
Union soldiers and might be under leaves and mold not far away.The north end
of Bern, north of Highway 17, is today a fully developed section of relatively
new housing but the south end is wild land, most of it, owned by two brothers
who have the Budweiser distributorship there. I plan to visit them soon.The
little graveyard is accessible only by boat or through Lebanon Plantation.
I would like to hear from you.I will post this on the Bourquin site as well.
Stephen W. Edmondson