McDonald and Potts family tree » John LaRoche (1786-1840)

Persönliche Daten John LaRoche 

• Er wurde geboren am 26. Juni 1786 in Wampee Plantation, Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina.
• Er ist verstorben am 14. Juli 1840 in White House Plantation, Toogoodoo, St. Paul's Parish, South Carolina, er war 54 Jahre alt.
• Er wurde beerdigt in Jenkins Burial Grounds, Edisto Island, SC.

Familie von John LaRoche

Er ist verheiratet mit Sarah Fripp Jenkins.

Sie haben geheiratet.

Kind(er):

1. Joseph Edings LaRoche  1812-1817
2. Annis Upham LaRoche  1814-± 1873
3. Mary Ann Waight LaRoche  1815-1845
4. Sarah Edings LaRoche  1817-????
5. James LaRoche  1819-1819
6. John James LaRoche  1821-1904
7. Edward Delegal LaRoche  1821-1879
8. Richard Jenkins LaRoche  1823-????
9. Martha Phoebe LaRoche  1825-????
10. Abigail Elvira Jenkins LaRoche  1826-1827
11. Elizabeth Evans LaRoche  1829-1859

Notizen bei John LaRoche

 Date of birth and date of marriage are from LaRoche Family Bible.

John is buried in a raised cript with a very badly damaged stone.  This stone was professionally repaired in 2013.

 

John was not yet 7 years old when his father died. His mother married twice again. His first step-father, Edward Delegal Campbell must have had a positive impact on young John’s life, since John later chose to name one of his sons for him. After their marriage, John and Sarah lived at Roxbury on Toogoodoo Creek until their home, White House, was constructed. John and Sarah founded the LaRoches of Toogoodoo. Private John Laroach served with Rutledge's 3rd Regiment, SC State Troops during the War of 1812.[1]  John served in the 19th SC General Assembly (1810-1812) from St. John Colleton (name spelled LaRoach)^[2]. He was also a vestry man for St. John (1816-1821) and a commissioner to examine Wapoo and Elliott’s Cuts (1823).

 

                John owned the plantation at White House on the western branch of the Toogoodoo, with its beautiful, large white frame home that stood on a bluff overlooking the creek.  His land was on the south and west shores and extended some distance inland.^[3]  He bought additional land in 1836 at Lem's Bluff (950 acres) on the northern banks of the western branch of the Toogoodoo and acquired land on Wadmalaw through inheritance.  He also farmed his wife’s plantation Roxbury. White House was torn down in 1965. The land is located on what is now Little Britton Road, on the right. 

 

                The following letter was written by John LaRoche July 2, 1829 to George C. Mackay, Esq.[4]

 

“Dear Sir,

 

                It is so long a time since I have heard a word of you or yours, or even of my concerns at Trewin’s Island that I hope you will devote a few moments of your idle time at McPhersonville in letting us know how you and Abigail fare in health – be pleased to direct your letter to the care of Brown, Tunis & Co., Charleston.  There is no important news with us at present. I suppose you have heard of the death of Capt. Meggett – he was interred with Masonic honors. Col. Whaley & Mikell Seabrook have had a severe brush. Can it be that the salt atmosphere has any influence upon the Edistonians that they quarrel so much.  However, Fayolle has just arrived & ‘tis hoped that with his little violin he will tune the hearts of the people to better feelings. And now for the crops. I suppose you would like the state of mine at Toogoodoo that you may draw a comparison with ours in Prince Williams.  My cotton has received 4 workings, corn and potatoes 2 each.  The cotton is about 2 feet high & the Provisions the best I ever had – blossoms are scarce as yet with us.  How does this tally with your’s. Lot’s ______ I must beg you to order him to stop working the cotton by the 20^th Inst. At the latest, but sooner if possible – we are all laying by our cotton by the 10^th or 15 Inst. But as I fear that the heavy rain has put him in grass, it may take him till the 20^th.  I would rather have some grass in the strong land and hoe later.  Tell him also for me that when he is done with potato slips to go at getting out manure as he was ordered by me when last up.  Sarah and Ann join me in complements to your wife.

 

Respectfully yours,

 

John LaRoche”

  

               John’s 1824 tax returns show him owning 589 acres and 13 slaves. By 1830 he had increased his holdings to 68 slaves. He was able to provide a significant inheritance for his children. John left 1200 acres to be divided among his children with his wife Sarah to have “life Interest” in the Toogoodoo Plantation.  John James took Lems Bluff. Edward received Toogoodoo (White House), Richard took land adjoining the Mackays on Graeme’s Neck.  Ann {Annis}had received a cash settlement at the time of her marriage to Archibald Clark.  John left the house at Edingsville Beach to his wife Sarah, and also carriage, chaise, choice of horses, and all household furniture. Executors were brothers-in-law Micah and Joseph Evans Jenkins.^[5] Three of his sons remained in the Toogoodoo area (John James, Edward Delegal, and Richard J.)

 

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[1] There is also a John G. Laroche listed in Howard’s Detachment of the SC Militia. (Ancestry Plus)

^[2] Biographical Directory of the SC House of Representatives, Vol. 4, p. 340

^[3] Wilkinson. “Huguenots on Laurel Hill”  Parts 1 and 2,”  Transactions,  p. 129; R. F. Jenkins p. 89

[4] Cited in Albergotti, p. 76-78

^[5] Albergotti, p. 90

 

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