Person:Rene De St Julien (1)

Records in Maryland

Rene Julien and his family were living in Cecil County, Maryland, in 1712. The earliest record of Rene in Bohemia Manor is in 1720 as shown by land leases. The rest of the period from 1712 until 1720 is blank so far as he is concerned, except for the record of the birth of his son Isaac in 1716, which appears in the Register of St. Ann's Parish at Annapolis which is now in the hall of Records there.

Rene and Mary had seven sons and three daughters who grew up in Bohemia Manor. Whether or not they were born there is uncertain. It is known that the two daughters were married there, and it is probable that some of the other children were also.

Death Notes

By 1737, When Rene assigned his lease in Bohemia Manor to Henry McCoy he was 68 years old. It is assumed that this was the date of his going to Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. Two sons did not accompany Rene to Winchester, remaining in Maryland, Stephen (who is named in the lease from Ephraim Augustus Herman to Rene in 1720) and Jacob. They moved to Prince County, Maryland, where the first record of them appears in 1743.

Rene was still living in 1744, the last documentary date of him known to exist.

Burial Notes

It is thought that he and his wife are buried in old Opequon Cemetary, near Winchester (land for this cemetery was given by William Hoge, into whose family son Isaac married).

Shortly after Braddock's defeat in 1755, during the French and Indian War, the five sons who went with Rene to Winchester from Bohemia Manor, fled with their families due to terror of the Indians to Orange County, North Carolina (which later became Randolph and Guilford County), where they took land grants.

Family Tradition

Rene Julien in America became a slave holder and a Presbyterian, and hated the Quakers for their testimony against war and slavery. He was large and tall and said to have red hair and to have been a perverse man with fiery disposition. Among present generations of his descendants, many branches have red-haired members.

Mary Bullock Julien was said to have been a great lady. She was of Spanish decent. Search of Bermuda records fails to reveal her marriage to Rene but evidence [?what evidence?] seems to point to her having been a daughter of Captain Stephen Bullock who came from a Quaker family. If this is correct, the attitude of Rene and Mary must have sometimes conflicted. Some of their descendants in North Carolina became Quakers. Descendants of Rene and Mary include many statesmen, teachers, ministers, lawyers and doctors.

See Also

• Jannette R. Trotter Papers-McClung Historical Collection, Knox County, Tennessee
• Elizabeth Cate Manley's book also "Leaves From the Family Tree Papers

1. ↑ Family Recorded, in Young, Andrew White. History of Wayne County, Indiana from its first settlement to the present time: with numerous biographial and family sketches; embellished with upwards of fifty portraits of citizens and views of buildings. (Cincinnati, Ohio: R. Clarke, 1872)
   181-182.

   ... The family represented by this name is of French and probably Huguenotic extraction. The family name was originally St. Julien, but has been shortened and anglicised into its present form [Julian]. The first of this name who came to America was Rene St. Julien, a native of Paris, and a soldier by profession. He fought under the Prince of Orange, afterwards William III of England, at the battle of the Boyne, in Ireland, July 1, 1690, which resulted in the defeat of the adherents of James II. For his services he received from the king a grant of land beyond the Mississippi. But the war of the Revolution gave a quietus to such grants. He came to this country near the close of the seventeenth century, and settled on the eastern shore of Maryland. He had a numerous family, principally sons, from whom all of the name in America are believed to have descended. One of these sons, Isaac Julien, as appears from Irving's Life of Washington, was residing in Winchester, Virginia, in 1755. ...

2.   Family Recorded, in Bradley County's Historical collection LDS file.

   Rene Julien, born in France in 1669, was a Huguenot who fought at the island of Bermuda where he married Mary Bullock. He became a soldier in his youth and was in the army of James ll in the English Revolution of 1688. For reasons of preference, he is said to have deserted to the standard of King William along with many others. For his services to King Willliam he was given a grant of land on the Mississippi River (another source says it was the James River District in what is now Maryland). His grown children were not inclined to go to what was then a savage region and they persuaded him to buy land. He went first to the shores of the Carolinas, and losing two sons there, he moved to the more healthy region on the Eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay (There was a colony of French families on the Santee River in South Carolina who began to migrate about 1712, due to the unhealthy climate. This family may well have been among them.).