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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Pfarrer Lucius came to South Carolina before the Revolution as a missionary. The Church of England's Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts recruited him to minister to a settlement of Germans who had come from near his home in Germany,
die Pfalz (Palatinate).
Following is his record from the SPG:
Ordained: deacon 1 November 1769 and priest 4 November 1769, both by the
Bishop of London
Appointed by the SPG: 21 October 1769
Served: Cuffee Town, [Greenwood County] South Carolina, 1770-1782 or 1783. Missionary to the Palatines
Died: 30 October 1784...
This account appears in Two Hundred Years of the SPG by CF Pascoe:
"in 1769 a special call was made on behalf of "the Protestant Palatines in South Carolina". Having emigrated from Europe, they were "greatly distressed for want of a minister", there being none to be met with at a less distance than 50 or 70 miles; .... referred their [the Palatines] petition to the Society [SPG], with the result that the Rev SF Lucius was sent out to minister to them. Arriving at Coffee Town in 1770, he officiated on Easter Day to "people very eager to hear the Word". For want of a minister among them "the children were grown up like savages". In six months he baptised 40 children and 30 adults. The people built two churches and Mr Lucius continued among them as the Society's Missionary until the end of the American Revolution. During the war he was reduced to "the deepest distress" by being cut off from communication with the Society and unable to receive his salary for seven years (1776-1783). After the evacuation of Charleston, where he had taken refuge, he attempted to go to "his old residence at Coffee Town, but destitute as he was .... encumbered with a wife and seven children ... he was soon unable to proceed ....". He returned to Charleston, and in March 1783 proceeded to Congarees, "where a great number of the Palatines were settled."
source:
http://www.geocities.com/morris221b/lucius1.html
added:
25dec2005
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