Count Rene' de St Julien

Summary:

In 1972, Elizabeth Cate Manley, a descendent of Ison Julian published an extended history/genealogy of the Julian family. The publication is “The Julian and Allied Families”. Copies are in the Cleveland, TN and Nashville, TN library archives.

Rene de St Julien was born about 1660 in the northwestern part of France. The family was of the Protestant religion known as Huguenots.

Rene became a solider in his youth. He fought under the standard of King William at the battle of Boyne on July 1, 1690. For his service as a soldier he was granted, by the reigning family of England, land in America.

En route to America Rene de St Julien stopped off on the Isle of Bermuda and married Mary Bullock, daughter of Captain Stephen Bullock and his wife Mary. Mary Bullock de Julien is said to have been a “great lady” of Spanish and Scottish descent; reputed to have been very wealthy and very beautiful. Rene is said to have been a giant in stature, with red hair, a quick temper, and an indomitable will, a Presbyterian of the strictest form who particularly disliked the Quaker testimony against war and slavery. The Bullocks were Quakers so the attitudes of Rene and Mary must sometimes conflicted.

They lived in Maryland until 1735 – 1740 when they moved to Winchester, VA Where Rene died about 1744. Rene and Mary are buried in the old Opequeon Cemetary in Winchester, VA

The French name St Julien was anglicized to become Julian. The Julian family record are kept at the Huguenot Society in Charleston, SC

Descendants from Rene de St Julien to the McCamy family

Rene de St Julien b 1660 France, d 1744 VA

George Julian b 1706 Maryland, d1781 SC

Jacob Julian b 1730, d 1799 York Co., SC

George Julian b 1770 Mecklenburg, NC, d 1845 Blount Co., TN

Martha Julian McCamy b 1-23-1807, d 1880 Murray Co., GA

Franklin Welborn McCamy , b 12-19-1852 Murray Co., GA , d 12-1927

Frances Claudia McCamy Rymer, b 5-9-1890 NC, d 8-21-1989 Polk Co., TN

John Eugene Rymer b 5-21-1928 GA

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Expanded Data:

According to the Jannette R. Trotter Papers in the McClung Historical
Collection in Knoxville,Tennessee and the book "Leaves From the Family
Tree" by Elizabeth Cate Manley, we can learn the following about the
Immigrant Julian ancestor in America.......

COUNT RENE' de SAINT JULIEN was born July 04, 1669 in Vite, Brittany, France, and died Aft. 1744 in Winchester, Fredrick County, Virginia. He married MARY MARGARET BULLOCK Abt. 1695, daughter of STEPHEN BULLOCK and MARY (?). She was born Abt. 1672 in Bermuda or Scotland, and died Aft. 1757 in Winchester, Fredrick County, Virginia.

Rene' is said to have been a giant in stature with red hair, a quick temper and an indomitable will, a Presbyterian of the strictest form who particularly disliked the Quaker Testimony against war and slavery. Rene' was born in France in 1669, was a Huguenot who fought at the Battle of Boyne in Ireland in 1690 and came to America about 1700. Family tradition has him stopping at the Island of Bermuda where he married Mary Bullock. He was a soldier in his youth and was in the army of James II 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 William, he was given a grant of land on the Mississippi River ( another source says the it was the James River District in what is now Maryland). He went first to the shores of Carolina, and loosing (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. Rene's family may well have been among them.)

Rene' Julian 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 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 two of his daughters were married there, and it is probable that some of the other children were also. By 1737, When Rene' assigned his lease in Bohemia Manor to Henry McCoy, he was 68 years old. It is assumed that this is the date of his leaving for Winchester, Fredrick County, Virginia. Rene' was still living in 1744, the last documentary date of him known to exist. It is thought that he and his wife are buried among the stones of old Opequon Cemetery near Winchester. The land for this cemetery was given by William Hodge into whose family son Isaac married.

The Julien family (Julian) is one of the most noteworthy of the old American lines. Today over 80% of Julian descendants trace their ancestry to Rene' Julien. Numerous descendants of Rene' Julien fought during the American Revolution, including Isaac Julien who received a Revolutionary War Pension. As our line of the family descended to the fourth generation in America the Julian family made its way to Tennesse. The family founded in East Tennessee in the early 1800's. Numerous Julian descendants from East Tennessee fought for the South during the War Between the States such as, Lt. John Julian of the 36th Tennessee Infantry, Sgt. Marcena L. Julian also of the 36th and William I. Julian of the 5th Tennessee Cavalry. The Julian's became large landowners in Mcminn and Bradley Counties of Tennessee and across the state line into North Georgia. Volumes have been written about the family and extensive histories exist about the Julian's in America, however the following descendants of Count Rene' De Saint Julien directly relate to the East Tennessee line and the descendants of James A. P. Guthrie and Mary Adeline Julian.

Notes for MARY MARGARET BULLOCK:
It is not know for sure if her name was Mary or Margaret or both. From the records of Columbia, South Carolina Historical Commission is taken the following quote. "Mary is said to have been a "great lady" of Spanish and Scottish descent, reputed to have been very wealthy and beautiful." Also in the same book, "Rene' de St Julien stopping in Bermuda married Mary Bullock. " In land transactions the name most often used is Margaret Julien.

Children of COUNT SAINT JULIEN and MARY BULLOCK are:

i. UNKNOWN^2 JULIEN, b. Abt. 1696, Berkley County, South Carolina; d.
Abt. 1698.
ii. UNKNOWN JULIEN, b. Abt. 1698, Berkley County, South Carolina; d.
Abt. 1698.
iii. STEPHEN JULIEN, b. Abt. 1700, Charleston, Charleston County,
South Carolina, at Santee River; d. Abt. 1773, Fredrick County Maryland.
iv. PETER JULIEN, b. Abt. 1704, Bohemia Mannor, Cecil County
Maryland; d. Abt. 1806, Newberry, Newberry County, South Carolina.
v. GEORGE JULIEN, b. January 03, 1705/06, Bohemia Mannor, Cecil
County Maryland; d. September 1781, Creek Meeting House, Camden, York
County, South Carolina.
vi. JACOB JULIEN, b. 1707, Bohemia Mannor, Cecil County Maryland; d.
1747, Fredrick County, Maryland.
vii. MARY JULIEN, b. Abt. 1710, Bohemia Mannor, Cecil County
Maryland; d. 1747, Fredrick County, Maryland.
viii. JOHN JULIEN, b. Abt. 1713, Bohemia Mannor, Cecil County
Maryland; d. December 19, 1762, Randolph County, North Carolina.
ix. ISAAC JULIEN, b. December 30, 1716, Annapolis, Cecil County,
Maryland; d. July 08, 1778, Randolph County, North Carolina.
x. RENE' JULIEN, b. Abt. 1718, Bohemia Mannor, Cecil County Maryland;
d. July 08, 1778, Randolph County, North Carolina.

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