Frances (Bocquet) Hunter (1720 - 1768)

Born 1720 in France

Wife of Daniel Fayssoux — married before 1743 (to about 1745) in France

Descendants

Died 9 Dec 1768 at about age 48 in Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina

Biography

Frances was born about 1720 in France. She married Daniel Fayssoux, with whom she had a girl and a boy before her husband died.

"Mrs. Fayssoux was a refugee from France who came to Charleston South Carolina, with her two orphan children, one of whom became the noted Doctor Peter Dott Fayssoux, Surgeon-General of the Revolutionary Army of South Carolina, and later in 1789 he was one of the founders of the South Carolina Medical Society. ^[1]

Frances re-married Major James Hunter, of Charleston. They were the parents of another daughter, Frances Dott Hunter, who married Doctor James M. Perry. ^[2]

She passed away in 1768.

Sources

1. ↑ The genealogy of the Pendarvis-Bedon families of South Carolina, 1670-1900 compiled by James Barnwell Heyward, Foote & Davis, Madison, Wisconsin, 1905, page 101
2. ↑ The genealogy of the Pendarvis-Bedon families of South Carolina, 1670-1900 compiled by James Barnwell Heyward, Foote & Davis, Madison, Wisconsin, 1905, page 100

• "Frances Bocquett Hunter," FindAGrave.com (accessed November 8, 2023), citing First Scots Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA.