Delhi Historical Society

James Peter Trezevant (1815-1860)

 

James Peter Trezevant was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on November 23, 1815. His was in the sixth generation of the Charleston-area Trezevant family, whose origins were French Huguenot. The family had arrived in Charleston in 1685. His father, John Farquhar Trezevant, was the oldest surviving son of Peter Trezevant (1768-1854) and his wife, Elizabeth Willoughby Farquhar (1772-1845). The later good fortune of James’s paternal grandparents would directly benefit his life.

 

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