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St. Julien / Julien Family Chronological Ancestral Report 


This comprehensive genealogical report tracks your direct paternal lineage across five generations, spanning two centuries of migration from the Kingdom of France to the mountain frontier of East Tennessee. It incorporates verified archival corrections—specifically separating René Julien I from Pierre de St. Julien, and establishing the extended 1733 South Carolina timeline. 


Generation I: The Huguenot Patriarch 

Ancestors: René (Pierre René) Julien I (~1660s–1744) & Mary Bullock (~1670s–1750)

Identity Note: Historically distinct from the aristocratic Pierre de St. Julien of Wantoot Plantation.           René maintained a separate maritime and frontier farming household. 

Chronological Timeline: 

~1690s (Bermuda): René, having fled religious persecution in Vitré, France following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), marries Mary Bullock, an Englishwoman. 

~1700–1712 (Seewee Bay, South Carolina): The family relocates from Bermuda to old Berkeley County, South Carolina. They establish a plantation along the rugged maritime frontier of Seewee Bay. 

1713 (South Carolina): René and Mary sign an initial land indenture, beginning a multidecade process of navigating, buying, and selling coastal property. 

1733 (Seewee Bay, South Carolina): René and Mary execute a formal Release of Indenture. This 1733 document disproves older family lore that they permanently abandoned South Carolina in 1714. It marks the absolute liquidation of their coastal assets to fund a direct push north. 

1737 (Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia): The family cuts into the Shenandoah Valley, arriving just as the pioneer wilderness settlement of Winchester is formed. 

1744–1750 (Old Opequon Cemetery): René passes away around 1744, followed by Mary around 1750. They are buried at Old Opequon Cemetery in Kernstown, Virginia. Their headstone proudly bears the original French spelling: "St Julien".





Generation II: The Shenandoah Valley & Deep River Era 

    Ancestors: Isaac Julian Sr. (1716–1778) & Barbara White (1721–1780) 

    Relationship to You: Great-great-great-great-great-grandparents (Parents of René III) 

Chronological Timeline: 

1716 (Birth): Isaac Sr. is born during the family's residency in the southern colonies/midAtlantic. 

1752 (Winchester, Virginia): Isaac Sr. secures an official proprietary frontier land grant from Thomas, Lord Fairfax, along the Opequon Creek watershed. 

1754–1755 (The Frontier Collapses): The outbreak of the French and Indian War brings devastating tribal raids to Frederick County. Aligned with local pacifist Quaker neighbors and finding their French surname a dangerous liability, the family abandons Virginia.

 1757 (Sandy Creek, North Carolina): Traveling down the Great Wagon Road, Isaac Sr. establishes a new plantation in the Piedmont region of Orange County (later Randolph County), North Carolina, along the fertile banks of the Deep River. 

1768–1769 (The Regulator Movement): Furious over corrupt British colonial tax collectors, Isaac Sr. signs Regulator Petition No. 9 alongside his neighbors. 

1778 (Death): Isaac Sr. passes away on July 8, 1778, and is buried at the historic Odell Trogdon Cemetery in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.






Generation III: The Knoxville Frontier Grandfather 

Ancestors: René Julien III (1746–1840) & Catherine Allred (1749–1842) 

Relationship to You: Great-great-great-great-grandparents (Parents of William) 

Chronological Timeline: 

1746 (Birth): René III is born on March 29, 1746, in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, right before the family's flight south.

~1768 (North Carolina): Growing up on adjacent Deep River farms, René III signs the Regulator Petitions side-by-side with the Allred family. He marries Catherine Allred, permanently blending the two pioneer lineages. 

1794 (The Move to Knoxville): As an established grandfather in his late 40s, René III gathers his children and joins a massive migration westward across the Appalachian Mountains into the Southwest Territory. 

1794–1840 (Stock Creek, Knox County): They claim frontier acreage along Stock Creek in south Knox County, Tennessee. René III lives a remarkably long life as a pioneer patriarch, passing away in 1840 at age 93. He is buried in Knoxville's Old Gray Cemetery






Generation IV: The Stock Creek Farmer 

Ancestors: William M. Julien (~1770s–~1830s) & Nancy Kiser 

Relationship to You: Great-great-great-grandparents (Parents of James Norman) 

Chronological Timeline: 

~1770s–1780s (North Carolina): William is born in Randolph County, North Carolina, and travels as a young man in the 1794 caravan to Tennessee. 

1794–1815 (Knox County Property): William builds his own farm immediately adjacent to his father René III along Stock Creek. His land transactions are preserved in early Knox County Deed Books A through N. 

1808 (Family Expansion): Living on the Stock Creek property, William and Nancy welcome their son, James Norman, into the world on March 2, 1808.






Generation V: The Carter County Mountain Homestead 

Ancestors: James Norman Julien (1808–1888) & Delilah Hampton (1813–1888) 

Relationship to You: Your direct ancestral branch 


Chronological Timeline: 

1808 (Birth): James Norman is born in Knoxville, growing up surrounded by his grandfather René III's frontier stories. 

1831–1832 (The Migration East): As a young man, James leaves the valley lands of Knoxville and travels east into the high-altitude Blue Ridge Mountains of Carter County, Tennessee. 

1832 (The Hampton Alliance): James marries Delilah Hampton, embedding himself into the prominent pioneer family that founded the town of Hampton, Tennessee. 

1833–1850 (Heaton Creek): They move deep into the rugged foothills near Roan Mountain, clearing acreage along Heaton Creek to establish a self-sufficient mountain livestock and crop farm while raising nine children. 

1888 (The Final Anchor): James Norman passes away on October 27, 1888. Both he and Delilah are laid to rest in the historic Julian Cemetery tucked into the mountains along Heaton Creek. 




 

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