The excessively fanciful and convoluted tale rendered by a descendent 150 years later, dear old Emma Juliette Juhan Breaker, centered around the young child Francois St. Jean being smuggled to San Domingo after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by two aunts in nun's garb and raised by a Spanish don of Swiss extraction, and later marrying the beautiful Jewess heiress Marguerite de Bonneville, and his grandchild fleeing the slave uprising in 1778 to settle in Charleston. Not quite the way it happened.
David Juhan was born in Yverdon, Territory of Vaud, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
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Jean-Marc Juhan was born February 8, 1704/05 in Yverdon, Territory of Vaud, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, and died July 25, 1790 in Yverdon. Married Suzanne Margeuritte Guesler in Yverdon.
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Jean-Jacques Juhan was born April 2, 1736 in Yverdon, Territory of Vaud, Canton of Bern, Switzerland and married Marie (Mary) Paysant 1764 in Falmouth, Nova Scotia. She was born January 23, 1746/47 in St. Helier, Isle of Jersey, Channel Islands, England, and died circa 1773-83 in Haiti, French West Indies.
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Stephen Alexander Juhan was born 1765 in Falmouth, Nova Scotia, and died August 12, 1845 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Martha Bordeaux February 29, 1792 in Independent Congregational Circular Church, Charleston, South Carolina, daughter of Daniel Bordeaux and Esther Smith. She was born March 2, 1772 in South Carolinia, and died September 1, 1816 in Barnwell District, South Carolina.
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Nathaniel Bordeaux Juhan, married Henrietta Jane Hornby (died 1837), in Augusta, Georgia on December 31, 1823.
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Emma Juliette Juhan, born October 1830, Barnwell District, South Carolinia and died 1918. Married Jacob Manly Cantey Breaker, October 11, 1848.
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