The story told 150 years later by 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. This was not exactly the way it happened.
Sources: Breaker family record; Payzant, Payzant and Allied Jess and Juhan Families
generation no. 1
David Juhan, born c 1680 Yverdon, Vaud, Canton of Bern, Switzerland.
generation no. 2
Jean-Marc Juhan, born 8 February 1704-5 and died 25 July 1790 in Yverdon. Married Suzanne Margeuritte Guesler.
generation no. 3
Jean-Jacques Juhan, born 2 April 1736 Yverdon, died before 1804. Married 1764 in Falmouth, Nova Scotia, Mary/Marie Payzant, born 23 January 1746 in St. Helier, Jersey.
generation no. 4
Stephen Alexander Juhan, born 1765 Falmouth, lived in Charleston SC, died 12 August 1845 in Philadelphia PA, buried at Machelpah (now Graceland) Cemetery. Married 29 February 1792 Elizabeth Martha Bourdeaux in Independent Congregational Circular Church, Charleston.
generation no. 5
Nathaniel Bourdeaux Juhan, died 1837 in Augusta GA. Married 31 December 1823 Henrietta Jane Hornby.
generation no. 6
Emma Juliette Juhan, born 28 October 1830 in Barnwell District SC, died 1918 in Houston TX. Married 11 October 1848 to Jacob Manly Cantey Breaker.
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