Benjamin Simons (1672 -1717).
The name of the Plantation is said to have come from "Middelburg", an ancient provincial capital of Holland. As an orphaned boy Benjamin was taken into the family by Josias DuPre (1640 - 1712) and Martha Brabant (1648 - ?), who had fled the persecutions in France for Holland. Josias DuPre was a Huguenot clergyman. They all left for South Carolina.
Young Benjamin must have felt at home in Holland with his new three brothers and two sisters, that he later named his Home in South Carolina "Middleburg".
As others before me I could not confirm that Simons himself was a Huguenot, using the CBR lists in The Hague.
To read more: History of Middleburg Plantation
