Thanks for posting this...makes terrific reading, and offers some great new facts (for me, at least). I look forward to visiting this park and other RevWar historic locations in the Southland.
There is a bit of a mystery regarding the Marquis of Britigny (Marquis de Bretagne). Apparently that was a nom de guerre, along with “Captain Cosmo de Medici.”
He is believed by the NC Grand Lodge to actually have been Francois Sevelinges, who settled after the war at New Bern, and prospered exporting tobacco there until the market went bust again (it was a continual boom-bust cycle from the 1600’s on).
Interesting history in it’s own right, with him.