Taudonniere, Rene

de (d. after 1586), founded a Huguenot colony in 1564 at Fort Caroline, Florida (Port Royal, S. C.), which was destroyed by the Spaniards under Menendez in 1565. He published a history of Florida in 1586. Vol, V.—25 Laurens, Henry (1724-1792), was a member of the first South Carolina Provincial Congre in 1775. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the Continental Congre from 1777 to 1780, and was its president from 1777 to1778. He was appointed Minister to Holland in; 1779; was captured during the voyage by the British, and confined in prison for fifteen months. In 1781 he was appointed one of the commi ioners to negotiate a treaty of peace with Great Britain. In 1782 he signed the preliminary Treaty of Paris. Impaired health forced him to retire from public life. 393