Were off to the Greeks. So cool fun fact, Charlestons first Greek immigrant was Maria Gracia Turnbull, who may have been the first Greek woman in North America. Maria and her husband Andrew arrived in Charleston in 1781. The Greek Orthodox Church has always been the focal point of the local Greek community. In 1908 the first Greek Orthodox Liturgy was performed in St. Johns Episcopal Church. In March of 1911 The Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church was built. in 1960 Demetrios Liollio designed a school building behind the Hellenic Center. 

Today well be talking about the Germans that immagrated to Charleston. Early Settlers from Germany areas came from Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia and other areas leaving behind famine, war, and hunger for the possibility of a better life in the New World. The Germans came over in small waves in the 18th Century. The first German Lutherans held their first recorded worship service in Charleston in 1734. The Second wave of immigrants come in the mid 19th century. Germans participated fully in the Southern Cause during the Civil War, raising six militia companies and an artillery battalion.

The first Scots in Charleston arrived in the late 17th century. in 1685 they united with Huguenots from France, Congregationalists from England and New England, and other Christians from Ireland to form the Independent Church of Charleston on Meeting Street, where the Circular Congregational Church now Stands. in 1731 twelve Scottish families, about 30 people, withdrew peaceably from Congregational Church so they could form a church that would be governed according to the form and discipline of the Church of Scotland.  The new church became known as the "Scots Kirk" or Scots Meeting House, and in 1734 they built a wooden structure at Meeting and Tradd Streets as a place of worship.

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Though no record exists, legend has it that Spanish priests celebrated Mass in the area as early as 1526, long before Charles Townes English settlers arrived in 1670. Catholics came to colonial Carolina despite a ban on Catholicism enacted for fear that Catholics would conspire with the Spanish against the English colony. However, there were no established Catholic congregations until after the American Revolution. 

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The English expedition that established the first Carolina settlement stopped at Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, to recruit Irish servants, but did not meet with much success. To many Catholic Irish, the Americas were a place of banishment from where no one ever returned. Nonetheless, some Irish, especially Protestants, did come to the early colony. The 18th century also saw a large influx of Scots/Irish settlers to South Carolinas interior and some established businesses in Charleston. Most settled on the upper part of the peninsula were instrumental in founding the Second Presbyterian Church in 1809. One of those founder James Adger from County Antrim was a merchant on upper King Street, though later he moved south of Broad to a house on Meeting Street. 

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Charleston is home to one of the oldest Jewish settlements in the United States. Jews began arriving her as early as 1694 and by 1800 Charleston boasted the largest population in North American. The First Immigrants were mainly Sephardim, people of Spanish and Portuguese ancestry, who came from England, the Netherlands and the West Indies to Charles Town, the new British outpost in North America. over the course of the 18th Century, increasing numbers of Ashkenazic Jews came from the German Speaking states and Poland, and from Atlantic coast seaports.

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Today were talking about the French Protestants known as the French Huguenots who fled religious persecution under Louis XIV had a significant impact on the early Charles Towne Colony. Though many arrived impoverished the Huguenots skills and education allowed them to quickly establish themselves as merchants and craftsmen. Many Huguenot names figure in the history of the city, such as Ravenel, Gillard, Porcher, Laurens, and Mazyck. Two large groups of Frenchmen came to South Carolina. in 1755 more than 1000 Acadian exiles were sent to the colony from Nova Scotia.  from 1793 until the Republic of Haiti was declared in 1804 about 500 refugees from Saint Domingue came to the city during the Haitian Revolution. Charlestons Huguenot Church is the only surviving Huguenot Church in the United States to remain independent of other denominations and retain the historic liturgy of the French Protestant Church, 

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Today were gonna talk about how the Caribbean and Barbadian people have influenced the Carolinas, especially Charleston. As the Lords Proprietors sent out the Barbados Proclamation, inviting those interested in leaving the island to undertake an expedition back to Charles Town. The Carolinas essentially became the "Colony of a Colony" a Colony of Barbados. The early Barbadian government was promulgated through the Anglican Church, the Epsicopal Church in the Carolinas. In the early history of Barbados it was illegal to educate the enslaved as it was the Carolinas. Religious groups such as the Society of Quakers, the Society fro the Propagation of the Gospel, and the Moravian Church were some of the early groups to violate those laws. To communicate enslaved Africans who were captured from different parts of West Africa and spoke different languages came up with a language that mixed West African and English dialects known as Bajan in Barbados and Gullah in the Carolinas. 

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Here come the English.  The English have alot more influence on Charleston than people may think. Alot of Georgian and Carolinian taste are simular, from furniture, to silver, to elegant pieces, to clothing, portraits, newspapers, gambling, spirits, and religion. Even though these English moved to the new world, the people still had vested interest in England.