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  Listing last updated on 15 Dec 2022.
South Carolina
United States
Nicholas Herbemont (1771- June 1839), a pioneer of American viticulture, was born in Champagne, France and settled in South Carolina in the early 1800s. He married Caroline Smyth (1767 Exeter, Devon - 1836 Charleston SC), second daughter of Gilbert Sampson Neyle (1733 Exeter, Devon - 1791 Charleston SC) and widow of Bartlee Smyth, on July 27, 1808.

[From Race & Slavery Petitions Project, Petition 21384139, June 24, 2002:] Prior to her 1808 marriage, the late Caroline Herbemont placed her “lands and slaves” in a trust estate for herself. By a marriage settlement, she was to retain use of the property during her lifetime, and at her death, it was to go to her husband, Nicholas Herbemont....Caroline died in 1836.

[From Pioneering American Wine, ed. by David S. Shields, 2009, p. 9:] Herbemont removed to the inland capital, Columbia, and married the English-born widow and heiress Caroline Neylor Smythe...His wife owned an entire city block in walking distance from the college [of South Carolina], an area now bounded by the Gervais, Bull, Lady, and Pickens Streets. ...in 1809 planted an extensive urban garden....His experiments in viticulture began in 1809, commencing in his city garden where, along with half a dozen varieties of grape, he planted roses, figs, plums and apple trees.

[From Rose Letter, February 2013, p. 5:] In 1808 Caroline Neyle of Charleston, widow of Bartlee Smyth, married the viticulturist Nicholas Herbemont, a founding member of the South Carolina Agricultural Society. Whereas he was the first American to make wine in the French manner, Caroline Herbemont was the first known American woman to breed roses. An heiress, she brought to her marriage a huge city block estate in Columbia, South Carolina, where the couple lived at Laurel Park. There in the 1830s or earlier, she produced several of her own roses.....Mrs. Caroline Herbemont died in 1836.

[From Columbia Star, May 27, 2016:] Nicholas Herbemont, a native of the Champagne region of France, fled France’s revolution to settle in Columbia and married the widow Carolina Neylor Smythe. Herbemont and Carolina lived on an entire city block bordered by Lady, Bull, Gervais, and Pickens streets. It was there that Nicholas planted his first grape vines.
 
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