Purrysburg, South Carolina

[1] Purrysburg (aka Purysburg, Purrysburgh, Purysburgh, Purisburg, Purisbourg) was named after Jean-Pierre Purry,[2] of the De Pury family from Neuchâtel which during this time did not belong to Switzerland as it does today, but to the King of Prussia.

[4] Pury first delivered his plan to the Duke of Newcastle as a representative of the Lord Proprietors, but roused no interest.

He was trying to strengthen and expand frontier settlement by any European Protestants to block French and Spanish expansion.

The settlers were primarily French and German speaking Swiss Protestants from Neuchâtel and Geneva.

More recently the townsite was explored by archaeologists with the LAMAR Institute for its Revolutionary War battlefield.