MCD Planning Committee

Upcoming Events

MCD Family Reunion 2025

24 七月 @ Holiday Inn Express & Suites Williamsburg by IHG

About

This organization is used by the Mirualt Cuyler Dowse Family and Reunion Committee to announce and celebrate MCD Family events and activities.Our family arrived in Savannah, a city built on a bluff overlooking the Savannah River in the late 1700s and early 1800s as free people of color, West Indian immigrants. Fleeing Saint Domingue (Spanish controlled Dominican Republic today) and French plantations (known today as Haiti).A few ancestors came as French-Haitian soldiers fighting the British in the American Revolutionary War 1778-1776 and others came during the Haitian Revolution 1791-1804. According to Whittington B, Johnson in his book Black Savannah 1788-1864 “Most of the Black Catholics were immigrants from Saint Domingue, but their American-born children joined other churches, Protestant and Episcopalian."