An Investigation into the Family of

An Original Charles Town, Carolina Immigrant,

Robert Dews

[ca. 1684, St. Peters, All Saints Parish, Barbados – Sept. 1^st 1722,

St. Phillips Parish, Charles Town, Carolina, at about age 35,]

And Associated Families.

Records compiled by Steven W. Due. Last modified on Dec. 29^th 2009.

Antecedents:

In the ancient dark days of medieval illiteracy, only a few Royal Scribes, Priests, and Monks could read and write in Latin when the Dew family emerged as part of the landed gentry of Britain.

A few of the phonetic variations of this surname arising from the long shadows of antiquity were de Eu, d’Eu, de Ew, de Ewe, d’Ewe, Dewe, Dew, Doe, Do, Du, Due, among other sound-alike mutations, including adding “s” inappropriately as in the plural form. This was further complicated by the fact that the Celtic population called anyone of dark Romanesque complexion as “Dhu” regardless of family origin. It also appears that Douse, or Dowse, was a name used a short period by this Dew family

But this surname appears to have originated from the town, river, and county of Eu in Norman inhabited France before the conquest. It was regionally derived from the expression d’Eu meaning “of Eu,” and many from this region came to England with the Knights of the conquest. But some of them came to England both earlier, and later.

It has been reported that this family was seated from earliest times in Lancashire where they were granted land by William, Duke of Normandy, their Liege Lord, for distinguished service at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. This particular Sept may have come from Normandy with the aforesaid invasion forces of William ‘the Conqueror,” who by force “took back” his rightfully promised crown from his cousin Harold, but it is possible that a related Sept of the Dew clan may have also occupied the “Emerald Isles” from as early as the Roman occupation period.

Thus seated in fief by William the Conqueror, this Doe (sic) Dewe clan from Eu is implied to have Norman roots (Men from the North,) that extended further back into the Scandinavian Nations from whence the Viking Longboats sailed long ago.

The ancestry of the Dewe/Dew family cannot be traced any further by surnames that did not actually exist prior to the Doomsday Book in 1084. But this family descended out of the same line as William, Duke of Normandy, and came to England as Knights of the Hastings Invasion. A record of this family exists with limited reliability back to Scandanavia as early as about 805 A. D. beginning with an earliest figure who may or may not have been mythical:

House of Dewe (d’Eu)

Eynstein Glumra, the Noisy Jarl (Earl) from Uppsala, Sweden (c. 1788 - ?)

And his wife Ascrida Yngling (c. 805, Ragnvaldsdottir - ?)

Ragnvald, I, the Wise Jarl (Earl) (c. 820 - 890)

He married unknown.

Ganger Hrlof Rollon, Duc of Ragnvaldsddottir

(c. 845/6 – 931/2, Normandy, Fr.)

Who married Poppa Bayeux Valois of Senlis (c. 848 -?)

Guillaume, I, Longue Epee Duc of Normandy

(c. 876-942, Picquigny, Somme, Fr.)

Who married Sprota Adela of Senlis (c. b. 918- c. b. 934)

Richard, I, Sanspeur Duc

(c. 933, Fecamp, Normandy, Fr. – c. 996 Fecamp, Normandy, Rf.)

Who married Gonnor of Crepon, Orglandes, Fr., (c. 936, Denmark – c. 1031)

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Geoffrey, Count d’Eu (c. a. 970 - c. 1015) Robert, Count d’Eu, his brother.

1. Geoffrey, Count d’Eu [ aft. 970 – ca. 1015]

Sp: unknown

This line is generally accepted and approved Royal European linage.

2. Gilbertus, d’Eu [unknown, genealogy of the Monks of Lockinge, Berks]

3. Gilbertus, d’Eu [unknown, genealogy of the Monks of Lockinge, Berks]

Joycelyn le Breton [unknown, of Britain, but returned to the County of Eu, Fr., before 1066 where he became

a Knight of the Norman Invasion at the Battle of Hastings. Later he became a beneficiary of the Monks of

Lockinge,Berks, and his genealogy is mentioned in their records. Son: Randolph d’Eu.]

4 through 35.

Joycelyn received land in Fief from relatives William I, Henry I, & William d’Eu (a Count of Eu,) after the Invasion. Joycelyn lived in Berkshire and he can be surmised as the patriarch of the Clan D’Eu that originated the Dewe family of Berkshire & Oxfordshire through the ensuing 25 generations. They had relatives spread far and wide about England, Scotland, and Ireland, but it appears to be the Berkshire branch from which our line descends. There is no ironclad proof, but many implications are noticed in historical accounts of Oxford & Berks.

Year

1086: Jocelyn de Breton held land in Denchworth, and Peteorde, Berkshire County granted him by William de Eu, the same who possessed fiefs all over England from Wales, to Norfolk, and nearly all the southern shires or counties which were granted him by King William, I “the Conqueror,” and his heirs, after the conquest. Jocelyn was a 3^rd cousin of William de Eu.

1095: William de Eu, one of the foremost barons of the post conquest period, held something in excess of 336 hides in eight counties. William de Eu was caught up in the war of the barons against William Rufus. He lost the first trial of combat conducted in England at Windsor, Berkshire against his accuser Geoffrey Bainard. Consequently he was blinded, casterated, then drawn, and quartered at Windsor Castle, Berkshire. His lands were confiscated. [Anglo Saxon England, Vol. 10, p 151; A History of Feudalism: British & Continental, p 43, A. D. 1095-6]

1135: Randolph de Eu, a son of Jocelyn de Breton, held lands in Berkshire, part of an original fief of

William de Eu.

1195: A William de Eu was recorded in Oxford.

1216: Joldewin de Due (Doe) given lands by Henry III for his “good and faithful services” in the war

with the Barons.

1227: Joldewin de Doe held lands in Pidinton, and Wrastlingworth, and is given a villa in Petinton.

Patent Rolls Henry III:

Nov. 30^th 1234, Kempton:

Grant to William Huntercumbe of the land which Joldewin de Doe held of the King and which lately belonged to the Count of Boulogne in Wrastingwurth, to hold until the King surrenders it to the right heirs by reason of good will or by a peace, and if it be surrendered he or his heirs shall not be disseized of it until the King make them reasonable compensation in wards or escheats. (Wrastingwurth is about a mile west of Abington, Berkshire.)

June 8^th 1235, Windsor, Berkshire:

Grant to Hugh de Patbeahull of custody during the minority of the heir of the land and heir of Richard de Eu, in the King’s hands by reason of his custody of the land, and heir of G. sometimes Earl of Gloucester with marriage of the heir.

1237: John de Eu was a prominent Oxford Burgess. Worton Manor had passed to him.

1242: John de Eu served at term in Oxford public office.

1261: William de Eu served a term as Oxford Bailiff.

Oxford City Documents, Financial and Judicial 1258-1665, pa. 13:

Anno. Maior (Mayor) ballivi (Bailiff)

1263 William de Ew

1264 William de Ew

1267 Phillip de Ew

1268 John de Ew

1269 Phillip de Ew

1274 John de Ew

1278 Phillip de Eu

Phillip de Eu

Phillip de Ew

1284

Peter de Eu

1290 John de Eu sons Nicholas & Roger were

Oxford graduates.

1296 Ralph Do- parson at Stokrivers.

Phillip de Eu

John de Eu

John de Eu

1318 Phillip de Eu

Phillip de Eu led riots Abington.

Early History of Balliol College, p 111:, abstract.

1282: John de Ew (Will of 1290) was the father of Thomas (eldest), Nicholas, and Roger, who were Oxford graduates. The father John de Ew was a Burgess of Oxford, and sold “Mary’s Hall” tenement and land to Dervorgoilla, mother of John Balloil, King of Scots. She established the Balloil College of Scholars at Oxford purchasing buildings and land from, among others, John de Ew, adjacent to Walter Feteplace whose descendant family later intermarried with the Dews of Oxfordshire, and Berkshire. The names of families had been somewhat altered by time.

History of Exeter College, Oxford:

1330 Chekerhalle at Exeter College belonged to Phillip de Eu.

Note that during the next sixty years the practice of recording and using this family name changed from the usual “de Eu” to “de Ew.” It then came into use just as Dew, and Dewe. It was also frequently interchangeably used and recorded on documents as Do, Doe, and Dooe which all sounded alike.

East Hendred, a Berkshire Parish Historically Treated, 1823, Arthur L. Humphreys:

“The old Berkshire family of Doe is found represented in East Hendred. In the reign of Elizabeth, a messauge and land in East Hendred called “Church Howse land” formerly owned by Donnington Priory, and then in possession of Humphrey Forester were sold by him to William Dooe in 1587.

And in the Patent Rolls (1599-1600, pa. 47) of Queen Elizabeth, there is a grant to John Dooe of a messauge,

& etc. in East Hendred.

The Does had succeeded the Winchcombes in Lockinge, but before that time they were associated with other places in the neighborhood.

A John Do lived at Steventon in the fifteenth century, and in the Church there a brass dated 1476 commemorates Richard Do and his wife.

(A Richard Dewe held tenements in South Morton, Berks during the last of the 14^th century in 1391. It appears that either he, or his son was the Richard Do commemorated at Steventon.)

(By the marriage of John Doe to Johanna, a daughter of John Winchcombe and his wife Elizabeth Hyde, the Manor of Lockinge came to John Doe as his wife’s dower - SD.)

In the Parish Registers of Lockinge are numerous references to the family, one of the earliest being to “Agnes Doe, daughter of John Doe, was baptized ye 7^th day of Januarie, 1548.”

(Agnes Doe was married to Robert Shearer of Brinksworth, Wilts. Her son John Sheared was heir to the estate of Edward Dew 1632, of Harwell - SD.”

[A John Doe, of Lockinge, issued a son Robert Doo who was christened on Jan. 19^th 1556 in Blewbury, Berks.

- IGI]

The Does intermarried with the Keate family, and a monument exists in Lockinge Church to Edward Keat and “Joane his wife, ye eldest daughter of John Doe.” It was by the marriage of Joan Doe to Edward Keat in 1565 that the Manor of Lockinge passed from being property of John Doe into possession of the Keate family.

(Joan Doe, Keate was co-heiress with her brother John Doe, in the estate of their father John Doe.)

In the Parish Registers there is also an entry that in “April, 1599, John Doe’s servant, gored by a bull, was

buryed.”

In the Parish Registers of Blewbury and Upton there are numerous items relating to the family. Among the State Papers of the time of Queen Elizabeth is a record of the examination of John Doe and Richard Buckley, Paptists in 1587, who were taken in the house of “Mr. Yates of Lyfford.” They confessed to hearing mass, and being reconciled to Rome when Campion was at Lyford, and it is recorded that Popish relics were found in their possession.

The name of Thomas Doe appears in the Diocesan Returns of Recusants in 1577 under “Lamburne Hundred.”

The Wills of Richard Doe, 1576, and John Doe, 1585, of Hendred, are named in the list of Wills.

The Dew family was associated with East Hendred in the 17^th century, and is chiefly known from the bequests of three members of this family to the poor of the Parish. In the Report on East Hendred Charities printed in 1909 they are mentioned as Thomas Dew (no date,) William Dew (no date,) and Elizabeth Dew in 1685 (Will, 1685, East Hendred.)

In the list of Wills there are three; Henry Dew (1601); William Dew (1681); and William Dew (1681.) A Probate of the Will of William Dew, the elder, dated 1681, was offered for sale some years ago.

A Richard Dew was one of the Commissioners of the Land Tax in Berkshire in 1656. He is probably the same as the one whose name occurs in the “Terrier” of 1634 as holding land in East Hendred. The widow “Dewe” is also mentioned in the same document.” [Note that this could have been the Widow of the London Stationer, Annie Dew, near her brother-in-law Richard Dew who later became a Sheriff of Berkshire. - SD]

36. Richard Dewe [ ? of Lockinge, Berks. – 1476, Lockinge, Berks]. Sp: Margaret

John Dewe [bef. 1523, Lockinge, Berks – ca. 1585 East Lockinge, Berks] Sp: First name unknown Winchcombe. Edward’s mother may have been a alternate wife…

37. Edward Dewe [ca. 1562, Lockinge, Berks – ca. 1632, Harwell, “Hendred of Moreton” Berks.] Sp: Agnes Loder [ca. 1567, Harwell, Berks – (1624/34) Harwell, Berks]

38, Thomas Dewe [ca. 1584, Harwell, Berks – ca. 1625, St. Dunstan’s, Fleet St., Stepney, Middlesex, London] A Stationer of London. Sp: Annie Helmes [10 March 1581, Clapping, Lancashire – aft. 1627, London.] There is no direct proof of his linage except a preponderance of evidence that causeGenealogists to conclude that Thomas was a deceased son of Edward at the time of his Will in 1632. His younger brother Richard Dewe was a one-time Sheriff of Berkshire, married Elizabeth Tesdale, a daughter of Richard Tesdale, the younger Saddler of Abingdon. Richard Dew made his Will in 1660, and was granted Arms in 1661. Richard Executed Edward’s 1632 Will.

From him, Thomas Dewe at least 11 more generations have issued, many of them in America. More work is

needed, but from what is now known, and by this knowledge implicated, a rational genealogical history emerges,

encompassing at least 50 generations of this family.

A preview of one line of descendancy of Thomas, son of Thomas & Annie Helm, Dewe, through his son Capt. Thomas Dewe (s,) through the 18^th Century, is shown below.

Lt. Col. Thomas Dewes = Elizabeth Bennett

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Andrew Dewes | Elizabeth Dews Ann Dewes Richard Dewes John Dewes

Ann Duncombe/ | John Welsh Ellin _____ Elizabeth Shearer

Duncan | Jane Napper

|_________________________

m1: Joan Ward = m2: Anne McKenzie = Capt. Thomas Dews = m3 (1656) : Mary McKenzie

| | |

James Dew |_Mary Ann Dews |_Jemima Dews

m: Mary | m1: John Smyth | m1: Rev. John Kenny

| | | |

James Dew | Edward Smyth | m2: Alexander Skene, Esq.

| | |

| m2: Arthur Middleton, Esq. | |_Jane Skene

| | | |

| |_? | |_Lilly Skene

| | |

| m3: Ralph Izard | |_Col. John Skene

| | | m1: Hannah Palmer

| |_Ralph Izard | |

| | m1: Magdalene Eliz. de Chastaigner | |_Alex. Skene

| | | | m2: Judith Wragg

| | |_Martha Izard |

| | | m: Edward Fenwick |

| | | |_Robert Dews

| | |_Henry Izard m: Mary Baker

| | m: Margaret Johnson |

| | m: Charlotte Broughton |_Bethel Dews

| | | m: Sarah Croskeys

| | m2: Rebecca Lindrey | |

| | m: Colin Campbell | |

| | | |_Robert Dews, d. young

| |_Walter Izard | |

| m: Mary Frances Turgis | |_Sarah Louise Dews

| | m: Thomas Threadcraft

|_Ensign Thomas Dews | |

| m: ? | Bethel Baker

| | Threadcraft, b. 1765

|_Ensign David Dews | m1: Margurite Poyas

| | |

|_Sarah Dews | |_Mary Baker

| m1: Richard Fowell | | Threadcraft,

| | | | b. 1794

| | | | m: John Ralph

| |_Lois Fowell | | Rogers

| m: Capt. Anthony Matthews | |

| | | |_ Ann Margaret

| |_Anthony Matthews | Threadcraft

| | m: Anne Bradford | m: George

| | | Thompson

| |_Elizabeth Matthews |

| | m: Francis Holmes |_Capt Wm. Dews

| | m1: Mary (Haig, d/o Charity Haig?)

| |_Benjamin Matthews |_Mary Dews

| | m: Mary Raven | m: Wm. Williamson

| | |

| |_James Matthews |_Benjamin Dews

| | m: Elizabeth Wilkins

| | m2: Lois Wilkins

| |_John Matthews |

| | m: Sarah Gibbs |_Robert Dews, b. 1745

| | m1: Susannah

| |_Amy Matthews Catherine Emory

| | m: Robert Randall m2: Elizabeth Emory

| | m3: Nancy Augusta

| | Tassell

| | m4: Mary (McQueen?)

| |_William Matthews

| | m: Mary Loughton m3: Mary Lee

| | |

| |_Sarah Matthews |_James Dew, b. c. 1750

| | m1: John Croskeys | m: Christiana Gordon

| | | |

| | |_Elizabeth Croskeys |_Seth Dew, b. c. 1754

| | | m: Obadiah Wilkins | m: Lydia Ray

| | | |

| | |_Margaret Croskeys |_John Dew

| | m: Bethel Dews (see right f. l.) |

| | |

| | m2: Samuel Lluellin |_

| | m3: William Wilkins |

| | | |

| | |_Elizabeth Wilkins |_

| | | |

| | |_Eleanor Wilkins |

| | | m: George Sheed |_

| | | |

| | |_Mary Wilkins |

| | | m: John Sims White |_Eliza. Dew, b. 1770

| | | | m: Thomas Rice

| | |_Amelia Wilkins |

| | | m1: Wm Capers |_

| | | m2: Peter La Quieu |

| | | |

| | |_Lois Wilkins |_Ann Dew, b. 1774

| | | m: Capt Wm. Dews m: Robert Reeves

| | | |

| | | |_Robert Dews (see right flowline)

| | |

| | |_Ann Wilkins

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| |_George Matthews

| m2: Edward Middleton, Sr.

| |

| |_Arthur Middleton, Esq.

| m: Sarah Amory

| |

| |_Wm Middleton

| | m1: Mary Izard

| | m2: Mary Morton

| |

| |_Hester Middleton, died young

| |

| |_ Henry Middleton

| | m1: Mary Baker Williams

| | m2: Maria Henrietta Bull

| | m3: Mary McKenzie

| |

| |_Thomas Middleton

| m1: Mary Bull

| m2: Anne Barnwell

| m3: Job Howe

| |

| |_Robert Howe

| m: Mary Moore

| |

| |_Robert Howe

| | m: Susanna Elizabeth Guerin

| |

| |_Job Howe

| m1: Martha Jones

| m2: Elizabeth Waters

| m3: Jane ----

| |

| |_General Robert Howe

|_Captain George Dews (He may be the son of Annie’s niece Mary MacKenzie)

| m: Anne Welsh

| |

| |_George Dews

| | m: Patience ____

| |

| |_Anne Dews

| | m:

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| |_Mary Dews

| | m:

|_(Annie/Catherine/Elizabeth?) Dews (Likewise, she may have been a daughter of Mary MacKenzie.)

m: Edward Fisher

In fact, William the Conqueror mandated the use of surnames in England when he required the first census to be taken in 1084. It was called “The Doomsday Book.”

A Walter de Douai also called Walscin, a nickname, was listed in the Doomsday Book, being from Douai, Nord. He had holdings in Devon, Essex, Somerset, Surrey, Wilts in 1084. But Walter had only one known son Robert, and Robert had no male heirs known. He is probably not the source of any of said Dewe clan.

Instead, Jocelyn le Breton, a great grandson of Geoffery, 1st Count of Eu, who returned to Eu, France from England to fight as a Knight for William, Duke of Normandy at Hastings, and his son Randolph d’Eu who received fiefs in Berkshire, and elsewhere, comprise the probable source for the great clan of Dewe in England. His 3rd Cousin William Count d’Eu gave his Berkshire fiefs to Jocelyn, and Henry d’Eu, younger brother of William was in Sussex, England after the conquest, but if William had male heirs, they have not been noted. Henry d’Eu, the younger brother of William has not been fully explored.

England

For the next 500 years, the Dewe progeny spread out occupying the girth and breadth of England from Wales to Norfolk, and parts of nearly all the southern Shires, especially along the midlands that served London by the waterway of the Thames River (Iris River.)

A branch of this clan long dwelt in the Shires of Oxford, Berks, and Wilts, probably out of Jocelyn le Breton (born in Britain,) through his son Randolph d’Eu, became members of a Yeoman class of tenement farmers. One of the descendants was Edward Dewe that arose to wealth by astute business practice. This family and their kith, were supportive of schools and colleges, and they issued sons some whom became Physicians, Mercers (Merchants,) Clothiers, and Stationers, and from the latter came the adventurers, and tillers in the colonial “New World” across the Atlantic.

Preface:

Missouri, and Missourians: Land of Contrasts, and People of Achievement, p. 369:

“The Dew family is one of the oldest in America, and also one of the oldest of whom there is a consecutive record in England… Thomas Dew of St. Dunstans, London, “Citizen, and Stationer” died March 13^th 1624. His wife was Anne, and they were the parents of Col. Thomas Dewe (of Virginia)…”

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Col. Thomas Dewe, of Nanesmond, Virginia produced two well-documented descendant lines that came out of his sons Andrew, and John Dewe. But his other known children Ann, Elizabeth, Richard, and Thomas Dewe have been given little attention by genealogists, and almost no research has been done to discover their respective descendant lines. This neglect has resulted because these children spent much of their time in England, and later in the Caribbean. Their offspring did not dwell in Virginia, but entered the colonies elsewhere at Charles Town, Carolina, or in Maryland.

It appears to me that most of these remaining untraced children, with the possible exception of Elizabeth, all perished in the Caribbean, or West Indies, specifically noted in Barbados and Bermuda.

Much of the following is well established and proved, but even though I have not been able to prove these additional lines to the point of removing any doubt, I have developed a large body of implicative evidence to support the genealogy of most of these children. It is based on the preponderance of collected evidence. This work can serve as a platform for future genealogical research by those that follow me. There is room for improving this assemblage of data, and in it's interpretation. I now present this evidence beginning with an antecedent named Thomas Dewe. One of them was noticed early in Virginia, in Bermuda, elsewhere in the West Indies, and who lived last in Virginia where he perished in 1691. I also mention his father, and others.

Was Thomas Dewe, Stationer of London the first colonial immigrant?:

Let me explain that the following historical data is sufficient to persuade me that 23 year-old Thomas Dew, the elder, then an Apprentice at the St. Dunstan’s Bookstore, Fleet Street, London, may have been the very first adventurer of this family in America.

I am convinced that he received a legacy in 1608 given by his father Edward Dew that enabled his subscription and investment in the London Company of Virginia. The exact form and fashion that this legacy took has not been specifically determined. It may have been in the form of an endowment of money combined with his father’s assistance in extracting him from his work obligation in London as a Stationer’s Apprentice, his oversight and the support of Thomas Dew’s wife and children in remaining England, and his provision for education of the children of his eldest son while he was away adventuring in Virginia. Clearly the first six years in Virginia (1608 – 1614) were essentially a profitless period until tobacco became a cash-earning crop.

It appears that Thomas Dew’s fervent desire to adventure to Virginia was so enthusiastic that either he, or his father by some inducement, convinced his brother-in-law John Helme to allow him this adventure, releasing him of his work commitment at the London bookstore.

But under English law the Indenture was still in effect. He knew that if Royal or Virginia Company authorities at the Port of London should discover that he was still bound by an Indenture then they would have been obliged to prevent him from sailing to Virginia.

So when Thomas paid the Twelve Pound Passage Fee necessary embark upon the second supply ship “Mary and Margaret” it appears that he falsely submitted his surname as “Dowse” as a precaution against any potential impasse. Payment of his passage fee made him a subscriber and investor in the London Company of Virginia as an adventurer. Thomas Dowse came to Virginia classified as a laborer, apparently leaving his wife and children behind in England until several years later.

Although the observed facts seem to support his adventure to Virginia, I have not yet been able to prove this matter for good reason. His successful use of an alias apparently left behind a trail of identity confusion that later would even affect his eldest son Thomas, at times.

Narrative of Early Virginia (1606 – 1625): page 160, et al.

In the yeare 1606 Captaine Newport with three ships; the “Susan Constant,” the “Discoverie,” & the Godspeede” discovered the bay of Chessiopeock, and leaving in Virginia a colony of about 100 person of sundery qualities and arts, returned to England. They named their settlement Jamestown in honor of King James. In the first twenty days these colonists discovered a ten-year old boy with light skin, and blond hair who was living among the Indians, and was likely a remnant of the 1587 lost Roanoke Island colony that disappeared before 1590.

The next ships arriving were the Mary and Margaret, and the Newport.

The ship “Mary and Margaret” sailed from Jamestown to England on June 22^nd 1607.

On Jan. 2^nd 1608 the First Supply arrived in two ships the “John & Francis,” and the “Phoenix” with 120 new passengers.

In January of 1608 the “Newport” returned to Jamestown. Aboard her were 100 more settlers. Only 38 survivors remained at Jamestown when she arrived.

In June 2^nd of 1608, The “Phoenix,” Capt. Nelson’s ship, on which Capt. John Smith arrived, left for England.

In Sept. 1608 the ship ‘Mary & John” arrives in Jamestown.

In early October 1608, the ship “Mary & John” left Jamestown for England, and during this same month, the Second Supply ship the “Mary and Margaret”arrived.

Second Supply by the “Mary and Margaret” – departed Sept. 1608:

“Capt. Newport being dispatched with tryals of pitch, tarre, glasse, frankincense, and sope ashes, with that clapbord and wainscot [which] could be provided, met with Mr. Scrivener at Point Comfort, and so returned for England, leaving us in all 200, with those he brought us. The names of those in this supply are these:

(among them were:) Thomas Dowse, a labourer.”

[Was he the Stationer’s Apprentice of London, at age 23, arriving under an alias?]

John Dauxe, Gentleman.

Ancient Planters:

Thomas Dowse of England, paid his passage, and arrived in Virginia as a Labourer on the Second Supply ship “Mary and Margaret” commanded by Capt. Christopher Newport in October of 1608.

The next year in 1609, Thomas Dowse and Thomas Mallard became privy to a conspiracy with the Indians formulated by two Dutchmen, William Volday, a Switzer, and one Bentley, a fugitive. It was a plot that Dowse & Mallard chose to reveal to Capt. Smith circumventing damage to the colony.

The Third Supply ships, of which there were nine, which were expected to arrive in Virginia before the winter of 1609, had been badly battered by a hurricane. One ship sank. The lead ship “Sea Venture” was shipwrecked on a reef at Somers Island where the survivors began rebuilding two ships. The remaining ships limped into Jamestown in August with 400 more settlers to feed, some of them sick, having insufficient food on board to maintain them through the winter.

The severe winter of 1609 was called “The Starving Time” in Virginia. The fall crop had been scant, and grain soon ran short. The James River soon froze over. Icicles hung everywhere. When victuals began to run out, valuable work tools, and arms were traded for a pittance in food. Housing was broken up for firewood. Chief Powhatan renewed his enmity against the settlers, and now they were trapped within the walls of Jamestown where they consumed all the livestock, then all the pets, then the rats and mice, and eventually turned to cannibalism. Braving death by Indians, they sneaked out at night to excavate graves of settlers and Indians alike to eat the corpses. Most of the Virginia colonists perished of cold, disease, and starvation during this period.

On May 23^rd 1610 the “Deliverance,” and the “Patience,” ships built in Somers Island out of the wreckage of the “Sea Venture” at Somers Island, arrived in Virginia to find Jamestown in ruins. Only sixty starved survivors remained out of the five hundred, or thereabouts, souls left there in the previous fall. By June 7^th 1610, Jamestown was abandoned, and the surviving settlers started down the river in boats.

On June 8^th 1610, the very next day arrived, Thomas West, 3^rd Lord de La Warr in the “Godspeede,” with his other ships; the “Mary & James,” the “Mary & Margaret,” the “Noah,” the “Prosperous,” the “Starr,” the “Swann,” and the “Tryall” arrived in Virginia meeting the departing boats abandoning Jamestown less than ten miles down the river at Mulberry Island, and he Ordered the settlers back to Jamestown.

In 1611, the Boroughs of Elizabeth Citty, and Henrico Citty were formed marking the first expansion of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.

In 1612, John Rolfe grew the first sweet West Indian Tobacco crop, a Spanish variety, in Virginia. It was a crop that saved the colony. Sir Thomas Dale, replacing Deputy Governor George Percy, arrives with 280 people, and assumes control.

After Lord de La Warr’s militia dealt with the Powhatan Indians, he set about searching for exploitable minerals in Virginia. Prior to a Council meeting, John Rolfe, in place of William Strachey, was asked by de La Warr “Have you heard the news of the men who were sent to search for minerals.” Rolfe replied “No my Lord.” “Well you might as well hear it from me. They were wiped out except for one man.” Rolfe: “How could that happen?” “The best I can glean from the only survivor, they had made their way up the river as far as Appomatocs. There they saw a party of Indian women on shore. The women were naked and beckoned the barge to pull into shore. With very little deliberation our men decided to stop to disport with these sirens. They were then lured into the lodge and attacked.” Rolfe: “And then?” “There is little to say. The one survivor is a man named Thomas Dowse who evidently is quick on his feet, and managed to dodge a shower of arrows on his way to the boat.” Rolfe: “What will we do now my Lord?” “I will discuss that with the Council this evening. I want to continue our search for minerals. We must make the colony profitable. But it will not be easy. The men who were most knowledgeable about minerals were on that miserable boat.” This historical account is from: John Rolfe of Virginia, p. 111

In 1612 the first 60 English settlers from London arrived on Somers Island with its first governor Sir Richard Moore. [ History of Bermuda ]

In September of 1612, Lt. Governor, Sir Thomas Dale, with 350 men start building Henricus, Va.

In 1614 the first Virginia grown Tobacco (14 tonnes) was sold in London.

There were no Dewes counted among the 117 adventurers & settlers of Bermuda (Somers Is.,) taken from “Letters of Patents of King James of Blessed Memorie” in March of 1614 on ships the “Blessing,” and the “Star,” and there appears to exists no other early passenger lists for ships from England to Bermuda after the initial settlement. I have not been able to identify any of these additional early planters until the Petition of 1628. There may be some existing early Plantation Deeds, or records that I have not found. - S. Due

History of Exeter College – cxxvii:

“There was a Thomas Dewe, plebe of Oxford who was matriculated on December 13^th 1615.”

The First Republic in America: An Account of the Origin of this Nation:

p. 314: “The Corporation of the City of Henricus was then only one Burrough. The Planters at Arrahattock, Coxendale, and Henrico, uniting, elected (as their first Burgesses) Thomas Dowse, and John Polentine.”

p. 561: (Testimony about an alleged debt of Mr. Whitaker who died before May 1617:)

“Martha Sizemoure who lived at Mr. Whitaker’s house both before and at the time of his death knew nothing of his owing Martin any corn, and stated that Whitaker had been obliged to buy corn for himself from Thomas Dowse.”

Ancient Planters (1618):

Thomas Dowse (sic) received his first grant of land authorized in 1618 by Sir Thomas Dale located within the bounds of the Corporation of the Citty of Henricus. Capt. Argall awarded this tract to Thomas Dowse for his personal adventure. This land was one of the finest tracts found situated within a forty square kilometer area set aside the next year for the first college in Virginia.

John Smith (1580-1631): The General Historie of Virginia… :

In 1618 eleven ships with 1216 persons arrived in Virginia, and leaving the passengers and inbound cargo, these ships departed with Virginia tobacco.

Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly: (First Legislature of the Virginia Colony)

p. 249: “July 30^th 1619: Thomas Dowse elected Burgess for the Citty of Henricus.”

p. 256: “Names of the Committees for perusing the first and third Books of the Fower:

(Included among the others was:)

Thomas Douse, who came to Virginia in 1608.”

Annual Report of the American Historical Association:

p. 307 “Thomas Dowse, and John Polentine represented (as the first Burgesses) the citty of Henricus located in what is now known as Dutch Gap. (Thomas Dowse) came to Virginia as early as 1608, and was one of the few early settlers that survived.”

John Smith (1580-1631): The General Historie of Virginia… :

In 1620, twenty-one ships having 400 sailors, and 1300 men, women, and children arrived in Virginia leaving passengers, and inbound cargo, then departed with Virginia tobacco.

[The previous records of Thomas Dowse given above, except the College record of his son, may apply to the Thomas Dew who became a London Stationer in 1621, a man who was an early investor subscriber of the London Company of Virginia, as was his son of the same forename. - SD.]

Thomas Dewe (age 18) and Elizabeth Bennett (age 17) are thought to have married in about 1620 in London. But they could just as likely have been married in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, or by the Captain of one of her uncle Edward Bennett’s ships, at sea. They were assuredly married long before 1625 whch marks the birth year of their earliest known surviving child Andrew Dew, as the record shows us.

It appears that young man Thomas Dew may have matriculated from Exeter College at Oxford in 1615 sent there by his grandfather Edward Dew perhaps while his father was adventuring in Virginia. Afterwards Thomas Dew could have worked for his aunt, the widow Annie Helmes who alone was now the proprietor at her Bookstore in London.

Elizabeth Bennett and Thomas Dew could have known each other as youngsters since the days of the organization of the London Company of Virginia, when perhaps Edward Dew became involved in the aspirations of Thomas Dew, his eldest son, who had ambitions to adventure in Virginia, and needed his help.

And certainly Thomas Dew may have courted Elizabeth Bennett in London where she resided in the period leading to their marriage. They may have occasionally attended the “Ancient Church” in Amsterdam influenced by her wealthy uncle Edward Bennett, an elder in this church, who was often there.

Elizabeth Bennett, born about 1602/03 in London, England, may have been a daughter of Robert Bennett [ch: Apr. 27th, 1571, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, Eng. - ca. 1623, Virginia] and his first wife Elizabeth Lee. There is an IGI record to this effect. Robert was a brother of Edward Bennett, Merchant of London, an investor in the Virginia Company, and he was also an uncle of Maj. Gen. Richard Bennett of Nanesmond, who became Governor of Virginia. Elizabeth's mother may have been related to the Cromwells. But this relationship is by no means certain, however, she was almost certainly related to the Bennett family that occupied the midlands, and southwest England.

The aforesaid Thomas Dewe was one of the sons of Stationer Thomas Dewe, and his wife Annie Helmes. At age 41 his father. Thomas Dewe became a freed & licensed Guild Stationer at St. Dunstan’s Churchyard on Fleet Street in London. He made a nuncupative Will in 1624. Unfortunately, Thomas Dew’s verbal Will did not name the children that he mentioned. He simply left the disbursement of estate to his surviving widow, Anne H. (Helmes,) Dewe. Therefore, the identities of his children must be determined by careful deduction.

Annie Helmes’ older brother was John Helmes who married Annie Brittaine.

Thomas Dewe (17) and Annie Helmes (?) were married while her brother John

Helmes was himself bound as an Apprentice to Master Nicholas Ling at the

Bookstore located at St. Dunstan’s Churchyard in about 1600.

John Helmes became a freed & licensed Stationer at this shop about 1607. He bound his brother-in-law Thomas Dew as his Apprentice. How long his actual labor as an apprentice lasted is actually not known. I am persuaded that Helme verbally released Thomas from the labor required by his bond of servitude in 1608 thus allowing Thomas to adventure in Virginia in that year (He was a subscriber and investor in the London Company of Virginia by virtue of paying his own passage.) Virginia is where he apparently dwelt until about 1620. The year before (in 1619) Thomas Dowse (sic) Dewe was elected one of the first Burgesses in Virginia representing the Citty of Henricus.

Helme’s widow Annie may have written a letter to Thomas in Virginia asking him to return to London as her full partner in the bookstore, expressing her commitment to assuming a silent roll in the business arrangement she offered him. The trials and tribulations he experienced in Virginia may have encouraged Thomas to take his family back to London to join in this partnership offer.

So far his adventure in Virginia had proved a miserable time of suffering starvation, laboring at arduous work, fighting dangerous Indians, and of making little profit. Yet at the end of his Virginia adventure (1614 – 1620,) Tobacco production was showing great promise. During the later part of this period Thomas Dowse may have accumulated some minor degree of wealth, and he owned 400 acres of good arable land assets in Virginia since 1618, awarded for his adventure. He planted with indentured labor gained by paying the passage of inbound passengers, and in 1619 he was elected one of the first Burgesses of the government of Virginia representing the Borough of Henrico Citty.

It is known that Thomas Dewe became a free and licensed London Guild Stationer at the St. Dunstans Bookstore in 1621 just a few years after the death of John Helme. Business at the bookstore may have previously declined with the widow Annie Helme as the resident Stationer.

It is known that thenceforth Thomas Dewe worked as a London Stationer with his sister-in-law, Anne Brittaine, Helmes as his silent partner. This partnership continued until his untimely death in March of 1624. Even though there are certain unproved speculations about the early activities of the London Stationer Thomas Dew that are made in my above characterization of events, these speculations do conform quite well to the discovered facts now in evidence.

It is of some interest that in 1624, Augustine Matthews printed a book “The English mans doctor, or The Schoole of Salerne, by Johannes, de Mediolano, London, for Thomas Dewe, “and it to bee sold at his shop in Saint Dunstons Church-Yard in Fleet Street.” It may have been a printing fee due for publishing this last book that required Stationer Thomas Dewe to borrow money from his now wealthy daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Underwood.

It is interesting too that Capt. Anthony Matthews, a mariner of Virginia, Caribbean, & Charles Town, Carolina was said born in London about three decades later. I have proved no lineal connection between these two Matthews men at this point.

It may also be of some interest that consecutive Stationers at St. Dunstan’s: Nicholas Ling; John Helmes; & Thomas Dewe held the original copyrights to the printed works of William Shakespear a man that some think was actually Sir. Francis Bacon of Stratford on Avon.

From the beginning the London Stationer’s Apprentice, Thomas Dewe viewed the new “London Company” Charter as an exciting opportunity for potential profit in the new world colonies. London buzzed with the news among merchants and businessmen, many of whom became investors. It is my opinion that sometime after this opportunity arose, the wealthy patriarch Edward Dewe, & his wife Agnes Loder, Dewe of Berkshire gave living legacies to their eldest son, and his sons being their descendant grandsons. These legacies of inheritance developed into their investments, and subscriptions to the “London Company of Virginia,” and fostered their incentives to go forth and plant in the colonies. Edward Dewe may have also compensated Stationer John Helme for releasing his son Thomas from his Apprentice work at the St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West, bookstore. These legacies explain why none of his grandsons, sons of the Stationer, were mentioned as his heirs in the 1632 Will of Edward Dewe. It seems that his grandson Thomas Dewe (age 32) had younger sisters; Elizabeth, Maria, and Margaret “Margery” Dewe, all under the age of 31, were named heirs of their grandfather Edward Dewe. Other male siblings, children of the deceased Stationer’s family are possible.

It is believed that after his Oxford education and marriage in England, Edward’s grandson, Thomas Doe (sic,) son of the Stationer, came to Virginia with his new family.

His father, also named Thomas, seems to have recently adventured in Virginia using the alias “Dowse” in order to conceal a binding Indenture as a Stationer’s Apprentice in England, but at the prompting of his sister-in-law, Annie Brittaine, Helmes, a recent widow, he returned to London in 1620 to be freed of his bonds as Apprentice, become a full-fledged Stationer, and run the London Bookstore at St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West. No doubt the elder Thomas Dew passed hisVirginia assets to his eldest son Thomas who soon left London to continue the Virginia adventure in his father’s place. After arriving back in London, one of the Stationer’s daughters was mentioned in the Churchwarden’s Accounts at St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West on Jan. 1^st 1621/2. Her given name, and nature of the account is yet unknown.

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His son Thomas Dew was often confused in Virginia with the name Dowse that his father used there. His father-in-law Robert Bennett & perhaps some of his family came on the “Sea Flower” along with 125 settlers in November of 1621. Perhaps Thomas Doe (sic,) son of the Stationer, and his family came on the same, or another ship at about the same time, however the exact arrival date, and name of the ship is yet undetermined.

About four months after their arrival an Indian attack made on Good Friday March 22^nd 1622 destroyed the plantation called “Bennett’s Welcome,” a Patent of Edward Bennett where 53 settlers were killed in this attack. Over 347 Virginia settlers in all were estimated killed in this massacre. Governor Francis Wyatt ordered Capt. Ralph Hamor to bring the survivors to Jamestown Island on April 19^th 1622. [Records of the Virginia Company of London, Book III, part ii, p. 50a]

On October 7^th 1622, Edward Bennett of the plantation of Warascoake requested that his people might be returned thereto. [Records of the Virginia Company of London, Vol. II, pp 104-105]

While returning to England from Virginia the “Seaflower” was accidentally blown up at Somers Island where she was then moored. A new ship of that name was soon built.

From Original List of Persons of Quality who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations - submitted to the London Company dated February 16^th 1623 (a survey:)

Page 175 Margery Dawse At Champlain’s Choice Feb. 16^th 1623

Page 177 Mr. Robert Bennett At James Island ditto

Page 177 Thomas Doe, ux Doe Main River Dist, James Citty ditto

Note: Ux: Also Uxor. A legal term in Latin specifically denoting “wife, “

but in a general sense can mean “…and family of.”

The same Dew family may have been counted by a different surveyor at Elizabeth Citty:

Page 183 Mr. Thomas Dowse At Elizabeth Citty ditto

Bennett

Page 183 Mrs. Dowse, ux: Bennett, pur: { ditto

Bennett

At Elizabeth Citty, at Bucke Row

pur: may refer to repatriated, or displaced, or poor people. Therefore, Mr. & Mrs Dowse were

listed separately at Elizabeth City, counted on the same page. Mrs. Dowse, who may have been

Nee, Bennett, had living with her two displaced persons, probably children, named Bennett. They

Were likely her younger siblings, her parents being deceased. Thomas Doe, & Thomas Dowse, as

well as their wives, appear to be identical families. They appear to be counted twice over two different

surveys by men who confused them from the Stationer’s use of his alias name Dowse.– SD.

On the above mentioned survey of Virginia that was submitted on Feb. 16^th 1623, Thomas Doe (sic,) ux Doe (sic,) the eldest son of the Stationer, and his family, were counted on Hotton’s List in the Main River District of James Citty, Virginia.

Upon this same survey taken by a different counter, the Stationer’s son Thomas Dew was apparently counted again at Elizabeth Citty as “Mr. Thomas Dowse. (His name appears to have been confused, and he was duplicated because the surveyor was made aware that this person was a son of the Mr. Dowse who came in 1608, a man who had returned to England by 1621. Because of his father’s use of an alias, his son was apparently counted as two separate men, both Doe, and Dowse.)

Also found dwelling nearby in Elizabeth Citty on this census was “Mrs. Dowse (sic,) ux: Bennett, pur: two other Bennetts, at Bucke Row “ being persons who were apparently some members of the family of Robert Bennett. The record shows that with Mrs. Dowse were dwelling a Mrs. Bennett, and two other Bennetts, probably children.

One way of interpreting this particular Elizabeth Citty household is that Elizabeth Bennett, Dowse (sic,) Dew, wife of Thomas Dowse (sic) Dew is staying with her mother, or stepmother, (ux: Bennett) and her siblings, or stepsiblings (pur: Bennett) being the family of Proprietor Robert Bennett. He was a brother of Edward Bennett appointed to managed his brother’s plantation “Bennett’s Welcome.” Robert Bennett was counted on this census at James Island, whereas upon this same census Thomas Dowse (sic) Dew seems to be attending planting details of his father’s idled property within the Borough of Elizabeth Citty since his father recently returned to London. It was now about time to break ground, in preparation for the spring planting.

We know that Robert Bennett, brother of Edward, still survived until after June 9^th 1623 when he posted a letter of that date from “Bennett’s Welcome” plantation to his wealthy brother Edward Bennett residing in St. Bartholomew Parish, London. Robert Bennett appears on the February 16^th 1623 census apparently counted at James Island. His letter to brother Edward was written at “Bennett’s Welcome” after this survey was taken, and it mentions his wife and children that are still living on June 9^th of that year. He mentioned some of his children who were in England. But before the ship “Ann” sailed to England carrying his letter, Robert Bennett, he, and apparently all those in his Virginia household, perished of a fever.

It appears that it was the earlier presence of Thomas Dew’s father Thomas Dowse, an Ancient Planter, a first Burgess of Henrico, and a former resident at Elizabeth Citty that caused both the unusual alternate use of his name, and therefore his duplication on this list. [Hotten’s Lists] To me this record seems to confirm that the eldest son of the abovementioned Burgess, having the same forename, was married to Elizabeth Bennett. And it may also indicate that a close relative of elder Thomas Dowse (sic) was the current second wife of Robert Bennett. Was she Elizabeth Bennett, Dew’s aunt by marriage, an older daughter of Stationer Thomas Dew, and his wife Annie Helme, Dew, a daughter that perished in Virginia in 1623 along with her husband Robert Bennett and the young children? The Bennetts, and Dews of London appear to have had a mutual affiliation with the Ancient Church at Amsterdam, Netherlands. Therefore it is possible that records kept by the fleet of Edward Bennett, an elder in this church, whose ships may have carried them there, as well as the archives in Holland may harbor some records about their families that are not discovered in England.

Reprisals in Virginia against the Indians that were involved in the recent massacre of March 22^nd 1623 soon allowed settlers to begin rebuilding burned-out plantations.

On August 7^th 1623, the ship “Ann” arrived at James Citty from England. Before the “Ann” departed, Robert Bennett, manager of Edward Bennett’s plantation, and all of his family who were living in his house there, perished of a fever.

When the “Ann” departed it is believed that Thomas Doe (sic,) son of the London Stationer, and his family returned to England aboard her.

On March 13^th 1624, Thomas Dew’s father, the London Stationer was ill and had taken to his bed where he made an oral, or nun-cupative Will, then perished by April 1^st that year. His son Thomas Dew (at age 23) was not mentioned being present when his father’s oral Will was made. The probate of the Stationer’s estate was not completed until 1625. The details of this said probate by his wife Anne have not been discovered, but very likely his eldest son Thomas Dew, as primogenitor, would ultimately expect to inherit any of his father’s property in the English midlands of Berks, or Oxon.

The First Republic in America, page 619:

Persons living in Elizabeth City recorded between June 1624, and March 1625:

“Thomas Douse, and Francis Mason.”

It appears that Thomas Douse (sic,) Dew, eldest son of the Stationer, returned to Virginia in August of 1624 on the “George,” or upon a ship that immediately followed her.

The nuncupative Will of Thomas Dew of the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, Citizen, and Stationer of London, having the intention to declare his Will, uttered these words or the like in effect on the 13th of March 1624:

“All that I have I give to you (I E: Annie H. Dew, his wife) &c.” She then asked

him what he would give to his father & mother, and he said “…He would leave it

to her but if she thought fit, his Will was they should get some of his clothes.” This was

spoken in the presence of Annie, his wife, Elizabeth Dew, his sister, and Marie

Price his maidservant. And further on March 14th 1624, being demanded by

Mr. John Beliald if he had made his Will, and what course he had taken for the

payment of certain monies which he owed, he said “I have not made a Will, but as I

had all my estate by my wife, and children, so do I leave all unto them, and I will charge

my wife to deal well with Mrs. Elizabeth Underwood, etc,.” which was spoken in

the presence of the said John Beliald, Elizabeth Dew, and Marie Price. [Dated

Mar. 13th 1624, proved April 1st 1624 (P. C. C. 43, Clarke)]

Note that a Mr. John Belliald, of Milton, Nottinghamshire, England is noted in a

Grant from King Charles I on Dec. 5th 1631. Grant being passed from his

grandfather Richard Billiald to his father Thomas Billiald. [University of

Nottingham, NE D 2411]

Either stated, or implied by his nuncupative Will:

Wife: Annie Helmes, Dew

sister: Elizabeth Dew, who could have been his sister-in-law, Nee: Teasdale.

daughter: deceased wife of John Beliald.

daughter: Mrs. Underwood, found to be Elizabeth Dew, Underwood whose

sister Margaret Dewe, Underwood came to Isle of Wight, Virginia, and was mentioned in her grandfather's Will.

daughter: Maria Dewe, Price, maidservant.

Children that not identified in his nuncupative Will:

daughter: Margaret (“Margery?”) Dewe, married William Underwood. She was mentioned in her grandfather’s Will. Went to Virginia.

son: Thomas Dewe, married Elizabeth Bennett. He was a Colonial Virginia immigrant.

son: Joseph Dewe, immigrated to Virginia, and St. Kitts.

son: Ralph Dewe, immigrated to Virginia.

son: John Dewe, immigrated to Barbados.

Note that there may have been an unknown older daughter who married Robert Bennett as his second wife, and who may have perished in Virginia.

The John Dewe, who was born about 1617 in Virginia, of London, England, who owned land in Barbados in 1638 was very likely the immigrant Thomas Dew's brother. It is believed that he married Katherine Kigan, daughter of Karbry Kigan. This John Dewe was deceased prior to Jan. 12, 1657 when Karby Kigan's Will in Isle of Wight, Virginia named heir a granddaughter Katherine Dew, the surviving daughter of John Dew. However, this Will of Karby Kigan has also been transcribed showing the name Dew, as it was originally transcribed, to be Tew, instead. Since I have not seen the original, I accept the first translation.

A John Dewe died ca. Dec. 12th 1678 (age 42) in Isle of Wight, Virginia who left a surviving relict, Elizabeth Shearer, Dewe in Isle of Wight, Virginia. It is claimed that this particular John Dewe was born ca. Apr. 8th 1636 in Nansemond, Lower Norfork, Va., a son of Lt Col. Thomas & Elizabeth Dewe (But he is not mentioned as a Lt Col in the Virginia Register until 1646, and Deed records of 1643 recorded at a later date.)

After the estate of Stationer Thomas Dew was settled, it appears that his widow Annie Helmes, Dewe, her children, and the family of her son Thomas Doe (sic) all resided in Berkshire at an estate that was probably later inherited by his eldest son Thomas Doe (sic) Dewe. This estate was probably situated in the “East Hendred” where “ye widow Dewe” is found taxed in 1634.

Thomas Doe (sic,) eldest son of the Stationer became a London Merchant who, for several years afterwards, dispatched shipments to provide the essential requirements of colonial settlements, & plantations. He often took payment for these supplies in Tobacco.

The First Republic of America: An Account of the Origins of this Nation:

Pages 560-561:

“As soon as knowledge of the great want in Virginia became known in England steps were at once taken to supply the colonists. The “George,” a ship of 180 tons, sailed about August 14^th 1624 with 241 hogsheads of victuals and other necessary provisions by diverse private adventurers, among others, namely:

Mr. Thomas Douse, sendeth 2 ¼ Tons 9 hogsheads.

Note that this man above appears to be Thomas Dew, son of the deceased London Stationer, still having his name confused by his father’s use of the name Dowse, or Douse. It seems that he came back from London to Virginia either upon the George, or a following ship.

A Muster of the Inhabitente of Elizabeth Cittie Beyond the Hampton River Beinge the Companyes Land (circa 1625):

A List of Dead Beyond Hampton River:

Mr. Dowse, his men, 2 (Two of Thomas Dew’s indentured men were killed.)

Apparently only his unidentified men were dead. It appears that Mr. Dowse (sic) voyaged to England during the same year, and returned to Virginia on an unidentified ship.

In c. 1625, Elizabeth Bennett, Dew, wife of Thomas Dew,

gave birth to Andrew Dew in Berkshire England, where she then

resided. This assures us that Thomas Dew and his wife Elizabeth

were obviously united together thereabouts nine months earlier.

Jan. 10^th 1626: A Court at James Citty:

“It is Ordered ye servant of Capt. Douse shall have two yeares time abated unto him of ye seven yeares to begine to be accounted at ye time of ye said Robert Todd’s arrival here.” Todd came over with Capt. Prince.

Robert Todd came on the 1622 voyage of the “Hopewell” with Capt. Prince. Robert Todd was

enumerated on the 1625 muster of Elizabeth City, Virginia, aged 20, a servant to William Tiller. The

Minutes of the Council and General Court for the 10^th day of January 1626 at James Citty states that

Richard Roper was a witness for a case involving servant Robert Todd, Capt. Douse, Christopher

Windmill, and Capt. Prince. Christopher Windmill came over on the “Bona Nova” in 1619.

[Note that this is essentially the last record found regarding a Douse, or Dowse in early Virginia. Apparently the name was henceforth recorded as Dew, Dewe or Dewes. The record above is apparently of Thomas Dewe, eldest son of the Stationer. – SD.]

On Oct. 8^th 1626, Elizabeth Bennett, Dew, wife of Thomas Dew, gave birth to Thomas Dew in Kingston Lisle, Berkshire where she then resided. Thus it would appear that Thomas and Elizabeth Dew were together thereabouts the month of January, some nine months earlier.

1626 – 1628: We also note the conspicuous absence of any surviving children of Thomas Dew and wife Elizabeth in the period from about 1626 until 1632. This seems to testify to a lengthy separation when Thomas and some of his older children were planting on Somers Island (Bermuda,) and in Virginia, while his wife Elizabeth, and the youngest children remained in England.

By 1628, it is likely that Elizabeth Bennett, Dewe wife of Thomas, had already experienced at least four or more pregnancies, and some of these children survived. It is said that gave birth in 1625, in Berkshire, England, to Andrew Dewe who died ca. 1661 (age 35) in Virginia. She then gave birth to Thomas Dewe in 1626, he being Christened on Oct. 8th, 1626 in Kingston Lisle, Berkshire, England, and in October of 1634 she gave birth to Ann Dewe, christened on November 21st, 1634 at St. Andrews, Holborn, London, England, the same daughter whom she brought to Virginia when Ann was just nine months old. Elizabeth left her remaining children behind in England attending school or in the care of servants. It appears that there were at least four unknown children that were born quite early. It is almost certain that one of them was named Edward Dewe. By 1632 it appears that Thomas & Elizabeth Dewe had at least six surviving children leaving us with four whose identities have not been established.

Virginia Carolorum: the Colony Under the Rule of Charles 1^st, & Charles 2^nd, 1625 A.D., p 247, footnote 1: “Henry Woodhouse when Governor of Bermuda (Somers Island) [1623 – 1626] wrote to London in 1627 that one third of the settlers there were disposed to go to Virginia. Among the prominent Planters there (Somers Island) were Thomas Dew, and Ben Harrison. They were probably the same persons with these names who a few years later are Planters in Virginia.”

Colonial Records of Bermuda 1616 –1640:

In September of 1626, John Welsh was Council for the Devonshire Tribe, of Somers Island (Bermuda) when Samuel Tatum, and other Inhabitants, signed a complaint against Captain Stokes.

In 1627: “The Corporacon of Charles Citte” shows a Thomas Dowse having 400 acres planted, land granted in 1626. [Hotton’s Lists, p. 267] Apparently Thomas Dew was planting in Virginia by 1626, and also operating a plantation on Somers Island. This is not a far-fetched conclusion, and it doesn’t mean that he had to be in more than one place at the same time. Planting and harvest times were not the same for each place. Both slave, and indentured labor existed in both places by then. Thomas Doe (sic) was also recorded as being a merchant of London. Apparently Thomas Dew, Dewe, Dowse, and Doe were names sometimes confused, often the same man – apparently a very busy one.

But there was an early man called Thomas Douse, or Dowes, who arrived from England on the ship “Mary & Margaret” commanded by Capt. Newport in 1608. I now believe he was the same man Thomas Dew who later became a London Guild London Stationer in 1621, but the facts are very difficult to sort out.

It is observed possible that after apprenticing for a year at the Bookstore in London that Thomas Dew, the elder, subscribed to the Virginia Company of London by paying his passage fee under an alias, and came to Virginia on the “Mary & Margaret” commanded by Capt. Newport. He may have been recorded there as Thomas Dowse, or Douse until after 1617 when word of the failing health, and death of Stationer John Helme arrived. Later in 1619-20 the urging of Annie Helme may have convinced him to return from Virginia to England as her partner in the bookstore.

Afterwards it may have been his son Thomas Dew who married to Elizabeth Bennett that made records given the name Dowse, or Douse, or Doe in Virginia. However my characterization of these events has not yet been proved.

Thomas Dowse was alleged privy to a conspiracy fomented in Virginia in 1609. He is thought to have been the Thomas Dowse who sold corn to Whitaker before his death, mentioned in testimony of Martha Sizemoure in May of 1617. He was elected a Burgess to the first legislature of Virginia on July 30^th 1619 from the Citty of Henricus. He was appointed upon a 1619 committee for perusing the first and third books of the fower in Virginia.

Then there is the Thomas Dowse who in 1627 “the Corporacon of Charles Citty” said had 400 acres planted. Finally there is the “Thomas Dowse, his men - 2” of no discernable date (about 1624-25) on “a list of the dead beyond Hampton River…” Was Thomas dead, or just his men? Apparently it was just his two unidentified men who were his indentured servants. A Thomas Dowse and Mrs. Dowse were among the “Settlers living at Elizabeth Cittye” Feb. 16^th 1623/24. (This last entry appears to be the Stationer’s son.)

I maintain that there exists some confusion about Thomas Dowse, Douse, and Dewe, and it is difficult to determine who was actually who in these records. It appears that there were two men involved in this confusion, and just who the first actually was, and if he was related to the son of the London Stationer, is still a matter unsettled.

Some think that the London Stationer was the man who made the Virginia records up until 1617, but returned to the Bookstore in London, and it was his son that made the Virginia records after this date. - SD. Sources:

Narratives of Early Virginia (1606-1625), p 160

Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, pp 239, 256

History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia, p. 136

First Republic in America: An Account of the Origin of this Nation, pp 560, 561

Theodore Moyses arrived on the “London Merchant” in March of 1620. Both Thomas Doe and Theodore Moyses were mentioned at plantation “Archers Hope” and “James Citty (1627-1629.)”

On June 4, 1628 Thomas Dewe, - & children (who were not named,) signed a Petition:

“Petition of the Poor Planters of Somers Island, being above three score, mostly humbly sheweth that whereas the greatest part of your poor petitioners have lived in the said islands ever since the infancy of the plantation there, and imployed all their estate and industry in fortifying the same by the space of six years, without any profit at all.

So it is that your poor petitioners coming late from England with some small means in tobacco to relieve themselves and families, the same hath remained near four months in the customs house under our imposition of nine pence in the pound cleare, although we pay no duties to His Majestie.

May it further please your Lordship, the most part of your petitioners have ever since their coming into England, gone upon the score, for victuals, lodging and clothes, and those worne out yet unpaid for, and some arrested, and the rest of us in daily danger of being arrested; and some of us are turned out from their places where they lay to shift for themselves, amongst which are women and children, and all of us driven to the extremity that wee shall never be able to return to our children and families in the islands without your Lordshipps speedy favor herein, all which their necessities and distressed case, they most humbly present to Your Lordships, beseeching your honors the time for their return being short, that your Lordships will be pleased to vouchsafe your favorable mediation and meanes to His Majesty that his poor miserable subjects, your supplicants may have their Tobacco by Bills of Store for this present yeare; and when any further order shall by His Majesty and your Lordships wisdoms bee taken for regulating of that commodity we will in all dutiful obedience submit unto it; and ever pray for his Majesty and your Lordships long lives and eternal felicity.”

“Robert Staples Rev. Wm. Bennett Richard Leicroft Robert Harrison

William Bullock James Wharly Abraham Sheeves RobertThurlington

Richard Wallet Henry Dixon Robert Crofts Alexander Mare

Samuel Tatum Percivall Neale John Hall Francis Boulton

Xpofer Crofts Robert Burgesse Peregoine Brittaine Henry Treadwell

Benjamin Harrison John Haddon George Needham Walter Wood

Nicholas Rainton Walter Downman Giles Marsh Tho. Lullett

Thomas Powell William Banister Christopher Lafield Henry Clark

John Parrett Edward Plumer Henry Johnston Charles Overton

John Webb Richard Bosse Edward Dixe Daniel Sares

Simon Barrett Matthew Thomas Edward Burges William Hornwall

Thomas Delamore William Baker James Teige Phillip Freestone

George Vittall Ann Heys- & children Edward Crafts- children Howell Morris

Abigail Bents Daniel Funoz Sarah Prosser- children Thomas Dewe-& children

Richard Phillips Anne Harvard John Marsh Mary Coates

John Waters Anne Woolsay John Howell Anne Smith

George Tennant Elizabeth Bishop William Raggedall Jane West”

[Sixty-eight parties, and an undisclosed number of unnamed children subscribed to this Petition. (House of Commons, London)]

It appears that the Stationer’s son Thomas Dew (Doe) & his wife were in Virginia as early as 1622, but because of the illness, & subsequent death of his in-laws, he returned to London in about 1623. His father the London Stationer soon perished in 1624. The son Thomas became a London merchant supplying the colonial settlements for compensation in Tobacco. After conditions improved in the plantations Thomas and some of his children adventured as Planters on Somers Island in both the Caribbean, and in Virginia prior to 1628. The language of the above Petition implies that he had been planting on Somers Island for at least one season. It seems from the following records that Thomas Dewe, and Elizabeth his wife planted in "Archer's Hope," in Virginia for at least one season where in 1629 he was recorded as a Burgess. He was called a London Merchant in 1630 when returning from Virginia with Tobacco. They removed to Association Island about 1631. The Providence Company opened "Old Providence Island" to English Planters in 1631, and Thomas Doe of Association Island removed there and planted on this Island for at least two seasons before returning to the mainland of Virginia where he is subsequently found in 1632 or 1633, however, in 1635 he was still being called "a Planter of Providence." Captain Anthony Hilton was Governor of Tortuga, AKA: Association Island, in 1632, and Old Providence was off the east bank of Central America, while New Providence was in the Bahamas. His passage via Tortuga, where he had problems with Capt. Hilton in 1632, implies that Old Providence Island might have been his destination.

Note that his children, mentioned in the above Petition traveling with their father, but without their mother, would likely have been beyond the age of four. This suggests that his marriage to Elizabeth occurred sometime before 1623 when Thomas Doe & wife were noted living in the "Maine" District of James Citty after the Great Indian massacre, and they were also noted at Elizabeth Citty in an apparent duplication of the Virginia record.

“Thomas Dew was a signer of many of the old plantation records in Bermuda (Somers Island) in the early days of its settlement.” [Ernestine White]

On October 16th 1629 Thomas Doe and Theodore Moyses were elected Burgesses representing "Archer's Hope," in James Citty, Virginia. [Hening's Statutes at Large] Both Moyses & Doe are said to have arrived earlier on the “London Merchant,” but Thomas Doe was not among those listed on the March 1620 Manifest of Passengers of the “London Merchant;” however, Thomas Moyses was included on this manifest. The plantation of "Archer's Hope" was located opposite to the plantation "Bennett's Welcome" just across the James River.

On Oct. 6^th 1630, Thomas Doe & Co. [A. S. Lanham], in the “Friendshipp” of London, imported 7,000 Lb. of Virginia Tobacco. He was a London Merchant. [Digital Library of Virginia]

On February 6. 1631, “Upon petition of Mrs. Dew that her husband might have leave to remove from Association Island to Providence Island and have six servants allowed to him, and she be permitted to go in the next ship with an advance of twenty Pounds for her outfit.”

At the time of this record, his destination appears to have been "Old Providence Island" off the coast of Central America, he having earlier planted on Somers Island prior to 1628, at Archer's Hope in Virginia in 1629, thence removing to Association Island about 1630. The Providence Company had just opened "Old Providence Island" to adventurous English Planters.

Six servants were allowed to Planters without extra passage fee by both the Virginia Company of London, and the Providence Company. For this reason their children were often listed as servants. If this practice held true in this instance for Thomas Dew, then he had at least six children by 1631. Only two of his children of this age group are identified; Andrew Dewe, born ca. 1625; & Thomas Dewe, born ca. 1626.

November 1632: (London, England) “Planters intending for Providence are allowed to pay for their passage from the proceeds of their labor… Mrs. Dew asks that her husband be permitted to go from Amsterdam to Providence on “The Eagle” with six servants allowed to him, and that she may go on the next ship.”

On December 2^nd 1632, when the “Eagle” arrived at Association Island Capt Anthony Hilton, (governor of said island,) has accused Thomas Dew of mutiny. Thomas Dew continued the voyage on the “Eagle” to old Providence Island.

Complaints had formerly been lodged against Captain Anthony Hilton for “taking” ship’s cargo, as well as the personal possessions of passengers, whereby allegedly abusing his authority as Governor. Hilton now claimed that Dew was mutinously running away from his obligation at Association Island.

Note further that children were often listed as “servants” on such voyages. If

these were his children, then certainly some of them would lilely need be issued prior to

1625, and they are some of his unidentified offspring that probably perished before

arriving at the age of maturity.

Brooke House, London, Minutes of a Court for Providence Island: (pp 139-140)

On Dec. 6^th 1632 “Upon a Petition of Mrs. Dew that her husband might have leave to remove from Association Island to Providence Island, and to have six servants allowed to him, and that she be permitted to go on the next ship with an advance of Twenty Shillings for her outfit. A Warrant for her husband’s removal was granted, the loan is refused, and her proposition is referred for consideration.” [Colonial Entry Books, Vol. III, pp 46-48]

In 1633, a Thomas Doe “settled” in Virginia.

In 1633, Thomas Dewe, John Carter, Daniell Coogan, and William Parker are found representing Upper Norfolk, Virginia at a Grand Assembly of Virginia.

Brooke House, London: Minutes of a Court for Providence Island, pa. 173:

On December 2^nd 1633: “Tho. Dew accused by Capt. Hilton of mutiny at Association, directed to prepare his answer against the next meeting.” [Colonial Entry Book, Vol. III, pp 118-119]

Brooke House, London: Minutes of a Court for Providence Island, pa. 173:

December 6^th 1633, London: “Tho. Dew denied Capt. Hilton’s accusation of an intention to run away from Association; 500 Pounds of Tobacco brought by him (Thomas Dew) in the “Dainty. Ordered to be given up to him upon certain circumstances.” [Colonial Entry Book, Vol. III, pp 119-120]

On January 25, 1634 a Thomas Dewe witnessed a grant concerning four persons transported to Virginia. [He may have witnessed this grant in London.]

Brooke House, London: Minutes of a Court for Povidence Island: (pa. 175):

On February 12, 1634, [London, CCSP: Calendar of State Papers ] “License to Thomas Dew to dispose of his tobacco on payment of all disbursements for his accounts. The accusation charged on him by Captain Hilton remitted. Dew names persons fit to manage the Government of Association Island.“

Dew suggested “Captain Christopher Wormerly, Governor of Association Island.” [Colonial Entry Book, Vol. III, pa. 126]

1634: Terrier of East Hendred, Berkshire, England:

“All the tithe corn and haye of the lands of ye widow Dewe containing one yeard land.”

“All the tithe corn and haye of the land of Richard Dewe containing halfe a yeard land.”

[Note that Richard Dew was one of the “Commissioners of the Land Tax in Berkshire” in 1656.]

On Nov. 21^st 1634 Ann Dewe, daughter of Thomas Dew, & wife Elizabeth was christened in St. Andrew Holborn, in London England. It appears that she perished after 1703 on St. Georges Island, Bermuda, and it is suspected that she married John Welch, Jr. who planted on Bermuda while it was still called Somers Island.

1634: Francis Goodman arrived in Virginia. Three years later in 1637, Thomas Dewe of Upper Norfolk, Virginia, claimed headrights for land for Goodman’s transportation. [C & P]

Original List of Persons of Quality who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations , p 81:

In May 21^st 1635, a Jo(seph). Doe, age 22, to be transported by Warrant of the Earle of Carlisle to St. Christopher’s, (now St. Kitts,) imbarqued in “the Mathew” of London. “Joe Doe settled in St. Christopher’s in 1635.”

May 1635: “The Expectation,” from London at Providence Island: “Mr. Dew, Planter of Providence, Island…,” (departing from Providence to Virginia, on the way to London?) was mentioned. [Thomas Dew is not noticed appearing among the incoming passengers of the Expectation from London; therefore, he is presumed to have been among the outgoing passengers to Virginia, then on to London. - S. Due]

Original List of Persons of Quality who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, p 109:

July 13^th 1635: Persons to be transported by “The Alice” from London to Virginia. Captain Richard Orchard:

Elizabeth Dew (32) (Elizabeth was born in 1603)

Ann Dew (9 months (Ann was born in October 1634, her

youngest)

Notice that in 1632 Elizabeth Dewe had expressed her intention, and made a

Request for herself to go to Providence Island on the next ship after The Eagle, the

ship upon which she requested passage for her husband and six servants allowed

him, this ship embarking from Amsterdam to Providence Island. Records make it is

clear that the Eagle actually carried her husband to the Caribbean in 1632.

It is also certain that Elizabeth herself returned to England some time before 1635, the year when she is found establishing passage to Virginia with her youngest child, Ann. But since no later records are found in Virginia, regarding Elizabeth Dew, this seems to indicate that she also returned from Virginia to England soon again after this voyage was made to Virginia.

Original List of Persons of Quality who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, p 122:

In August of 1635 Thomas Doe, age 33, to be transported to Virginia, imbarqued in “the Safety.”

In 1635, a Ralph Doe “settled” in Virginia. He was likely a brother of

Thomas Dew.

In 1636, a John Doe “settled” in Virginia. He was likely a brother of Thomas Dew who shortly moved to Barbados.

1637: Thomas Dewe of Upper Norfolk, Va., claimed head rights on several persons for transporting them to Virginia. (This transportation would have taken place at least three years prior to the claim, occurring on or before 1634.)

In 1638 a John Dew was included on a list of inhabitants of Barbados who owned more that ten acres of land. We would expect this John Dew to have been born on or before 1617, an adult. Both an Edward Bennet, and an Edward Brown appeared on this same list. Bennet was alleged to be a cousin of Col. Thomas Dew. We are told that Thomas Dew, of Virginia fame, married Elizabeth Bennett, however we must remember that Colonel Thomas Dewe’s uncle Richard Dewes married Elizabeth Bennett, a daughter of Richard Bennett and Elizabeth Tisdale in Berkshire, England. Records for this Bennett family are far from complete.

This aforesaid John Dew was likely a brother of Thomas Dewe, immigrant planter.

It interesting that when Thomas Dew returned to the Caribbean in 1632, he was

accused of mutiny at Association Island by Governor (Anthony?) Hilton. Captain Anthony Hilton, the same who died in late 1634, was somewhat of a rogue. By 1631 the Providence Company had already established the first colonial outpost and settlement on “Old Providence Island.” Hilton persuaded the Providence Company to protect the Island of Tortuga, AKA: Association Island, and to appoint him as Governor. Tortuga was an island that was a haven for pirates with whom Hilton was in league for personal gain. There are no records that show that Thomas Dew was actually prosecuted for this alleged mutiny. These charges were remitted, and dismissed as unfounded.

In 1635 Thomas Dew was called a Planter of Providence: “Old Providence,” an island now

called Isla de Providencia, which lies off the east coast of Nicaragua, as part of an

archipelago now claimed by Columbia, but in dispute by Nicaragua..

By 1633, Thomas Dew had already established himself on the mainland of Virginia, at

Nanesmond, site of an abandoned Indian village in Upper Norfolk County, Virginia, and

after 1635, any of his remaining interests in the Caribbean were those delegated to his

young sons, or brothers.

The aforesaid John Dew was likely a brother of Col. Thomas Dews that married

Elizabeth Bennett. He may have also been the same John Dew who after planting in

Barbados returned to England to help oversee the affairs of his mother, Annie

Holmes, Dewes, or s-I-l Elizabeth Bennett, Dews, who for the most part were

dwelling in Berkshire, or adjacent Oxfordshire. The subsequent death of his mother, in addition to danger present in the aftermath of the Cromwell Protectorate may have prompted John Dew to return to the Barbados. A few years before his death (before 1657) he ventured for a time to Nanesmond, Virginia where his brother’s great plantations lay.

On Aug. 1^st 1638, Thomas Dew, granted 400 acres, Upper County of

the New Norfolk, Virginia, lying about one line from the plantation

of Thomas Powell. Included:

200 acres by assignment of Thomas Powell.

200 acres by transportation of four persons (in 1635) [C&P P B1, p. 95]

On Oct. 10^th 1638, Thomas Dew, 300 acres, Upper Norfolk County,

Virginia in Nansamund River, beginning at the Old Indian Town,

SE into the woods a small Island being opposite against said Island.

Due for transportation of four persons (in 1635.) [C&P}

In November of 1638 Thomas Dew was a Virginia Counciler.

Maryland State Archives: Land Office Patent Records, Vol. AB, & H, pp 61, 83, & 101: (This seems to be either the elder Thomas Dew, or his twelve year old son Thomas Dew was being transported from England to port in Maryland.)

“December 1638: A Thomas Doe was transported by Thomas Garrard, Gentleman, who demandeth 4,000 acres due him by condition of plantation for transporting into the Province at his own charge himself and twenty able menservants in the years of 1637, 1638, and 1640.”

Thomas Dewe made a trip from Virginia to England on or shortly before April 22, 1640, because three years later (as the law required delaying such claims) he claimed head-rights for land for transportation of "his own person, adventurer George Spivie, and seven others from England to Virginia.” [Book I, page 150]

Note: The wording of this above entry dictates that the passenger Thomas Dewe mentioned was an early immigrant, and it should be equally obvious that he had several children of primary and secondary school age that may have been getting their education in England at this time. His youngest son John was about two years old, and his daughter Ann was about six years of age. His wife Elizabeth who was about 37 years of age might have been back in England with these children in about 1640. There exists no head-right claim indicating that Elizabeth Dew ever returned to Virginia, so she may have perished in England, never having returned to Virginia. Likewise, there is no record that indicates that Elizabeth Dew ever returned from Virginia to England, and she may have perished in Upper Norfolk, Va. Her date, and place of death is unknown. However her return to England, and her death there in about 1666 is suggested.

On Nov. 7^th 1640, Thomas Dew, 250 acres, Upper Norfolk County, Virginia “upon his own land running E by S through a reedy Poquoson, etc., included:

50 acres for transportation of one person (in 1636.)

200 acres by assignment of John Wright (C&P, Pat. 1, p 122)

In April of 1642 Thomas Dewe was a member of the Grand Assembly in Virginia. [Hening's Statutes at Large]

On Jan. 8^th 1643, Coll. Thomas Dew was granted 750 acres, Upper Norfolk County, Virginia, on Eastward side of the Southern Branch of the Nanzemond River. Southward side of Crany Creek, opposite Crane * Nehokin Islands; and adjacent to Mr. Randall Crew, Oct. 10^th 1670. [C &P, Patent Book 6, page 83] Included:

300 acres by a former patents, and

450 acres due for transportation of nine persons: including his own person, Adventurer,

George Spivie, and seven others from England to Virginia three years earlier. [C&P, I, p.

151]

By 1646 the apparent second Virginia immigrant of this family, Thomas Dewe had already been promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel of the Virginia militia as this record shows:

"Under Orders from Virginia Governor William Berkley, an expedition against the Indians along the Chowan River was led by Major General Richard Bennett, who went by land, and by Lt. Coll. Thomas Dew, who went by water..." [Hening's Statutes at Large]

In 1649 the English Parliament declared England to be a Commonwealth. A Protectorate under rule of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell ensued in 1653 and lasted until 1659 when the Monarchy was established again. English merchants Andrew Dew, and his brother Thomas Dew immigrated to the safety of the Virginia plantations in 1650. Andrew remained there and perished in Virginia some 11 years later, but Capt. Thomas Dew returned to England after Oliver Cromwell was named Lord Protector 1n 1653.

In November of 1650, Andrew Dew, eldest surviving son of Lt. Col. Thomas Dew of Virginia came from England to Virginia, this known because land headrights to his passage were claimed on Nov. 22^nd 1653, by two different parties; Thomas Liddle, and Major Andrew Gislon. No doubt these two conflicting and erroneous claims were simply confused, as one of them was supposed to have filed on Thomas Dew’s transportation instead.

Andrew’s brother Thomas Dew, and family came about the same time. Thomas joined the Virginia militia the following year wherein he served as a Captain. He also served as a Magistrate in 1651, and as a Burgess from Lower Norfolk in 1652. Captain Thomas Dew apparently bought no land in Virginia, or claimed no headrights, and may have never intended to remain there except for a temporary period.

Shortly after his arrival in Virginia, Andrew Dew bought 200 acres of land in the Northen Neck of Virginia from Col. Moore Fauntleroy whom it appears was married to Andrew’s first cousin Mary Underwood, Fauntleroy. It was upon this tract of land that Andrew Dew, formerly an English merchant, transformed himself into a Virginia planter, dwelling nearby his relations. It could have been the land on which is father-in-law Thomas Duncomb, alias Duncan also dwelt upon shortly after his arrival in Virginia City County, Virginia in 1653, the same who died in Lancaster County in 1659.

Recorded on June 17, 1651, Nancimond (sic) Court, Virginia:

"I was in company with Mr John fferinhaugh when he made good***of this debt. I doe thinke in my conscience that ye debte which Robet Ewens demand is nothing just. Teste: W. Hancock. Proved in Court before Capt. Thomas Dewe, Mr. John Cotton, Mr. Lawson." [Hening's Statutes at Large]

The Capt. Thomas Dewe mentioned above as a magistrate in Nanesmond, Va. was a son of the Lt. Col. Thomas Dewe of the same place, and time. It is apparent from the record shown above and below that both served as Burgesses in Virginia, but the son & his family apparently removed first to England, and then to Barbados where he perished about 1689.

On April 26, 1652 Captain Thomas Due of Nanesmond, Lower Norfork, Virginia was a member of the assembled Virginia House of Burgesses. [Hening's Statutes at Large] He was a son of the concurrent Virginia Lt. Colonel of that same forename.

Henceforth, the Virginia record is mute regarding this particular Capt. Thomas Dewes, a son of the Colonel of the same forename. For part of this time he may have been working for his father on his estate lands in Virginia. But he either withdrew from public service altogether, and he simply worked for his father in Virginia for a number of years, or he left Virginia entirely, perhaps returning to England. However, a much younger Thomas Dew also became a Captain in the Virginia militia many years later. He was recorded in the period long after his namesake uncle departed from Virginia.

Records made in London support a view that the Colonel’s son, Capt. Thomas Dewes returned to England sometime before 1659. He was 26 years of age when the last record was made regarding his public service in Virginia. As a legal resident and London Merchant, it appears that he imported his father’s goods and tobacco from Virginia, avoiding the otherwise great expense of a Commission Agent.

We also find the Colonel’s son Capt. Thomas Dewes recorded on the 1680 Census records of Barbados, where he apparently died in 1689. He was last married to a Scotch wife believed to be Mary McKinzie, by whom he had at least two children, Jemima Dewe, Kenny, Skene, & Robert. Dewes, the latter being orphaned at age two. And there were also others of his family dwelling on Barbados.

Several older children, perhaps half-siblings were also there, one being Captain George Dews, a mariner, who dwelt on Bermuda. Eventually, most of these surviving siblings, or half-siblings, removed from Barbados to Carolina, although one of his daughters may have married Edward Fisher, and removed to Dorchester, Maryland.

On November 25^th 1652 Coll. Tho. Dew, Speaker, was a Burgess from Nanesmond County, Virginia. [Hening's Statutes at Large]

In 1652, John Dew, who was visiting, or perhaps on his brother’s business, took the Oath of Allegiance to England without a King in Northumberland, Va. This man is almost certain to be the brother of Col. Thomas Dewe who had been a Planter in Barbados in 1638, and it is likely that he perished before 1657 in Virginia, at about age 40.

John Dewe, a son of the Colonel, was raised and educated in England. By some means, it appears that John Dewe acquired the Barbados plantation of his uncle John Dewe who apparently had no male heirs in 1657. He apprenticed at Bristol in 1658. Afterward in 1659-60 he planted in Jamaica, and Barbados for the Scot-Irishman John Napper. After misfortune at his sugar plantation in Barbados John Dewe removed to Virginia about 1667 where he soon married Elizabeth Shearer. His brothers Richard & Thomas Dewe expunged their brother’s debt at the failed sugar plantation in Barbados, and both took up some enterprise in Barbados, whether in planting, or merchandising. There is no record discovered of any office or landholdings held in Virginia by John Dew, the son of

Colonel Thomas Dewe. So his father likely employed John Dew.

On July 5^th 1653 Coll. Tho. Dew was a Burgess from Nanesmond County, Virginia. [Hening's Statutes at Large]

On Nov. 22^nd 1653, Major Andrew Gilson of Virginia claimed headrights for land for transporting Andrew Dew to Virginia three years earlier. It is noted that Thomas Liddle also claimed headright for land on Andrew Dew’s transportation to Virginia on the very same date. No doubt these two conflicting and erroneous claims were simply confused, as one of them was supposed to have filed on Andrew’s brother Thomas Dew instead.

On November 20^th 1654 Coll. Tho. Dew was a member of an Assembly held at James Citty representing Nanesmond County, Virginia. [Hening's Statutes at Large]

In 1655, Lord Oliver Cromwell’s naval forces took Jamaica from the Spanish.

On March 31^st 1655 Coll. Tho. Dew was a member of the Grand Assembly held at James Citty, Virginia. [Hening's Statutes at Large]

The Old explorer, Coll. Thomas Dew applied to the Virginia Assembly in December 1656 for authority "to make a discoverie of the navigable rivers to the southward between Cape Hatterras, and Cape Fear with such Gentlemen & Planters as would voluntarily and att their owne charge acompanie him." His request was granted... [Hening's Statutes at Large]

In 1658, John Dew, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire apprenticed at Bristol. He was learning the methods of Cane production, and of extracting raw sugar from cane for shipping to the refinery at Bristol, however Bristol had an exorbitant import fee on raw sugar unless you were a Bristol Freeholder. A Commission Agent must be utilized to avoid this fee. Commission Agents worked directly with planters, and sent chartered ships to collect the produce directly. London merchants consigned goods to Commission Agents who would sell them to planters. Planters would sell their produce to the Commission Agent, and immediately exchange produce for commodities. Commission Agents dominated the sugar trade, and kept many planters in chronic debt. Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell also perished in 1658.

In March of 1657-8, Coll. Thomas Dew a member of the Virginia Assembly. [Hening's Statutes at Large]

During this same period, his son Andrew Dew was appointed “Overseer” of the Will of Capt. Francis Slaughter, Sr., husband of Elizabeth Underwood, Slaughter, who was apparently Andrew Dew’s first cousin. These Underwoods dwelt in Rappahannock County, Virginia.

In March 1658-9, Coll. Thomas Dewe, Coll. William Bernard, and Coll. William Claiborn administered the Oath to the Burgesses. [Hening's Statutes at Large]

In March 1659-60, Coll. Thomas Dewe was a member of the Council of State for Virginia. [Hening's Statutes at Large]

In 1659, an Edward Dew, of Plymouth, England, was arrested and sent from Wiltshire, England, to Barbados, on the Western Prisoners Circuit. His crime was probably in supporting the Cromwell Protectorate that collapsed in 1658.

In the same year, John Dew of Kiddlington, Oxford, England, indentured himself for four years as a Tiller in Jamaica to Bristol Commission Agent John Napper. Dew arrived in Jamaica on the "Providence." Voluntary endenturment for a period of 4-7 years, resulted in payment of 10 Pounds Sterling, or a piece of land of equivalent value.

On May 29th 1659, Richard Dew was married to Ellin in London, England. On that date their son named David Dew was christened at St. Bride, on Fleet Street, in London. David perished less than a year later on April 21st 1660. Richard Dew probably removed to Barbados in later years.

In 1660 a Peter Trebbel of London, bound himself for four years in Barbados, to John Dew, tiller.

In Oct. 17^th 1660, Present: Sir William Berkley, Governor; Col. Thomas Dewe; Col. Obed. (Obedience) Robbins, and others, “sailed from the Port of London in the good ship “Alice” bound for the Virginia Colony.”

William & Mary College Quarterly Magazine, p. 135:

“…Andrew Dew, who bought lands in Essex (county, Virginia) in

1660…” and on, or before Dec. 15^th 1660, Andrew Dew, planter, sold

200 acres of land on the southeast side of Farnham Creek in the

Northern Neck of Virginia to Thomas Liddle, being a tract that

Andrew Dew originally bought from Col. Moore Fauntleroy.

On April 28^th 1661, Andrew Dew [b. c. 1625, Berkshire, Eng., - c. 1661, Rapahannock, Va.,] the eldest known son of Col. Thomas Dew, and Elizabeth Bennett, perished in Rappahannock County, Virginia, after having immigrated to Virginia in c. 1650 (at age 25) with his wife Ann Duncan, alias Duncomb, and at least one Engilish born child, Thomas Dew b. 1648, Eng. – d. c. 1709] who married 1^st to Elizabeth Barber and 2^nd to Jean Baker. [He was primogenitor heir of the Colonel’s Virginia estate in 1691.] Andrew bore two other children; Andrew [b. c. 1650 – d. c. 1714] who married Flora Price in Virginia; and Ann [b. ? – d. ?] who married James Toone, Jr., in Virginia. His relict Ann Duncan/Duncomb, Dew married 2^nd James Toone, Sr. [d. 1676], and 3^rd Dominick Rice [d. 1684] in Virginia. Ann’s deceased husband Andrew Dewe was apparently formerly an English Merchant with business adventures in Scotland along with his younger brother Tom.

Although it has long been speculated that Andrew Dewe married Ann Duncombe, a

daughter of Thomas Duncombe, and Mary Barber, in England, this is refuted by all English

Authorities who state that this particular daughter perished without issue in England.

Speculation that Andrew Dewe married Ann Whitehead also appear to be without any substantial

Basis in records.

[It appears that Andrew Dew married a woman of Scot heritage, Ann Duncan, alis Duncomb, before

he came to Virginia. Her parents immigrated to Charles City County, Virginia in 1653, then moved to

Lancaster County. As a widow Andrew Dew’s mother in law, Mary Duncomb/Duncan, married

Edward Roe, after her husband Thomas Duncomb/Duncan, perished at Piankatank, Lancaster

County, Virginia prior to Nov. 30^th 1659.

When Edward Roe perished in Talbot Co., MD, he left his estate to step-son Thomas Duncan, the son

of his wife.]

[No Will, nor Intestate Probate of Andrew Dew’s estate, has ever been discovered in Virginia records. His children were all minors at the time of Andrew’s death, and Scot women tended to always prearrange for the inheritance of her husband’s entire estate in such cases, unlike English women who by English law were only entitled to a third part of her husband’s estate in the absence of a Will.]

In 1665 a party of Barbados planters established an intended permanent settlement on the Cape Fear River near where the town of Wilmington NC, developed. Among them may have been Frederick Haig of the Bermersyde Scot Clan.

In 1666 the census of Bermuda by Richard Norwood, a survey of lands shows the following occupants and landowners in St. George’s Island, survey made 1662-1663:

John Welsh

John Bristown Marshall

Roger Bayley

Hannah Holloway

Edward Middleton

Thomas Shaw

John Hurt

These seven together have 2 shares of land on St. George’s Isl.

No Dewes, or variants of that surname, were surveyed.

A Thomas Dewe made a trip from Virginia to England and back again in 1663 or earlier because his neighbor John Davis claimed land for transportation of Thomas Dewes and 19 others, claim made on Feb. 27, 1666. [C&P, Nugent, page 20] A mandatory delay of at least 3 years was required in order to file such a headright claim, and it was promptly filed as soon as this requirement was met.

In 1667, John Dewe, relieved of his insurmountable financial obligation of debt in Barbados by means of family aid, departed the West Indies for Virginia that year. Land Headrights for his transportation to Virginia were claimed in 1670 after the mandatory three-year delay required before such claims could be filed.

C & P Patemt Book 6, p. 100:

“Oct. 27^th 1670: James Pope, granted 70 acres, Morthumberland County, Virginia, at the

head of Great Wiccocomocoe River, and adjacent to his own land; for transportation of two

persons; Wm. Herbert, and Jno. Dew.”

However, after consulting his father in Virginia about plans to remit the family financial aid, John made a voyage to England sortly thereafter. Then two years later, in September of 1672, between the 16^th and 20^th day, John Dewe departed the Port of London, bound for Virginia on the ship “James” where he remained for the remaining six years of his life, no doubt in some nature of employment by his father. There is no record that John Dewe ever owned any land in Viginia, nor did he ever hold a public office there. In 1674, at age 38 thereabouts, John Dewe married his distant kinswoman, Elizabeth Shearer, daughter of John Shearer, mariner of Isle of Wight, Virginia, & wife Elizabeth Parnell. They issued his only proved son John Dewe, Jr., during the following year.

In early April 1670 the Carolina arrived from Barbados at Kiawah, Ashley River, having first anchored on March 17th at Sewee Bay, AKA: Bull’s Island; and Point Royal about March 21, where they stayed 2 days; then to St. Helena, where five commoners of the Council were elected, being Joseph Dalton, Robert Donne, Ra. Marshall, Paul Smyth, & S. West, before arriving at the first Charles Towne settlement in Carolina. On board were persons that may be pertinent to this genealogy:

John Coming

Robert Donne

Thomas Gourden

Edward Hambelton

Elizabeth Matthews

Thomas Middleton

Joseph Reed

William Roades

Arthur Roper

Matthew Smallwood

Abraham Smith

Elizabeth Smith

Paule Smith

Thomas Smyth

Thomas Summers

Robert Williams

John Williamson

Richard Wright

And others…

On August 14, 1671 Edward Doe (sic) Dewe, a seaman, arrived on Stonoe Creek, in Carolina from Barbados on the Blessing, Capt. Mathias Halsted commanding. Also arriving on this same date and ship were:

John Berringer

Richard Crossland

Maurice Matthews

Henry Hughes

John Neale

Michael Moran

Joseph Pendaris

David Abercromby

Elizabeth Baker

Simon Hughes

Thomas Hurt

Michael Lowell

Edward Matthews

Daniel Ming

John Gardiner

Peter Hearn

William Barry

And others…

The land for the passengers of the Blessing was to be laid out on Stonoe Creek (that divided Johns Island and James Island) and a town laid out reserving 5 acres for a church. The town was never built, and the passengers settled on the Ashley River where the first Charles Town site was located.

Collection of the South Carolina Historical Society, p. 331:

“August 28^th 1671: It is Ordered by the Governor and Council that the said seamen namely:

Thomas Weedland

Daniel Ming

Edward Ottoway

Thomas Bonick

Adrian Johnson

Richard Plummer

Edward Doe

William Boe

David Abercromby

Lawrence Chapman,

or their attorney, or attorneys shall have liberty to take their several proportions of land in this province as largely is granted by the Lords Proprietors to other persons coming at the same time.”

If Edward Doe, mentioned above, was a son of Col. Thomas Dewe of Virginia, he died before 1691.

In 1672 Coll. Thomas Dewe, and his relative Maj. Gen. Richard Bennett, were among many persons converted to Quakerism by George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, at a meeting in Nanesmond, Virginia. Barbados was said to be the center for Quakerism in colonial America, at that time.

A List of the Eminent Planters of Barbados, made in 1673, did not include landowners whose acreage was less than 200 acres. This means that many Barbados landowners were not included. Some included on this list were:

Major Saml. Tidcombe 300 acres

Col. Christopher Codrington 600 acres

Capt. Jno. Codrington 300 acres

Benja. Middleton 400 acres

And others…

[No John Dewe, nor any other Dewe landowner, was included on this list. The previous Dewe Plantation there was more than 10 acres, but less than 200 acres, probably less than 100 acres.]

Before 1674, George Dews, Sr. was born very likely in Barbados, or England, being the same who appeared in Bermuda as a mariner in 1691.

As it might be noticed, he could have been a son of the John Dew of

Kiddlington, Oxford. But George Dews, Sr. could also have been a son of

Richard Dew mentioned below, and therefore probably a grandson of Col. Thomas Dew mentioned as in Virginia when George was born. But his most probable ancestor was Richard’s brother Captain Thomas Dew of England, but lately of Virginia [There is no proof of either relationship, but certain implications exist. He appears to have been named after George MacKenzie, 2^nd Earl of Seaforth, his grandfather.]

John Dewe perished in about 1678 at Isle of Wight, Virginia. (Will.)

There is no record of any landholdings in Virginia by John Dew, and he probably served as a tiller, manager, or overseer of some part of his father’s vast estate holdings in Virginia. During the previous decade a series of calamities beset Jamaica, and other islands left John Dew in recent ruin. No doubt he lost his wealth, and any expected profits as a result of certain tragic events. This apparently drove him out of the Caribbean to Virginia.

The Richard Dewe mentioned as an adjacent landowner in the April 20, 1694 Grant of Samuel Knibb, situate in the Bermuda Hundred Neck of Varina Parish, Henrico Co., Va., may have been a son of his brother Richard Dewe of Barbados, who with the aid of another brother Thomas Dewe, came from England and rescued John’s old sugar plantation. Certainly this Richard Dewe of Henrico County, Virginia was not a son of the Colonel Thomas Dewe, but he may have been a grandson. [Nothing yet proves the relationship.

1678: Christ Church Parish Records, Barbados:

Baptism: Mary, daughter of Richard Middleton, on Sept. 8^th 1678.

St. James Parish Records, Barbados (1678):

Land: Richard Middleton had no land but was taxed on 4 Negroes.

Burial: Mary, daughter of Richard Middleton, on Oct. 9^th 1678.

St. John’s Parish records Barbados (1678):

Baptism: John, sonne of Capt. John Leslie, on Oct. 3^rd 1678.

The surviving 1678 records of Barbados appear to be far from complete, but the

name Dew, or Dewes fails to appear on those records that survived. This can be

explained because in October of 1778, John Dew, a younger brother of Capt.

Thomas Dew, & Richard Dew of Barbados, perished in Nanesmond, Virginia

leaving a surviving son named John, and perhaps a posthumous born son named

Lewis, as well as his widow Elizabeth Shearer, Dew. Being in poor health after

his unsuccessful adventure in Barbados that required his brothers to come to his

financial rescue from debt default, John left Barbados for the security of his

father’s plantations in Virginia where he married, and only a decade later, he

made his 1677 Isle of Wight, Virginia LW&T, and he died about 22 months later at

age 42. After receiving word of the deteriorated condition, and imminent death of

their brother, the families of Capt. Thomas Dew, and Richard Dew very likely

sailed to Virginia for mutual family support and a vigil. Thus in 1678 the Dewes

were away from Barbados an extended period, and consequently no records of

them are found there. But by 1679, Mary, wife of Capt. Thomas Dewe is found

dwelling in Bridgetown, Barbados, and by 1680 all the other surviving members of

the Barbadian Dewe family are noted recorded in Barbados Parish records.

However, the existing records of this family that are found in Barbados are often

found erroneously transcribed from the original handwritten script records, or

were incorrectly recorded phonetically.

Northumberland, Va., Court (Head-rights,) pp 132-734: Feb. 18^th 1679-1680:

“Certificate Granted to Mr. Tho. Matthew (lately of Barbados) for 3800 acres of land for transportation

of 76 persons to this colony, vizt:

(Himself and 10 Negroes from Barbados)

This list of 76 names included:

Tho. Dew.”

[Note that this transportation would have occurred in 1676 through 1677, probably when Capt. Thomas Dew

Came to Virginia because his younger brother John Dew was ill, and expected to die soon.]

Wills & Administrations Isle of Wight Virginia, 1647-1700, p. 17

Abstract of the LW&T of John Dew, Isle of Wight, Virginia [Will & Deed Book 2, p 167] filed Jan. 31^st 1677, proved Oct. 17^th 1678:

“My father (Col. Thomas Dewe) - Overseer

Wife: Elizabeth Dew - Executrix

Friends: Alexander Webster

George Bell, Jr. (Nephew of Alexander Webster.)

Young son: John Dew, (under 18.) He was about aged 3 years, b. 1675.

Brother-in-law: John Shearer, Jr.

Witnesses: Francis Floid (sic: Floyd) He was a Son-in-law of George Bell.

Thomas Williamson”

p. 168: “Inventory of the estate of John Dew presented by Elizabeth Dew, the widow, Oct.

17^th 1678.”

1679: In 1679, a Richard Dew (age 44,) was said residing on Barbados

island upon land belonging to the estate of Robert Hurt according

to Robert’s Will made that year. Mary, doubtless the wife of Thomas Dew

(age 53,) was residing in the Town of St. Michael’s (Bridgetown,) St. Michael’s

Parish while her husband was off island. It appears that both Robert Hurt, and

Richard Dew both perished that year. By terms of his Will, Robert Hurt

bequeathed this land to one of his married daughters Elizabeth Hurt, Simpson,

wife of James Simpson.

Will Abstract of Robert Hurt, Barbados, RB6/9, p 479:

“Son: Robert Hurt, b. 1616, aged 63

daughter: Elizabeth Hurt, Simpson, wife of James Simpson (merchant,)

the plantation where Richard Dew lives, joining land of John

Parker, and Capt. John Merrick.

daughter: Mary Hurt, Watts, wife of Charles Watts…

Signed: Robert (X) Hurt

Witnesses: Richard Longham

John Redwar (d)

Proved: July 15^th 1679”

Capt. John Merrick, Esq., was recorded in 1678 as having 266 acres of land in the Parish of St.

Andrews, Island of Barbados., a probable grandson of Sir John Merrick [c. 1550, Wales] a founding

member of the Virginia Company of London, & wife Lucy Powell. He was a son of Henry Merrick

[c. 1580, Wales/England,] an Agent of the Virginia Company of London, then residing in Virginia.

Capt. John Merrick, Esq., of Barbados was also a merchant, as was James Simpson, and he left

Barbados for Virginia sometime after the census of 1680. Merrick’s wife was also named Elizabeth.

The following year during the 1680 census, two men named Thomas Doo (sic) Dew & an apparent widow named Jane Doo (sic) Dew are found in St. Peters All Saint’s Parish of Barbados all dwelling in separate households.

Richard Dew above is believed to be a son of Col. Thomas Dew, and wife mentioned in Virginia records. It appears that in 1659 Richard Dew was dwelling in

London where he was married to a woman named Ellin. They had a son named David

Dew christened May 26th 1659 at St. Bride, Fleet Street, in London, and this son died on April 21st 1660. It appears that Richard Dew and 2^nd wife Jane came to Barbados sometime not long after 1666.

Capt. Thomas Dewe dwelled in Berkshire, or London during his youth, and young

adulthood except for a three-year exile in Virginia during the bloody period between 1649

when the English Parliament declared an English Commonwealth until 1653 when the

Cromwell Protectorate was established. Admittedly, he and Andrew may have been

among the children that accompanied their father to Old Providence Island, and Virginia

in 1632, but after returning to England with their mother, these boys would have been sent

to English school for their education. In abour 1649 both Andrew Dew and his brother

Thomas sought safety in the Virginia plantations. His brother Andrew moved

permanently to Virginia, but Capt. Thomas Dewe returned to England from Virginia

about 1653 when Oliver Cromwell was named Lord Protector of England. However,

when Cromwell died in 1658 the Protectorate fell apart in 1659, the monarchy was

restored in England. This made England a risky place for Cromwell supporters. After

rescuing their beleagured brother John on that Island Capt. Thomas Dewe and his brother

Richard Dewe spent much of their remaining lives in Barbados. Capt. Thomas Dewe also

named a son David Dewe who was counted in the Barbados militia about 1680,

a son that was born about the same time as Richard's son named David was born in

London.

Hotten’s Lists, page 139:

Robert Hurt, at age 19, came from London to Barbados in 1635 on the “Expectation,” and

made his Will there in 1679. Since he was born c. 1616, he died circa age 63, or thereabouts. With him on the Expectation came Jo: Watts (age 20,) William Watts (age 28,) & Thomas Palmer (age 19.) One of these men was probably the father of Charles Watts who married Robert Hurt’s daughter Mary. It is said that the Hurt family was first found in Oxfordshire, England where they were seated from ancient times.

1679: Hotton’s Lists – Barbados Militia 1679-1680:

On October 11, 1679, Ensigne David Dew (Also given as Ensigne David Due) appeared as a soldier in Lt. Col. Samuel O. Tidcomb’s Barbados militia. [Hotten's Lists] He did not appear on the 1680 census of Barbados as head of household. No further colonial records are found for David Dew, so it is likely that he perished.

Between 1679 and 1680, Ensigne Thomas Dew appears as a soldier in Lt. Col. Samuel O. Tidcombe’s Barbados militia. [Hotten's Lists] He appeared on the 1680 census of Barbados as a head of household, so perhaps he was married. No further colonial records are found for this Thomas Dew. Did he, brother David, and their younger brother George afterward become sailors, and perhaps get involved in the privateering, or the pirate business on the Spanish Main? Some circumstantial evidence suggests that Thomas Dew, Jr. was the same man as Captain Thomas (alias) Tews, privateer, and pirate who died in 1696, claiming his origin in Rhode Island.

1679: Records of St. Michael’s Parish, Barbados, town of St. Michaels (Bridgetown):

Name Children Hired or Apprent. Bought serv. Slaves.

Mary Doue (sic) (Dewe?) (0) (0) (0) (1)

John Fisher (0) (0) (0) (1)

Charles Lee & wf. (0) (0) (0) (1)

John Hunter (2) (0) (0) (1)

Samuel Perry 4 acres 0 0 7 Negros

Deaths recorded in 1679 at St. Michael’s Parish Barbados, included:

“Sept. 2^nd 1679: Robert Palmer Aged 95 years” (b. 1584)

[Mary Dewe, mentioned above at Bridgetown in St. Michael’s Parish, appears to be Nee: Mary

McKenzie, the last wife of Capt. Thomas Dewe, merchant, who clearly was away from the island on

business in 1679 (perhaps in Virginia concering the illness & death of his brother John Dew, Jr.) as he

reappears in St. Peter’s All Saints Parish during the 1880 census. Mary McKenzie, a Scotswoman,

would have given herself as head of household during her husband’s absence, in a Scot tradition.]

Ommitted Chapters of Hottons’ Lists:

St. Peter’s Parish, Barbados 15^th Dec. 1679

p. 80 William Bregg, Tho. Doo, & Wm. Garland 3 servants 8 negroes no land

A List of Soldier’s Names under Command of Lt. Col. Saml. Tidcombe Oct. 11^th 1769 in the Barbados militia:

p. 132 Tho. Doo living near Tho. Fisher

p. 173 David Due (I could not view this page.)

Records of St. George’s Parish, Barbados (1679):

“Masters & Mistresses, names ye are owners of land in the Parish of St. George’s

in ye Island of Barbados Taxed by the Command of His Excellency Sir Jonathan

Atkins ye 23^rd day of Dec. 1679.”

Name acres svts. Negroes christenings burials

p. 461 John Wilkins 41 8

Mr. Phillip Fisher 7 3

Mr. Benjamin Middleton 379 130

Mr. Samuel Palmer 70 35

p. 467 St. George’s Parish burials – 1679:

William, son of John Palmer, Sept. 7^th 1679,

Tickets granted at Barbados

p. 361 “Thomas Drayton, Junr., in the ship Mary for Carolina, Nicholas Lockwood, Commander,

April 25^th 1679.” His father, of the same forename, remained behind in Barbados.

1680: Records of St. Andrews Parish, Barbados, 1680:

Name acres svts. Negroes christenings burials

p. 471 John Smith 2

Mr., John Welsh 19 1

p. 474 John Barry 14 12

Esias (sic) Elias Baker 5 1

Alace Barry 10 4

p. 478 Peter Gordon 8 1

p. 481 James Lee 19 4

p. 487 John Wright 40 4 7

In 1680, two Thomas Dews, and a Jane Dew are found in the census of St. Peters, All Saint’s Parish of Barbados below.

The 1680 census of Barbados includes the following households:

St Michael Parish, Barbados, 1680:

Wm. Embree (sic) Amory, or Emory

Thomas Drayton 12 ar. 1 h. svt. 1 b. svt. 7 slaves

[He appears to be the father of Thomas Drayton, Jr., who recently departed for Carolina

with Stephen Fox, and he died in Aug. 1702 in St. Michael’s Parish, Barbados. It was

apparently he who accompanied Gov. Yeamans from Barbados to Cape Fear in 1671.]

St. Lucy Parish, Barbados, 1680:

John Dauis (sic) Davis, Junior

Patricke Browne

John ffisher

Edward Lee

St. George Parish, Barbados, 1680:

Mary Middleton, (widow of Henry Middleton?)

Mr. Benjamin Middleton, (older brother of Edward, and

Arthur Middleton?)

Mr. Samuel Palmer 70 acres, 25 Negros

St Peters, All Saints, Barbados, 1680:

Dauid Dauis (sic) Davis (Capt. David Davis? Bought James Is. SC,

in 1703?)

Lt. Col. Samuel O. Tidcombe, He has also been confused as Tidcot.

Jane Doo (sic) Dew, or Dewe? (Widow of Richard Dewe?)

Thomas Doo (sic) Dew, or Dewe? (Capt. Tho. Dewe, m: Mary

McKenzie?)

Thomas Doo (sic) Dew, or Dewe? (Ensign Tho. Dewe, s/o the

above.)

William Baker (Wm. Baker married Susannah Rowsham?)

Richard ffisher

Joseph ffisher

William How, Esqr.

Robert How, Esqr.

Capt. John Merrick

[The reason for believing that Jane Dewe, mentioned above, was a widow, is that

her apparent husband Richard Dewe never again appears on records after the

1779 Will of Robert Hurt was made, and proved.]

Christ Church Parish, Barbados, 1680:

John Barry (probably married a Rowsham, or a Baker. Went to SC?)

14 acres, 4 Negroes

Jno. Kenney, a clergyman, (married last to Jemima Dews?)

James Fowell, mariner (also Fa’well, Farewell)

18 acres, 2 Negroes

Peter Gordon

8 acres, 0 Negroes

John Perry

15 acres, 0 Negroes

Edward Perry

5 acres, 0 Negroes

James Simpson, merchant

1½ acre, 1 Negro

James Lee

19 acres, 4 Negroes

John Wright

40 acres, 4 Bought Servants 7 Negro slaves

St. Joseph Parish, Barbados, 1680:

Charles Watts

Richard Longham

St. Thomas Parish, Barbados, 1680:

Richard Redward

Jemima Dews, a sister of George Dews, Sr. was probably born on Barbados where she married a Scotsman named Kenney. She may have had kith/kin who lived on Monsarrat in the Windward Islands of the West Indies, considering the names recorded there in later years. Jemima was widowed of said Kenny Aug. 16^th 1687, and she married Alexander Skene on January 26, 1698 in Barbados. Alexander Skene, a Scotsman, came to Barbados in 1694 from New Jersey, in order to accept an appointment as a Secretary of the Island of Barbados. He continued in this position until 1715 covering a span of nearly 20 years, with a period 1689 – 1700 when his qualifications were questioned, and he suffered attacks by the various Governors. He was extensively involved in Plantation production. Alexander, an apparent brother John, and his younger sister Lelias Skene, Scot Quakers, together came from Burlington, Jersey to Barbados leaving behind their mother and other siblings behind where they moved to Philadelphia. They were children of immigrants the dec’d Deputy Govenor of West Jersey John Skene, and his wife Helena Fullerton of Aberdeen, Scotland. The immigrant John Skene had been imprisoned at Kelso for Quakerism, and was released in 1677 on condition that he leave the Kingdom. He came to Peachfield, Burlington, West Jersey with the Quaker followers of William Penn, along with the Haigs, Hunters, and Lowries, and many more Scot Quakers. Among them were two of the brothers of Helena Fullerton, Robert, and Thomas Fullerton of the Quaker belief, arriving on the Ship “The Thomas and Benjamin” in 1684. Helena had a sister named Catherine Fullerton that married Dr. John Gordon, (Dr. of Medicine in Montrose, Angus, or Forfarshire) who did not come to America. The parents of these NJ Fullertons were John Fullartowne (sic), and his first wife Catherine, Lady Kinneber , a daughter of Sir John Allerdice, Allerdes, or Allercyce, and his wife Helen Burnet (d/o Alexander Burnet, & Katherine Gordon.)

Both John Fullerton of Kinneber, and his wife Catherine Allerdyce were excommunicated in Scotland for adhering to Quakerism. Dr. John Gordon’s brother Thomas Gordon came also to NJ, in 1685 as an Agent for his absent brother still dwelling in Scotland.

The Fullertons of Kinnaber, Angus descended from Alexander

Fullerton who was slain in 1547 at the Battle of Pinkieclench, whereas his son and heir, John Fullerton obtained a Grant in 1549 of the Ward, and Non-Entry of Kinnaber from Queen Mary in return for the service of his father. There were at least three successive heirs named John Fullerton.

Clan Skene

“Virtutis Regia Merces"

John de Skene, 1^st Laird of Skene

Found with son Patrick swearing fealty

to Edward I on Ragman Roll in 1296.

He married unknown.

Patrick de Skene, 2^nd Laird of Skene

He married unknown.

Robert de Skene, 3^rd Laird of Skene

He supported Robert de Bruce,

& received a Charter Barony

of the lands of Skene in 1318.

He married Marion Mercer.

Gilian de Skene, 4^th Laird of Skene

He married unknown.

Adam Skene, 5^th Laird of Skene

He married Janet Kieth.

He was killed 1411 at the Battle of Harlaw.

James Skene, 6^th Laird of Skene

He married the widow of Fraser of Corntoun.

He died in 1461.

Alexander Skene, 7^th Laird of Skene

He married Mariot of Kinarde.

He died in 1470.

Gilbert Skene, 8^th Laird of Skene

He narrued 1481 to Cristina Mercer.

He died in 1485.

Alexander Skene, 9^th Laird of Skene

He married Agnes Forbes.

He died in 1507.

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Alexander Skene, 10^th Laird of Skene.

He married 1516 to Elizabeth Black.

He died in 1517.

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| |

James Skene (c. 1505-c.1600) Alexander Skene, 11^th Laird of Skene (c. 1517-c. 1604)

m: 1^st (1543) to Janet Burnet, d/o He married 1^st to Elizabeth Forbes.

Alexander, & Jane Hamilton, Burnet He married 2^nd to Katherine Stewart.

m: 2^nd to Janet Lumsden, d/o John |________________ __________________

Lumsden of Cushnie. | |

Gilbert Skene (c. 1538-c. 1604) James Skene, 12^thLaird of Skene

He m: Barbara Forbes m: 1553 to Johanna Douglas, d/o

| Sir Archibald Douglass, & Lady

| Agnes Kieth.

| |

Robert Skene (c. 1654-c. 1625) Alexander Skene ( - )

He m: Janet Forbes. He m: Margaret Johnston, d/o

| Sir George Johnston, Baronet of

| Nova Scotia, & wf Elizabeth Forbes.

| |

Robert Skene ( - c. 1643) Alexander Skene, 13^th Laird of Skene,

He m: Marjorie Forbes. (c a 1584-c. 1634.) He m: Janet Burnet.

| grandchildren in the American colonies.

| |

Alexander Skene (1621-1693) |

He m: Lilias Gillespie. |

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| |

| __________________________|

| |

| |_James Skene, 14^th Laird of Skene

| | He m: 1637 Elizabeth Forbes, d/o Arthur

| | 9^th Laird of Forbes.

| |

| |_Jean Skeen, m: Alexander Innes of Pethenick.

| |

| |_Margaret Skene, m:1^st to Mr. John Garlock,

| | m: 2^nd to John Skene in Knowheade.

| |

| |_Janet Skene, m: Mr. Adam Barclay of Nigg.

| |

| |_Isobel Skene, m: the Laird of Aswanlie.

| |

| |_Katherine Skene, m: 2^nd to Robert Cheyne.

| | m: 1^st to Sir Alexander Cumming of Culter.

| | |

| | |_Sir Alexander Cumming, 1^st Baronet of Culter.

| | He m: Elizabeth, 2^nd dau. of 2^nd wf of Sir

| | Alexander Swinton.

| | |_Sir Alexander Cumming, 15^th Laird of

| | Cumming of Culter, & 2^nd Baronet.. He m:

| | Lady Alison Skene of Halyards, Midlothian,

| | (d/o John Skene, & Mary Ker,) who after

| | a dream, convinced him to go to America

| | and visit the Cherokee Indians.

| |

John Skene (1649-1690) |_Mary Skene (b. 1619 - ) m: Aug. 14, 1656 to George

He m: Helena Fullerton. MacKenzie (b. ~1631) of Kincardine, son of George

| MacKenzie, (b. 1608) 2^nd Laird of Seaforth,

| and wife Barbara Forbes. (father & son married young.

|_ Alexander Skene (1670-1740,) | probably arranged marriages?)

| Secretary of Barbados |

| He m: widow Jemima Dews, Kenny (1673 -1742.) |_Kenneth MacKenzie, who went abroad (W. I.

| | Barbados?,) and was heard from no more.

|_Katherine Skene (1671- ?) |

| She m: Samuel Hunter. |_ (Some daughters) the oldest of them appears to be:

| Mary MacKenzie (1661 – c a 1689, Barbados, WI)

|_Lilias Skene (1673-1742)………………………………. She m: Capt. Thomas Dews (1625-1689) as his 3^rd

| She m: Obadiah Haig (1674 - 1701) . wife in c. 1673, Barbados.

| . |

|_Christian Skene (1675- ?) . |_George Dews, m: Ann Welch, Bermuda.

| . | (He may have been Annie’s son.)

| . |

|_John Skene . |_Jemima Dews, m: 1^st Kenny, m: 2^nd

| . | Alexander Skene, Secretary of Barbados.

|_Matthew Skene? . |

. |_Robert Dews (1687, Barbados – 1722,

. SC) m: Mary Baker (1700-1721,) in SC.

. |

. |_Bethel Dews, m: Margaret . . | Croskeys.

….Guardian{

|_William Dews

He m: 1^st Mary Haig?

He m: 2^nd Lois Wilkins

He m: 3^rd Mary Lee.

Sir John Gordon of Dorno, in Dec. 1683 bought a Propriatary Share of the East Jersey colony.

In 1684 the Scots promoted immigration to settle Jersey Colony.

“At Edinburgh let them apply themselves to the Lord-Treasurer-Deput, the Lord Register, Sir John Gordon, Sir Patrick

Lyon, Mr. George Alexander, Advocates, George Drummond of Blair, John Swintoun, John Drummond, Thomas

Gordon, David Falconer, Andrew Hamilton, Merchants; at Brunt Island to William Robinson, Doctor of Medicine; at

Montrose to John Gordon, Doctor of Medicine, John Fullerton of Kinaber, and Robert and Thomas Fullertons his

brothers; in the Shire of Mearns, to Robert Barclay of Urie, and John Barclay his brother; at Aberdeen to Gilbert Moleson,

Andrew Galloway, John, and Robert Sandilands, William Gerard, Merchants; in the Shire of Aberdeen to Robert Gordon

of Clunie, and Robert Burnet of Lethanty; in the Shire of Perth to David Toshach of Monyvard, and Captain Patrick

McGreiger; in Merss Shire to James Johnston of Spoteswood; at Kelso to Charles Ormiston, Merchant; in the Lewes to

Kenneth McKenzie, younger of Kildin.”

“This summer there are several gentlemen going from Scotland, such as David Toshach of Monyvard, with his lady &

Family, James Johnston of Spoteswood, Keneth McKenzie, younger of Kildin, Isle of Lewis, Captain Patrick McGreiger,

Robert and Thomas Fullertons, brothers german to the Laird of Kinaber, and John Barclay, brother german to the Laird of

Urie, William Robison, Doctor of Medicine, and many others…” [Also in the summer of 1684 came George McKenzie,

merchant, Edinburgh, in Elizabethtown, East Jersey.]

April 11^th 1685, Sir John Gordon, Knight and Advocate, to George McKenzie of Kildin, for 1-20 of 1-48

share of the Province of East Jersey. [Kildin, near Dingwall, was within the Earldom of Ross, & Sheriffdom of Inverness.

George McKenzie, mentioned below, and above at Elizabethtown, was said to be a son of Sir George McKenzie.]

Feb. 26^th 1697/8, Satisfaction Piece. George McKenzie, late of N. Y. City, Merchant, now of Bridgetown,

Island of Barbados, to John Barclay of Plainfield, for the mortgage of Nov. 7^th 1688 on 700 acres, called

Plainfield, Middlesex County. George McKenzie, Merchant, in Barbados, heir to mother Bethia Law, or McKenzie, Nee:

Dickson, widow of George McKenzie, writer in Edinburgh, Reg. April 20^th 1704. (see last item) Biography says he was a

son of Sir Simon M. McKenzke, brother of Robert McKenzie of Seaforth.

July 9^th 1700, Confirmation ot George McKenzie of Kildin, Scotland, holding 1-40 of the 1-24 share of the

Province in full of his first and second dividend, of 375 acres in Middlesex County,, on Cranberry Brook,

between Jeremaih Basse and the great road, East Jersey.

August 14^th 1701, to Thomas Gordon of Perth Amboy, in right of his brother Charles Gordon, deceased,

George Willcox and George McKenzie of Kildin, Scotland, of 1, a lot in Middlesex County, between

Cheesquacks and South River; 2, a piece of meadow in said county, SW John Melvine, formerly Gawen

Lawrie, SE the main Creek of Cheesquacks, NE another branch of Cheesquacks; 3. a lot in Perth Abmoy,

between George Willows, formerly Samuel Gibson, the intended road and the intended wet dock.

George McKenzie Merchant, petitioned the Council of Barbados in 1701 for payment for bringing several

servants to Barbados. He was a 2^nd ½ cousin to Mary McKenzie, Dews. See his partial ancestry immediately below>

Kenneth MacKenzie [1573-1611], 12^th Chief.

1^st Lord of Kintail. He m:1st Anne, daughter of

of George Ross of Balanagowan. Issue above.

He also married 2^nd to Isobel, daughter of Oglevie.

Sir Simon M. McKenzie of Lochslin, brother of Lord Seaforth, George McKenzie

m: ____ daughter of Dr. Peter Bruce.

George McKenzie [1636, Worcester – 1890, Oxford], Lawyer, Writer of Edinburgh “Bloody McKenzie”

m: Bethia Dickson, daughter of Dickson, formerly married to Law.

George McKenzie, of Kildin, merchant of Edinburgh, NJ, NY, & Barbados.

“George McKenzie, a merchant of Edinburgh, son of George McKenzie & his wife

Bethia Law, settled in Barbados before 1704, testament confirmed in Edinburgh in 1733.”

[NAS, CC 8.8.95][NAS, SH 20.4.1704]

Estracts from: Memorials of the Family of Skene of Skene, p. 35 in above outline, & below.

Robert Skeyne, Syldie of Erdiforl, Scotland

M: June 29^th 1589, Jonat Forbes

Robert Skeyne, Painter, & Glasswright, Burgess of Aberdeen, Scotland

M: 1618, Marjorie Forbes

Alexander Skene,

M: Aug. 26^th 1648 Lilias Gillespie, d/o John Gillespie & Lilias Simpson.

John Skene [1649, Aberdeen, Sc. – 1699, Dep. Gov., W. Jersey]

M: Oct. 23^rd 1669, Ilennabea, Scotland, Helena Fullerton, d/o

John Foulertone, (& Catherine Allerdyce.)

House of Burnet:

Alexander Burnet of Leys

m: Janet Gardine

Alexander Burnet of Leys

m: Agnes Lichtoun

m: 1^st (1543) Janet Hamilton = Alexander Burnet 9^th Laird of Leys = m: 2^nd to Marjory, d/o 6^th of Forbes

| |

|_John Burnet, of Leys [b. after 1543 - ] | | m: Elizabeth Lumsden, d/o John ?

| 4^th of Cushnie

| |

| |_Alexander Burnet

| | m: Katherine Arbuthnot

| | d/o Robert Arbuthnot, 1^st of Fiddes

| | |

| | |_Alexander Burnet [1584- 1619]

| | | MP of Kincardine

| | | m: Katherine Gordon, d/o

| | | Alexander Gordon of Lesmoir [b. bef. 1562], s/o George Gordon of Lesmoir.

| | | |

| | | |_Sir Thomas Burnet

| | | | m: 1^st Margaret Douglas

| | | | |

| | | | |

| | | | |

| | | | | m: Sir William Forbes, 2^nd Baronet of Monymusk

| | | |

| | | | m: 2^nd to Jane, widow of Sir Simon Fraser of Inverallochy

| | | | |

| | | | | m: 1^st Sir Robert Douglas of Tilliwhilly

| | | | |

| | | | | m: Elizabeth Burnet, d/o Thomas Burnet of Craigmyle

| | | | |

| | | | |

| | | | | m: (1617) to Sir John Allerdyce_____________________________

| | | | | |

| | | | | |

| | | | | m: Alexander Skene, 13^th Laird of Skene [1584-1634]______ |

| | |

|_Janet Burnet [b. after 1543 - ?] | |

| m: James Skene [1505-1600] s/o Alexander Skene, & Elizabeth Black | |

He m: 2^nd to Jane Lumsden, d/o John | |

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| ___________________________________|

| |

Mary Skene Catherine Allerdyce, Lady Kinnaber

m 1656: George MacKenzie of Kildun m: John Fullerton, of Kinnaber

2^nd son of 2^nd Earl of Seaforth |

| Helena Fullerton

Mary MacKenzie m: John Skene

m: Capt. Thomas Dews |_ John Skene

| |

|_Capt. George Dews |_Alexander Skene

| m: Ann Welsh | m: Jemima Dews, Kenny

| |

|_Jemima Dews |_Catherine Skene

| m: Rev. John Kenny | m: Samuel Hunter

| m: Alexander Skene (right flow) |

| |_Lilias Skene

|_Robert Dews | m: Obadiah Haig

m: Mary Baker |

[Lilias Skene, Haig, widow, |_Christian Skene

became the Guardian of |

Robert & Mary Dew’s orphans, |

Bethel, & Wm. Dews in 1722] |_Matthew Skene

Memorials of Angus and the Mearns, p. 281:

“It is worthy of mention, that John Fullerton of Kinnaber, who was a contemporary of Barclay of

Ury, celebrated author of “Apology for the Quakers” was among the earliest in Scotland to embrace the

principles of Quakerism. It is certain that in common with Barclay, Fullerton and his household were

persecuted by the Church for adhering to these opinions; for in 1663, some time after Fullerton of

Kinnaber, had been excommunicated by the Presbytery of Brechin, the record bears that the same

sentence was pronounced by that body “against Catherin Allardes (sic) Allerdyce, Lady Kynnaber,

and Sibillia Falconer, a domestic servant, for adhering to the scandalous error of Quakerism.””

Dec. 1^st 1693: SCHM p. 82:

Dec. 1^st 1693, Major Benjamin Waring…at his own charge and expense imported

into the province of Carolina 14 persons, aged above 16 years…

Viz: Elizabeth, his wife

Phillip Kneeler

Saml Goodman

Hugh Charmichael

George Smart

John Aining

Thomas Brown

Wm. Chapman

Christo Sympson

Joanna Ayers…

Obadiah Haig’s parents were William Haig, and his wife Mary Lowrie who were married in 1673 in London where William was a merchant in business with his father-in-law Gawen Lowrie. William, and his son Obadiah Haig became textile, and clothing merchants of NY Citty, and after his father perished in Jersey about 1688, Obadiah was still in the process of finishing up his father’s affairs in 1698. It required him to make a voyage to Scotland. His mother Mary, and sister Rebecca accompanied him from Jersey to the Haig manor in Bermersyde, Berwick, Scotland. Obadiah spent the Winter of 1699 with his favorite uncle Anthony Haig Laird of Bermersyde recounting family history and anecdotes that he committed to writing, and Obadiah had it publishing in London before departing back to America.

Clan Haig

“Tyde What May”

Drustkine, “Drust” last King of the Picts (A. D. 839)

[845-847]Was killed in a Battle with the Scots.

He had descendants dwelling in Normandy, and Brittany, Fr.

Hago, his son, was carried in infancy over to Norway.

He married Cuncgunda, niece of Norway’s King Olaus, II.

Hago, (A. D. 916) married Florida, daughter of Arnworth,

a petty King of Norway.

Arsworth, married Antoinietta, daughter of Aubior,

King of Sagan in Norway.

Sueno (A. D. 1038) married unknown 2^nd daughter of

the King of Denmark.

Hago (A. D. 1072 – 1103) married Dorathea,

daughter of the Duke of Oldenborough.

Petrus de Hago (A. D. 1150-1200) was shipwrecked on the coast

of Berwickshire. He is said to have founded the Bermersyde family

of Haig, and was the 1^st Laird. He married Joycelina, daughter of

Cospatric, Earl of March in Berwickshire, Sc.

Petrus de Haga, 2^nd Laird, (A. D. 1200 – 1228, buried in Drayton Abby.)

He married Ada, daughter of Sir Henry Saint Clair,

Sheriff of Berwickshire, and he married last to Goda.

Henricus de Haga, 3^rd Laird (A. D. 1228 – 1240.)

His mother was Goda. He married Adeliya.

Petrus de Haga, 4^th Laird (A. D. 1240 – 1280.) He married

Katherina, a daughter of Sir William de Bello Campo.

Johannes de Haga, 5^th Laird (A. D. 1280 – 1326.) He married a

daughter of William de Home.

Johannes de Haga, (d. 1333) fought with Wallace against the

English. He married Emagard, daughter of Sir Adam de Gordon

of the Merse.

Petrus de Haga, 6^th Laird (A. D. 1326 – 1333.) He married

Margaret, a daughter of Allan Purves of Ercildoune.

Henry de Haga, 7^th Laird (A. D. 1333 – 1368.)

He was succeeded by his brother, John.

John de Haga, 8^th Laird (A. D. 1368 – 1388.)

He married Mary, daughter of John Mautland.

Andrew de Haga, 9^th Laird (A. D. 1388 – 1414.)

He married unknown.

John Hage, 10^th Laird (A. D. 1414 – 1436, Piperdean.)

He married Elizabeth, daughter ofHugh Gifford, Lord of Yester.

He married Elizabeth, daughter of Mere of Rowallan.

Gilbert Haig, 11^th Laird (A. D. 1436 – 1448.)

He married Margaret, daughter of

McDougal, laird of Marestorn.

James Haig, 12^th Larid (A. D. 1458 – 1490.) He married Margaret,

daughter of Sir David Scott of Brankholm.

William Haig, 13^th Laird (A. D. 1490 – 1513.) He married Isabell,

daughter of Mungo Home of Cowchuknowles.

Robert Haig, 14^th Laird (A. D. 1413 – 1454.) He married Barbara,

daughter of William Spottiswood of Spottiswood.

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Andrew Haig [1554 – 1583] 12^th Baron of Bemersyde, Berwick.

He married Janet, daughter of Nisbet of Nesbit on Teviot Water.

He married Susan, daughter of David Renton of Lamberton.

He married Elizabeth, daughter of William McDougal of Makerstoun. His issue by Elizabeth:

Robert Haig [1583 – 1602]

He married Margaret, daughter of George Kerr of Fadonside. (Three of his sons, and some

descendants, are mentioned below)

|_____James Haig [1602 – 1631] heir of Bemersyde

| He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas McDougal.

| |

| John Haig [1637 – aft. 1662] Orchard Farm near Alloa.

| He married Mar. 1^st 1600, Isobel, daughter of Alexander Ramsey.

| |

| George Haig [Aug. 27^th 1662 of New Bigging, near Alloa –

| Aft. 1688.] He married 22 Mar. 1684, Janet Anderson.

| |

| John Haig [1688 – matriculated Arms in 1733,] a

| shipbuilder of Alloa. He married Elspeth Nuccol.

| |

| George Haig [1712 – 1748.] Surv. Gen. SC.

| He married 1738, Sax Gotha, SC, Elizabeth W.

| Seawright.

|_____John Haig, 14^th Baron of Bemersyde.

| He married Elizabeth, daughter of William McDougal of Todderig.

| |

| David Haig [of Bemersyde – June 1645], 15^th heir of Bemersyde. He

| married on Oct. 27^th 1636 to Hybernia [1612, Groningen, Friesland, Holland - ?,]

| a daughter of Senior de Scholes. They were married in Holland.

| |

| William Haig [Mar. 26^th 1646, Bemersyde – July 29^th 1688, Burlington,

| West Jersey.] He was a London Merchant, Textile and Clothing in NY.

| He married in 1673 to Mary, daughter of Gavin Lowrie, Gov. of East

| Jersey.

| |

| Obadiah Haig [Sept. 1^st 1674, London – June 1^st 1701

| Barbados, WI.] He was a Textile and Clothing merchant of

| NY. He married Spr. 1701, London, to Lilias, daughter of

| John Skene. No known issue.

|_____Fredrick Haig, went to the West Indies where he perished. It appears likely that he

Sired mixed Cherokee children on the Carolina mainland.

Obadiah Haig met his beau Lilia Skene in London. She recently came from Barbados for their planned weding, and soon after their betrothal Obadiah, his new bride, mother, & sister departed on a voyage back to Jersey by way of visiting her brother Alexander, & other relations like John Skene in Barbados.

Lelias Skene married Obadiah Haig (Hague) in London in the spring of 1701, but Obadiah Hague (Sept. 1^st 1674, London – June 1^st 1701, Barbados, WI) died in Barbados after a four-day siege of distemper contacted on the voyage back from Scotland, or after arrival in Barbados. He had just married Lilia Skene, a dear friend from Burlington, NJ recently dwelling in Barbados. When Obadiah perished he left the newly wed Lelia a widow. The Will of Lilias made in 1742, SC, in her Codicil, mentions a Goddaughter named Elizabeth Baker. Madam Lelias Skene, Haig fell heir to some of her husband’s estate and wealth after his untimely death. She did not remarry. Lelias Skeen, Hague was a sister-in-law of Robert Dews by the marriage of her brother Alexander Skeen to Jemima Dews, Kenny, but she was also his distant (5^th) cousin.

April 23^rd 1681: Col. Thomas Dewe, 450 acres in Nanzemund, at head of Crany Creek, issuing out of the Southard Branch, beginning in line of Hood’s Neck Pattent, now Francis Parker’s; to George Spivey, Sr., crossing the Beavor Dam, into the main Pocoson; &c. Granted to Randall Crew on Nov. 13^th 1640, which after several surrenders, and discent, is in possession of the said Col. Thomas Dewe. [C & P, Patent Book 7, page 221]

In 1685, a Francis Dew was sent to Barbados on the Western Prisoners Circuit, as a result of the late Monmouth Rebellion.

In 1685 a John Dew indentured himself in Jamaica to Bristol Commission Agent John Napper for four years, and arrived on the "Providence." This John Napper appears to be his uncle, his mother’s brother, being an inheriting son of the John Napper that earlier indentured his uncle John Dewe of Barbados.

“There are records of several Dews, two with the name Thomas, among the planters of this period, who had plantations in Bermuda, and in the Bahamas Islands. (and other Caribbean Islands.)” [Ernestine White] It is considered likely that the eldest of the two Thomas Dews recorded there was Richard’s brother, born in England but after an adventure in Virginia he returned to England from whence he later came to Barbados. The other younger Thomas was a son.

In 1689, a Quaker Edward Fisher of Dorchester, Maryland was named in the Probate of the estate of Thomas Dew. This probate occurred long before the son of Andrew Dew removed from Virginia to Maryland in the 17^th century, and was two years before Col. Thomas Dew of Nansemond, Virginia perished. Therefore, Edward Fisher must have been married to one of the Barbadian Capt. Thomas Dew's daughters possibly named Anne, Elizabeth, or Catherine. The place of death and probate of Capt. Thomas Dew is not known, but it was probably in Barbados in 1689 where he was last noted on the 1680 census of St. Peter's all Saints Parish. He died before his father perished in 1691. He is sometimes confused with his nephew Thomas, the much younger son of Andrew Dew who also attained the rank of Captain in Virginia. It is unfortunately said that many Barbados Wills & Probate records have been lost. Thomas Fisher of the Blackwater River in Dorchester County, Maryland was sent to Barbados as a member of the militia in 1679 as noted below. [ The First Fisher Families of the Chesapeake ]

A list of Inhabitants of Barbados in the year of 1638 who possessed more than 10 acres of land, included:

John Dew

Edward ffisher. His land changed ownership 4 times by May of 1644. He probably returned to Bristol, England, and made a Will there in 1662.

Vol 1, Barbados Deeds:

“May 4^th 1644, Recorded: May 13^th 1645, Barbados, St. Michael’s Parish.

To all Christian people to whom these presents shall come,

I Roger Cattlin of the Island of Barbados, planter send greetings in Our Lord God Everlasting Know yee that the said Roger Cattlin for deserving good causes and valuable considerations in hand received ------- at the sealings-------- doe give, grant, bargain, sell, assign…sell unto John Arnett, Francis Strelton, and John Eggrow of ye same place, planters…that my plantation that which lately bought and purchased of Capt. Jones Holdipp containing by estimation twenty acres of land thereabouts which had formerly been in the tenor and occupation of John Thomas and since in the possession of Edward Fisher and since in the tenor and occupation of Frs Whitfield, and John Peirson situated in the Parish of St. Michaels in the Island bounded by land belonging called the Farme now in possession of Eng Edward Crosts, and with the lands of Josias Harts, and land of Sgnor Fellows, and land of John Davis…

To have and to hold, 8^th of May 1644

Signed: Roger Cattlin

In the presence of Owen Baxter, and Tobias Sicklemor.”

Indentured Servants to serve in Barbados:

Elizabeth Anderson, November 8^th 1669, Agent: Thomas Fisher (location not given)

Edward Fisher, perhaps of Barbados, apparently came to St. Mary’s County, Maryland in 1675 with his wife Anne, son Edward Fisher, a Cooper, & wife Catherine, and younger son William Fisher. They were all indentured for seven years to pay for their passage, and it is believed that they were related to the Edward Fisher who left a Will in Bristol, England in 1662 that named sons John, James, Joseph, and Edward. It is also possible that an eldest son, & primogenitor not named in the Will, may have been Richard Fisher. Apparently some of these Fisher siblings dwelt in Maryland, and some in Barbados. The Fishers of St. Mary’s county, Maryland removed to Dorchester County on the Nanicoke River by 1685.

Thomas Fisher & Samuel Hardacre, a Quaker, were both in a militia unit sent to Barbados in 1679 from the Blackwater River area of Dorchester County, Maryland.

In June of 1687 both Edward Fisher, planter of St. Mary’s, and Thomas Fisher (possibly of Blackwater River) were mentioned in the Probate of the estate of John Baker.

Barbados Census of 1680:

Richard ffisher: St. Peter All Saints

Joseph ffisher: St. Peter All Saints

John ffisher: St. Lucy

(p. 7) “Rachel, daughter of Alice Doe baptized ye 15^th of March, 1690/91.”

In 1691 the Administration of the Estate of Col. Thomas Due, first colonial immigrant of this family, deceased, was settled in York County, Virginia. It is said that Col. Thomas Due (sic) Dewe, who perished at about 89 years of age, survived all of his sons. The bulk of his vast Virginia Estate descended to his Primogenitor, & eldest surviving grandson dwelling in Virginia. This heir was his grandson Thomas Dew, a son of Andrew Dew an older son that perished in Virginia during the early 1660s, believed about 1661.

The account of Thomas Dew, deceased, York County Court, October 1691 - an account of what estate doth appear to belong to Thos. Dew, dec'd, as did appear before ye Court, Oct. 16th 1691, to be owing by these several persons hereafter named:

Account by John Mykill, 060 lbs. Tobacco

Account by Jas. Priest, 030 lbs. Tobacco

Account by Tho. Jefferson 125 lbs. Tobacco

Account by Robert Leightenhouse's bill 250 lbs. Tobacco

Test. J. Sedgewick

"John Mykill is to pay out of this account 100 lbs. Tobacco to

Jno. Lucas."

Note that John Mykill was likely a corruption of John Michael.

Robert Lightenhouse perished before July 24^th 1701, the date that his estate was

Inventoried and sworn to by his widow, Elizabeth, Administrix, and signed

by William Sedgwick, County Clerk of York County, Virginia.

John Lucas was a former nephew-in-law of the decedent Thomas Dew. His father Capt. John Lucas, Sr. was once married to Thomas Dew's sister Margaret as her last husband. The John Lucas of Virginia was said related to the John Lucas of Antigua, and South Carolina.

In 1691, George Dews, Sr., a young man perhaps approaching 21 years of age, a qualified mariner who was familiar with the Caribbean, appeared in Bermuda where he, along with Thomas Tews, supposedly a Rhode Islander, were issued Letters of Marquis from the Governor of Bermuda Isaac Richier, to take to the sea and attack French interests in Gambia. It was quite likely that in this same year, Capt. George Dews, Sr. married Ann Welsh, a daughter of John Welsh, and wife Anne, who were counted on the 1696 Oath Roll of Association Island in the Town and Parish of St. Georges Is., along with Capt. George Dews, Sr. It was later that year that their son George Dews, Jr. was born in St. Georges, Is., Bermuda. This son also became a mariner. George Dews, Sr., and wife Ann Welsh, had daughters named Anne and Mary Dews before 1702. Both father and son appear to be named after George MacKenzie, 2^nd Earl of Seaforth.

The earliest information about Thomas Tews was a report by a traveler in Newport Rhode Island made in 1694, that he recognized Thomas Tews as a man he had known in Jamaica 12 years earlier (in 1682.) It was also claimed by a man named Weaver,

Councelor for the King during Fletcher’s Decomissioning that during Tew’s stay at

Bermuda (New Providence,) “It was a thing notoriously known to everyone that he (Tews)

had before then been a pirate, and a sailor who had known him well testified that he

(Tews) “had been a rambling.”

Isaac Richier, Esq., was appointed Governor of Bermuda in 1691. By fraudulent means Richier seized the ship “Ann & Mary.” He caused two ships to be outfitted as privateers, and finding difficulty in manning them, he issued warrants and impressed men for this purpose. The command was given to two men Dew, and Griffin who put to the sea, and off Cape Cod boarded a British ship bound for Virginia with a valuable cargo consisting partly of oil, brimstone, and some Gold and Silver. Upon the flimsy pretext that she had no clearance, they plundered her of her cargo, and returned to Bermuda.

On the 2nd of May 1693, at Saldanha Bay, west coast of Africa, Capt. George Dew in the Brigantine “Amy” under English Colors, landed in the bay, and was soon arrested by the Dutch ship “Tamboer.” The “Amy” appeared to have been in an armed engagement, and had lost her main mast. After finding two conflicting sets of ships papers, the Dutch Officers seized the “Amy” as a pirate vessel, and discovered that her Captain had lied about the number of crewmen aboard. The “Amy” was condemned, and Dews and his crew were sent as prisoners to Europe. But it proved impossible to prove that Dews was a pirate, and he put in a claim for damage against the Dutch East Indian Company, and caused the Directors much trouble and expense. From: “History of South Africa under the Administration of the Dutch East India Company: page 174”

In 1695, George Dew of Bermuda, Captain of the “Marigold” at anchor in St. George’s Island, registered a protest: “Enroute from Barbados to Africa, mutiny, and storm damage forced his return.”

Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Barbados, p. 176:

“Oct. 13^th 1696, item 316, Minutes of the Council of Barbados.

Order for a proclamation that all small boats be secured at night, and that guards be appointed by the

Colonels of the militia each night.

Three Colonels took the Oath according to the Articles of War.

Order for Captain George Dew to be reimbursed for provisions expended in the country’s service.

Order for victualizing a vessel which is going to Governor Codrington.

Order for all the field Officers to taken the Oath of Fidelity according to the Articles of War.”

Parish Plantations, 1696, Bermuda als Somers Islands in America:

A few of the inhabitants of the Town & Parish of St. Georges were:

George Dew Joseph Ming

James Croskey Jonathan Ming

William Croskeys Matthew Ming

Nathaniel Mills Experience Fox

John Welsh Stephen Wright

John Hurt Phineas Wright

Edward Middleton, Sen. Ephriam Wright

John Middleton Joseph Wright

John Hilton James Wright, 1st Sgt

James Rice John Bellinger, 3rd Sgt

David Ming

Charles Minors was a member of the Bermuda Assembly, and Clerk of the Council in 1696.

James Croskeys, & William Croskeys were the brothers of mariner Joseph Croskeys. and

Nathaniel Mills was the husband of their sister Elizabeth Croskeys. [Will of Joseph Croskeys, Dec. 2, 1700, Charleston, SC]

John Hurt was probably related to Robert Hurt whose Will was probated in Barbados in 1679.

In 1699, Captain George Dew, of Bermuda, a Privateer, built the “Old Rectory” one of the oldest surviving buildings on St. George’s Island.

In this same year, Pirates landed in Saldanha Bay, Africa, and stripped the “Amy” before

fleeing a Dutch flotilla from the Cape.

On Sept. 29, 1702, Capt. George Dew, member of the Bermuda Assembly, made his Will in Bermuda. This Will was proved on Feb. 15, 1703. [Bermuda WB2, pa. 188], which names his heirs:

“Wife: Ann

Son: George Dew, Jr., (a minor child)

Daughters: Anne Dew, (a minor child)

Mary Dew, (a minor child)

Mother-in-Law: Ann Welsh, Executor

Witnesses: James Wright

John Hilton

Charles Minors”

In 1703, “Governor Christopher Codrington, Gov., of Bermuda, appointed George Dew as one of the Barons of Exchequer.”

Capt. George Dew’s LW&T was Executed by his mother-in-law Ann Welsh. Since the Executor or Executrix were always the blood kin of the deceased, unless otherwise stated, this makes me suspicious that Ann Welch, wife of John Welsh was nee, Ann Dews, the daughter of Col. Thomas Dews. If so, then she was his aunt, at the time being at least 68 years old, and George Dews thus married his first cousin.

A John Welsh, born about 1606, was Council for the Devonshire Tribe in complaints against Capt. Stokes in Bermuda in 1626. John Welsh, of Devonshire, died on Somers Island about 1640. He named his wife Eliza, and his Apprentice John Welsh, Junr., the natural son of his brother William Welsh, late of St. Davids Island. His nephew John Welsh was recorded on general levy records of Bermuda in 1660 for work done on Smith’s Fort: 1 Shilling, and for mending the Castle Boat, and for work done about the Court of the Guarde, 8 Shillings. John Welch , a shipwright of Somers Island given Warrant on June 21^st 1661 for inspecting the ship “Ould St. Jacob” of Amsterdam for seaworthiness, and in the same year disbursed 12 Shillings for providing funeral items. John Welsh was counted on the 1662/3 Survey of Bermuda by Richard Norwood, on the east end of St. George’s Island, 2 shares, and on Nov. 22^nd 1663, an Agreement was made between Katherine Gilbert, wife of Richard Gilbert, Sr., of Smith’s Tribe, and John Welsh of St. George’s regarding the purchase of a Negro woman. John Welsh was also counted on the 1696 Association Oath Rolls also on St. George’s Island. Ensigne Leonard White was dwelling in St. Georges Island, Bermuda during the 1696 Association Oath Rolls.

William Wilch ( - ) Late of St. David’s in 1640. Mentioned in the 1640 Will of John Welsh, his

brother deceased, whose wife was Eliza. Sons of William were:

William Welch ( - ) One of the designated Harpooners of a Whaling

boat, at Somers Island on 21 Mar. 1663/4.

John Welsh, Junr. (ca. 1626, Barbados - ) Apprenticed to his uncle John Welsh on Bermuda.

He apparently married Ann Dew a daughter of the Virginia Colonel Thomas Dewe. Children:

Ann Welsh (ca. 1674 - ) m1: George Dews, m2: William Rowsham, Sr.

Mary Welsh ( - ) m: John Norman, a mariner of Bermuda

John Norman ( - ) mariner, apprenticed to Leonard White, mariner of Bermuda for 10 years on April 20^th 1694. Ensigne Leonard White, of Smith’s Tribe, and of St. Georges Island, was a son of Capt. Anthony White, and his wife Elizabeth Jennings, a daughter of Richard Jennings. John Norman’s father also John Norman b. 1616, embarked June 10^th 1635 from Gravesand, in the “Truelove of London” under the command of Mr. Robert Dennis, to Somers Island, along with his older uncle George Norman, b. 1610. John Norman immigrated to Carolina.

John Welsh ( - ) mariner of Bermuda who plyed the waters from Boston to Savannah. He came to America & entered the Indian Trade being here before the French - Indian War. His son John Welsh, brother of Sarah, may be mentioned in the lower note.

m: unknown

Sarah (Welsh?) (ca. 1748, SC - ) of the 4^th generation, married about 1761 in SC to Charles Minors, a Shipwright of Bermuda (formerly Somers Island) as his second wife [marriage unproved.] Charles moved from Bermuda to South Carolina sometime after 1705, where he built ships on the Little River, and then died in SC sometime before 1769, a very elderly man. Charles Minors, as a Clerk, and Secretary of the Bermuda Council, witnessed the Will of John Welsh, Junr. in Bermuda, however he also witnessed many other Bermuda Wills as the Clerk of the Island Council. His much younger widow Sarah Minors, in SC married second before 1769 to Cornelius Dewees, a shipwright of Germantown, PA who also built ships in SC on Dewes/Dewees Island, that then belonged to his partner Plunkett. It was an Island that was purchased by the wealthy Indian Merchant Capt. William Dewes at the estate sale of George Plunkett, deceased, at Charleston auctioned in 1761 to satisfy the creditors of Plunkett. This Island had formerly been identified as Timacau Island, but became associated with the names of first William Dewes, and then of Cornelius Dewees who were unrelated persons. William Dewes thus was apparently related to Sarah Minors.

Note: From A Historical Digest, p. 191:

“The Boston Newsletter of April 23, 1705 – reports Indwards bound John Welsh from Bermuda.”

From The French and Indian War Notices, page 269:

“Charleston, South Carolina, Nov. 29^th 1760,

Fort Prince George, Nov. 6^th 1760,

On the 1^st Instant John Welsh came in here from the middle settlements, and informed me that Louis

Lautiniac, a Frenchman born who was a Cadet in Capt. Nelson’s Independent Company, thereafter

a trader, and now a French Officer, arrived very lately at Chote with some presents from the French

to these Indians. He immediately sent down for Sailowe, or the Young Warrior of Estatoe, who

obeyed the summons and delivered to him two letters which were in his hands written by me to

Judd’s Friend, and Oucannostata. Lautiniac being a master of both the English, and Cherokee

tongues, interpreted these letters as best suited his own interests; and having presented Sailowe with

a box of paints which was accepted, he pulled out a bloody hatchet, drove it into a log, and cried out,

“Where is the man that will take that up for the French?” Sailowe immediately seized the hatchet,

saying “I am not yet tired of war. I will give them the English more of it.,” and danced the war

dance, after which all the others took up the hatchet, and declared in favor of the French…”

It was during this same year of 1703 George died that part of this surviving family immigrated to Charleston, Carolina, where the Ann, the Widow of Captain George Dew, Sr., married in Carolina to William Rowsham, Sr. who had recently lost his wife. Her daughter Anne Dew, and her son George Dew, Jr. remained behind in Bermuda, St. Georges Is., likely with grandparents, but it is believed that her youngest Mary Dew, came to Charleston with her mother.

George Dew, Jr. became a mariner like his father, and married a woman named Patience, but apparently he died, perhaps at sea, before they had issue. His widow Patience Dew married to mariner Joseph Palmer and removed to Carolina.

Descendants of Capt. George Dew (bef. 1670 - ca. 1703, Bermuda) & Anne Welch, Dew follow. Anne, widow of George Dew, married William Rowsham in Charleston, SC.

1. George Dew, a mariner perished before 1714, married Patience

His widow, Patience married second to Joseph Palmer, a mariner of Barbados. Joseph Palmer 1717 in his sloop, was attacked by Pirate Stede Bonet.

2. Ann Dew, a spinster of Bermuda in 1714.

3. Mary Dew, a spinster of South Carolina in 1714.

On April 13^th of 1714 the Charles Town Court records show that:

“I Joseph Palmer and Patience Palmer, his wife, late Patience Dew widow of George Dew of Bermuda, mariner, dec’d, for consideration of sum of 20 Pounds Current money paid, the receipt whereof they do acknowledge, have released quit claim unto Anne Dew, of Bermuda, spinster, and to Mary Dew of South Carolina, spinster, daughters and sole heirs of George Dew, Sr., of Bermuda, mariner, dec’d, and sisters to the former husband of Patience Palmer, all estate which said Joseph Palmer and Patience, his wife, ought to have all lands, tenements on the Island of Bermuda which were the inheritance of George Dew, dec’d…that Joseph Palmer and Patience, his wife, shall not nor at any time hereafter claim, and Anne and Mary Dew shall have lawful possession or inheritance… Signed: Joseph Palmer, Patience Palmer. Witnesses: Jno. Croskeys, Jno. Stevenson, Tho. Walker, Jno. Croft.” [Notice Pub. Date: 14, April 1714]

Three years later, in August of 1717, Captain Joseph Palmer of the Bar, South Carolina, being 28 years of age, was bringing a sloop from Barbados to the South Carolina Port of Charleston when attacked by Pirate Captain Stede Bonnet, formerly a peaceful and prosperous retired Army Major from Barbados himself, and thus Palmer may have been acquainted with Bonnet. Pirate Bonnet took Palmer’s sloop, plundered Rum, Sugar, and Negroes, used the sloop to careen his own ship, then burnt Palmer’s sloop. Birth entries noted below seem to indicate that Joseph Palmer survived the attack.

Joseph Palmer was 21 years old in 1709 (b. ca. 1688/89,) a son of Charles Palmer of Barbados. [Will of Nathaniel Curtis, planter of Barbados, St. Phillips Parish, Nov. 14, 1709, RB 6/7, page 100] Charles Palmer was surveyed on Barbados in 1717-1722.

June 29, 1720: Joseph, a son of Joseph Palmer and Patience his wife, was born.

July 15, 1723, Samuel, a son of Joseph Palmer and Patience his wife, was born.

June 27^th 1725, Joseph Palmer, a child, was buried (parents not named.)

John Stevenson & wife Mary had a daughter named Mary on July 17, 1722 in St. Phillips, Charleston, SC]

It is my suspicion that, after the above quit claim conveyance was made, Stevenson married Mary Dews.

John Croskeys [ca. 1701, Charleston, SC - ca. (Will) Mar. 15, 1722, Charleston, SC] a son of Joseph Croskeys, mariner, died as a fairly young man. Six years after the above conveyance was made, he maried Sarah Matthews [ca. 1700, Charleston, SC - ?] a daughter of Capt. Anthony Matthews [ca. 1661, London, Eng. - ca. 1735, Charleston, SC], a mariner & merchant, & wife Lois (Fowell/Fa’well/Farewell?) Sarah Matthews was probably a granddaughter of Richard Fowell & Sarah (Dewes?), Fowell of Barbados, and was related to the parties mentioned in the conveyance above.

Capt. Thomas Walker, mentioned witness in the above conveyance, was probably of Nassau, a Justice, and a former Governor of the Bahamas. He had fled to Charleston after Pirates took over rule of the Bahamas by force, but he returned to the northernmost cay of these islands in 1717. No doubt Walker was well acquainted with Palmer, and the Dewe family.

Jno. Croft was a Register of Charles Town records, and in this capacity often witnessed legal documents, but a man of this same name did, in 1731, witness a Deed from Captain Anthony Matthews & wife Lois, to John Murrill, and he was not the Register. It is possible that this later man was a son of the earlier John Croft.

An Analysis of the Revolt Against the Proprietors of SC in 1719, page 69:

“…into this situation arrived from Barbados one Alexander Skene shortly after March 1^st 1715. There (in Barbados) he had served for a long period as Secretary of the Colony…”

Note that it is believed that Robert Dews was the former Ward of Alexander Skene, and wife, Jemima, a sister of Robert Dews, and that after his education, and Apprentice as a Bricklayer in Barbados, Robert came with them to Charles Town, SC – S.Due.

The specific immigrant, and subject, Robert Dews:

Robert Dews (Dewe, Dewes,) was born ca. 1684, probably in Barbados. It is shown herein that some of his siblings were possibly George Dews, Sr., & almost certainly Jemima Dews, she and Robert being descendants of an earlier Dew family that came to Barbados. The linkage between George and Robert Dews is a somewhat weak and tenuous one, being that George’s widow, Ann Welsh, became the much younger stepmother of Robert’s mother-in-law, Susannah Rowsham. But this linkage is reinforced by the notion that Bermuda and Barbados were original haunts, and where the mainstream Dew family interests of Col. Thomas Dew lay in the Caribbean. The linkage between Alexander Skene’s wife Jemima, and Robert Dews is much more definitive, and strong. It seems to leave little doubt that Robert Dews came to Charles Town from Barbados. George Dew, Sr., had to be born somewhere, but he is not found on any discovered English records. But about eleven years before George Dews, Sr. first appears on the records of Bermuda, both Ensinge David Dew and Ensinge Thomas Dew appear in the records of the Barbados militia (1679-1680.)

Sometime about 1715, or thereabouts, a man named Robert Dews, a bricklayer, appeared in Charles Town, Carolina.

[Robert Dews declared before the Carolina Court that he knew John Wright, a Quondam Indian Agent, whose son Richard Wright married Mary Rhett, daughter of Col. Wm. Rhett.] (Major John Wright died in 1715 during the Yamassee Indian uprising.)

John Wright had a warrant for 200 acres of land att Yathawee between Birch Creek & an Indian ffort. 28th September 1704.

John Wright had two warrants for 1,000 acres of land dated “ye 1st of October 1705.”

John Wright had two warrants for land dated “ye 1st of October 1706 which I delivered to Coll. Moore for him.”

There were two lines of Wrights in early Charles Town, Carolina, who may have been related. Both descended from Thomas Wright of the Norfolk & Suffolk Wrights of Kilverstone manor during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. One line was that of John Wright who came from Virginia, an early Commissioner of Indians, and at times a member of the Assembly of Carolina, who was slain by the Indians at Pocotaligo, along with fellow Indian Agent, Scotsman Captain Thomas Nairne. John Wright’s sons: John, Richard, & Thomas Wright, all wealthy and prominent citizens succeeded him. A probable sister of John, Margaret Wright married Thomas Hayward, a powder keeper of Charles Town, SC. Both lines of these Wrights were related. The Kilverstone branch originated in Normandy, France, and came to England with the Knights of William the Conqueror in 1066.

There was another line of this Wright family first seated in Berwickshire, Scotland from ancient times. They lay claim to an origin with the Boernicians, and admixture of Scot Picts & Angles dating back to 400 AD. Their haunts included Elgin, and Kincardine. They were settled early in Ploughland in Holderness, Durham where they were seated in Bradbury, Sedgefield, Northumberland, and Berwick. They had estates in Yorkshire at Bolton-upon-Swale, Botton Hall, and Sigglesthorn Hall, all being blood related to their Norman cousins. Others dwelt and acquired Brattleby in Lincoln, Mottram, and Bickley in Cheshire. After 1000 AD, the blood related Wrights that were separated by the boundary line between Scotland, and England, developed differing loyalties, and alligences. The unruly border clans of the Wright ilk were dispersed to England, northern Scotland, and Ireland, but some were banished directly to the colonies.

South Carolina Marriages 1688-1799, show:

John Wright married Jane Keays, P License, ____ 1725, St. Phillips Parish.

Richard Wright married Mary Rhett, P License, April 1734, St. Phillips Parish.

Richard Wright married Mary Butler, 25 May 1742, St. Andrews Parish.

Thomas Wright married Ann Hutchinson, P License by Mr. Garden, 27 Feb. 1736, St. Phillips Parish.

Thomas Wright married Elizabeth Bellinger, 17 July 1743, St. Andrews Parish.

The other line was Robert Wright (1696 - 1757), who was Chief Justice of Carolina from 1729 to 1738, husband of his distant cousin, the widow Isabella Pitt, nee Wright. His father was Sir Robert Wright, and mother was Susan Wren. His grandfather was Jermyn Wright, and grandmother was ____. His great grandfather was Sir Thomas Wright, Esq., of Kilverstone, County Norfolk.

His youngest son issued was Sir James Wright (1716, Sedgefield, Durham –1785.) He married Sarah Maidman, and was the last provincial Governor of Georgia.

There is a no doubt that Robert Wright was related to the elder John Wright mentioned above, but the exact relationship has not been established.

Sir Robert Wright had 5 sons; Robert; Richard; Jermyn; Charles; & Sir. James Wright.

(South) Carolina Marriages 1688-1799, show:

Robert Wright married Gibbon Cawood, the only daughter of John Cawood, dec’d, on 7 June 1728 (they were already married on said date); Benja. Whitacker, Thos. Lamboll, Robert Hume: Witnesses.

Robert Wright married Mary Blamyre; minister Edward Dyson; bondsman

Robert Wright, jr., of Dorchester Parish, Esq., and James Graeme, Gent., Attorney

of Law, 22 June 1733, MB NY.

April 1715: Alexander Skene, Secretary of the Island of Barbados, appeared before the Barbadian Court of the Honourable William

Sharpe, Esq., providing his testimony regarding the Will of

William Hampton, dec’d, bearing the date April 4^th 1715. This

indicates that Alexander Skene, Lilias Skene, Haig, and Robert

Dews were all still in Barbados when Alexander gave his

testimony before the Barbadian Court, on April 6^th 1715.

Records suggest that Robert Dews came to Charles Town, Carolina, from Barbados, shortly after the foregoing proceeding, in the spring of 1715 along with his brother-in-law Alexander Skene, and Alex’s sister Madam Lilia Hague.

(South) Carolina State Records, Indian Books, Vol. I:

“We find an entry from the Indian Commissioner to one John Wright to call a meeting of the headmen of the Wacsaw, Esau, and Cuttabau Indians, August 1711.”

In 1711 Captain John Grant and his wife Katherine sued Mary Martin in Charles Town, Carolina.

In Charles Town, Carolina, 1713, a John Wright sued “Catherine Grant, Executrix of John Grant” the decedent who also owned land in Goose Creek, St. James Parish. John Grant, and Catherine Grant, children of John Grant, owned land in St. James Parish, Goose Creek. The son was buried in St. Phillips Parish in 1761. [SC Archives]

Ludovic Grant was born ca. 1690-1696 (christened Apr. 12, 1702 in Irvine, Scotland, a son of John Grant, and wife Catherine Dick.) Ludovic Grant, who resided in Tyvie Parish, Aberdeenshire, was transported on the ship “Susannah” by Court Order to Charles Town, Carolina on May 7, 1716, after being captured at the famous Battle of Preston, imprisioned at Chester, whereby his title was revoked, his lands confiscated, and he was banished to the American Plantations during the failed “Jacobite rebellions.” Ludovic Grant was the noted Cherokee Trader found mentioned in South Carolina records. [See the Research of Larry Petrisky]

A Richard Tookerman (sic) of 1718 in Charles Town was a small time pirate in league with Thomas Porter. Pirate Stede Bonnet was captured in September of 1718 at Topsail Inlet, and was sentenced to death. Tookerman had the audacity to appear at the trial proceedings and submit a claim for a Negro slave named Ned confiscated on Bonnet’s ship as his own property. Tookerman aided Bonnet’s escape from confinement in Charles Town after the trial, and was soon jailed as the accomplice in Charles Town. Bonnet was recaptured, and Tookerman (sic) somehow managed to secure his own release before Bonnet was hanged on Dec. 10^th1718. Judging from his obvious character, Tookerman may have courted and married the illiterate widow Catherine Grant for purposes of stealing her estate settlement.

By 1719 Catherine Grant, widow, of John, married Richard Tookerman (sic,) Tuckerman and he became Executor of the estate of the late John Grant [SC, Archives.] They issued two children:

Richard Tuckerman, born May 18^th 1719

Elizabeth Tuckerman, born Oct. 25^th 1720, married Jacob Axson.

It is not known if Catherine Dick, Grant quit Capt. Richard Tookerman (sic) after soon finding out that he was perhaps a rascal, a thief, and a pirate, but there is a record that a Richard Tookerman (sic) was married on May 18^th 1719 to Elizabeth Warnock at Christ Church Parish in Charles Town. Criminal behavior was grounds for divorce in the white settlements and in the Cherokee culture.

In Sept. 1721 Depositions were taken in the High Court of Admiralty in prosecution against Richard Tookerman (sic.) Deponents included Woods Rogers, Esq., late governor of the Bahamas, aged 40, and Benjamin Simms of the island of Providence, aged 52. Richard Tuckerman died after Oct. 29^th 1725 when Catherine made her Will, although she does appears to be estranged from him. She mentioned in regard to the disposition of her young children “…till such time they can be sent to their father Capt. Richard Tuckerman.”

It is alleged that Catherine Dick, Grant was a full-blooded Cherokee, and if so, she was probably not the first wife of John Grant. Indications are that she was Scotch, however this does not preclude her from also being of the Cherokee Tribe too. Some Sotch Adventurers took Indian women from America back to Scotland with them in earlier times.

A widow Grant was found in Savannah Georgia before 1740. Children mentioned were Ludovic, Margaret, James, and Daniel. [Coulter & Says, Early Settlers of Georgia, p. 76] I have not been able to place her otherwise.

Grant Clan

“Stand Fast”

Eochaid, III, of Argyll (King of Scotland) [726-733]

He married Urgaria of the Picts.

King Alpin [c. 775, Scotland – July 20^th 834] (726-728, King of Picts)

(733-736) King of Scots

He claimed the Pictish Throne before 834.

He was murdered after the defeat of the Scots

by the Picts. He married unknown.

Prince Greggor, who became King Donald, I.

He married unknown.

Dongallas who married Spontana, a daughter

Of the High King of Ireland.

Richard le Grant, Chancellor of the diocease of

Lincoln, who was consecrated Archbishop of

Canterbury in 1229. He married unknown.

Thomas Grant, merchant of the King of Scotland

Who retired from his Post as Visor of York Castle

On Jan. 2^nd 1252. He married unknown.

Sir Laurence le Grant, Sheriff of Inverness who

“Rendered accounts to the Scottish Exchequer in 1263,

and 1266.” He married unknown.

Sir Roy Grant, who married Matilda of Glencarnie.

Sir Duncan Grant [1424 – c. 1485] 1^st of Freuchie.

He married unknown, probably Matilda Comyn of Glencarnie.

John Grant of Freuchie [c. 1445, Scotland – ?]

He married Murial MackIntosh.

John “The Bard” Roy Grant of Freuchie [c. 1465, Scotland –

May 1^st 1528, Scotland.] He married Margaret Murial Ogilvie,

a daughter of James Ogilvie, & Margaret Innes.

James Grant of Freuchie [c. 1485, Freuchie, Ross, & Cromarty - ?.]

He married Elizabeth Forbes, a daughter of John Forbes, 6^th Lord of

Forbes, & Katherine Stewart.

John “The Gentle” Grant [c. 1507, Freuchie, Ross, & Cromarty –

June 3^rd 1585, Ballachastel, Scotland.] He married Marjory Margaret

Stewart a daughter of John Stewart & Grizzel Rattray.

Duncan Grant [c. 1527, Freuchie, Ross, & Cromarty – Feb. 19^th 1580,

Duthill, Scotland.] He married Margaret MackIntosh, a daughter of

William MackIntosh, & Margaret Ogilvy.

John Grant, 5^th of Freuchie [c. 1570, Freuchie, Ross, Cromarty – Sept.

20^th 1622, Duthill, Scotland.] He married Lilias Murray, a daughter of

John Murray, & Katherine Drummond.

John MacOnochir Grant, II, [Aug. 17^th 1596, Freuchie, Ross, Cromarty –

April 1^st 1637, Hollyrood, Midlothian, Scotland.] He married Mary

Ogilvy, a daughter of Walter Ogilvy, & Marie Douglas.

James Grant [June 24^th 1616, Freuchie, Perthshire, Scotland – c. 1663,

Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.] He married Mary Stewart [c. 1608,

Morayshire, Scotland – Dec. 18^th 1662, Scotland.] She was a daughter of

James Stewart, & Anne Gordon.

Ludovic Grant “The Highland King” [Grant, Scotland – Nov. 1716,

Hollyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland.] He married Janet Brodie [c. 1654,

Lethen, Nairnshire, Scotland – c. 1697.] She was a daughter of

Alexander Brodie, & Elizabeth Craig.

John Grant [c. 1679, Pluscardine, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland – c. 1712,

Goose Creek, St. James Parish, SC.] He married Katherine Dick [c. 1682,

Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland – c. after 1747, SC.] She was a daughter of

William Grant, and Katherine Dick.

Ludovic Grant [c. 1699, Irvine, Ayreshire, Scotland – c. 1757, Charleston, SC.]

He married a Cherokee Chief’s daughter he called Elizabeth of the Long Hair

Clan. She was known as Eughioote.

Ludovic Grant, a son of the above Captain John Grant, married a full blood Cherokee woman of the Long Hair Clan, Euguioote (sic) and issued two daughters:

1. Susannah Catherine Grant (1/2)[ca. 1727, Tellico – Oct. 22^nd, 1769, St. Phillips, Carolina] of the Longhair clan who married ca. 1743 to Robert Emory [ca. 1723 – ca. 1790] a son of John Emory & Sarah Wilson. They issued one daughter below, and she was also perhaps married to Willeneewa resulting in the (step?) relationships mentioned at the end:

Her first daughter Susannah Catherine Emory (1/4^th)[ca. 1744, Tomatly, NC – ca. 1765, Cherokee Nation,] cohabitated with John Stuart [ca. 1718, Inverness, Scotland – ca 1779, Florida,] and was the mother of:

Bushyhead (1/8^th) (b. 1758) was raised in the Tribe by relatives.

She was separated from John Stuart when he was ordered to Beaufort.

She next cohabitated with Robert Dews [ca. 1745, Charles Town, Carolina – after 1800, Ga.] They were separated because of the Great Cherokee War. She issued:

Tahlonteeskee (1/8^th) (ca. 1759) was raised in the Tribe by relatives.

She cohabitated with John Jolly. He was a young Virginia soldier who came to Carolina during the Cherokee War, and later assisted the Grant family. She issued:

John Jolly (1/8^th) (b. 1761/3.) was raised in the Tribe by relatives.

She perished about 1765.

Her (step?) half-brothers were Bloody Fellow, Doublehead, Pumpkin Boy, and Old Tassel. Her (step?) half-sisters were Wurthe, and Oo-uo-st (married John Watts, Sr.) by a marriage of her mother Susannah Catherine Grant to “Willeneewa,” the Great Eagle. These relationships were mentioned in many old documents.

2. Mary Grant [ca. 1728/9, Tellico –1765/6 in Eastern Tennessee, or Goose Creek, Carolina]of the longhair clan, who married ca. 1746 to William Emory [? of Charles Town, Carolina - ] a brother of Robert Emory, above. William Emory joined Ludovic Grant earlier in his trade with the Cherokees. Mary Grant, Emory was the mother of six children:

Will Emory [1744, Tomatly, NC – 1788, Chota, Tennessee.] His wife is unknown, but he had one son Thomas, also known as Long Tom.

Mary Emory [ca/ 1746, Tomatly, NC – ca. 1800, Cherokee Nation] She married 1^st ca. 1766 to William Rim Fawling, and issued two children.

She married 2^nd ca. 1770 to Ezekiel Buffington, and issued six children.

She married 3^rd ca. 1782 to Capt. John Martin, and issued one child.

Elizabeth Emory [ca. 1748, Tomatly, NC – ca. 1781, Tugaloo, Ga.]

She married 1^st ca. 1767 to Ezekiel Buffington, and issued one daughter Mary Buffington

(b. ca. 1768.)

She married 2^nd ca. 1770 to Robert Dews, and issued one daughter Elizabeth Virginia

“Jennie” Dew (b. ca. 1770/1)

She married 3^rd ca. 1772 to John Rogers, and issued five children.

Susannah Emory [ca/ 1748, Tomatly, NC – 1797, near Tugaloo, Ga.]

She married 1^st ca. 1765 to Richard Fields, and issued seven children. S

he married 2^nd ca. 1781 to Capt. John Martin, and issued four children.

Drury Emory a.k.a. Hembree [Dec. 12^th 1755, SC – 1845, Stone Co., Mo.]

Abraham Emory a.k.a. Hembree [May 16^th 1757, SC – 1737, Hamilton Co.,

Tn.]

In 1737 the John Amory, mentioned above, with his wife Sarah Wilson and children immigrated from Lincolnshire, England to the Georgia Colony, where he settled on Pipemaker’s Creek, but could not get a Grant for his land. He then moved to Purrysburg where he got a good Grant issued for 500 acres there in Carolina. The only surviving son of the deceased Carolina Governor Robert Johnson was leaving Charles Town for England. He persuaded John Amory and family to become the stewards of the Johnson estate near Charles Town. For the next 15 years the Amorys often hosted delegations of Indians at the Johnson estate.

On April 12^th 1741, a Bill of Sale was recorded for 20 horses from Ludowick Grant, Indian Trader” to “John Amory, of Charles Town.” [SC, Archives, series roll SR213003, Vol. 2E, p. 307]

On June 3^rd 1741, a Bill of Sale was transferred by John Amory to Joseph Wragg, and Richard Lambton, merchants of Charles Town, for “one stallion, ten geldings, nine mares, and one colt” originally from Ludowick Grant to John Amory. [SC Archives, SR213003, Vol. 2E, p. 308]

During the winter of 1742/43, some Cherokees, and traders, including Ludovic Grant came to the Johnson estate and camped out on the Johnson fields of Charleston Neck. They came to discuss ongoing treaty violations by the upper Creek Indians. When Ludovic Grant returned to his Cherokee trading town of Tellico (now part of Tennessee) after the meeting, Robert & William Emory (sic) the sons of John & Sara Wilson, Amory returned with him as his employees in the trade business. It was not long before these sons married the two half-breed daughters of Ludovic Grant at Tellico.

Other plans emerged from this 1743 meeting at Charleston Neck. John Amory, Ludovic Grant, James Beamer, Cornelius Daugherty, & Thomas Nightingale, along with some Georgia Cherokee headmen developed a plan to secure the rights to mine Silver ore in north Georgia Cherokee lands. The plan was to bring the ore by boat down the Savannah River to Purrysburg where John Amory owed land, and from there bring it to Charles Town. They expected a windfall, but the Silver ore turned out to be low-grade, and they could not obtain rights to the mine from the Crown. The plan was a bust.

On May 7^th 1743, a Bill of Sale was recorded for six horses from “Ludowick Grant, of Charles Town, Indian trader” to “John Amory, same, Indian trader,” [SC Archives SR213003, Vol. 2E, page 305]

John Amory died in 1746 and was buried at St. Phillips, Charles Town, Carolina. His widow Sarah Wilson, Amory married consecutively to two other traders, first William Elder, and last Thomas Nightingale.

Robert Emory (sic) a son of John Amory, & wife Sarah Wilson, took up at Tellico about 1743/44 to Susannah Catherine Grant, the oldest half-breed daughter of Ludovic Grant. They had a daughter named Susannah Catherine Emory, born about 1744 at Tomatly, in North Carolina. It was their daughter Susannah that as a teenager took up 1^st with Capt. John Stewart, 2^nd with Robert Dews, and 3^rd with John Jolly. Then Susannah died young in the late 1760s. Robert Emory’s Cherokee wife, who took up with Cherokee headman Wileneewa during Robert’s absence in the war, also perished not long after the French Indian War. It was this war in which Robert Emory took part as a British soldier. Records are obscure about Robert Emory between about 1753 and 1789, but it is known that after the war was over Robert Emory began to trade in Georgia where he took a Creek wife, and issued a son called “Emar-hee.” Robert Emory made his Last Will and Testament dated Mar. 19^th 1790, probated Mar. 30, 1790. He was buried at St. Phillips, Charleston in March of 1790.

His brother William Emory took up with the youngest of Ludovic Grant’s half-breed Cherokee daughters Mary Grant, and they issued the children of more common genealogy records mentioned above. William Emory also served during the war, and died about 1766 at Goose Creek, buried in St. Phillips, South Carolina.

Ludovic Grant retired from trade in the Cherokee Nation in 1756, returning to St. Phillips, Charleston where he perished in 1757. He is probably buried in St. Phillips with his stone having the name “Ludv. Grant, d. 1757,” which looks like John Grant in cursive.

In about May of 1717, it appears that Robert Dews married Mary Baker, in Charles Town, a daughter of William Baker [1654 - ca. 1718, Charles Town, buried at St. George Parish, Dorchester, Carolina], & Susannah Rowsham, [ca. 1680 - aft. 1725, Carolina] his spouse Mary being a granddaughter of William Rowsham, Sr. & Jordan Probst. William Rowsham Sr. was widowed before 1703, and was, about that time, married to Ann Welch, Dews, widow of Capt George Dews she being the likely sister-in-law of Robert Dews. Robert Dews was thus perhaps married to his step-niece, by marriage, which was not an uncommon practice in those days.

Note that Richard Baker [bef. 1634 - 1698, Ashley River, Carolina] received a land grant in 1683 for 200 acres along the Ashley River. Richard Baker’s spouse was Elizabeth Wilson [Aug. 18^th 1630, Shruton, Wiltshire, Eng. – Aug. 13^th 1734, near Ashley River, Carolina.] They were the parents of William Baker. No Will is found for William Baker, but the “Biography Directory of the (South) Carolina House of Representatives, Vol. 2, pp 46-48” gives his death in ca. 1718 at Charles Town.

William Rowsham, Sr. was undoubtedly born of the Rousham clan of

Oxfordshire, England. Elements of this family are on record there in 1616.

William Rowsham, Sr., was reportedly granted some lots in Charles Town

about 1672 [Petition of Bethel Dews in 1743.] Rousham was not mentioned as a

passenger on the first fleet ships to the Ashley River, and so must have arrived on one of the next ships in 1772.

Although his exact date of Rowsham's birth is unknown, he must have been born

before 1651 because of the approximate time he was granted his earliest Charles Town lots (1672.) He issued a daughter Susannah Rowsham who was

born ca. 1680 in Charles Town, SC, her mother being Jordan Probst, Rowham.

Susannah Rowsham (sic) was married to William Baker about 1693 in Charles Town, Carolina, but in 1692 his father Richard Baker opposed this marriage. The Bakers were from Barbados, and Richard was a mariner, owning his own sloop.

A Warrant to Mr. William Rowsham for a Towne Lott (by Indenture) dated: ye

22 June 1694 under the hand & Seal of Governor Smith… [This item was

entered twice on the same day indicating Rowsham got two Lots that day.]

William Rowsham had a Warrant for one Towne Lott in Charles Towne, Dated:

ye 14th June 1695. Signed by Governor Joseph Blake.

Wm Rousam (sic) Senior had a Warrant for 300 acres of land in Berkley County, dated: 19th August 1697.

William Rousam (sic) had a Warrant for 400 acres of land for which Mr.

Richard Baker formerly had a Warrant for but hath since deserted it. Dated Jan.

21, 1701

After his wife Jordan Probst, Rowsham perished William Rowsham, Sr., (sic) widower, married about 1703 in Charles Town to Ann (Dew.)

Only one woman named Ann Dew, is known to me dwelling in Charles Town about 1703 who could have wed to William Rowsham, Sr. as his last wife. She was Ann Dew, nee Welch widow of Capt. George Dews, Sr. of Bermuda. She came to Charles Town, Carolina after her husband's death in 1703 bringing a minor daughter Mary Dew. As we have observed, widow Ann Welch, Dew apparently also descended from the Dew family. Members of the Dew family already living in Carolina evidently arranged the marriage. In 1714 her daughter Mary Dew was a spinster in South Carolina. It is believed that Mary Dew wed to John Stevenson before 1720. Mary's sister Anne Dew remained behind in Bermuda in 1703, but between 1714 and 1717 it appears that she came to Charles Town, and married an unidentified son of William Rowsham, Sr. Records proving these marriages have not been found. William Rowsham, Sr., and his unidentified son that married Anne, both perished before June 1717. When the estate of William Rousham, Sr. was settled, Anne Rousham sued Executor Robert Dews claiming infringement of a verbal agreement she made with her father-in-law before his death.

Exclusive coincidence suggests that William Rowsham, Sr. married the widow

of George Dews, Sr., by an arrangement of her Dew relations in Carolina, and likewise suggests that Robert Dews, and Capt. George Dews, Sr. may have been brothers.

Similarly it is suggested that George & Robert Dewes were grandsons of Col. Thomas Dewe, the first of this Dewe clan to plant on the island plantations, but settled in Virginia. Col. Thomas Dewe had brothers and sons that planted in St. Kitts, the West Indies, Bermuda, and Barbados.

William Rousham, or Rowsham received a grant for 400 acres on the north side

of the Ashley River between the lands of William Baker & John Baker on March

14th 1707. [William Baker previously married Susannah Rowsham, daughter of

above grantee, in 1693 in Charles Town, Carolina despite his father’s caveat of

objection to this marriage, made in 1692.]

A William Rousham (Jr.) was counted on the 1725 census of Charleston,

Carolina. He perished leaving a Will filed in Charles Town between 1729 and

1733. By an unidentified spouse he likely issued a son James Rousham, a

Carpenter, who married on June 10^th 1744 in Charles Town to Catherine VanVelson, spinster daughter of Edward Van Velson, Tanner of Dorchester. James Rousham perished after 1746 in Dorchester leaving property to his surviving wife and daughters.

John “Jean” Postel, a French Huguenot came to Carolina by 1697 with his wife Magdaline Pepin. He was one of the prominent Frenchmen of Goose Creek, and he perished ca. Oct. 16^th 1729 in St. Phillip’s Parish. It is alleged that one of his daughters married a Rousham.

On November 28, 1717, Robert Dews, was noted as Executor of the Will of William Rowsham, Sr., in Charleston, Carolina, having married William’s granddaughter, Mary Baker. But William Rowsham, Sr. died before June of 1717 thought to be about 66 years of age. [See the suit of Anne Rowsham - v. - Robert Dewes, June Term 1717, Chancery Court, Charles Town, Carolina described below.]

“When Anne Rowsham’s father-in-law William Rowsham, Sr. convinced her to sign over to him a Bond for 800 Pounds owed to her late husband (not named) by John Filbren, a former servant, Rowsham assured her that in return he would leave her one third of his real and personal property during her widowhood, and 200 Pounds Carolina currency. Following his death, Anne learned to her dismay that instead she was to receive only one third of the profits of his estate, and the use of one room in his house while she remained a widow. She took his Executor Robert Dewes to Court in an attempt to force Dewes to honor the original agreement. In June of 1717 she described the deception to the Court of Chancery, complaining that Rowsham & Dewes had tricked her…” [In the affairs of the World, Patriarchy, & Power in Colonial South Carolina, page 174]

In 1696 John ffilben recieved 150 acres in Berkley county, Carolina.

"John ffhilben had a Warrant for 1000 acres of land dated ye 18th of August 1705." [Carolina]

John ffilben witnessed the Will of Landgrave Thomas Smith, May 6, 1708, South Carolina.

"In 1719 the following people were at Goose Creek:

The Izards

Edward Middleton

Arthur Middleton

Governor James Moore, a leader of the Goose Creek men.

Davis (Capt. David Davis)

Barker

Col. John Berringer

John Gibbs

Edward Hyrne

George Chicken, leader of the militia

Abraham Dupont

Edward Norman

John Filben

Joseph Thorowgood

Seaman Deas

& Thomas Monck"

Berringer:

James Moore was born ca. 1640 in Ireland, and died ca. 1706 at Charles Town, South Carolina where he served as Governor. He married in about 1675 probably in Barbados to Margaret Berringer, a daughter of Lt. Col. Benjamin Berringer and wife Margaret Foster of Barbados. James & Margaret Moore issued 10 children:

Col. James Moore, one time Gov. of SC. He married Elizabeth Bersford, & consorted

with Sarah.

Jehu Moore

Margaret Moore married Benjamin Schenckkingh

Mary Moore, married Robert Howe, son of Job Howe, and wife Sarah (nee) Dews.

Col. Maurice Moore married Mary Porter, & Elizabeth Lillington

Anne Moore, married Edward Moseley, & Capt. David Davis of Barbados and SC.

Rebecca Moore married William Dry, & Thomas Barker

Roger Moore married Catherine Rhett

John Moore married Justina Smith

Nathaniel Moore married Mary Webb, Sarah Granger, and Elizabeth ?

Court of Chancery, case papers, 1700-1720, page 195, regarding the estate settlement of William Rowsham, Sr:

“Robert Dews stated that he was aged thirty years or thereabouts, (b. ca. 1684) being duly sworn in the Holy Evangelist & examined to the first interrogatory saith that he knew both Mr. John Wright, dec’d, and Mr. John Brown, that he knew the plantation Mr. Wright, dec’d, let to Mr. Brown, but knows nothing further relating to this interrogatory.”

Such language is suggestive that the land discussed may have been part of the estate of William Rowsham, Sr., and thus that Mr. Wright (Mr. John Wright, Indian Agent) was perhaps married into this Rousham family, and possibly of Mr. John Brown, too. Records suggest that John Wright was somehow connected to the Grant family that owned land on Goose Creek, as well. The plantation owned by the Wrights, on the north bank of the Ashley River is now called “The Oaks.” Upstream on the Ashley River was the old grant, residence, and plantation of Col. Andrew Percival always known as “The Ponds.” Robert Dews had come into possession of 1000 acres of land adjacent to “The Ponds” before he made his Will in 1722.)

South Carolina Historical Magazine:

“…the plantation of the late William Rowsham where Mr. Robert Dews now lives…”

The Journal of the Board of Commissioners of Indian Affairs for April 17, 1711, page 6, refers to Mr. Wright - Agent, as “ye church att Goose Creeke wth materials for finishing same.” This church, not completed until 1719, was built on 16 acres given by Benjamin Godin. Note that John Wright, Indian Agent died in 1715, during the Yamesee Indian uprising, and a memorial was made to him in the churchyard.

Historical Account of Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina, p 182:

“Ch. XVIII, St. George’s Parish, Dorchester:

This Parish was separated from St. Andrews by an Act of Dec. 11^th 1717, and the boundaries established as follows: to the southeast by the plantation of Mr. Bedon inclusive, and from thence by a west line to the bounds of Colleton County, and also by another straight line from the said Bedon’s, to the plantation of the late Wiliam Rowsham, deceased, where Mr. Robert Dews now lives, inclusive, and from said plantation of said Rowsham, deceased, by an east line until it touches the bounds of St. James Parish, Goose Creek, and on all other parts by the same bounds of the said Parish of St. Andrews was formerly bounded.”

National Archives, UK:

(Sometime after 1707,) Robert Dews corresponded with Revd. Doctor Johnson, in Charles Town, Carolina on 30 June --, promising support.

A Brief History of St. Phillips Church:

1707: Gideon Johnston was sent from England as first Commissary to St. Phillips Church.

1710: St. Phillips Church was badly damaged by a hurricane. A new brick building was authorized

for the Church (second site.)

1713: The second St. Phillips Church was nearly destroyed by a hurricane during its reconstruction.

Apr. 1716: Commissary Johnston was drowned in Charleston Harbor. Indian wars delayed the

rebuilding.

On January 21, 1718, Bethel Dews, the first known son of Robert Dews, & Mary Baker, Dews was christened at St. Andrews, Dorchester, Carolina.

In 1707 Puritan dissenters from Dorchester, Mass., built a wooden churchouse in St. Andrews Parish,

SC, on land formerly belonging to Robert Dew’s older sister Mary, and her husband John Smith of

Barbados. It was formerly called “Boo Shoo” plantation, and was rife with malaria in the surrounding

lowlands. When John Smith perished of Yellow Fever, the property could not be sold, and reverted to

the Proprieters who granted it to the Puritans. After the first wooden church burned, a new church was

built of brick and white plaster called the Old White Church. Robert Dews may have been the builder.

South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, p. 18:

“Anno 1718/19 Christenings of Rev. Mr. Wm. Guy, Rector of the St. Andrews Parish

Church: Bethel, son of Robert and Mary Dews, baptized Jan. 21^st 17 18/19.”

Dorchester Parish along the Ashley River, being named for Dorchester,

Massachusetts, was settled January 26, 1696 by a group of New Englanders.

Dorchester Parish was established by the Proprietary Government that was

instituted by King Charles II in 1665.

The Church of St. Andrews, and Anglican Parish of St. Andrews, was

ordered by the Anglican Church in 1707. The upper part of St. Andrews

(Anglican Parish,) was the lower part of Dorchester (Proprietary

Parish/County. An Anglican offspring was St. George’s Parish, Dorchester Dec. 11, 1717)

The overlapping and duplicitous Parishes/Counties are confusing.

In 1718, after the birth of Bethel Dews, this youngster’s grandfather William Baker died at the age of sixty two, & was buried in St. George’s Parish, Dorchester, South Carolina.

Court Documents in 1743 show that Bethel’s Dew’s grandfather William Baker left him a legacy of lots # 135 and #136 in Charleston, South Carolina, land granted to said grandfather about 70 years ago (1673.) It is said that William Baker had been born in about 1654, (in a place that later became St. George’s Parish, Dorchester, SC?) and he died in Charleston, SC in 1718.

Note that this specified birthplace given is unlikely, at that particular time. The first (South) Carolina settlers sailed in the Albemarle, the Port Royal, and the Carolina from England in 1669. They were struck by a hurricane near Barbados where the Albemarle was destroyed, and both other ships were damaged. It was in April of 1670 that the first settlers arrived aboard the Carolina, and another

Sloop from Barbados. They established the first settlement up the Ashley River at Albemarle Point. Today this area is Charles Town Landing, a state park. It is said that most of the original settlers were poor people from England and Barbados enticed by the offer of land for ½ cent per annum rent, but that within a year, wealthy Barbadian sugar planters and their slaves arrived in Charles Town to escape the constant threat of slave revolt, hurricanes, and disease epidemics in the Caribbean. My guess is that William Baker arrived in South Carolina with his parents Richard Baker & Elizabeth Wilson in 1681, being from England, & then Barbados. Also, we must note that from 1683 until 1707, only three counties existed in SC, Berkley, Colleton, and Craven. Parishes were formed from the Church Act of 1707. There were some earlier “residents” of the Ashley River area before the first fleet brought colonial settlers, other than native Indians. Captain Robert Sanford brought many of the settlers from Cape Fear to Ashley River during his 1666 exploration at the orders of Governor Yeamans of Barbados. On June 23, 1666 Sanford took formal possession of Carolina for England and the Lords Proprietors. No earlier settlement is known.

Richard Baker, Esqr., had a Warrant out of the Secretary’s Office dated the 23rd day of November 1694, signed by the Honorable Joseph Blake, Esqr., Landgrave & Governor of Carolina for fowre hundred and Twenty acres of land, on account of arrival rights, being for the arrivall of six persons (Viz) Edward; William; Richard; Jane; Hannah; & Eliza. Baker, all which said persons were imported into the province of Carolina, on the proper Cost & Charge of the said Richard Baker. Recorded in the Secretary’s Office, the said Baker is to signe the Counterpart of ye Indented Deed within 90 days after the said Land is admeasured else the said Land is free to be run out Surveyed and Granted to any other person use whatsoever. - To Stephen Bull, Surveyor. Apparently they arrived in Carolina from Barbados before 1681.

Richard Baker, Esqr., [bef. 1634 - (died before July 14^th 1698) on July 24, 1698, Will proved] and his wife Elizabeth Wilson came to South Carolina from Barbados, and in 1681 he got a grant (from King Charles II) of 297 acres on the Ashley River April 1, 1683. He died in Berkley County, Carolina before July 14^th 1698. Abstract of his Will:

“Wife: Elizabeth, Executrix

Sons: Edward – “this house, & plantation, & other lands. Ed died and left it to William.”

William

John

Daughter: Elizabeth – cattle numbered, with those my son Richard (dec’d) left her.”

Sons-in-law: John Palmer

Wm. Cantey

Witnesses: Wm. Cantey

James Hulbert

Wm. Baker

& Edward Baker.

Proved: July 24^th 1898”

“On July 14^th 1698 Governor Blake directed Elizabeth Baker to administrate the estate of Richard Baker, deceased.” [SCHM]

His widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, Baker was mentioned in The Death Notices of the South Carolina Gazette , p 8, on April 17^th 1734:

“On Tuesday the 13^th Instant died near Ashley River in the 104^th year of her age Mrs. Elizabeth Baker. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Wilson. She was born in Wiltshire in a town called Shruton on the 18^th of August 1630. She lived in England for 27 years, in Barbados for 23 years, and in Carolina for 54 years. She had 12 children, two of them being alive yet, 25 grandchildren, & 43 great grandchildren, and the same day she died one of her great-great grandchildren, the spouse of Col. Palmer, was delivered of a child.”

Elizabeth Wilson, Baker left England for Barbados in 1657, where she lived 23 years.

Elizabeth Wilson, Baker left Barbados for Carolina in 1680 where she lived the next 54 years.

The issue of Richard Baker & Elizabeth Wilson:

Edward Baker,

He inherited 7 Slaves: Great Jack, wife, & 4 children; Tom, wife, and son. He also inherited his fathers house & plantation, and other lands. When he died he left his father’s plantation & estate lands to brother William Baker.

William Baker [1654, England - 1718, Archdale Hall, Ashley River] lived 23 years in Barbados.

He married, probably in Carolina, to Susannah Rowsham,

He inherited 4 slaves: Peggy, Andrew, Little Abraham, & Little Frank.

Richard Baker, (Jr.) [?, England - bef. Jan. 28^th 1697/8, Charleston, SC] He perished before his father. Said to have married Sarah Archdale. She, of course, was not the same Sarah Archdale that married Richard Baker on December 17^th 1618 at Bishopgate, London. They were his grandparents.

John Baker [ - Aug. 1736, Charles Town, Carolina] An eminent Merchant, co-partner with Paul Jenys, Esq. Spouse: name unknown. [ - Aug. 24, 1734]

He inherited 6 Slaves: Mingo, Anabell and 3 children, Cuddeye.

Elizabeth Baker,

She married Bebe.

She Inherited 8 slaves; Will, wife and 5 children, Bek.

Hannah Baker,

She married John Palmer who arrived in the Province of Carolina on the Royal Jamaican in April 1692, a ship otherwise known as the “Privateer.” She Inherited 7 slaves: Hector, wife & dau., Jammey, Old Robin, Moriah, Old Betty.

[Col. John Palmer, a veteran of the Yamessee War, 1715, and the Spanish conflict in Georgia, died in ca. 1739. His daughter Hannah Palmer married Andrew DeVeaux, and they are found dwelling near Savannah, in Georgia.]

& Jane Baker,

She married Capt. William Cantey [Aug. 19^th 1657, Cork, Ireland - ca. 1716, Dorchester, Carolina] a son of Tiege Cantey, & wife Elizabeth who came to Ashley River, Carolina from Barbados.

She inherited slaves: Frank & 2 children, Flower, & children.

There were five other children who were not mentioned in the Will of Richard Baker, Sr., probably deceased.

William Baker had a Warrant for 500 acres of land in Combee Island, dated September 4th, 1707.

(Came from Barbados in 1681?)

William Baker [1654, England, arrived in Barbados at age 3, arrived in Carolina at age 26, and after his brother Edward perished he built a multi-story Gregorian mansion on the Ashley River (called Archdale Hall) near where his fathers house burned. He perished in ca. 1718, Berkley, SC.] He was a member of the Grand Provincial Council of Carolina. William Baker of Dorchester, Carolina was named on a list of men who went to sea On Oct. 3, 1690 under the command of Capt. John Withington. Of about 75 men who departed, 48 were lost at sea. William Baker was a lucky survivor. “On June 15^th 1693 William Baker, and Francis Norrimore, both mariners, for 150 Pounds sold to Richard Abram, mariner, and master of the ship he was buying the “Elizabeth,” now called the “Bristoll,” lying in the Ashley River before Charles Town.”[SCHM] William Baker married in Charles Town in 1693 to Susannah Rowsham, daughter of William Rowsham, Sr. & Jordan Probst. His father Richard Baker opposed this marriage. He inherited his father's estate land from his deceased brother Edward, and in 1710 he built the multistory Georgian home Archdale Hall that his own son Richard later inherited after his death in 1718. William Barker served on the Grand Council. His widow Susannah Baker was counted on the 1825 census of St. George’s Parish, Berkley Carolina. They issued at least four children:

1. Elizabeth Baker,

married Capt. Edmund Bellinger [ - d, Mar. 5^th 1739], 2^nd Landgrave, a son of the 1^st Landgrave, Edmund Bellinger [1658, Westmorland, Eng. – 1706, Charles Town, SC,] & Elizabeth Cartwright.

2. Richard Baker [ca. 1703, Carolina – July 16^th 1752, Will proved Dec. 1^st 1752, Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Berkley, Carolina,] He was shot and killed by Joseph Butler (in a duel?).

He married 1^st on Dec. 19^th 1723 to Mary Bohun [bef. 1710 Carolina – ca. 1736, Carolina,]

2^nd on July 25^th 1738 to Mary Quarterman,

& 3^rd last married to Sarah Fowler.

Abstract of Richard Baker, Jr.’s Will made May 20^th 1752:

“Relict: Sarah, alias Fowler – one room in my house on Ashley River.

1^st wife, dec’d: Mary, alias Bohun

Sons: William, eldest, deceased. [b. Dec. 2^nd 1726 – bef. 1752, SC]

Richard, under 21 years – plantation on Ashley River where I now live,

Land at Jack Savannah, all my right & title to land belonging to

My brother Josiah, deceased.

Daus: Margaret, Ann, Rebecca, & Esther, all under 21, half my land on Cooper River in St. James Parish, Goose Creek.

Grandsons: Richard Pendarvis, George Logan, - one half land on Cooper River in St. James Parish, Goose Creek.

Granddaughers: Mary Pendarvis,

Mary Cater, both under 21 years.

Mentions: William Webb of Asepoo, Colleton County,

Nicholas Bohun, deceased

To: Richard Bedon

Peter May

Thomas Buline, Sr.

Charles Baker

William Maine

John Buline, son of Thomas

John Norman (He married Mary Welsh in Bermuda.)

Josiah Pendarvis

Elihu Baker

James Baker

& Thomas Cater.

In Trust 250 Pounds for perpetual fund for support of the Gospel Ministry among that Christian congregation of people meeting together to worship God on the northeast side of the Ashley River who by profession are Antepedo Baptist… Mr. Straighter.

Executors: Henry Middleton, Esq.

William Maine

Witnesses: John Stephens

Elihu Baker

James Baker”

3. Josiah Baker, deceased before his father’s Will made in 1752.

4. Mary Baker, [ca.1700, SC - ca. 1721, St. Phillips, SC],

married Robert Dewes ca. 1717 in Charles Town, SC.

Capt. Richard Baker, Jr. born in Carolina, inherited Archdale Hall, from his father William Baker who built it anew in 1710 after his grandfather’s old residence burned. It was named after his great grandmother Sarah Archdale, who his great grandfather Richard Baker married on Dec. 17, 1618 in St. Helens, Bishopgate, London. He owned a large rice & indigo plantation on the north bank of the Ashley River, south of Dorchester. He was a rice planter, and owned his own twin mast river schooner, and pier on the river called Baker's Warf." He owned lots in Dorchester, one with a house and kitchen, and a rice warehouse. He perished in Charleston, SC in ca. 1752.

Bethel Dews (age 5) had become orphaned in ca. 1722, and later his uncle Richard Baker sold lot #136 to Daniel Cartwright, of Ashley Ferry, and Cartwright re-surveyed it, and sold half with a house to John Moore by 1736. Eliza Moore, widow of John Moore claimed she had lived in this house on this property that her husband had acquired for 1000 Pound, for the last nine years when Bethel Dews filed suit to reclaim his legacy, as he had just become 21 years of age.

In ca. 1720, a Robert Dews was identified on an early SC Jury List (probably in Berkley County, Carolina.)

Statutes at Large for South Carolina, pp 236-237:

“May 2^nd 1720, Deed for all that plantation or land called Dorchester (145 acres) in Berkley County, executed in due form of law by Thomas Graves of Berkley County, in the Province of South Carolina, unto:

Alexander Skene

Walter Izard, Esqrs.

Thomas Waring

John Cantley

Robert Dews”

Alexander Skene, Esq., served on Jury Duty five times during 1720 in Dorchester, St George Parish of Berkley County, Carolina, whereas, in this same place, Robert Dews, and Robert Miller, Senr., served once that year.

The Statutes at Large for South Carolina, p 150:

1721: “…Mr. Thomas Smith, and Mr. Robert Dews are appointed as Inquirers for the north side of the Ashley River, charged with accounting in writing all the inhabitants of the Parish, lands and slaves, Negroes, Indians, musteos, mulatoes, from the age of 7 to 60, and administering the oath by January next. “ They were compensated 10 Pounds to act as Inquirers.

In ca. 1721, William Dews, the second known son of Robert Dews & Mary Baker was born probably in St. Andrews Parish, Carolina.

The Statutes at Large for South Carolina, p. 52:

On September 15^th 1721, Mr. Robert Dews

Mr. Thomas Waring

Mr. Edward Ardin

Mr. William Wallace

And Col. Joseph Blake

Were appointed Commissioners of roads, bridges and ferries for that part of St. George’s Parish that lies on the north side of the Ashley River.

Mary Baker, Dews wife of Robert Dews, died shortly after the birth of her son

William Dews. Mary was deceased at the time her husband made his Will in 1722.

The Statutes at Large of South Carolina, page 58:

On June 23^rd 1722, the Honorable Commissioners:

Alexander Skeene, Esquire

Colonel Joseph Blake

Mr. Thomas Waring

Mr. William Wallace

Mr. Robert Dews

And Mr. Edward Arden

… relating to the aforesaid bridge and road from Dorchester Town to the south side of the Ashley River.

On August 27, 1722, Robert Dews, at age 35 was ill, and made his Will in Charles Town, Carolina [South Carolina Wills, Vol. I, (1722-1724), page 4, and Will Book (1600-1740) page 78:

The LW&T of Robert Dews gives:

Sons: Bethel Dews, (500+500 +300 acres) &

William Dews (500+500 acres). Both sons were bequeathed 500 acres of land each on the north side of the Santee River, & 500 acres of land each near Mr. Percivial’s plantation Called “Ponds” (This refers to Col. Andrew Percival who was granted land called “the Ponds” in 1682. This land was where Colonel George Chicken of the Goose Creek militia inflicted a massive defeat upon the Yamasse Indians in 1715.) Each son received 11 slaves from Robert’s estate, and two additional slaves were to be sold to pay Robert Dews debts. It appears that Bethel Dews sold his land located on the north side of the Santee River, inherited from his father, sometime before 1755.

His Will mentions “eldest son, Bethel Dews (age 5) also to have an

additional 300 acres of land near Point Royal, Beaufort, Carolina, and a lot of land I bought from Mr. Amory.

[To Bethel Dews, eleven slaves:

Jenny

Cate

Prosper

Florida

England

Jonny

York

Clayton

Andrew

Eber

Solomon.]

My “youngest son, William Dews (age 3) to have two lots near &

without the walls of Charles City.

[to William Dews, Eleven slaves:

Dianah

Grace

Spring

Rose

Martin

Titus

Cesar

Adam

Tom

Harry

Vendor.]

The Will also designates Madam Hague to be consulted about the

education of the sons of Robert Dews when they are six years of

age. [Madam Lelia “ Selia” Skene, Haige (Haig) (Hague) was the

widow of Obediah Haig, and a daughter of John Skene, and

his wife Hellena Fullerton. It appears thatby blood she was a 5^th cousin, to Robert Dews.] She was also a sister-in-law of Robert Dews by the marriage of her brother Alexander Skene & Jemima Dews, Kenny.

Executors: Arthur Middleton, Esq., [spouse: 1.Sarah Amory; 2. (1723) Sarah Ayers, d/o Thomas Ayers & Mary Haig.]

Edward Smith, (came from Barbados to Charleston in 1678 on the “Susannah”)

Madam Hague, (Guardian of Bethel & William Dews)

Witnesses: Jos. Barry, Jr., By 1735 removed up the Black River to Williamsburg, SC.

Elizabeth Dennis, Jr.

Elizabeth Barry

This Will was proved on October 18, 1722, indicating that Robert Dews was deceased before this date.

One of Robert Dew’s older sisters Jemima Dews perhaps married Scotsman Rev. John

Kenney, Rector of Christ Church Parish, Barbados.

Sir Robert Dutton, a native of Chester, left the study of law at the age of 17 for service in the Army. He served as a Royalist Officer throughout the Civil War; and was twice imprisoned in the Tower of London. He became an Officer in the Duke of York Guards, and was Knighted by Charles II, and was twice thanked by the King for his vigorous administration of the Colony of Barbados, after being appointed Governor of Barbados on Oct. 22^nd 1680. But he eventually made enemies, and returned from Barbados in 1683. As soon as Governor Dutton arrived in Barbados he appointed as his “surrogate” John Kenney, Rector of Christ Church Parish, a man trained in civil law.

Barbadian Wills and Administrations 1664-1748, p 154:

The LW&T of Rev. John Kenny, made in Barbados, was proved on Aug. 16^th 1687. One

of the five Witnesses to his Will was John Barry.

The LW&T of Henry Harding, Gentleman, of Barbados, dated Aug. 1^st, 1687:

[RB6/40, p. 476] An abstract follows:

Bequests to: My son Henry Harding, at 21, my wife Isabella Harding, & friend Capt. Edward Claywood (sic?,) appointed guardians of my son.

Kinsman: Thomas Odiorne.

Sister: Carolyn Barry, and her son & daughter George Barry, & Mary Barry.

Doctor: John Kenny.

Thomas Knight.

Executors: Wife Isabella, and Capt. Edward Claypoole (sic?.)

Witnesses: Mary Knight

John Barry

Charles Fenton

John Birkett

John Gaseley.

Proved: Aug. 16^th 1687

Note that Robert Dew’s sister Jemima Dews, Kenny, Skene and her last husband Alexander Skene issued only one son that still survived in 1739. This son John Skene was a minor child when his uncle Robert Dews perished in 1722, thus no Executor from her line was mentioned in Robert Dew’s Will.

The Huguenots of South Carolina, page 309:

"Mr. James Douglas is Master of the Public School at Charleston...Mr. Joseph Barry is his Usher..." (ca. 1714)

Journal of the House of Commons of South Carolina, p. 37, c. 1731:

“The Petition of Joseph Berry praying to be paid arrears due him as Writing Master was received and referred to Committee of Petition.”

Statutes at Large of South Carolina, p. 336:

“1731: …Joseph Barry – 124 Pounds.”

In 1733 in Charles Town, Carolina Joseph Barry donated money to support of the new Georgia Colony, among a host of donors that were mostly Scotsmen of Charles Town.

By 1735 Joseph Barry is found having land in Williamsburg, SC, along with George Hunter, William Lowry, Peter Hume, and other Scotch Quakers, where Barry received a Grant of 500 acres.

[Most of the Williamsburg, SC land was soon settled by Scots who had been previously enticed by James, I , to settle in a destroyed and vacated region of Northern Ireland, but after relocating there, and making improvements to the land, in time they became disillusioned by the imposition of a heavy Royal Tax.]

Collections of South Carolina, p. 301:

Papers in the State Papers Office, London

“Deposition of Joseph Berry, Gentleman, May 25^th 1738, as to his knowledge of the handwriting of Col. Moore.”

Members of the Scot Barry family were Highlanders who came to Barbados from the Tayside Region of northeast Scotland, today known as the Council area of Angus, formerly Forfar, or Forfarshire where they held territories from very ancient times. They were interrelated with the Scotch side of the Dew family. The Berry family descended from the de Berri family that came from Normandy during the Hastings invasion of England. They lived in Wales, Ireland, & Scotland.

The Executors were relations of Robert Dews, and the Witnesses were relations of Mary Baker, n accordance with the legal directives (precedents) required in the making of a Will.

When Robert Dews perished, he was buried at St. Phillip’s in Charles Town on 2 Sept. 1722, next to his previously deceased wife Mary.

His two young orphan boys, Bethel (age 5,) and William (age 3,) and their estates, came under the Guardianship of their aunt, a distant cousin, Lilias Skene, Haig, widow of Obadiah Haig. They were likely mentored, raised, and employed by her husband’s Scot kinsman, George Haig, and by his employer George Hunter, who were Carolina Surveyors, and Indian Traders, both fairly young men who at the time were also both unmarried.

1722/23: SCHGM p. 23:

St. Andrews Parish, marriages:

“Mary Ayre married Samuel Fairead on Mar. 3^rd 1722/23, - Rev Mr.

Garden.”

The Middleton family was of Bermuda, and Barbados while elements of the

Barry, and Leslie families were of Barbados in 1679. Members of the Sotch House of Leslie came to Barbados from Aberdeenshire, or Rosshire, Scotland. In ancient times the Barrys were Highlanders from Forfarshire, Scotland, now Angus.

Lelia “Selia” Skene, Hague, widow of Obadiah Hague, was born

April 2, 1673 in Scotland, and came to Jersey from Aberdeen, Scotland with her parents John Skene & Hellena Fullerton, Skene with most of the children. They arrived in October 1682 in New Jersey on The Golden Lion when she was nine years of age. They were Quakers, and they settled on a plantation that he named “Peachfield” near Burlington, NJ. Their father had been formerly imprisoned for Quakerism in Scotland, being conditionally released on Feb. 9, 1677. His persecution, and conditions of his release required their removal to America. Her father, John Skene was appointed Deputy Governor of West New Jersey from 1685 until the time of his death before1690. His Will was probated August 19, 1690, and he left all his estate to Helena for her to divide among the children. His Will refers to seven heirs, including his wife, and six children wherein he mentioned “Alexander Skeen and five other children.” Of these heirs, Lilia, Katherine, and Christian were the three daughters making four known children, and now it appears that one of the remaining two sons was the John Skene also found dwelling in Barbados, but this speculation has not been proved. After the death of the elder John Skene, his widow Helena and several children moved to Philadelphia, PA., but her son Alexander, and daughter Lelia returned to the established Quaker church in Jersey afterwards. Alexander (20 years of age,) and Lelia Skeen (17 years of age) remained living together in New Jersey. Four years later, Alexander Skene was appointed Secretary to the Governor of Barbados. He and his sister Lelia departed to Barbados after1694 where he served in this Office until about 1715.

On April 28, 1696 Alexander Skene, Secretary of Barbados, proved before the Governor of Barbados, the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Peche, late of New Jersey. [Documents relating to the Colonial Histrory of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 1; Vol. 23, pp 357-358] So far, this is the first record I find for Alexander Skene that was made in Barbados.

On January 26, 1698, Alexander Skeen married a widow, Mrs. Jemima Kenny, whom the records imply was actually nee Jemima Dews, a sister of Robert Dews.

It appears that her father was Capt. Thomas Dew a son of the Virginia Colonel, and her mother was Mary McKenzie, a daughter of George McKenzie, and his wife Mary Skene. George McKenzie was a son of George McKenzie, 2^nd Earl of Seaforth.

The Honorable Ralph Gray, brother of the Earl of Tinkerfield, was appointed Governor of Barbados and arrived at the Island on July 26^th 1698.

During Gray’s Administration, Alexander Skene received H. M. King William III’s Letters of Patent granting Alexander special previlages including a Secretary of his own. Governor Gray considered this an innovation because all former Governors appointed their own Secretary, and received a percentage of the Fees charged by the Secretary that Skene, having a Royal appointment, now refused to share with the Governor. Rebuked, the Govenor set out to unseat Skene. He didn’t like the preferential treatment that Skene received from the Crown, that he was a Scot, or that he was Quaker. First, Barbadian Officials tried to get rid of Skene by claiming he was not a Subject of England, as a new English Act required.

Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State 1614-1703, p. 162 & New Jersey Colonial Documents, page 162:

Alexander Skene served as Secretary of Barbados for a period covering about 1695 through 1715.

However in 1698, a (new) Royal Patent was issued to Alexander Skene to take the influential post of Secretary of the Island of Barbados “provided he could prove his qualifications (as a subject of England,) it being objected that he is not a native born subject of England, Ireland, or the plantations.”

America and the West Indies, February 1700, 26-29, British History Online:

“Feb. 28^th 1700, Barbados:

p. 163: “Governor Gray to the Council of Trade and Barbados. Mr. Alexander Skene, having obtained H. M. Patent for Secretary of the Island, presented it to me in Council, Jan. 16^th. It being

objected that he was born in Scotland. In the end it was plainly proved that without infringing upon the laws, and breaking the Acts of Trade, we could not dispense with him to Act. Signed: R. Gray. Endorsed, Recorded April 29^th, Reat April 30, 1 page Addressed and Sealed. Enclosed.”

“Certificate that the following papers dealing with the case of Mr. Skene are correct copies. Signed:

R. Gray, Ed. Beddingfield, Sect. 1page.”

“Copy of minutes of Council of Barbados, Jan. 16^th Feb. 27^th 1700. 2 pp.”

“Copy of a Summons to George Payne, George McKenzie, Enoch Gretton, and Capt. Benjamin Holt, to give evidence as to the birthplace of Alexander Skene. 1 ¼ pp.”

“Copy of summons to Mrs. Ellinor Skene (Hellena Skene) for same purpose. 1 ½ pp.”

“Copy of summons to Mr. Alexander Skene to give evidence as to his qualifications to act as Secretary. ½ p.”

“Copies of evidence of Enoch Gretton, G. Payne, G. McKenzie, and B. Holt that Skene was born in Scotland.”

“Deposition of E. Chilton, and Richard Turner, H. M. Attorney and Solicitor General, as to the refusal of Alexander Skene, and Mrs. Skene, his mother, to give evidence as to his birthplace.” [Board of Trade, 8, Nos. 45, 45i-x, and (without enclosures), 45, pp 50, 51.]

Alexander Skene’s reappointment to the post of Secretary of Barbados was contested until on May 13^th 1700 when the Court in Hampton, New Jersey decreed that all Scotsmen were subjects of Britain. Alexander Skene was therefore reinstated as Secretary of the Island of Barbados.

Scotland, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic World 1750-1820, p. 2:

“In 1701 George McKenzie petitioned the Barbados Council for payment for several Scotch Servants he “brought to the Island.”

Parish Records of Barbados:

Jemima Dews, Kenny, Skene, (relict of Rev. John Kenny, now remarried to Alexander Skene,) was baptized in St. Michaels Parish, Barbados on March 3^rd, 1703.

Alexander & Jemima’s children:

1. Jane Skene, baptized August 17^th 1700, St. James Parish, Barbados, WI.

3. Lila Skene, baptized March 7^th 1701, St. Michaels Parish, Barbados, WI., born March 3^rd last.

4. John Skene, mentioned in Alexander’s Will b. ca. 1709, Barbados, WI.

Children of Alexander’s probable brother John Skene, Jr., & his wife Ann Bowler:

1. John Skene, baptized Nov 8^th 1695, St. James Parish, Barbados, WI.

2. Mary Skene, baptized Dec. 26^th 1696 St. James Parish, Barbados, WI.

3. Elizabeth Skene, (b. 1706) baptized Sept. 28^th, 1722, ditto, aged 16 yr.

4. Edward Skene, (b. 1710) baptized Sept. 28^th 17, 22, ditto, aged 12 yr.

5. (unreadable) Skene, baptized Dec. 24^th 1714, St. James Par., Barbados, WI.

The 1715 census of St. Phillips Parish, Barbados :

John Skeene, age 54, born about 1661.

Mrs Elizabeth Skeene, age 44, born about 1671.

Mary Skeene, spinster, age 19, born about 1696.

Sarah Skeene, spinster, age 17, born about 1698.

Elizabeth Skeene, age 11, born about 1704.

Edward Skeene, age 6, born about 1709.

Note that there appears a John Skene in Barbados, husband of Ann Bowler, during this period along with Alexander, considered likely his brother, and John was the father of the second Skene family of Barbados given above:

Baptismal Records in Barbados:

Nov. 8^th 1695: John, son of John Skene, and Ann Bowler.

Dec. 26^th 1696: Mary, daughter of John, and Eliza Skene.

Dec. 24^th 1722: (unreadable) son of John Skene.

Sept. 28^th 1722: Edward, aged 12 years,

And Elizabeth, aged 16 years, children of John Skene.

April 6^th 1777: Amelia, & Charlotte, muloto daughters of John Skeene.

I do not yet know how he connects.

In the spring of 1701 Lelia Skene was married to Obadiah Haig (Hague) [Sept. 1^st 1673, London – June 1^st 1701, Barbados, WI.] They were married in London where she met him for purpose of the betrothal. Obadiah was a New York City Merchant that she knew as a friend from Jersey, and they eventually married after a long courtship. But her husband soon died of distemper contacted on during the voyage from Scotland to New Jersey where he lived. He apparently became ill after they arrived in Barbados and he perished on June 1^st 1701 in St. James Parish, Barbados after a four-day illness of distemper. There is no doubt that a portion of his estate descended to his widow Lilia Skene, Haig.

Obadiah’s uncle Anthony Haig had been persecuted in Scotland for Quakerism, and this same kind of persecution forced his father William Haig to bring his own family from London to New Jersey. Obadiah’s father was one of the Lords Proprietors appointed Deputy Governor of East Jersey. Both father and son became merchants of New York Citty.

Alexander Skene originally received a Royal Patent appointing him as Secretary of the Island of Barbados with specific privileges in 1694. He and his spinster sister Lilia Skene removed from Burlington, NJ to Barbados.

Alexander assumed his Official post at Barbados before 1696.

In 1698, after he married Jemima, Alexander Skene received a new Royal Patent for his Office that expanded his privalages, and evidently the Skenes had special favor with the Monarch. This placed him at odds with the old guard of Barbadian officials that did not like his preferential treatment by the Crown, and especially that he was a Scot Quaker.

The 1706 Barbados Council recommended that Mr. Skene be replaced in his Office.

Journal Book K, October 1706, British History Online:

“Barbados – Mr. Skene’s answer to complaits against him.

Mr. Tryon, Agent for Mr. Alexander Skene, Secretary of Barbados, presented to their

Lordships an answer from the said Skene to the several complaints exhiited against him

[Folio 318], which was read, and their lordships resolved to take the same into futher consideration at their next meeting [Folio 385]. October 3^rd, Present: Mr. Cecil, Sir Philip Meadows, Mr. Pollexfen, Mr. Prior.”

“Mr. Skene’s answer to complaints against him considered.

Their Lordships took into consideration Mr. Skene’s amswer to the complaints against him

[Folio 380, 388], with the several papers relating thereto, and made a progress therein. Oct. 22^nd . Present: Mr. Cecil, Mr. Philip Meadows, Mr. Blathwayt, Mr. Pollexfen, Mr. Prior.”

On April 18^th [during or after 1707] The Calendar of State Papers or Great Britian, Item 467 of that date:

“Council of Trade & Plantations to the Queen: Governor Crowe’s treatment of Alexander Skene is an encroachment of H. M. Patent, etc, set out, A. P. C. II, No. 1052, q. v.”

Upon being reproached by the Crown, Governor Gray resigned his authority as Governor of Barbados in September 1707 into the hands of William Sharpe, President of the Barbados Council.

Colonial Office Records; Board of Trade, Barbados, No., 16:

Document dated Jan. 24^th 1708/9, Barbados, testimony to the good character of Mr. Skeen, Secretary of the Island of Barbados, who was known personally, or by reputation to those whose signatures were appended, and who all had estates of effects in that island. Among those who signed were

William Tyron

Rowland Tyron

& Richard Steele

Skeen had been tried by jury in 1704 for several alleged misdemeanors, but was acquitted.

Annual Report of the American Historical Society, Vol. 1, pp 361-368:

p. 360 July 8^th 1708: Complaints of A. Skene of the Island of Barbados.

[C. O. 29, 11, pp 272-280; A. P. C. Col., II, par. 1074; VI Par. 205]

p. 361 Feb. 18^th 1709: Petition of Mr. Skene, Secretary of Barbados.

[C. O. 29, 11, pp 305-409, 444-447 (Apr. 18^th) ; A. P. C. Col., II, par. 1082;

VI, par. 216]

p. 361 Mar. 24^th 1709: Petition of George Gordon, Provost Marshal of Barbados,

Complaining of Acts of Assembly. [C. O. 29, 11, pp 428-434, 458-459 (June

3^rd); A. P. C. Col., II par. 1093]

p. 263 Nov. 20^th 1712: Dispute between Governor Lowther, and Secretary

Skene of Barbados. [C. O. 29, 12 pp 444-449; A. P. C. Col., II par. 1164]

America and the West Indies, February 1711, 12-20, British History Online:

“Feb. 17^th 1711, St. James, Barbados, p. 659.

H. M. Warrant Granting Alexander Skeen, Secretary of Barbados, Leave of Absense for the

recovery of his health, he appointing a Deputy, approved by the Governor (countersigned),

Dartmouth.” [C. O. 324, 32, pp 54, 55]

“Oct. 28^th 1711, p. 146

Copy of Order in Council Feb. 27^th 1709 (C. P. S. 1707, 9, No. 482) restoring Alexander

Skene to the Office of Secretary of Barbados, etc. (v. C. S.P. Oct. 25^th , Nov. 15^th, etc.) etc.,

endorsed, Recorded Oct. 28^th, Read Nov. 15^th 1711.” [C. O. 28, 13 No. 68; and 29, 12, pp 374,

375]

Alexander Skene with his family, and his sister the widow Lilia Haig, and her family were all persuaded by Proprietor John Colleton to remove to Carolina sometime after March 1^st 1715. This is known because Alexander Skene was Secretary of Barbados from the beginning of the tenure of Barbados Governor Mitford Crowe [1707 – 1710] until sometime afterwards before he removed to Carolina. Alexander Skene found himself in conflict with Gov. Crowe because Skene was authorized a Personal Secretary for his Office, and his personal business use. This made Crowe jealous. But Alexander Skene had Letters of Patent from the Crown that described his rights and privileges within his office.

An older man named Haig apparently explored and traded in the up country of Carolina in the 1680’s, and fathered some Cherokee children Mary Haig, & Charity Haig by a woman of Keowee. It is noted that this man could have been Frederick Haig who left Scotland for the West Indies, where it is said that he perished. Frederick Haig was Obadiah’s great uncle.

On April 8^th 1717, Alexander Skene was granted Lot # 9 in Point Royal, Beaufort, SC. His sister Mrs. Lilly Hage was granted a nearby Lot #35 on the same date. [SCHM]

A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Vol. 2, p. 395:

“Barbados, (date missing,) By the Honorable William Sharpe, Esq., President of

His Majesty’s Council, and Commander in Chief of this, and other His Majestie’s

Carribbee Islands to winward of Guadaloupe, &c.

To all to whom these Presents shall come greeting: Know ye that on the day of the

date hereof (missing) before me personally came Alexander Skene, Esq., His

Majestie’s Secretary of this Island, and upon his solomn Oath, taken on the Holy

Evangelists of Almighty God, did testify and declare that the copy hereunto

annexed of the Last Will and Testament of William Hampton, deceased, bearing

date the 4^th Instant, with the probate thereof, is a true and exact copy, and was by

this deponant compared and examined with the record thereof remaining in the

Secretary’s Office of this Island. In Testimony I have hereunto sett my hand and

caused his Majestie’s Great Seal appointed for this and other His Majestie’s

Carribbee Islands, to be hereunto appended. Given at Pilgram on the 16^th of

April, 1715, the first year of His Majesty’s Reign.

Signed: William Sharpe

By his honor’s command

Alexa. Skene

Entered: April 16^th 1715”

It appears that on this same day, Alexander Skene, and his sister Lilias Haig, and

others, sailed for Charles Town, Carolina.

SCHGM Vol., 10-11, page 85:

“He (Alexander Skene) had originally come (to Carloina) from Barbados, and

was a member of the Council with Samuel Wragg in 1717.”

On 17 June, 1718, Alexander Skene and Jemima his wife conveyed to Francis Yonge 750 acres on Ashley River. This appears to be land previously granted to Alexander Skene as enticement to come to Carolina.

Collection of the South Carolina Historical Society, p. 456:

“Ashley River Barony, or St. Giles (the old Kussoe Indian Settlement hence called ‘Cussoe’ or ‘Cussoe House.’) 12,000 acres on the south side of the head of the Ashley River from the second creek above ‘Middleton Place’ to ‘Bacons Ridge’ and west to Edisto, granted March 18^th 1674 to Lord Shaftsbury, and by his grandson Lord Ashley conveyed July 20^th 1698 to his brother Hon. Maurice Ashley, and by him August 2^nd 1717 to Samuel Wragg, Esq., who April 6^th 1720 sold to Alexander Skene, Esq., 3,000 acres. [Deed Book D. p. 317]

It is important to try to determine who was the unidentified male dwelling in the 1725 census of St. George’s Parish household of Lilia Skene, Haig in Berkley, Carolina. This man might have been influential in the early lives of her Wards, the orphans of Robert Dews. I have supposed that George Hunter, said to be b. 1799 of Ayrshire, possibly a relative of Lilia, might be this man dwelling in the widow’s Lilia Haig’s household in St. George’s Parish, Berkley, SC in 1725. He was about 26 years of age, perhaps unmarried. George Hunter was a Professional Surveyor, and a Trader in Carolina before 1730 and was distantly related to Samuel Hunter & Katherine Skene who married in West Jersey in 1696. I find no later Jersey records regarding Samuel Hunter after 1703. The following West Jersey Deed proves that Samuel Hunter’s father was William Hunter who it seems, also came from Scotland to West Jersey before 1687 where he perished before 1693.

1693 April 4. Salem, West Jersey Deeds, No., 6, page 613:

William HICKSON of Burlington Co., W. J., yeoman, to Samuel Hunter, son and heir of Wm.

Hunter dec’d, for his half of the 500 acres granted to said Hickson and Wm Hunter jointly by John

THROGMORTON. 34

But Surveyor George Hunter’s parents have been determined to be the Rev. John Hunter, and first wife Elizabeth Skrivine, of Ayrshire, Scotland where his father was one of two ministers there for his lifetime. George Hunter was born in 1699 in Ayr, and already trained as a professional Surveyor (at Glasgow?) when he first arrived in Charles Town. He may have come to live as a man, aged 26 years, unmarried, with his kinswoman Lilia Haig. No one named Hunter was named in her 1742 Will. The Will of George Hunter now suggests that he was a son of John Hunter of Ayr, Scotland, now proved, but according to generalizations made in Scot genealogies, was also probably related in some measure to Samuel Hunter of West Jersey.

In 1735-7 a George Hunter was counted among the settlers of Williamsburg, Carolina along with Joseph Barry, William Lowry, and Peter Hume among many other religious non-conformists (Quakers.) Note that a Joseph Barry was one of the Witnesses to Will of Robert Dews. Also note that Mary Lowery (Lawrie) Haig was probably related to George Hunter, and it is known that the Humes were among their relations. But any specific relationship between Lilia and George Hunter is yet unproved.

Also on Sept. 11^th 1744, mortgages belonging to Hugh Swinton, Planter, and Samuel Hunter, Clerk, both of Craven County, Pee Dee River, Queensboro Township, Charleston were sold to George Seaman, merchant of Charles Town, Carolina. Of the mortgages for nine plantations held by Swinton, the names of persons involved included James Abercromby, John Skene, and Alexander Skene among 11 others.

Samuel Hunter held, and sold the mortgages for 21 associated slaves.

On May 7^th 1728 John Skene, age 21, married in St. Phillips Parish to Hannah Palmer. They issued a son Alexander Skene named heir in the Wills of his great aunt Lilias Haig (Will 1742,) and of his grandfather Alexander Skene (Will 1739.) He was under the age of 21 on both Wills.

Miscalaneous Records of Charleston County, SC, Vol. 76 A:

“Letters of Guardianship to John Palmer Granted to Alexander Skeene, Esqr., &c. - South Carolina.

By the Honorable Arthur Middleton, Esqr.,

President, and Commander in Chief, in and

over his majesties Provinces of South Carolina,

and Ordinary of the same.

To all to whom these presents shall come greetings, whereas John Palmer,

an infant has a considerable interest devised to him by the Will of his Grand Mother,

Isabell Palmer, and whereas the said Isabell Palmer hath by her said Will nominated,

constituted, and appointed the Honerable Alexander Skeene, Esqr., and John Skene,

Esqr., to be Executors of her Will, and Guardians of the body, and estate of the said John

Palmer, Therefore, for the better securing the estate and for the more careful maintenance,

and education of the said infant out of the confidence I repose in the wisdom and

integrity of you the said Alexander Skeene , and John Skeene I do hereby commit the

Tuition Education, and Guardianship of the said John Palmer unto you the said

Alexander Skeene, and John Skeene according to her desire hereby charging you that

you do maintain the said infant in meat, drink, washing, lodging, schooling, cloathing, and

such good education as may be fitting and convenient according to the circumstances and

interest of the said infant during his minority, and you the said Alexander Skeene, and

John Skeene do inquire into and take charge of the estate of the said infant both real and

personal, and do all other things as Guardians by law ought to do, or as such may or can

do, and a true and faithful account thereof and of what estate of the said John Palmer shall

come to you, or another of your hands you are to render when you or either of you shall

be thereunto required by me or by such Guardian, or Guardians as shall be chosen by the

said infant when he shall attain the age of One and Twenty years ______.

Given under my hand and Seal this Three and

Twentith Day of July in the second year of his

majesty’s reign anno Domini 1728.

Ar: Middleton

23^rd July 1728

Recorded per Char: Hart, Secty.”

1743: John Skene [1707, Berkley, SC – ca. 1770, St. George’s Parish, SC,] a son of Alexander Skene and wife Jemima, inherited Lot #35 at Point Royal, Beaufort, SC from his deceased aunt Mrs. Lilia Haig, deceased, by her 1742 Will. It was a Lot that she was granted Aug. 8^th 1717. [SCHM]

John Skene served on Grand Jury twice during 1831 in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Berkley County, Carolina.

John Skene, Esq., of St. Georges Parish, inherited, owned and resided upon a plantation of 3,000 acres in St. Georges Parish on the south side of the Ashley River, and just opposite the town of Dorchester. This plantation was part of the original 12,000 acre Barony of the Earl of Shaftsbury. John Skene inherited this plantation from his father Alexander Skene who called it “New Skene.”

John Skene, during 1737, served once on Grand Jury, and once on Petit Jury in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Berkley County, Carolina.

The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, p. 161:

“Hannah (Palmer) wife of John Skene, Esq., buried May 10^th 1737.”

John Skene, Esq., served once on Grand Jury, and once on Petit Jury during 1740 in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Berkley County, Carolina.

John Skene, in 1744, served once on Grand Jury, and once on Petit Jury in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Berkley County, South Carolina.

On March 1^st 1747 John Skene was granted Lot # 36 in Point Royal, Beaufort, SC.

On the 9^th & 10^th of March 1747, Skene to Purry, lots in Beaufort, mentions 1717 grant by Hon. Col. Robert Daniel, and other trustees. [Deed Book D]

On August 3^rd 1748 George Hunter was granted Lot # 325 in Point Royal, Beaufort, SC.

John Skene, in 1751, served once on Grand Jury, and once on Petit Jury in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Berkley County, South Carolina.

John Skene, in 1757, served once on Grand Jury, and once on Petit Jury in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Berkley County, South Carolina.

On June 11^th 1760 the Commons House of Assembly for SC heard the following item #528: “John Skene for two geldings lost at Kewohee, neither attested, nor appraised, not allowed.” [Col. John Skene served in the Cherokee War.]

The LW&T of Col. John Skene was filed on June 1^st 1768 in St. Georges Parish, SC, and proved on June 7^th 1768 before Hon. William Bull. [Will Book 1768 – 1771, p. 235.] His first wife Hannah Palmer, Skene previously perished, and John was last married to Judith Wragg. She may have been a daughter of William Wragg [ca. 1714, SC – 1777, drowned at sea,] by his first wife Mary Wood [ca. 1716 – ca. 1767.] No sons or daughters were mentioned in the Will of John Skene. But by tradition the surviving children of his first marriage would have had their estates settled when he married a second time, and would not have been included in his final Will. There may not have been any children surviving at the time of his death. An Abstract of his LW&T follows:

“…to my dearly beloved friend Mrs. Mary Wragg my pen in Dorchester Church.

…to wife Judith Wragg my Gold Watch, and Seal with my dear mother’s Coat of Arms vizt: a buck’s head, the Motto: ‘Lucio Sed no Uro.’ (It was Jemima Dewe, Kenny, Skene’s family ring, that came to her from her mother, Mary of the Seaforth McKenzie Clan.)

…to the Commissioners of the Fortifications all my great guns for the use of the Magazine and said Fort at Dorchester reserving to the Officers for the time being of the St. George Troup the liberty of using them on any publick day, especially His Majestie’s Birthday, and the 23^rd of April.

…to my dear friend Dr. Alexander Frothingham, my brass barrel gun, and pistols…

…to my good and worthy friend John Cattell, of Wampee, a mourning ring.

…to my most worthy and dear friend William Wragg, all my real and personal estate (with one exception)…

…my 1000 acres of land at the PeeDee was given some years ago to my Godson William Blaymyer.

It is my desire that the ring for my dear Mrs Wragg be buried with me.

Executor: William Wragg

Witnesses: Joseph Strabek

John Walton, Junr.

Jacob Waltur”

(On the last day of) May of 1768 Col. John Skene perished at his plantation in St. Georges Parish. [SCHM, records kept by Col. Isaac Hayue.]

His Will was apparently composed on the day he died, which was the last day of the month. His Will was filed on the first day of June 1768, and proved on the 7^th day of June.

The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine

“Judith Wragg, aged 71 years, died Dec. 16^th 1769.” (born circa 1698)

George Hunter of Charles Town perished in 1755. His Will was made in Aug. 27^th 1745, & proved on July 18^th 1755. He was born in circa 1799 in Ayr, Scotland, a lawful son of Rev. John Hunter, minister of Ayr, and Elizabeth Skirvine his first spouse. George Hunter died on July 10^th 1755 in Charleston, SC, aged about 56. Abstract:

“George Hunter, Charles Town, Gent.

Sisters: Elizabeth Dunlop [married 1735, Argyll, to William Dunlop]

Margaret McDermet, residue of estate.

Half-brother: David Hunter

Mentions: Hon. William Bull

James Kinloch

Charles Pinckney

Joseph Blake

John Cleland [ - Jan. 2^nd 1760], Justice, & member General Assy.

William Middleton, Esq.

Thomas Dale [1800 – Sept. 14^th 1750] He was a prof. of Physic, Leyden (1724/5,) a Judge of Supreme Court in 1734, & Trader.

John Dart, a Charles Town Merchant who married 1^st Hannah Livingson,

widow, 2^nd Mary Smith, 3^rd Mary Hext, widow

William Pinckney

Jordan Roche, Esqs. A father, and his only son, justices

Capt. Thomas Cooper

Mr. Benjamin Stead a Charles Town Merchant married Mary Johnson.

To: Jeremiah Theus, Artist, pictures except one done for myself which I give to Col. Pinckney.

To: Mrs. Sarah Barksdale “my old landlady.”

Dr. John Moultrie’s sons.

Exor: William Woodrope

Witnesses: John Oyston

Isaac Barksdale Indian Trader, partner of John Rae.

John Rae Indian Trader”

It appears that George Hunter did not marry a white woman in the colonial settlements since there is no mention of a wife or direct descendant heirs in his Will. If he had any daughters by an Indian woman during his trade activities, they were probably already dead of smallpox before he made his Will. Proof of any said Indian concubine and offspring is implicit alone, not yet found in documents.

The Scots Magazine, p. 460:

“Death of George Hunter, Esq., Surveyor General of South Carolina, occurred on

July 10^th 1755 in Charleston.”

[IGI] A marriage on Nov. 5^th 1735, Argyle, Argyleshire, Scotland between

bride Elizabeth Hunter, (a daughter of John Hunter,) and groom William Dunlop. This marriage is confirmed below. Elizabeth Dunlop was mentioned as a sister in the 1755 Will of George Hunter in SC.

The following publications report that she, and thus George Hunter, was the issue of Rev. John Hunter [b. c. 1670, (Liberton?) – d. Feb. 12^th 1756,] one of the ministers of Ayr, and that he outlived his son George Hunter by about a year.

History of the Counties of Ayr, and Wigton, page 150:

“William Dunlop of Macnairston- Greenane, married Jean Murdoch, a daughter of Francis Murdoch, merchant in Ayr. By his fourth wife, Elizabeth Hunter, a daughter of the Rev. Mr. Hunter, one of the two ministers of Ayr…”

Parliamentary Papers, p. 476:

“…May 1711…Rev. John Hunter, and Mr. Fullerton, then ministers of Ayr…”

Fasit Ecclesiea Scoticanae: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland:

“John Hunter, born about 1670.

Licensed by the Presbyters of Ayr Sept. 11^th 1695.

Ordered to 2^nd Charge Feb. 6^th 1696.

Rev. John Hunter, minister of Ayr, married 1^st on Jan. 7^th 1698 in Glasgow, Lanark, Sc., to Elizabeth Skirvine, daughter of George Skirvine, master of the Grammar School, Glasgow, and had issue:

George Hunter, born c. 1799 – died 1755, Charleston, SC.

Helen Hunter, born c. 1700

Robert Hunter, born c. 1701

Transported and Administrated Feb. 19^th 1701.

Rev. John Hunter, minister of Ayr, married 2^nd on Oct. 15^th 1723 to Elizabeth Ramsay Dalrymple, Jordan, widow of William Jordan, land surveyor. She was a sister of Mr. James Dalrymple.

Issue:

David Hunter

William Hunter

Elizabeth Hunter married 1735 to William Dunlop of Macnairston-

Greenane.

Margaret Hunter married McDermet.

Marion Hunter

Susannah Hunter, [b. c. 1722 – d. 1809] who married her father’s

successor, Rev. Wm. Dalrymple.

In the General Assembly of 1727 during the case of professor (John) Simpson of Glasgow, he said, “If one should call his Majesty King George a rogue and a villain…,” whereupon the Commissioner James, Earl of Findlater, and Seafield, rose and stopped him, when he immediately asked pardon, and acknowledged himself in the wrong, but the Assembly caused him to be rebuked from the chair.

Introduction to the History of Christianity, p. 450:

“John Simpson, professor of Divinity in Glasgow, was accused of teaching heretical wiews

about the person of Christ similar to those voiced in England by the Deists.”

Douglas Register. p. 354: “John Simpson, professor of Divinity, Glasgow, died Jan. 1740.”

Testament dative of Robert & Andrew Fowlis:

“To Jean Sterling, relict of the deceast Mr. John Simpson Profesor of Divinity in the

University of Glasgow, then being in life and failing her by decease to James, Ann,

Elizabeth, and Jean Simpson’s children lawful of the said deceased Mr. John Simpson

payable at the term of Whitsunday next…”

Rev. John Hunter, minister of Ayr, married 3^rd on Nov, 28^th 1751 to Agnes

Campbell, one of the 28 children of Mungo Campbell, Provost of Ayr.

History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton, p. 503:

“…Mungo Campbell, Provost of Ayr…married Agnes Rankin, one of the heirs

Portitioners of Bankhead.” [She was one of his wives.]

John Hunter died the Father of the Church on Feb. 12^th 1756.”

Analecta Scotica, p. 188:

“Mr. John Hunter was minister of the Gospel at Ayr. He died the 12^th of Feb. 1756, aged 86, the oldest at the time in the Church of Scotland. He was author of a dramatic poem The Wanderer, and the Traveler, Glasgow 1733. It was dedicated to Susannah, the Countess of Elgintoun. He also wrote “Spiritual Pleadings” (among other dramatic writings.)”

The Book of Robert Burns, pp 169-170:

“Elizabeth Ramsay, a sister of Mr. James Dalrymple, married first William Jordan, land surveyor. She next became the second of the three wives of John Hunter, one of the ministers of Ayr, who baptized the Poet Robert Burns.” [It was probably through Elizabeth’s acquaintances with local Surveyors that George Hunter became an Apprentice, and learned his profession.]

Pp 173-174:

“Rev. William Dalrymple, a Colleague of Rev. John Hunter, actually performed the Baptism of Poet, Robert Burns, lawful son of Wm. Burns of Alloway, and Agnes Brown, his spouse. The Poet was born on Jan. 25^th 1759, three years after the death of Rev. John Hunter, minister of Ayr. Dr. Dalrymple died Jan. 28^th 1814, aged 91 in the 68^th year of his ministry at Ayr. He married Susannah Hunter, daughter of his Colleague, Mr. John Hunter. Susannah died Nov. 28^th 1809, aged 83.”

The Scottish Antiquary; or Northern Notes, p. 84:

“Anne Cunningham, daughter of William Cunningham of Broomhill, married first to John Hunter of Ayr, by whom she had two sons. Anne married again on April 3^rd 1760 to Robert Hamilton of Bourticeehill, Esq. (Her husband) Robert Hamilton, by an earlier wife, Jean Mitchell, heiress, widow of Major Garth, …”

Records mentioned herein resolves a sister-in-law relationship between Robert Dews and Madam Lelia Hague that made her, by marriage of Alexander Skene & Jemima Dews, an aunt-in-law of Bethel & William Dews, explaining why she was appointed overseer and guardian of these orphans that were counted in her 1725 household in St. George’s Parish, Berkley, Carolina. She was uniquely qualified, and suited for this purpose. Both the Guardian and Wards benefited from her appointment. Although she was only related distantly as blood kin (a 4^th cousin to Robert Dews,) because of her appointment as the guardian of his children she was legally required to be included as an Executrix of Robert’s 1722 Will.

It is of some interest that Alexander Skene’s son John mentions in his Will, a gold watch, and seal (Signet Ring) with his mother’s coat of arms, displaying a buck’s head with the motto “Luceo non Uro” deducing that she descended from the Mackenzies of Seaforth, Scotland. Note that all of Jemima’s children but John Skene were apparently deceased at the time. There is concern that this may have been the seal and coat of arms of Jemima’s first husband, (John?) Kenny; however, the Kenny clan was only a Sept or a Cadet line of the McKenzies of Seaforth, and I believe that clan law forbade them to bear the Arms, and signet of the McKenzies. So in abidance by the traditional law of Scottish clans this family heirloom must have descended from Jemima Dew’s mother who could possess it but not bear it after her marriage. She is believed to have been a direct descendant of the McKenzies of Seaforth. This same reasoning forbade the Skenes from bearing such signets, and Arms for legal purpose. This argument has some merit but is not conclusive, and could be found in error. By his LW&T John Skene left these family clan heirlooms to his second wife Judith Wragg.

Clan MacKenzie

“LUCEO NON URO”

[From The History of the MacKenzies, by Alexander MacKenzie.]

(Celtic Line)

Feradach

Oirbeirtaigh

Cormac

Ferchar

Lorn

Erc

Gilleoin of the Ard [c. 850- c. 880.]

He married 1^st Kadlin, daughter of Gangerolf Landnamabok.

He married 2^nd to Richilde, daughter of Robert Le Fort.

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Clan Aurias | |Clan MacKenzie, of Kadlin

Crinan Cristin

| |

Kenneth Kenneth

| |

Ewen Murdock

| |

Crinan Duncan

| |

Kenneth Murdoch, m: Finguala

| daughter of Malcom MacLeod, III

| |

Paul Duncan

| |

Martin Murdoch

| |

Gillanrias Gilleion Mor Nahair’de

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Earls of Ross | Rosses | |

| | |

“The Priest” An Sagart Paul Gilleion Qy

| | |

Ferquhard, I, (d. 1251) Murdoch Kenneth, m: Lady Elizabeth Stewart

“Mac An Sagart” | daughter of John, Earl of Athole

| | |

William, II, (d. 1274) Ewen |

He m: Joan | Aneus Crom

| | |

William, II, (d. 1323) Tire |

| | Kenneth (d. 1304)

Austin Hugh, IV, (d. 1333) | |

He m: Matilda, d/o Robert Bruce | Ian Kenneth MacKenneth

| | |

William , V | Murdoch MacKenneth [1338-1350]

He m: Isobel Paul Mac Tire (grant 1372) He received a Charter of lands in

| He m: Mary Graham. Kintail from David II in 1344. He m:

| Charter to lands of Gairloch Fionaghal, a daughter of Torquil

| in 1366. MacLeod of Lewis, & wife Dorthea

| | daughter of the Earl of Ross.

| |

Eupheria, VI, (d. 1398) Black Murdoch Kenneth Mor She

She m: Sir Walter Leslie MacKenzie of the cave (d. 1375)

| Chief of Clan [1350-1375]

Alexander Leslie He m: Isabel MacCaulay.

He married Margaret MacDonald |

| |

Mary Leslie. She became a Nun Murdoch MacKenzie of the Bridge

And abdicated to her uncle John, Chief [1375-1416] He m: Finguala,

Earl of Buchan. The estate finally daughter of MacLeod of Harris, and

descended to the MacDonalds. His wife Martha Stewart.

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Alexander MacKenzie [1401-1491] “The Upright”

A Vassal of the Earl of Ross, 6^th Chief [1416-1475]

But after the 1476 forfeiture of the lands of John,

Earl of Ross, Alexander received these Ross lands

in Strathgarve, and other places.

He married Anna Margaret MacDougall.

Kenneth MacKenzie [1452-1492], 7^th Chief [1488-1488.]

He m: Lady Margaret MacDonald, and m: Agnes Fraser.

Kenneth Oig MacKenzie [1479-1492]. 8^th Chief [1488-1492.]

His mother was Margaret MacDonald, and he m: Margaret Balloch.

He was succeeded by his half-brother Iain (John) MacKenzie

[1483-1492], 9^th Chief [1492-1492.] He m: Elizabeth Grant.

Kenneth McKenzie [1488-1561]

10^th Chief 1492-1561

m: Elizabeth Stewart, d/o

John, Lord of Athole

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| |

Colin Cam McKenzie [1556-1594] Roderick McKenzie [1543-1587]

11^th Chief, m: Barbara, d/o Grant of Grant ancestor of Redcastle, Kincraig, Rosend & ect.

| m: Florence Monro, & Margaret MacLeod

| |

Kenneth McKenzie [1573-1611] Sir John McKenzie, 1^st Earl of Cromart

1^st Lord of Kintail, m1: Anne, d/o George Ross m: Margaret Erskine

of Balanagowan, m 2^nd Mrs. Sybilla Ogilvie, McLeod | | |

|____________________________________________ |

| | |

Collin Raudh McKenzie [1596-1693] | |

2^nd Lord of Kintail, 1^st Earl of Seaforth | |

m: Margaret Seaton | |

| | |

S: by ½ bro. George McKenzie [1608-1651] Sir Simon M McKenzie |

2^nd Earl of Seaforth, s/o Sybilla of Lochslin, m: d/o Dr. Peter Bruce |

m 1^st Barbara Forbes | Sir George MacKenzie [1630-1714, Barbados]

| | 2^nd Earl of Cromarty, m: Anne Sinclair

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| | | |

George McKenzie [1631-?] Annie McKenzie George McKenzie [1636-1890] |

Kildun, m: Mary Skene m: Capt Tho. Dews m: Mrs. Bethia Law, nee Dickson |

D/o Alex Skene of Skene & | | |

Jane Burnet | | |

| | | |

Mary McKenzie [1661 >1687] Sarah Dew [1660-1720] | |

M: Capt. Tho. Dew 1^st John Smith | |

| 2^nd Edward George McKenzie of Kildin Sir George McKenzie [1663-1730, Barbados]

| Middleton Merchant of Edinburgh 3^rd Earl of Cromarty, m: Annie Fraser

|________ | in Barbados before 1701 |

| | | Will, 1733 |

Jemima Dews | | |

[1674-1742] | | |

m 1^st John Kenny | | |

m 2^nd Alex. Skene | | |

| | |

_________| | |

| | |

| Arthur Middleton [1681-1737] |

Robert Dews [1684-1722] m 1^st Sarah Amory |

M: Mary Baker [1700-1721] | |

| | George McKenzie [1710-1766]

| | 3^rd Earl of Cromarty

| Henry Middleton [1717-1784] m: Isabel Gordon

| m 1^st 1741 Mary Baker Williams |

| m 2^nd 1762 Maria Henrietta Bull |

| m 3^rd Lady Mary MacKenzie |

| |<___________________________________________Lady Henrietta MacKenzie [1730-1788]

Capt. Wm. Dews [1721-1786] m 1^st Capt. Clarke

M 1^st Mary Haig, d/o Charity m 2^nd 1757 Thomas Drayton (d. 1760)

M 2^nd Lois Wilkins m 3^rd > June 1762 John Ainslie

M 3^rd Mary Lee m 4^th Henry Middleton

| |

James Dews/Due [1750-1809] Hester Middleton [1750 - ?], d/o Mary Baker

m: Christiana Gordon [1764-1720+] Williams - Henry Middleton’s 1^st wife.

| m: Charles Drayton [1743-1820], son of Thomas.

| |

| Charles Drayton [1785-1844]

| m: Mary Middleton, Schoolbred [1794-1855]

| |

John Roderick Due [1792-1840] |

m: Clarissa Crocker [1801-1881] |

| |

Thomas J. Due [1822-1870] |

m: Rebecca Jane Robinson [1831-1880?] |

William P. Dewes Drayton [1828-1835]

The Dewe name came down from Henry

Middleton, and his first wife Mary Baker

Williams.

Kenneth MacKenzie [1573-1611], 12^th Chief.

1^st Lord of Kintail. He m:1st Anne, daughter of

of George Ross of Balanagowan. Issue above.

He also married 2^nd to Isobel, daughter of Oglevie.

Sir Simon M. McKenzie of Lochslin, brother of Seaforth

m: ____ daughter of Dr. Peter Bruce.

George McKenzie [1636 – 1890, Oxford], Lawyer, Writer of Edinburgh

m: Bethia Dickson, daughter of Dickson, formerly married to Law.

George McKenzie, merchant of Edinburgh, NJ, NY, & Barbados.

It is said that George McKenzie & wife Mary Skene, who were married in 1656, had a son named Kenneth

McKenzie who disappeared into the West Indies. Kenneth McKenzie may have come with his sister Mary to

be wed to Thomas Dew when she not much over 12 or 13 years of age, and then perhaps remained in Barbados

where he may have changed his name to James Elder for some obscure purpose. Was an Elder his Master as an

Apprentice? James Elder was said to be actually a McKenzie. This item is speculative.

It is now necessary to follow the line of the Earls of Ross found on the left line of the above chart because it impacts descendants of the family of immigrant Robert Dew. Beginning with William, 3^rd Earl of Ross of the O’Beolan line, and the Earl of Sutherland, his former ward, were the only two earls present at the first Parliament held by Robert the Bruce in 1309…and afterwards by the Earls of Ross after the O’Beolans were the Leslies, then Sir John Stewart, title annexed by James I from 1424 until 1427, the MacDonalds, title annexed by the Crown in 1746 until when Henry Stewart, Lord of Darnley was created Earl of Ross in 1565 by Elizabeth I of England.

Remembering that a titular line of descent does not always follow directly from one generation to the next but can often pass from one sibling to another sibling within the same generation before passing to the next generation, the following is discription the House of Stewart intersecting with the MacKenzie clan above, and others.

House of Stewart

“Virescit vulnere virtus”

Flaald, who consented to a deed by his older brother Alan, Seneshal of Dol,

In favor of St. Florent, in Brittany, France prior to 1080.

Alan, son of Flaald appears on English records soon after the Conquest of 1066

When he obtained from William the Conqueror the Castle of Oswestry in

Stropshire. He married Avelina, daughter of Hesding.

Walter Stewart, I, High Steward of Scotland [b. c. 1134 – d. c. 1177.] He married to

Eschina, daughter of Thomas de Londoniis, Hostarius Regis. She was the widow of

Robert de Croc.

Alan Stewart, 2^nd High Steward of Scotland [b. bef. c. 1169 – d c 1704.] He married to

Alesta, daughter of Morgund, Earl of Mar.

Walter Stewart, 3^rd High Steward of Scotland [b. c. before 1210 – d. c 1242.] He is said married to Beatrix, daughter of Gilchrist, 3^rd Earl of Angus.

Alexander Stewart, 4^th High Steward of Scotland [b. c. 1214 – d. c. 1283.] He married

Jean, daughter of James, a son of Roderick, Lord of Bute.

Walter Stewart, 6^th High Steward of Scotland [b.c. 1263 – d. April 9^th 1296.] He married 1at to Alice, daughter of Sir John Erskine of Erskine. He married 2^nd (1315) to Marjory, daughter of King Robert, I. He married 3^rd to Isabel, daughter of Sir John Graham of Albercorn.

King Robert Stewart, II, [b. Mar. 2^nd 1316 – d. May 13^th 1390, Dundonald Castle.] He married 1^st to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan. He married 2^nd to Euphemia, daughter of Hugh Austin, Earl of Ross, mentioned in above MacKenzie descent. He married 3^rd to Arabella, daughter of Sir John de Drummond of Stobhall, and Cargill.

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| |

Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, Lord of Badenoch, His son Sir John Stewart of Blackhall [1362,

a charter for the Lordship of Badenoch, had from his father Ardgowan, Inverkip, Renfrewshire, Sc. – May

Mar. 1372, and married Euphemia, daughter and heiress of 31^st 1445, Drumglass, Angus, Sc.] He married

William, 7^th Earl of Ross (dispensation date: June 25^th 1382.) Ardgovan Stewart.

She was the widow of Sir Walter Leslie, Earl of Ross, |

mentioned above. |

| |

Sir Walter Stewart, 1^st of Kincardine, charter for lands of His daughter Margaret Stewart [April 7^th, 1395 -

Kincardine from King Robert Stewart, III, in the 10^th year Mar. 4^th 1460] married Sir Duncan Campbell

Of his reign (bet. 1380-1381.) He married Isobel, daughter of 1370, Lochwe, Argyll – Aug, 12^th 1453, Kilmun,

Sir William Fenton. Strathclyde]

| |

| A son Sir Walter Campbell of Glenorchy [1428,

| Glenorchy, Argyll – Sept. 24^th 1449, in the Tower,

| Strathfillan, Perth.] He married Margaret Sterling,

| of Keir [c. 1430, Stirling.]

Robert Stewart, III, 3^rd son of Walter, above. |

| Marion Helen Campbell [1456,

| Glenorchy, Argyll - ?] married William Stewart of

| Baldorran [c. 1555, Baldorran, Balquidder, Perth –

| before 1513.]

| |

| Son: John Stewart, of Glenbucky [c. 1487,

| Glenbucky, Baldorran, Campsie, Sterling –

| before 1513] He married unknown.

| |

| John’s son: Duncan Stewart, Laird, [c. 1530,

| Glenbucky, Balquhidder, Perth - ?]

| He married ____ McLaren.

| |

| Duncan’s son: Alexander Stewart, Laird of

Robert Og. Stewart. Had a son Alexander Glenbucky. He married a d/o Angus Williamson.

| [c. 1553. Glenbucky, Balquhidder, Perth - ?]

| He married ___ McLaren.

| |

| Alexander’s son: Patrick Stewart, Laird of

| Glenbucky, [c. 1572, Glenbucky, Balquidder,

| Perth - ?] He married Christina Drummond.

| |

| Patrick’s son: William Stewart [c. 1660, Ledereich,

| Balquhidder, Perth – Nov. 1680, ditto.] He married

| Mary MacGregor.

| |

| S: General Patrick Stewart [c. 1635, Ledereich,

| Balquhidder, Perth – Aug. 22^nd 1682, Ledcreich,

| Balquhidder, Perth.] He married Margaret

| Buchannnan, daughter of Robert.

| |

Alexander Stewart [b. c. 1644 – d. April 27^th 1720, probate |

Sept. 1728, Inverness, Sc.] It is possible that he m: Annabel |

Campbell, a daughter of Patrick Rnadh Campbell, & Agnes |

Campbell. Their eldest surviving son was Walter Stewart. |

| |

John Stewart, Bailie, merchant of Inverness, family of S: Alexander Stewart, Laird of Ledcreich, [c. 1676.

Kincardine, [Sept. 2^nd 1676, Inverness, Sc. – Apr. 20^th, Ledcreich, Balquhidder, Perth – c. 1782, Ledcreich,

1759, Inverness, Sc.] He was a magistrate (Bailie,) and Balquhidder, Perth ] Her married Catherine Stewart

a merchant of Inverness whose business activities spanned |

the period 1700-1752. He died penniless. S: Patrick Stewart [Feb. 7^th 1697, Ledcreich,

He was an ardent Royalist, and a keen Episcopalian who Balquhidder, Perth – May 1^st 1792, Bladen, NC. attended the service of Rev. John Hay in 1734. He risked He married 1^st (1717) to Jean Stewart.

almost his whole estate in the Rebellion of 1745. He married 1^st He married 2^nd to (1728) Katherine Stewart.

to Marion Rose, daughter of Bailie, Robert Rose of Kilavock, He married 3^rd. (Oct. 3^rd 1733 in Balquhidder,) to He married 2^nd to Ann MacLeod, daughter of Norman MacLeod Elizabeth Menzies (who died early) a daughter

of Drynoch in Skye. She survived him. of Duncan, & Margaret Menzies.

Another account of his wives is: 1^st Mary Rose, 2^nd Christian

MacLeod. Patrick and his family are important because it appears

list of their children follows: that perhaps his nephew was Alexander Gilbert

| Gordon Chief of the Gordon Clan, who became the

|_Robert Stewart (1714-?) father-in-law of James Due, a son of Capt. Wm Dews

| & Mary Lee.

|_Alexander Stewart (1716)

|_John Stewart [b. Sept. 25^th 1718, Inverness, Sc. –

| d. Feb, 21^st 1779, Pensacola, Santa Rosa, Folorida.]

| He was the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for England

| during the Revolutionary War, and he was once an

| in-law of Robert Dews, the 2^nd man of his name

| found in Carolina. Robert was the only son of Capt. Wm

| Dews, and his wife Lois Wilkins.

|_William Stewart (c. 1720 )

|_Dr. Allan Stewart (c. 1722)

|_Norman Stewart (c. 1722 – c. 1795)

|_Henry Stewart (c. 1724 – May 21^st 1783)

|_Anne Stewart (c. 1726- c. 1777)

|_Patrick Stewart (c. 1728)

|_Francis Stewart (c. 1728 – Sept. 22^nd 1766, SC)

Regarding John Stewart, a son of Bailie John Stewart & Christian (Ann) MacLeod: He attended school in London. At the age of 17 (in 1735) he found employment at San Lucas de Barrameda, the old Andalusia Port at the mouth of the Gadalquivir River in Spain where he worked for three years. Afterwards he served a term in the Royal Navy as a Captain’s Clerk, and “Purser” for Lord Anson, on the “Centurian.” He immigrated to South Carolina in the spring of 1748 where he went into the trading business with Patrick Reid. In 1749, at the age of 31, he returned to England, married Sarah Fenwick, (some say Dickson, perhaps a widow.) and brought her to South Carolina where most of their children were born. Patrick Reid died in April of 1754. In 1755 the creditors of Reid’s estate came after John Stewart for satisfaction, leaving him in financial ruin when he was 37 years of age. John Stewart then went to Georgia, and by 1757 he became a Captain in command of a Garrison of Scotch militia at Fort Loudoun. While on this assignment he “shared the blanket” with Susannah Catherine Emory, a young mixed Cherokee daughter of Trader Robert Emory by his mixed-blooded wife Mary Grant. Their issue was a son who became known as Bushyhead who was born in 1758 while John Stewart was away from Fort Loudoun being reassigned in Feruary of 1758 to fortify a Battery on Beaufort Island. Soon after the birth of Bushyhead, the young Susannah Catherine Emory began to “share the blanket” with Robert Dews, the only surviving issue of Trader Capt. William Dews by his then wife Lois Wilkins. At about 14 years of age, Robert Dews sired a son by Susannah Catherine Emory. This son was known as Tahlonteeskee, a name which Robert himself was then popularly called among the Cherokees. Capt. William Dews was forced to abandon his trading post called “Dewes Corner” just a mile west of Point Ninety-Six when the Great Cherokee War started. He, and son Robert likely returned to his Wilmington Island plantation, a place of safety during this violence. By the time the war was over, and “Dewes Corner” reopened, Susannah Catherine Emory has already met and “shared the blanket” with John Jolly, a Virginia militiaman by whom she issued a son given his name “John Jolly,” but she soon died of smallpox when her children were very young. All of her sons were raised in the Cherokee Tribe by her clan having little if any contact with their biological fathers.

Capt. John Stewart was reassigned to Fort Loudoun in 1759 just before the outbreak of the Great Cherokee War, and when the conflict began, Fort Loudoun came under a siege by Cherokee warriors. When Fort Loudoun eventually fell to this siege, Captain John Stewart’s friend Cherokee Headman Attacullaculla saved Stewart’s life. Afterward Captain John Stewart served in the British Army under Capt. Byrd at his camp, in 1760. After the Great Cherokee War was over in 1761, Capt. John Stewart was soon appointed as a Superintendent of Indian Affairs. According to Architectural records, John Stewart, Indian Agent of his Majesty in the southern Provinces, owned a fine old three-story residence at the corner of Orange, and Tradd streets in Charleston where it is claimed that his son Major General John Stewart, who was distinguished by defeating the French in Calabria in July of 1806 at the famous Battle of Maida, and was knighted for his gallantry, was born. It is also suggested that one of his sons born in Charleston was Col. Alexander Stewart that commanded the British at the Battle of Eutaw. I have not been able to confirm either claim. In 1763 John Stewart was stationed on the Ohio River vally where he was managing colonial affairs with the Choctaws and Chickasaws. On June 1^st 1771, Governor Sir James Wright, and Hon., John Stewart, Esq., the sole Agent for, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the Southern District of North America, negotiated a Treaty with the Cherokee, and Creek Indians at Augusta, Georgia. In 1773, records documented by naturalist William Bartram say that he met Attacullaculla, and other Cherokees on the path to Charleston at which time the headman inquired if Bartram had seen his old friend John Stewart in Charleston, to which Bartram replied that he had, and he was well. Two years later in 1775, Stewart was sent to San Augustine, Santa Rosa, Florida where he served as British Superintendent of Indian Affairs during the Revolutionary War until his death there at 61 years of age, in 1779. Claims that he returned to England where he died probably refer to his son. John Stewart’s probable son Charles Stewart was appointed to replace his father’s vacant position, and Charles quickly appointed the Trader Robert Dews (34 years of age) as a Deputy Superintendent of Indian Affairs.

The Stewarts of this line could have had an ancient maternal blood relationship to the Norman Dew family because there is conjecture that the Rose, also called Ross, family of Kilavock once bore the arms of the Counts d’Eu of Normandy, having four water bougets with a cross in the middle, the arms of Ross family having three water bougets.

House of Gordon

By Steven Due, 22 Aug. 2008

“Bydand”

“Do well and let them say...Gordon”

“Animo non astutia”

It is claimed that the Scot Gordon family had as many as 127 branches, each of which had their Sub-Chieftains, but during the 15^th century, the actual Chief of the Gordon Clan was a Seaton who married the Duchess heir of Huntley, and became Duke of Huntley by taking her name. In the mid 18^th century, Alexander Gilbert Gordon was called “Chief of the Gordon Clan” although he dwelt in South Carolina after the 1752 death of Cosmo George Gordon, 3^rd Duke of Huntley, until Cosmo’s young son, & heir came to legal age. This makes me suspicious that Alexander Gilbert Gordon was either an illegitimate brother of Cosmo, or an eldest nephew who was born in Moray, then raised by the Stewart family in or near Galloway, or in Perth, where it appears that Patrick Stewart was likely his Guardian, and blood uncle. Deriving a reverse genealogy in order to determine the specific branch of his likely family origin is proving quite difficult. I have begun to assemble the major branches of the Scot Gordon family below. – SD.

Adam Gordon of Normandy was welcomed to Scotland by King David, I,

And he settled in Long Gordon, Berwickshire, Scotland.

He possessed lands granted by Malcom, III.

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Richard Gordon, of Gordon Adam Gordon, of Huntly

| |

Sir Thomas Gordon Alexander Gordon

| |

Sir Thomas Gordon Adam Gordon

| |

Alicia Gordon Sir Adam Gordon, died on way to Crusades.

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Adam Gordon

Fell at Dunbar 1296

Sir Adam Gordon

Married Annabella

Daughter of David, of Strathbogie, Banff.

Granted Strathbogie 1319.

Went north.

_________________|___________________________ 2^nd son

| |

Sir Alexander Adam Gordon Sir William Gordon, of Stitchel, & Lochinvar

d. 1346, Battle of Durham. William, the younger son, laird of Stitchel in

| Roxburghshire, was the ancestor of William

| de Gordon of Stitchel and Lochinvar, founder of

John de Gordon the Galloway branch of the family represented in

Prisoner with David, I the Scottish peerage by the dormant viscounty of

At the Battle of Durham Kenmure (q.v.), created in 1633; most of the Irish

d. 1338, Otterburn and Virginian Gordons are offshoots of this stock.

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| | |

Sir John Gordon, d. 1394 Sir Adam Gordon Roger Gordon, of Stitchel

M: Elizabeth Cruickshanks Married Elizabeth Kieth |

| d. 1402 at Homildon Hill |

| | |

| The below is not a paternal |

| Gordon line, but Seton, instead. |

| Lady Elizabeth Gordon Sir Alexander Gordon, of Kenmure

| m: Sir Wm. Seton (Gordon) Sasine of Kenmure in 1403.

|_Tam Gordon | |

| of Ruthven Sir Alexander (Seton) Gordon |

| 18 sons went north Earl of Huntly, m: Elizabeth |

| | Crichton |

| *** | Roger Gordon, of Stitchel

|_John “Jock” Gordon | |

m: Margaret, d/o Sir George Gordon, [1445-1501] William Gordon [1425 –bef. 1455]

P. Maitland of Gight 2^nd Earl, m: Anabella Stewart married Joan Stewart

| d/o King James, I young Lochinvar.

|_John Gordon | (went south to Galloway)

| [c 1400 – a. 1449] | |

| m: Eliz. Abernethy | |

| of Pitlorg Alexander Gordon [1465-1524] |

| **** 3^rd Earl, m: Joanna Stewart Sir John Gordon [1435-1512]

|_Wm. Gordon |_______________***** married Elizabeth Lindsay

m: d/o Sir John John Gordon [1490-1571] |

Rutherford m: Margaret Stewart Robert Gordon, 3^rd Lord of Lochinvar

| | [1475-1520.] married Marian Accarson

|_George George Gordon [1513-1562] |_________________________*

| House of 4^th Earl, m: Elizabeth Kieth James Gordon, 4^th Lord of Lochinvar

| Lesmoir ****** (Earl of Moray) [1501-1547] married Margaret Crichton.

| | |

|_Patrick George Gordon [d. 1576] John Gordon, 5^th Lord of Lochinvar

of Fulziemont M: Anne Hamilton, d/o [1530 - ?], m:Julian Home; m: Elizabeth

m: Rachel, d/o James Hamilton 2^nd Earl of Arran. Maxwell.

Barclay of Duke of Chattelharault. |

Towie | Robert Gordon, 6^th Lord of Lochinvar

| George Gordon [d. 1635] [1558 - ?] married Elizabeth Isabel

** 6^th Earl, made 1^st Marquis of Huntley Ruthven [1558, Gowrie, Perthshire - ?]

in 1599, m: Henrietta Stewart. |

| John Gordon, 1^st Viscount Kenemure

George Gordon [d. 1649] 2^nd [b. 1600 - ?]

Marquis of Huntley, m: Anne

Campbell. |

Lewis Gordon [d. 1658] 3^rd

Marquis of Huntley, m: Mary

Grant. |

George Gordon [1643-1716]

4^th Marquis of Huntley,

m: Elizabeth Howard. He was

made 1^st Duke of Huntley in 1648.

Alexander Gordon [1678-1727]

2^nd Duke of Huntley, married before Feb. 13^th 1707 to Henrietta

Mordaunt [1688-1760, at Prestonhall] d/o Charles

Mordanut, 3^rd Earl of Petersborough,

& 8^th Baron of Mordaunt, and his wife Carey Fraser.

1^st son |_Alexander Gordon [b. c 1707 – d. before 1728]

| ?He married unknown sister of Patrick Stewart, & issued Alexander

| Gilbert Gordon [b. c. 1723, Morayshire (?)

| |

|_Henrietta Gordon [b. c. 1708 – d. Jan. 21^st 1786] |

| |

|_Mary Gordon [b. c. 1712 – d. Jan. 26^th 1882] |

| |

|_Anne Gordon [b. c. 1713 – d. June 22^nd 1791] |

| She married William Gordon |

| |

|_Charles Gordon [b. c. 1715 – d. April 26^th 1780] |

| |

|_Elizabeth Gordon [b. c. 1716 – d. c. 1769] |

| She married Rev. John Skelly |

| |

|_Lewis Gordon [b. c. 1718 – d. July 15^th 1754] |

| |

4^th son |_Cosmo George Gordon [b. April 27^th 1720 – d. Aug. 5^th 1752] |

| He married Catherine Gordon |

| |

|_Jean Gordon [b. c. 1720 – d. Jan. 17^th 1792] |

| |

|_Catherine Gordon [b. c. 1722 – d. Jan. 21^st 1786] |

| She married Francis Charteris, 7^th Earl of Wemyss |

| |

|_Charlotte Gordon [b. c. 1724 – d. ?] |

| |

|_Adam Gordon [b. c. 1726 – d. Aug. 13^th 1801] |

He married Jean Drummond |

__________________________|

4^th son (1^st son, & 1^st grandson?)

| Both the firstborn son of Alexander Gordon & Henrietta

| Mordaunt, and his only son Alexander Gilbert Gordon

| by (Christiana?) Stewart Are generally missing in records

| of this family. Clearly this son Alexander perished prior

| to 1728 at not much over 20 years of age. His only son

| Alexander Gilbert Gordon likely became a ward

| of his uncle Patrick Stewart as an orphan. Perhaps some

| issue of legitimacy existed, or there were issues of religion

| that caused embarrassment to the Gordon family. It is

| known that Henrietta, who was formerly a Catholic, raised

| her surviving sons as Protestants after her husband died.

| |

4^th son:__________________| (1^st grandson of Alex Gordon, & Henrietta Mordaunt)

| |

George Cosmo Gordon [April 27^th 1720, Alexander Gilbert Gordon [April 4^th 1823,

Moray, Sc. - 1752] 3^rd Duke of Huntley. Moray, Sc. - April 7^th 1785, Cheraw Dist, SC.]

He married Catherine Gordon on Sept. 3^rd He married Elizabeth Elerby about 1752 in

1741 in Dunkeld, Perth, Sc. She was born Marion County, SC. He married Mary McKay

on Oct. 20^th 1718, and died Dec. 10^th 1779 on May 1^st 1755 in Anson, NC. She was a daughter

in London, Middlesex, Eng. She was a John Alis McKay, and Christiana. (After the 1752 death

Daughter of William Gordon, & Anna of George Cosmo Gordon, among his neighbors were

Susan Murray. She was his 1^st cousin. the Pledgers who stated that Alexander G. Gordon was

| “Chief of the Gordon Clan,” a claim of some legal legitimacy, but

Alexander Gordon [June 18^th 1743, Moray, Sc.- Alexander was settled in SC with estate, and demurred any right.)

June 17^th 1827, London, Middlesex, Eng.] |

4^th Duke, married Jean Maxwell, Oct, 23^rd 1767 Christiana Gordon [c. 1757, SC – after 1820,

in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Sc., daughter of Darlington, SC.] She married c. 1782, SC, to

William Maxwell, & Magdalene Blair. He James Dew/Due [c. 1750, Savannah, Ga. – c.

Was only age 9 when his father died in 1752, 1809, Darlington, SC,] a son of Capt. Wm. Dews

So it might be expected that Alexander Gilbert & Mary Lee.

Gordon would act as Duke of Huntley until his |

cousin came of age. Jean was born 1746, & died |_Alexander Gordon Due [c. 1784, SC – c. 1819]

1812. | He married Mary Murray, or Murphy.

|_Elizabeth Ann Due [c. 1788, SC – c. b. 181, SC]

| She married William Parnell in Darlington, SC.

|_Caroline Due [c. 1790, SC – c. b. 1813, SC.]

| She married ___ Mowry

|_John Roderick Due [June 8^th 1792, Society Hill,

| Darlington, SC – Nov. 12^th 1840, Wetumpka, Ala.]

| He married Clarissa Crocker [ - ]

| a daughter of James Crocker.

|_Christian Due [c. 1794, SC – c. a. 1820, SC]

|_Sarah Due [c. 1795, SC – c. a. 1816, SC.] She married

| Daniel Cade McLeod

|_William James Due [June 30^th 1796, Society Hill,

| Darlington, SC – Nov. 15^th 1861, Montgomery, Ala.]

| He married a widow, Catherine McLaughlin, Padget

| [ - ] a daughter of John Mclaughlan.

|_Robert Gordon Due [c. 1802, Mechanicsville,

| Darlington, SC - c. 1775, Columbia, Richland, SC.]

| He m: 1^st Elizabeth McLauchlan, daughter of John.

| He m: 2^nd to Louisa E. Dooley.

|_Mary Due [c. 1804, Mechanicsville, Darlington, SC –

| c. b. 1813, Mechanicsville, Darlington, SC.]

|_James W. Due [June 2^nd 1807, Mechanicsville,

Darlington, SC – c. b. 1880, Fayette. Texas.]

He married 1^st to Melissa Frances Gregory.

He married 2^nd to Charlotte E. Darrow, in Pickens, Ala.

He married 3^rd to widow Ann Abbot, Shackleford in

Tx.

It is important to note that the connection of Alexander Gilbert Gordon to the above intersection with the

family of the 2^nd Duke of Huntley, Alexander Gordon is not clear, and is therefore unproved. But because he

was called the “Chief of the Gordon Clan” by a South Carolina Pledger Historian, during the period when the

heir to the Gordon estate was still a minor child, then it is assumed that he either descended as shown above, or

possibly by cases mentioned below. Be advised that it is claimed that the firstborn of the 2^nd Duke of Huntley,

also named Alexander Gordon, died at four years old, and if this is true then one of the below cases may apply.

Case 1: Alexander Gilbert Gordon was an undocumented, and perhaps illegitimate son of one of

the first two daughters of the 2^nd Duke of Huntley, perhaps sired by a brother of Patrick Stewart. As a bastard,

he may have taken his mother’s surname. These two daughters Henrietta, and Mary Gordon lived to late in

life, but have neither have documented marriages.

Case 2: Alexander Gilbert Gordon could have been an illegitimate son of the 2^nd Duke of Huntley himself,

by a sister of Patrick Gordon. This sister’s name cannot be determined by current documentation.

In either case Alexander Gilbert Gordon, as an eldest surviving grandson, may have possessed a temporary

claim as the Chief of the Clan while George Cosmo Gordon succeeding heir to the Gordon Estate, was still

a minor child, but Alexander would have had no claim to the Gordon Estate because of illicit birth. It may have

been this illicit birth that caused him to become the Ward of Patrick Stewart, and as a youth, to adventure to

America with is uncle to find his own fortune and estate.

Alexander Gilbert Gordon chose to leave home in Scotland at the age of 15 seeking his fortune. He may have accompanied his (uncle?) Patrick Stewart, the Laird of Ledcreich, Balquhidder, Perthshire, on the Thistle bound to Cape Fear, NC in 1739, but this has not been established. The old Bible depicting this family, residing in the LDS Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, states that Alexander Gilbert Gordon, “after a ramble of seven years by land and sea arrived by ship in South Carolina in 1754.” He was then aged 22 years. Afterwards he became a merchant of Anson County, NC, and of the Pee Dee River basin, where he settled as a gentleman in the Cheraw District, near Society Hill. While living in St. David’s Parish, Craven County, SC he Executed the Will of his apparent uncle Patrick Stewart of NC. During the Revolutionary War, he was a Patriot soldier, placing him in opposition to (his cousin?) Alexander Gordon, the 4^th Duke of Huntly, who commanded a Highlander Regiment for the British. Upon the death of Patrick Stewart, the (nephew of the decedent?) Alexander Gilbert Gordon Executed his (uncle’s?) LW&T, along with Patrick’s daughter Catherine Stewart, Little, an Executrix. Patrick Stewart was buried in St. David’s Parish, Cheraw Dist., SC.

The estates of Stitchell passed from the Gordon’s to the Pringles in c. 1630.

Asterisk above (*) yields the following descent of Robert Gordon, son of Robert Gordon & Marian Accarson:

Robert Gordon [1510, of Glen, Rusco, Kirkcudbright – 1604, Glen, Rusco, Kirkcudbright]

Spouse unknown

Robert Gordon [1533, Lochinvar, Kirkcudbright – 1628]

Spouse unknown

John Gordon, Earl of Kenemure [1555, Lochinvar – bef. Mar. 1^st 1643]

Married Jane Campbell, Viscountess of Kenmure

His first son John Gordon was 2^nd Viscount of Kenmure

Robert Gordon, 4^th Viscount of Kenmure [1580, of Lochinvar - ?]

Married Lady Jean Gordon

Alexander Gordon, 5^th Viscount of Kenmure [1620, Lochinvar – Aug. 1698]

Married 1^st _____ Gordon, a heiress

Married 2^nd to Marian MacCulloch

Married 3^rd to Grizell Stewart, Viscountess of Kenmure

By Marian:

William Gordon, 6^th Viscount of Kenmure [c. 1665 – c. 1716], Jacobite leader

Married Mary Dalzell.

Alexander Gordon, 7^th Viscount of Kenmure [c. 1711- c. 1742]

Married his cousin Grizell Gordon c. 1730.

Double Asterisks (**) above, Patrick Gordon of Fulziemont, a son of Wm Gordon, & d/o Sir John Rutherford.

Patrick Gordon of Fulziemont

Married Rachel Barclay a daughter of Barclay of Towie.

__________________________________|__________________

| | | |

Wm. Gordon of Patrick Gordon of Thomas Gordon George Gordon of Coclarachie

House of Craig Tilliquhouchie of Corichie m: d/o Oliphant of Berrydales

George Gordon of Coclarachie

M: d/o John Gordon of Tilliquhochie

George Gordon of Colararchie

M: d/o James Duncan of Merdrum

__________________________|

| |

George Gordon, Alexander Gordon of Merdrum

of Colarcarchie |

Barbara Gordon of Merdrum

M: 1^st to ___ Orem

M: 2^nd to William Lunan

|_James Lunan

|_Margaret Lunan

|_Jeane Lunan

|_Marie Lunan

All four children were Infeft of the sasine

of Merdrum in 1699.

Triple Asterisks (***,) above, The descent of Thomas “Tam” Gordon

Thomas “Tam” “Thom” Gordon [c 1352 - ] s/o Sir John Gordon, & Elizabeth Cruicshankes

Married 1^st to _____ Hay

Children:

|_Patrick Gordon

|_Duncan Gordon

|_John Gordon

|_Alexander Gordon

Married to _____Chisholm

Children:

|_James Gordon

|_John Gordon

Married to ______Innes

Children:

|_William Gordon

|_Adam Gordon

|_Thomas Gordon

|_George Gordon

Married to _____ MacKay

Children unknown

Quadruple Asterisks (****,) above, John Gordon, son of John Gordon & Elizabeth Abernethy

John Gordon of Auchleuchires [born between 1390 and 1409 – died after 1449]

Married Elizabeth Abernethy

John Gordon [c 1449 Scurdargue, Aberdeenshire – 1513, Battle of Flodden Field]

Married Barbara Forbes, d/o Sir Alexander Forbes & Maria Jane Hay.

Robert Gordon [c. 1479- c. 1544]

Five Asterisks (*****,) above, Adam Gordon, 2^nd son of Alexander Gordon, 3^rd Earl of Huntly, married Elizabeth de Moravia, 10^th Countess of Sutherland.

_____________________________|________________________________

| | | |

Alexander Gordon John Gordon Adam Gordon Gilbert Gordon

Master of Sutherland d. Sept. 10^th 1547

m: 1^st Lady Janet Stewart

d/o John Stewart 2^nd Earl

of Atholl, & Janet Campbell

John Gordon, 11^th Earl of Sutherland

m: 1^st 1544 to Lady Elizabeth Campbell,

d/o Colin Campbell, 3^rd Earl of Argyll,

& Jean Gordon.

m: 2^nd 1549 Lady Elizabeth Stewart,____

d/o John Stewart, 3^rd Earl of Lennox, |

& Lady Elizabeth Stewart. |

m: 3^rd to Marion Seton, d/o George |

Seton, 4^th Lord Seton, & Elizabeth Hay. |

John Gordon & Marion were poisoned |

By John’s aunt Isabella Sinclair, but his |

son Alexaner Gordon survived. |

Alexander Gordon, 12^th Earl of Sutherland, d. Dec. 6^th 1594

m: 1^st to unknown Sinclair, & divorced.

m: 2^nd to 1573 Lady Jean Gordon, d/o George Gordon, 4^th Earl of

Huntly,& Elizabeth Kieth.

____________________________________|___________________________________

| | | | |

Jane Gordon John Gordon Sir Robert Gordon Mary Gordon Sir Alexander Gordon

13^th Earl of Sutherland

[July 20^th 1576-Sept. 11^th 1615]

m: Agnes Ephinstone, d/o

Alexander Ephinstone, 4^th Lord

Of Ephinstone, & Jean

__________________|_____________________________________________________

| | | | |

Elizabeth Gordon Anne Gordon John Gordon Adam Gordon

Hon. George Gordon

14^th Earl of

Sutherland

[Mar. 9^th 1609-

Oct. 14^th 1679]

m: 1^st 1632 Lady

Jean Drummond,

d/o James Drummond,

1^st Earl of Perth, &

Lady Isabel Seton.

____________________________________|_________________

| | | |

John Gordon George Gordon Jean Gordon Robert Gordon

15^th Earl of

Sutherland

[Nov. 2^nd 1633-

Mar. 4^th 1702/3]

m: Jean Wemyss,

d/o David

Wemyss, 2^nd Earl

of Wemyss,& Anna

Balfour.

_________________|_________________

| |

Anne Gordon John Gordon, 16^th Earl of Sutherland,

[Mar. 3^rd. 1661 – June 22^nd 1733]

m: 1^st Helen Cochrane, d/o Wm. Lord ___________

Cochrane, & Lady Katherine Kennedy. |

m: 2^nd to Catherine Tollemache, d/o |

Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3^rd Bt., & Elizabeth |

Murray. |

M: 3^rd Frances _____. |

___________________________________|

_________________|_________________

| |

Jean Gordon William Gordon, Lord Strathnaver

[Dec. 19^th 1683 – July 13^th 1720]

m: Catherine Morrison, d/o Wm.

_____________________________________________________|_________________

| | | | |

George Gordon Helen Gordon Janet Gordon John Gordon Wm. Gordon, 17^th

Earl of Sutherland

[Oct. 2^nd 1708-Dec. 7^th 1750]

m: Lady Elizabeth Wemyss,

d/o David Wemyss, 4^th Earl

of Wemyss, & Elizabeth

St. Clair.

___________________________________|

_________________|_________________

| |

Lady Elizabeth Gordon Wm. Gordon, 18^th Earl of Sutherland,

[may 28^th 1735-June 16^th 1766, Bath]

m: Mary Maxwell (d. 1766, Bath) no sons.

Elizabeth Gordon

m: George Granville Levenson – Gower.

1^st Duke of Sutherland.

Sir Robert Gordon, of Gordonstun, in the early generations of this flow chart, was a grandfather of both Robert &

John Barclay, brothers,that emigrated to East Jersey as a result of their Quaker beliefs.

George Gordon (******) of Lesmoir [d. 1590], s/o Wm. Gordon, & d/o John Rutherford married unknown.

|_eldest son and heir, Alexander Gordon [b. before 1562] Succeeded to Lesmoir Estate in 1590.

m: unknown

|_Katherine Gordon

m: Alexander Burnet [1584 – 1619] s/o Alexander Burnet, & Katherine Arbuthnot.

(see House of Burnet)

History of the Affairs of Church and State, page 166:

“Oct. 27^th 1562: Alexander Gordon, eldest son and heir to George Gordon of Lesmoir, in Edinburgh, within

six days next, at 2000 Merks…” [The Lesmoir Estate of George Gordon succeeded to his eldest son and heir,

Alexander Gordon in 1590.]

A Link to James Due of Darlington, SC.

I note by highlighting, the junctures of at least six paths of inter-relatedness between the clans of MacKenzie and MacLeod that multiply the kinship of the final couple, Sarah Due, (daughter of James Due, & wife Christiana Gordon,) and her husband Daniel Cade Macleod, given at the end. But I have delineated only one of them in this flow outline below. – S. D.

Clan MacKenzie Clan MacLeod

Abbreviated, leaving room for notes. “Hold Fast”

The Black

Haarfagre Valvaden

Harold

Bjorn

Greusk Gudrod

St. Olaf

Harold, the Black, King of Iceland

Godred Crovan Haroldson,

[c. 1066 – c. 1087, Italy] King of the Isle of Man. He married Maria Ragnhild, Haraldsdotter.

Godred Olaf, I “The Red Godredson”

[c. b. 1102 – c. 1143,] the King of Man.

He married Ingibiord.

Olaf Ochraidh Godred, II, “The Black Olafson”

[c. b. 1154 – c. 1187,] the King of Man.

He married Pingola (Fionghuala) MacLochlan.

Tormod Ollaghair Olaf Godredson, “The Black”

[c. 1177 – c. 1237, Isle of St. Patrick.]

He married Christina Ross, Lady Kintyre.

Leod Olafson, 1^st Chief, [c. 1200 – c. 1280.]

He married the heiress of Armuin MacRaild.

Tormod Norman MacLeod, 2^nd Chief,

[c. 1220 – c. b. 1280, Castle, Isle of Pabbay,

sound of Harris, Sc.]

He married 1^st Fingula, or Flora MacCrotan.

He married 2^nd to Christina Fraser.

He married 3^rd to Dorothea Ross

Malcom Gillecaluim MacLeod, 3^nd Chief,

[c. 1296 – c. 1370, Castle Sornoway.]

He married unknown.

John Iain Ciar MacLeod, 4^th Chief,

[c. 1320 – c. 1392.]

He married ___ O’Neil?

William Cleireach MacLeod, 5^th Chief,

[c. 1365 – c. 1409, Castle Camus, Sleat.]

He married ___ MacLean.

John Iain Borb MacLeod, 6^th Chief,

[c. 1392 – c. 1442, Castle, Isle of Pabbay.]

He married Margaret Douglas

William Dubh MacLeod, 7^th Chief,

[c. 1415 – c. 1480, Bloody Bay, Tobemory,

Mull, Sc.] He married ____ MacLaine

Alexander Alisdair Crotach MacLeod, 8^th Chief, c. 1455 – c. 1547, Rodel Cathedral.] He married the youngest daughter of Lord Cameron.

Tormod Norman MacLeod, 12^th Chief,

[c. 1509 – c. Mar. 1584.]

He married Giles Julia Cameron.

| |

Colin Cam MacKenzie [c. 1556 – 1594.] Sir Roderick Ruairidh Mor MacLeod, 15^th Chief,

He married 1^st to Barbara Grant. c. 1562 – c. Jan. 1626, Fortrose, Sc.]

| He married Isabel MacDonald, a daughter of

Sir Roderick MacKenzie [c. 1575, Tarbet - Donald MacDonald, & Margaret MacDonald.

- c. 1626,] He married Margaret MacDonald |

[c. 1577, Coigeach, Assynt, Sutherland, Sc. - Sir Roderick MacLeod, I, of Talisker [c. 1606,

c. ?,] a daughter of Torquil “Conneich” Berneray, Harris, Sc. – c. 1675.] He married Barbara

MacLeod, & Margaret MacDonald. Reay daughter of Donald MacKay, 1^st Lord Reay,

| & his wife Barbara, daughter of Kenneth MacKenzie, 1^st Lord Kintial.

Kenneth MacKenzie [c. 1615, Scatwell, He also married Mary MacKinnon,

Ross, & Cromarty, Sc. – c. 1662.] He married a daughter of Lauchlan Og MacKinnon. 13^th Chief.

c. 1649 to Janet Ross [c. 1629, Invercharron, |

Ross, & Cromarty, Sc. - ?, Sc.,] a daughter of John MacLeod, II, of Talisker, [ - .]

Walter Ross, and Isobel Munro. He married Janet MacLeod, daughter of

| Alexander McLeod, & wife Mary McQueen.

Isobel MacKenzie |

m: John MacLeod |

| Donald MacLeod, III, of Talisker [ - .]

Christian MacLeod He married Christina MacLeod,

| a daughter of John McLeod, & Isabel MacKenzie.

| Isabel was a daughter of Kenneth MacKenzie &

| wife Janet Ross she being a d/o Walter Ross,

| and he being a s/o Sir Roderick MacKenzie.

|____________________________________________________|

Capt. - Leiut. Norman MacLeod, Jr. [c. 1748, Glenelg,

Isle of Skye, Sc. – c. 1781, Richland, SC.] He married

Jeannet Morrison [ - c. 1805, SC] a daughter of

Alexander Morrison & Elizabeth McLeod

Norman MacLeod [Feb. 5^th 1775, Isle of Skye, Sc.

- c. 1828, Darlington, SC] He married an unknown first wife

who apparently was the mother of Daniel. He married Elizabeth Adair Cade, [c. 1780, NC – c. 1860, Darlington, SC.]

She was a daughter of Robert Cade, & Ann Adair.

Daniel Cade McLeod [c. 1787 – after 1850,] a Surveyor.

He served in the War of 1812. He married in 1809 to

Sarah Due/Dew [ ] a daughter of James Dew/Due, &

Christiana Gordon.

For anyone who understands the Scotch psyche regarding marriage, it is known that they were driven by a long ingrained tradition that caused them to prefer marriages within their mutual relations among the clans. Marriage in this customary way assured family loyalty, and allegiance that cemented claims to estates, and power. In times of duress, and economic pressure sometimes clan members choose to marry outside the edicts of this long-standing, and well-ingrained tradition. Warfare losses, and forfeitures sustained by the Scotch during the Jacobite rebellions motivated some of these “outside” marriages. The intent was to try to recover family losses through prospective wealth, and influence outside the usual realm of Scotch resources, and such marriages were usually arranged with this hope in mind. But the Scotch traditions were exported into these outside marriages. The Scotch influence, and clan rules took hold in these marriages, and the same effects on subsequent marriages continued generation after generation in these families.

This last mentioned marriage provides substantial evidence that James Due/Dew was a son of Capt. William Dews, and wife Mary Lee because Sarah, a daughter of James Due intermarried with Daniel Cade MacLeod, a common descendant of the MacKenzie line connecting her husband to the great-grandfather of George MacKenzie, 2^nd Earl of Seaforth whose daughter, and granddaughter married Sarah’s great-great-great grandfather Capt. Thomas Dew. One of their common ancestor families was Colin Cam MacKenzie, 11^th Chief, and wife Barbara Grant who were Sarah Due’s 5^th grandparents, and were Daniel’s 7^th grandparents. The disparity of generations accrued from the difference in birth years of descendant children in each line.

The Baronage of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1798, by Sir Robert Douglas, p 381:

“Norman MacLeod: Captain-Lieutenant in the Regiment of light armed Infantry in North America, and one of the Superintendents of the American Indians.” Nothing more is known of him.

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1984, Filby, et al:

“Norman MacLeod from Skye to Fayetteville, (Robeson County) NC., 1770, Issue: Norman; John; Roderick; and Daniel.” (Daniel born in NC)

The Clan MacLeod Magazine, Vol. III, No. 22, p. 103:

“Among the many emigrants who left the Isle of Skye in the year 1770 was

Norman MacLeod who settled near Fayetteville, (Robeson County) North Carolina. He brought with him his wife, three sons, and two daughters. His sons were Norman, John, & Roderick. A fourth son Daniel was born in America. Their native language was Gaelic, and the girls never learned to speak English, even after coming to America.”

Norman MacLeod Family: Ancestors & Descendants. By Una McLeod Hoffman, 1983: “Regarding Norman McLeod, our family Bible says that my great, great, great grandfather was Norman McLeod, Jr., born April 1776 on Isle of Skye. His mother was Janette Morrison. It is recorded that he is one of the four sons of Norman McLeod (or MacLeod) and Janette Morrison, those being Norman, Jr., Roderick, John, and Daniel. The Bible and Notes say that Norman MacLeod, Sr. and family settled in Robinson (sic: Robeson) county, NC, before moving to South Carolina. Norman MacLeod, Jr. married Elizabeth Adair Cade on Oct. 30^th 1796 in Williamsburg County, SC. He died in c. 1828 (in Darlington, SC.)”

1790 census of Robeson County, NC:

page Name [Males, over 16,: Males, under 16; Females; Slaves]

137-11 John McLaughlan [3-1-4-0-0] He moved to Darlington, SC

137-24 Alexander McLeod [1-0-6-0-0]

138-30 Daniel McLaughlin [1-2-3-0-0]

138-43 Duncan McLaughlin [1-0-0-0-0] He moved to Darlington, SC

140-24 Dugal McLaughlin [1-2-6-0-0]

149-15 John McLaughlin [1-1-2-0-0] He moved to Darlington, SC

149-49 Murdock McLeod [1-1-4-0-0]

Notes for Norman MacLeod, Jr.:

In 1803, Norman MacLeod, Jr., Petitioned Judge William Stephens for Naturalization. His character witnesses were: Willie M. Davis

Richard M. Wiley

Bell Mall

W. Wyler.

On Dec. 16^th 1814, Norman MacLeod, Jr., witnessed a Deed between William Parker, & William MacKenzie that was recorded Feb. 23^rd 1816 in Williamsburg, SC.

In 1820 Property Records Effingham, SC, Robert Cade McLeod, a son, owned land next to his biological father Norman McLeod, Jr., at Effingham, and Lynches River.

St. John’s Parish, Colleton County, SC, estate Taxes, Mar. 9^th 1825:

Norman MacLeod, Jr.

989 acres of land in two tracts (790+199) $ 12.69

85 slaves $ 63.75

Norman MacLeod, Jr. died between 1824 and 1830. He is buried at Little Mountain Cemetery with other family members. His widow, Elizabeth Adair Cade, MacLeod was counted on the 1850 census of Darlington, SC, at age 71, was living in the household of her son Robert Cade MacLeod (McLeod.)

She died at age 79 in February of 1860 after a 160-day siege of Bronchitis, and is buried in the same cemetery.

I now fully expect to discover a similar early family connection made by the two sons of James Due who married MacLauchlan daughters, and similarly with the spouse of his son James W. Due who married Melissa Frances Gregory that no doubt descended from the MacGregor clan. Likewise, I expect to find a similar connection among the spouses of the other children of James Due & wife Christiana Gordon.

Clan MacLauchlan

”Fortis et Fidus”

MacLachlan, or MacLauchlan, is the name of another clan classified by Skene as belonging to the great race of

Sil Conn. The MacLauchlans are traced to Gilchrist, a grandson of that Andaran, or Henry, from whom all the clans of Siol Gillevrag are said to be descended. They possessed the Barony of Strathlachlan in Coinal, and other extensive possessions in the parishes of Glassacie, and Kilmartin, and on Loch Awe Side which were separate from the main seat of the family by Loch Fyne.

Niall Noigiallach, High King of Ireland (4^th-5^th Centuries)

(Irish episode)

Andaran O’Niel, Irish Prince who came to Kintyre in

the 11^th Century. It is said he married a Norwegian Princess.

de delan, of whom nothing more is known.

Gilchrist MacLauchlan

Patrick MacLauchlan (1230)

Lachlan Mor MacLauchlan

Archibald (Gillespie) MacLauchlan

(d. before 1322)

Succeeded by his brother

Patrick MacLauchlan

m: daughter of James Stewart, of Scotland

Lachlan MacLauchlan

Donald MacLauchlan

Confirmed 1456.

(Lamont clan episode)

Lachlan MacLauchlan, 14^th Chief (1719)

m: daughter of Stewart of Appin.

He was killed at Culloden fighting

for Prince Charles.

2^nd son, Archibald MacLauchlan. 15^th Chief

Lachlan MacLachland, 17^th Chief

In 1745 the fighting MacLauhlans numbered 300 men,

and after the Scotch defeat, many of them were captured and sent

to America. They were “scattered to the four corners of the Earth.”

Some of them soon appeared in North Carolina

The 1790 census of Robeson County, NC, yields:

137-11 John McLaughlan [3-1-4-0-0] Fayetteville

137-24 Alexander McLeod [1-0-6-0-0] Fayetteville

138-30 Daniel McLaughlin [1-2-3-0-0] Fayetteville

138-39 Malcom McLeod [1-2-1-0-0] Fayetteville

138-43 Duncan McLaughlin [1-0-0-0-0]

140-24 Dugal McLaughlin [1-2-6-0-0]

141-38 Norman McLeod [1-1-3-0-0]

148-48 Murdock McLeod [1-1-2-0-0]

149-15 John McLaughlin [1-1-2-0-0]

149-49 Murdock McLeod [1-1-4-0-0] Fayetteville

151-3 Alexander McLeod [1-0-5-0-0] Fayetteville

151-19 Robert McLaughlin [1-0-0-0-0] Fayetteville

151-23 Alexander McLeod [1-0-4-0-0] Fayetteville

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1984, Filby, et al:

“Norman MacLeod from Skye to Fayetteville, (Robeson County) NC., 1770, Issue: Norman;

John; Roderick; and Daniel.” (Daniel born in NC)

A partial 1800 census of Robeson County, NC:

Dugald McLaughlan [11201-01201-0-2]

Duncan McLachlan [00011-00301-0-6], hh male 45+, hh female 45+, 3 dau. 16-26,

1 son 26-45.

Duncan McLaughlan, (probably a son of the John McLauchland mentioned below) and Margaret Muldrow, a daughter of Hugh Muldrow, married on September 24^th 1804 in Darlington, SC.

Last Will & Testimony of Hugh Muldrow, Sr. made September 14^th 1805 in Darlington, SC:

“I, Hugh Muldrow of Darlington County, Planter…

…to my two sons, Hugh Muldrow, and John Hamilton Muldrow to themselves and their heirs…

…all my lands lying in the Fork of Jeffries Creek, extending to the middle run of the north prong of the said creek… …to be divided into two equal divisions by John Muldrow, James Muldrow, Andrew Muldrow, Hugh Muldrow, Junior., and John Hamilton Muldrow whom I constitute and ordain my Executors…

I give a tract of land lying on the north side of Jefferies Creek to my son-in-law Duncan McLauchlan, and Margaret McLauchlan his wife…

I give to my daughters Mary Muldrow, and Jane Muldrow a plantation lying on Swift Creek…

I confirm this my last Will and Testament…this fourteenth of Sptember in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and five.

Hugh Muldrow (seal)

Witness: James Bigham

Robert Gregg, Jr.

Robert Muldrow”

1800 census of Darlington, SC:

James Due [21001-22010-07] son of Capt. Wm. Dew, & Mary Lee?

John McLaughlan [30010-00101-00], of Scotland? [26-45]

1M [26-45] born 1755 to 1774

1F [over 45] born before 1755

1F [16-26]

3M [under 10] born 1790-1800]

1810 census of Darlington, SC:

Christiana Due [22000-10110-00] Widow of James Due, with her children.

John McLauchlan [01201-01010-00], son of the above John McLauchlan?

1M [over 45]. Born before 1775

1F [26-45]

2M [16-26]

1F [10-16]

1M [10-16]

This above man John McLauchlan appears to have been the father of:

John McLaughlan, shown immediately below,

Catherine Padget, b. c. 1786, NC) married, and widowed in the War of 1812. m2nd to Wm J. Due,

James McLaughlan who died in Darlington in 1827,

Jane McLaughlan who died in Darlington in 1829, unmarried,

Duncan McLaughlan who married Margaret Muldrow, shown below,

William McLaughlan,

& Elizabeth McLaughlan who married Robert G. Due, and she died c. 1829-30.

John McLauchlan [00010-00010-00], counted twice?

John McLauchlan [00010-00010-00]

Duncan McLauchlan [21010-10100-01], hh male 26-45, hh female 16-26 – Margaret Muldrow

Daniel McLeod [01100-00100-00]

McLeod, Daniel C. M [16-U26], b. ca. 1787

F [16-U26], Sarah Due, McLeod, b. ca 1794

M [10-U16], Daniel G. McLeod, Jr.

Alexander McLeod [01101-31000-00], page 0019

M [over 45], born before 1765

F [26-44], born between 1766-1784

M [16-25], born between 1785-1794

F [10-15], born between 1795-1800

M [10-15], born between 1795-1800

F [under 10], born between 1800-1810]

1820 census of Darlington, SC:

John R. Due [100001-000100-01[, page 69b a son of James Due.

Robert G. Due [000100-000100-01], page 69b, (0146)

1M [18-U28], Robert G. Due, a son of James Due.

1F [16-U26], widow Elizabeth McLaughlin, Padget, sister of Catherine.

William J. Due [200100-10100-01], page (0144), p. 065a

1M [16-U26], William James Due, a son of James Due

1F [16-U26], Catherine McLaughlin, born 1793, NC., sister of Elizabeth.

1M [U10]

1F [U10]

Mary Due [ 101100-20010], p. 67a

1F [26-U45], widow of Alexander Due, a son of James Due

1M [18-U26], James Due.

1M [16-U18]

1M [U10], (Alexander L. Due, m: Mary L. ___ )?

1F [U10]

Daniel C. McLeod [000110-00021][0800-0000-000...] hh: (26-45)

1M [26-U45]

1F [26-U45],wife: Sarah Due, McLeod

1F [26-U45], sister, Christian Due?

1F [45+], mother, Christiana Gordon, Due, widow of James Due?

1M [16-U26], son, Daniel Gordon Due, Jr.

Daniel Cade McLeod was a surveyor. He came to Darlington for survey work, met Sarah Due, and they were married. His father Norman McLeod did not come to Darlington County until after the 1820 census where he died c. 1828 in Darlington. Daniel and Sarah Due, McLeod were not counted in Darlington County, SC during the 1830 census being away settling the estate of his father, or on a survey job. His mother-in-law, Christiana Gordon, Due probably perished before 1830, as did his impared sister-in-law, Christian Due.

James McLauchlan [010200-00001][0300-0000-0000-000] (16-26) Mother & brothers?

Duncan McLauchlan [000100-10100][0001-0000-0000-000] (16-26)

Duncan McLauchlan [420010-11010][0000-0001-2100-000] (26-45)

Robert Reeves (Jr.) [011100-11301][0200-0000-0000-000], hh: (16-26)

1M [16-25] (1795-1804) Ann’s eldest son: Robert Reeves, Jr.

1F [Over 45] (before 1775) Ann Due, Reeves, widow. Husband killed in War of 1812

1F [16-26] (1794-1804)

1M [16-18] (1802-1804)

1F [10-16] (1804-1810)

1M [10-16] (1804-1810), Was this her nephew James W. Due?

1F [0-9] (1811-1820)

1830 census of Darlington, SC :

p. 209 James Dew [0010100000000-0100100000000] (20-30)

A son of James Due who was taking care of the family of his widowed S-I-L Mary? Two years later he was in Madison Co., Ala. where he married Melissa Frances Gregory, and soon moved south to Pickens County.

p. 222 Dan’l G. Mcleod [0000010000000-0000100000000], (30-40)

M[30-U40] born between 1790 and 1800

F [20-U30] born between 1800 and 1810

(Daniel Gordon McLeod, a son of Daniel Cade McLeod, & unknown, before he married Sarah

Due?)

p. 222 Duncan C. McLauchlan [2000010000000-0000100000000] (30-40)

Elias D. Law [1020011000000-10...] (40-50)

James Mowry [1013010100000-0100010000000]

p. 223 Duncan McLauchlan [0212100100000-01110001...] (50-60)

Note that it is possible that Robert G. Due, widowed, and with three surviving children appear to be dwelling in the above household of Duncan McLauchlan, who was born between 1770 & 1780. [His brother-in-law?]

p. 224 John McLauchlan [0000010000000-3000010000...] (30-40)

p. 225 Angus McLeod [0112001000000-1120010000000], (40-50)

p. 225 Malcom McLeod [0000100000000-1000010000000], (20-30)

It appears that Elizabeth Mclaughlin, Due died between 1829 and 1849.

It appears that Elizabeth died in about 1829. And that in 1830 Robert Gordon Due, and his children were dwelling in the Darlington, SC household of Duncan McLaughlan. It also appears that in 1840 they were still residing in Duncan McLaughlan's household who then dwelt in Dallas County, Alabama. When Duncan died in Alabama it appears that Robert Gordon Due and his children James Harrison Due, and John Stewart Due, returned to Richland Co., SC. Afterwards he married 2^nd to Louisa E. Dooley. This sequence of events may be difficult to prove.

Robert Gordon Due married second to Louisa E. Dooley a daughter of William Dooley & Mary Harwell. She was born Aug. 31st, 1804 in Darlington Dist., SC, and died March 9, 1879 in Columbia, Richland, SC. They were married sometime between 1829 and 1849, probably after 1840.

A probable daughter of Robert Gordon Due & Louisa E. Dooley was:

Sarah A. Due, b. ca 1844, SC

An unproven genealogy for the Dooley family shows that:

William Dooley, possibly a Rhode Islander, who married Mary Harwell in SC.

They issued a first daughter Sarah Harwell Dooley, (1800 - 1883) who was raped by a grandson

of General Taylor. The issue of this crime was a son Wm. Henry Bowers (Aug. 12, 1824- ?),

who married Caroline M. Holloway (May 30^th 1830 - Sept. 10^th 1912.) Willima Henry Bowers took his

name from Sarah Harwell Dooley’s spouse Henry P. Bowers (1777 RI – 1842.) They issued daughter

Mary Louise Bowers, (1839 - ?) who married Claudius Wilhelm Dreyer.

William Dooley, and wife Mary Harwell issued a second daughter Louisa E. Dooley (Aug. 31st, 1804, SC

- May 9th, 1879, SC.) Louisa E. Dooley married as the second wife of Robert Gordon Due (1801, SC –

1870, SC.) Louisa E. Dooley, Due was counted in the Asylum in Columbia, Richland County, SC during

the 1860 census. Their unproved but possible issue was a suspected daughter:

. I. Sarah A. Due (1844, SC - ?), m: Carter?

Robert Gordon Due is found living alone in Richland County, SC during the 1850 census, at age 54 as a

Planter. He is undiscovered on the 1860 census. He is found dwelling with his wife’s nephew William

Henry Bowers, during the 1870 census of Richland County, SC, at about age 70.

James Harrison Due, youngest son of Robert Gordon Due & 1^st wife Elizabeth McLauchlan, Due, was born 1824 in Darlington, SC. He became a Tinner by trade. As an adult he lived in Monroe, NC for a period of time, and he died in Columbia, SC. He married Harriet Christine Jackson about 1748, and they lived in Winnsboro, SC. When she died he married Jane D. Usher. His older brother, John Stewart Due was born in 1823 in Darlington, and was also a Tinner by trade. He married Emily Harrison.

William James Due, a son of James Due & Christiana Gordon, Due, and husband of Catherine McLaughlan, probated the estate of James Mclaughlin in Darlington, SC. [Darlington Equity Court, page 618] On Monday, August 6, 1827, a summons was issued for Eliza & Robert G. Due to appear at Darlington Courthouse for the division of the estate of James Mclaughlin, deceased. (His sister, Eliza Mclaughlin,Due was an heir. She was still living in 1827, but she died before 1830.

A search of the Richland County, and Darlington County census records for 1830 shows that Robert G. Due was not counted as head of household in either county. But the Will of Jane Mclachlan (sic) Mclaughlin, of Darlington, SC, dated 24 Jan. 1829 names the following heirs who were her living siblings, and their spouses:

Darlington, SC, 1829 Will of Jane McLachlan mentions (her siblings)

“Heirs: Peter McLachlan (brother)

Duncan McLachlan (brother)

William McLachan (brother)

John McLachlan (brother)

Robert Due, and wife Elizabeth (sister)

William Due, and wife Catherine ” (sister)

This Will abstract does not state where the heirs are residing.

Presumably this means they were all dwelling in the county & State

of the probate Court of record.

Records show that included in the same sibling group were:

James McLaughlan, estate probated Darlington, SC, in 1827.

Jane McLaughlan, estate probated in Darlington, SC, in 1829.

Peter McLaughlan, estate probated in Dallas, Alabama, in 1849.

Duncan McLaughlan

William McLaughlan

John McLaughlan

Elizabeth McLaughlan, who married Robert Gordon Due

& Catherine McLauchlan, Padget, widow, who married William James Due.

Robert G. Due has not been found on the 1840 census. He and his sons may have been in Dallas County, Alabama in a household with one of the McLaughlans.

In 1844, a Sarah A. Dew was born in SC, and she is found dwelling in the residence of James Carter & Martha A. Dew, Carter during the 1860 census of Darlington. Martha A. Due, Carter is judged to be a daughter of Robert G. Due & Elizabeth McLaughlan, Paget, and thus, Sarah A. Dew is thought to be a daughter by his second wife, Louisa E. Dooley.

Dallas Co., Ala, Genealogical Records, Vol. 1, by Flora England:

Peter Mclaughlin, who had no direct descendants, made had his estate probated 1849 in Dallas County, Alabama. His surviving siblings, or their children were listed as his heirs:

Estate of Peter McLauhlin

Admin: Alexander Ellerbe

Heirs: John McLauhlin

William McLauhlin

Duncan C. Mclauhlin

Mrs. Catherine Due (b. 1786, NC)

Heirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Due, (dec’d)

Viz, John S. Due and James H. Due,

residing in South Carolina.

During the 1850 census of Dallas Co., Ala., only one McLaughlan family still resided there:

474/474 W. A. McLaughlan 34 m farmer SC

Sarah 31 f SC

A. J. 9m m Ala.

While this above work is incomplete, it shows the basic origin of the McLauchlans of Darlington, SC, and establishes a further connection between James Due, and his father Capt. Wm. Dews. – SD.

In 1700, South Carolina was desperate for both skilled and unskilled labor.

Alexander Skene, Secretary of the Island of Barbados, had a large

establishment of agricultural workers.

One of the proprietors of Carolina, John Colleton persuaded Alexander & his widowed sister Lila to move from Barbados to Carolina after Mar. 1^st 1715, likely in April, or June. Madam Lelia Skene, Hague, Alexander Skene, and Robert Dews, a bricklayer, came to Carolina about at the same time, perhaps together. Alexander Skene may have been Robert’s former guardian after his parents perished as he was a young brother-in-law.

On August 8^th 1717 Alexander Skene was granted Lot #9 at Point Royal, Beaufort, SC, and his sister Mrs. Lilia Haig was granted Lot #35 there on the same date. [SCHM]

By August 6, 1720, Alexander Skene purchased 3,000 acres for 300 Pounds in Carolina near the present day town of Summerville.

He called the estate “New Skeen.” He also acquired four tracts of land on the Pee Dee, the Black, and the Mccimaw rivers in Carolina. Alexander Skene, and his sister Lelias Haig, both being Quakers were the first slave owners in Carolina to encourage missionary activities among their slaves while other slave owners flatly refused to have their slaves converted.

In 1713, Reverend E. Taylor of St. Andrews wrote:

“As I am a minister of Christ, and of the Church of England, and a Missionary of the most Christian Society in the whole world, I think it is my indispensable and special duty to do all that in me lies to promote the conversion and salvation of the poor heathens here, and more especially of the Negro and Indian slaves in my own parish, which I hope I can truly say I have been sincerely and earnestly endeavoring ever since I was a minister here where there are many Negro and Indian slaves in a in a most pitiful deplorable and perishing condition tho’ little pitied by many of their masters and their conversion and salvation little desired and endeavored by them. If the Masters were but good Christians themselves and would but concurre with the ministers, we should then have good hopes of the conversion and salvation at least of some of their Indian and Negro slaves. But too many of them oppose rather than concur with us, I am sure I may say with me for endeavoring as much as I doe the conversion of their slaves…

I cannot but honour Madame Haigue…in my parish a very considerable number of Negroes who were very loose and wicked and little inclined to Christianity before her coming among them I cannot but honor her so much…as to acquaint the Society with the extraordinary pains this gentle woman, and one Madam Edwards, that came with her, have taken to instruct those Negros in the principles of Christian religion, and to instrct and inform them: And the wonderful success they have met with in about half a year’s time in this great and good work. Upon these gentle women’s desiring me to come and examine these Negroes…I went and among other things I asked them who Christ was. They readily answered, He is the Son of God and Saviour of the world and they told me they embraced Him with all their hearts as such, and I desired them to rehearse the Apostle’s Creed, and the Ten Commandments, and the Lord’s Prayer, which they did very distinctly and perfectly. 14 of them gave to me so great satisfaction, and were so very desirous to be baptized that I thought it my duty to baptize them, and therefore I baptized these 14 last Lord’s Day. And I doubt not but these gentlewomen will prepare the rest of them for baptism in a short time.” [Journal, Vol. II, Oct. 6, 1713]

Besides Mrs. Haigue, and Mrs. Edwards, “other liberal owners were John Morris of St. Bartholomew, Lady Moore, Captain David Davis, Mrs. Sarah Baker at Goose Creek, Landgrave Joseph Morton and his wife of St. Paul’s, the Governor and member of the Assembly, Mr. (Alexander) Skeen, and his wife Mrs. (Jemima Dewes) Skeen. “ [Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, p 15]

Alexander Skene was a member of the Council under the Proprietary Government in 1717, and in 1719, he took a prominent roll in the overthrow of the Proprietary Government. The revolt was occasioned by the Proprietor’s refusal to protect new lands on the Carolina frontier. The Council asked sitting Governor Robert Johnson, the son of Sir Nathaniel Johnson, to continue in the roll of executive but in the name of the King & Carolina, however Robert demurred, citing the rights of the Lords Proprietors. However, soon the English King interceded, and revoked the Proprietary Charter for cause, and Carolina became a Royal Colony.

Alexander Skene, Esq., made his Will on May 25^th 1739, Berkley County, Carolina, witnessed by James Abercromby. He perished before March 24^th of 1740 when his Will was proved at Charles Town. Abstract:

“Alexander Skene, Berkley Co., Esq.

Wife: Jemima, residue of estate.

Son: John Skene, Esq. having already given him his share of estate.

Grandson: Alexander Skene, under 21 years of age, residue of my estate at the death of my wife.

Sister: Lilia Haig, her residence, & upkeep on my plantation if she should choose it.

Exors: wife: Jemima

Hon. Joseph Blake, Esq.

William Cattell [1682 – Sept. 15^th 1750] Ret. Justice & Council member (Andrew Cattell made bond for William Dew’s marriage.)

Benjamin Whitaker, Esq. - Chief Justice of Carolina.

Witnesses: James Abercromby [1707-1775], barrister, Maj. Gen., & Atty. Gen.

James Michie rice planter in Beaufort, barrister, Judge Vice Admiralty for [1752-1760]

George Nicholas”

James Abercromby, of Glassaugh, Baniffshire, Scotland, born 1706, (a son of Alexander Abercromby & wife Helen Meldrum,) married Mary Duff, and he arrived in Carolina from London in 1736 as an English Agent for both Virginia, & Carolina. He was a barrister, and an elected assemblyman for Carolina. He became a Royal Major General in the English military, & Attorney General for Carolina. He was promoted to Colonel in 1746, and served in the Flemish Campaign in the War of Austrian Succession. In 1756 he was promoted to Major General, and was Ordered to accompany Lord Loudoun to America as his second in command. In December of 1757 he became Commander in Chief of British forces in America during the French – Indian War, with Augustus Lord Howe as his second in Command. In 1758 he was directed to take Fort Ticonderoga but was defeated, and recalled. He was promoted to Lt. General in 1759, and spent his remaining years in Parliament, as Deputy Governor of Stirling Castle, and on his estate at Glassaugh, Banifshire, Scotland. As a witnesses for Alexander Skene’s Will, Abercromby, Michie, & Nicholas were probably all scotch relations of Jemima Dews, Skene on her mother’s side. But there are reasons to believe that a distant relationship also existed existed on her father’s side as well knowing that his family originated in Normandy as elements of the family of William I, d’Eu through Geffory, d’Eu. We know that Scotland was well populated with families of Norman origin tracable within the Houses of Bennett, of Leslies, of Skene, of Stewart, and other lines. So it is safe to assume that the Dews had Scotch relatives for ages before adventuring to the colonies. The line of James Abercromby connects to them through the Leslies, and Earls of Ross, and through the line of Duncan Grant, but likely through many other relationships not shown below:

House of Leslie

"Grip fast"

Malcom Leslie

___ Leslie

Norman Leslie

Andrew Leslie

He married Mary Abernethy

Daughter of Alexander

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Walter Leslie George Leslie

He married Euphemia Ross He married Elizabeth Kieth

daughter of Wm. 5^th Earl daughter of Edward Kieth

of Ross, & Mary MacDonald and Isabella Synton (Swinton)

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Hamlin Leslie (d. 1378)

He married Ann Maxwell

Andrew Leslie (c. 1390-1420)

He married Isabel Mortimer,

daughter of Bernard.

William Leslie (1400, Balquhain-1467, Balquhain)

He married Elizabeth Fraser, daughter of Hugh

Fraser, & Janet de Fenton.

Alexander Leslie (1439, Balquhain – 1472)

He married Janet Gordon, d/o James Gordon & Leith.

Patrick Leslie (d. 1496) He married Muriel Grant, d/o

Duncan Grant (1424-1485) & Matilda Comyn of

Glencairnie.

William Leslie (d. 1545) He married Elizabeth Ogilvie, d/o

Walter Ogilvie, & Alison Home.

John Leslie (d. 1561) He married Elizabeth.

William Leslie (d. 1571) He married Margaret Drummond.

He married Janet/Jean Forbes.

Margaret Leslie (1535, Balquhain, Aberdeenshire, Sc. - ?)

She married Alexander Abercrombie (1562, Pitmedden -

1593, Moss of Calktown) a son of Alexander.

James Abercromby (1557, Ley - ?) He married Marjorie

Ogilvie, daughter of Alexander Ogilvie & Barbara.

James Abercromby (1578, Birkenbog – 1641/8) He married

Elizabeth Beton, d/o John Betune & Agnes Anstruther.

James Abercromby (1608, Birdenbog – 1691) He married

Katherine Gordon, d/o James Gordon & Margaret Menzies.

Alexander Abercromby (d. 1691) He married Katherine

Dunbar, daughter of Robert Dunbar, & Griael Brodie.

Alexander Abercromby (1677 – 1738) of Glassaugh, Banifshire. He

married Helen Meldrum, d/o George Meldrum & Jean Duff.

Gen. James Abercromby (1706-1781)

He married Mary Duff, of Dipple, and Brace.

Michie Excursus:

Masonic & Scottish Rite timeline Charles Town, SC:

In 1735 James Michie, Esq., was granted land on the Santee River, SC.

On Dec. 29^th 1737, James Michie, Esq., was chosen Grand Treasurer of Solomon Lodge, No. 1, of the Ancient and Honorable Society of Free and Accepted Masons in Charles Town, SC, and again on Dec. 28^th 1738.

In 1740, Martha Howorth, wife of Henry Howorth, and daughter of James Michie, Esq., was born in Carolina. She died in the County of Rannor, Bournmouth, England on August 1^st 1772, at age 32.

Death Notices in the South Carolina Gazette 1732 –1775:

“On Wed. last died Mr. Kenneth Michie, and about 10 days earlier Mr. Benjamin Michie, his brother and co-partner, both eminent merchants of this town (Charles Town, Carloina) [Monday, Nov. 6^th 1749]”

“By Captain White, from London, we have a confirmation of the death of the Honorable James Michie, Esq., one of the members of His Majesty’s Council for this Province, Chief Justice, Judge of His Majesty’s Court of Vice Admiralty, &c., &c. [Saturday, Nov. 8^th 1760]”

[It appears to the author that Hon. James Michie, Esq., Kenneth Michie, & Benjamin Michie were all grandsons of Robert Michie, and Margaret B’arquharson, daughter of John Farquharson of Allerque, a grandfather who dwelt in Castletown, Corgraff, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.]

There were other Skenes who came to South Carolina early. Some of them were his nephews, sons of his apparent brother John Skene of Barbados. Alexander Skene did not mention any nephews in his Will, but he had plenty of them. Bethel & William Dews were his nephews by his wife. His sister Lilia only two years later mentioned her blood nephews, John Skene, Arthur Skene, and Alexander Skene.

Unless they were all Alexander Skene’s sons (two undocumented,) then these two were certainly his nephews as well; however, John Skene was the only surviving son of Alexander & Jemima Skene who was named in bequests of the pertinent Wills.

Col. James Moore [ca. 1682, Charles Town, Carolina - 3 March 1722, Carolina] a son of the former Governor James Moore, & wife Margaret Berringer, assumed the Carolina, transitional Executive position by military force. His colonial wife was Elizabeth Beresford, by whom he had six children.

Mary Moore, b. ca. 1700, Berkley, SC, married John Postell

James Moore, b. ca. 1702, married Sarah Waring

Elizabeth Moore, b. ca. 1704 , Berkley, SC, married John Caton

Margaret Moore, b. ca 1707, Berkley, SC, married William Smith

John Moore, b. d. ca. 1762

Jehu Moore, b. d. ca. 1774

Col. James Moore entered a consort relationship with Sarah Ayres, Morton, Wilkinson a mixed Cherokee daughter of Mary Haig & Thomas Ayers, Indian Trader, Trustee of Georgia colony. Moore consorted with her subsequent to ongoing meetings after the 1716 negotiations with the Cherokee, Wateree, & Catawaba Indians regarding a Fort at Congaree. Charity Haig was his interpreter. When Col. James Moore died in 1723, his consort Sarah married Arthur Middleton, Esq., five months later in 1723. Arthur was a nephew of Robert Dews who died in 1722, the year before. Arthur Middleton, Esq. died on 7 September 1737 in Berkley County, Carolina, and on 22 Jan. 1739, James, John, & Jahu Moore of St. James, Goose Creek, Berkley, Carolina, & Elizabeth Moore, widow, gave 900 acres to Sarah Middleton, widow of Arthur. The above children of Col James Moore who gave this plantation held Sarah in very high regard.

An older man named Thomas Ayres, of Ayrshire, Scotland, came

from Barbados to Carolina and died there about 1691, his Will was Administered by his brother John Ayres. Thomas Ayres was said to be a bachelor in Charles Town, but that does not mean he did not have Indian offspring while trading. He may have had several mixed children.

The younger Thomas Ayres who became a patentee of Charles Town in 1704, & in Beaufort about 1707 could have been either his one of his sons, or perhaps a son of his brother John. The younger Thomas Ayres was a “turn of the century” Indian Trader licensed in 1707. Thomas Ayres had a Warrant for five hundred acres of land in or near Charles Towne, Carolina, “on ye 30th June 1704,” and he is believed to be the same wealthy man who later removed to England (by 1730) and became a Trustee for the Colony of Georgia whereafter a Robert Ayres appears regularly as a member of the Common Board of Trustees. The Diary of the 1^st Earl of Egmont, John Perceval of Cork County, Ireland, states that the Georgia Trustee Robert Ayres was the eldest son of My Lord Chief Justice, Robert Eyre [1666 – Dec. 28^th 1735] a British Chief Justice who by 1737 had been replaced by Lord Chief Justice, Lee. So The Trustee, Robert Ayre, was a son, one of the five children of Robert Eyre (a John, and Thomas not among them, nor having uncles, or greatuncles of those names) and his wife Elizabeth Rudge who were married in 1686, issuing five children. His grandparents were Samuel Eyre, and wife Martha, of New House, Whiteparish, Wiltshire, England. Therefore, it is determined that the Georgia Trustee, Robert Ayres was not closely related to either of the Thomas Eyres mentioned below in Georgia or in South Carolina, or to the John Eyres who administered the Charleston Will of his brother Thomas both who appear to be Scotsmen, however it is aledged that both lines had ancient common roots extending back to a period after shortly the Norman Hastings invasion when all persons of this name were first found in Strathclyde, and Ayrshire, Scotland where they were seated since immediate post-Hastings times.

Thomas, a son of the second Thomas Ayres (Eyres,) both said by Georgia records to be of Inverness, became an Officer in Oglethorpe’s Georgia militia, and an Indian Agent. This son, Ensign Thomas Ayres was sent as Georgia’s Agent to the Cherokees & to the Creeks, at various times. It seems that the later also had some Indian offspring too for there was a Catawba Indian Chief called Colonel Ayres who was an interpreter for his tribe in 1761.

History of Beaufort, South Carolina 1514-1861, pages 83-83:

“After 1707 Traders had to be Licensed, and many new Beaufort patentees acquired them including:

William Bray Richard Hatcher

Samuel Hilden Thomas Ayres

John Fraser Edmund Ellis

Daniel Claban Alexander Nicholas

Alexander Mackey Capt. John Cochran”

Samuel Warner

Robert Johnson [1676, Eng. – May 3^rd 1735, SC] was the son of Sir Nathaniel Johnson [April 7^th 1644, Kibblesworth, Durham, Eng. – July 1712 ”Silk Hope”plantation, SC] and wife Lady Anne Overton. It is said that Robert Johnson married Margaret Broughton, a daughter of Sir Andrew Broughton. His father Nathaniel was born in County Durham, England and had been named by the King of England as Governor of the Leeward Islands, West Indies in 1686 through 1689. After the King died, Nathaniel resigned his office, and his wife and children sailed for England but were captured by the French, and held for a year. His wife died in a French prison. After negotiating the release of his captive children, Nathaniel Johnson sailed for Charles Town, where he established a silk plantation on Cooper’s River he called “Silk Hope” with 24,000 mulberry trees. He became one of the largest slave owners in Carolina, and served as Provincial Governor of Carolina from 1703 to 1709. After the death of his son Robert, this plantation eventually came into possession of Gabriel Manigault [1704-1781], and remained in his family until 1890.

30 April 1717: Robert Johnson was Commissioned Governor of Carolina by Lord Carteret. It was at a time when the disaffection of the colonists toward the Lords Proprietors was beginning to develop into a rebellion. Robert Johnson came to Charles Town from the West Indies in the fall of 1717 to replace Landgrave Robert Daniels, the acting Governor, vice Charles Craven who had resigned and returned home to England. One of Robert Johnson’s first Orders was to arm two ships to interdict the pirates that were terrorizing the Carolina coastline. Under the command of Col. Wm. Rhett, these ships soon captured Pirate Captain Stede Bonnet at Topsail Inlet, Cape Fear.

In 1716, Gov. Robert Johnson sent Col. James Moore to the Congaree where Charity Haig, “Smallpox Conjurer,” a multilingual interpreter, helped him negotiate a treaty with the Congaree to build a Fort near their village, to protect the traders, and to discourage uprisings like the disastrous Yamessee War.

Mary Haig’s consort Thomas Ayers, consulted regarding the construction and layout of Fort Congaree that was finished before 1722. Col. James Moore entered a consort relationship with Mary Haig’s daughter Sarah Ayers, Wood, Morton, Wilkinson as a result of negotiations at Congaree. The matriarchal Cherokees tolerated bigamy.

Robert Johnson resigned as Carolina Governor in 1719. At that time Johnson turned down an offer to continue as Governor at the request and on the authority of Alexander Skene, President of the Commons House of Assembly Council after they cast off control of the Lords Proprietors.

When Johnson declined, and returned to England, Col. James Moore Governed by military rule, until England could appoint a Royal Governor in place of the former proprietary Governor. Moore consorted with nee Sarah Ayres while he was transitional Governor of Carolina.

However, Robert Johnson later returned from England, when he was appointed Royal Governor in 1731, and he served as Governor until his death on 3 May 1735. He made his LW&T on Dec. 21^st 1734, [Vol 3, Will Book 1732-1737, SCDAH p. 191.] A memorial was erected to him in the St. Phillips Church in Charles Town. But before his death, Governor Robert Johnson created nine new Carolina townships in 1731. One of them was Saxe Gotha, which was a precursor to the town of Columbia on the Congaree. His brother-in-law Lt. Gov. Thomas Broughton, (who married Robert’s sister Anne Johnson,) assumed Carolina gubernatorial duties when Robert Johnson died. By all accounts, Robert Johnson, Governor of Carolina, was in England between 1723, and 1730.

John Amory, freeholder and Yeoman, a native of Boston, Lincolnshire, England, decided to migrate to the Colony of Georgia, where he negotiated a grant of 150 acres in the Whitehall plantation area, securing it with his estate in Lincolnshire. In 1737, John Amory, and his wife Sarah, arrived in Georgia with their friend Isaac Gibbs and settled upon Pipemaker’s Creek. Amory liked the grant, and industriously worked it for nearly a year, but was troubled because he could not get his land surveyed, and a title recorded, thus he decided to secure 500 acres of land in Purrysburg, SC in December of 1737. But was persuaded to move to Charles Town the next year by Thomas Johnson, a son of the late Governor.

In 1738 John Amory became steward of the household of the late Governor Robert Johnson, and lived in his house in Charles Town. Johnson’s youngest son had recently returned to England, and the fever had killed the rest of the family.

While residing in the late Robert Johnson’s house in Charles Town, John Amory hosted delegations of Indians who came to conduct tribal business. Attending some of those delegations was a Cherokee woman who was multilingual speaking both European, and Native American tongues. This Cherokee woman was also the translator for Thomas Ayers, the younger, who was the Cherokee Indian Agent for Georgia. In 1744 she had a son by John Amory that she also named John Emory. This Cherokee woman, a translator, is believed to have been descended from Mary Haig & Thomas Ayers the elder. John Amory soon entered the Indian Fur Trade business, and it was the main occupation of his sons.

On Feb. 23^rd 1742, James Abercromby of Carolina sent for Thomas Ayers, Sub-Engineer of Georgia, under Lt. Colonel William Cooke, Chief Engineer for Georgia, and Commander of Fort Frederica situated on the Altahama River, to advise them on construction of a new Fort at Purrysburgh. In 1742, Ensign Thomas Eyres (Ayres,) Sub-Engineer, was then a son-in-law of Lt. Col. William Cooke. Both Cooke, and Ayers proceeded to Charles Town, but Cooke did not return from South Carolina to his Regimental Command at Fort Frederica, but instead, he returned to London, England taking a one-year leave of absence for the purpose of recovering his health. Meanwhile, Ensign Thomas Eyres remained in South Carolina until the Spanish Invasion business was over.

While in London, Lt. Col. William Cooke made serious charges against Gen. James Oglethrorpe, alleging that Oglethorpe had charged the men in his Regiment fees for their provisions. Consequently the War Office asked Oglethorpe to respond to these charges. As an indirect result, Oglethorpe’s career in Georgia came to an end in 1744, although the charges leveled against him were found to be groundless, and Cooke was dismissed. Afterwards the work of Oglethorpe in Georgia was supreceeced by his underling, former Trust Secretary, Col William Stephens. But Gen. James Oglethorpe was always recognized as President of the Georgia Trustee colony until it became a Royal colony, even during his absence commensing about 1744.

May 6^th 1743: The death of James St. John, Esq., Surveyor General,

and Inspector of the Province of Carolina, had his vacant position

filled by the appointment on June 28^th 1743 of George Hunter, Esq.,

as the new Surveyor General, and Inspector of Carolina. [SCHC,

p. 284]

There was another Robert Johnson whose Will was made on April 3^rd 1725 in St. George’s Parish, Berkley, Carolina, that died in 1735, but his Will was proved on 25 March 1735. [Vol. 3, Will Book 1732-1737, SCDAH, p. 249] (This Robert Johnson was a son of the Carolina Gov. Robert Johnson, and his 1^st wife Margaret Broughton. His uncle Lt. Gov. Thomas Broughton took over as Governor when the seated Gov. Robert Johnson died in 1735.)

“Wife: not mentioned, deceased?

Sons: Robert Johnson, under 21, 80 acres and house I now live in.

William Johnson, under 21, 50 acres.

Daughters: Maul

Nancy

Peggy – belonged to William Downing, Esq.

Elizabeth, under 18

Sarah, under 18

Concubine: I have intentions to marry an Indian Woman, Catherina, and give her residency in my house, and maintenance as long as she remains unmarried. If she marries, then 100 Pounds. Said woman is now with child who is to have equal share with my other children at 21 if a boy, at 18 if a girl.

Executor: Alexander Skene, Esq.

Thomas Waring, Esq.

Witnesses: William Wallace

T. Narod

Robert Hume

Signed: Robert (X) Johnson”

Robert Johnson was the son of the Governor mentioned above, and he died of Yellow fever. His Will made on 3 April 1725 in St. George’s Parish, Berkley County, Carolina, and his Will was Executed in 1737 by an apparent relation Alexander Skene, Esq, President of aforesaid Council, this indicating that one of Skene’s children may have married one of Robert Johnson’s children. Either of his daughters Maul, or Nancy, was perhaps then the daughter-in-law of Thomas Waring, Esq., (who was an alternate Executor, in case Alexander Skene, Esq. was dead.) None of these speculative relationships above have been proved but seem likely.

Another of Robert’s named heirs, Peggy belonged to William Downing, Esq. (I believe William Downing’s mother, Frances Downing was the same as the Mrs. Donning mentioned in Lilias Skene, Haig’s Will of 1742. Robert Johnson’s first wife was apparently already dead when he made his Will in 1725.)

It is possible that Robert Johnson, widowed, “took up” with one of the Indian Slaves belonging to his neighbor William Downing, Esq.

Afterwards perhaps Robert bought, and freed her. This would explain how Downing still owned Peggy - perhaps an earlier daughter of Catherina. This explanation is uncorroborated.

Robert’s Will also mentions two daughters unmarried and under the age of 18 who were named Elizabeth & Sarah. Robert’s Will also mentions two sons; Robert 80 acres and house I now live in, and William, 50 acres, both under 21. But Robert Johnson stated in his Will that he had “intentions to marry an Indian woman named Catherina, and to give her residency in my house, and maintenance as long as she remains unmarried, if she marries then 100 Pounds, said woman is now with child who is to have equal share with my other children at 21 if a boy, at 18 if a girl.” His Will was witnessed by Wm. Wallace, T. Narod, and Robert Hume. His Will was signed by his mark, thought to indicate illiteracy. [Was this Catherina the widow of John Grant?] [Also note that there were other Skene’s from Barbados who were confused as the children of Gov. Alexander Skene.]

Arthur Middleton, Esq., [1681, SC - 1737, Goose Creek, Berkley Co., Carolina] (who witnessed the Will of Robert Dews,) was a son of Edward Middleton that immigrated to Barbados, from London, England with his father Henry Middleton [1612, Middlesex, Eng. - 1680, Barbados.]

“Sept. 1635: Aboard the Dorsett bound for Barbados, under command of John Flowers:

Edward Middleton, age 15.”

Of Edward's brothers, Benjamin Middleton, the oldest, remained Planting in Bermuda, but his younger brothers Edward, & Arthur Middleton came to Carolina. The Middletons attempted to start new Sugar estates in Antigua, but lost heart when the French plundered the Island in the 1660s. Brothers Edward and Arthur Middleton both followed John Colleton's urging to come to Carolina.

Middleton origins:

John Middleton, a Tobacco Suit in Court - 1625- "Memorials of Bermuda"

Richard Middleton of London, a Burgess of Bermuda in 1623. He was from Middlesex, Eng. and he died in 1654. He was the father of Edward Middleton mentioned below. Edward Middleton [1612, Middlesex, Eng. - 1680, Barbados], who arrived in Bermuda on the "Dorsett" in 1635. He was probably a younger brother of John Middleton, mentioned above. Edward Middleton was the father of Henry Middleton [1612-1680] - a Sergeant at Arms under King Charles I, and Cromwell. Henry Middleton issued sons Benjamin (Bermuda planter,) and also Edward, & Arthur Middleton - Goose Creek settlers.

Solomon Middleton, probably a descendant of either John or of Richard, came to

Carolina from Bermuda in 1710. Solomon had a son named Lewis Middleton who became the husband, in 1773, of Capt . William Dewe's former Ward, Jane Mary Mongin. There was a Captain of Bermuda named Lewis Middleton who in 1710 recaptured the salt ponds of Turk Island, a Bermudian possession, from the Spanish.

The subject Arthur Middleton was a son of Edward Middleton. His mother was Sarah Dew, Fowell, widow of Richard Fowell, a mariner, whose Will was proved in 1687 in Barbados, with witnesses: brother, John Fowell, and John Strand. Exors: Widow Sara Fowell, brother John Fowell, & Edward Middleton.

Inventory of Richard Fowell, Secretary’s Office Records, p. 339, South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Abstract below.

Estate: 30 ton “Mary of Carolina” Jointly owned by Richard, & his brother John.

Personal estate: 332 Pounds

Slaves: 164 Pounds

Relict Sara Fowell & Edward Middleton married prior to June 19th 1679 when Edward Middleton & John Fowell leased the ship “Mary of Carolina” to Maurice, & James Moore.

Richard Fowell was described as “a friend & business associate of Edward Middleton, in Barbados & Charles Town.”

[Fowell is a name that may derive from Fa’well, or Farewell in Barbados records.]

“In 1673 Richard Fowell, of the island aforesaid (Barbados,) merchant for diverse good causes, appointed Mr. James Day, mariner, his Attorney in Suffolk Co., Mass., to wield his power in any legal matter subject to settling a dispute over Deeds of inheritance.” [Suffolk Deeds Liber VIII, pa. 416]

In 1678 Edward Middleton & Sarah were preparing to go to Charles Town, Carolina. Their final removal to the mainland may not have occurred until 1682.

“Carolina

You are to admeasure and lay out for Edwd Middleton & Arthur Middleton, Gent., Seventeen Hundred & Eighty Acres of land in some place not yet layd out, or marked to be layd out, for any other person or use, and if the same happen upon any navigable river, or capable of being made navigable, you are to allow only the 5th part of the depth by the water side, and a Certificate specifying the bounds and Scituation thereof, your are to returne to us, with all convenient speed, and for your doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant dated ye 7th day of Sept. 1678.

To Capt. Maurice Matthews Joseph West

Surveyor Generall Richard Conant John Godfrey

William Owen Stephen Bull”

[Hotton’s Lists. p.391] Tickets granted from Barbados:

“Arthur Middlton in the Barq Plantacon for Carolina. Aser Sharp, commander, Aug. 13^th 1679.”

This tract of land containing 1780 acres was located 14 miles north of Charles

Town.

28 June 1680: A Warrant for Mr. Edward Middleton and his wife Sarah the

“Relict of Richard ffowell, deceased.” [Carolina Land Warrants]

Richard Fowell died on Barbados. His Will was proved on 1678 and was

witnessed by his brother John Fowell, and John Strand.

Edward Middleton also purchased his brother Arthur’s share of land grant, and

another 3130 acres. Edward & Sarah Dewe, Fowell, Middleton called their

home on this vast plantation “the Oaks.”

Edward Middleton, died unexpectedly and without a Will in 1685 in South

Carolina. His widow, Sara was appointed Executor of his estate, and she

acquired absolute title to “the Oaks plantation” and the bulk of his estate.

Their son, Arthur Middleton, Esq. was active in public life, and he presided over the convention, whose members included Alexander Skene, that in 1719 overthrew the Lords Proprietors of South Carolina. He owned over 8,547 acres of land on Goose Creek, Berkley Co., Carolina, and land in Suffolk, England. Arthur was a nephew of Robert Dews, and he Executed the 1722 Will of his uncle in Charles Town, Carolina. Robert used generic term “my well beloved friends” for all his Executors. Unfortunately, this phrase was often used to cover all second order relations like cousins, and nephews, etc. Arthur’s widowed aunt Lilias Hague was named as an Executor of Robert Dew’s Will, and he chose her as Guardian for his minor children. Arthur’s father Edward Middleton married one of Robert Dew’s sisters Nee: Sarah Dewe, relict of Richard Fowell.

Arthur Middleton married 1st to Sarah Amory, who was orphaned as an infant daughter of Jonathan Amory & Martha (Cooke?) in Jan. of 1700. Sarah became the Ward of Sarah (Nee: Cooke) Rhett, the widow of Col. Wm. Rhett. Arthur Middleton & Sarah Amory, Middleton had four children before she died about 1722.

Col. William Rhett [1666 – 1722] is said to have been born Sept. 4^th 1666 in London. He made his home in Brentwood, County Essex , England, and seems to have been the Capt. of a merchantman early in life. He married Sarah Cooke on Sept. 1^st 1694, apparently a woman of Scot heritage. His family removed to South Carolina in Nov. 1694 where he served as:

Col. of the South Carolina militia

Receiver General

Surveyor

Comtroler of Customs

` Colonel Rhett, and his wife Sarah Cooke had two sons, and five daughters:

William Rhett, Jr., married Sarah Trott, daughter of Judge Trott.

____ Rhett

Sarah Rhett married ____ Allen

Catherine Rhett married Roger Moore

_____ Rhett

-------- Rhett

Colonel William Rhett, and his wife Sarah Cooke, Rhett Executed the LW&T of George Fullerton, a native of Ayrshire, Scotland. The Oct. 8^th 1708 Will of George Fullerton was proved by William Rhett on Sept. 8^th 1709 in Charles Town, SC:

“to William Rhett, Junior, son of Wm Rhett of Charles Town, merchant, 200 Pounds.

To Sarah Rhett, daughter of the said Wm Rhett, 200 Pounds.

To William Rhett, and Sarah Rhett, his wife, 200 Pounds.

To Catherine Rhett, daughter of the said Wm Rhett, 200 Pounds.

To William Rhett, Sr., and Sarah, his wife, 200 Pounds, also 100 Pounds of money in

England in the hands of Robert South of London, merchant.

To the said Sarah Rhett, wife of the said Wm Rhett, my Negro boy named Snowhill.

To the poor of St. Phillips, Charles Town, 20 Pounds.

To the Rector of St. Phillips Parish, Charles Town, 10 Pounds.

To residuary legatee, my brother, Mr. William Fullerton living in the Shire of Ayr in the

west of Scotland.

Executors: William Rhett of Charles Town, merchant, and Sarah his wife.

Witnesses: Bentley Cooke

Mary Pearce

Sarah Cooke

Proved by William Rhett” [Lane, 211]

After the death of Col William Rhett in 1722, his widow Sarah Cooke, Rhett married

Judge Trott, of Charles Town, Carolina.

The statements in the next paragraph is unproved, some thinking them in error:

It seems that Arthur Middleton married 2nd to Sarah Ayres, (Wood?,) Morton, Wilkerson, Moore, at least twice a widow, in 1723. [It is also claimed that she was first married to the Rev. Alexander Wood, and that they came to Charleston in 1707. If so, then they probably came to Charles Town fromTugaloo, Georgia.] It is thought she was a daughter of Thomas Ayres, an early Carolina Trader, & his wife perhaps Mary Haig, a sister of Charity Haig called “Smallpox Conjurer,” of Keowee.

April 1727: Letter from Arthur Middelton, President of the Council, &c. to Governor Nicholson:

“…also aluded to a Bill of Exchange in which Mr. Watt, and Mr. Eyres are concerned, and imagine he will loose the money;…”

The wealthy Trader Thomas Eyres removed to England before 1730 & became a Trustee for Georgia. Apparently he left Mary Haig behind in Carolina. He also apparently had a son named Thomas Eyre who met General James Oglethorpe in 1737 at the Palace Court in England. Oglethorpe commissioned the young Ayres as a Cadet, or Ensign in his Georgia militia, and he became Georgia’s Indian Agent to the Cherokees in 1739. Young Thomas Ayers was also Sub Engineer under Lt Col William Cooke, Chief Engineer of Georgia. Trader Thomas Ayres may have also left a daughter Mary Ayres behind in Charleston, who married William Carr. These likely siblings were perhaps either full, or half related.

From: The 1725 census of St. George’s Parish, Carolina: Observe that Rev. Francis Varnod, Anglican Minister of St. George’s Parish of Carolina, failed to understand the Anglican Church’s directions just to count the inhabitant, and he actually made a concise census of St. George’s Parish, indicating the name of the head of household, the Anglican dissenters (Quakers, Baptists, Congregationalists, etc, by the letter “D”, white people in the home by men, women, and children (first three digits) and slaves by men, women, and children (last three digits.) People of particular interest counted on this census were:

Alexander Skeene, Esqr. [3-2-1] [27-18-32] includes hia

brother’s orphans?

Thomas Smith “D” [1-1-5][0-0-0]

Lilia Hague [1-1-2][15-6-7]

Sush. Baker “D” [3-3-5][26-17-18], Widow of Wm.

Baker?

Walter Izard [2-1-4][29-23-39], m: 19 May 1713 St.

Geo., Mary Turgis

“widow” Izard [0-1-2][2-1-2] Widow of Benjamin

Izard?

Jos’h Blake [1-1-3][16-17-20]

Robert Miller, Sen. “D” [1-1-1][5-1-7]

Robert Miller, Junr. “D” [1-0-0][3-0-1], Witnessed the 1758 Will

of Bethel Dews.

It is my opinion that the data for Lilia Hague shows that she employed the services of an

“overseer” a man I have presumed but not proved to be a relative, George Hunter, and that she and the two orphans of Robert Dews, being the youngsters Bethel, and William Dews, her wards, were dwelling in her household, along with 28 Slaves - of which slaves, 22 of them came from the estate of Robert Dews as inheritance of his sons. The Will of George Hunter mentions Ms. Barksdale who was his “old landlady,” so we know he lived in one of her domiciles as a renter for a period of time. Isaac Barksdale was a fur trader to the Creeks in 1754.

From: Petitions for Land from (South) Carolina Council Journals,

page 213: Petition dated January 20, 1731:

“Read the Petition of Bethwell (sic) & William Dewes humbly shewing, that Mrs. Lelia Haig Guardian of the Petitioners, did in the year 1731 obtain a Warrant dated January 20 from his late Excellency Governor (Robert) Johnson for 350 acres of land being in proportion to said family right…

St. Johns, Esq. then Survey General, issued his Precept for surveying the same, agreeable Mr. John Stephens did survey the land and platted the same, but on the Petitioners taking possession of the estate could find no grant… but the Taxes being paid… (Therefore, the Petitioners requested issuance of a Grant, which was subsequently issued.)”

1731: A man named John Haigs (sic) is listed among 64 members in the First Book of Rules of the St. Andrews Society of Charles Town, Carolina, which was printed for the Treasurer James Crokatt, a physician from Couper Angus, 1731 in London. This is cause for

wonder if the father of George Haig [b. Nov. 27^th 1712]of Alloa, Scotland, John Haig, a shipbuilder, came to Charles Town in one of his own ships with his son sometime before this date. In 1731, George Haig would have been about aged 19, and may have entered a bond of Apprenticship under his Master, a Professional Surveyor George Hunter, in Carolina by this time.

The Officers, & founding members of the St. Andrews Society of

Charles Town created in 1729 were:

Alexander Skene President

John Frazer Deputy

James Crockatt Treasurer

John Greeme Assistant Treasurer

Walter Burn Clerk

A few of the ordinary members were:

Baronet, Sir Alexander Cuming

Dr. John Moultrie

John Haigs

The Alloa Register of Births records Nov. 27^th 1712 as the birthdate

of George, son to John Haig, and Elizabeth Nuccoll.

References are found to an account made by George Haig, son to

George Haig of SC regarding his father’s abduction and murder in

1748. This account may have been lost in the fire mentioned below.

The mansion of the Haig family of Dollarfield was occupied by the

Army, and destroyed by fire in 1940 so their family archives were

unfortunately lost.

Feb. 1^st 1732/33: The Ship “Anne” arrived at Savannah. Aboard her were

John Wright, aged 33, a vinter, his wife Penelope, and children

Elizabeth, and John Wright (from Lieth, Scotland?). This original

immigrant died in Savannah on December of 1737. Certain

unproved Internet sources say that he descended from the Wright

family who dwelled in the vininity of Ploughland on the border of

Scotland with Yorkshire.

Sept. 11^th 1733: On Sept. 11^th 1733, David Snook, a baker, wife Elizabeth, and son John, embarked for the Georgia Colony, and arrived in Savannah on Dec. 16^th 1733. This being a voyage that took over three months. They received Lot # 132 in Savannah.

It appears that David Snook’s wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Thomas Tripp. Tripp’s family arrived (from Barbados?) and was dwelling in Savannah, Georgia on Jan. 28^th 1734, about a month and a half after Snook arrived.

Dec. 1^st 1733: Colonial Records of Georgia, page 147:

“Palace Court: That a Letter be sent Thomas Tripp of Greek Street,

(London,) Carpenter, for 50 acres in consideration of his paying 10

Pounds towards his passage, and maintenance in Georgia.”

Dec. 8^th 1733: Received 10 Pounds from Thomas Tripp to be applied for passage,

and maintenance in Georgia. [Same source, and page.]

Dec. 28^th 1733: “Thomas Tripp, carpenter, Trust Servant, embarked from London Dec. 28^th 1733, arrived Feb. 1^st 1734 in Savannah, a trip of 33 days. He received Lot # 156. He married the widow, Elizabeth Herbert, a Servant to Thomas Fawsett on Oct. 6^th 1734 in Savannah, and lives with her, but cultivates nothing.” Thomas & Elizabeth issued a son, and two daughters in Georgia, so his first wife was probably deceased, likely in Barbados, or England.

[His second wife, the widow Elizabeth Herbert appears to be the relict of the Rev. Henry Herbert, an Anglican minister who came to serve for one year in Savannah at no charge on the “Anne”with Oglethorpe’s first settlers of Georgia in 1733.]

Oglethorpe, a brief biography, p. 49:

“The first minister, Reverend Henry Herbert, had remaind but three months, and returned to die in England…” [He died at sea on the voyage home.]

Jan, 28, 1734: Savannah persons, when arrived, fell’d fenced:

Tho. Tripp 28 Jan. 1734 5, 0, 0

On May 14^th 1735: On May 14^th 1735, Thomas Lee embarked from Barbados, &

came to the Georgia Colony as a Trust Servant for a term of 10 years, having. His term of Public Servitude ended in 1745. He was formerly married (in Barbados?) with a wife and children. His eldest son was William Lee, who late of Barbados, came to Savannah, Georgia sometime before 1755. Another older son was Thomas Lee, a blacksmith, who died in Georgia in 1778. It seems from first examination that both of the known wives of Thomas Lee were probably daughters of Thomas Tripp, carpenter, who came from London to Savannah, Georgia on about January 28^th 1734.

Thomas Lee had a cousin of the same name in Charles Town whose children were known to be Revolutionary War Patriots, while his own children were Loyalists.

1735: By 1735 it is believed that William Dews, the youngest son of Robert & Mary Baker, Dews who, at age 14 was no doubt working as a chain carrier, and packman, for surveryors George Haig, and George Hunter, “took up the blanker” with a mixed Cherokee girl who was probably one of the granddaughters of Frederick Haig, evidently one the earliest Scot Traders from Barbados in the Carolina Piedmont. Frederick Haig was a great uncle of Obadiah Haig, the deceased husband of Lilias Skene, Haig. Frederick’s family in Scotland ultimately lost all contact with him after he went to the West Indies.

William Dew’s Indian wife apparently died (of smallpox?) after issuing two children, Mary, and Benjamin Due, that were first tended by Lilias Skene, Haig, then by their stepmother, Lois Wilkins, Dews. These children were never named heir in any discovered estates as might be expected. Private Benjamin Due, unmarried, was killed at the beginning of the Great Cherokee war near Fort Prince George. His sister Mary Due married William Williamson in southern NC as his first wife when she was about 12 years of age, and issued Thomas Williamson in 1748 whose sons Bright, and William Williamson who were too closely allied in business and military affairs in Darlington, SC with James Due’s family to have been anything but close blood kin. However little documented evidence is available to substantiate this conclusion. Mary Due, Williamson died young, and her husband married Martha “Patti” Green, Strickland, a widow, and had further issue.

1738: Note that in 1738, General Accounts, Georgia yields:

J. Amory

Thomas Tripp

David Snook

1741: 1741: A list of those who a State of the Province of Georgia, attested by Oath:

John Rae (8) scout boat man

It appears that Rebecca Tripp, a daughter of Thomas Tripp, issued an

illegitimate daughter named Jane Mary Mongin fathered by Capt. David

Mongin on August 8^th 1741.

Oct. 27, 1741: Savannah, Ga. Oct. 27^th 1741:

A List of Complainants who are styled a few malcontents:

John Amory

Thomas Lee

David Snook

Pater Morrell

John Rae

1742: [Rebecca Tripp married Thomas Lee, Sr. in 1742.]

Proceedings of the President & Assistants from Oct. 12^th 1741 to Oct. 30^th 1754:

Pa. 101: “Whereas at a meeting of the board on the 24^th day of Feb. 1742 a

young lad Apprentice of Thomas Bayley was appointed to set the Psalms Tunes of Divine Service for which he was allowed 10 Shillings a quarter during the absence of Thomas Lee, the late Clerk (Anglican Clerk of Vestry) who was then in Publick Service at the southward. But the said Thomas Bayley has since sent word to the President that unless his Apprentice was allowed the whole salary of 5 Pounds a year he would not let him officiate any longer. And the said Thomas Lee being returned to this place married [to Rebecca] and settled on a Lott lately granted him and requested to be reinstated to said office. We thought it

would be doing a greater good to grant his request who is a sober hard working man than to give the salary to the said Bayley’s Apprentice which we well knew the lad himself would have no good to the master’s taking what was allowed before whereupon the said Lee was reappointed unto the Office of the Clerk.”

April 5^th 1753: Historical Records of Georgia, page 36

April 5^th 1753:

Thomas Trippe 2 Lots, total 90 acres, Vernon, Wilmington Island, Heathcote Ward.

Thomas Lee 2 Lots, total 90 acres, Tything, Wilmington Island, Darby Ward

John Snook 2 Lots

Feb. 4^th 1755: William Lee, of Barbados, Petitioned on Feb. 4^th 1755 for 1800 acres of land in Georgia.

He stated that he had a wife (Charity,) two children, three servants, and 28 Negroes on his property. [His children were Thomas Lee, Jr., (who married Mary Ann Thomas,) and John Lee.] William Lee’s widow Charity died August 29^th 1799 in Richmond County, Ga. He appears to have been a son of Thomas Lee, the elder, who perished in Georgia in 1786, his estate being probated by a grandson, Thomas Lee, Jr., a son of William & Charity Lee.

July 18^th 1755: William Lee, Gentleman, Savannah, to James & Elizabeth Rutherford, silvers of Savannah, Town Lot # 3, Savannah Slopes, Tything, Percival Ward; and a Garden Lot west of town, 5 acres; 44 &7/8^th acres called farm lot. [Deed Book C-1]

Aug. 12^th 1755: William Lee to Capt. Phillip Delegal, Jr., Reciept dated Aug. 12^th 1755, Savannah, fir the sale of a Negro woman named Aubah, also for a Negro man named Princes. [Colonial Deed Book C-1, page 35]

1756: According to data now collected, it appears that Wm. Dews was last married (perhaps long before 1756) to Mary Lee whose stepmother Rebecca (Tripp?) Lee, it seems, formerly issued an illegitimate daughter by Capt. David Mongin in 1741 before she married Thomas Lee in Georgia during the following year of 1742.

William Dews, 150 acres on Wilmington Island, granted May 15^th 1756, east by branch of Tybee Creek, north by Anthony Camuse.

Mary, wife of Wm. Dews, relinquished dower when they sold 450 acres on Wilmington Island, Christ Church Parish, (later in 1777 it was Chatham County) Georgia, to Jonathan Bryan in 1764. Presumably she was the same Mary, wife of Wm. Dews, who was an heir to the estate of her grandfather Thomas Tripp, deceased in 1769, in Savannah, Georgia. Her father Thomas Lee, Senior, did not perish in Georgia until 1786, indicated below, and I have not yet acquired the records of his Will and estate settlement.

[The estate of Lee, Thomas (the elder,) deceased: Thomas Lee jun., Exec., Mary Ann Thomas Excrx. [GSG 5/18/1786, 2:1; 6/29/1786, 2:3] (Estate Administered by his grandson, and said grandson’s wife.)]

The record indicates that William Dews, and his father-in-law Thomas Lee, Sr., were both engaged in the Indian Trade business near Augusta, Georgia where they may have established temporary Trading Posts there. We can see this in the record because Thomas Lee acquired land, and then petitioned for more land located 35 miles upriver from Augusta. We also note that when Robert Dews, son of William, made his petition for land in this area (1768) he mentioned that it was land where he formerly dwelled. But the unsettled conditions caused William Dews to move his trading post north on the Great Cherokee trail from Keowee to Charleston on a steam called the “Yellow Water” only a mile west of the trading post of Robert Goudey. Evidence exists that he built this trading post located on the boundary of the Cherokee Nation before the outbreak of the violence occurred that led to the “Great Cherokee War.” Proof that he acquired the right, and built this Trading Post called “Dewes Corner” in about 1758, or thereabouts, is given because by 1759, several unfortunate incidents had already occurred between the Engilish colonists, and the Cherokees, who were their allies against the French. These incidents led to revenge killing of white settlers on the frontier by uncontrollable angry young warriors.

As a consequence, Governor Lyttlton of SC unwisely took as hostage a peace envoy of Cherokee head-men and dignitaries sent to Charleston, and forced them to march captive to Fort Prince George where they were encarcariated. He proclaimed that they were to be released only in exchange for 24 Cherokee warriors accused of atrocities on the frontier, and then the Governor returned to Charleston, protected by a detachment of milita soldiers. However, since many of the accused Cherokees that Lyttleton demanded to be surrendered had fled into hiding, and could not be exchanged, the “Great Cherokee War” was essentially guaranteed by Lyttleton’s foolish move. A few members of the militia that brought these Cherokee hostages to Fort Prince George included Private Benjiman Due, a mixed Cherokee son of William Dews; George Haig, Jr., a son of Capt. George Haig; and Private Thomas Williamson. In mid Nov. 1759 this militia arrived at Robert Goudey’s Trading Post where Lyttleton employed Capt. George Haig, Jr., to negoiate an arrangement with Robert Goudy to build a new Fort in his barnyard. This negotiation was concluded and the Fort Ordered to be constructed on Nov. 22^nd 1759. It would become known as Fort Ninety-Six. The Fort was built within a week, and a day afterward it was finished, the militia stopped at “Dewes Corner.” This record proves that the Trading Post “Dews Corner” was built before the greatest violence of the Great Cherokee War began, and probably had been there for at least a year. Privates Benjamin Due, & Thomas Williamson were both killed within a week of each other’s demise while hunting meat for the ill-fated militia near Fort Prince George shortly before the Fort was attacked by Cherokee warriors, and came under starvation siege. Dews, Goudey, and other traders, fled from their trading post locations to distant places of comparative safety at the outbreake of major hostilities.

Feb. 7^th 1758: Thomas Lee Granted two Farm Lots Wilmington, Tything, Darby Ward, Savannah,

Georgia, containing 90 acres. [Grant Book A, p. 555]

Thomas Lee Granted Town Lot #1, Holland Tything, Percival Ward, Savanmnah,

Georgia, containing 5 acres; Farm Lot #5, Holland Tyting, Percival Ward, Savannah,

Georgia, containing 45 acres. [Grant Book A, p. 556]

Thomas Lee Granted Town Lot #8, More Tything, Percival Ward, Savannah, Georgia;

Garden Lot #48. [Grant Book A, p. 557]

Feb. of 1759: Thomas Lee was granted 200 acres in Augusta, Georgia on Williams Creek, 50 miles from

Augusta, and 40 miles from the mouth of Little River.

May 21^st 1759: Isaac, and Mary Trippe, a Cordwainer, and a servant to Thomas Lee, a Blacksmith,

Both of Savannah, Indenture for Bargain & Sale, dated May 21^st 1759,

100 acres in Newport District, bounded NE by Lachlan McIntosh.

[Colonial Deed Book, C-1, pp 391-397]

Aug. 7^th 1759: John Snook was Granted two Trust Lots in the center of Eyles, Tything, Heathcote Ward, Savannah, Georgia containing a total of 90 acres. [Grant Book B, p. 247]

1753-1760: “Thomas Tripp, Benjamin Goldwire, Richard Milledge, carpenter, to survey repairs and

report costs including glazing windows for Zoberbukler, minister.” [Georgia Governors, and Council Journal 1753-1760, p, 28]

John Snooks, Constable: Ordered to be paid. [Georgia Governor & Council Journals,

(1753-1760) p. 69]

Dec. 1760: Thomas Lee owned 200 acres above Augusta, and was ordered to vacate his land by proclamation because of the menacing Indians in that Area. He then Petitioned for 300 acres, 35 miles above Augusta where James Matthews formerly had a small settlement.

7 July 1761: John Snook was Granted Town Lot #2. Eyles, Tything, Heathcote Ward, Savannah, Ga.;

Garden Lot #77, west of Savannah, containing 5 acres; Farm Lot #2, Eyles, Tything, Heathcote Ward, Savannah, containing 45 acres. [Grant Book C, p. 168]

Nov. 27^th 1761: Thomas Tripp was Granted Town lot #6, Hucks Tything, Percival Ward, Savannah.
on November 27, 1761. [Grant Book C, page 356.]

1762: Thomas Lee & William Clark were granted Lot # 27 in Augusta, Ga.

Feb. 21st 1763: Georgia Pioneers Genealogical Magazine – 1964: page 181

Deed Book “O”

"Feb. 21st 1763, May 2nd 1763 – Christ Church Parish, Georgia: William Dews, Deed of Gift to his daughter Mary, gift of a slave. Wit: Joseph and Mary Wright."

Capt. William Dews is believed to have had a first daughter named Mary that married William Williamson in 1748, but this daughter Mary Williamson perished about 1760 in Prince Fredrick Parish, Craven County, SC, so this “daughter” must have been Jane Mary Mongin, his adopted daughter. Unfortunately, there is no proof. Her unmarried brother Benjamin Due also formerly dwelt in this area probably acting as a trade agent for his father.

The above witness Joseph Wright, with his wife Mary, was likely a grandson of the original John Wright (of Barbados?) who died in Savannah in 1737, or perhaps was a nephew, but his father was also named Joseph Wright, and his mother was also named Mary. However his father Joseph Wright made his Will in Christ Church Parish in c. 1757. Both father and son were active in trade with the Creek, and other Indians, and had a good grasp of the Creek language. William Dews, Indian merchant, would have been very well acquainted with his Wright neighbors in Savannah because they shared common trade activities.

The younger Joseph Wright was sent by Georgia Governor Ellis in 1761 to arrange diplomatic relations with the Creek Indians who were becoming a threat. He successfully accomplished his mission, and the Indian threat was averted.

Journal of the Commons House of Assembly, p. 515:

“April 1761: Voted to Joseph Wright, 105 Pounds for his service in the Creek Nation at the time of imminent danger…”

This Joseph Wright, a witness to the above Deed of William Dews, made his LW&T, Christ Church Parish, Georgia on April 13^th 1771. It was proved on Aug. 11^th 1773: [Will Book AA, pp 48-53] His Will names:

“wife: Mary – 500 acres of land in St. Mary’s Parish; remaining

Negroes. On her death, land to son Joseph, Negroes divided

between my son & daughter.

son: Joseph – Town Lot in Savannah #2 in Tyrrennell Tything,

Derby Ward; plantation of 500 acres called “Litchfield” in

Christ Church Parish bounding on land of Pickering

Robinson, Esq., Great Ogechee River, land of William

McKenzie; 20 Negroes.

daughter: Mary Jane – Town Lot in Savannah, # 7 in LaRoche Tything,

Heathcote Ward; two tracts of land (total 500 acres) in St.

Mary’s Parish; 20 Negroes.

Executors: wife, Mary Wright

Friend, William Young – Each a suit of clothes, & mourning

ring.

Wit: William Young

Henry Lewis Bourquin

William Brabant.”

A Codicil to his LW&T dated June 19^th 1773 :

“Plots of land granted to my daughter & wife have lapsed in the

Surveyor General’s Office, and have been given to some other person.

Therefore, to wife an annuity of 20 Pounds, Georgia currency.

To daughter 500 Pounds Georgia currency as a dowery.

Additional Executors: Noble Wimberly Jones, Esq.

James Habersham, Esq.

Witnesses: John Houstoun

Thomas Ross

Phillip Allman

Recorded: Aug. 14^th 1773.”

This Savannah, Georgia line of Wrights is considered likely ancestral to the Confederate General

Marcus Joseph Wright of Tipton County, Tennessee.

Mar. 7, 1764: From: Formation of a Planter Elite, Jonathan Bryan and the Southern Colonial Frontier:

Georgia Deed Book S, pp 12-13:

450 acres on Wilmington Island (see note 39, Jonathan Bryan Deed of Gift to son Josiah.)

William & Mary Dews to Jonathan Bryan, 100 Pounds Georgia currency.

3/7/64

Mar. 26^th 1767: Both Thomas Lee, the elder, and Thomas Lee, the younger were appointed among the

new Packers & Inspectors, and Cullars, Inspectors of Lumber for the Port of Savannah,

Georgia.

The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia pa. 192:

“Statutes, Colonial & Revolutionary 1768-1775”

Thomas Lee, paid 6 Pounds, 4 Shillings

for serving two warrents for printing the Laws of Georgia.

John Lyons ( - 1780, Savannah, Georgia), a blacksmith, was a resident of the

city of Savannah by 1762. His first wife Sarah perished there in 1765. He married Grace Tripp before 1768. He obtained grants to 700 acres of land in St. Georges Parish in 1771 at which time he stated that he was “many years in Georgia,” and had seven children, not named. John Lyon sold part of this land in St. Georges Parish, but retained the rest. It appears that he was an Englishman. He was also a Loyalist living in Savannah under British rule when he died there in 1780. His widow, Grace Lyon was later driven out of Georgia by the victorious Patriots.

1769: Index to the Probate Records of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1778:

The death of Thomas Tripp occurred in 1769.

Administrators were Thomas Lee, & Wm. Dews. [GG 7.26 (1769) 2:1] (Wm was age 48.)

Appraisers were: Isaac Tripp, & Robert Dews. (Robert was age 24.)

[Deed Book D, pp 354-355]

[Colonial Administrations Loose Papers, page 328, Inventory, page 176.]

Apprasiers: [Colonial Administrations Loose Papers, page 305.]

Surety: [Colonial Administrations Loose Papers, page 305.]

[Wills Book A, pages 114; 213-4; 307-8] [Loose Wills: pages 356, 358]

Estate of Thomas Tripp:

Isaac Tripp, an appraiser [Colonial Inventories, Book F, p. 58-9; Inventory, p. 47]

Others listed in Colonial Inventory Book F, p. 58-9.

Estate of Thomas Tripp:

Robert Dews (aged 24) Appraiser [Colonial Inventories Book F, p 226.]

William Dews (aged 48) Administrator [Deed Book D, pp 354-5] [Colonial Administrations Loose Papers, page 328][Inventory, page 176]

William Dews, Executor: [Colonial Bonds, Bills of Sale, page 85-7]

Others: [Colonial Inventories, Book F, page 110-120] [Colonial Administrations Loose Papers, p. 25]

The property of John Snooks was seized in 1769. [GG 11/1/1769, 3:1]

The family of David Snook is somehow related to Thomas Lee’s family because a young David Snook (a nephew of Thomas Lee?) was named as Thomas Tripps’s heir. Mary Dews was also named as his heir, being the wife of William Dews. They were married before 1752 in Savannah. The elder Thomas Lee’s former first wife was deceased before 1742, when during his Public Service south of Savannah he married his last wife Rebecca Tripp that year. Thomas Lee, the elder, appears to have perished in 1786. Records of the settlement of his estate have not yet been discovered.

Colonial Georgia Genealogical Data, 1748-1783, p. 15:

‘Heirs of Thomas Tripp: (He perished in 1769.) Adm: Thomas Lee, & William Dews.

David Snook

Rebecca, wife of Thomas Lee

Mary, wife of Wm. Dew

Grace, wife of John Lyon

Sarah, & An Tripp, spinsters

Item: Lot in Savannah, May 23^rd 1770” (T- #3894)

Sept. 4, 1770: From English Crown Records in Christ Church Parish in Georgia, pa. 108:

[Note that in 1777 Chatham County, Georgia was formed from St. Phillips, & Christ Church Parishes.]

“Lee, Rebecca (wife of Thomas Lee.) Was she nee Tripp?

Snook, David

Dews, Mary (wife of William Dews.) Did she have a half-sister issued out of David Mongin?

Lyon, Grace (nee: Tripp - wife of John Lyon,)

Tripp, Sarah (spinster,)

Tripp, Ann (spinster,)

All being heirs of Thomas Tripp, deceased, (1769)

Town Lot # 6 Vernon, Tything, Heathcote Ward, Savannah;

& Farm Lot # 5 Vernon, Tything, Heathcote Ward, Savannah, containing 45 acres: Granted Sept. 4^th 1770, Grant Book H, page 48, Thomas Lee.”

Thomas Lee, Sr., granted 400 acres, surveyed Mar. 29^th 1770, Granted Sept. 4^th 1770. [Plat Book C, p. 153] [Grant Book 1, page 83] See below - in St. Phillips Parish:

April 10^th 1770: Thomas Lee, Jr., 250 acres, Surveyed April 10^th 1770. [Plat Book C, page 154] Granted Sept. 4^th 1770. [Grant Book 1, page 311]

Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, p. 123, Sept. 1770:

“His Excellency the Governor signed the following grants, Viz:

Thomas Lee, Senior – 400 acres in St. Phillips Parish.

William Maxwell - 200 acres in St. Phillips Parish.

David Snook, and others, lot – 45 acres in Christ Church Parish.

Nov. 1771: John Lee, son of William Lee & wife Charity, Petitioned for 250 acres in St. Phillips

Parish, Chatham, near the land of Thomas Lee, Jr. (brother) stating that he had not been

in the Province, and had never had any land granted before. Having a wife and five

children, he was granted 400 acres at Queensborough, in March of 1772. He was deceased

in April of 1772.

April 1772: Thomas Lee, Jr., brother of John Lee, deceased, Petitioned in April 1772, that his

brother John, had obtained 300 acres in St. Phillips Parish which was elapsed, and that his

said brother was now dead, therefore, Thomas Lee, Jr., Prayed for this land. (reserved for

12 months.)

Nov. 1^st 1774: Thomas Lee was Granted 250 acres, Christ Church Parish granted November 1^st 1774.
Land bounded on last by John Goldwire and land already run south by Great Ogeechee
River. [Grant Book M, page 683]

Dec. 6^th 1774: Thomas Lee, granted 350 acres, bounded northeast by said Thomas Lee, south by Thomas Burrington, and vacant land, southeast by James Mossman, northwest by James Savage. Dec. 6^th 1774. [Grant Book M, p. 804]

Thomas Lee, granted 300 acres, bounded on northeast by William Butler, northwest by Sir. James Wright. Dec. 6^th 1774. [Grant Book M p. 805]

Jan. 3^rd 1775: Thomas Lee, granted ____ acres, bounded northeast by Canoochee River, southeast by Robert Houstoun, south by land formerly ordered by Lewis MacTier. Jan. 3^rd 1775. [Grant Book M, page 895.

On Feb. 11^th 1778, the LW&T of Thomas Lee, blacksmith, was probated in

Savannah, Georgia. He appears to be a son of the elder Thomas Lee, of Barbados.

“wife; “Ann” – Nergo Servants: Alfa, Diana, Clarissa, & Bob.

Sisters: Rebecca Lee – under 21, a daughter of Rebecca.

Ann Lee – under 21, a daughter of Rebecca.

Brother: William Lee – Late of Barbados, 650 acres in St. Phillips Parish,

Blacksmith tools, and implements.

To: John Lyon, the younger, his years of service as Apprentice – 50

Pounds.

Executor: Wife Mary Ann Lee” (not Mary Ann Thomas)

Thomas Lee, the younger, was the Commander of anArtillery Company at the “Mud Fort” on Salters

Island. He died in Feb. of 1778 of Yellow Fever contacted at the Fort. This Fort was abandoned due

to its unhealthy conditions.

The estate of Lee, Thomas (the elder,) deceased: Thomas Lee jun., Exec., Mary Ann Thomas Excrx. [GSG 5/18/1786, 2:1; 6/29/1786, 2:3] (Estate Administered by his grandson, and said grandson’s wife.)

The property of Thomas Lee, Jr., was seized on 9/15/1791. [GG 9/15/1701]

A plausible Tripp genealogy

Thomas Tripp, carpenter, Trust servant, [b. c. 1700 – d. 1769, Savannah,]

He was said to be an Englishman.

He married to an unidentified spouse in Barbados, perhaps a Cherokee slave woman, and had issue.

In 1733 Tripp is found dwelling on Greek Street, London when he paid the Georgia Trust Council

the sum of 10 Pounds to be sent to Georgia, and for his maintenance there.

He married on Oct. 6^th 1734 in Savannah to the widow Elizabeth Herbert,

likely the relict of Rev. Henry Herbert, deceased in 1733/34.

She was, at the time prior to their marriage, a servant to Thomas Fawcett.

____________________________________________|___________________________________________

| | | | | | |

Elizabeth (Mary Tripp?) Rebecca Isaac Grace Sarah Ann

m: bef. 1733 m1:Thomas Lee, by David Mongin cordwainer m: John Lyons, d. 1780, (a Tory.)

| David Snook | the elder | issued dau: m: Mary | his first wife was Sarah, d. 1765

| | | |

|_John Snook |_Mary Lee * |_Jane Mary Mongin, b. 1741 |_John Lyons, & 6 others unnamed

| a Tory. | m: Wm. Dews | m(1771): John Middleton He Apprenticed as a blacksmith

| | | to his older cousin Thomas Lee,

|_David Snook |_Thomas Lee, m(1742): Thomas Lee, the elder the younger.

m: (1/5/1794) | the younger |

Eliz. Porter | m: “Ann” |

m: (4/20/1844) | |_Rebecca Lee (under 21 in 1778) - after 1757.

Rebecca Ryals, |_William Lee |

daughter of m: Charity |_Ann Lee (under 21 in 1778) – after 1757.

Christian Ryals. ( a Tory.)

LW&T of David |

Snook: 6/5/1847. |_Thomas Lee, Jr.

| m: Mary Ann Thomas

|_John Lee, d. April 1772

|_Rebecca Lee

|_(at least two other siblings)

m2: 1742 to Rebecca Tripp see her column to the right of her sister.

The LW&T of Christina Ryals was dated Jan. 31^st 1844 in Savannah. She left $1.00 to her son-in-law David

Snook.

John Lyons was a resident of the city of Savannah, Georgia by 1762. His first wife Sarah died in 1765.

Some speculate that the Tory, John Lyons was English, however he may have been a Scot.

John Lyons, and William Lee were two of the Georgia Loyalists who surrendered themselves to Col. Johnson

in July of 1782 in Effingham County, Georgia. Their names were placed on a list of Revoltionary War prisoners

to be “Amerced,” or punished. The Authorities may have executed John Lyons for he died that year.

A Thomas Lee, Junior, who married Mary Ann Thomas, was apparently a grandson of the elder Thomas

Lee who died in 1786 when this grandson, the issue of William Lee, was settling his grandfather’s estate after the Revolutionary War. This grandson’s property was apparently also seized in 1791. It seens that his sister

Rebecca Lee, (who called him Thomas Lee, Sr.,) was left, by him, two tickets to the Georgia Land Lottery.

Early Records of Georgia Newspapers:

“John Dewes (married) to Miss Hatcher Dawson, Feb. 21^st 1793.”

“In Savannah, (died) wife of John Dewes, May 25^th 1798.”

“In Savannah, Friday night, (died) Mrs. Mary Dewes, 59 widow, Sept. 17^th 1801.” (born 1741.)

Some Early Tax Digests of Georgia, page 18:

“1806 – Chatham County, Georgia

Mary T. Dews $2. 18 ½ “

On 2 October 1735, Bethel Dewes received a grant for 640 acres in Berkley, Carolina.

In 1735, Augusta, Georgia was settled, and by 1739 records show that, in addition to great bounty from the harvest of tillage, “one hundred thousand weight of skins was brought from thence.” The following 1739 records reveal:

“A List of such Traders, Men, and Horses, as come from other Parts and only pass

through or by Augusta in their way to the Creek Nation:”

Mess. Wood and Brown, from South Carolina 8 men 60 horses

Daniel Clarke, from South Carolina 4 men 20 horses

Archibald McGilvray, from South Carolina 3 men 18 horses

George Cossons, from South Carolina 4 men 30 horses

Jeremiah Knott, from South Carolina 4 men 30 horses

Messrs. Spencer, from Mount Pleasant 3 men 16 horses

“ Gilmore, from Mount Pleasant 4 men 20 horses

“ Barnett, from Mount Pleasant 3 men 20 horses

“ Ladson, from Mount Pleasant 3 men 20 horses

James Cossons, from South Carolina 5 men 30 horses

George Golphin, from South Carolina 4 men 25 horses

William Sleuthers, from South Carolina 4 men 25 horses

(first two Traders mentioned were Alexander Wood, and Patrick Brown - S. Due)

“A List of the Whole Inhabitants of the Township of Augusta, Georgia:”

Mr. Kennedy O Brien 5 men 3 women 0 children

Thomas Smith 1 man 1 woman 0 children

Messrs Mackenzie and Frazer 5 men 1 woman 0 children

John Miller 2 men 1 woman 1 child

Thomas Goodale 2 men 1 woman 2 children

Samuel Brown 2 men 1 woman 1 child

Sanders Ross 2 men 0 women 0 children

A. Sadler 1 man 1 woman 1 child

A. Taylor 1 man 1 woman 0 children

William Clark 1 man 1 woman 0 children

Henry Overstreet 1 man 1 woman 4 children

Locklan McBean 2 men 2 women 1 child

William Gray 4 men 0 women 0 children

William Calabern 0 men 2 women 2 children

“A List of Traders, Men, and Horses employed from Augusta in the Chickasaw and

Creek Trade:”

George Mackay 4 men 20 horses

Henry Elsey 3 men 20 horses

Messrs Facey and Macqueen 6 men 40 horses

John Wright 4 men 20 horses

John Gardner 3 men 20 horses

William Calabern 3 men 15 horses

Tho. Andrews, in Creek and Chickasaw Nations 8 men 70 horses

Thomas Daval 3 men 20 horses

John Cammell 3 men 20 horses

Paul Rundall 3 men 20 horses

Nicholas Chinery 3 men 20 horses

William Newberry 3 men 20 horses

The old Scotch-Irishman John Rae came to Georgia before 1743. He often lived in Augusta, but owned property near Savannah in present day Burke, and Jefferson Counties, and he also owned property in St. Paul’s Parish. He became a trading partner in the firm that included himself, Lachlan McGillivray, and Patrick Brown. Later, John Rae was in partnership with trader Isaac Barksdale. [Note that the Rae or MacRae family of Scotland was allied with the MacKenzies.]

In 1740, Bethel Dewes (age 23) was on Pettit Jury Duty in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Carolina. Also in 1740 Wm Dewes served on Petit Jury in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Berkley County, Carolina.

On May 8, 1740, Bethel Dews married Margaret Croskeys in Charles Town, Carolina. Margaret was a daughter of John Croskeys & Sarah Matthews.

In 1741, Scot-Irishman, John Rae was a Scout Boatman out of Savannah, Georgia.

Between Sept. 1742 and May 1743, a Captain William Dews (age about 21) of the (South) Carolina militia, appears on several SC Assembly documents regarding certificates for goods or services provided the public “during the late alarm.”

Jan. 29th 1742: Journal of the Commons House of Assembly, Colonial Records of (South) Carolina, page 206:

“The Petition of Eliza Moore to the General Assembly was read, setting forth that the late Daniel Cartwright, deceased, had heretofore bought of Mr. Richard Baker, of Ashley Ferry, for a valuable consideration, a lot of land in Charles Town distinguished and known in the Model, or Plan of the said town, by the number 136. One half of the said town lot was surveyed and laid out by Mr. George Hunter and Mr. George Haig, and was sold again by the said Daniel Cartwright with a dwelling house thereon to your poor Petitioner’s husband John Moore, deceased, for about One Thousand Pounds, this currency, where your poor Petitioner has lived about nine years. And lately, one Bethel Dews, an orphan, puts in a claim to all, or the major part, of the said Town Lot of land No., 136 with the dwelling house thereon, he pretending to have a prior and better right thereto, saying that his grandfather left him the Town Lots of land, No., 134 and 135 which were granted about 70 years ago, (ca. 1672) containing half an acre in front, and says that the Petitioner’s dwelling house stands upon this land, and has already arrested the poor Petitioner for a Trespass, notwithstanding when the half lot No., 136 were bought, both the Surveyors did affirm that Mr. Dews had a right to only a small gore of land.”

Comment: William Rousham, or Rowsham, Sen., who perished in May of 1717, received grants of Charles Town Lots mentioned above in about 1672, and left them to his daughter Susannah Rowsham, Baker, wife of William Baker. William Baker perished in 1718 not long after his grandson Bethel Dewes was born, and with Susannah’s consent, he left the infant Bethel Dewes a legacy of these lots from his wife’s inheritance, lots formerly granted to & held by William Rowsham, Sr. - S. Due

SC Will Book (1742-1756), page 13, June 1^st 1742 - October 21, 1742:

LW&T of Lillia “Sellia” Haige, Berkley County, South Carolina

nephew: John Skene, lot in Beaufort, Point Royal, disqualified to Execute her Will.

He was born in about 1707, and married Hannah Palmer on May 7^th 1728 at St. Phillips Parish. He was a son of her brother Alexander Skene & wife Jemima.

Arthur Skene, under 21, probably a son of her brother John Skene.

cousin: John Fullerton, near Montrose, Scotland

also mentions: To Mr. Bethel Dews, (age 25) 300 acres of land situate between the land of late John Brown, and the land of his brother William Dews;

To William Dews, (age 21) my plantation containing 200 acres joining his land.

Lelia Haig was an aunt by marriage only to Bethel & William

Dews, therefore she did not mention them as her nephews…even

Though they became her Wards when orphaned.

Executors: Col. Blake (referring to Landgrave, Col. Joseph Blake)

Walter Izard, Sr. (married Mary Turgis)

Ralph Izard, Jr. (married Magdalene “Margaret” de

Chastaigner)

Witnesses: William Power

April 15^th 1738: SC Gazette. “To be sold at Publick Venue on Monday, the first day of May next, at the store of Mr. Gillson Clapp, deceased, in Dorchester Town, by Mr. Wm. Power who was in company with Mr. Gillson Clapp, all goods belonging to said store, for payment the first day of January next, giving security if required, and as the store is broke up on account of the decease of Mr. Gillson Clapp, Wm. Power desires all persons at the same time to come and settle their accounts that are indebted to the store, or on default of the same will be immediately be put into suit..”

In 1754, William Power advertised his intention to open a store on Dorchester Green.

Joseph Arden

Note that Arden is a name derived from a Celtic word meaning “High.”

William Leslie

William Leslie, perhaps a Scotch minister, was one of her distant relations

whose ancestors probably came from either Aberdeenshire, or Ross shire on

the firth of Cromartie.

CODICIL: dated June 1, 1742:

Mentions: Col. Blake, all my books (Col. Joseph Blake [1700 - bef. July

1751, at sea])

To Mrs. Blake, such things as are of my own

working (Mrs. Sarah Lindrey, Blake, wife of Col. Joseph Blake,

Landgrave & Lord Proprietor, SC)

Nephew Alexander Skene (married a d/o Robert Johnson –

a son of the Gov.)

Mrs. Donning (See Deed below. Refers to Frances Donning,

widow, whose son William Donning married Peggy Johnson, d/o

Robert Johnson - a son of the Gov.)

Mrs. Dew (Margaret Croskeys, Dew, wife of Bethel Dew)

Goddaughter: Elizabeth Baker

Mrs. Rosham, of Dorchester (this may refer to the widow of

William Rowsham, Sr., being Ann Welsh, Dew, Rowsham?)

Witness: Robert Wright, Ex-Chief Justice of Charleston

Lilias Skene, Haig had no qualified first order blood relatives living when she made her Will. Her nephews & great nephews were all perhaps underage. She mentioned only one direct descendant, a (granddaughter?) named Elizabeth Baker in her Will above, possibly the daughter of a deceased daughter who married a Baker. But Abstracts of her Will disagree whether Elizabeth Baker was a granddaughter, or a Goddaughter of Lilias Skene, Haig.

John Fullerton who was born ca. 1733 in Scotland, came to Charleston, South Carolina before 1761, and in that year he married Elizabeth Toomer, daughter of Joshua Toomer, & Mary Bonneau of St Andrews Parish, Carolina, and who later went to Wilmington, NC, where Joshua died in 1763.

Clearly a close relationship existed between Lilias Skene, Haig, and her Executor Col. Joseph Blake. One relationship existed through Blake’s wife Sarah Lindrey, who was the daughter of Daniel & Elizabeth Lindrey that were married 16 June 1720. One of Sarah’s sisters, Rebecca Lindrey also married Ralph Izard.

The Will of Daniel Lindrey 20 Feb. 1752 gives children: Daniel, William, Ann, & Rebecca Izard, wife of Ralph Izard.

There may have been other ways, too, as Elizabeth Lindrey’s maiden name is unknown, and Daniel Lindrey’s ancestry is also unknown.

Another relationship was through Mary Frances Turgis who married Walter Izard, one of her Executors. Mary Frances Turgis was the daughter of Francis Turgis & Elizabeth Axtell, who as the widow of Francis Turgis, had married Admiral & Governor Joseph Blake, father of Col. Joseph Blake who was an Executor for Madam Lilias Haig, widow. During the two years that they were married prior to the death of Gov. Joseph Blake on Sept. 7^th 1700, his wife Elizabeth issued a son Joseph Blake, (above) and a daughter Rebecca Blake that married first to George Smith, and second to Governor & Landgrave Thomas Smith.

Lilia’s other two Executors were her nephews by marriage, Ralph & Walter Izard. Her brother, Alexander, was married to Jemima Dew who was a sister of Mary Dew, Smith, Middleton, Izard, the mother of Ralph (age 54) & Walter Izard (age 50). The aforesaid elders were all deceased, except for the testator, Lilias Skene, Haig.

Charleston, SC Deed Book D3, pp 26-27

1765: William Donning, planter of St. George’s Parish, Dorchester, Berkley Co. to Daniel Doyley of Charleston, for 60,000 Pounds currency, 1400 acres in said Parish, being the remainder of 2400 acres after allotting 1000 acres to Francis Daniel, an infant; the 1400 acres bounding SE on Daniel Blake & said Francis Daniel; SW on Samuel Hamlin & Co., Richard Bedon; NW on Thomas Broughton (now belonging to Benjamin Coachman) & heirs of Mr. Sommer; NE on Mr. Waring.

Whereas Francis Donning, widow [of William Downing former Speaker of the Commons House of Assemby ca. 1731,] mother of William Donning, owned about 2400 acres in St. George Parish known as “The Ponds of Weston Hall,” on which she lived for many years before her death, & by her Will in 1752 devised the land to her son William Donning & her daughter Frances, since dead (Frances receiving 1000 acres called “The Ponds,” William the remainder): & whereas Francis Downing, the daughter married Adam Daniel, Esq., of said Parish, & had one daughter, Frances, now an infant; & whereas William had been asked for and has been granted a partition of the property; the SE part (or 1000 acres) being allotted to Frances Daniel, the infant; now William sells his share to Doyley. Wit: James Sanders, John Calvert. Before George Johnson, JP. Recorded 2 Sept. 1765 by Fenwike Bull, Register.

Platt shows: Nathaniel Bradwell, D. S., & John De Girardeau, D. S., at request of Miles Brewton, Adam Daniel, & Daniel Doyley, resurveyed lands granted… [long description follows…]

Pa. 28: North American Wills Registered in London (1611 – 1857):

William Donning of Lydney, Glos., whose cousin William Donning was in SC. Will May 27^th 1743, Proved Feb. 9^th 1744 by relict Joanna Donning. (Prob. 11/731) AWP, NGSQ 64/136.

Page 237, et al: Statutes at Large of South Carolina:

“William Donning, Speaker [of the Commons House of Assembly,] Council Chamber, Aug. 20^th 1731, assented to Robert Johnson.”

Page 44: South Carloina Historical Magazine:

“William Donning seems to have occupied the plantations (on the N. side of the Ashley River) until his death in 1750 when he devised them to his eldest son Thomas Downing who lived only for a short time, and after his death the property descended to his son William Downing…” [His mother Frances Downing dwelt upon this land until her own death then by her Will of 1752 devised it to her son William. The “plantations” above refer to the Ponds of Weston Hall containing 2400 acres, and Paul Parker’s, or Andrew Percival’s lower plantation containing1200 acres situated on the North side of the Ashley River.] Also mentioned was a daughter of Wm & Frances Downing named Frances Downing.

Page 141: Plantation Enterprise in South Carolina:

“Although William Downing had been content to call his settlement on the notorious soggy lands at the head of the Ashley River “Ponds Plantation,” but his wife Frances Downing strove without apparent success…”

Note also that Adam Daniel, Esq., [8 April 1734 St. Phillips, Charleston, SC - 18 Jan. 1767, Dorchester, SC], [son of Shipwright John Daniel and wife Mary Heskett, being] a grandson of Landgrave Robert Daniel, Gov. of SC, married 1^st Annie Blake, daughter of Joseph Blake and his wife Sarah Lindrey, and 2^nd to Frances Donning, daughter of William Downing and his wife Frances [whose maiden name is unknown.]

In 1706 a William Wilkins (of Jamaica?) bought 617 acres of land on James Island, from Captain David Davis who came from Barbados, and married Ann Moore, a sister of Mary Moore that married Robert Howe. Wilkins lived in Charleston, SC, and used slave labor to till the plantation on James Island.

William Wilkins was married Elizabeth Davis, presumably a daughter of the said Capt. David Davis, from whom he bought his plantation on James Island.

Pa. 138: SCHM:

May 24^th 1698, Governor Blake directed David Davis to Administer the Estate of William Davis, at the same time reciting that Col. Robert Gibbes, Capt. John Allen, Thomas Drayton, William Nash, and Capt. Samuel Du Berdieu had been directed to appraise, and make inventory thereof. (p. 270) The same day David Davis, Capt. William Smith, and John Maverick executed their bond to Governor Blake for Davis’s faithful performance of his trust as Administrator of the estate of William Davis. Wit: Henry Wiggington. (page 270 & 255)

6-10: America and West Indies, May 1700, Board of Trade Barbados, V. 65, page 558:

“May 7^th 1700, St. Michael’s Parish, Barbados: 404: Minutes of the General Assembly of Barbados:

There being no probability of making a house this day, and the town being sickly, his Excellency acquainted them that the Council was adjourned to the house of William Davis, dec’d, near the plantation of Sir Robert Davers in St. Michael’s Parish, on the 14^th to which time and place have now adjourned.”

Barbadian Will of Mary Yates, widow, proved Sept. 28^th 1681:

“Brother: John Davis

Sister: Joanna Turrill

James Coats, former husband Crisp’s estate, and my late husband Yates’s estate.

Daughter: Mary Crisp, at 16

Rose Ramsey of St. Thomas, widow

Brother: William Davis

Friends: Othoniel Haggett, John Summer, and John Challeanor – Executors in Trust

of said daughter.

Signed: Mary Yates

Witnesses: Robert Loader, merchant

Robert Draper, Jr., merchant

Nathaniel Kemp.”

On November 4, 1712, a William Wilkins & wife Elizabeth sold 600 acres in Colleton County, for 150 Pounds currency, to Timothy Bellamy, feltmaker. Both Wilkins & Bellamy were residents of Charleston, SC.

In 1718 & 1719 a Mr. William Wilkins & Mr. John Hearn were tax officials for James Island.

William Wilkins married on 13 June 1728 to Sarah Matthews, Croskeys, widow of John Croskeys, in Charles Town, SC.

In 1741 a William Wilkins sold his 617 acre plantation on James Island to Samuel Perronneau.

January 1^st 1743 [Book Z, p. 167, mortgage] 436 acres in Parish of St. George’s formerly owned by Capt. William Dews: James Rattray, Planter, to William Davidson, practitioner in physic, both of Berkley County, as security on bond of even date in penal sum of 1500 Pounds currency on January 1^st, next, said land according to plat; also 9 Negroes. Witnesses: Joseph Creighton, Alexander Davidson, before James Mickie, J. P. & D. P. R. One Bay mare delivered in name of whole. Recorded in Secretary’s Book Q Q, Fol. 456-457 by John Champneys, Dep. Sec.

On September 24, 1743: William Wilkins, planter, and Sarah his wife; Bethel Dewes and Margaret his wife; Obadiah Wilkins, planter, and Elizabeth (Nee: Croskeys) his wife, all of South Carolina; to Samuel Adams, Merchant of Kingston, Jamaica, that piece of ground in Kingston, bounding east on Prince Street, west on James Stewart, north on Water Lane, and south on Harbour Street, which lot formerly belonged to John Croskeys, of Charleston, SC, and by his Will dated 15 March 1722 bequeathed equally to Sarah Croskeys, then his wife, and now Sarah Wilkins, and his two daughters Elizabeth and Margaret, parties hereto. Witnesses: James Hamilton, and George Matthews.

On October 2, 1744, William Dews (age about 23) of St. Georges Parish, Dorchester, South Carolina, married Lois Wilkins, a spinster. The Rev. William Guy [1682 – 1750] officiating. Bond for this marriage was posted by Andrew Cattel.

Charleston Gazette: “Yesterday departed this life, aged 62 years, very much lamented,

particularly by his parishioners, and by everyone who had the pleasure of an acquaintance

with him, the Rev. William Guy, Rector of the St. Andrews Parish for upward of 30 years

past: Of whom it is truly said, He lived the life of the just, and died the death of the

righteous. [Monday, Dec. 10^th 1750]”

Georgia Pioneers, page 105:

“Nov. 1783 – John Bernard, planter, and wife Lucy, Island of Wilmington, Christ Church

Parsih, sold to Col. Samuel Elbert, Savannah, 100 acres on Wilmington Ilsand, next to

William Dews. Wit: Richard Turner, Robert Bernard.” [B/B Savannah, pp. 112-3.]

That same year, 1744, Bethel Dews & William Dewes, brothers, were on Petit Jury in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, Berkley Co., SC.

South Carolina Deed Abstracts 1719-1772. p. 111:

“Book B-B, p. 131, July 31^st 1745, Lease & Release:

George Waring, storekeeper of Dorchester, St. George’s Parish, to John Morton, Planter, of St. James Goose Creek, for 1400 Pounds, SC money, 496 ½ acres in Berkley County bounding N on Thomas Waring, E on John Walters, S on Benjamin Waring, W on Mr. Dews. Whereas Governor Nathaniel Johnson, James Moor, and Nicholas Trott, on Mar. 14^th 1704 granted Benjamin Waring, father of said George Waring, 600 acres, English measure, in Berkley County, and whereas Governor Nathaniel Johnson, James Moor, and Job Howes, on Dec. 10^th 1705 granted Moses Way 300 acres, English measure in Berkley County, and whereas Moses Way conveyed his tract to Benjamin Waring; and whereas Governor Charles Craven, & the Lords Proprietors on Nov. 12^th 1714 granted to Benjamin Waring 360 acres in Berkley County, and whereas on Nov. 24^th 1732 (See Secretary’s Book A. A. fol. 6.) Governor Robert Johnson granted to Benjamin Waring 129 acres in Berkley County, bounding N on William Steed; W on vacant land and land for the use of the children of Robert Dews; S on Joseph Blake; E on Benjamin Waring’s old tract; the four tracts containing 1389 acres; and whereas by Will dated April 3^rd 1736 bequeathed to his son George, party hereto, when 21 years old, the full half “at the cypruss”; and the Executors laid out 694 ½ acres for him; now George Waring conveys the tract to Morton. Witnesses: Mrs. Sarah Middleton, Joseph Waring Jr., & Andrew Shapley. Before William Middleton, J. P. James Home, Public Register.”

Matthews genealogy

By Steven Due

“On Saturday last, died here Captain Anthony Matthews, frugality, and improvement in mercantile affairs, acquired one of the greatest estates in this country. He first arrived in this Province about the year of 1680. Now nearly 55 years since, and died lamented in the 73^rd year of his age (b. ca. 1761, London,) and was decently buried on Monday last. But what is observable is, that his pall was supported by six of the ancient inhabitants of this town, hardly one of whom had seen less than 40 years revolve since their first arrival in this Province, and whose several ages put together amounted to about 400 years. A sufficient proof, this, that Carolina is Not one of the most unhealthy climates on Earth.” [The South Carolina Gazette – Saturday, August 30, 1735]

Anthony Matthews came to the West Indies when he was about 18 years of age, in about 1779, and came to reside in Charles Town, Carolina in about 1780. He became wealthy as a mariner, and a merchant.

Maurice Matthews arrived in South Carolina ca. 1674. Anthony Matthews was born in 1661 London, England, and came to South Carolina in 1680 at the age of 19 years. No relation between them has been proved. As a mariner, and merchant, Anthony spent considerable time at sea, and in the Caribbean.

About 1692, at age 31, Capt. Anthony Matthews married Lois (Fowell?, at age 13. Lois may have been the posthumous daughter of Richard Fowell by wife Sarah Dewe, of Barbados.) Lois’s Guardian, or parents, came to Charleston, SC in 1681, and it is said that after the age of three, she spent all of her life, seventy years, in South Carolina. Lois (Fowell?) was born in ca. 1679 in Barbados. Lois is said to have come to Carolina in 1682, at age three. Therefore, She may have been born after her father, perhaps Richard Fowell, died in Barbados. I have found no proof of this relationship, but the implication that Lois was from Barbados, and that she was related to the Dewe family there, still remains. Her 1^st step-father may have been Edward Middleton, and her 2^nd step-father may have been Job Howe. Since Lois was of minor age (age 13) when she married Anthony, her Guardian in 1692 would need to give his permission. This Guardian may have been Job Howe, but a record of her marriage to Anthony Matthews has not been discovered. If this marriage record could be discovered, no doubt it would prove the name of her Guardian.

28 May 1698: Captain Anthony Matthews is at present Master of the 50-ton Sloop “Joseph of Carolina.” [Records of the Secretary of the Province of Carolina.]

10 Sept. 1711: Captain Anthony Matthews bought 2340 acres in Craven County from Thomas Smith, Esq. [Deed Book 1, pp 165-625]

Capt. Anthony Matthews engaged in the Indian Trade by 1730 via a Partnership with Col. John Fenwicke & Co., a licensed Indian Trader of Charleston, and Stonoe.

The Will of Captain Anthony Matthews was made in Charles Town, SC on 11 August 1730, and was proved on 2 October 1735.

It indicates the extent of his fortune. He owned a Plantation on John’s Island of 600 acres, a Plantation at Winyah of 1,740 acres, remaining unsold at the time of his Will. He also bequeathed to his children, and grandchildren a total of 25,000 Pounds current money.

“To wife Lois – Brick house on New Church Street bounding south on Tradd Street, and north on land of John Bee, for life.

To son James Matthews, abovementioned house after decease of his mother.

To son Anthony Matthews, house and land adjoining land where I now live on Bay, Charles Town, Plantation on John’s Island.

To son George Matthews, under 21 years, house and land fronting south on Tradd Street, now occupied by Benjamin Massy, gunsmith, east on land of Isaac Mazyck, and north on land of John Bee.

To son John Matthews, under 21 years, house fronting south on Tradd Street in which son Anthony Matthews lives in one part, and Robert Randall lives in the other, part of land at Winyah formerly purchased of Landgrave Thomas Smith, and run out by Percival Pawley, deceased.

To son William Matthews, under 21 years, other half of tenement where Robert Randall now lives, storehouse, and kitchen, land lying between messuage and land given to son James Matthews, part of land at Winyah.

To son Benjamin Matthews, under 21 years, house and land in Charles Town fronting on Church Street opposite Ana-Baptist Meeting House which was formerly owned by Thomas Rose.

To daughter Sarah Wilkins…

To daughter Amy Randall…

To grandson Francis Holmes, an infant…

To granddaughter Elizabeth Croskeys, infant…

To granddaughter Margaret Croskeys, infant…

Mentions a partnership with son James Matthews…

To son Benjamin Matthews one twenty-fifth share of stock in the hands of

management of Col. John Fenwicke & Co., articles of co-partnership

dated 14 May 1730…(For over 11 years, Col. John Fenwicke had been in the Indian Trade.)

Wife to be Guardian of younger sons as long as she remains a widow.

Executors: Wife, Lois Matthews,

Sons, Anthony Matthews, married 13 March 1721 to Anne Brandford

And John Matthews.

Witnesses: Solomon Tozer,

William Pinckney,

Thomas Lamboll.”

24 Feb. 1731: Captain Anthony Matthews & Lois his wife, of Charles Town, for 300 Pounds sold 610 acres in Craven County to John Murrill, planter of Craven County.

[Deed Book 1, pp 165-635]

24 August 1735: Captain Anthony Matthews was buried in the Independent, or Congregational (Circular) Church Yard in Charles Town, SC. [South Carolina Gazette, Obit]

December 8, 1752: “On Friday last died Mrs. Lois Matthews, widow of Captain Anthony Matthews, in the 73^rd year of her age, 70 of which she has lived in this Province.” [The South Carolina Gazette – Monday, December 11, 1752]

The Will of Lois, [1679 Barbados – 1753, Charlestown, SC] widow of Capt. Anthony Matthews made on 3 December 1752, proved on 6 January, 1753:

“Son, George Matthews, residue of estate…

Son, Benjamin Matthews, lot in Charles Town where he now lives on east side

of New Church Street…

Daughter, Sarah Neale, and her four children, 1,500 Pounds current money…

Grandson, Robert Randall, of age 21 on 12^th of June, next, 5,000 Pounds current

money…

Grandson, Benjamin Matthews, Jr. Negro slave boy named Prince…

Granddaughter, Elizabeth Wilkins, wearing apparel…

Granddaughter, Margaret Dewes, wearing apparel…

Great-Grandson, Robert Dewes, under the age of 15, I give 200 Pounds current

money…

Witnesses: William Dandridge,

Jacob Axon,

Thomas Lamboll”

I. Anthony Matthews [1697, SC – Aug. 23^rd 1756, SC] was a son of Capt. Anthony Matthews & wife Lois. He was able to appropriate for himself 5, 615 acres of land in Royal Grants in Colleton, and Granville Counties. He was one of the owners of “The Friendly Society” the first Fire Insurance Company. Matthews was active in politics in South Carolina. St. Bartholomew Parish first elected him to the 11^th Royal Assembly, and re-elected him in a special election to the 12^th Assembly, for which he qualified 29 January 1740. He represented St. John Colleton Parish in the 15^th, and 16^th Royal Assemblies. On May 5, 1749 he qualified for the 19^th Royal Assembly, but he declined to serve. Other offices he held included militia Captain; Tax Inquirer for Charleston; Commissioner for Regulating Street Boundaries; Commissioner for building a bridge over the Pon Pon River; Commissioner for building a Curtain Line before Charleston; Justice of the Peace for Berkley County; Commissioner for cleaning Newtown Cut; and Commissioner of the St. Phillips Parish. Like his father, Anthony Matthews was a member of the Independent Congregational Church in Charleston. He was also one of the early members of the Charleston Library Society.

On 13 March 1721, Anthony Matthew married Anne Bradford in St. Phillip’s Parish, Dorchester, SC. At least two children were issue of this union:

1. Anthony Matthews

2. Hugh Matthews

3.Ann Matthews married 21 Jan. 1759 David Graeme, Esq. Atty.

General of SC in 1760.

Anthony Matthews died of an apoplectic fit on 23^rd August 1756, and was buried in the graveyard of the Independent Congregational Church in Charleston.

Charleston Gazette:

“On Monday last died, of an apoplectic fit, (as much regretted as he lived respected,) Anthony

Matthews, Esq., a native of this Province, aged 59 years. [Thursday, Aug. 26^th 1756]”

II. Elizabeth Matthews [? - bef. 1730, Charles Town, SC] was a daughter of Capt. Anthony Matthews & wife Lois. She married Francis Holmes. Issue:

1. Francis Holmes

III. Benjamin Matthews [after 1719, but before 1730, SC - 11 Dec. 1754, Charleston, SC], was a son of Captain Anthony Matthews & Lois. Like his father, he became a successful merchant in the Province. He was part owner of a sloop, “Herriot” along with co-owners, Thomas Lloyd, and Richard Beresford. Benjamin Matthews inherited a 25^th share in the business of Col. John Fenwicke & Co., Indian Merchant, by Articles of Partnership, dated 14 May 1730, from his father in 1735. Benjamin Matthews served only one term in the Commons House of Assembly when St. John Colleton Parish elected him in a special election to the 20^th Royal Assembly, and he qualified on 16 April 1752. He was also a member of the South Carolina Society in which he served as a Treasurer, but declined election as a Constable. He was a Commissioner of the Work House, & of Markets, & of the Poor.

On 5 February 1745, Benjamin Matthews married Mary Raven, a woman “of good fortune,” having issue of five children:

1. Benjamin Matthews married 18 Nov. 1778 to Mrs. Edith Matthews

2. Isaac Matthews

3. John Raven Matthews, married 28 Mar. 1806 Elizabeth Whalley

4. Ann Matthews (d. June 21^st 1763, of Smallpox, only daughter.)

5. George Matthews

Benjamin Matthews married second on 5 Feb. 1745 to Anne Holmes.

Benjamin Matthews died on 11 December 1754 after a lingering illness.

Charleston Gazette: “On the 11^th Instant died after a lingering disposition, Mr. Benjamin

Mathews, of this town, Merchant, who was a most affectionate husband, tender parent,

good Master, and sincere friend. [Thursday, Dec. 19^th 1754.]”

IV James Matthews [between 1714 and 1735, SC – 1745, SC], was a son of Anthony Matthews & wife Lois. He owned plantations in St. John Colleton, and St. Bartholomew Parishes. He also owned a town house in Charleston, SC. James Matthews and his brother William Matthews owned the schooner “Friendly Adventure.” At the time of his death, his estate included 101 slaves, and had a value of more than 25, 000 Pounds current money. He bequeathed 400 Pounds to the Independent Congregational Church in Charleston. St. Bartholomew Parish elected him in special elections to the 13^th & 19^th Royal Assemblies, but he declined to serve in each instance. When elected to the 20^th Royal Assembly, he agreed to serve. He was a Justice of the Peace for Colleton County, SC.

James Matthews married first to Elizabeth Wilkins before 1734, and some of the children below are theirs.

[James Mathew’s married on 29 March 1750 to Charlotte Godin. Who was this James Matthews?]

They had the following children according to the Will of his brother George Matthews in 1768:

1. John Matthews

2. Mary Matthews, married 23 July 1746 to Thomas Lloyd, widower of Sarah Lamboll, deceased. Mary’s children:

a. Thomas Lloyd

b. Martha Lloyd

3. Martha Matthews married ______ Godin.

[James Matthews died about 1745 in South Carolina. Obvioulsy this death year given is incorrect

if he married Charlotte Godwin in 1750.]

Charles Town Gaxette:

“Last Wednesday died also, Mr. James Matthews, worth a very considerable Fortune: a Gentleman

much esteemed in his Life, and whose Death is generally regretted. (Monday, July 22, 1745)”

V. John Matthews [after 1719, before 1730 – 13 May1759, SC] was a son of Capt. Anthony Matthews & wife Lois.

On 10 November 1741, John Matthews married Sarah Gibbes, daughter of Col. John Gibbes, and Mary Woodward. They issued four children:

1. John Matthews [1744, SC - 26 Oct. 1802, Charleston, SC] married 4 Dec. 1766 Mary Wragg in Colleton, SC, married 5 May 1799 Sarah Rutledge, d/o John Rutledge & Sarah Hext.

2. Lois Matthews, married 14 Feb, 1764 George Abbot Hall

3. Ann Matthews, married Godin Gurerard

3. Elizabeth Matthews, married Thomas Hayward, Jr.

John Matthews died on 13 May 1759.

Charleston Gazette: “On Sunday last died Mr. John Matthews. [Saturday, May 19^th

1759.]”

The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, p. 41:

“…Page 442: Robert Dews of Augusta in the Province of Georgia appoints Mr.

Lawrence of Charles Town, Gentleman, my Attorney, to receive from Mr. John

Matthews…”

VI. Amy Matthews [ - after 1768] was a daughter of Captain Anthony Matthews and wife Lois. Amy Matthews married 10 May 1728 in Charles Town, SC, to Robert Randall and she had at least one son named Robert Randall, who still survived, being called the “only child of Amy Randall,” in 1768. In August of 1730, Robert Randall was occupying one-half of a house owned by Capt. Anthony Matthews on Tradd Street in Charles Town. Also occupied by Amy’s brother, John Matthews dwelled in the other half of this house.

VII. William Matthews [ - between 23 Sept. 1767 and 4 Nov. 1768, SC ] was a son of Capt. Anthony Matthews & wife Lois.

He was a planter on John’s Island in Colleton County, SC, owning over 1,136 acres in addition to his home plantation. He owned 123 slaves, a plantation in Georgia, and a house and Lot in Charleston, SC. St. Andrews Parish elected William Matthews for the 13^th Royal Assembly of the Commons House. St. Bartholomew’s Parish elected him for the 19^th Royal Assembly, but he declined to serve. He served as Tax Collector & Inquirer for St. Andrews Parish, and Vestryman for St. John’s Colleton. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Colleton County, SC.

William Matthews married 10 November 1736 Mary Loughton in St. Phillip’s Parish, Berkley, SC, and had at least 7 children:

1. Anthony Matthews

2. William Matthews

3. Thomas Matthews

4. Susannah Matthews (married 23 Feb. 1775 to Daniel Hall.)

5. Elizabeth Matthews

6. Mary Matthews

7. Ann Matthews

Note that Mary Loughton had a sister named Ann Loughton that married before 1740 to Benjamin Smith [1717, Berkley, SC – 1770, Newport, RI] who married second to Mary Wragg. Benjamin Smith was related to the Dewes, was a magistrate in 1766, Speaker of the Commons House Assembly 1755-1762, and co-owner of a ship “Friendship” along with Thomas Smith, Jr. Regis in 1757. Merchant Resolve Smith, master, was taken from his ship by French privateer, “The Charming Nelly” in 1762 while Benjamin Smith was commanding.

Sisters Mary Loughton, and Ann Loughton, wives of William Matthews, and Benjamin Smith were mentioned in a Deed to John Daniel, ships carpenter, 2 May 1740, Charleston, SC.

VIII. Sarah Matthews [ca. 1700, Charleston, SC - ] was a daughter of Capt. Anthony Matthews & wife Lois. he married first in 2 Oct.1720, Charles Town, SC to John Croskeys, the only son of Joseph Croskeys. They had two daughters:

1. Elizabeth Croskeys, married 9 March 1735 to Obadiah Wilkins, s/o her stepfather

William Wilkins. Children

2. Margaret Croskeys [1723 – ca. 1747, SC] married ca. 1740, St. Phillips Parish, to Bethel Dewes [ - ] They issued three children:

a. Robert Dewes

b. William Dewes

c. Sarah Louise Dewes, married Thomas Threadcraft.

Sarah Matthews married second 10 Oct.1725 Charles Town, SC to Samuel Lluellin. No issue

known.

Sarah Matthwes married third 13 June1728 Charles Town, SC to William Wilkins. They had:

1. Elizabeth Wilkins

2. Eleanor Wilkins, married 23 May 1750, Charleston, SC to George Sheed

3. Mary Wilkins, married 24 June 1760, Charleston, SC to John Sims White

4. Amelia Wilkins, married William Capers (1732-1762) s/o Richard Capers & Ann Sinclair. Mrs. Amelia Capers, nee Wilkins, was married 2^nd on 3 July 1763 to Peter LeQuieu

5. Lois Wilkins married William Dewes, and had one son:

a. Robert Dewes, born ca. 1745

6. Ann Wilkins

Sarah Matthews married fourth on 19 Jan. 1733 to Archibald Neale - No known issue.

IX. George Matthews [after 1709, Berkley, SC – 13 July 1769, Charleston, SC], gentleman, was a son of Capt. Anthony Matthews & wife Lois.

“Brother, William, deceased…

Brother, James, deceased…

Brother, John, deceased…

Brother, Benjamin, deceased…

Brother, Anthony, deceased…

Sister, Elizabeth Holmes, deceased…

Sister, Amy Randall

Sister, Sarah Neale, her six daughters, and grandchildren…

Nephew. Francis Holmes, deceased, only child of sister Elizabeth Holmes…

And his two children, Ann Simmons,

and Elizabeth Farr

Nephew, Robert Randall...

Nephew, John Matthews, son of brother James Matthews…

Nephew, John Matthews, son of brother John Matthews…

Nephew, Anthony Matthews…

Mentions Thomas Lloyd, and Martha Lloyd, children of Mary Lloyd,

deceased, who was the daughter of brother James Matthews…

50 Pounds Sterling to Messrs: Thomas Lamboll

Alexander Peronneau

George Eveleigh, for benefit of Christian

Society of Protestant Dissenters, called Congregationalists in Charlestown, at

a Brick Meeting house where Rev. Mr. John Thomas is minister…

Niece, Martha Godin, daughter of brother James Matthews

John Matthews,

Lois Hall, wife of George Hall, (married 14 Feb. 1764)

Ann Matthews, Jr.,

and Elizabeth Matthews, Jr, all sons and daughters of brother John

Matthews…

Benjamin Matthews,

Isaac Matthews,

John Matthews,

and George Matthews, all sons of brother Benjamin Matthews…

Ann Graeme, only daughter of brother Anthony Matthews…

David Graeme married on 21 Jan. 1759 to Ann Matthews in Charleston, SC)

Robert Randall, only child of sister Amy Randall…

Eleanor Sheed, wife of George Sheed,

Mary White,

Amelia La Cue, (Wife of Peter Le Cue (sic) LaQuieu. She was former wife of Wm. Capers.)

Elizabeth Wilkins,

and Ann Wilkins, all the daughters of Elizabeth Wilkins, deceased…(nee:

Elizabeth Croskeys, married Obadiah Wilkins, having said daughters above.)

William Dewes, son of Margaret (Croskeys) Dewes, deceased, his sister Sarah

Threadcraft, deceased, Robert Dewes, only son of Lois Dewes…

Daughters and grandchildren of Sarah Neale…

All males to inherit at age 21, and females to inherit at age 21, or marriage…

Estate divided among Legatees as directed…

Executors: 4 Nephews:

Robert Randall

John Matthews, son of James Matthews

John Matthews, son of John Matthews

Anthony Matthews.

Witnesses: Eben. Simmons

William Miller

Richard Baker

Dated: 22 April 1768

CODICIL:

Mentions: Amelia la Cue (sic) LeQuieu, one of six daughters of sister Sarah

Neale;

Mr. George Sheed

Amelia La Cue’s (sic) former husband William Capers, was deceased.

Witness: Ann Jervey

John Fullerton (A cousin of Madam Lilias Skene, Haig, deceased.)

Samuel Pelot.

Proved: 13 July 1769”

[Page 330]

Note: Since there is an obvious discrepancy between the content of the above Will of George Matthews, and his Codicil thereof, regarding the children of Elizabeth (Croskeys) Wilkins, wife of Obadiah Wilkins, and that of Sarah Matthews, Croskeys, Lluellin, Wilkins, Neale, who was married four times, and said discrepancy showing that six daughters were in the Will attributed to Elizabeth Wilkins, while in the Codicil were attributed to Sarah Neale, I have chosen to accept the Codicil as more correct, as it is usually the means for making minor corrections, and additions to the Will.

Charleston, SC, Deed Book Q-5, pp 308-312:

2 September 1769: Robert Randall, John Matthews, Sr., and John Matthews, Junior, gentleman, Executors of the Will of George Matthews, late of Charles Town, deceased, to James Skirving of Charles Town, for 5,860 Pounds of South Carolina money, have of lot on White Point in Charles Town purchased by George Matthews of Joseph Vanderhorst, deceased, part of the real estate of said George Matthews which he directed to be sold by his Will dated 22 March 1768.

Robert Randall (LS,) Jno. Mathews, Senr. (LS,) Jno Mathews Junr. (LS.)

Witnesses: Wm. Oliphant, Richd Hutson. Proved in Charleston District 20 April 1768 before D I. Mazyck, JP. Recorded 20 April 1786

Amory family:

It is likely that the Amory family came to England from Normandy during the

Hastings invasion. For at least 300 - 400 years they occupied the midlands of England in

Oxfordshire. Afterwards they dwelt in Devon, Somerset, & finally some of them went

to Ireland.

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the families of the State of Massachusetts, William Frederick Adams, page 208:

Jonathan Amory (son of Thomas & Ann Elliot, Amory of England) was born ca. 1653/54

in England, and died in the fall of 1699 in Charles Town, Carolina. He spent much of his

youth in Ireland with his elder brother, and became a merchant in Dublin. He married

the widow Rebecca Houston on 31 May 1677 in Dublin, Ireland. Their daughter Judith Amory was baptized in Dublin, St. Andrews Parish on April 1, 1680, and just after May 1682 Johnathan Amory, wife Rebecca and two children, followed his brother Robert Amory from Gallway, to the West Indies. Rebecca Amory, wife of Jonathan, is listed on the records of interment of a church in Barbados.

Jonathan Amory subsequently married in 1685 to his second wife, Martha (Cooke?) in Jamaica. They moved to Charles Town, Carolina that year. On June 10, 1696 Jonathan Amory made a "Deed of Gift" of 60 acres to Joseph Croskeys in consideration of a marriage between Joseph Croskeys & Judith Amory.

By 1700 Sarah Amory, “an infant” is named “the only daughter living” of

“Jonathan Amory, late of Charleston, merchant, deceased.” Jonathan Amory made his Will in 1697 in Charles Town, and perished in the fall of 1699. His wife Martha died two months later. Both made Wills in Charles Town, Carolina.

His five children of record are:

1. Judith Amory, born 1680, and married Joseph Croskeys.

2. Thomas Amory, born 1682, Limerick, Ireland, and died 1728 in Boston, Ma. He came

to Carolina with his father in 1685, and was educated in England with his sister Ann.

He spent the winter of 1720 in Carolina with his sister Sarah Middleton, where he

probably sold a lot of land he inherited from his father to Robert Dews. In 1721 he

married Rebecca Holmes, daughter of Francis Holmes who had a summer home in

Boston.

3. Robert Amory, died young.

4. Ann Amory, married James Ramsey. She was deceased by 1700.

5. Sarah Amory, married Carolina Governor Arthur Middleton.

Croskeys family:

The Croskeys family had roots in Sussex, England. Joseph Croskeys, a mariner, and

merchant, married Judith Amory as his first wife who died about 1698, whereafter

Joseph Croskeys married Marguerite who survived him and was later found living in

Jamaica in 1719. John Croskeys was a son of Joseph Croskeys [ - 1701, Charles Town,

Carolina] merchant & mariner, and his wife Marguerite.

Joseph Croskeys, mariner, made his Will on Dec. 2, 1700, in Charles Town, SC. It

names his brothers John, William, & James Croskeys, the latter two who are dwelling

in Bermuda. It also mentions his sister Elizabeth Mills of Bermuda. His Will mentions

only one son, John Croskeys, the same who married Sarah Matthews in Charles Town,

SC.

John Croskeys was married to Sarah Matthews on October 2, 1720 in St. Phillip’s Parish, SC. John Croskeys died - his Will made March 15, 1722, in Charleston. Their last daughter, Margaret Croskeys was unborn at the time that John Croskeys made his Will. John Croskeys died on March 19, 1722. Margaret Croskeys married Bethel Dew.

John's widow Sarah Matthew’s, Croskeys widow, married Samuel Lluellin on Oct. 10, 1724 in St. Phillip’s Parish.

After Samuel’s death Sarah Matthews, Croskeys, Lluellin married William Wilkins (b. before 1696, owned property on James Island, Berkley, SC, in 1707 - July 4, 1743, SC.) They were married on June 13, 1728 in St. Phillips Parish, Berkley, SC. They issued a daughter Lois Wilkins who married Capt. William Dewes in Carolina.

It is alleged that William Wilkins was born ca. 1690, possibly in Nevis, West Indies, and married first to Elizabeth Davis, a possible daughter of Capt. David Davis from whom he had bought a plantation on James Island in 1706. They issued children William Wilkins, and Eleanor Wilkins before she died. From this data, we may surmise that he was a son of the Welshman John Wilkins who died in St. George Parish, Nevis, West Indies, and his wife Eleanor, he being from Glamorganshire, Wales.

It is also said that one of William Wilkin’s sons by a wife prior to Sarah Matthews Croskeys, was Obadiah Wilkins who married Elizabeth Croskeys, being Sarah’s other daughter by her first husband, John Croskeys.

[Deed Book I, pp 165, 652] 23rd and 24th February 1731: Anthony Mathews,

merchant, & Lois his wife of Charleston, with the free consent of Lois, to John

Morrall (sic) Murrill, planter of Craven County, for 300 Pounds currency, 610

acres in Craven county, part of 2340 acres; also 1 acre more on the north side of

and part of 2340 acres, ¼ mill, English Measure from the bluff; whereas the Hon.

Landgrave Thomas Smith, Esq. on 10 September 1711 sold Anthony Mathews

2340 acres in Craven County, part of the 24,000 acres he purchased from the Hon.

Landgrave Robert Daniel, Esq., now (said) Mathews sells 611 acres. Wit: James

Mathews, John Mathews, John Croft. Before Gabriel Manigault, J. P., Jacob

Motte, Register.

Lois Matthews, widow of Capt. Anthony Matthews, made her Will on

December 3, 1752 in Charleston, SC (Illiterate, she made her mark),. Her Will

was proved on January 6, 1753 [SC Will Book (1752-1756), page 159]:

sons: George Matthews, residue of estate, & Executor.

Benjamin Matthews, Merchant, [ - Dec. 11^th 1754], Lot in Charles Town where he lives.

daughter: Sarah Neal, and her four daughters (Wm Wilkins was

deceased, and Sarah married last to Archibald Neal.)

grandson: Robert Randall (21 years old on 12th of June

next.) Son of dec’d daughter Amy Matthews, Randall [? – June 20^th 1763.]

Benjamin Matthews, Jr.

granddau: Elizabeth Wilkins

Margaret Dews, nee Croskeys, wife of Bethel Dews

g-grandson: Robert Dews (under 15, s/o William Dews & Lois

Wilkins)

Witnesses: William Dandridge

Jacob Axon

Thomas Lamboll

Jacob Axon on 27 Apr. 1736 married Ruth Glazebrook, St.

Phillips Parish, Berkley, SC. He made his Will between 1740-

A Jacob Axon and his wife Mrs. Alice Axon are

mentioned on page 158 of Bermuda Settlers of the 17^th Century.

William Dandridge made his Will in Charles Town Neck on

22 Sept. 1766, witnessed by William Roper, Jr.

Thomas Lamboll, born in 1694, was a lad in Charles Town in

1704, and was attending school at some distance from Charles

Town. In 1712 Thomas Lamboll, who later became a magistrate, was an apprentice to a principal merchant in Charles Town who was appointed Public Treasurer. John Houghton described Thomas Lamboll as “My ingenious friend.” Thomas Lamboll married Peggy Edgar on 14 April 1737 at Ashley Ferry, Berkley, SC.

In 1762 Thomas Lamboll, & Thomas Lamboll, Jr. witnessed the Deed of David Mongin, planter of St. Helena Parish, Granville Co., SC, to Daniel Strobel, butcher of Charleston, for a lot in Ansonburgh, Charleston Neck in St. Phillips Parish. Thomas Lamboll died on Oct. 29^th 1774 in SC.

When George Matthews, above son died, his Will, signed on July 13,

1769 in Charleston, SC, mentions the following heirs, among many more:

(1) William Dewes (b. ca. 1746, age 23), son of Margaret (Croskeys) Dewes deceased. He married to Mary Ann Bell, at St. Phillips, on 8 April 1764 (name transcribed as Dewis in error.)

(2) …his sister Sarah Louise Threadcraft, (b. ca. 1745) deceased former wife of Thomas Threadcraft. They were married 30 August 1764 in St. Phillips, Charleston, SC

(3) Robert Dewes, (b. ca. 1745, age 24) “the only son” of Lois

(Wilkins) Dewes. Robert was the only surviving son of William Dewes & Lois Wilkins. He was married 1^st to Susannah Catherine Emory, a daughter of trader Robert Emory & Susannah Catherine Grant. He was married 2^nd to Elizabeth Emory, a daughter of trader William Emory & Mary Grant, and he was married 3^rd to Nancy Augusta Tassel who later became a consort of Alexander Dromgoole she being the youngest daughter of Old Tassel. He may be the same Robert Dewes (Due) that is found dwelling in Edgefield, SC during the 1790 census with a 4^th wife who perhaps was (Mary?) a daughter of Old Scotch Trader James McQueen. At least it is thought that Robert Dew/Due had a descendant named “Osceola Due.”

The implication of this probate is that if either niece had other children,

then these had perished without surviving heir before 1768.

The family of Wilkins in Jamaica was descended of an eminent family of that name in Wales. They were related to Oliver Cromwell, Protector of England, and the branch of the Wilkins family that settled in Nevis & Jamaica were removed from Glamorganshire, Wales.

Although I have not been able to trace the ancestors of William Wilkins, (born before 1707 and was a Surveyor in SC, that died about 1743 (perhaps later?) who possibly married both Mary Matthews, & her sister Sarah Matthews,) to this earlier Wilkins family, of Jamaica, a connection does seem probable. His father’s given name was John Wilkins and his mother’s name was Elinor. His marriage to Mary Matthews is speculative, but the marriage to Sarah Matthews, Croskeys is factual.

Joseph Croskeys was a merchant, and mariner as was Anthony Matthews.

Joseph Croskeys, mariner, merchant, made his Will dated December 2,

1700, proved April 16, 1701. Probate was complete before 1712 in Charleston,

SC. Joseph Croskeys arrived in Charleston, from Bermuda, before June 10, 1696

when he received 60 acres of land as part of a marriage agreement for his

betrothal to Judith Amory, daughter of Jonathan Amory, an influential South

Carolinian who was Speaker of the House of Assembly, and later Advocate

General when the Crown established a Court of the Admiralty in the colonies.

Joseph Croskeys was part owner of the 30 ton Brigantine “The Sea Flower,” and

made his residence on a 120 acre plantation “The Rat Trap” on Charleston Neck.

In 1699 Joseph Croskeys added 60 acres more to his original 60 at the request

of the Amory family. Joseph Croskeys represented Berkley & Craven Counties

in the fourth and fifth House of Commons Assembly during 1696, and he served

until his death in 1701. In 1698 he was Commissioner of the Poor. He was made

a Commissioner to build a Lighthouse on Sullivan’s Island; a Commissioner of

Fortification; Commissioner of the Library; and Powder Receiver, all during

1700. At the time of his death, in 1701, he owned a brick house in Charleston.

His Will names three brothers, John, William, and James Croskeys. The

latter two are living in Bermuda. His Will also mentions a sister Elizabeth Mills

living in Bermuda. His Will only mentions one minor son, John Croskeys, the

same who married Sarah Matthews.

[Deed Book I, p. 378, Book T, p. 602] 3 May 1740: William Matthews & Mary

his wife, and Benjamin Smith & Ann his wife, to John Daniel, ship carpenter of

Charleston, with the full consent of Mary & Ann, for 2800 Pounds, SC money,

the corner part of lot #14, where John Daniel lives, fronting south 19 ft., 3

inches on Broad Street; bounding west 110 feet on Union Street; east on part

same lot occupied by John Beswick, merchant; north on Edward Croft. Mary

& Ann appoint their husbands their attorneys.

Whereas John, Lord Berkley, Palatine, & the Lords Proprs. on 1 Feb. 1678

granted John Bullen lot #14 in Charleston;

who sold it on 6 Feb. 1679 to Edward Middleton, gentleman,

who at the time of his death owned ½ the lot #14 in his own right which was

inherited by his eldest son Henry Middleton, oilman of London;

who on 10 October 1698 sold it for 140 Pounds currency to Joseph Croskeys;

who on 11 December 1698 sold for 120 Pounds currency to Edward Loughton

that part of the half lot bounding south 40 ft., 7 inches, on Broad Street; north 42

feet on William Dry (formerly Peter Hearn); west on a Street or Lane left by

consent of Joseph Croskeys & Edward Loughton between the half lot & part of a

lot owned by the heirs of George Pawley; east on the other part of the half lot

owned by Joseph Croskeys; And whereas Edward Loughton by Will dated 24

December 1707 bequeathed to his son David Loughton all his houses and

buildings in the alley that ran by his corner house to the garden, also the

storehouse to be built at the corner of the garden; also his dwelling house in the

corner after the death of his wife; and whereas David Loughton by Will dated 3

November 1713 bequeathed all his real & personal property to his wife Ann,

who afterward married John Barnet, & afterward married David Hext,

gentleman of Charleston, in whom the property became invested, & joined him

on 17 September 1717 in conveying to John Bee, merchant of Charleston for 550

Pounds SC money, the part of the town lot; who by Will dated 14 January 1724

bequeathed his real & personal estate to his wife Mary Bee; who by Will dated 24

October 1730 left all her property to her two granddaughters Mary Loughton,

and Ann Loughton, wives of William Matthews, and Benjamin Smith, now

they convey to John Daniel as above. Wit: John Rattray, John Johnson. Wit. to

possession & seizen: Richard Shubrick, William Franklin, John Rattray. Before

Robert Austin, J. P., & Pub. Reg.

In 1747, the Little Chief of the Choctaw Indians, and a representative of the Chickasaw Indians, with their Interpreter, came to Charleston, SC, where they entered into a trade Treaty with the City of Charleston, in return for attacking French Trading Posts.

The Papers of Henry Laurens, p. 30:

“To Bethel Dewes [Charles Town, 20^th July, 1747]

Sir,

As there is an immediate necessity to collect Moneys due to the late Mr. Henry Laurens in order to pay off his debts, so I must inform you that your note to him for 72 Pounds has been long due, and must desire you will discharge same in a few weeks, or if that is not within your power, please to let me know what security you can give for payment of it in a longer time. Shall esteem the favor of an answer, and I am your most humble servant.”

In 1748, Bethel Dews (age 31) of St. Georges Parish, Berkley County, South Carolina, claimed sixteen Pounds, twelve Shillings, and six Pence, being for provisions supplied to the Indians on their way to and from Charles Town. It being for provisions and liquor for the Little King of the Chactaws, a Chicaesaw Indian, and their Interpreter.

In 1748, Wm. Dew’s associate, and partner, Patrick Brown acquired a grant of 500 acres part on Onslow Island, next to Argyle Island, at “Withrington’s Bluff” stating his intentions to plant Indigo. Four years later in about 1752, Capt. William Dewes acquired land on adjacent Argyle Island in the Savannah River, about 30 miles south of Augusta.

South Carolina Deed Abstracts 1719-1772, p 280:

“Deed Book M-M, p. 170, June 20^th & 21^st 1749, Lease & Release:

Mary Blaymer, widow of Charleston, to Edward Rawlins, planter, for 55

Pounds currency, 450 acres in Berkley County, bounding W on John Dewren; E on Bethel Dews; S, & N on vacant land. Witnesses: Mary Wright, William Mouat, John Fairchild. Before Moses Thomson, J. P. On March 26^th 1750 Edward Rawlings released his release to William Vants. William Hopton, Register.”

“Deed Book M-M, p. 174, Mar. 25^th & 26^th 1750, Lease and Release:

Edward Rawlins, planter, to William Vants, planter, for 75 Pounds

currency, 450 acres in Berkley County, bounding W on John Drewen; E

on Bethel Dews; S, & N on vacant land. Witnesses: Moses Tompson,

Thomas Carter, Charles Colleton. Before Alexander Stewart, J. P.

William Hopton, Register.”

In 1751, Bethel Dewes (age 34) was on Pettit Jury in Dorchester, St. Georges Parish, SC.

Also in 1751, Bethel Dewes petitioned for a resurvey of some Charleston town lots originally held by the estate of William Rousham.

In 1752, Bethel Dews, (age 35) of St. Georges Parish, Berkley County, SC, a planter, made a Petition to the Assembly regarding Lots # 136 & #137 in Charleston, which had been taken over…

April 8^th 1752: Petition for land in Georgia: Wm. Dews, requested 500 acres, west end of Argyle Island, Savannah River. The Board Ordered that 300 acres be laid out for the said William Dews where he requested. [Historical Collections of Georgia, p 35] Georgia Grant Book A, pages 86, & 218 says that Wm. Dews had grants finalized for 300 acres on Argyle Island, and 150 acres on Wilmington Island in the Savannah River in the year of 1756. I do not know if this is a erroneous date transcription, or if perhaps the applications for both tracts were made in 1752, while the subsequent survey and final documentation were completed in 1756.

“Friday, 15^th day of December 1752: President & Assistants read a Petition of Mr. John Rae of Augusta setting forth, that he was desirous of improving lands in these parts; therefore he requested 400 acres of land in two places; namely 300 acres on Argyle Island in Savannah River lying between land laid out for Mr. Wm. Dews, & Mr. James Deveaux, Junr., and 100 acres on Pipemaker’s Creek, bounded north by the creek, west by lands possessed by Mr. Morrell, east by lands possessed by Mr. Patrick Graham, and south by vacant land. The board Ordered a Warrant for the surveyor to lay out said 400 acres for the said John Rae agreeable to his request.” [Colonial Records of Georgia, p 381]

A partial List of Licensed Traders from South Carolina 1750 - 1754 yields:

To the Creeks: To the Cherokees:

Patrick Brown Robert Emory

Daniel Clark Robert Goudy

Lachland McGilvray Lodowick Grant

John Rae Bernard Hughes

Isaac Barksdale James Adair

In 1755, William Dewes, (age about 34) Indian Merchant of Savannah, Partner: Mr. Daniel Clarke, Mr. Laughlin McGillvray, of Augusta, Mr. Thomas Corker, of Charleston, all merchants, were all named Executors of the Estate of Patrick Brown, at Augusta, Ga. [Patrick Brown, trader at Augusta, was a brother of Thomas Brown, trader at Congaree (d. 1747).] Patrick’s Creek in Richmond County, SC, was probably named for him. On Charleston, SC, Deeds Patrick Brown is described as “an Indian merchant.” Patrick Brown in his Will proved June 8 1758, left all his property to Alexander Brown of Dublin, Ireland. His heir, a “gilder and carver” apparently embarked immediately for America to claim this land, and in 1760 he was granted Patrick Brown’s 500 acres in confirmation of his inheritance, as well as the upper half of Onslow Island, 245 acres. Apparently Patrick Brown had no other male heirs that survived him.

Patrick Brown & his brother Thomas Brown came from Northern Ireland near Dublin about 1730. Both entered the Indian Trade, first with the Catawbas, Wateree, & Cherokees, but when Augusta, Georgia developed in 1735, Patrick Brown began trading with the Creeks, Seminoles, and Chickasaw while his brother Thomas traded out of the old Fort Congaree trading post, but claimed 250 acres near Ninety-Six, fifty miles inland along the trading path to the Cherokees. Both Thomas & Patrick Brown had left wives & families behind in Ireland, but both had families with Indian wives as a consequence of their trading activities. Thomas Brown had mixed blooded sons, Thomas, and Patrick Brown by a Nottawa wife after he was first captured. His son, Thomas Brown, Jr. was killed at Congaree in 1748, but Patrick Brown inherited his father’s lands near Congaree, after their father was killed in 1747.

There is a remote possibility that Capt. William Dewes was a son-in-law of Patrick Brown in 1755, who could have been married to one of Patrick Brown’s mixed-Indian daughters. It is also noticed that his possible mother-in-law was perhaps nee: ____Lang, a daughter of Robert Lang, Jr., a trader of Congaree, and his apparently mixed Indian wife “Melasante,” also called Millicent. The brothers Thomas Brown & Patrick Brown, may have married mixed Indian wives who were sister, and daughters of trader Robert Lang a man with whom they were associated. However, It is also observed that Dewes may have been included in the Will of Patrick Brown simply in order to protect his interests in their past trade partnership, and may not indicate a marriage to one of his daughters. The following land memorial, and other records reveal a closeness of friendship:

Robert Lang, Senior and his son Robert Lang, Junior were among the traders who settled on Occoneechee Creek between 1713 & 1725. These traders from Chowan, Bertie, & Edgecomb, NC would take the Indian trail south in late fall to the Chickasaw, and Cherokee winter camps along the bluff of the Broad River. Between 1736 & 1741 his name appears in land plats of Sax Gotha.

Royal Grants, Vol. 42, page 123:

King George III, to Robert Lang, Jr., 150 acres in Saxe Gotha Township in Berkley

County, on the Santee River, adjacent to land laid out to Robert Lang, Sr., dated 5 (unk.) 1742. Both were in the Congaree prior to 1737 as Cherokee & Chickasaw traders.

Land Memorials, Vol. 7, page 63:

A Memorial exhibit by William Seawright to be registered…150 acres in Berkley County, on Santee River, adjacent to land laid out to Robert Lang, Sr., originally granted 5 June 1742 to Robert Lang, Jr. and was by said Robert Lang and Melasante (an Indian name) his wife 11 May 1744 conveyed to Thomas Brown who dying intestate the same descended to his heir-at-law, Patrick Brown who conveyed 16 June 1748 to the Memoralist… dated 14 June 1754.

[Note that the Indian name “Melasante” is equivalent to “Millicent,” and thus she could have been an Indian daughter of an early skin trader named Laurens. See below Court proceeding about a NC, Deed in Laurens Co., SC.]

William Seawright was a relative of Elizabeth Seawright, the last wife of George Haig, a 3^rd cousin once removed of Obadiah Haig..

Robert Lang was among the Rangers enlisted “living in the Saluda” by Capt. James Francis in April 1748 because of the capture of George Haig by Indians, the murder of a trader in the Cherokees, and other threats of Indian outbreak.

In 1756 Robert Lang, Sr. went to the upper Saluda, and his son Robert Lang Jr. to Crimm’s Creek, a branch of the Broad River. In 1757, Robert Lang asked the Commons House of South Carolina to pay him 20 Pounds for the plundering of cattle and goods, and burning of his house by the Cherokees. [Events leading up to the Great Cherokee War in 1759.]

Laurens County, SC, Court Records. P 160:

Regarding an Edgecomb County, NC, Deed:

Robert Lang, and wife Millicent Laurens, C. T. Deed N4-357,

Oldest son Richard Lang, and wife Sarah, to Daniel Williams of Halifax County, Va., 250 acres on Reedy River, of Saluda, originally granted to John Reed Nov. 5^th 1755, conveyed to Robert Lang on March 1 and 2, 1756.

[This poorly written abstract leaves us in a situation of ambiguity, unable to determine if Robert Lang’s wife Millicent was nee, Laurens, or if the Court Proceedings were simply taking place in Laurens County regarding the Deed. If the latter were the case, then this information was placed inappropriatly in the abstract. A review of the original is necessary. – SD]

Edgefield County, North Carolina Deed Books:

Deed Book K-4. 11-12:

“Lease, May 26^th 1769, Richard Lang, deceased, to Daniel Williams of Halifax County, Virginia, for 10 Shillings, 250 acres on a branch of Saludy River called Reedey River, originally granted to John Read on Nov. 5^th 1755, and conveyed 1 & 2 March 1756 from John Read to said Robert Land (sic.) deceased, and has legally descended from said Robert, deceased, to his eldest son Richard Lang.

Witness: Jacob Bowman, George Wright, Jr., Hans Hendrick.

Receipt for 60 Pounds signed by Jacob Bowman, ___ 28^th 1770. Wit: Nimrod Williams.”

Deed Book N-4, 356-360:

“May 26^th 1769: Richard Land (sic) eldest son and heir at law of Robert Lang, deceased, and Sarah Lang, and Millicent Lang, the relict, and Executrix of the LW&T of said Robert Lang, for 600 Pounds South Carolina money, to Daniel Williams of Halifaz County, Virginia, 250 acres granted to John Read (sic) on Nov. 5^th 1755, conveyed by indenture by said John Read (sic) to said Robert Lang, deceased.

Richard Lang (LS)

Sarah Lang (LS)

Millicent Lang ® (LS)

Wit: Jacob Bowman

George Wright, Junior

Hance Hendrick

Aug. 12^th 1769

Recorded: Jan. 19^th 1775.”

Robert Lang (Sr.) perished in 1763. On Dec. 30^th 1763 his property was sold at David Webb’s place.

The LW&T of Robert Lang, Jr., Planter, was made on August 13^th 1762 in the Province of South Carolina, and was proved by Thomas Boone, Esq., before Thomas Bell, Esq., on July 22^nd 1763. [Charleston, SC, Will Book, A-11, p. 63, 1767-1773] Abstract:

“ to wife, Millicent Lang, one Negro man, and one Negro girl…

The remainder of my estate, after debts, to be equally divided among my children, except

100 acres of land where I now live, tract, I give to Thomas Largen my Son-in-Law.

Executors: Millicent Lang, my wife (Had her name become Anglicized?)

Richard Lang, my son

Witnesses: Andrew Brown

Daniel Burnett

Henry Foster

Date: Aug. 13^th 1762, SC

Proved: July 22^nd 1763, SC”

Thomas Brown, Indian Trader of Congaree made a Petition in 1735, regarding land he had purchased from the Indians, saying that his family was among the few inhabitants residing in “that remote part of the country.”

“That in the year A. D. 1735, and for several years before, having been a lycensed

trader to the Cattawbaw Indians, he carried on considerable trade from the place

of his residence near Congaree Old Fort, and used frequently to pass and repass

from said Congarees to the Cattawbaw Nation, by which means he became

aquainted with the goodness of the lands upon the Santee, and Wateree Rivers,

particularly the Wateree lands, and the Indians living and residing upon same.

That there are very few inhabitants in that remote part of the country besides

your petitioner’s family, and to introduce whites, he proceeded to secure a body

of land between the Santee & Wateree Rivers, inhabited by the Wateree Indians,

not settled, inhabited, or claimed by any white person. That by Deed of

Feoment, he purchased the lands of the Waterees, as far up as Catawba Ford,

with livery of seizing, on March 13, 1735. That the Wateree Indians were the

natural rightful owners and possessors of said lands, not having forfeited same,

and there was no law, at the time, prohibiting purchase of land from the Indians.

But that a subsequent Act of Assembly declared all future and past purchases of

lands from Indians void…”

Note that in 1719 there was a Patrick Browne & a John Welsh, Senior counted on Monserrat Island, West Indies, in the White River Division.

However, it is realized that there a legitimate reason that Patrick Brown might have appointed William Dews as one of his Executors, other than being married to one of his daughters. That reason might have been to protect Dew’s interest in the coalition of Brown’s partners in the Indian Trade. So even thought the name Brown appears as a middle name in some William Dews descendants generations downstream, he may have been already married to his wife Mary Lee (documented in 1764,) when Patrick Brown made his 1755 Will. No proof has been found that would decisively clear up this matter.

Statutes Enacted by the Royal Legislature of Georgia, p. 88:

“May 7^th 1755 – And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that the lands from Springs Bridge over Musgrove’s Creek to the village of Goshen, the inhabitants to the north west on the river Savannah, and settlements on the islands of the said river, and the inhabitants to the west to Pipemaker’s Creek and the plantation of Joseph Gibbons, and the settlements to the north of James Habersham, Sen., and James Habersham, Junr., and the plantation of Jonathan Bryan to the east of Savannah, shall be the Northwest District, and that:

Jonathan Bryan John Hamm

William Francis Joseph Gibbons

William Dews Isaac Young

Shall be, and are hereby appointed Surveyors of the High-Ways of the said District.”

On 9 January 1755, Bethel Dewes was one of many signers of a Petition to the South Carolina House of Commons, on behalf of a Joseph Koger.

In 1756, Bethel Dews (age 39) was enumerated on a muster roll for taxation, and was found in Greenville District, SC, a place which was still mostly Cherokee Lands, that year, and still occupied by Cherokees, and only a few white traders, and militia.

Also in 1756, two grants to William Dews located on River Islands in the Savannah River were finalized (survey completed, and filed.) One of these was for 150 acres on Wilmington Island, Christ Church Parish, (later Chatham County) west of Savannah, Georgia. The other was 300 acres on Argyle Island several miles upstream. I think that applications for both tracts were filed in 1752.

Colonial Georgia Wills:

Daniel Clark: Augusta, Indian Trader, (& native of Strathnairn, Scotland,) but now of Charleston, sick in body.

Will written 19 April 1757; proved 13 May 1757; recorded 23 June

1757,

“friends: Alexander Petrie & wife

John McQuin (sic) & wife & daughter Anne

George Summers & wife Henrietta

Alexander, son of Mary Dicks

Lauchlan McGilvray

Alexander McGilvray & wife

Robert Brisbane

James Parsons

John McGilvray

William Struthers, books

William McGilvray, books

Mr. Morrison, minister of the Scotch Meeting House in

Charlestown 25 Pounds.

Brother: Alexander Clark, Parish of Patty near Castle Steuarth near Inverness, In North Britain.

Brother-in-law: Alexander Clark, former merchant of Inverness

Elecutors: Alexander Petrie

Laughlin McGilvray

John McQuin (sic)

John McQueen [ - Nov. 9^th 1762, Charleston, SC] - An eminent

merchant.

James Parsons

Witnesses: Hannna Patchable

James Parsons

John McQuin (sic)

John McQueen”

Nov. 8^th 1757, Isaac Barksdale made his Will. He had been a business partner of Indian Trader John Rae, of Augusta. By the terms of his Will, Barksdale freed two adult female slaves; Nanney, and Nancy, along with Nancy’s two muloto children named Johney, and Salley. He bequeathed his other slaves to several heirs; Jane (Jean?) Rae, daughter of John Rae, was to have two slaves. There were other heirs. During the 1760’s Jean/Jane Rae married John Someville, but she became a widow in 1773. Upon her death six years later, she freed three of her inherited slaves; Nancy, Tom, and Bob.

Bethel Dewes made his LW&T on November 16^th 1758 in St. Paul’s Parish, SC. All three of his children are minors (born after 1740.) His wife has already perished. He mentions:

“All my Negros, cattle, horses, household goods, and personal estate to be disposed. After my debts, and funeral expenses are paid, the remaining money to be put at interest. My Executors empowered and directed to my sons, and my daughter their equal share, and dividend of the money.

I give and bequeath my eldest son William Dewes, when he arrives at age, my tract of land containing 250 acres situated in St. George’s Parish.

I will and desire that all my children shall be educated and maintained in common out of the money at interest until they arrive at the age of twenty-one.

I will and desire that all my children shall be bound out to some trade as my Executors think proper.

Date: Nov. 16^th, 1758: (Seal) Bethell Dewes

Executors, and Guardians: John McQueen

Maurice Harvey

Witnesses: Jacob Ladson

Abraham Roulain

Rob. Miller, Junr.”

In the wake of the Jacobite Rebellions, prisoners captured at Preston and ordered to be transported to South Carolina included among others John McQueen, Alexander McQueen, and David McQueen . These three prisoners were said to be brothers of which Alexander and David disembarked at Charles Town from the ship “Wakefield” that came from Liverpool April 21^st 1716. However it is alleged that John McQueen disembarked at Virginia where he became indentured.

Another shipload of said prisoners came to Charles Town, South Carolina on the “Susannah” from Liverpool May 7^th 1716. Among the passengers who disembarked at Charles Town was a John McQuin who may have been the man called “Old John McQueen.” This has not been proved, so the origin of the John McQueen in question in Bethel Dewe’s Will has not been established.

The Stiles famiy in America, p. 679:

Capt. John McQueen of South Carolina, who married Ann, daughter of Archibald Smith, came to Georgia as a private secretary to General Ogelthorpe (1733,) having left home to avoid becoming a Clergyman.

Historical Collections of Georgia D. A. R., p. 311:

George Rout, folio 69, Feb. 17, 1733 of Charleston, SC, Gent., to John McQueen of St. Paul’s Parish, Colleton, SC, 300 acres on Spirit Creek, Richmond Co., Ga. Test: Benj. Waller, William Print.

SCHM:

1760: South Carolina Court Cases: John McQueen, John Berwicke, and Maurice Harvey – vs. – Robert Miller.

Death Notices in the South Carolina Gazette, p. 30:

Saturday, Nov. 13^th 1762 Issue: Tuesday morning, died John McQueen, Esq. eminent Merchant here.

John McQueen was a merchant and Indian Trader. Records kept by Col. Isaac Hayue state that John McQueen perished Nov. 9^th 1770. [SCHM] Of course these last two records indicate that there were two men of the same or similar name in the province who died within eight years of each other. Perhaps both appeared on Daniel Clarke’s Will.

Maurice Harvey witnessed the Aug. 1723 Will of Alexander Collins, Gentleman of Berkley County, Province of Carolina: Abstract of his Will:

“Wife Sarah,

Brother, Jonah Collins, land at Bull’s Island formerly belonging to my father John Collins,

deceased.

Mentions: Elizabeth Russell, under 16 years of age and unmarried, daughter of my sister Jane, wife

of Stephen Russell.

Arthur Hall, and his wife Martha,

Benjamin and Anne Parrott, under 16 years of age and unmarried, son and daughter of

My brother William Parrot.

Children of brother Arthur Hall: Sarah, Elizabeth, Arthur, Robert, and Martha all under 16

years of age and unmarried.

Sister-in-Law: Katherine, wife of David Abbot, mariner.

Cousin: John Wilson

Mrs. Margaret Wilson, wife of Moses Wilson

Daniel Fidling and Elizabeth his wife

Isaac Holmes, and John Wilson, sons of said Margaret Wilson.

John Alexander, son of John White, shipwright of province.

Thomas Lamboll of Charles City.

Executors: Arthur Hall

Moses Wilson

Witnesses: Maurice Harvey,

Gar. Van Velson,

Robt. Brewton,

Thomas Lloyd,

Thomas Lamboll

Dated Aug. 1723

Proved Aug, 14^th 1724

Recorded: Aug. 20^th 1724”

Maurice Harvey was a merchant, and Indian Trader. Records kept by Col. Isaac Hayue state that Maurice Harvey perished May 29^th 1770 in SC. [SCHM.] His wife was Dorcus.

On 25 Oct. 1770, William Greenwood, and William Higginson, London Merchants, who survived one John Berwick & Company, in the Court of Common Pleas in Charleston, obtained a judgment of 2773 Pounds, 7 Shillings, 11 Pence, and 73 Pounds, 12 Shillings, 1 Pence for their costs and charges to be levied against the goods & chattels of Maurice Harvey in the custody of the Administrix, Dorcas Harvey, she being the highest bidder on 592 acres of land belonging to the estate of Maurice Harvey in St. George’s Parish, Berkley, SC.

Jacob Ladson was born ca. 1724, and christened on Oct. 25^th 1724 in St. Andrews Parish, Charleston, SC. He married Elizabeth Perry. He died in May of 1750 leaving slaves to children: Jacob Ladson, Robert Ladson, and Kisia Ladson. The aforesaid son Jacob Ladson was a Constable, and owned land in Colleton, and Berkley Counties, SC during 1760.

Abraham Roulain was born in London on July 27^th 1708, and christened on August 8^th 1708 at the Church on Glasshouse Street, at Leicester Fields, French Huguwest, Westminster, London, England. He was a son of Jaques Roulain, and wife Madellene Courtois who were refugee French Hugunots. Abraham Roulain married Mariann (Mary Ann) Guerin on December 6^th 1733 at St. Thomas, and St. Dennis Parish, Charles Town, Carolina. Her sister, Susannah Elizabeth Guerin married Robert Howe. He was a relation of Bethel Dews. Abraham Roulain was a Cabinetmaker of Charles Town, and died in ca. 1760, and a relation by marriage to Bethel Dews.

A Robert Miller, Junr. was counted on the 1725 census of St. George’s Parish, Berkley, SC. Another Robert Miller, Junr., born on Aug. 29^th 1760, was a Lieutenant in the Tory militia in Abbeville District, SC. When the War ended he departed for the Spanish Territory in Florida.

In 1759, Indian Trader John Rae held 550 acres, but by then he had a wife, two children, and 36 slaves. He sought 800 additional acres of land at McBean Swamp near Augusta.

SC Wills, Charleston County, Vol. 8, (1757-1763,) pp 299-300:

In about 1759, Bethel Dews (age 42) perished in SC. His wife Margaret Croskeys who was born about 1723 in Charleston, preceded her husband in death before he made his November 16^th 1759 Will in St. Paul’s Parish, SC.

Since it was made about the time of the beginning of the Great Cherokee War, it may have been at the start of this War that Bethel Dews perished at age 41, or thereabouts. A descendant of this family Clyde Rogers, names all three of his children & heirs:

2^nd Son: Robert Dews

[He was apparently deceased without heir before 1768, because the Probate of the estate of his great uncle, George Matthews, did not mention him at all, but did mention siblings William and Sarah Louise Dew, although the latter was deceased.]

1^st Son: William Dewis (sic) Dewes (eldest son, named heir of

George Matthews in 1768. He married Mary Ann Bell in St. Phillips, on 8 April 1764.)

3^rd child: Sarah Louise Dews (married Thomas Threadcraft 30 Aug.

1764 in St. Phillips, Charleston, SC.) Son: Bethel Threadcraft [She was deceased before 1768,

according to the Probate of George Matthews’ estate, but had heirs.]

Son, Bethel Baker Threadcraft (1765 Charleston, SC - 1814,

Charleston, SC), married first Margurite Poyas on Jan. 8, 1793

in Charleston, SC. Married second to Sarah Yates on Jan. 17,

1804 in Charleston, SC.

Daughter, Mary Baker Threadcraft (1794, Charleston, SC - Dec.

30, 1877, Aiken, Barnwell, SC) Married John Ralph

Rogers April 8, 1813, in Cainhoy, Berkley, SC.

Daughter, Ann Margaret Threadcraft (1800, Charleston, SC - ?)

Married George Thompson ca. 1816 Charleston, SC.

Georgia Grant Book B, page 512:

“John Morrell, 500 acres on Wilmington Island, Christ Church Parish, Chatham County, Georgia, granted September 25^th 1760, bounded on the south by William Dews, on all other sides by Warsaw (sic) Wassaw Creek, and Tybee Creek, and marshes of same.”

Apparently the date of Dews original grant application for this 150 acre tract of land on Wimington Island, and also for 300 acres on Argyle Island were both made in 1752, but completed in 1756. However, the Great Cherokee War was raging at this time (1760,) Dews & family were retired from “Dewe’s Corner” to some reasonably safe property he owned, possibly this tract, or one on Argyle Island, upstream, or at a place near Charleston, SC, perhaps Timicau Island. The Wilmington Island land may have been the location of his early trading post near Savannah.

House of Commons Assembly Records for South Carolina: ca. 1761 (see Hembree research of Larry Petrisky)

William Dewes, a Charleston merchant, had a trading post on the Great Cherokee Trail, located between Ft. Ninety-Six, and the Cherokee town of Keowee on the Savannah River. [This river was called by the Cherokees, the “Keowee River,” and was where Ft. Prince George was built near this village.] Richard Fields, Elias Harlan, Ezekiel Buffington, and his son Robert Dews were all employed by William Dewes at his trading post called “Dewes Corner,” and sometimes as “Dewe’s Inn.” Later it was referred to as “Due West.”

I defer to the research of Larry Petrisky for most of the following information.

Richard Fields (Jr.) [ca. 1744] came to SC from England, Virginia, or Barbados with his father Richard Fields (Sr.) by 1754. His father was reimbursed by Carolina in Jan. 1755 for a slave that was executed for poisoning. [SC Commons Journal, Jan. 8^th 1755 – Mar. 12^th 1755] Richard Fields (Jr.) was working at Dewes Corner Trading Post in 1761. He met and married ca. 1765/6 a young mixed Cherokee Susannah Emory [b. 1750] near Charleston, Goose Creek. Richard Fields acquired land in 1766 on the Savannah River, Carolina side that later became Abbeville. [Langley SC Deeds, III, 305] Richard Fields was in Indian Trade with the Creeks in Upper Georgia by 1770, and died about 1781 in the Revolutionary War, probably a British Soldier, or Loyalist. Richard & Susannah Emory, Fields issued seven children.

The Harlans & Buffingtons were related Quaker families from Pennsylvania that came to South Carolina about 1754. They settled in Abbeville, owning land on Turkey Creek. In Feb. 1758 Ezekiel Buffington (whose mother was Mary Harlan, a d/o Ezekiel Harlan & Hannah Oborn) requested a grant of 100 acres on the Broad River about 60 miles north of Augusta, Georgia. In about 1760 Ezekiel Buffington married a white woman and worked on his father’s farm in Abbeville, but by 1761 (Just after the Great Cherokee War) he had given up farming and was working at Dewes Corner with his uncle Elias Harlan. About this time, Ezekiel Buffington took up with the mixed Cherokee Elizabeth Emory, a sister of Susannah Emory, and issued a daughter Mary Buffington. In 1767 Ezekiel Buffington took Elizabeth Emory to find her family who were scattered in the recent war. In 1769 Ezekiel Buffington’s father died, and he returned to his white family in Abbeville having matters of urgency to attend. After waiting about ten months, Elizabeth Emory, Buffington took up with Robert Dews, and issued a daughter. When Ezekiel Buffington returned, and discovered his wife married to Dews, he married her widowed sister Mary Emory, Fawling. They issued six children in NC, and Georgia. In the late 1780s Ezekiel Buffington appears in Pendleton District, SC near his uncle Elias Harlan. The Buffingtons & Harlans moved to Georgia before 1805. Ezekiel Buffington perished in that part of Jackson County, Georgia that became Hall County. He died in 1817/18.

Elias Harlan [ca. 1731, Chester Co., Pn. – ca. after 1810 in Georgia or Tennessee] He was a son of Ezekiel Harlan & Hannah Oborn. He married Catherine “Ka-Ti” Kingfisher, Candy, Walker, (twice married before) a Cherokee daughter of Kingfisher, and Nancy (Ward.)

During the Great Cherokee War Colonel James Grant’s Expedition against the Cherokees, made early in 1761, “reached Fort Ninety Six on the 17th day out of Charleston (on May 14, 1761), it reached Turkey Creek on the 19th day, and it reached “Dews Corner” on the 20th Day.”

Records prove that Capt. William Dewes established his Trading Post at that location before the Great Cherokee War began in 1759 for certainly he would not have ventured to build there on the boundary of the Cherokee Nation during a time of greatest peril & bloody fighting. This war was synonymous with the French-Indian War, occurring at its end.

This trading post, originated by Capt. William Dewes, has been called “Dews Corner, Dewes Corner, Duetts Corner, Dewitts Corner, and Dewisses Corner” in various records. It was located on a stream called the “Yellow Water,” a branch of the Savannah River, and in later times it was called “Due West” a name by which it is known today.

On Mar. 7^th 1764, William Dews, & wife Mary Dews sold 450 acres of land, a plantation called “Dewes,” on Wilmington Island, Christ Church Parish, Georgia to Jonathan Bryan for 100 Pounds Georgia currency. [Georgia Deed Book S, pa. 12-13]

The Georgia Frontier, p. 58:

Jonathan Bryan [1708, SC – 1788, Brampton, near Savannah, Ga.] was captured, along with his son James, by the British in 1779, and held prisoner in New York for two years. Jonathan Bryan married Mary Williamson [1722-1781.] His children were:

1. Hugh

2. Jonathan, died young

3. Joseph

4. William

5. James m: Elizabeth Langley

6. Mary m: John Morel

G. Josiah Bryan [1746-1774] married about 1770 to Elizabeth Pendarvis. Josiah, Gentleman, and wife Elizabeth, resided at “Dewes,” a plantation of 450 acres on Wilmington Island, Georgia.

7. John

8. Elizabeth

9. Hannah, m: John Houstoun, son of Sir Patrick Houstoun.

10. Ann

11. Sarah Janet Bryan.

The elder Thomas Lee is said to have arrived in Georgia in 1735.

Mary Dews, wife of William Dews was probably Mary Lee, a daughter of Thomas Lee, the issue of his former unknown wife before he married Rebecca Tripp. It is believed that Rebecca cohabitated with Capt. David Mongin in 1741, the year before she married Thomas Lee. This is not confirmed. The heirs of Thomas Tripp were named in a Grant finalized on Sept. 4^th 1770. These heirs were:

Rebecca Lee, wife of Thomas Lee (a daughter)

David Snook

Mary Dews, wife of William Dews (a granddaughter)

Grace Lyon, [nee: Tripp] wife of John Lyon

Sarah Trip, spinster

Ann Trip, spinster, all being heirs of Thomas Tripp deceased.

The Thomas Lee, the elder, whose wife was given above, was a Georgia Trust Servant for 10 years, who embarked from Barbados on May 14^th 1735 to the Georgia Colony. His first wife may have been a Tripp too, but this is unproved. It is said that members of the Lee family were all descendants of the “de Lee” family who came from Normandy with the Knights of the Hastings Invasion. Some of them lived in Scotland.

Page 337, Proceedings and Minutes of the Georgia Assembly:

“April 1765: Ordered: On the Petition of John Rae that his Majesty’s grant for 250 acres of land partly on the Euchee Island situated 12 miles above Augusta, and partly on the Main opposite the said Island, do pass in the name of John Rae, Junr, agreeable to the Will of Isaac Barksdale to whom the premises were originally allotted, and that the Surveyor General do prepare and certify a plan of the said land accordingly.”

A William Dewes supplied food to the Royalists in Georgia during the Revolutionary War (1776 - 1782.)

A Bethel Dews that was born ca. 1787 in South Carolina, was enumerated on the 1860 Census of St. Luke’s Parish of South Carolina. He had a Federal mail contract.

180/165 Bethel Dews 73 m w US Mail Contract SC (b. 1780)

Sarah E. 70 f w (wife) SC

Mary C. 28 f w school mistress SC

This Bethel Dews was undoubtedly a great-nephew of William Dewes, probably

by way of his brother’s son named William Dews, the issue of Bethel Dewes.

The Robert Dewes, who was working at Dewe’s Corner for his father, William Dewes, could have been born no earlier than 1745, unless he was a pre-marital baby. Robert Dewes/Dews was a teenager when it was noted that he was working at Dewes Corner. He was almost certainly the man regarded by Emmitt Starr, Cherokee genealogist as an Englishman, and a Fur Trader among the Cherokees, but it was actually his great-grandfather who first came to the Caribbean “New World” from England. Scot blood also flowed in Robert’s veins.

Thus Robert Dews, Indian Fur Trader, was apparently the only known son of William Dews, a Charleston merchant & Indian Trader, & his wife Lois Wilkins.

Robert Dews, Indian Fur Trader, was also a grandson of Robert Dews, a Charleston Bricklayer from Barbados, & his wife Mary Baker.

His great-grandfather could not have been Richard Dewes, and his wife Jane, who appeared in Barbados sometime before 1679, living on land that belonged to Robert Hurt (1679 Will,) because Richard Dewes was apparently deceased in Barbados by 1780.

But a Thomas Dewes who apparently was a Captain in the Virginia militia before arriving in Barbados where his brother Richard lived, and he appears before 1679, with his family. He appears to have been a direct ancestor of the Cherokee Indian Trader Robert Dews who first married the mixed Cherokee Emory cousins.

Capt. Tho. Dewes may have been married 3^rd about 1673 to Mary McKenzie, of Kildun, one of the Mckenzies of Seaforth, Scotland, likely a daughter of George MacKenzie, and wife Mary Skene. It is suggested that she had a nephew, or great nephew Kenneth McKenzie who probated the estate of Patroon Johnson of New Windsor, Aberdeen, his LW&T made 1739 in Charleston, SC:

“Brother, & Sister: William Johnston, & Mary Johnston, city of Aberdeen, all estate.”

Exor: Kenneth McKenzie,

Archibald McGilvery

Wit: John Rattray,

William Pollard,

and Nicholas Haynes” .

Descendants of these Jacobite refugee lines intermarried in the Charleston, area, where two Wills are noted:

LW&T of Thomas Johnson, Charlestown, SC, Will proved March 1751 (pa. 328, partly destroyed.) Thomas Johnson was a son of Carolina Gov. Robert Johnson, and wife Margaret Broughton, daughter of Sir Andrew Broughton. He died without surviving issue. Abstract of his Will:

“Brother: Robert Johnson; (first wife unk. - concubine, Indian woman Catherina.)

Sisters: Mary Johnson;

Children of my sister: Margaret Izard, deceased, (She married Henry Izard.)

Nephew: Ralph Izard, (m: Alice de Lacy, m: Rebecca Lindrey)

Niece: Margaret Izard, other half of my estate at age 21. (m: Daniel Blake.)

To Gabriel Manigault, my part of lot on the Bay of Charles Town,

and land called Mt. Pleasant in St. Thomas’s Parish;

Mention: Mr. Thomas Middleton.

Exors: Gabriel Manigault; (m: his grandniece, Margaret Izard, dau. of Nep. Ralph.)

Thomas Middleton, Esq.;

and Mary Johnson.”

His sibling group: Robert Johnson – [d. Mar. 1735]

William Johnson – [d. Aug. 1732 of Yellow Fever.]

Nathaniel Johnson – [b. 1717 – d. 1737] Provincial Register

Thomas Johnson – [b. 1722 – d. 1751]

Margaret Johnson – [b. 1723 – d. 1743] m: Henry Izard

Mary Johnson

In early 1738, Thomas Johnson, at age 16, the last surviving son of SC Gov. Robert Johnson,

persuaded John Amory, of Purrysburg, to come to Charleston and become the caretaker of

his father’s estate, home, and plantation, as he needed to go to England, attend school, and settle

some of his father’s English affairs. The date that Thomas Johnson returned to SC is unknown, but

likely at least five years later when he was 21. He died at age 29 unmarried.

Wilmington, Carolina, Court of 1741:

“Abel Johnson was convicted for constantly working on the Lord’s Day.”

“Sarah Johnson was convicted for having illegitimate children.”

Note that Abel/Able, Sarah, & Mary Johnson mentioned here, and below, may be

children of Robert Johnson [d. Mar. 1735, SC,] and his mixed Indian concubine, Catherina.

This is unproved.

LW&T of Able Johnson, planter, Charleston, SC, died 7 July 1758:

“Sons: Thomas, lower part of plantation where I now live, land on the north side of Samuel ` Newman’s plantation (in Prince Frederick Parish, SC;)

Robert, other part of said plantation.

Daughters: Sarah

& Mary.

Mentions: Land on Rafting creek in St. Mark’s Parish, Craven County, SC, not yet granted, to 2 sons; residue of estate to be divided between my 4 children at 21 years of age, or marriage.

Exors: Messrs. Joseph Palmer,

Samuel Cooper.

Wit: William McCancel,

Thomas King,

George Howard.”

Mary Johnson married 1^st to Charles King, then 2^nd on Feb. 12^th 1745 to Capt. Anthony White, all

in Prince Frederick Parish, SC. She is a possible sister of Able Johnson.

The Formation of a Planter Elite… page 178:

“No. 30

Savannah Deed Book, pp 12-13

450 acres on Wilmington Island: “Dewe’s Plantation” (see 39)

William, and Mary Dews, to Jonathan Bryan,

100 Pounds Georgia currency.

March 7^th 1764

[39: Jonathan later made a Deed of Gift of part of this land to his son Josiah.]

In 1767 a William Dewes served twice on Jury Duty in St. Phillips, or St. Michaels Parishes of Berkley County, SC, once on a Petit Jury, and once on a Grand Jury.

There were two men in the Virginia plantations named Thomas Dew/Dewes during the mid 17^th Century, and although they are often confused as the same man, Captain Thomas Dews is distinguished from his father of the same forename in Virginia, by the fact that after his father Thomas Dewes had already arisen (by 1646) to the rank of Lt. Colonel in the Virginia militia, yet his son Thomas Dews was ranked only as Captain in the Virginia militia at that time, being first found in the Virginia records of 1651. This implies that Captain Thomas Dews was thereabouts 21 years of age, or more in 1651, meaning that he was likely born on, or before, 1630. It appears that Capt. Thomas Dews died in Barbados about 1689 and preceded his father in death. A vestige of his estate probate records may survive in Maryland Archives because Edward Fisher of Dorchester, Md., was named in the estate probate of Thomas Dew that year. Edward may have been a son-in-law because (his father?) Thomas Fisher served in the Barbados militia in 1679. [“First Fishers of the Chesapeake”] Captain Thomas Dews was certainly too old to have been a grandson of the Lt. Colonel of that name, and must have been his son, both of them serving as magistrates in the Nansemond Court about 1653. It appears that this son and his family departed Virginia, for unspecified purposes in the Caribbean, sometime before 1679, & and are found on Barbados in 1680, where a third Thomas Dews appears as an Ensign in the Milita. These two younger men in Barbados were apparently the son & lineal grandson of the Virginia Lt. Col. Thomas Dewes.

The following are probably some of the offspring of Capt. Thomas Dews who seems to have been born circa 1626 in England. He was christened October 8, 1626 at Kingston Lisle, Berkshire, Eng., and he died circa 1689 in Barbados, West Indies. [The 1689 probate of Thomas Dew named Edward Fisher, of Dorchester, Md., as an heir.]

1. Ensign David Dews. [He was in Barbados militia 1679-80, & on 1680 census.]

2. Ensign Thomas Dews. [Oct. 11th 1679 - Barbados militia, & on 1680 census.]

3. Capt. George Dews, [ca. bef. 1670, Barbados?-

ca. 15 Feb. 1703, Bermuda] of Bermuda fame,

married Ann Welsh, who after she was

widowed in 1703 married William Rowsham,

Sr. in Charleston, SC. Issue by George:

Greorge Dews, Jr. [under 21 in 1703 - before 1714, at

sea], a mariner, married Patience. Patience married

second to Joseph Palmer, [1688, Barbados - ca. 1717,

at sea] mariner, in SC. George Dews, Jr. still dwelt

in Bermuda, with his grandparents, after his mother

remarried in SC.

Ann Dews [under 21 in 1703 - ?] She remained

behind in Bermuda with her grandparents John &

Annie Welch when her mother remarried in 1703.

Mary Dews [under 21 in 1703 - ?], the youngest,

came to SC with her mother when she remarried.

[William Rowsham’s granddaughter Mary Baker , by

earlier wife, Jordan Probst, married Robert Dews in

Charleston, SC.]

A Joseph Palmer Executed the Will of Able Johnson in 1758 in

Charleston, SC. - A son of the former Joseph Palmer?

4. Jemima Dews, [ ca. 1665 - after 1739, Berkley,

SC] married a Kenney, in Barbados. When he

died , his Barbados Will proved Aug. 16^th 1687,

11 years later she married again on 26 January

1698 Barbados, West Indies, to Alexander

Skeen [1670, Aberdeen, Scotland - Sept. 1741,

Berkley, SC], and they moved to Charleston,

SC, ca. 1707.

[Note that Barbados census records for 1680 only show

one Kenney, and that was John Kenney, a clergyman,

of Christ Church Parish, Barbados, the first husband of

Jemima Dews. John Kenny had been previously

married before he married Jemima, and had a son

named John Kenny. The son made his Will in Barbados

proved July 9^th 1690 naming wife Margaret, a son John

Kenny under 21, and a daughter Margaret under 21.]

Known children of Alex. Skene & Jemima were:

Jane Skene [1699 Barbados, WI - before May 25, 1739,

SC]

Lilly Skene [3 May 1701 Barbados, WI - before May

25, 1739, SC]

John Skene, a son mentioned in his father’s Will.

[Alexander Skeen’s younger sister Lilas Skeen, married

Obadiah Haig, in 1701, and was also widowed in 1701.

Madam Lilas Haig was named an Executrix, and

also named guardian of the sons of Robert Dews by his Will in 1722. She was a wealthy, and able sister-in-law of Robert Dews, who apparently never remarried.]

5. Sarah Dews, married 1st to Richard Fowell.

He was described as “a good friend & business

associate of Edward Middleton in Barbados and

Charles Town.” A James Fowell was found on

the 1680 census of Christ Church Parish,

Barbados, the only household of that name.

When Richard Fowell died in 1678, his Will

was witnessed by a brother John Fowell, &

John Strand.

I am possessed with an unresolved suspicion that Sarah had a daughter in 1679, issue of Richard, named Lois Fowell that married Capt. Anthony Matthews in Charles Town. This is based on her particular interest in the Dewe family shown when Lois made her Will, 1752, whereby the only great grandson that she made heir, of many, was Robert Dewes, the 7 year old son of Capt. William Dewes.

His relict, Sarah Dewes, Fowell married 2nd to Edward Middleton, Sr. [ca. 1640, Twickenham, Middlesex, England - ca. 1685 in Charleston, SC] son of Henry Middleton. Edward and his brother Arthur left London for Barbados in 1678. He married the widow, Sarah Fowell, in Barbados about 1680, and became the parents of Arthur Middleton, Esq., discussed below. They owned “Otranto” plantation next to the Parkers in Berkley, SC.

Son Arthur Middleton, Esq., [1681, SC - 7 Sept. 1737, Berkley,

SC] was a nephew and an Executor of the 1722 Will of Robert

Dews in Charleston, SC.

Arthur Middleton, Esq. was born in 1681 in SC, just after his

parents arrived from Barbados, and he died 7 Sept. 1737 in

Berkley Co., SC. He owned estates in Barbados, in England

(Crowfield Hall,) and in SC (Goose Creek, Berkley, SC.) His

first wife was Sarah Emory [1685, Barbados, the ward of Sarah - ca. 1723, Berkley, SC.] They had four known children:

1. William Middleton, b. 1710, SC, inherited Crowfield

Hall in Suffolk, Eng. from his father. He married Mary Izard (1709-1730) He married Mary Morton (1710-1738).

2. Hester Middleton, b. 1711, died in infancy

3. Henry Middleton, (1717, “The Oaks” formerly the

Wright plantation - 1784 Charleston, SC.) Henry was President of the first Continental Congress.

He married 1st to Mary Baker Williams (1721-1761)

a. Arthur Middleton (1742-1787) married Mary Izard (?- 1814) They settled at Middleton Place.

He signed the Declaration of Independence, and either

inherited, or acquired Argyle Island land on the Savannah River that was the original 1752 grant of his first cousin once removed, Capt. William Dewes. His son Henry A. Middleton (1770-1846) Governor of SC, indentured this same Argyle Island land to Henry DeSaussure.

b. Col. Thomas Middleton [July 26^th 1753, Oaks

Plantation, St. Andrews Parish, SC – Aug. 19^th 1797, Oaks plantation.] married Anne Manigault, d/o Peter Manigault & Elizabeth Wragg.

Henry married 2nd to Maria Henrietta Bull (1722-?) He married 3rd to Mary McKenzie (bef. 1737 - 1788)

a. Hester Middleton (ca. 1750-?) married

Charles Drayton (1743-1820)

1. Charles Drayton (1785-1844) married

Mary Middleton Shoolbred (1794-1855)

i. William P. Dewes Drayton (1828-1837)

4. Thomas Middleton, (1719, Goose Creek -1766,

Beaufort, SC) Col., commanded a provincial Regiment against the Cherokees in 1761. He married Mary Bull (1723-1760), married Anne

Barnwell.

When Sarah Emory died Arthur Middleton, Esq. married

Sarah Ayres, Morton, Wilkinson, a widow who formerly consorted with Trader Wilkinson, and Col. James Moore.

Arthur Middleton had no known children by Sarah Ayres.

Sarah Ayres descended from Scotsman (Frederick?) Haig, Trader, and adventurer, and a Cherokee consort from Keowee.

One of their sons was named Charity Haig, and a daughter

was Mary Haig. Mary Haig became the consort of Thomas Ayers, Indian Trader, & Trustee for the Georgia Colony, and they had at least two daughters;

(1.) Mary Ayres that married William Carr, and (2) Sarah Ayres, Wood, widow of Joseph Morton, Jr. became the consort of Trader Wilkinson, and of Col. James Moore. The later had at least one daughter Mary Ayres Moore that married John Purry, and consorted with John Amory. Sarah Ayres, Wood, Morton, Wilkinson, Moore married Arthur Middleton, Esq. in 1723.

Charity Haig had talks with Col. Maurice Moore, and

his brother of Col. James Moore, on behalf of the Cherokees, in 1716, and in 1718 he negotiated a treaty with the Cherokees for Col. James Moore, for building Fort Congaree.

SC Deed Abstracts dated January 22, 1739 show that at the request of her stepchildren, James Moore, John Moore, and Jahu Moore of St. James, Goose Creek, and Elizabeth Moore made a Deed of Gift to Sarah Middleton (widow of Arthur Middleton) constituting 900 acres of land. This Deed was requested by James Moore on 21 Feb. 1737 “for love & Affection.”

They also apparently had a son named Thomas Eyres (sic) Ayres who became an Ensign in the Georgia militia, and was appointed Georgia’s Agent to the Cherokees in 1739, sometime after his father Thomas Ayres returned to England before 1730.

After Edward Middleton died, in 1685, Sarah Dewes, Fowell, Middleton married 3rd to Job Howe, who died before 1707 in Carolina. Sarah survived him long enough to see her grandson Job Howe, orphaned, become the Ward of Arthur Middleton, Esq. (this is presumed to be in about 1724.) They had one son named Robert Howe (aft. 1685-1724) that married Mary Moore, (daughter of Gov. James Moore) being the deceased parents of the said orphan Job Howe (1705 - 1748.)

Robert Howe [aft. 1685 – 1724,] a son of Job

Howe, & wife, Sarah, married Mary

Moore, a daughter of Carolina Governor James

Moore, and wife Margaret Berringer, a

stepdaughter of Sir John Yeamans. Sons:

I believe they had a son named Robert Howe who married Susannah Elizabeth Guerin in Berkley County, Carolina in ca. 1733. He was a Church Warden in St. Thomas Parish, Berkley County where he also taught school

Job Howe [1705 –1748] married 1^st Martha

Jones, 2^nd Elizabeth Waters, and 3^rd Jane

(LNU.)

General Robert Howe [1732 – 1786]

6. Mary Dews, [ca. 1655 - 26 July 1700, (Will

proved).] She married first, John Smyth, a

merchant of Barbados about 1667.

John Smyth was a man of considerable estate who arrived in

Carolina in 1675 with his wife and family (and a number of

servants). His son Edward Smyth (8) was among them. John

was especially reccomended by the Earl of Shaftsbury as "my

particular friend" with directions that he be allowed to take up a Manor in some suitable place.

On Oct. 2, 1675: Present: The Governor, Godfrey, Matthews,

Owen, Bull, Conant, S. West, Robert Donne, Dalton.

"...Upon motion by John Smyth, merchant, liberty is granted

him to take up 670 acres above the Proprietors due him so that

he hath so many persons upon his account to settle thereon as

will make up the right thereof according to the last

Proprietor's concessions within two years next."

In November 20, 1676, John Smyth obtained a Grant for 1,800

acres at "BooShoo" on the peninsula between Dorchester

Creek (a name given it at a later time,) and the Ashley River,

site of the future town of Dorchester.

John Smyth was appointed a member of the Grand Council of

Carolina (1677,) and was created a Cassique, nominated by the Duke of Albemarle. He perished before May 26^th 1682 when Administration of his estate was granted his widow, Mary.

His widow Mary Dewes, Smith was married Dec. 6^th/7^th 1682

to Arthur Middleton who perished in about 1685.

Arthur Middleton arrived in Charles Town in 1679, and the

Grand Council granted him "a greate lotte of land" on the upper

part of Adthan (Goose) Creek. In 1684 Arthur Middleton

conveyed this property to Robert Mallock, a Charles Town

Merchant.

Arthur Middleton's widow Mary Dewes, Smith, Middleton

married Ralph Izard, a grocer from London, in ca. 1685.

They issued at least two sons.

Michael Lowell, who arrived in Charles Towne August 14,

1671 on the Blessing, a sawyer, a servant of Affra Coming,

Deeded his Royal Grant of 1681, Lot 65, to Arthur Middleton

in 1684. He devised this Deed to Arthur’s widow Mary Dew,

Middleton, who then married Ralph Izard, and in 1687 they

conveyed this Deed to James Nicholas for the French Church

in Charles Towne.

Mary Dews & John Smyth had an eldest son named Edward

Smyth born about 1667 in Barbados. He was in Barbados on

family, or trade business, and is recorded departing Barbados

in the barq "Susannah," for Carolina on March 12, 1687, Hugh

Babell, commander (pa. 189). Edward Smyth was a nephew

of Robert Dewes, and was an Executor of his 1722 Will in

Charles Town, Carolina.

By 1698, Mary Dewes, Smyth, Middleton, was a widow that

married to Ralph Izard. They had formerly acquired "The

Elms Plantation" 250 acres at the head of Goose Creek. So in

1698, the 1,800 acres of "Booshoo" swampland, originally

granted to merchant John Smyth, was abandoned because of

fever associated with it. No one wanted to buy it. It was

later re-granted by Carolina, and became the village or town

of Dorchester. It was an area that was eventually abandoned

completely by 1752 because of its unhealthy conditions.

Mary Dewes, Smyth, Middleton, Izard perished in July 26,

1700. Her 33 year old unmarried son, Edward Smyth, began

a period of activity which caused little or no paper trail for 22

years. His half-brother, Ralph Izard was appointed one of

five Commissioners of Indian Trade in 1716. In 1727 Edward finally became involved with the brothers Col. Mauice Moore,

Roger Moore, and others, of Goose Creek, SC, attempting to

establish a settlement down river from Wilmington, North

Carolina. Edward Smyth was about 60 years old then.

Perhaps he had been an Indian trader.

Little more is known of him except that five years earlier he

was appointed as an Executor of his uncle Robert Dewe's Will

of 1722. Edward Smyth was eleven years older than his

(half?) uncle Robert Dewes. The Wilmington, North Carolina

area had a certain magnetic influence on the SC Dew/Due

family during the following three generations, as element of

their clan were often appearing there.

When John Smyth died, his widow married

(Dec. 7^th 1682) to Arthur Middleton, Esq, [ca.

1650 - ca. 1685, Yeshoe Plantation” SC], brother

of Edward, son of Henry.

The Middletons came from London to

Barbados in 1678. Arthur Middleton left Barbados for Charleston on August 8^th 1679 on

the “Plantacon.” He married Mary Dews,

Smyth before December of 1682. Arthur died

in December of 1682, and Mary became a

widow again at Charleston, SC. They issued

no known children.

Her second husband Arthur Middleton was a brother of

Edward Middleton that married her sister Sarah Dews.

Mary Dews, Smyth, Middleton, married last to Ralph Izard, having sons below Ralph & Walter. Their father Ralph Izard, a Gentleman & Grocer of London, came to Carolina in 1682. His family hailed from Oxford, or Middlesex in England, like the Dewes. In 1694 Ralph & Mary Izard obtained 250 acres at the head of Goose Creek, called "The Elms Plantation."

Ralph Izard outlived his wife, and died ca. 1706 (Will.) He left two town lots "in Dorchester upon Ashley River" to his son Walter.

1. Hon. Ralph Izard [1688-1743] married Magdalene “Margaret” Elizabeth de Chastaigner {b. ca. 1690]

Charlotte Izard [Sept. 30^th 1719, St. Phillips,

Charlestown, SC - ?]

Anne Izard [April 10^th 1722, St. Phillips,

Charleston, SC - ?]

Martha Izard married Edward Fenwicke (1725-1775) Honorable & King’s Councellor, son of John Fenwicke & Elizabeth Gibbs. When Martha “Mary” Izard died in ca. 1752, he married Mary Drayton on 1 Feb. 1753 at St. Phillips.

Catherine Izard (1728- ?)

John Izard

Henry Izard [1717-1748] married 1^st on 26 Sept. 1739 to Margaret Johnson [ca. 1722 - 12 June 1743] daughter of Gov. Robert Johnson

Ralph Izard [1742-1804] married Alice

de Lacey [1745 - 1832] Ralph Izard went,

with others, to France with Benjamin Franklin

to seek aid for the colonial cause in the Revolutionary War.

They disliked each other intensly. Ralph Izard was a Delegate

to the Continental Congress, & a Senator from South Carolina.

Margaret Izard [1768-1824]

Married Gabriel Manigault

[1758-1809] Gabriel Manigault or

his grandfather of the same name,

signed the Articles of Cessation, in SC,

at the beginning of the Rev. War.

1. Charles Izard Manigault (1795-1874) married Elizabeth Manigault

Hayward (1808-?)

a. Louis Manigault (1828-1899)

married Frances Elizabeth

Matilda Habersham

He and his father were in

possession (1861) of lands

originally granted 1752 to

William Dewes on Argyle

Island, Savannah River.

George Izard [1776-1828]

Married Elizabeth Carter

Farley [1774-1826] George was

born in London, England, educated in

Metz, France. He graduated from the

College of Philadelphia, attended

military schools in England, &

Germany, and was schooled in military

Engineering in France. He was Aide-

de-camp to Alexander Hamilton, &

an Engineer of Fort Pinckney. He

served as a diplomat to Portugal. He

became a US Army General during the

War of 1812, and was appointed by

President Monroe as First Territorial

Governor of Arkansas in 1825, serving

until his death in 1828.

Henry Izard [1771-1826]

Married Emma Philadelphia

Middleton daughter of Arthur

Middleton & Mary Izard.

Henry Izard married 2^nd ca. 1745 to Charlotte

Broughton [ - 1801] daughter of Nathaniel Broughton,

Jr., gdaughter of Gov. Thomas Broughton & Anne Johnson

Nathaniel Izard (29 June 1746 - ?)

Charlotte Izard (15 Aug. 1747- ?)

Margaret Izard [ - 1760] married Daniel Blake

Son of Joseph Blake, Jr., gson of Col. Joseph Blake & Sarah

Lindrey

Hon. Ralph Izard married 2nd: Rebecca Lindrey

Daughter of Daniel Lindrey

Rebecca Izard (ca. 1743 - ?) Youngest daughter of

Ralph Izard, deceased, married 22 April 1768 to Colin

Campbell of Berner Street, Parish of St. Mary le bone,

County of Middlesex.

2. Walter Izard [15 May 1692-16 Feb. 1752] married 19 May 1712 to Mary Frances Turgis [1693 –1730] daughter of Francis Turgis & Elizabeth Axtell. Walter was a veteran of the Yamessee War.

Walter Izard [1713-1759] married Elizabeth Gibbs [1720- ?] daughter of John Gibbs

Sarah Izard [? - ?] married 17 April

1763, St. Phillips, to William Campbell

[? - ?]

Mary Izard [? - 1814] married Arthur

Middleton [1742-1787] The son of Henry

Middleton (1717-1784), & Mary Baker

Williams. He came into possession of the

Argyle Island lands on the Savannah River

originally granted to Capt. William Dewes.

Henry A. Middleton, Gov. (1770- 1846) Married Mary Helen Hering (1772-1850) He indentured the Argyle

Islands on the Savannah River, that

were originally granted in 1752 to

Capt. William Dewes, to Henry

DeSaussure.

Lucy Izard [ - ]

Joseph Izard [23 May 1715 - ?]

Ralph Izard [2 Aug. 1717 – 2 Feb. 1762]

Francis Izard [1 Sept. 1719 - ?]

Mary Izard [19 Aug. 1725 – 7 Oct. 1747]

Thomas Izard [22 Jan. 1726 – ca. 1754]

Rebecca Izard [8 Jan. 1727 - ?]

John Izard [2 Mar. 1729 – ca. 1754 ]

married Charlotte Broughton, sister of

Nathaniel Broughton, daughter of Capt. Thomas

Broughton & Anne Johnson.

Elizabeth Izard [ ] married

Alexander Wright on 25 March 1774. Arthur Middleton & John Izard,

Trustees. Thomas Leach, Charles

Cotesworth Pinckney, Witnesses.

She was the only daughter of John

Izard, dec’d. Her husband was the

son of Sir James Wright, last

Provincial Gov. of Georgia, and a

grandson of Robert Wright, Chief

Justice of Carolina.

[Note that Thomas Izard, and John Izard, two

children of Walter Izard & Mary F. Turgis, were

both mentioned in the Dec. 1^st 1749 Will of Ann

Boone, of Charleston, SC as her grand nephews.

She also mentioned Hon. Joseph Blake, Esq. as

her beloved nephew.]

Mary Dewes, Smyth, Middleton, Izard perished about July 26^th 1700 at "The Elms Plantation" Goose Creek, SC.

7. Robert Dews, [1684, Barbados, WI - Sept 2^nd 1722, Charles Town, SC] Bricklayer, married Mary

Baker, the daughter of William Baker, and wife,

Susannah Rowsham.

[Mary Baker was the granddaughter of William Rowsham,

Sr., and Jordan Probst. Robert Dews & Mary Baker had two sons, Bethel and William Dews, the latter being shown as the father of James Due of Darlington, SC.]

You will notice that I have omitted, from the above list, a potential daughter thought

named Annie, Catherine, or Elizabeth, after her maternal ancestors, & is believed to have

married Edward Fisher.

This daughter is quite speculative, but probably existed, and I left her out because so little

is known, and she is not yet proved. If she was indeed a daughter of Capt. Thomas

Dews, then she died by about 1790 in Maryland when Edward Fisher married to his

second wife.

Robert Dews’ grandfather is strongly implicated to have been Colonel Thomas Dewe, who planted his own father’s old plantation in Virginia, and on another plantation in Somers Island in the 1620s. He is found representing Archer’s Hope in 1629. He planted on Association Island and on old Providence Island in 1631 where his wife Elizabeth Bennett followed, and then he soon removed permanently to Virginia where his wife Elizabeth (b. 1603) and daughter Ann (b. 1634) joined him from England for an undetermined period of time. But Thomas Dewe maintained an interest in the Caribbean Island plantations through the activities of his sons, & their descendants, and earlier, by way of a brother John.

1274 John de Ew

1278 Phillip de Eu

Phillip de Eu

Phillip de Ew

John de Eu

Second Supply by the “Mary and Margaret” – departed Sept. 1608:

PRINT, PUBLICATION, AND RELIGIOUS POLITICS IN CAROLINE ENGLAND

PRINT, PUBLICATION, AND RELIGIOUS POLITICS IN CAROLINE ENGLAND

Henry Hughes

Richard Plummer

Thomas Drayton 12 ar. 1 h. svt. 1 b. svt. 7 slaves

Capt. John Merrick

Richard Longham

Edward ffisher. His land changed ownership 4 times by May of 1644. He probably returned to Bristol, England, and made a Will there in 1662.

Statutes at Large for South Carolina, pp 236-237:

Mr. William Wallace

Alexa. Skene

William Pinckney

Feradach

Oirbeirtaigh

Cormac

Ferchar

Lorn

Erc

Adam Gordon of Normandy was welcomed to Scotland by King David, I,

Adam Gordon

Sir Adam Gordon

Elizabeth Gordon Anne Gordon John Gordon Adam Gordon

Hon. George Gordon

A Link to James Due of Darlington, SC.

Clan MacKenzie Clan MacLeod

The Black

Haarfagre Valvaden

Harold

Bjorn

Greusk Gudrod

St. Olaf

Harold, the Black, King of Iceland

Godred Crovan Haroldson,

[c. 1066 – c. 1087, Italy] King of the Isle of Man. He married Maria Ragnhild, Haraldsdotter.

Godred Olaf, I “The Red Godredson”

[c. b. 1102 – c. 1143,] the King of Man.

Olaf Ochraidh Godred, II, “The Black Olafson”

[c. b. 1154 – c. 1187,] the King of Man.

Tormod Ollaghair Olaf Godredson, “The Black”

[c. 1177 – c. 1237, Isle of St. Patrick.]

Tormod Norman MacLeod, 2nd Chief,

[c. 1220 – c. b. 1280, Castle, Isle of Pabbay,

sound of Harris, Sc.]

He married 1st Fingula, or Flora MacCrotan.

Malcom Gillecaluim MacLeod, 3nd Chief,

[c. 1296 – c. 1370, Castle Sornoway.]

John Iain Ciar MacLeod, 4th Chief,

[c. 1320 – c. 1392.]

He married ___ O’Neil?

John Iain Borb MacLeod, 6th Chief,

[c. 1392 – c. 1442, Castle, Isle of Pabbay.]

William Dubh MacLeod, 7th Chief,

[c. 1415 – c. 1480, Bloody Bay, Tobemory,

Mull, Sc.] He married ____ MacLaine

Alexander Alisdair Crotach MacLeod, 8th Chief, c. 1455 – c. 1547, Rodel Cathedral.] He married the youngest daughter of Lord Cameron.

Tormod Norman MacLeod, 12th Chief,

[c. 1509 – c. Mar. 1584.]

Colin Cam MacKenzie [c. 1556 – 1594.] Sir Roderick Ruairidh Mor MacLeod, 15th Chief,

He married 1st to Barbara Grant. c. 1562 – c. Jan. 1626, Fortrose, Sc.]

Ross, & Cromarty, Sc. - ?, Sc.,] a daughter of John MacLeod, II, of Talisker, [ - .]

| Donald MacLeod, III, of Talisker [ - .]

Norman MacLeod [Feb. 5th 1775, Isle of Skye, Sc.

- c. 1828, Darlington, SC] He married an unknown first wife

who apparently was the mother of Daniel. He married Elizabeth Adair Cade, [c. 1780, NC – c. 1860, Darlington, SC.]

Gilchrist MacLauchlan

Lachlan Mor MacLauchlan

Archibald (Gillespie) MacLauchlan

Patrick MacLauchlan

Lachlan MacLauchlan

Donald MacLauchlan

Christiana Due [22000-10110-00] Widow of James Due, with her children.

John McLauchlan [01201-01010-00], son of the above John McLauchlan?

Alexander McLeod [01101-31000-00], page 0019

1F [U10]

Tormod Norman MacLeod, 2^nd Chief,

He married 1^st Fingula, or Flora MacCrotan.

Malcom Gillecaluim MacLeod, 3^nd Chief,

John Iain Ciar MacLeod, 4^th Chief,

John Iain Borb MacLeod, 6^th Chief,

William Dubh MacLeod, 7^th Chief,

Alexander Alisdair Crotach MacLeod, 8^th Chief, c. 1455 – c. 1547, Rodel Cathedral.] He married the youngest daughter of Lord Cameron.

Tormod Norman MacLeod, 12^th Chief,

Colin Cam MacKenzie [c. 1556 – 1594.] Sir Roderick Ruairidh Mor MacLeod, 15^th Chief,

He married 1^st to Barbara Grant. c. 1562 – c. Jan. 1626, Fortrose, Sc.]

Norman MacLeod [Feb. 5^th 1775, Isle of Skye, Sc.