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Mercy ? m. VA? b. 1687? VA? d. 1741? VA? |
William b. 1704? VA d. |
Thomas b. 1710? Queen Co.VA d. Dec 25, 1793 Dewitt's Bluff, Marion Co. SC |
John b. 1714? VA |
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Martin b. 1720? Fredericksburg, Orange Co. VA d. Jul 18, 1793 ?Darlington SC |
Charles b. 1723/9? Fredericksburg VA d. 1770? |
James b. 1733? Culpeper Co. VA |
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Culpeper County Virginia was formed in 1748
(see present day map
for location), and was bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west. The
Rappahannock River forms one of its eastern boundaries. |
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Son Thomas Dewitt and Martin both emigrated to SC by 1760. Martin to the Cheraw
District (Darlington) and Thomas lower down the Peedee in the Georgetown District
(Marion). Thomas had sons Thomas, William, and Charles. Charles married a McCall
in 1771. |
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The land granted in SC is in what was once Craven County, one of the three original
parts of the English colony of "Carolana". |
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Son Martin was a member of the Welch Neck Baptist Church on the Pee Dee. In 1769,
the newer church building was erected on a two acre site given by Daniel Devonald,
son William's father-in-law. When the Welch Neck Baptist church was to move to
Society Hill SC in 1798, the lot of two acres is said to have been given by son
William Dewitt, titles to the property being recorded in 1798 by Evander McIver. |
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1736 Surveyors Map of Welch
Grant in Craven Co. showing "Jafries Creek or River", where the White family
owned land in 1760. Also shows location of "Mars Bluff" along "Pedee" River
[Gregg, History of the Old Cheraws]. |
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Son Charles and his wife Katherine had a son James, born in 1750, who had a son
Charles (1768-1822). |
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Son Charles may be the Ensign who served in the Cherokee War under Col. George
Gabriel Powell from 1759-60. He commanded men who were mainly from Cheraw and Georgetown
Districts of old Craven County (as opposed to the Camden District and western
counties. Listed among those who served under Col Powell,
"John Holloway", John White and a clerk
William White [possibly brothers
John and
William], and several "Duett" or "Dueiett",
namely Ens. Charles, Joseph who left or deserted, and Benjamin "Due" who died
[Andrea, SC Colonial Soldiers...]. |
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SOURCES: Andrea, Leonardo, South Carolina Colonial Soldiers and Patriots, publ. 1952, transcribed by Sara Augerson in website. Gregg, Alexander, History of the Old Cheraws, Geneal Publ. Co., Balt. MD, 1967, repr 1925 ed, p. 98. Hendrix, G.L.C., The Jury Lists of South Carolinians, 1778-1779, private printing, 1975, pp. 40-43, 88-89. McBee, Mary Wilson, Natchez Court Records 1767-1805, Abstract of Early Records, Greenwood MS, 1953. Northern Neck Grants, Virginia State Archives, Book G. Poe, Allan, "The Records, From Virginia to Old Burke Co. N.C.", publ. in Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2, by M.L.Vineyard & E.M.Wiseman, Franklin NC, 1997, pp. 254-256. Pre-Revolutionary Plat Books, SC Archives Dept., vol. 21, pp 424-433. Virginia Land Patents, Book 8, p. 16. White, Gifford, "James White and John White", Wm Wiseman & the Davenports, Pioneers Of Old Burke County, North Carolina, v.2, by M.L.Vineyard & E.M.Wiseman, Franklin NC, 1997, pp. 86-96, 107-112. White, Gifford, James Taylor White of Virginia and some of his descendants into Texas, Austin, TX, April 1982. |