I will say right off that the info about Robert Daniell I is full of errors. If this refers to Robert Daniell of Charleston, then he, Colonel Robert DANIELL, was not the progenitor of the Barbados branch. There is also no proof that Col. Robert was out of the Danyers of England since it is only likely that Robert Daniell of Mass was from this family. I cover Robert of Mass. on my web page. There is no proof to suggest that Robert Daniell of Charleston was of Scottish origin as some imply. As far as can be proved, he came from England, had a stop over in Barbados, moved on to SC, and died there. He is buried under St. Philips Church in Charleston. If I am incorrect, then I suspect that Ken will help me see the truth. Also, Roy Daniel of England will tell you that very few, if any, Danyers/Daniells came over to Barbados or America. And, my old standby, Col. William Daniel of Wigan, or his children were not immigrants to America. Oh, Robert Daniell was not a son of Roger Daniell as implied by some researchers. The truth is, nobody can prove the exact origin of either, but it is sure fun to look for the facts. Sorry, I got carried away. Payne ----- Original Message ----- From: <ShuShuFlyPie@cs.com> To: <DANIEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [DANIEL-L] Elizabeth Lanier Probably nothing not already discussed, or of interest here... but Elizabeth LANIER is shown with her Thomas DANIEL in the family of Robert, and can see how the two Sarah DANIELs marrying WILLSON or WILSON could be confusing.....same Wilson book, pgs 8 and 9 ~ "A Carolina ~ Virginia Genealogy" compiled by York Lowry WILSON, [A.B., Princeton University, 1915] published by Aldershot Gale & Polden, Ltd 1962 Robert DANIEL I The English DANIELLs are of Norman origin, descending from the D'ANVERS or DANYERs family, who held estates in Cheshire in the reign of Henry III and bore arms "Arg. a pale fusily sa." which appear to be identical with those engraved on the seal of Colonel Robert DANIELL, progenitor of the Barbados branch. Similar arms, were, however, borne by other DANIELL lines in the Heralds' Visitations, that of London [originally from Norfolk] in 1634 showing Robert DANIELL of London, merchant, with a son Robert then aged three years. According to Hathaway's North Carolina History and Genealogy Register, [below] the first known ancestor was Roger DANIELL the elder, who came over with his kinsman Miles CAREY from Bristol, England, to Virginia before 1644/45 ~ Married UNKNOWN and had: 1. Roger DANIELL the younger, who came over from Bristol to Virginia with Roger, his father and their kinsman Miles CAREY ~ Married and had: 1.a. Robert DANIELL, Governor 1.b. John DANIELL of Barbados ~ Married Ann UNKNOWN and had: 1.b.1. John DANIELL, baptized at St. James, Barbados in 1678 1.b.2. Thomas DANIELL of Tyrrell County, North Carolina, baptized at St. James, Barbados ~ dc: 1750, Tyrell County ~ Married Elizabeth LANIER of Tyrell County, daughter of Thomas LANIER. 1.b.3. Wilbert DANIELL, of Virginia, who spent only a short time in Barbados. ~O~ 2. Darby DANIELL, who was living in Virginia in 1693. [brother to Roger @ 1.] ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Colonel Robert DANIELL was, according to his age on the memorial tablet, born in 1646 [1. Ray claims that he was born in Virginia ~ see later] and although he was obviously possessed of considerable natural ability and talent, he is believed to have had influential family connections from his earliest days. He married (1) between 1675 and 1680, to Dorothy CHAMBERLAYNE, bc: 1654 ~ d: 16 OCT 1711, daughter of Colonel Edmund Chamberlayne of Maughersbury, County of Glouucester. The CHAMBERLAYNE family through their marital connections with the PYE family were prominent in Barbados trading circles, and Robert DANIELL took up this mode of life. His wife was an heiress and evidently refused to share the dangers and vicissitudes of colonial sea trading. Robert and Dorothy had one child, Robert II, bc: 1680 ~ d: after 20 OCT 1709. There is no indication in the records that Dorothy accompanied her husband on any of his trips to Barbados, Virginia, or the Carolinas. The year and circumstances of his first journey from England to Barbados are not known, but it must have been about the time of the Restoration or soon after, and as he was a staunch Royalist and Churchman, political factors are unlikely to have been involved, and he was probably at first a merchant or planter and perhaps owner or part-owner of a ship. Neither is it known how long he remained in Barbados, indeed it is probable that after his first arrival he made several voyages to and from England. Hotten records his migration from Barbados to Carolina, 04 APR 1679, in the ship "Mary" with Nicholas LOCKWOOD, Commander. He was accompanied by his servant Mary COOPER. [2. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality, 1600 ~ 1700, London, 1874, edited by John Camden HOTTEN] He received a succession of land grants, the first being dated a year before his arrival [3. Warrants for Lands in South Carolina, A. S. SALLEY, JR ~ see later] Although he was one of the largest landholders in South Carolina, he was not land-hungry. In fact, in several instances he sold lands in a very short time, probably in order to provide working capital for his trading adventures. He was taking an important part in the administrative life of Carolina within a few months of his arrival, making an appraisement of Thomas NERSE's property in 1680, and is himself referred to as a landowner in South Carolina on 15 DEC 16800, and again on 07 MAY and 10 MAY 1682, on all occasions with the rank of Captain. McCRADY records that "among the leaders who came into the Province of Carolina were some of great ability. Governor MOORE and Major Robert DANIELL though not among the first settlers, had each been in the Province some years. DANIELL from Barbados in 1679, and had already taken an active part in its affairs." His military rank appears to have varied. In MAY and AUG 1692 he is described as Major Captain in a deed dated 1693 [S.C.H. & G.M., Vol XI, pg 128] Major and Commander of the ship "Daniell of South Carolina" on 24 NOV 1693 [Ibid, Vol VIII, pg 210] Captain in a Will appointing him as Executor in 1695 [Ibid, Vol X, pg 83] Major again on 12 SEP 1696 [Ibid, Vol X, pg 236] Major on 10 MAR 1696/97 [Ibid, Vol X, pg 24] Major on 10 JAN 1697 [S.C.H.S. Collections, Vol 1, pg 144] In communications from the Lords Proprietors to the Governor and Council at Charles Town in 1698 [Ibid, Vol I, pg 456] his rank is given as Major and in 1702 he is styled Colonel [Rivers' Sketch, pg 20] and again in 1710, 1712 and 1716. In 1686 [Va Mag, Vol V, pg 81 ante.] he took an important part in the action against Spanish forces which had destroyed Stuart Town on Port Royal Island and other settlements in Carolina. Much of Robert DANIELL's time in the 16800's appears to have been spent in sailing his ships between America, Jamaica and Barbados [McCALL, TIDWELL and Allied Families, 1931, McCALL] His earliest extant signature "Robert Daniel" appears on a bond between John COMMINGS and Edward MAYO, 14 FEB 1680. The original contract is now in the possession of E. Roy DANIELL and Elizabeth HARLESTON DANIELL. The Will of Henry SYMMONDS of Charles Town, Vintner, proved before Governor BLAKE, 13 MAR 1695, appoints his friend Captain Robert DANIELL to be executor and trustee for testator's wife, Frances. The Will of Richard BUTLER, made 12 SEP 1696, appoints Major Robert DANIELL guardian to his wife and son. His career seems to have been little affected by his active opposition, beginning in 1680, to Landgrave John COLLETON, even after the latter became Governor. He was a loyal adherent of Seth SOTHEL throughout that stormy administration. In 1692 he was therefore excepted (with James MOORE) by the Lords Proprietors from the general pardon extended by them to all who had been concerned in Governor COLLETON's expulsion. Nevertheless, this did DANIELL little harm, and from then till the end of his life, his record was one of proomotion and achievement. In MAY 1692 as Major Robert DANIELL with Charles BURNHAM, he was entered as security for Robert GOSSE, who arrived in Carolina in the ship "Loyal Jamaica" [Grant Book, Secretary of State's Office, 1672/94, pg 78] In 1697 he was appointed Deputy to the Earl of Craven ~ Commissions and Instructions from the Lords Proprietors of Carolina to Public Officials of South Carolina, 1685~1715, pg 108. The Commission is as follows: William Lord CRAVEN one of ye true & absolute Lords & Proprietrs of ye Province of Carolina ~ to Robert DANIELL, Esq. Whereas it is Appointed by the Lords Proprietrs of Carolina in their ffundamentall Constitutions and Rules of Governmt that each of ye Lords Proprietrs shall Name a Deputy to be his Representative in ye generall Assembly and Councell of Carolina. I out of ye Confidence I have in ye Wisdome, Prudence & Loyalty of you ye said Robert DANIELL Do Constitute & Appoint you ye sd. Robert DANIELL to be my Deputy in that Part of our Province of Carolina wch llLyes South and West of Cape ffear, wth. full Power and Authority to Act and Exercise all such Powers & Things as to a Proprietrs Depty do's Belong Given under my Hand and Seal the fourteenth day of January Anno Dom: 1697/8. CRAVEN (Seal) Robert DANIELL served with great distinction in the ill-fated expedition led by Governor MOORE against St. Augustine in Florida in 1702 [The History of South Carolina under the Proprietary Government, 1670 ~ 1719, by Edward McCRADY, 1897, pg 381 et seq] ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Ray's Index and Digest to Hathaway's N.C. History and Gen. Register, 19945, pg 38: The popular conception of Governor DANIEL's genealogical history is that he was born in England, whereas, the weight of the suggestive, if not positive, evidence is that he was born in York or Warwick County, Virginia. No one has been able to determine with certainty the exact year in which Miles CARY, the emigrant arrived in Virginia, but it was prior to 1644/45 at least. He was from Bristol, England, and brought over with him his "known kinsman" Roger DANIEL and his son Roger DANIEL, JR. The latter was the father of Governor Robert DANIEL, who with his two brothers, John and Wilbert, fled to the Barbadoes to escape the wrath of BERKLEY after the rebellion stirred up by Nathaniel BACON. Wilbert DANIEL remained in the Island only a few months, after which he returned to Virginia. Prior to his going there on NOV 13, 1678, he had been one of the subscribing witnesses to the Will of Henry ISHAM at Varina, in Henrico County, whose wife was the widow of ROYAL, and whose son Henry ROYAL in 1693 witnessed with Darby DANIEL (uncle of Governor Robert) the Will of his stepson, Henry COPELAND in Elizabeth City. John DANIEL, the other brother, remained in the Barbadoes for some time and the St James Parish Records there show the birth of two sons, John [JR] in 1678 and Thomas in 1679. Robert DANIEL had married Dorothy CHAMBERLAINE, by whom he had one son, Robert, and John DANIEL, his brother, married [in Barbadoes~?] to Ann UNKNOWN. Thomas DANIEL, b: 1679, married Elizabeth LANIER, daughter of Thomas Lanier, who was living for a time in the Island, and both Thomas DANIEL and Thomas LANIER died in Tyrrell County, NC about 1750, as disclosed by these Hathaway records. Dorothy CHAMBERLAIN, the first wife of Robert DANIEL, had a sister who appears to have been the wife of John LEAR, Clerk of Nansemond County, Virginia, hence Robert DANIEL and the old Clerk were brothers-in-law. Dorothy also had a nephew Marmaduke CHAMBERLAINE, for whom Governor DANIEL named his second grandson. North Carolina History & Gen. Register, Vol 1, pg 199, refers to Thomas DANIEL, John DANIEL and Robert DANIEL. [Will of Milles CARY of Warwick County, Virginia, dtd 09 JUN 1667, pr. 21 JUN 1667, Warwick County, left his grey mare and that parcel or tract of land called "Gaole" with all the rents and profits, to Roger DANIELL ~ The Virginia CARYs, Harrison, 1919, pgs 164~167]. Dorothy CHAMBERLAIN was not the first Chamberlaine to marry a DANIELL. "A" Robert DANIELL married (2) to Margaret CHAMBERLAIN who died at Edmonton, Middlesex, 30 JUL 1663. ==== DANIEL Mailing List ==== If you are have any problems receiving the DANIEL List, would like to change your subscription method or email address or you have a suggestion you think would improve the operation of the DANIEL list -- feel free to contact me at any time - My email address is JClarke@rose.net