Good Morning: This is one deed I really like. Notice the name of the JP who executed this deed -- Daniel GREENE. Some say that Capt. William GREENE (1764-1819) of Greene County, GA was the son of William GREENE and Sarah Ann ALSTON of Warren County, NC. Well, we know where the ALSTONS were from -- Charleston. We also know this William GREENE, who was supposedly of VA, but I do not think so. I think his roots, like so many of these other GA families, point right back to Charleston or Berkeley County, SC. Almost every name we see around many of the DANIELS in Charleston, we see later in GA and NC. It just cannot be by coincidence. No one can say this is not a Gov. Robert DANIELL related deed since Robert HOWE is listed on it, as a witness, as was Ann DANIEL, d/o Gov. DANIELL, who married George LOGAN. I think what we are seeing here is a bunch of people who floated from SC to NC and then back to GA with maybe some ties to VA. I just do not know but I do not think it is by coincidence, not in these early families. BTW, the BROUGHTONS ended up in Jasper and Morgan County, GA. Also, the MOTTES and the ALSTONS were thicker than thieves so we know that family relation, as well. Thomas BROUGHTON II married Sarah HESKETT, sister of Mary who married John DANIEL the Shipwright of Charleston. I have found no deeds that directly link, together, the families of Gov. Robert DANIELL and "John DANIEL the Shipwright" of Charleston, SC. However, I have never forgotten the math theorems I learned as a boy -- "if A equals B and C equals B, then A are equal to C to each other." In this case, we have more than several deeds that seem to imply that there is some relationship between the two families. Whether there is or not, I do not know but some researchers have said "yes" and some have said, "no"...... <<< 1-194=La-338 17 & 18 Nov 1727 Francis Goddard, planter, of Berkeley Co., of the 1st part; Thomas Hasell, rector of Parish of St. Thomas, James Myrant, Thomas Paget, John Moore, James Akin, James Maxwell, Thomas Ashby, & Samuel Simmons, vestryment of St. Thomas, of 2nd part; Thomas Broughton, Esq., executor of will of Richard Beresford, planter, of 3rd part. Whereas Richard Beresford (after other legacies) bequeathed the rest of the yearly profits & produce of his real & personal estate (until his son John should come of age) to his executors upon special trust for several uses; that is, Thomas Broughton to pay the profits yearly to vestry of St. Thomas to use 1/3 to the schoolmaster, 2/3 towards the education of the children of the poor, etc., or put the money out at interest. There having been no schoolmaster since Beresford's death, Broughton & the vestry decide to purchase land for a free school. Whereas the Lords Proprs. on 13 Jul 1696 granted Mathew Tullada 320a in Berkeley Co., which Tullada on 16 Jan 1713 conveyed to Francis Goddard; & whereas the Lords proprs. on 15 Sep 1705 granted Tullada another tract of 300a which Tullada on 6 Aug 1714 conveyed to Ann Daniell (daughter of Robert Daniell) with the condition that Robert Daniell should have power to dispose of the land for Ann's benefit; & whereas Robert Daniell sold the 300a for £300 to Francis Goddard, but Daniell died before he could execute a conveyance & Martha Daniell, mother of Ann, & widow & executrix & devisee of Robert Daneill, by deed of feoffment dated 16 Jun 1718 confirmed to Goddard the 300a; now Goddard, for £1200 SC money, conveys to the Rector & Vestry of St. Thomas parish, the 2 tracts of 320a & 300a as described in the 2 plats, except 20a, part of the 300a adjoining Sweatman's Bridge. Wit: Richard Harris, John LaPierre, Hugh Campbell, Matthew Quash, Jacob Woolford, Robert How. Before Daniel Greene, J.P. Jacob Motte, Register. >>> John R. Clarke Thomasville, GA