>From: Elizabeth Whitaker <[email protected]> >To: Elizabeth Russo <[email protected]>, [email protected], > SCCHARLE-Lrootswebcom <[email protected]>, >SCCOLLET-Lrootswebcom <[email protected]>, LowCountry ><[email protected]> >Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: [LC] PINCKNEY, LAVINGTON, WHITAKER, >FLEMING, DEARS, HUTCHINSON, CATTELL, MARTIN, MCPHERSON, BREMAR, FLEMING >Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:25:27 -0800 > >At 08:29 PM 2/12/00 -0500, Elizabeth Russo wrote: >[snip] > >Several of the folks below have both Charleston connections as well as > >other low-country connections. Was this fairly common in this time > >period? Or was it only the wealthier planters who could afford both > >town and country living? > >----------------------------------- > > > >Book L-3, p. 193 > >23 Mar. 1768 > > > >ROGER PINCKNEY, P.M., TO CHARLES PINCKNEY, ESQ., of Charleston, for >[snip] > >facing the w. part of 960 a. in colleton Co. granted BENJAMIN WHITAKER > >This Benjamin Whitaker, if he's the one I know about, was an early Colonial >judge who was prominent in the Charleston area. He shows up on a *lot* >of early wills as a witness or other responsible party. I have not been >able >to find any children: his wife and he returned to England before or during >the Revolution. > >I'm not aware that there has been any work at all on the Whitakers of >Charleston, excepting the Daniel Kimball Whitaker (b. Massachusetts >and d. childless) who had a magazine/newspaper in antebellum >Charleston. > >My Whitakers migrated from the Raleigh, NC, area to Upstate >SC, and are cousins of the ones who settled in the Camden >District in the 1770s. I have found at least one Whitaker >family in the Darlington District, but have been unable to >ascertain any connection. > >Elizabeth Whitaker >[email protected] >in Pickens, South Carolina > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com