Hi Ronald, I too am descended from the Bridges of Marlboro County. John and Mary Bridges Stubbs, Jr. are my 4th g-grandparents. I have a lot of Bridges information and would be glad to share any I have with you. Doris Strickland Blythe Charlotte, N. C. ---------------------------------------------- Original Message From: ""<RBul1865@aol.com> Subject: [SCMARLBO-L] Bridges of Marlboro County Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 04:47:15 EST >Greetings to the Marlboro County list: > >My ancestors there are: Bridges, Hargrove, Cottingham, Ammons, >and Conner, for sure, and Beverly, almost certainly. I am new to the >list, but will send this message in a form from which any part wanted >can be posted on the Marlboro Web Page by the List Coordinator, with >the remainder being omitted. My best regards, Ron Bullock, descended >from the Bridges of Marlboro County. >=========================== > > > Posted by Ronald Bullock (RBUL1865@aol.com) > > > Will of William Bridges > >The State of South Carolina >In the name of God, Amen. > > I William Bridges of the District of Marlborough and State >Aforesaid, do make, ordain and constitute this My Last Will and >Testament, revoking all others heretofore made by me - > In manner & form following, that is to say > >First. I give and devise to my beloved son Thomas Bridges, >all the tract of land on which I now live (except one hundred and >twenty acres to be laid off on the North West side of said tract) >to him and his heirs forever. > >Second. I give and devise to my beloved son Alfred Bridges, >one hundred & twenty acres of land to be laid off on the North >West side of land on which I now reside, being the same excepted >in the first clause, to him and his heirs forever. > >Third. I will and devise that all of my Negroes be sold after my >death, on a credit of two equal annual installments, and the money >arising from the sales of such Negroes be divided in the following >manner, viz. To my daughter Harriet Covington, wife of John Covington, >two hundred dollars; To my daughter Charlotte Beverly, wife of William >Beverly, two hundred dollars; To my daughter Ann Cottingham, wife >of James Cottingham, two hundred dollars; and one hundred dollars each >to my sons James Bridges, William D. Bridges, and Wiley Bridges. > >Fourth. I will and devise that all the rest and residue of my estate of >what kind soever be equally divided, share and share alike, among all >my children, viz James Bridges, Ira Bridges, William D. Bridges, John >Bridges, Wiley Bridges, Alfred Bridges, Thomas Bridges, Harriet >Covington, Charlotte Beverly, and Ann Cottingham. > >Fifth. I nominate, constitute, and appoint John Bridges, John >Covington & Ira Bridges my lawful executors of this My Last Will and >Testament. > > Signed by: William Bridges > > >Signed & Acknowledged, Published & Declared >by William Bridges to be My Last Will & >Testament in the presence of us & we sub- >scribe the same as witness in the presence >of each other this 7th Nov. A. D. 1845. > >William Munnerlyn >Alexander Sutherland >William R. Long > > >Proven 6 Aug. 1849 > >--------------- >Notes: The wife of William Bridges had died by 7 Nov. 1845. >She was Charlotte Cottingham, daughter of Charles Cottingham, >whose will made in 1817 has been posted on this Marlboro site. > >The given names in this will are of interest. The wife of Charles >Cottingham was Nancy Ann Conner. She was almost certainly >the daughter of Thomas and Ann Beverly Conner. > >One Bridges daughter was named Charlotte (for her mother), a son >was named William D. Bridges (for his father), and Thomas and Ann >Bridges were likely named for the grandparents of Charlotte >Cottingham Bridges (Thomas and Ann Beverly Conner, parents of >Nancy Ann Conner Cottingham). Son John Bridges was named for the >father of William Bridges. The mother of William Bridges is unknown, >but Harriet might not be a bad guess. > >Son-in-laws William Beverly and James Cottingham were no doubt >related to the family of Charlotte Cottingham Bridges, but exactly >how is unknown. > >Son-in-law John Covington is the person quoted at length as Col. >John Covington in the book by Rev. J. A. W. Thomas on "A History >of Marlboro County." According to this book, the mother of John >Covington was Nancy Bridges (a sister of William Bridges), who had >earlier been married to a Mr. Conner and had children named Ira and >Nancy Conner. It could be that a grandparent of William Bridges had >the name Ira, because William also had a son by this name. > >Rev. Thomas also related how Mary Bridges had first married John >Stubbs and later became the fifth wife of John David. She was said >to be 46 and Mr. David 62 when their daughter Eliza David was born, >and we are told that she later married William D. Bridges (named above >as a son of William Bridges). They can be found in the census of 1860 >Marlboro, where it can be seen that Eliza Bridges was 54 and her >husband 58. Some arithmetic reveals that the mother Mary Bridges >of Eliza David Bridges was born in about 1764. > >Mary was the daughter of John Bridges, Sr, though, not of William, >so Rev. Thomas was incorrect in one of the places where she was >mentioned. However, it is wonderful to have such early recollections >of Marlboro County, as information is given here that could be learned >in no other way. From the information above, it can be seen that it >was not unknown for cousins to marry in these families. That leads >to some interest in the full name of William David Bridges, where >David is not usually thought of as a possible surname, but >considering his marriage to Eliza David does make one wonder about >who the wife of John Bridges, Sr, might have been. > >John Bridges, son of William, was my gg-grandfather. He and brothers >Ira, Alfred, and James had moved to Clark Co, AR, by 1860. John >married Elizabeth Hargrove, daughter of Newell Hargrove and Levica >Ammons, who was the daughter of Joshua Ammons. Rev. Thomas gave >high praise to the service of Joshua Ammons in the Revolutionary War, >going so far as to say that he carried General Marquis LaFayette to >safety after he had been wounded. My grandmother (granddaughter of >John Bridges and Elizabeth Hargrove) was named Levia for her great >grandmother, Levica/Levia Ammons. > >Ira Bridges married Margaret Jane Stubbs, likely a distant cousin as the >sister Rebecca of Thomas Conner married John Stubbs, Sr, and it was >John Stubbs, Jr, to whom Mary Bridges had been married before she >married John David. Margaret Jane Stubbs (born 26 June 1815) wrote >in a fine hand in her family Bible in which she listed the names of her >parents as David Stubbs (born 1 April 1785) and Ann McDaniel (born >23 Jan. 1793). She mentioned one son, Joel C. Bridges (born 14 May >1844), who smothered to death in cotton on 27 Oct. 1851. They were >still in Marlboro Co. at that time, so it could be that they grew cotton >and had a large tank for its storage. > >The Bridges families came to Arkansas with many items that were >brought from Marlboro. One such item was a violin that was called >"Old Charleston," so perhaps that is from where it came. Another >item was a clock with all wooden works inside that had printed on >the back: "Made by Seth Thomas." Perhaps that was a clock >company or maybe it was made by a local person from the same >family from which Rev. Thomas of the Marlboro history came. > >It is of some interest that William Munnerlyn witnessed the wills >of: James Cook in 1826 (who was the father of Mary Ann Conner, >wife of Wilson Conner, the son of Thomas Conner and Ann Beverly); >Lewis Stubbs in 1844 (another son of John Stubbs, Sr, and Rebecca >Conner, and the husband of the sister Elizabeth of William Bridges); >and William Bridges in 1845. He must have had some connection to >the Bridges, Conner, and Stubbs families. These wills and the Bible >record of Mary Ann Cook Conner are all found on this Marlboro >County site. It is from that Bible bought in Savanna, GA, on 8 Feb. >1804 for $4 that much of the information known about the Conner >family comes. Would we not all wish that our ancestors had spent >their money so well? > >The wife of Charles Cottingham was known to be Nancy Ann Conner, >and they had a son named Conner Cottingham. A married daughter >named in the 1817 will of Charles Cottingham was Nancy C. Cook, >and the "C" in her name was very likely to have been Conner - not >Cottingham, since none of the other married daughters had a >middle initial. Also, in 1803, the eldest son of Charles Cottingham, >Jonathan (who was married to the sister Sarah of William Bridges), >gave a son the name Wilson Conner Cottingham. Wilson Conner was >the son of Thomas Conner and Ann Beverly, and it seems very likely >that he was given this name in honor of the only brother of his >mother's left alive at this time. > >I go into all of this detail, because one can look on the Internet and >find that others have claimed the daughter Nancy Ann of Thomas >Conner and Ann Beverly as their ancestor, but this Nancy was >married to Charles Cottingham. I have to smile as I write this, >because of thinking about what our ancestors might think about >their names floating around in cyberspace in the year of 2002 >during a big tug of war to keep them from being snatched away >by others. > >These families had earlier associations in Dobbs Co, NC, as on the >tax rolls there in 1769 were John Bridges (father of William), and >Thomas Conner. John Beverly (father of Ann Beverly Conner) was in >Johnston Co. as early as 1745, with that being the parent county >from which Dobbs was taken in 1758. It seems likely that this was >the area in which Thomas Conner and Ann Beverly married. > > > > _____________________________________________ Free email with personality! Over 200 domains! http://www.MyOwnEmail.com