SINGLETON surname. Note the Caroline County, VA connection below. Address any queries to this list or to George Singleton at : GSingle556@aol.com . I am merely the forwarder. Charles L. Dibble -----Original Message----- From: GSingle556@aol.com <GSingle556@aol.com> To: SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com <SCSUMTER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, August 20, 1999 10:06 AM Subject: Re: [SCSUMTER-L] Richardson/Singleton/Bracey >To: MACRECO@aol.com > >Memory tells me that two of Lt Col Matthew Singleton's sons were disowned due >to drinking and gambling proclivities. They removed to Mississippi, where >they married twin sisters. Both died in Mississippi. When/if I find the old >book pages I copied back in the 1980's, will fill-in more details. > >Captain John Singleton, b. 1754, and his wife Rebecca Richardson Cooper (dau >of General Richard Richardson) were the parents of Col. Richard Singleton, b. >5 Nov. 1776 d. 1852. These dates and names do not fit your Bible page >reference of a Mary Singleton as mother of Richard Singleton, b. 17 Nov. >1758. It may be that "your" Richard Singleton was the direct son of Col, >Matthew and Mary Singleton, to then have been one of the two sons >disinherited and who removed to Mississippi??? If anyone else "on-line" can >fill in this gap, please do so. > >Hiram Singleton of Wilkinson Co Mississippi you mentioned may have been the >second/other Singleton son who Col. Matthew Singleton disowned, noted above. >Otherwise, I have no idea who or where Hiram Singleton came from? > >There continues to be a batch of Singletons not of the direct line of >Christopher Singleton, & his sons Robert, Col Matthew, and James Singleton, >who immigrated directly to King William Co VA before 1740 (all young boys, >born Isle of Wight, England). Yet, there were "some" Singletons in place in >VA and NC who were fairly close kin to ole Christopher when he came over from >Isle of Wight, England. Another only partially identified but being somewhat >resolved dilemma. > >There is an entirely different generation Christopher Columbus Singleton (b. >1735 Caroline Co VA, m. Sarah Hunley 1755) who had sons Robert and Matthew, >too. > >TIMELINE: Christopher Singleton came from Isle of Wight, England to King >William Co VA before 1740, an adult parent of three boys, Robert Singleton, >b. 1724, Isle of Wight, England; (Col) Matthew Singleton, b. Isle of Wight, >England, 1730; and James Singleton b. last (date unknown to me), Isle of >Wight, England. > >TIMELINE: Christopher Columbus Singleton was born in 1735 in Caroline Co, VA >and married in 1755. His, Christopher Columbus Singleton's sons, Robert and >Matthew, were several generations later in birth than the Isle of Wight >Christopher Singleton's three sons, Robert, Matthew (Col) and James Singleton. >***It does appear of record in Caroline Co VA Court Order Books, dated 11 May >1750 that a possible 4th son (adopted, not natural born) of Isle of Wight, >England Christopher Singleton was provided Guardianship as noted 11 July >1751: "With the approbation of the Court, Christopher (C) Singleton makes >choice of Matthew Singleton (Lt Col) to be his guardian, who with Sherwood >James (Col. Matthew Singleton's father-in-law) acknowledged their bond." YET >in 1777 we have the original, lst Christopher Singleton, b. Isle of Wight, >England, issuing a power of attorney to his son, Robert Singleton (b. 1724, >Isle of Wight, England) from King William Co VA to allow sale of 300 acres >which Christopher Singleton owned in South Carolina...for the support of the >American Revolution. > >COMMON SENSE has to set in here. Obviously, the lst Christopher Singleton >must have come to Virginia, then returned to England for a while, during >which absence his adopted son, Christopher Columbus Singleton had (Col) >Matthew Singleton and Sherwood James involved in his Guardianship. Then, by >1777, if not sooner, the lst Christopher Singleton is back in VA and is >pro-Revolution via his land power of attorney action via his older son, >Robert Singleton in SC (this is the Robert b. 1724 Isle of Wight, England). > >Both Robert Singleton (b. 1724) and Col. Matthew Singleton (b. 1730), as well >as Capt John Singleton (Col Matthew's son, b. 1754), Joseph Singleton (a son >of Robert Singleton of Isel of Wight, Eng 1724 b.), and another John >Singleton (another son of Robert Singleton of Isle of Wight, Eng. 1724 b.) >after the Battle of Lexington (18 Apr 1775) were signers of the SC District >Eastward of the Wateree "Declaration of Independence". > >The fact that some records note that the lst Christopher Singleton, b. Isle >of Wight, England "befriend" beleagured early Baptists in Virginia does not >change the fact that he was himself an Episcopalian, as was Col. Matthew and >his older brother, Robert. > >It is entirely possible the adopted son, Christopher Columbus Singleton, >became a Baptist. Christopher Columbus Singleton's son, Robert, and he may >well have traveled in KY. One of Don Singleton's documents of this later >generation Robert Singleton (no blood kin to original Christopher Singleton >nor his sons, who were his brothers by adoption) traveling so many places in >KY may have been as a circuit riding Methodist Minister or even as the >equivalent Baptist "circuit riding minister". I leave such to the research >others have alredy done a pretty good job on in KY regarding Owens and >Lincoln Co KY, etc, etc. > >Have a good weekend. Birmingham, Alabama was 103 in the shade yesterday!!! > >George Singleton > > > > > >Good luck. > >George Singleton > > >==== SCSUMTER Mailing List ==== >Rootsweb has a search engine available for its mailing lists. >If you don't know which list you'd like to search, check out the list >of lists hosted by RootsWeb at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ >You can search the message archives of the SCSumter list at: >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >