Semiquincentennial - - Revolutionary War - - Charles Brumfield

 - A series of  posts about our family's Revolutionary War soldiers -

250 Years; 1776 - 2026

Our Family was there, from the Beginning

Charles and his brothers, John & Reuben, served to support the Revolution.

 

Charles Brumfield

 

1745 Virginia – 24 April 1826, York District, South Carolina

Son of John Watson & Elizabeth Brumfield; Husband of Elizabeth 

My 5th great grandfather

 

Gave Patriotic Service

Charles Brumfield, born circa 1745 in Virginia, was the son of John Watson Brumfield^.[i]^, [ii]^, [iii] He was probably born in Prince Edward County.[iv]

            Like his brothers John and Ezekiel, he did not remain in Virginia but moved further south. In 1781 he was in Wake County, North Carolina. On 20 April of that year the commissioners for the county purchased ten pounds of bacon from Charles as provisions for the Revolutionary War troops.[v] According to the Daughters of the American Revolution, Charles Brumfield gave “civil patriotic service” in North Carolina during the war with Great Britain.[vi]

            Charles supplied 300 pounds of beef for “Continental use” during the war. In 1781 his wife, Elizabeth, applied for monetary compensation to Camden District, State of South Carolina.[vii]

            It is not clear if Charles served as a soldier in the conflicts or if the supplies he provided were the full extent of his patriotic service. 

            Charles received a land grant in Wake County for 84 acres “on the Waters of Beaver Dam” in 1785.[viii]

 

Charles and his neighbor friend William Kelly served the Revolution from that area. Charles furnished supplies. … Charles apparently lived in North Carolina until 1789, at which time he, some of his children, and the Kellys, moved to York Co., South Carolina.[ix]

 

Charles settled in York, South Carolina. In 1795 he was a South Carolina Baptist. He became “a member ‘by letter’ of the Catawba Church.”[x] 1796 court records show Charles giving ownership of two slaves to Jonathan Golden. He gave “a negro wench named Nance and her child called Cate” to Jonathan Golden on 20 May 1796 as witnessed by John Brumfield.[xi] Charles had a sister named Susannah (Brumfield) Gaulden, married to John Gaulden. This might be the John ‘Golden’ in this transaction. On 24 July 1798 Charles witnessed the Will of John Hart.[xii]

            The 1800 census records show Charles Brumfield living in York, South Carolina.[xiii] At his time, when Charles and his brothers were farming in South Carolina, four-fifths of Americans worked on farms.[xiv]

At the time our early Brumfields were setting up their homes, building churches and establishing courts in this area of South Carolina they were doing so on the Catawba Indian Land. The Catawba Indian Nation had many white settlers on its land in York, South Carolina in the late 1700s and early 1800s. They gave 99-year leases to some of those settlers. South Carolina appointed superintendents to oversee the leases but the first Lease Book was lost before the county ever recorded those records.

 

There are a few legal actions recorded among the early Deeds of York County, South Carolina. From abstracts of those documents, the names of many early settlers can be learned, Mortgages, depositions, sales of property and gifts of many kinds give clues to the early residents of Indian land.[xv]

 

Fortunately there is an early record of that time which has survived and which mentions Charles Brumfield. On 19 October 1802 there was a land sale between Andrew Townsend and Thomas Knox. The land was a “tract in the Indian Boundary…200 acres…adjoining Robert Creswell, Charles Brumfield, Henry Creswell and Thomas Knox.”[xvi]        

            In 1810 Charles and his wife were living with a young girl, under the age of ten, and 15 slaves in York.[xvii]

            In 1815 Charles Brumfield wrote his will in York, South Carolina. This document is helpful for many reasons. It establishes his residence at that time. It gives us a picture of his possessions and it gives us the name of his wife and children. His wife was Elizabeth [maiden name unknown]. His children were:  John Brumfield, Elizabeth (Brumfield) McCorkle, Charety (Brumfield) Neely, James Brumfield, Mary (Brumfield) Mopy, Jesse Brumfield and Isaac Brumfield. Son in law, Thomas Neely, is also mentioned in the will.[xviii] The complete context of the will follows this chapter.

The 1820 US Census was taken in Charles’ area on 7 August 1820. He was living at that time. His wife and a male between the ages of 26-45 lived with them. Thirteen slaves were also with them.[xix]

 

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#2 Captain John Kennington, Camden District Regiment, South Carolina Militia 

#3 Sergeant John Brumfield, Patriot & Spy South Carolina Militia 

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[i] Conerly, Luke War, Source Records from Pike County, Mississippi, 1798 – 1910 (SC: Southern Historical Press, 1989) 105.

[ii] Conerly, Luke Ward (1909). Pike County, Mississippi, 1798-1876: Pioneer families and Confederate soldiers (2008 ed.). Madison, GA: Southern Lion Books.

[iii] Brumfield, William. Brumfield Family Tree and Research Notes; shared with author 1029 (knoxbrumfield@gmail.com).

[iv] Randolph, Ruth Brumfield and Nell Brumfield Jacobs Smith. Brumfields Revisited (LA: privately printed, 1995) 3.

[v] North Carolina Revolutionary Pay Vouchers, 1779 – 1782; digital folder 4320440; Charles Brumfield; digital image, Family Search (familysearch.org: accessed July 2017) image 3.

[vi] Daughters of the American Revolution, Ancestor Search, Charles Brumfield, Ancestor #01614; digital record (services.dar.org: accessed November 2017).

[vii] Account Audited (File No. 832) Of Claims Growing Out Of The American Revolution; Series: S108092 Reel: 0015 Frame: 00207; Elizabeth Brumfield; < https://www.archivesindex.sc.gov>, accessed March 2026.

[viii] North Carolina Land Grant Files, 1693 –n1960; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed November 2019) Charles Brumfield in Wake Co.

[ix] Brumfield, Albert R. and Alma Del Clawson. Brumfield Histories (LA: privately printed).

[x] Townsend, Leah, South Carolina Baptists, 1670 – 1805 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974) 252; digital image, Genealogy Gophers (gengophers.com: accessed July 2017).

[xi] Holcomb, Brent H. York County, South Carolina Will Abstracts 1787 - 1862 (Columbia, SC: SCMAR, 2002) 124.

[xii] Holcomb, Brent H., York County, South Carolina Will Abstracts, 1787 – 1862 (Columbia, South Carolina: SCMAR, 2002) 30.

[xiii] Teeples, G. Ronald, Ronald Vern Jackson, and Richard Moore. South Carolina 1800 Census (Provo, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1973) 69.

[xiv] McCutcheon, Marc, Everyday Life in the 1800s (Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest Books) 129.

[xv] Schmidt, Elisabeth Whitman, Occupants of Catawaba Indian Land of York District, South Carolina Taken from York County Deed Books, A, B, C, D, E, F, 1786 – 1807 (The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Winter 1985) 76.

[xvi] Schmidt, Elisabeth Whitman, Occupants of Catawaba Indian Land of York District, South Carolina Taken from York County Deed Books, A, B, C, D, E, F, 1786 – 1807 (The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Winter 1985) 82.

[xvii] 1810 US Census, SC, York; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed November 2017) Charles Brumfield.

[xviii] The Will of Charles Brumfield, S108093, Case 10, File 405; digital image, South Carolina Department of Archives and History (archivesindex.sc.gov: accessed June 2017).

[xix] 1820 US Census, SC, York, York; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed November 2017) Charles Brumfield.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Semiquincentennial - - Revolutionary War - - John Brumfield, Patriot & Spy

 - A series of  posts about our family's Revolutionary War soldiers -

250 Years; 1776 - 2026

Our Family was there, from the Beginning

John and his brothers, Charles & Reuben, served to support the Revolution.

John Brumfield

 

27 June 1750 VA - 6 May 1845 LA

Son of John Watson Brumfield & Elizabeth

My 6^th great uncle 

 

Sergeant, US Dept. of Calvary & Horseman in South Carolina Militia

         John Brumfield was born 27 June 1750 in Virginia and died 6 May 1845 in South Carolina. John was a Revolutionary War soldier who served through several years of the war, participated in numerous battles and acted as a spy. Details of his time in the service of our country are available to us because of the pension request he filed. That pension file contains over fifty pages of information.

He enlisted in 1775 in the light horse Regiment under Captain Edward Richardson, Colonel Thompson and General Richardson in which he served as a private for six months.

The Regiment mustered first on Mealy Township forty miles from Charles Town, our muster ground was in the woods in a suitable place for water ... The Regt. was about Six hundred men strong. Frank Boylan was a captain… Regt. Assembled and served Six months before any attack made by the British… after the Regt. had been mustered we were ordered to Reedy River high up in South Carolina. Richard Richardson Colonel commanded a Regiment of the militia infantry and that Regt. marched with us his father the general commanded the whole expedition. We had a long march to reach Reedy River and had very cold weather. The day before the attack we marched the whole night for fear of being discovered and kept on so near that we could see them near their fires and then stopped and had to wait for day to begin the attack. That night was very cold. The Torys were -?- in the woods near about one thousand strong. They were commanded by Cunningham. The action began at sun up or before. We surprised them so well that they had to surrender before they had lives to prepare for fighting. We took 3 or 4 hundred as prisoners… The place of that action went by the name of Snowy Camp on Reedy River.[i]

It is not surprising that John remembered the cold weather that he experienced during ‘The Snow Campaign’ which was fought in December 1775 because the soldiers marched through several feet of snow. On December 22nd, Colonel Richardson used 1,300 troops to attack the camp of Captain Cunningham that had stopped to rest on Cherokee lands. The British were surprised and scattered into the woods. Colonel Richardson didn’t stay because winter was coming and his army had no tents, their shoes were worn out, and they were badly clothed. Along the way home, it snowed for thirty hours, dumping nearly two feet on the soldiers.[i]

Despite those harsh winter conditions, the six months serving under Captain Richardson were just the beginning of John Brumfield’s service. On the way back to Santee John stopped at General Marion’s house because it was on his way home. The soldiers were dismissed in Santee. When additional soldiers were being drafted John volunteered to join Nathaniel Moor’s Company as a Sergeant. 

The company marched to Sullivan’s Island where John was a part of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island that was fought on 28 June 1776. The large island commanded the entrance to Charleston Harbor with an American fort made of 16-foot wide palmetto logs filled with sand. The British land assault was frustrated when the channel between the islands was found to be too deep to wade, and the American defenses prevented an amphibious landing. The naval bombardment had little effect due to the sandy soil and the spongy nature of the fort's palmetto log construction. The Americans were able to inflict significant damage on the British fleet, which withdrew after an entire day's bombardment.[i] John Brumfield wrote that there was a great deal of confusion following the battle. “The Whigs had then to hide and dodge about and I did so among others until I heard that Col. Marion was gathering men and I met up with him and found him near Scots Lake on Santee.”[ii]

Colonel Francis Marion was a famous figure during the Revolutionary War, usually known by the name the ‘Swamp Fox’. He used guerilla warfare techniques to cripple the British campaigns in the south.  “He collected a ragged band of followers and slipped into hiding in the swampy lowlands of British-occupied SC.”[iii] John Brumfield wrote, “His envoy was small, not more than thirty or forty men. I joined him as a volunteer and served with him as a Sergeant.” 

 

I was always with General Marion from a short time after the Surrender of Charleston to Sir Clinton until was concluded on 30^th of November 1782 and to the best of my recollection it was not less than three years and in all that time I was not employed in no civil pursuit, we were always in the field and the camp was my home; when I went to see my family I hide it so never slept in my home. Times were very dangerous, never had but short time at home...I have served about all the time from 1775 to 1782. All during the war I was all the time within the boundaries of the State of South Carolina. I went all about it after the British and after the Tories. I was in a great number of engagements for Marion was always at it.[iv]   

 

Another important leader joined the group. “After I had joined him General Sumter came also with a Regiment to attack Scots Lake Fort and great many came and joined them.”[v] General Thomas Sumter had a long history of service to our country, eventually serving under four presidents. He became the last surviving General of the American Revolution.[vi] Fort Sumter near Charleston, SC, was named in his honor.[vii]

            Under the leadership of Marion and Sumter the troops took Scots Lake Fort, paroled the British and took about forty Tory prisoners. They were in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, in the northeastern corner of the state. The patriots in that area were having difficulties with a group of mullatoes. At that time persons born of one white parent and one black parent or to persons born of a mulatto parent or parents were called mullatoes. This group was causing trouble for Whigs [Patriots were also known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or American Whigs]. John Brumfield was asked to infiltrate the group to judge their strength.

 

When we got there we were informed that about 25 miles from there on Drowning (?) Creek on Little Pee Dee the -?- Mulattoes had gathered and were making war against the Whigs … Col. Culp burnt his house and committed great waste. Captain Sparks belonging to Col. Culp’s Regt. went to Capt. Hynson who commanded the company that had escorted the prisoners to Pee Dee to inquire if he could not get some Body that could be trusted to go over to the mulattoes and see what was their -?- and strengths to be best able to make an attack on them. Capt. Hynson told him that he had nobody with him fit for such business but me but did not know -?- I would -?- on such an expedition. Death was certain if the mulattoes had discovered the plan. I would not like much such undertaking but on the other hand -?- free mulattoes -?- doing great deal of mischief and it was time to put a stop to it. I told Cap. Hynson that I would go provided another -?- would go with me, having found out that was -?- I went to the mulatto camp Capt. Swet was their main chief. We introduced ourselves under false names. I took the name of John Brown. We found them to be about Six hundred strong, well organized, well armed, well mounted, disposed to fight until death. They prepared and -?- every Day and in my opinion it would have taken a very strong force to subdue them. In several conversations I had with them I suggested to them it would not be as well to be friendly with the Whigs. They said they would rather do so and provided they would be let alone they would remain neutral. After remaining Eight days with the mulattoes on Little Pee Dee I hired one of their men and give him two gold guineas to pilot me back to Pee Dee. I returned from there to our camp and went and reported my -?- to Col. Dick Richardson. I saw him afterwards I learned that a -?- has been cancelled with the Mulattoes.[viii]

 

            John Brumfield continued to serve with this group in South Carolina. “I served with Marion about two years with him in most of all his engagements, furnished my self with arms and horses, of which I lost two in the Campaign, never received no pay whatever.” Fortunately we have his detailed account of his service.

 

From Scots Lake Marion and Sumpter went and took a fort from the British at Col. Thompson on the Cong (?) Rees from there I went with Marion to Orangeburg to attack the British but Marion and Sumter thought they were Strong. We turned round and went to Col. Lee with his regular light horse men was along also and had been Begings Church thirty miles from Charleston and were also with us at the taking of Scots Lake fort. Was a party of the British they attacked us but we beat them, killed -?- and made some prisoners, it was -?- close in the evening, the British had still -?- the place and had -?- the church we camped by all night and prepared to storm the church next day but at day light we perceived that the British had evacuated. We followed them and overtook them twelve miles from Charleston. There was a heavy engagement. Several of our men were killed, upwards of forty were wounded. The British kept up their guard. That night we camped there also. Marion and Sumpter had about 1,000 men. The British were about five hundred and had some artillery. We expected a battle the nest day but the British retreated during the night. From there we returned to Santee and in going back -?- all night at General Marion’s house as it was in my way home. We were dismissed at Santee. Those that wished to go home went and I went among the rest. I then lived in the County now called Sumpter County from that -?- the British were very near gone, none remained but some Tories in Camden…[ix]

 

            At that time John headed home. “After that campaign was over we were drafted again and I did send a substitute in my place but he soon came back, the war was over…”[x] John lived in the ‘High Hills of Santee, South Carolina’ before and after the war. Then he moved to North Carolina and back to South Carolina. In 1808 he moved to Washington Parish, Louisiana where he spent the rest of his life. In 1833 he petitioned the courts for a pension for his military service and he was awarded $20 a year. In 1857 Mrs. Malinda Penny petitioned the government for pension benefits related to her father, John Brumfield.

 

She says that her mother died long before her father the pensioner under consideration. She also says that she and her sister is [sic] the only surviving heirs of said pensioner and she has a Lawful power of attorney from her sister to act for her in this case… only wants the money Due her father from the March 4, 1843 up to May 6, 1845 which was the day her father died which makes 2 year 3 month at $20 per anum.[xi]

 

Unfortunately, the pension record does not give the name of the wife of John Brumfield. John died 6 May 1845. His gravesite is unknown at this time.

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#1  William Stark Kelly, Private in the North Carolina Militia

#2 Captain John Kennington, Camden District Regiment, South Carolina Militia 

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Alford, Ashely, Brown, Brumfield,

Fortenberry, Hollis, Kelly, Kennington,

Lawrence, Ott, Smith & Spurlock

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[i] Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org: accessed 2017) Battle of Sullivan’s Island (28 June 1776).

[ii] NARA, The Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Fold 3 (fold3.com: accessed June 2017) 3 – 9; John Brumfield.

[iii] American Heroes: Francis Marion, South Carolina’s Swamp Fox; A Patriot’s History of the United States (patriothistoryusa.com: accessed June 2017).

[iv] NARA, The Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Fold 3 (fold3.com: accessed June 2017) 25; John Brumfield.

[v] NARA, The Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Fold 3 (fold3.com: accessed June 2017) 3 – 9; John Brumfield.

[vi] General Thomas Sumter; City of Sumter, Uncommon Patriotism (sumtersc.gov: accessed June 2017).

[vii] Fort Sumter; Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org: accessed June 2017).

[viii] NARA, The Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Fold 3 (fold3.com: accessed June 2017) 3 – 9; John Brumfield.

[ix] NARA, The Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Fold 3 (fold3.com: accessed June 2017) 3 – 9; John Brumfield.

[x] NARA, The Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Fold 3 (fold3.com: accessed June 2017) 3 – 9; John Brumfield.

[xi] NARA, The Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Fold 3 (fold3.com: accessed June 2017) 16; John Brumfield.

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[i] ‘The Snow Campaign’; The American Revolution in South Carolina (Carolina.com: accessed June 2017).

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[i] NARA, The Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files; Fold 3 (fold3.com: accessed June 2017) 3 – 9; John Brumfield.

Ancestor Anniversaries, April 16 - 30

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." – Audrey Hepburn

17 April 1805. Pennsylvania.  Andreas Keck, 1753 – 1828 [son of Henry & Hannah Keck] married Susanna Scheetz, 1768 - 1853. This was his second marriage. They had one child.

17 April 1853. Ezra Brown, b 1831 OH [son of Ira Brown & Rachel Outland] married Rachel Outland. 

17 April 1879. David Mark, 1856 - 1951 [son of Abraham Mark & Mary Isabella Heffelfinger] married Mary Ann Clason. They had two sons and two daughters.

                                     19 April 1838. Frederick Ritter, 1812 – 1898 [son of Johannes & Anna Mariah Ritter] married Elizabeth Kope. They had 3 children.

             

                                     19 April 1883. Pennsylvania. William Matthias Ritter, 1852 – 1883 [son of Daniel & Annette (Romich) Ritter] married Emma Rebecca Wagner. They had four children.

20                                  20 April 1878. Ohio. William Mark, 1844 – 1904 [son of Abraham & Mary Isabella (Heffelfinger) Mark] married Elidia Rebecca Ritter. William had served in the Civil War. Elidia was his second wife. They were my second great grandparents. 

                                      21 April 1892. Ohio. Philip Ritter [son of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher]  married Mary. E. Cornelius. They had four children, all born in Ohio. Philip was a belt maker. He died in 1950.

2                                    24 April 1940. Shelby McDaniel married Miria May Blades [daughter of Wiley Blades & Elizabeth Breland]. They had two children.

2                                      26 April 1888. Louisiana. Charles D. Ott, 1848 - 1915 [son of Charles Ott & Margaret Ann Tate] married Martha Jane Tynes [daughter of Tyra Jennings Tynes & Harriet Jane Alford]. 

24 April 1915.

                                      27 April 1925. Bernard William Kelly married Bridget Coyle [daughter of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady]. Bernard and Bridget were both born in Waterbury, CT. 

                                      28 April 1858. Allen Moses Brown [son of Edward S. Brown & Mary Polly Spurlock] married Emmaline Smith [daughter of Wyatt Smith & Euseba Fortenberry]. They had three children. They were my second great grandparents. Allen died c. 1870. 

                                     28 April 1914. Amos Martin Mark [son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter] married Lillian Myrtle Hoverstock. They were married in Wayne, Ohio. They had one child. They were married for 55 years.

                                  

Semiquincentennial - - Revolutionary War - - Captain John Kennington

- 2nd in a series of  posts about our family's Revolutionary War soldiers -

250 Years; 1776 - 2026

Our Family was there, from the Beginning

Our family had many branches living in the American Colonies, before the United States were formed. In Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina my great grandfathers & great uncles left their farms and their families to break away from British rule. They were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. We can proudly know that our family was there in those early days to help ensure our independence. 

  

Captain John Kennington 

Circa 1745 South Carolina - Circa 1814 Lancaster, South Carolina

Son of Edward Kennington; Husband of Martha

My 5x great grandfather 

Captain, Camden District Regiment, South Carolina Militia 

John Kennington was born circa 1745. He was born in and spent his life in South Carolina. He and his wife, Martha [surname unknown], had at least seven children.[i], [ii] Captain John Kennington served in the Revolutionary War.[iii],[iv]

 

He served 56 days as a horseman during 1779 and 1780 and thirty days as a footman during 1781 under Col. Marshall.[v]

              In 1784 John had 50 acres of land on Flat Creek in Camden District.[vi] In 1787 he had 630 acres on Flat Creek and Wild Cat Creek.[vii] In 1789 John was mentioned in deed transactions that adjoined his land on Flat Creek.[viii]

            John was listed in the first census of the United States. In 1790 he and his family were in Lancaster County, Camden District. There were five females and five males in the household.[ix]

            Between 1795 and 1797 John’s name was included in land transactions. He either witnessed deeds or his land was a boundary in those deeds.[x]

            While the Kenningtons were living on Flat Creek and Wild Cat Creek, the Faulkenberry/Fortenberry family was also living there. The Fortenberrys lived on Lynches Creek and Flat Creek.[xi] In 1803 Violette Kennington, daughter of John and Martha Kennington married William Jasper Fortenberry, son of John and Hannah Faulkenberry.[xii],[xiii],[xiv]The two families came together in a connection that would lead to our family.

            In 1800[xv] and 1810[xvi] he was still in Lancaster County as evidenced by census reports and land deeds.[xvii]

            John Kennington died between the 1810 US Census and November 1815 when his estate was settled. The estate was divided between his wife, Martha, and his children: William, Edward, John, Marian, Catherine, Sarah and Violette.[xviii]

 

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Lawrence, Ott, Smith & Spurlock

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[i] Criminger. Adrianne Fortenberry. The Fortenberry Families of Southern Mississippi, 1677-1984 (SC: Southern Historical Press) 198-199.  

[ii] Order Book, Lancaster County, South Carolina, Estate of John Cannington; Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed March 2019) 6 Nov. 1815.

[iii] US Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed March 2019) Captain John Kennington.

[iv] South Carolina Historical Society, The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1904; digital image, Genealogy Gophers (gengophers.com: accessed March 2019) 59-60; Captain John Kennington.

[v] Moss, Bobby Gilmer. Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.) 529.

[vi] South Carolina Department of Archives and History, State Plat Book; Series S213190, Volume 12, Page 328, Item 2; digital image (scdah.sc.gov: accessed March 2019) John Kennington, 1784, Camden District.

[vii] South Carolina Department of Archives and History, State Plat Book; Series S213190, Volume 21, Page 210, Item 0; digital image (scdah.sc.gov: accessed March 2019) John Kennington, 1787, Camden District.

[viii] Holcomb, Brent. Lancaster County, South Carolina Deeds, 1787 – 1811 Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1982) 57 – 58.

[ix] 1790 US Census, SC, Lancaster; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed March 2019) Jno Caniston.

[x] Holcomb, Brent. Lancaster County, South Carolina Deeds, 1787 – 1811 Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1982) 55, 62, 82.

[xi] South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Colonial Plat Books; Series S213184, Volume 7, Page 113, Item 3; digital image (scdah.sc.gov: accessed March 2019) John Faulkenburough, 1758.

[xii] Fortinberry, G. K. Abstract History of the Fortinberry Family; 1795-1940's; (Family History Center Microfilm #1036152).

[xiii] Criminger, Adrianne Fortenberry. The Fortenberry Families of Southern Mississippi. (SC: Southern Historical Press, 1984) 41 - 44.

[xiv] Gurr, C. B., & Gurr, D. R.  The Ties that Bind us Together. [Salt Lake City, UT: C.B. Gurr, 2006].

[xv] 1800 US Census, SC, Lancaster; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed March 2019) John Cannington.

[xvi] 1810 US Census, SC, Lancaster; digital image, Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed March 2019) Jno Kennington.

[xvii] Holcomb, Brent. Lancaster County, South Carolina Deeds, 1787 – 1811 Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1982).

[xviii] Order Book, Lancaster County, South Carolina, Estate of John Cannington; Ancestry (ancestry.com: accessed March 2019) 6 Nov. 1815.