Issue of September 30, 1868
Marriage and Death Notices in the (Charleston) Times, 1800-1820, Holcomb, p 303
also, of interest:
"My grandfather Ward was a planter as well as a lawyer. His plantation on Johns Island was called Seven Oaks from a huge seven-branched live oak on the place. I have a large dinner set of pink Lowestoft china that was buried on Johns Island during the Revolution when the British pillaged the neighborhood, after being driven out of their earthworks in the battle of Stony [sic, should be "Stono"] Ferry...[he] is buried in Trinity Churchyard in New York, next to the tomb of Alexander Hamilton. His overseer, who begged that when he died he might be buried nearby, lies beside him"
Day Before Yesterday; Armstrong,David Maitland, p 81
[Mary (#46965237)]
Issue of September 30, 1868
Marriage and Death Notices in the (Charleston) Times, 1800-1820, Holcomb, p 303
also, of interest:
"My grandfather Ward was a planter as well as a lawyer. His plantation on Johns Island was called Seven Oaks from a huge seven-branched live oak on the place. I have a large dinner set of pink Lowestoft china that was buried on Johns Island during the Revolution when the British pillaged the neighborhood, after being driven out of their earthworks in the battle of Stony [sic, should be "Stono"] Ferry...[he] is buried in Trinity Churchyard in New York, next to the tomb of Alexander Hamilton. His overseer, who begged that when he died he might be buried nearby, lies beside him"
Day Before Yesterday; Armstrong,David Maitland, p 81
[Mary (#46965237)]
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