Wilson, James Hazzard (b. )

Given Name: James Hazzard

Death: 1838

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Given Name: Ruth

Death: ABT 1826

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Note: William Twitty was born in South Carolina but his family soon moved to Rutherford County, North Carolina, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, where they established themselves at a place on the Broad River that was soon known as Twitty's Ford. He would live there the rest of his life, farming his land.

He served in the American Revolution as a captain, fighting gallantly in the defense of Graham's Fort and at the Battle of King's Mountain. He is mentioned in King's Mountain and Its Heroes, by Lyman C. Draper, pp. 145, 146, and 259.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Twitty
Title: Joel Gregory Lewis (finalized by Geraldine C. Twitty), The Twitty Famil
y in America 1671-1976 (Walters Prining Company: 1976)
y in America 1671-1976
y in America 1671-1976. Walters Prining Company: 1976.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ralph Gordon
Title: Ralph Gordon's genealogy of the Gordon family

Given Name: William

Death: 2 FEB 1816 Twitty's Ford, North Carolina

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ralph Gordon
Title: Ralph Gordon's genealogy of the Gordon family

Given Name: Frances Rhodes

Death: 1838 Rutherford County, North Carolina

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Note: Francis Bonneau and his wife are buried in the western churchyard of St. Philip's Church, Charleston.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ralph Gordon
Title: Ralph Gordon's genealogy of the Gordon family

Given Name: Francis

Death: 28 FEB 1802

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Given Name: Hannah

Death: 12 AUG 1796

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Note: Dr. Richard Bedon Screven was probably born at New Hope Plantation near Blufton, South Carolina, and spent much of his life in St. Luke's Parish, Beaufort, where he was a successful physician and planter. He received his medical education in Scotland.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Pendarvis
Title: Jems Barnwell Heyward, The Genealogy of the Pendarvis-Bedon Families (F
oote & Davies Company
Atlanta, Georgia, 1905)
oote & Davies Company
Atlanta, Georgia, 1905.

Given Name: Richard Bedon

Death: 1856

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Note: Alice Pendarvis's father did not appriove of her marrying her first cousin and erased her name from the family Bible. In 1804, however, she was forgiven her defiance nad her name was restored to the Bible.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Pendarvis
Title: Jems Barnwell Heyward, The Genealogy of the Pendarvis-Bedon Families (F
oote & Davies Company
Atlanta, Georgia, 1905)
oote & Davies Company
Atlanta, Georgia, 1905.

Given Name: Alice

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Note: Alexander Edwards was a lawyer, being admitted to the bar in 1787. In 1796 he was appointed recorder of the city, a post he held until his death.

On April 2 1806 he bought 397 acres of former Perroneau land at Goose Creek, South Carolina.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ralph Gordon
Title: Ralph Gordon's genealogy of the Gordon family

Given Name: Alexander

Death: 8 AUG 1811 Charleston, South Carolina

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ralph Gordon
Title: Ralph Gordon's genealogy of the Gordon family

Given Name: Mary

Death: 1816 Charleston, South Carolina

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Note: Daniel DeSaussure was a prosperous merchant in Beaufort, South Carolina. He was captured at the fall of Charleston and was sent with other prisoners of note to St. Augustine. He was later exchanged and sent to Philadelphia.

After the war he was a member of the South Carolina Legislature from 1783 until 1791. During the last two years he served as President of the Senate.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ralph Gordon
Title: Ralph Gordon's genealogy of the Gordon family

Given Name: Daniel

Death: 1798

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Given Name: Mary

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Given Name: Henri

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Given Name: Magdalene

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Given Name: Alexander

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Given Name: Jane

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Note: John Edwards was a merchant who emigrated from Bristol, England, about 1750. His origins are unknown beyond that, but he mentioned a widowed sister in his will living in Holywell, Flintshire, North Wales. That might provide a clue to the family origins.

His firm in Charleston, Edwards, Fisher and Company, was very successful and he was among the wealthier merchants of the city, dealing in slaves, indentured servants and numerous other commodities. In 1770 he built the house at 15 Meeting Street that still stands, known as the John Edwards House. A library bookcase first owned by John Edwards is on display in the Heyward-Washington House in Charleston, a property of the Charleston Museum. Appraised in Edwards's estate at 100 pounds, it would today undoubtedly fetch well into six figures if not more. A picture of it is in Southern Furniture, The Williamburg Collection.

He early joined the patriot cause in the Revolution and he advanced large sums of money to the nascent government of South Carolina, including a draft of 1000 pounds to provide powder for the attack on the British ship Betsey at St. Augustine. His signature appears on the paper money issued by South Carolina during the Revolution.

In 1768 he was appointed to the Commission of Fortifications and served in the Commons House of Assembly in October and December, 1772. He was a member of both the First and Second Provincial Congresses in 1775. On August 28th, 1777, John Edwards was appointed one of the Naval Commissioners of South Carolina, involved in getting produce to Europe to pay for military supplies.

He was elected to the Privy Council in 1779. When the city of Charleston surrendered to the British in 1780, Admiral Arbuthnot, the commander of Royal Navy forces in Charleston, was quartered in John Edwards's house, the family being allowed to retain a portion of it. Arbuthnot, without success, tried to convert Edwards to the British cause.

Edwards was among the leaders of Charleston deported to St. Augustine on August 1780 where they stayed until June of 1781 when they were exchanged and allowed to go to Philadelphia.

Edwards died suddenly on August 18, 1781. His friend Josiah Smith recorded in his diary that "This day was buried, in Arch Street Church burying Ground, the remains of my Friend, Neighbor and Companion in Exile, John Edwards, Esqr. who suddenly exchanged this (I hope) for a happier existence, the preceding evening by a Fit of apoplexy. This melancholy event took place, previous to the arrival here of his much afflicted Widow, and numerous Children, and his family thereby lost a most valuable head, Religion a True friend, and the Public a most hearty Supporter of American freedom."

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Fenhagen
Title: Mary Pringle Fenhagen, "John Edwards and Some of His Descendants" (The S
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy)
outh Carolina Magazine of History and Genealogy.

Given Name: John

Death: 18 AUG 1781 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Given Name: Margaret

Death: 27 AUG 1772 Charleston, South Carolina

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Given Name: Alexander

Death: APR 1774 Charleston, South Carolina

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Given Name: Mary

Death: 6 FEB 1741 Charleston, South Carolina

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