IK Boyce wrote:

 From: IK Boyce 
>
> The following information was copied back in 1991 from a Roll of
> Microfilm at the LDS History Center.   It contained information
> collected by the DAR of Greenville Co., SC.  Unfortunately I failed to
> write down the roll number and the full description.    Hopefully it
> will shed some light on some of the SC Kirklands.
>
>     "The first mention of the Kirkland name in SC is found in an entry
> in the Register of St. Phillips Church at Charleston, SC which records
> the burial there of John Kirkland, Sept. 18, 1728.
>     The next recorded mention is found in the old plats of land
> originally granted by the State to the first settlers, from which it
> would appear, that a veritable colony of Kirklands arrived in the state
> during the twenty years prior to 1776.  A list of their  names is here
> given in the order of the dates of their respective land plats:  I.
> Edward Kirkland, 1753
> II.  Richard Kirkland, 1753;  III.  Moses Kirkland 1753;  IV.  Robert
> Kirkland 1753;  V.  Joseph Kirkland 1755;  VI.  William Kirkland 1755;
> VII.  Joshua Kirkland  1762;
> VIII.   James Kirkland, 1763;  IX.  Snowden Kirkland 1763;  X.  John
> Kirkland 1764;  XI.  Francis Kirkland, 1772;  XII  Thomas Kirkland
> 1773;  XIII.  Benjamin Kirkland 1774.
>     What relationship, if any, existed between these Kirklands we have
> not been able to ascertain,  but it is well nigh certain that Joseph and
> William were brothers.....No. XI above is the William who settled on
> Cedar Creek in Fairfield Co. (in 1755) and was a captain in the
> Revolutionary War.
>     The following items are gleaned from Revolutionary Records in the
> State House;  William Kirkland (of Cedar Creek) 261 pounds 16s 8d
> Currency,  37 pounds  8-1 sterling for 68 days as Captain of Horse in
> Gen. Williamson's Brigade at St. Augusta in 1779.  Sworn to before John
> Winn, J.P.  certified correct by Lieut. Col. Joseph Kirkland.
>     William Kirkland, served as  captain in the Revolution.  He and
> Joseph Kirkland, who was probably his brother, settled on Cedar Creek in
> Fairfield, SC near Richland Co. line, at least as early as 1753.  He and
> Joseph are mentioned in Mills Statistics as brave fighters in the cause
> of the colonist.  Both were members of the State Assembly in 1782, at
> Jacksonboro, which confiscated the property of many Tories, among them
> Moses Kirkland.
>     As appears from the Will of Benjamin McKinnie, dated August 24,
> 1759, found in Probate Court at Charleston.  William had at that date
> married, Elizabeth, daughter of said Benjamin, and Joseph had married
> Lemender, another daughter.  This Benjamin McKinnie was settled some
> eight miles south of Camden as early as 1746, the date of a conveyance
> of land to him by Charles Ratcliff.  In his will he mentions his
> following children:  Achelans McKinnie, Penelope McKinnie, Elizabeth
> Kirkland, Sara Mackey, John McKinnie, Mary McKinnie, Fannie McKinnie,
> Christian McKinnie, Michael McKinnie, Priscilla McKinnie and Lemender
> Kirkland.
>     The will of this Wm. Kirkland is of record in Probate office at
> Winnsboro, dated Dec 1806, probated Dec 27, 1806.  It names his son
> Joseph as executor and disposes of his property to his children, Sarah
> Taylor, Francis Alston (wife of James Alston), Archy, Mary Honor (who
> after became the wife of Burrell Brown Cook).  The last three were
> almost certainly the children of a second marriage.  Wm. Kirkland
> married secondly, Lucretia Pearson.   Lucretia Pearson Kirkland was the
> mother of Mary Honor or Honoria.
>     A daughter, Elizabeth Sorsby, had probably pre-deceased her father.
> Joseph Kirkland, son of William and Elizabeth McKinnie was born in 1773,
> educated as a physician, and in 1795 married Marianne Guerard, the young
> widow of Gov. Benj. Guerard.  After his marriage he resided in
> Charleston, where he served through  the yellow fever epidemic of 1817.
> On Nov 12, 1817, he died and was buried in the family cemetery on Cedar
> Creek in Fairfield Co.  His Gravestone contains the following
> inscription:
>     "Rest here the noblest work of God - a truly good man.
>     "Weep not my wife nor son most dear
>         I am not dead but sleepin here,
>     My debts are paid and I am free
>         Prepare to die and follow me."
>
> "Marianne, the wife of Joseph, was the daughter of Henry Keenan and
> Susannah Godin, who were married in 1781.  Henry was among those
> imprisoned by the British on ships in Charleston harbor, suffering great
> hardships.  His wife, Susannah, was the daughter of Benjamin Godin and
> Marianne Mazyck, both of the Huguenot colony which came to Charleston
> about the year 1700.
>     W. Lennox Kirkland, son of Joseph was born in 1797.  He married Mary
> Anne Faber, a widow of Mr. Faber.  She was a daughter of Dr. Thomas E.
> Lynah, who was a son of Dr. James Lynah.  Dr. James Lynah served as
> surgeon in the Rev. and was originally from the Isle of Man."
>                         Copied from   HISTORIC CAMDEN   IX  CENTURY
>                                     By:  Kirkland and Kennedy.
>
> I hope this is of help to someone.

Thank you, Ida for the information.  Here is more on the Kirklands of SC:

Dr. William Lennox Kirkland & Mary Anna Lynah owned rice plantation on the
Combahee River nr. Charleston.

According to "Combahee River Plantations," by Dr. Alexander Moore, Dr.
Kirkland d. of fever June 21, 1828, age 31.  This source refers to him as
her 1st husband.
Mary Anna m. (2) Henry F. Faber, Nov. 14, 1837. He died March 22, 1839.

According to family lore, a fortune teller predicted her son Wm's premature
death, so Mary Anna took him to Europe to avoid it. She took his tutor,
Joshua Nichols with them. He became her 3rd husband on Nov. 22, 1848.
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William Lennox Kirkland II b. 1828 (an infant when his father died) m.
4/6/1859 Mary Miller Withers

When Federal troops stationed at Port Royal, Mary and the baby (Thos. J.
Kirkland) moved to Camden. On June 2, 1863, there was a raid on the
Combahee R. plantations and "Rose Hill," was burned down.

Wm., a courier in the Charleston Light Dragoons, died 6/13/1864, age 36, of
a gangrenous knee wound from the battle at Hawes Shop, VA.  Unfortunately,
his premature death was not avoided.

Mary Miller Withers was the cousin of Mary Boykin Chestnut, and daughter of
a signer of the Secession, Thos. Jefferson Withers.
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Thos. Jefferson Kirkland b. 5/9/1860 d. 10/3/1936
m. 1889 Fredericka Withers Alexander b. 11/18/1894
Thos. J. Kirkland co-wrote "Historic Camden,"  and was president of The
Loan and Savings Bank, in Camden. His historic home, "Cool Springs," in
Camden, still stands.
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Randolph Withers Kirkland, was a cotton buyer  b. 11/18/1894, St.
Augustine, FL
d. 5/13/1957 m. 12/31/1918 Louise Beardsley Richardson b. 5/5/1897,
Atlanta, GA
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Joseph Lane Kirkland
b. 3/12/1922, Camden, SC d. 8/14/99, Washington DC, age 77, lung cancer

Here is a website in memory of Joseph Lane Kirkland:
http://www.aflcio.org/about/kirkland.htm

Here are links to news articles covering his memorial service on Sept. 23,
1999:

* WashingtonPost:
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/24/136l-092499-idx.html

* Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/news/wires2/0923/n_ap_0923_271.sml

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