Seeking information on the McSWAIN, BETHEA and PURSER or PURCELL families
From Marion County, SC as outlined below. Please read. Your help will be
most welcome. Thank you.

Doug Purcell

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From: Doug Purcell 
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Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 6:45 PM
Subject: McSwain-Bethea-Purser (Purcell ?)


 Seeking information on Malcolm McSWAIN of Marion County, SC. Vol. X,
Summer
> 1982, No. 3, p. 147 issue of the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral
> Research contains the following information from the Marion District
Minute
> Book of the Ordinary (no year date given): "Nov 6 This day proved the last
> will and testament of Malcolm McSWAIN by the oath of Col. Philip BETHEA
one
> of the subscribing witnesses to the same, and at the same time qualified
> Flora McSWAIN and Malcon PURSER two of the executors named in the same "
>
> When was this will proved and/or when did Malcolm McSWAIN die? Was Flora
> McSWAIN the wife of Malcolm McSWAIN? Also who were Col. Philip BETHEA and
> Malcon PURSER in relation to Malcolm McSWAIN? Who were the children of
> Malcolm McSWAIN and who did they marry? I am especially interested in
> information on Malcon PURSER who I think may be Malcolm PURCELL, one of my
> kinsmen who lived in Cumberland County, North Carolina most of his life.
>
> Any help that is offered on this McSWAIN, BETHEA and PURSER (PURCELL ?)
> query will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Doug Purcell
> 633 North Randolph Avenue
> Eufaula, AL 36027-1209
> [email protected] or
> [email protected]
>

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