Dear SCROOTers,

I hope that some of you can relate to any of my illustrious ancestors:

KIRKLAND, ADICKES, ALEXANDER, BAILEY, BOYKIN, COQUEREL, DE NEUFVILLE, DU
FOU, GODIN, KENNAN, LYNAH, MAZYCK, MCKINNEE/MCKINNEY, MEREDITH, WITHERS,
as documented below. Other SC ancestors, not documented below, includes
WHITAKER.

RSVP if any bells ring.

Other SC ancestors include:
Katharine K. Moore
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GODIN: Hugenots from Le Havre, France to Charleston, SC

Guillaume GODIN b. circa 1540 & Jeanne COQUEREL
       |
Pierre GODIN b.1567 & Madeleine DE NEUFVILLE
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Nicolas GODIN b.1599 & Judith DU FOU
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David GODIN b. 1645 & Frances BEUZELIN
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8 children b. between 1668-1688, Le Havre, France including:
     Benjamin GODIN b. 1684; and"Captain" David GODIN
 
Benjamin GODIN, Huguenot b. circa: b.1645 christened: 30 Jul 1684,
Sanvic, Le Havre,France.
Arr.1687 London w/ parents. 
Capt. David GODIN & Benjamin GODIN Arr.circa 1709 Charleston.
Capt. David GODIN lived in Charleston, but returned to England. 
Benjamin GODIN granted 500 acres, June 1709.  
        wife Mary Anne MAZYCK
                13 children in Charleston.

source: [email protected]
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Benjamin Godin m. Marianne Mazyck

Susanna Godin m. Henry Kennan

Mary Anne Kennan (d. 1838), widow of S.C. Governor Benjamin Guerard m.
4/6/1859 Joseph Kirkland, MD (b. 1773 in Charleston; buried at Cedar
Creek, Fairfield Co., SC; son of Captain William Kirkland of Cedar Creek
and Elizabeth McKinnee of Camden, SC)

William Lennox Kirkland I (1797-1828; buried at Cedar Creek) m. Mary
Anna Lynah (inherited rice plantation on Combahee River, SC; d. 1864)

William Lenox Kirkland II (1828-6/18/1859; died of battle wound from
Civil War) m. Mary Miller Withers 

Thomas Jefferson Kirkland (co-author of "Historic Camden"
5/9/1860-10/3/1936) m. Fredericka Withers Alexander

Randolph Withers Kirkland m. Louise Richardson of Atlanta, Georgia 
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South Carolina 1790 Federal Census

HEADS OF FAMILIES AT THE FIRST CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES TAKEN IN THE
YEAR 1790 SOUTH CAROLINA
  CHARLESTON DISTRICT, BERKLEY COUNTY, ST. JOHNS PARISH.
  [p.38] CHARLESTON DISTRICT, ST. PHILLIPS AND ST. MICHAELS PARISH.

  Name of head of family: Kennan, Henry
  Free white males of 16 years and upward, 
    including heads of families: 1
  Free white males under 16 years: 1
  Free white females, including heads of families: 3
  All other free persons: 14


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re:Joseph KIRKLAND

"The following items are gleaned from the Revolutionary Records in the
State House:...

"...Lands about seven miles south of Camden were granted to Joseph
Kirkland in 1769, designated in the grant as "Woodyard," by which name
it is still known....

"...Joseph Kirkland (Lieut-Col), account for high blooded stallion
valued at 225 pounds."


re: William BOYKIN & Benjamin MCKINNEE/MCKINNEY:

"William Boykin ... about 1755 or 1756 established himself in South
Carolina, some six miles south of Camden. ... of 300 acres in
Fredericksburg Township, adjoining lands of Benj. McKinnee, near Town
Creek." 

source: "Historic Camden, Part One;" by Thomas J. Kirkland (my
gr-grandfather) and Robert M. Kennedy

source: "Historic Camden, Part Two;" by Thomas J. Kirkland (my
gr-grandfather) and Robert M. Kennedy; Kershaw County Historical
Society, Camden, SC; 1994 (originally published 1926).
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Historic Camden: Colonial and Revolutionary (Volume I) 

       The classic, scholarly text by Kirkland and Kennedy in 1905 that 
       is a standard in South Carolina history. Hardback reprint 

Historic Camden: Nineteenth Century (Volume II) 

       Kirkland and Kennedy's 1926 continuation of the previous volume. 
       A standard with classic, scholarly text. Hardback reprint
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Withers, Thomas Jefferson (1804-1865) Born in Ebenezer, S.C. State court
judge, 1846; delegate to South Carolina secession convention, 1861;
Delegate from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861. Died in Camden, S.C., November 7, 1865. Interment at Quaker
Cemetery, Camden, S.C. 

source: The Political Graveyard, http://www.potifos.com/tpg/#PE
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The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume
62
  page 174

  Mrs. Fredricka Alexander KIRKLAND
  DAR ID Number: 61506
  Born in Manassas, Va.
  Wife of Thomas Jefferson KIRKLAND.[co author of "Historic Camden;
descendant of Capt. William KIRKLAND]
  Descendant of Corp. Thomas Bailey.
  Daughter of Lawrence Alexander, M. D., and Mary Adickes, his wife.
  Granddaughter of H. F. Adickes and Mary Withers, his wife.
  Gr-granddaughter of Randolph Withers and Sarah Bailey, his wife.
  Gr-gr-granddaughter of Thomas Bailey and Mary Meredith, his wife.
  Thomas Bailey (1756-1841) served in the militia at Norfolk, 1776. In
1778 he enlisted in the artillery and received a pension for two years'
actual service as an artificer. He was born in Sussex County, Va.; died
in Ebenezer, S. C.
  Also Nos. 23362, 32701.
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HARRIET KIRKLAND'S  BIBLE 
>            June 10, 1823 

 Next members of Kirkland arrived and granted land by State. Seems a whole colony of Kirklands arrived during the twenty years prior to 1776:
>            
>             *JOSEPH KIRKLAND                   1755
>             *WILLIAM KIRKLAND                  1755

Source: Ida Boyce 
        > This Bible record... by William Peck of Sicily, La. in 1972

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