The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-26


 ns. HENDERSON, think I am also fsiSs frsnss. tfFouEn Msndarson %y Rdiey. above. She was a daughter of Judge Henderson of North Carolina. judge in Revolutions ry days, ana granooaugn- nial judge In the same state. w
 Answers.
 2f5. RIDLEY-The services of Thomas Ridley of Virginia, as ar, officer. are men .1- tioned in saffelrs records, page 5o6; this authority places him on the list of om- cers who were entitled to Virginia Mil itary Land Warrants issued prior to De-
 Heitmans Register gives this descrigs, tion of Thomas Ridley: Captain, Stn Virginia, ilth March. 1776; Major 10th Virginia 1st March: ITS; transfs5red fer. @ to tired 12th February 17Sl'"
 21s. HENDERsoN-win I. G. R. w. give the name of Judge Henderson of Tseonufnii Tse most distinguish1d @ Judge Henderson of that time and State was Judge Rich ard Henderson who married Elizabeth Keeling. q stepdaughter of Judge VII chibaid. Leonard and John Lawson; they also had two daughters, Fanny, who married Judge McCay of Salisbury. and Elizabeth, who married MT. Alexander; It will be seen at once that this could not be Judge Henderson to whom the Query refers. The facts are found In Wheeler's History of North Carolina, Val ii;. F F1PPzfpATs1cK-This P2fpsA 1yf: extract is taken from The Atlanta Constitution' January 12th. Joseph Habersham. p: A. R. Department. It is signed R. J. Mas
 "The following is transcript from . record of the Fitzpatrick Cmy wife 9 family.
 "The Fitzpatrick who came to Virginia from Ireland about 1710, had three sons. Thomas. William and Joseph. besides daughters. His son Joseph, was born tn 1790. Migrated to Georgia and settled in Greene County. He died at the age oi at yfarS the age @ of Is, ios years. His sons were five. Benjamin, Joseph, William, Booth and Rene. Daughters three; one married Joseph Heard, one Thomas Heard and
 In Smiths Story of Georgia" we find that Joseph Fitzpatrick is mentioned as settler i1 Wilkes County after l'S6: | So that the age given in the extract of is evidently & mistake; for if he was bon in 1720 and settled in Wilkes Coun- ty. Ga, after 17s6, he was then 66 years old He probably came to Georgia before Wilkes County after 17S6. Tn the Third D. A. R. Report of the Smithsonian In- stitute, recently published, there is a soldiers. We find in 1t the names of Benjamin Fitzpatrick and of Lieut.. VII liam Fitzpatrick.
 IA. PHILLIPs-In this list of Georgia soldiers, Joseph Phillips is given the rank of captain.
 2o4. JENNINGs-DUNCAN great grandmother's maiden name was Hannah Frances Jennings; she. was married to Joseph W. Duncan at Charlottesville, Va, about 17S9, and they came to South Carolina very soon after their marriage and settled right at the present site of Dade George Washington. Willis Jen- nings, William, Eliza. Frances and one other daughter whose name cannot recall. I have a maiden aunt, Miss ID. who can tell you probably more about the family history than any one living.
 w. H. Duncan.
 County Auditor. Barnwell. s. C.
 173.- JAMES-We have recently had the pleasure of examining number of re- COT ds pertaining to several branches of the James family of South Carolina. We publish the following note: concerning ary history of these families, believing they will be of interest to the many de- sc andants 'cattered through Alabama.
 I1efe IS a DeQlkTee OI Oue HHe OI Lne Js mes family in England. which begins with Edward I. atd comes down through Thomas Plantagenet, his fourteenth chIld, through the noble families of Mowbray. Howard, Wyndham, down to Anne Wyndham. who married William James, who was bern in 1637. They had several children, among others. John, bern 1eSS. and William, born 1701. who both came to America, but the spot of their settlement is not given: there were James settlers in the Northern colonies, in Virginia, in Maryland and in North Carolina as we'll as In South Carolina. In all of these families the names of John and William are hereditary. occur ring very frequently. So many men of these names served in the Revolution that It is bewildering to the descendant cial ancestor belonging to the particular line.
 Bishop Gregg's History of Old Che raws," alludes to a James family of sketch is given of the weioh colony of the Baptist faith which settled in the Marlborough District. s. C..
 The Welch colony consisting first of Cairmarthen. s. Wales. sailed from NH ford Haven in June, 110l. on board the William and Mary: landed at Philadel- phia.' September Sth, settled about Pen nepec and remained about year and a half and in 1703, removed to Newcastle County on to a tract of land of 3O00J acres DurcnaSed rom William Henn. This Welch settlement on change of boundaries was placed in Delaware Some of the Welsh visited South. Carolina some time in 1735-3s. and desiring to remove there, David LewisI Daniel James and samuel Wild petitioned the Governor and Council, August 13. 1736 to set apart for the sole use of the Welch colony a cer- tain portion of land; this was done by order of Council, August 13, 1736, and they sold their lands in Delaware and began removal. Daniel James, finding that the order of Council, January 3l. 1731, erred in the description of the grant, pe- titioned for correction and confirmation of the original grant of August 13, 1726, which was done by Council, February & 1737 This grant covered both sides of the Peedee for eight miles on either side up to the two main branches thereof in North Carolina. They first settled on the rich lands opposite the present village of Society Hill and called from an early period "Welch Neck" extending from Crooked Creek above to Red Bluff below about six miles. During 1T37 all the fam flies had arrived and under the leader ship of James James, the wealthiest and stunned a permanent charter. James James owned lands on both sides of the river at what is now known as Sparks g Ferry: he died at Cat Fish. November 2l 1769. Philip James and wife. (son of James James,. born Pen1epec. Pa. 1101 came to South Carolina 1735: died 1T53.
 Abel James and wife. Daniel James and wife Thomas James. William James. David James all of these were organized in January. 1I2S. into church of the