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Comment by Lowcountry Africana on January 16, 2010 at 5:03am

Hi Karen,
Wow, that is exciting (and sad, to hold that bill of sale in your hand...). I hope you have many more discoveries and breakthroughs.

Toni

Comment by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on January 10, 2010 at 11:49pm

Saw photos of Landgrave Edmund Bellinger's key-wound pocket watch and signet ring. Possibly his signet ring would reveal who his father was? What happend to those two artifacts? My lineage is clear to the Hon. Henry Yonge, Sr., Loyalist, H.M. Surveyor-General of Georgia by wife Elizabeth Bellinger (did she go with him to British East Florida, then the Bahamas, and finally England? Is she buried Savannah? Their summer home "Orangedale", Skidaway Island, is now the site of "The Landings", I think. Son Maj. Henry Yonge, Jr., Loyalist, was H.M. Attorney-General of British East Florida, his plantation now Ormond, Fla., the Public Library there on Yonge St. In his Loyalist claims, Henry Sr. called his first wife Christiana Bulloch "a rebell"; the sister of Patriot Gov. Bulloch.

I'm now told Mrs. Elizabeth Bellinger Yonge's lineage to Landgrave Edmond Bellinger, Sr., is wrong. I thought she was the daughter of militia Capt. Wm. Bellinger, Sr., and Mary Cantey, daughter of Wm. Cantey and Jane Baker, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson Baker, supposedly of noble lineage. Wm. Cantey the son of Teige and Elizabeth Cantey, Sr. If anyone knows Mrs. Elizabeth Bellinger Yong's correct lineage, please tell me?

Jim

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on January 10, 2010 at 2:50pm

Hi Jim,
Thank you for joining, and welcome! We look forward to your participation in the group. As you might imagine our Drayton research weaves in and out of the Bellinger family lines. If you have any Bellinger family documents or photographs you would like to share, they will find a happy home here!

Best,
Toni

Comment by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on January 10, 2010 at 10:08am

Greetings: I am a descendant of Capt. Edmund Bellinger, Sr., master of the ship "Blake" which allegedly brought the first cattle to cattle to S.C., Judge in Admiralty, Surveyor-General, and 1698 created Landgrave of Tombodly & Ashepoo Baronies, S.C. Ashepoo was near today's Walterboro, S.C. The genealogy room of the Walterboro Public Library had a 4x5 card which indicated a black lady was collecting information on black Bellinger families of that area. Not directly connected, I read a news artical that a black man had moved his slave museum to that area. This is over a decade ago when I lived in Charlotte, before my US Airways mechanic retirement to Southport, N.C.; I knew there a wonderful old gentleman, long retired as a V.P. of the original Wachovia Bank (grandmother Ruby Valery Woollen, age 17 (b1885), OLd Salem, was Wachovia's first female employee, a steno-typist for co-founder Col. Fries. I knew the co-founder Shaffner family too). Mr. Bellinger invited me to the circa five-day black Bellinger family re-union in the piedmont area of S.C., I think it's called Blacksville/burg, S.C., where the five or so black Bellinger siblings' lived, who's accomplished descendants hold their every other year re-union--a wonderful family. Towards the last days, except when I saw my arms; I'd forget I was the only "white" there; I felt as but one, with them spiritually and physically except separated by color: but then neither of us picked our ancestors. I suspect these 1850's piedmont S.C. black Bellingers somehow connect with the Walterboro ones? On-line in the Depression era "Slave Narratives", a former female slave then living in Florida I think, told of her time as a house slave of a Mrs. Bellinger on a S.C. plantation, and how at the end of the Civil War and first Freedom Days, Mrs. Bellinger one-by-one called in her now free former slaves, looked in her plantation slave book, then for each wrote out what she called their "Birth Certificates", telling all, especially those who did not underastand it, to keep them with them, for as they dispursed in Freedom and Life, and loose contact; one day Mrs. Bellinger and the book will be gone, and they may need that "birth Certificate" information. I hope it not only named the date of birth, but the parents also. Has anyone ever seen one of these? Can't find my 4x5 Bellinger cards; when I do I'll be back. Looking for descendants of two of my Civil War heros of Hilton Head Island, S,C, Union black Sgt. Bellinger, and Pvt. Bellinger. Have some data, one married in camp, removed to Charleston as a carpender. The other died in-service in S.C. and if he does not have a tombstone or memorial stone, as a Union soldier is entitled to a U.S. government provided stone. I am in the SCV, I have seven (possibly an eigth) Confederate ancestors; I need to apply for a free US government stone for my Pvt. James Landreth Malcolm, CSA musician, who's unmarked grave I just learned, is allegedly near the marked Old Salem, N.C., grave of his son-in-law, Sgt. James Anderson Woollen, CSA musician. At a meeting of our new SCV chapter here, we were looking for new projects; someone suggest looking for unmarked Confederate graves, then apply for free US government tombstones/memorial stones. I added, and if we find an unmarked Union soldier's grave, that we do the paperwork on him too. A polite "Oh nooooooo...." I can not grasp that mentality! It's reasoning alludes me. Hilton Head Island (once the "Barony" of 1698 Landgrave John Bayley (1682 Landgrave John Bailey had "Otter Island" Barony), created 1698) was supposedly named for explorer Capt. Wm. Hilton, Jr., who 1663 named the Cape Fear River and Hilton River (now Brunswick) which flows past Southport, N.C., where I live. Wm. Jr.'s brother was Exeter, N.H., lawyer Edw. Hilton, Sr., my ancestor who wed Mrs. Catherine Shapleigh Treworgye, the sister of Capt. Nicholas Shapleigh who drafted early charts of the Cape Fear River. Did he do any S.C. coastal maps? Edward and Wm's parents were Explorer Capt. William Hilton, Sr., and Ellen Mainwaring, and so on maybe three generations to Hilton Castle, England. The mulato Joseph Pendarvis, Esq., family is often incorrectly attributed as a Landgrave. Has anyone heard a Barony name attributed as his, or believed date of Landgrave "creation" attributed to him? He apparently was a large land owner. In Linked In (focusoninfinity) I created the history/genealogy "Group", Heirs of Hereditary Landgraves & Cassiques of Colonial Low Country South Carolina (see Archived Websites, 1999) to which anyone interested in the once institution, is welcome to join. If you are in anyway connected to a defunct "Barony" or just interested--welcome! Jim Miller

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on January 10, 2010 at 12:42am

Welcome to our new members! We encourage our new - and current (!) members to post ancestors you are seeking in the Lowcountry. We all work in these records for our research and have much to share with each other.

Who are You seeking in the Lowcountry? Let's look for them with our collective knowledge of record sets and Lowcountry history/sources/ancestors!

Comment by Anita Wills on January 2, 2010 at 3:37pm

Toni,
Thank you for this information. I am going to go through the links and see if anything matches.

Anita

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on January 2, 2010 at 12:12am

Hi Karen,
You are welcome, if any new Bradwell records come up I will be sure to send them.

Best,
Toni

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on January 2, 2010 at 12:07am

Hi Anita,
I'm seeing Lydia Bonaparte in this record in the Lowcountry Africana database:

Report of Rations, Berkeley County, South Carolina Plantations, Fre...

The surname Bonaparte is also in this record but the first name is illegible:

South Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Reports: Register of Destit...

I will check records not yet posted and send any Bonaparte records I find.

Best and Happy New Year,
Toni :0)

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on January 1, 2010 at 11:59pm

Hi Anita,
Sorry, I dropped that first link, here it is:

www.africanaheritage.com/Labor_Contracts_BerkeleyP.asp

Best,
Toni

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on January 1, 2010 at 11:57pm

Hi Anita,
It looks like we do have a few Bonaparte records, you may have already found these via a Google search of our Africana Heritage Project website:

African American Genealogy: Freedmen's Labor Contracts, Berkeley ...Livie Bonapart, fullhand. Ann Saul, fullhand. Harriet Simmons, fullhand .... Bonaparte Doctor Lizzie Doctor William Palmer Charlotte Palmer Gabriel Gardner ...



[RTF] LIST OF DESTITUTE PERSONS who will need rations and seed in St ...File Format: Rich Text Format - View as HTML
Edgar Bonaparte, M, 65, Refugee. Made no crop last year. Has contracted. .... Lydia Bonaparte, F, 40, Crippled in both hands. Mary Ball, F, 70, Feeble ...
www.africanaheritage.com/uploads/2065/DESTITUTE20May1866.rtf


[RTF] Census Record - USF Africana Heritage Project. Rediscovering ...File Format: Rich Text Format - View as HTML
Bonaparte. Elsie. Sarah. DAVIS, Solomon. Betty. Jonas. Bella. Jeramiah. Stephen. Syke. SEGAR, Andrew. Rachel. Alexander. Tilla. Henry. BROUGHTON, Geoffry ...
www.africanaheritage.com/.../BLACKRESIDENTS1870Oakleyp61-80.rtf


[RTF] Census Record - USF Africana Heritage Project. Rediscovering ...File Format: Rich Text Format - View as HTML
WASHINGTON, Bonaparte. Dolly. Best. Robin. SIMPSON (?), Sam. Rose. Richard. WALASHAN (?), Hanah. Ceaser. Sylbe. Sophia. Dick. Hannah. Ellemia (?) ...
www.africanaheritage.com/uploads/.../BLACKRESIDENTS1870p61-80.rtf

I'll do some further searching in our records.

Best,
Toni

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