| Family History on the Bedwell, Bohnen, Davisson, Eaton, Hardee, Houldson, Linton, Singletary, Studstill families. If you find any errors please feel free to contact me so they can be changed. I need to find the information on the Hardee children so when I post it I can add the names to right people. Here is some information on the begining of the Singletary family. I am not done adding names to the Singletary side. It is going to take sometime on it. Notes for RICHARD SINGLETARY: The following is taken from, "The Ancestors and Descendents of John White and Sarah Elizabeth Green with allied Lines," by Anne White Strawn, Salisbury Printing Co., Salisbury, N.C. The material covered below has been taken almost entirely from an old book, "Genealogy of the Singletary-Curtis Family," by Lou Singletary--Bedford, published in New York in 1907. The Title Page states that it was compiled from Massachusetts records found in the Astor and Lenox Libraries of New York City, from South Carolina records, from correspondence, and from personal knowledge. In the last quarter of the sixteenth century, there was living in England a family of title and large estates by the name of DUNHAM (so the tradition has it, but the Massachusetts records have it DONHAM). Of this family there were two branches. In case of the death of the last male of the elder branch, the title and estate would pass to the nearest male relative of the younger branch. It so happened that every male of the elder branch died except one small boy. One morning it was discovered that he was missing -- and that his nurse was missing also. Although a thorough search was made and bloodhounds were used in the search, neither he nor his nurse could be found. as the years passed, nothing further was heard from him. The heir of the younger branch of the family instituted a law suit to obtain the property; whether or not he obtained the property in the absence of the real heir is not clear. Many years after this happened, the child's nurse lay on her death bed and made an affidavit that she had been employed to destroy the child. She had found that she could not do this and had decided to seek a home in the new world. She had hidden herself and the child in a dense hazel thicket and had been terrified when she heard the dogs. Fortunately, the scent was cold, and the dogs were called off. For a day and a night she lay hidden; then she made her way to a ship, in which she embarked with the child to America. On reaching America, she deserted the child, leaving him in the care of the captain of the ship, who adopted him. Before she left, she gave the child the name of SINGLETARRY because he was alone in the world and because he would remain (or tarry) in the new world. She shortly returned to England. The above written and sworn confession of the nurse was believed to be true; and detectives were sent to America to investigate the matter. A young man was found bearing the name Singletary, whose age corresponded with that of the lost heir of the Dunham estates and who could give no account of his forebears. The captain of the ship on which the child was deserted had adopted him under the name that the nurse had given him, having no idea of his real name or lineage. And, the captain was now dead. Indeed, such care had been taken to destroy all trace of his name or ancestry that no one could say positively that he was the person sought. While he was believed to be the heir, the evidence was not sufficient to satisfy the English court and put him in possession of the property. |
Singletary, Studstill, Houldson, Bohnen, Hardee, Linton
Updated August 9, 2002 |
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