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Author: MomSmith4
Surnames: CANTERY, CHESTNUT
Classification: queries
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Beth,
Search Sarah CANTEY on
rootsweb.com (free site). Several researchers have her and husband
John CHESTNUT. Specific death dates and burial site named. Daughter Sarah CANTEY CHESTNUT
listed with husband. From the first page of results for Sarah,be sure to look at the
websites where she is found. Extensive information on John CHESTNUT is there. You will be
able to follow the documentation from there as well as to contact fellow researchers. When
you click on World Connect you can filter further by giving spouse as CHESTNUT.
South Carolina Wills,1670-1854 or Later, compiled from CWA, WPA, microfilms and originial
volumers, Mary Bondurant Warren, Heritage Papers, copyrights 1981, 1992 is a will index.
Page 45 lists two testators named John CHESTNUT. The wills are found in Will Book 1, p.
257 and Will Book 3, p. 9, both Kershaw. (Kershaw County formed within Camden District
1791).
On
Ancestry.com (subscription site), you can find "Chestnut,Jno and Sarah Cantey of
St. John's Parish.__June 1770. Hayne records." Supplement to South Carolina
Marriages 1688-1820, compiled by Brent H. Holcomb, copyright 1984, p. 7.Hayne Records were
the records of Colonel Isaac Hayne.
Chronicles of St. Mark's Parish, Santee Circuit, and Williamsburg Township, South
Carolina 1731-1885,James M. Burgess, M.D., Columbia, SC, 1888. Pp. 48-49: First settlement
of Camden. "In the year 1758 Joseph Kershaw removed to a village then called
'Pine Tree,' on the East side of Wateree River, at the head of navigation. John
Chestnut, Duncan McRae and Zack Cantey were in the employ of Colonel Joseph
Kershaw."P. 60, John Chestnut listed among Delegates to the Provincial Congress,
1775.
Will post more later.
Sue JAMES SMITH
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