Hon. John Fenwick

John Fenwick was born 1675 in Morpeth, Northumberland, England, and died JUL 1747 in Fenwick Hall, Johns Island, South Carolina.

Family

From https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=syf&id=I...

He was the son of Robert Fenwick and Anne Culcheth.

He married Elizabeth Gibbes, daughter of Robert Gibbes and Mary Davis. She was born 04 FEB 1691 in Charleston, South Carolina, and died 27 FEB 1746 in Charleston, South Carolina

Their children

1. Sarah Fenwick b: JUN 1722 in Charleston, South Carolina
2. John Fenwick b: 07 MAY 1723 in Charleston, South Carolina
3. Anne Fenwick b: 04 DEC 1724 in Charleston, South Carolina
4. Edward Fenwick b: 22 JAN 1725 in Council, Bladen, North Carolina

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Biography

From http://www.fenwickhall.com/fenwickshistory1.html

Honorable Major General John Fenwick (pronounced 'fennick')
Original  creator of the Plantation 1675?-1747

Written in 1921:

Hon. John Fenwick did not record the date or manner of his immigration to America The moving cause of his coming may have well been a summons from his brother, Robert   There has survived a land 'warrant' issued to John Fenwicke of the date March 1, 1704/5 for 500 acres of land on Sandtee River adjoing another tract which he then already owned;   and it was in the summer of 1706 that, having then been established in the colony long enough to have become a Captain of militia, he there had his crowded hour.

John Fenwick did not live out his life at Fenwick Hall  Several years before he made his will in February 1745/46, he did what his elder brother, Edward had done in similar circumstances, and what reveals him to have been a British colonial in the tradition we know today when the world is smaller and distances are less. He was no Henry Esmond seeking in the wilderness a definite refuge from memories of civilization:  he never cut his family ties with home, as did the immigrant ancestors of most American families. When the time came, he recrossed the Atlantic to 'retire', just as he had crossed it originally to make his fortune. Therein he left a legacy of tradition for which his grandsons paid heavily.......

• page 35 of Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ...
• http://www.fenwickhall.com/

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The Honorable JOHN FENWICK of Charles Town, SC. named CULCHETH GOLIGHTLY as his nephew in his will dated 27th Feb. 1745-6 and proved in London, 2 July 1747.

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