Margaret Bronson

Biography

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Margaret Oldys was christened June 10, 1671, in Pyrford, Surry, England, a daughter of John Oldys and his wife, Margaret. [1]

She had 5 sons with Isaac Brunson who was born 1672, in Hartford Connecticut. Isaac is said to have married a Margaret Oldys and/or a Margaret Burge. The one who moved to South Carolina with him and his five sons died after 1752.

Deed Register

Know ye that I Margarit Brouson wid(o)w of Isaac Brouson ye son of the John Brounson Senr deceased which was formerly an Inhabitant of Weathersfield in ye County of Hartford and colony of Conecticott In New England for and In considration of ye tender love and affection I bare to my Children that is to say my five Sons George Brounson isaac Brounson James Brounson Willi(a)m Brounson David Brouson all of Craven County and province of South Carolina as well as my Self.

Margaret goes on to tranfer, fee simple, her land in Connecticut to her five sons; the deed was dated 28th May 1739. Witnessed by Jonathn Stuff and John Brounson.[2]

Isaac Brunson secondly married Margaret of Wethersfield, Connecticut. It is not certain what her maiden name was, therefore she will be referred to as Margaret Brunson. Isaac and Margaret lived in Hartford County until after 1720, because all of their five sons, George, Isaac, James, William and David, were born there.

About 1721, Isaac and Margaret and their five sons moved from Connecticut to South Carolina. It is assumed that the two sons born to Isaac and Thankful remained in Connecticut with their mother. It will be noted that Isaac’s parents, John and Hannah and all of his brothers and sisters went to South Carolina when he drew land there. When Isaac returned to Connecticut some of the family remained in South Carolina and homesteaded land of their own around the Santee River. They first moved to Craven County, which was later changed to Clarendon County.

Some of the early land transactions of Isaac Brunson are as follows: January 12, 1712, Isaac memorialized two tracts of land in Craven County. Isaac purchased 115 acres from William Way in St. James parish and 57 acres from Thomas Way on the Wateree River.

Isaac was a large planter and owned a Santee Plantation which today are show places in Clarendon County, where the Brunson’s first settled when they came to South Carolina about 1708. It is said that when the loads of Negroes from Africa arrived in Charleston, the Brunson’s were among the planters who would meet the boats and buy slaves for their plantations along the Santee.

The will of Isaac Brunson was dated February 20, 1732. Charleston Memorial Book 3, page 142. It is believed that Isaac died that same year, since Margaret Brunson signed land transactions the following year. It is not certain the year that Margaret died, but it was after 1752 when her last land transaction was recorded.[30]

Notes

The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Volume 20, January 1919

“THE ASHLEY RIVER: ITS SEATS AND SETTLEMENTS” by Henry A. M. Smith [excerpt]

ANDREWS OR LIBERTY HALL

Benjamin Andrews arrived in the Province in November 1673 and on 27 June 1674 a warrant was issued to lay out to him 100 acres.[4] This was evidently laid out on Ashley River for the grant to Thomas Rose of Fetteressa in 1677 bounds on Benjamin An- drews.[5] Another warrant to Benjamin Andrews was issued 19 April 1679 for 240 acres,[6] and on 14 June 1679 a grant was made to Benjamin Andrews and Elizabeth Brant for 270 acres on Ashley River.[7] This grant either escheated, or was transferred to JOSEPH OLDYS for a new grant was later made to Joseph Oldys for the 270 acres, and under his will was devised equally to his son Joseph and his three daughters Arabella, Elizabeth, and Margaret Oldys. Arabella Oldys married William Cantey Junr. and on the division of the plantation received one fourth or 67 ½ acres, to which was added the two fourths of her sisters Elizabeth and Margaret ac- quired by her husband from them, and for the whole aggregating 202 ½ acres a new grant was on 3 November 1703 made to William Cantey Junr.[8] The motive for obtaining a new grant seems to have been to escape accumulated quit rents, for the new grant declares that it is free of such and that the quit rents would com- mence at a future date. On 8 April 1704 William Cantey Junr. "Yeoman" and Arabella his wife conveyed the 202 ½ acres to An- drew Russ;[9] who on 20 May 1709 conveyed the same to Jonathan Fitch Senr.[10]

4. Printed Warrants, 1672-1679, p. 77. 5. This Magazine, vol. XDC, p. 53. 6. Printed Warrants, 1672-1679, p. 197. 7. Proprietary Grants, vol 38, p. 66. 8. Off. Hist Com., Bk. F, 1707-1711, p. 7. 9. Ibid., p. 8. 10. Memo. Bk. 3, p. 303.

References

• http://www.angelfire.com/david-macon/david/d-23.html
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bronson-12
• www.singletonfamily.org