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Mary Drayton [Fenwick] (1734-1806) |
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Name: Mary Drayton
Born: 21 Dec 1734
Place of Birth: Magnolia Plantation, St. Andrews Parish, Charleston District, SC Married: 1. Edward Fenwick 2. John DeBrahm
Died: 5 Feb 1806 |
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Family group sheet |
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1 Thomas Drayton d: ca. 1724 [1]
+ Ann Unknown d: ca. 1742 [2]
2 Mary Drayton b: ca. 1700-1704 [3] d: ca. 1751 [4]
2 Thomas Drayton b: ca. 1710 [5] d: 11 Nov 1760 [6]
+ Elizabeth Bull [7]
3 Thomas Drayton b: 3 Oct 1731 [8]
3 William Drayton b: 21 Mar 1732 [9] d: 18 May 1790 [10]
3 Mary Drayton b: 21 Dec 1734 [11] d: 5 Feb 1806 [12]
3 Stephen Drayton b: 21 Apr 1736 [13]
3 Henrietta Charlotta Drayton b: 28 Jul 1743 [14]
3 John Drayton b: 28 Aug 1745 [15]
+ Lady Mary McKenzie [16]
3 Thomas Drayton b: 1 Oct 1759 [17] d: 22 May 1802 [18]
2 Stephen Fox Drayton b: ca. 1713 [19] d: January 1733 [20]
2 John Drayton b: before 1716 [21] d: 1779 [22] |
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Biographical Information
Mary Drayton was born 21 Dec 1734 in Charleston. She married, first, Edward Fenwick, son of John Fenwick and Elizabeth Gibbes Fenwick [23]. She married, second, John William Gerard De Brahm [24]. She died in 1806 [25].
In her will dated 20 May 1805 and proved 27 Mar 1806, Mary bequeathed small monetary tokens to daughter Sarah Fenwick Jones, daughter Charlotte Fenwick Jackson, grandaughter Mary Edwina Fenwick, nephew Jacob Drayton, Frederick William Mulcaster ("the grandson of my late husband") and friends Thomas Sparks and Thomas Thompson of England. Mary bequeathed five hundred pounds to the family of her late husband John Gerard DeBrahm. Daughter Selina Fenwick was to receive then thousand pounds and and personal items. Mary bequeathed the remainder of her estate to son John Roger Fenwick. Daughter Selina Fenwick was appointed Executrix of Mary's estate [26].
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References Cited |
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[1] Drayton, Thomas. Will, Charleston District, SC. Dated 12 June 1714, Codicil 5 June 1716, Proved 17 June 1724; Taylor, Emily Drayton Heyward. "The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia." Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, VIII No. 1 (March, 1921), pp. 1-26.
[2] Drayton, Ann. Will, Charleston District, SC. Dated 2 May 1741, Codicil 23 June 1741, Proved 30 Aug 1742.
[3] Griffin, Dorothy Gail. 1985 "The Eighteenth Century Draytons of Drayton Hall." (Ph.D. diss., Emory University), p. 14. [Hereafter Griffin 1985].
[4] Fuller, Mary Drayton. Will, Charleston District, SC. Dated 27 Feb 1749, Proved 3 May 1751.
[5] Griffin 1985, p. 14.
[6] Griffin 1985, p. 27.
[7] Taylor, Emily Drayton Heyward. "The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia." Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, VIII No. 1 (March, 1921), p. 7.
[8] through [22]: Drayton Family. Family Bible of Thomas Fenwick Drayton. Copies at Georgia State Archives in Vertical Files: Family Files: Drayton.
[23] and [24] Smith, D.E. Huger. "An Account of the Tattnall and Fenwick Families in South Carolina." South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, XIV no. 1 (Jan 1913), pp. 3-16. Digitized by Google Books, full text available online at
[25] Drayton Family. Family Bible of Thomas Fenwick Drayton. Copies at Georgia State Archives in Vertical Files: Family Files: Drayton.
[26] De Brahm, Mary. Will, Charleston, South Carolina, 1806. United States, South Carolina, Wills and Miscellaneous Probate Records, 1671-1868, 29 (1800-07), p. 952. Dated 20 May 1805, Proved and Recorded 27 Mar 1806. |
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