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From: John E Turbeville III <>
Subject: Re: [SCMARION-L] TURBEVIL of Charlestown SC, 1710
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:17:52 -0400


wrote:

> The following (excerpt) was posted on 25 Jul 1998 by Listowner
> Steven J. Coker on SCROOTS Mailing List:
>
> RAMSAY'S HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
> FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN 1670 TO THE YEAR 1808.
> by David Ramsay, M.D.
> Preface dated "Charleston, December 31st, 1808"
> Published in 1858, by W.J. Duffie, Newberry, S.C.
> Reprinted in 1959, by The Reprint Company, Spartanburg, S.C.
> Volume I, CHAPTER II, pp 26-31
>
> CIVIL HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. CHAPTER II.
> Proprietary Government,
> from its Commencement in 1670, till its Abolition in 1719.
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> In Governor Johnson's administration, which lasted from 1702 to
> 1709, parties in Church and State ran high, and there were great
> commotions among the people; but on the death of Governor Tynte,
> in 1710, a civil war was on the point of breaking out. When Tynte
> died, there remained only three deputies of the Lords proprietors.
> Robert Gibbes, one of these three, was chosen and proclaimed
> Governor; but by the sudden death of Mr. TURBEVIL, one of the three
> deputies, who in the morning of the election day had voted for Colonel
> Broughton, another of the three deputies, but upon adjournment to the
> afternoon changed his mind and voted for Robert Gibbes, it was
> discovered that Robert Gibbes had obtained the said second vote of
> TURBEVIL by bribery.
>
> "Colonel Broughton laid claim to the government, alleging TURBEVIL's
> primary and uncorrupted vote in his favor. Gibbes insisted on his
> right,* as having added his own vote to TURBEVIL's and thereby obtained
> a majority; and in consequence thereof was proclaimed Governor, and
> quietly settled in the administration."
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
> I have never before seen reference to this Turbevil, but thought someone
> on the list descended from the Turbeville family might find it of interest.
> The Turbeville family of Marion County is widely stated to have come
> from North Carolina some decades later in the 1700's. Does anyone know
> who this Turbevil of 1710 Charlestown area might have been? And was he
> related to the Turbeville family of NC > Marion County?
>
> Jo,

This information was obtained from a journal of one Col.Lumbol of Charleston
whose allegience has not been determined.Fortesque Turberville came about 1709
to establish a system of probate, etc. Left no known children in the Colonies
and died about 1710 suddenly before his vote could be confirmed (CONVENIENT).
If anyone traces to Fortesque then DAR is automaticly documented. He left a
widowed mother and his daughter in England..Kind Regards,
John E.

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