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From: Ted Hughes <>
Subject: Re: [Singleton] Singleton
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 17:43:26 -0400
In-Reply-To: <ae.40ec921f.2c09f488@aol.com>


Hello again,

It is my understanding that Robert and Matthew came from Virginia (and
possibly from England before that) to Sumter, SC with their father
Christopher. Matthew did have a house near Sumter and that house still
exists.

I recently found this web page about Matthew.
http://www.sumtercountymuseum.com/kids/exhibit/preface.htm




On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 08:05 AM, wrote:

> Ted:
>
> Thanks for straightening out and correcting my 64 year old memory of
> who has
> done which monumental gathering and collation of data task.
>
> Also appreciate which of you and Tom descends from which of the key
> upland
> South Carolina Singletons, Matthew and Robert.
>
> If memory serves (and it may not, again!), Matthew was a carpenter
> and/or a
> brick mason in Charleston area first, then moved upcountry. Where
> Matthews
> plantation house "used to be" would now be a land site within Poinsett
> State
> Park, at or near Sumter, SC, right or wrong?
>
> As for Robert, did or didn't he have in addition to his land/crops and
> such,
> a commercial river ferry crossing he ran, too, or is my memory foggy
> and
> messed up again?
>
> Thanks for all corrections to date,
> George Lightfoot Singleton
>
>
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