Letter from Mabel to Amy, Feb. 20, 1960 (page 2)
Book 1, Page 15 ·1752–1858
Transcription
Page 2 of the handwritten letter, on the same Mrs. Waveland S. FitzSimons / 1/2 Tradd Street / Charleston, S. C. letterhead. Continues directly from page 014.
(2) Christopher Fitz Simons who married Stoney. (You have this line.)
(3.) Anne* who married Col Wade Hampton. The latter born April 21, 1791, died at plantation near Mississippi Feb 10, 1858 He was the son of Col Wade Hampton Born 1752 D 1835 — 83 yrs old. He was the builder of Millwood, Columbia, S.C. Married 3 times mother of Wade Hampton II Harriet Flud of Santee. He had a brother Frank.
Anne Fitz Simons * Born 1794 D. 1833 married Col Wade Hampton II 1817.
(4.) Catherine Fitz Simons married Governor James Hammond of Beech Island. This is near Augusta. Ga. Hammonds & Eves her children & gr. children. Silver Bluff Plantation.
AI Notes
Page 2 of Mabel’s February 20, 1960 letter to Amy. Continues the children of Christopher (the emigrant) and Catherine Pritchard, numbered (2) Christopher Fitz Simons m. Stoney, (3) Anne m. Col. Wade Hampton, (4) Catherine m. Gov. James Hammond. Letter continues onto page 016. Mabel’s ‘(3) Anne* who married Col Wade Hampton’ is Ann FitzSimons (1794-1833) m. Wade Hampton II (1791-1858) in 1817 — the asterisk linking the marginal date detail back to the entry. The ‘83 yrs old’ on Wade Hampton I (Born 1752 D 1835) is consistent with the historical figure. The ‘Hammonds & Eves’ descendants line corroborates the Philip Henry Eve letter on p013 (Eve is Catherine FitzSimons Hammond’s grandson via the Hammond–Eve marriage).
The “Mabel” writing here is Mabel FitzSimons (Mrs. Waveland S. FitzSimons) of 1/2 Tradd Street, Charleston, a 1960 correspondent of Amy’s recapitulating the descent from Christopher the emigrant. The two figures she names in this stretch are the family’s most prominent kinsmen: Wade Hampton II (1791–1858), builder-up of Millwood with Ann FitzSimons, and his brother-in-law James H. Hammond (1807–1864), governor and U.S. senator, who married Ann’s sister Catherine in 1831. Their Beech Island seat was Redcliffe; Silver Bluff was a separate Hammond plantation nearby.
Letter continues on next page.