Typescript memorandum (page 4): Pritchard and FitzSimons family notes
Book 1, Page 24 ·1772–1837
Transcription
A typewritten sheet, numbered 4 at the upper right corner.
Columbian Herald published at Charleston, S. C. Charleston Library Society. O’Driscoll MS.
August 7, 1788. Married) Sunday evening Mr. Christopher FitzSimons of this City to Miss Catherine Pritchard daughter of Mr. Paul Pritchard of Christ Church Parish. Also in State Gazette of S. C. August 7, 1788. (Webber Copy).
Will of Paul Pritchard of Charleston, Ship builder, November 10, 1791, proved December 14, 1791. Mentions: Son-in-law, Christopher FitzSimons.
City Gazette, February 27, 1793. Christopher FitzSimons advertises plant’n in St. Thomas Parish 762 a---- also two other plantations in St. Thomas Parish belonging to estate of Mr. Paul Pritchard deceased, one of them on the Wando 16 or 17 miles from the city, the other on a bold creek, 10 miles from City. Signed Christopher FitzSimons at the Distillery, Maxyckborough.
S. C. Gazette, August 7, 1788 married Christopher FitzSimons & Catherine daughter of Paul Pritchard, Md. Aug. 3, 1788. FitzSimons family Bible. bapd. 6 Mar. 1791 Cashel son of Chris. & Cath. 2. June 1797 Christopher son of same Ann FitzSimons (Mrs. Wade Hamptons given in Bible as born January 1, 1794, all others than these 3 born in and after 1800.
St. Philip’s Church Reg. Paul Pritchard of Charleston, Shipwright, and Mary Geyer of same place sp. March 12, 1799.
Catharine Pritchard daughter of Paul Pritchard (who ran shipyards at Hobcaw & Charleston for about 25 years prior to his death, December 3, 1791) married Christopher FitzSimons, factor & planter. They had four children. Colonel Paul FitzSimons who married Miss White of Augusta, Ga. Christopher FitzSimons married Miss Stoney daughter of John Stoney, Factor of Charleston. Ann married Col. Wade Hampton and her heroic and immortal son Gen Wade Hampton Senator & Governor is now sleeping at her side. Catherine married James Hammond, Governor & Senator of S. C. The Hammonds and Eves of Beech Island are her children and grand children. Mary Ann daughter of Col. Paul FitzSimons who married Ellenor Nesbit White mentioned above. A frah Anne Pritchard sister of Catherine married Capt. Oswald Eve of Augusta, Ga. Descendants are Eves, Phleys, Carmichaels, Walkers and Smiths, Longstreets and Watkins of Georgia.
P. Pritchard, M. D. " the Read plantation on Hobcaw adjoins Hobcaw. We would be alarmed when in our wanderings with the little darkies in the woods, we had sprung upon us, as it were, the tombstones in the Read cemetery. Hobcaw is an Indian name and the Hobcaw tribe lived in Christ Church Parish.
Paul Pritchard B. April 13, 1779 D. May 28, 1837
Catherine Pritchard B. Feb. 10, 1784 D. Sept. 26, 1835 Age 51 years, 7 mos. 16 days.
Courier, Charleston, S. C. Feb. 14, 1803 Married Thursday evening last by the Rev.Dr. Frost Mr. Paul Pritchard jun. to Miss Catherine Hamilton both of this city.
AI Notes
A typewritten memorandum sheet numbered ‘4’ at the upper right, continuing the family record. Compiles citations from Charleston newspapers, the Pritchard will, the FitzSimons family Bible, and parish registers, then narrates the Pritchard and FitzSimons lines. A short quoted reminiscence about Hobcaw closes the upper section; birth/death dates for Paul and Catherine Pritchard and a marriage notice for Paul Pritchard Jr. occupy the lower part. The typescript includes ‘Maxyckborough’ (for Mazyckborough, the Charleston suburb named after Isaac Mazyck), the puzzling ‘A frah’ opening the line about Anne Pritchard (likely a typewriter slip — possibly intended as ‘Aforesaid’ or a date misread), and the era-specific phrasing ‘little darkies in the woods’ preserved verbatim. This page distinguishes Paul Pritchard Sr. (d. Dec 1791, the shipbuilder father-in-law of Christopher the emigrant) from Paul Pritchard Jr. (b. April 13 1779, d. May 28 1837, m. Catherine Hamilton Feb 1803, per the Courier marriage notice). ‘They had four children’ in the Catharine entry refers to the four who survived to maturity — Paul, Christopher 2nd, Ann (Mrs. Hampton), Catherine (Mrs. Hammond) — consistent with p003 prose’s tally of survivors.
Paul Pritchard’s shipyard at Hobcaw — the Mount Pleasant / Christ Church Parish operation, not the Hobcaw Barony on Winyah Bay that Bernard Baruch bought in 1905 — was the largest in colonial South Carolina, building the Heart of Oak (1763), Liberty (1767), Magna Carta (1770), and Fair American (1776). Paul Sr. (d. 3 Dec 1791) founded the operation in 1778; his son Paul Pritchard Jr. (b. 1779, m. Catherine Hamilton 14 Feb 1803) inherited it. The “Maxyckborough” distillery location is a typist’s variant of Mazyckborough, the Charleston suburb named for Isaac Mazyck.