'South Carolina Genealogies — George Pritchard and Some of his Descendants' by A. S. Salley, Jr. (The State, 11 July 1909)

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South Carolina Genealogies

By A. S. Salley, Jr.

[The same standard intro paragraph as the 4 July column.]

George Pritchard and Some of his Descendants.

George Pritchard, brother of Paul Pritchard, the shipbuilder of Charleston and Hobcaw (see The State of July 4th), was twice married. The name of his first wife has not been ascertained by the writer. His second wife was Susannah Milner, daughter of John Milner. She was apparently unmarried at the time her father’s will was made, January 7, 1769, but on the 3rd of February, 1782, Eleazer Phillips, who had married her sister, Martha Milner, prior to the making of their father’s will, conveyed to George Pritchard a lot in Smith’s Lane, Charleston, known by the number 6, so that the marriage must have taken place between the making of the will and the drawing of this deed.

On April 7, 1784, ‘George Pritchard of the parish of Christ Church (planter)’ for and in Consideration of the love good will and affection which he bore for his ‘loving Sister in Law Martha Phillips of the City of Charleston (a parish of Saint Michaels,’ wife of his ‘loving Friend Eleazer Phillips,’ In Trust for the Heirs of her Body to be divided at her Death,’ as she should ‘think proper to be left in her will,’ conveyed to her the house and lot in Smith’s Lane known by the number 6, which was then in her possession, together with two negro women. Susannah Pritchard renounced her dower thereon on the same date. (Recorded conveyance records, Charleston, L. 6, 339–351.)

George Pritchard died April 14, 1808, aged 58 years.

George Pritchard’s Will.

The will of George Pritchard, of Charleston, made October 26, 1801, and proved June 3, 1808, gave all of his negroes to his ‘two children’ William John and Susannah, and wife, Susannah, to be divided equally between them, the wife’s share to return to the children at her death; gave his plantation in Christ Church Parish to his wife for life, at her death to go to the said William John and Susannah, no division to take place until both should become of age, or each to take his or her portion upon arriving at twenty-one; gave son Paul two negroes then in his possession and a ‘feather bed and bedding’; provided that in case of the death of either of his ‘younger children’ or his wife his son Paul should draw an equal share with the survivors of the part given to such devisee; directed that the education of his ‘young children’ be strictly attended to; appointed wife executrix and son Paul executor. Witnesses: George Milner, Joseph Geyer and Philip Moore. Susannah Pritchard qualified October 19, 1820. (Probate Court, Charleston, D. 582–583.)

Paul Pritchard, Jr.

Paul Pritchard, son of George Pritchard by his first wife, who was remembered by his uncle Paul Pritchard 1st in his will (see The State for July 4th), was born April 12, 1769. He married February 10, 1803, Catharine Hamilton, daughter of David Hamilton who was sometime a partner in the shipbuilding business with the elder Paul Pritchard. The following notice of the marriage appears in The Times of Saturday, February 12, 1803:

Married, on Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Frost, Mr. PAUL PRITCHARD, jun. to Miss CATHARINE HAMILTON, both of this city.

The following notice, published in the Charleston Courier for November 23, 1818, shows that he was elected municipal officer of Charleston the day before:

Council Chamber, Nov. 23.

PAUL PRITCHARD, was this day elected a Commissioner of Streets and Lanes for Ward No. 3, vice OTHNIEL J. GILES, resigned.

During the lifetime of his uncle, Paul Pritchard and of his first cousin, Paul Pritchard, he was known as Paul Pritchard, Jr., but after the death of the cousin in 1814 he became the senior Paul Pritchard. His wife, Mrs. Catharine (Hamilton) Pritchard died February 19, 1849, in Charleston, dropsy of the chest (records of the health department); the Charleston Courier of September 23, 1849, contains a full obituary of her. She was born November 26, 1755 [sic — likely a typesetter’s misreading for 1785], and was buried in St. Philip’s churchyard.

Paul Pritchard died in Charleston May 28, 1837 (records of health department) and was buried in St. Philip’s churchyard. The Charleston Courier of June 16, 1837, published an approved obituary of him.

The Younger Children.

William John Pritchard, son of George Pritchard by his second marriage, had two sons, William and George, who died unmarried, and two daughters, Aphra, who married G. B. Browne, and Catharine, who married Glover. Susannah, the daughter of George Pritchard by his second wife, married W. Kirkwood.

John McCall.

[The remainder of the column is a substantial digression on the Charleston tailor John McCall (d. 1794/95), husband of Hester/Esther, father of Matilda, Catharine, and John B. McCall. Hester McCall remarried the Rev. John Harper, founder of Washington Street Methodist Church in Columbia and father (by an earlier wife) of Chancellor William Harper, the prominent SC jurist. John McCall’s daughter Catharine married John M. Creyton in 1806; their granddaughter married Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, the eminent New York historian/physician (1828–1919). John McCall’s brother Hugh McCall (b. SC March 1767, d. Savannah July 1824) wrote the still-standard History of Georgia. The McCall material is included because of family correspondence between McCall and Pritchard descendants in the 19th century; it is peripheral to the FitzSimons line but useful context for the broader Charleston low-country network. The full transcription of John McCall’s 1794 will is reproduced in the article from Charleston probate records.]

Source: The State (Columbia, S.C.), Sunday 11 July 1909, page 22. Image from newspapers.com, image 746568276. Public-domain newspaper. The source PDF is archived in this repository under additionalDocumentation/The_State_1909_07_11_22.pdf. Sequel to the 4 July 1909 column at book-004/015.