Matthew Singleton (1730 - 1787)

Born 13 Jan 1730 in Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy Mary James — married 13 Apr 1750 in Caroline, Virginia

Husband of Ann (Long) Singleton — married 1785 (to 1787) in South Carolina

Descendants

Died 20 Sep 1787 at age 57 in St Marks Parish, Craven County, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

"The Singletons are an old and honorable family in the low-country and were first found in the Scotch-Irish settlement in the Williamsburg District. They intermarried with the old families, including the Richardsons, Canteys, and Gourdins, and have been written up many times. ^[1]

"The Singletons acquired their vast wealth by shipping indigo and later cotton by boat from Manchester" on the Beech Creek-Shank's Creek-Wateree River-Cooper River to Charleston. ^[2]

The Singleton plantations included Melrose, Midway, and Home Place also known as Singleton House. ^[3]

January 13, 1730 -- Matthew Singleton was born at Isle of Wight, England. ^[4]

1750 -- Matthew Singleton and Mary James married at Caroline county, Virginia. ^[5]

17?? -- Matthew Singleton emigrated from England to Virginia.

1752 -- Matthew Singleton emigrated from Virginia to South Carolina. ^[6]

1752 -- Matthew established at Melrose plantation the family burial ground which is now called the Singleton's Graveyard and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It now consists of 43 graves dating from 1794 to 1944. Melrose is also known as Singleton's High Hills of the Santee. ^[7]

1756 -- Matthew Singleton received a land grant from the King of Great Britain George II which remained in his family through to the present. ^[8]

May 5, 1770 -- The King of Great Britain George III commissioned Matthew Singleton. ^[9]

1770 -- Mstthew was a vestryman at St. Mark's Parish, Craven county, South Carolina. ^[10]

1772 & 1776 -- Matthew Singleton was a member of the South Carolina General Assembly. ^[11]

1773 -- Matthew paid £4 3 shillings 9 pence, "Proclamation money; being for one year[']s Quitrent due to the [British] Crown for [2,094] acres of land" he held in Craven County. ^[12]

1775 -- Matthew Singleton was one of nine delegates to the Provincial Congress "for district eastward of the Wateree River," South Carolina. ^[13]

August 26, 1775 -- Matthew volunteered. ^[14]

October 1775 -- The South Carolina Council of Safety commissioned Matthew Singleton. ^[15]

Captain Matthew Singleton served with Camden District Regiment, South Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Matthew Singleton is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A104464.

1776 - 1781 -- Matthew Singleton was a captain later a colonel of a troop of horse under American General Francis Marion. ^[16]

June 7, 1778 -- Matthew took the Oath of Allegiance to the Revolutionary government of South Carolina. ^[17]

September 20, 1787 -- Colonel Matthew Singleton died at St. Mark's Parish, Craven county, South Carolina. ^[18] He is buried "near Staresburg, Sumter county, South Carolina." ^[19]

NOTE -- Craven County was one of the three original counties of South Carolina.

"Camden, Statesburg, and Columbia were in the original Parish of St. Mark's. The Parish was agai divided into Upper and Lower St. Mark's. Lower St. Mark'so comprises much of the land in Clarenden County." ^[20]

Mathew is buried in Singleton Cemetery, Sumter, Sumter County, S.C.

Sources

1. ↑ Historic Houses, pages 158 - 159.
2. ↑ Historic Houses, page 159.
3. ↑ Historic Homes, page 159.
4. ↑ Immigrant Ancestors A List: Col. Matthew Singleton, page 61.
5. ↑ Immigrant Ancestors A List: Col. Matthew Singleton, page 61.
6. ↑ Immigrant Ancestors A List: Col. Matthew Singleton, page 61.
7. ↑ Wikipedia, Singleton's Graveyard.
8. ↑ Immigrant Ancestors A List: Col. Matthew Singleton, page 61.
9. ↑ Historic Houses, page 159.
10. ↑ Immigrant Ancestors A List: Col. Matthew Singleton, page 61.
11. ↑ Immigrant Ancestors A List: Col. Matthew Singleton, page 61.
12. ↑ Historic Houses, page 159.
13. ↑ Historic Houses, page 155.
14. ↑ 1775 Volunteers
15. ↑ Historic Houses, page 169.
16. ↑ Immigrant Ancestors A List: Col. Matthew Singleton, page 61.
17. ↑ Historic Houses, page 159.
18. ↑ #S-2121484167
19. ↑ Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 4 S -Z, page 37.
20. ↑ Historic Houses, page 155.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 25 Feb 2024), "Record of Matthew Singleton", Ancestor # A104464.
• Revolutionary War Soldiers for NC and SC, Data provided by the website Carolana.
• Immigrant Ancestors -- A List of 2,500 Immigrants to America before 1750. Extracted from Volume VII Compendium of American Genealogy. Chicago, 1942. Edited by Frederick Adams Virkus. Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland. 1970. Col. Matthew Singleton, page 61.

• Harriett Kershaw Leiding. Historic Houses of South Carolina. Chapter VIII St. Mark's Parish. J.P. Lipincot. 1921. Page 155. On The Camden Road in St. Mark's Parish, The Singletons and Their Homes in St. Mark's Parish. Pages 158 - 164.

• St. Mark's Parish. Wikipedia. Accessed by Michael Boynton on October 24, 2015 at 3:03 PM. https://books.google.com/books?id=VLpLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=st+mark's+parish+sc&source=bl&ots=htVIQpcIgA&sig=a6kCbf9tRIXdnaDiYbBbI1EZr2s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCEQ6AEwD2oVChMI467a6d3byAIVRDmICh1_Nw36#v=onepage&q=st%20mark's%20parish%20sc&f=false

• Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Volume 4, S - Z. Patricia Law Hatcher. Heritage Books, Westminster, Maryland. 2007. Page 37.

• Craven County, South Carolina. Wilipedia. Accessed by Michael Boynton on October 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craven_County,_South_Carolina

• Singleton's Graveyard. Wikipedia. Accessed by Michael Boynton on October 24, 2015 at 5:40 PM. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton%27s_Graveyard

• 1775 Volunteers St. Mark's Parish. National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Vol 18, No. 3. 1930. Revolutionary War Volunteer Roll. Colleton Co. S.C. 1775. Accessed by Michael Boynton at 6:06 PM. http://www.oldplaces.org/colleton/1775stmarks.html

• #S-2121484167 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=vacemeteries&h=5921276&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Birth date: 1730 to Birth place: Death date: 1787 Death place: SC. APID: 1,8750::5921276

• Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKF-PMR7 : accessed 2 February 2016), Matthew Singleton, ; Burial, , Sumter, South Carolina, United States of America, Singleton Cemetery; citing record ID 40958926, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• Findagrave: Memorial # 40958926

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Singleton-243 created through the import of Sharlow Family Tree.ged on Jul 3, 2011 by Pamela Cronan. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Pamela and others.