Sarah Duke who married John Lide was the daughter of Thomas Duke and Elizabeth Marston of James City County, VA. This Thomas Duke was a son of Col. Henry Duke. (Sarah has previously been misplaced on Wikitree by three generations in the Duke family.)
The 1729 will of Elizabeth Marston Duke, widow of Thomas Duke (son of Col. Henry Duke) provides for her son Marston Duke, her daughter Susanna Sherman, her granddaughter Elizabeth Sherman, daughter Sarah Lide, and daughter Mary Duke. Marston Duke and William Brown of James City County were executors, and the will was witnessed by Robert Hickman, Joseph Hix, and Joseph Day.[1]
The Crawford family immigrated to South Carolina, bringing with them Sarah Duke Crawford's nephew, son of Sarah Duke Lide, Robert Lide. John Crawford and Mary Duke Crawford had followed or accompanied John’s brother, Michael, and Michael’s wife, Elizabeth Terrell Crawford, to the Cheraw, South Carolina, area some time before 1750. They settled at Sandy Bluff, where Michael Crawford was a merchant.[2]
Thomas Lide and Thomas Crawford were commissioners of St. David’s Parish, SC, in 1768.[3] The minutes of the parish vestry record letters to William Watkins and Robert Lide,[4] and in the parish election of 27 February 1769 those voting included John Crawford, Thomas Lide and Robert Lide. [5]
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