Anne (Fitch) Yarborough (bef. 1736 - aft. 1782)

Born before 14 May 1736 in St. Andrew's Parish, Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina

Ancestors

Wife of John Miles — married 9 Sep 1753 in Province of South Carolina

Wife of James Dandridge Yarborough — married 2 Aug 1774 in St Andrew's, Berkeley County, Colonial South Carolina

Died after 1782 after age 45 in Jamaica [uncertain]

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Biography

Anne Fitch, the daughter of Jonathan Fitch and his wife Frances Nelson, was baptized at St. Andrew's Church, Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina, on14 May 1736.^[1] She inherited land in Colleton County from her grandmother Anne Elliott.^[2]

Anne married John Miles as his third wife on 9 September 1753. They had nine children: John Fitch, Edward, Frances, William, Susannah, Rachel, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Jonathan. ^[3] Following his death in 1772, she married James Dandridge Yarborough on 2 August 1774. ^[4] Yarborough was a Loyalist during the American Revolution, and following the war he and his wife Anne left South Carolina for Jamaica in 1782. He left Jamaica for Belize in 1787, but Anne may have been dead by then. When he died in 1797 in Belize, his wife was named Sarah.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Webber, Mabel L. “Register of St. Andrews Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina. 1719-1744 (Continued).” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 13, no. 3 (1912): 157 bap 14 May 1736 Anne dau of Jonathan Fitch and his wife Francis. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575340.
2. ↑ South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-JVQQ-V?cc=1919417&wc=M6N4-638%3A210905601%2C211466601 : 21 May 2014), Charleston > Wills, 1747-1752, Vol. 006 > image 150 of 684; citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
3. ↑ Peeples, Robert E. H. “A Miles Genealogy (Continued).” The South Carolina Historical Magazine 67, no. 1 (1966): 29–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27566617.
4. ↑ Register of St. Philip's Parish, Charles Town, or Charleston, S.C., 1754-1810, ed. by D. E. Huger Smith and A. S. Salley, Jr. (1927), p. 210 https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/127201/?offset=&return=1#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=
5. ↑ Robinson, St. John. “Southern Loyalists in the Caribbean and Central America.” The South Carolina Historical Magazine 93, no. 3/4 (1992): 219-20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27568303.

Ackowledgements

• Cal Thompson, Miles tree - https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/4116821/person/6163484189/facts
• Unsourced family tree handed down to William Miles.