Rebecca (Davenport) Satterwhite (abt. 1749 - 1817)

Born about 1749 in Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Bartlett Satterwhite Sr. — married about 1764 in South Carolina

Descendants

Died 1817 at about age 68 in Newberry, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Rebecca (Davenport) Satterwhite was a Virginia colonist.

Rebecca was born in 1745. She was the daughter of Joseph Davenport and Jemima Mitchell. She passed away in 1817. She m. Bartlett Satterwhite, Sr. They had daughters; no sons.

4 Feb 1764 - James Wallace to Joseph Davenport, both of Granville County, for L25, 161 acres in Granville County on Little Island Creek... /s/ James Wallace. Wit: Michael Satterwhite, William Potter. (Gwynn, F:482)

Joseph Davenport's oldest daughter Rebecca married Bartlett Satterwhite.

c. May 1769 - Tax List: Among those assessed on extant lists of Taxables for Granville County for this year: Francis Davenport, Josiah Mitchell. [Ratliff, Clarence E. (comp.), North Carolina Taxpayers, 1701-1786 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1989), 52, 140]

By this time, Joseph Davenport and his son-in-law Bartlett Satterwhite had moved to Little River of Saluda waters in South Carolina. Francis does not appear to have moved until two years later. Josiah Mitchell did not move to South Carolina, but some of the Mitchells apparently did.

7 Nov 1769 - Precept (Entry): Bartlett Satterwite, 200 acres in Craven County on the waters of Little River, bounded NE by George Goggans, SW by Gilbert Gibson [Joseph Davenport], and NW by Samuel Mason. Surveyed 1Jan1770 by John Caldwell, (Motes, Jesse H. III, and Motes, Margaret P., Laurens and Newberry Counties, South Carolina: Saluda and Little River Settlements 1749-1775. Neighborhood Maps, and Abstracts of Colonial Surveys and Memorials of Land Titles (Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1994), 63. Hereafter Motes.)

Bartlett Satterwhite was a son-in-law of Joseph Davenport, married to his daughter Rebecca. He apparently accompanied Joseph in moving from Granville County, North Carolina, to Little River of Saluda, Ninety Six District, South Carolina. In order to obtain a precept, the petitioner had to appear personally in Charleston, no agents and no exceptions. Later steps in the process were accomplished by the surveyor, who had to personally take the survey plat to Charleston and attest to its accuracy, and by an agent who could pay the necessary fees for the grant in Charleston (oft times the surveyor would serve as that agent), and take receipt of the Grant Certificate from the Quit Rent Office. Unlike North Carolina, South Carolina was scrupulous in assuring that the King received his due. Therefore, all grants went from the Governor's Council directly to the Quit Rent Office where they were recorded. When the grantee or his agent collected the grant, a signature was required attesting to receipt and acknowledging the obligation to pay the King his annual due. In South Carolina as in North Carolina, surveyors worked off of earlier surveys, cited the landowner for whom the adjoining survey had been done, for that was the reference that the Surveyor General in Charleston used for checking purposes.

15 Feb 1770 - Memorial (Grant): Governor of South Carolina to Bartlett Satterwhite, 200 acres in Craven County on waters of Little River, bounded by Daniel Goggans, Gilbert Gibson [Joseph Davenport], and Samuel Mason. Quit Rents accepted on 12Mar1771 by Frederick Glover. (Motes, 63)

26 Jun 1778 - Deed: Francis Davenport to James Davenport, planter, both of Berkeley County, for [?], 100 acres on the north side of Little River--part of a grant of 250 acres to Daniel Goggans on 7Apr1770, who conveyed said 100 acres to said Francis on 15Feb1776... /s/ Francis Davenport. Wit: Bartlett Satterwhite, John Boyd. Proved by said Bartlett before John Satterwhite, JP, 15Mar1779. (Newberry County, SC, Deeds B:681)

Here Francis made a freeholder of his eldest son James. Witness Bartlett Satterwhite was married to Joseph Davenport's eldest daughter Rebecca. The Goggans to Davenport deed was never recorded. Witness John Boyd was also a son-in-law of Francis.

22 Jan 1784 - Probate: Estate of Elisha Brooks, Sr., late of Ninety Six District, Decd. Buyers at Public Sale of Estate were Joseph Davenport, 350 acres; John Phillips, 150 acres; other items were bought by Francis Brooks, Buck Brooks, Elisha Brooks [Jr.], Dudley Brooks, John Wyld, Nathaniel Spragg, John Holloway, David Davenport, Frederick Glover, John Satterwhite, John Phillips, and Joseph Davenport. (Newberry County, SC, Estates, Box 355, Pkg. 12)

Brooks, who engaged in a wagon hauling partnership with John Satterwhite, Sr., between the South Carolina backcountry and Charleston from 1772-1779, was from Lunenburg County, Virginia, had been a neighbor of Joseph Davenport's on Flat Creek waters, Granville County, North Carolina, in the late 1760s. Bartlett Satterwhite, Joseph Davenport's son-in-law, was one of the appraisers of the estate in 1782. John Satterwhite was a merchant, was either the father or brother of Bartlett Satterwhite, Joseph Davenport's son-in-law. In the first Revolutionary legislature election in South Carolina, John Satterwhite was named one of the five representatives from Ninety Six District. Three of those then elected subsequently were ardent Tories, including Robert Cunningham, who after serving as a State Senator, took a King's commission as Brigadier General, Ninety Six Brigade of the Loyal Militia. No Satterwhites appeared on rolls of the Loyal Militia. They apparently sat out the War until 1782 when John Jr. and Bartlett Satterwhite, Jr., sons of John Satterwhite, both earned later citations as South Carolina Patriots, for their service as State Militia after Cornwallis was defeated. Elisha Brooks, Jr. (d. 1804) was a Lieutenant in State Troops in the siege of Ninety Six, which occurred in 1781 after Cornwallis had left the Carolinas to invade Virginia.

5 Aug 1788 - Probate: Last Will & Testament of Joseph Davenport, made this date, probated 16 May 1791. Named daughter Rebecca Satterwhite to have 200 acres where she lives, Negro Dick, and bed; Jemima Satterwhite, daughter to Bartlett Satterwhite and Rebecca Satterwhite, to have Negro girl Annekey; daughter Amy Phillips to have Negroes James and Aggy, and certain chattel; granddaughters Edna and Jemina Goode, daughters of Samuel and Jemima Goode, to have Negroes Dina and Silva when Jemima shall arrive at age 16; grandson Joseph Phillips, son of John and Amy Phillips, to have Mulatto boy Bob; grandson Joseph Davenport, son of David and Hannah Davenport, to have L80 from Robert Gilliam and Benjamin Cobb, and 250 acres including the east side of the land whereon I now live, a bed, and a horse; Violet Welch [no identification], to have L3 per year for her natural life, a cow, a calf, and beef--to live in a small room in my house for as long she lives, and 250 pounds of flour and 100 pounds of beef and pork yearly; everything else to son David. Executors: Son David Davenport, friends William Moore, James Caldwell... /s/ Joseph Davenport. Wit: John Thomas Scott, Starling Dixon, Alexander McMullen. (Newberry County, SC, Wills A:112)

Will

Will of Rebecca Satterwhite. Newberry Co., SC, Loose Wills (transcribed and typed), p. 69, written 24 Jul 1817, proved 20 Oct 1817. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://tinyurl.com/5s4yw8jj

daughter Elizabeth Bullock
daughter Gemima Lipscomb
grandson Franklin Bullock
grand Son Willy Satterwhite Glover
my husband Bartlett Satterwhite
grand daughter Elizabeth Harris
Exr: John Satterwhite
Wit: Danl. Gates, Wm. Gilliam, A. Dyson

Box No. 52, Pkg. No. 124, Est. No. 1293.

Sources

See also:

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBMJ-8MT

Satterwhite Family history, posted by D. Marshall Satterwhite.

1. SATTERWHITE, REBECCA OF NEWBERRY DISTRICT, WILL TYPESCRIPT (ESTATE PACKET: BOX 52, PKG. 5) (1 FRAME)., in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History : Index to Multiple Record Series ca. 1675 -1929.
S108093: South Carolina Will Transcripts (Microcopy No 9)

2. Summer, George Leland. Newberry County, South Carolina : historical and genealogical. (Newberry, South Carolina: s.n.], 1950), Page 272.

3. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Rebecca_Davenport_%2810%29

4. Davenport, John Scott. The Newberry Davenports: Extracts & Abstracts from Primary Sources, Chronological Compilation and Editing, with Annotations in Italics.