Justina Henrietta Maria (Kelly) Taylor (abt. 1781 - 1830)

Born about 1781 in Jamaica, British West Indies [uncertain]

Wife of Robert Henry Campbell — married [date unknown] in Jamaica, British West Indies

Wife of John Taylor Jr. — married about 1820 in Cheraw, Chesterfield, South Carolina

Descendants

Died 18 Dec 1830 at about age 49 in Cheraw, Chesterfield District, SC

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Biography

Justina Henrietta Maria Kelly ... born around 1780 in Jamaica, British West Indies. Daughter of the planter John Kelly, who died shortly after her birth in 1784, and Henrietta Dickie.

As a young woman of around 18 or 19, she married the older Scottish planter Capt. Robert Henry Campbell of Hunt's Bluff, South Carolina. She bore him one daughter Anna Maria Campbell (Coit) b. 1800 and probably a son Robert H. Campbell, Jr. b. 1808.

After the death of her first husband, she married John Taylor, Jr. of Cheraw, South Carolina. Taylor was a Scotsman and possibly the wealthiest man in South Carolina at the time. Justina Henrietta Maria was his only wife. They had no children. He was heartbroken when she died in 1830.

Interesting note, her widowed mother Henrietta Dickie Kelly married McMillan Campbell of Charleston, SC and had four more children from that marriage. McMillan Campbell was the brother of Capt. Robert Henry Campbell, which would mean that mother and daughter married two brothers.

"It seems, according to the statements contained in Robert Campbell's will, which is recorded in the office of the Probate Judge, that at the time of his death, he was married to a second wife, Henrietta Campbell, and that Annie Campbell and Robert H. Campbell were the children of this marriage. James Campbell and Lucia Campbell both died unmarried. The Campbell family, now living in Marlboro County, is probably descended from Robert Campbell through his second marriage with Henrietta Campbell. This sketch, however, is intended, primarily, to deal only with the issue of the first marriage and, more especially, with the careers of Robert B. Campbell and John Campbell. The last will of Captain Robert Campbell, as well as the inventory of his estate, show that when he died he was a very wealthy man, according to the standards of that day. The great bulk of his property was left to his children by his first marriage, although he provided very handsomely for his surviving wife, Henrietta Campbell, and her children."

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Sources

• South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980 Index and Will, Book A
• The Coit Family, descendants of John Coit of Salem, Massachusetts, pg. 189
• Henry Campbell Coit papers