Jane (Oliphant) Walter (abt. 1756 - 1784)

Born about 1756 in Province of South Carolina

Wife of John Alleyne Walter — married Feb 1774 in Province of South Carolina

Died 3 Mar 1784 at about age 28 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

The name Millbrook appears to have been given to the place during the ownership of John Alleyne Walter who married Jane Oliphant daughter of Dr. David Oliphant Surgeon General of the Southern Department on the Continental establishment in the Revolutionary War.^[1]

Last Thursday Mr. John Walter, son of the late Col. William Walter, was married to the agreeable and accomplished Miss Jenny Oliphant, only daughter of David Oliphant, Esq. (Monday, February 14, 1774.)^[2][3][4]

She died 3 March 1784.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Volumes 20-21 page 108
2. ↑ http://genealogytrails.com/scar/marriages_1732_1801.htm
3. ↑ Salley, A. S. Marriage Notices In the South-Carolina Gazette And Its Successors. (1732-1801). (1902) p. 56 HathiTrust
4. ↑ Webber, Mabel L. “Register of St. Andrew’s Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina. 1719-1774 (Continued).” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 15, no. 2 (1914): 101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575393.
5. ↑ Webber, Mabel L. “Marriage and Death Notices from the South Carolina Weekly Gazette (Continued).” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 18, no. 4 (1917): 184. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569441.