John Singletary (1686)

Born 6 Jul 1686 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

John was born 6 July 1686 in Haverhill, Massachusetts to Benjamin Singletary and Mary Stockbridge.

He married Sarah Warnock in 1750 and they had 5 children:

John Hayes

Sarah Margaret married Samuel Wells and William Bennett

Mary (1766-1792) married Williams Capers 10 September 1783.

Anna (1768- ) married Reverend Beverly Allen February 1786.

Thomasin born and died 8 December 1773 in St. Thomas & St. Denis Parish, South Carolina.

Could find no evidence of his death, but he does not seem to appear n the 1790 census.

Sources

• [1] CAPERS, Francis Le Grand. "Pedigree of the Caper, San Francisco, CA, p. 21.

• [2]CLUTE, Robert F., Rector. "The Annals and Parish Register of St.Thomas and St.Denis Parish, in South Carolina, from 1680-1884", p, 109 [3]). p 109.

• [4]HERNDON, Richard. "Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders of Massachusetts" . p. 313. "On his mother's side Colonel Hopkins is descended from Thomas Bennett, who came from England to Charleston, and married Hayes Singletary, daughter of John Singletary of St. Paul's Parish, S.C., a Huguenot."

• [5]SAVAGE, James."Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England," 1860. Volume IV, p 102.

• SINGLETARY_CURTIS, Lou. "Genealogy of the Singletary-Curtis Family," New York, 1907, pp. 13, 20-21.