EADDY Family*
Related Surnames:
Barr, Bartell, Cox, Gaskin, Hanna, Keefe, McAlister, Poston, Prosser, Stone
The story of the beginnings of Eaddy family of South Carolina is quite interesting:
The location and date of birth for James Eddy is uncertain; but some evidence exists that he was probably an Englishman who was born about 1710. James Eddy boarded a ship in Liverpool, England sometime about 1728. The ship ran aground in a hurricane upon arrival in Charleston, SC. James survived with a few other passengers by clinging to the ship's wreckage and swimming ashore. It is believed that this James Eddy lost his wife and children in the ship wreck.
James Eddy probably remarried and could be the father of James Eddy, I who is cited in the book, The Promised Land, James Eddy, I entered the Revolutionary War with his two sons, James Eddy, II and Samuel Eddy, Sr. They fought with General Francis Marion (The Swamp Fox) who was a ‘guerrilla fighter’ along the SC low country rivers, creeks, and swamps. They would form up in nearly inaccessible swamps, attack the British, and disappear. (Just like many of our ancestors, some might say).Quoted from Eaddy Family Web Site
The Eaddy family of the Pee Dee river area appears to have first settled
along Lynches Creek in 1753. A petition for 200 acres of land listing a wife and
two children was made in this year by James Edie. Many of the Eaddys lived further
south down the Pee Dee in present day Williamsburg County.
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