Mary Laird, age 4, and her family settled in Abbeville County, South Carolina in February of 1767.
Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Jones in Hamburg, Wilcox Co., AL.
Verified.
"Mary Bonner Born Jan 31, 1762 Aged 70 years. 5 months, 5 days"
The Lairds came on the ship "The Earl of Hillsbourgh" with the exception of Samuel Laird (the family head) who was already in the colonies. ============================================
Name: Mary Laird Year: 1766-1767 Age: 4 Place: Charles Town, South Carolina Source Publication Code: 7343 Primary Immigrant: Laird, Mary Annotation: From the Journals of the Council of the Colony of South Carolina. Names and land allotments under the Bounty Act of 1761. Source Bibliography: REVILL, JANIE. A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773. Columbia [S.C.]: State Co., 1939. 163p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1981. Page: 70 ============================================
Name: Mary Laird Year: 1767 Age: 4 Place: Charleston, South Carolina Source Publication Code: 3627.37 Primary Immigrant: Laird, Mary Annotation: Place and date of immigrants' or discharged military person's petition requesting reimbursements of passage, additional land, headrights, bounty, etc. from the South Carolina government or of letter expressing satisfaction with the voyage to America. Extracted from The South-Carolina Gazette, "The Governor and Council Journal" (located at the South Carolina Archives), and "Records of the Public Treasurers of South Carolina" (also at the SC Archives in Columbia). Source Bibliography: JONES, JACK MORELAND, and MARY BONDURANT WARREN. South Carolina Immigrants, 1760 to 1770. Danielsville, GA: Heritage Papers, 1988. 430p. Page: 177
1830 US Census - Wilcox County, AL. - p. 178a - Line 17 Roll: M19_3; Page: 178; Image: 349
Date conflict - Book: The Roster of Texas Daughters Revolutionary Ancestors, Volume I, A-B, Part I, Mrs. Fitzhugh Hastings Pannill, 1976. p. 218. Lists marriage year as 1776 in SC.
====================== Jones of SC. and Alabama book - lists their marriage taken place in Long Cane ARP church in Long Cane, Abbeville Co., SC.
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7,500 Marriages from Ninety-Six and Abbeville District, SC. 1774-1890 by Larry E. Pursley. Published by the Southern Historical Press, Inc. in Greenville, SC. Copyrighted 1980, reprinted 2001. ISBN #0-89308-196-5 . p. 17.
1778 Bonner, James Laird, Mary
Source: Abbeville County Family History, edited by J. Gregg Carroll 1979. ==================================================