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CREAMER & EDENFIELD NC/SC mid-1700s
Posted by: Paul Edenfield	Date: August 23, 2000 at 05:56:12
In Reply to: Re: A little more about SC CREAMERs by Ann Hunter	of 770

Thank you for that interesting (somewhat gruesome!) piece of information that mentions Daniel Creamer in NC in 1760.

That's gotten me to thinking about the possibility that Thomas Edenfield married Elizabeth Creamer in NC. It would make perfect sense. What I've managed to find on Thomas is very limited, but he was in the Winyaw Bay area of SC (close to the present NC/SC border) in 1737 and was in Brunswick, NC (again, near the present NC/SC border) in 1740. Then there isn't any more word on him until 1764 when 200 acres in Orangeburgh District SC were surveyed for him. It could well be that he was in NC for much of that period 1740-1764 and that he married Elizabeth there. So we would have to look in the NC records, especially N. Hanover Co. and nearby counties, to try to find records of an Elizabeth Creamer and her parents.

Thanks for jogging my thoughts on this knotty problem!

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My notes so far:

1720. Thomas Edenfield is listed as a minor in the will of John Edenfield, Dover, Kent Co., DE (Will, Hall of Records, Dover)

1737. Thomas Edinfield witnesses the will of Joseph Allen of Winneau (Winyaw), Craven Co., SC (Langley, Deed Abstracts)

1737. Thomas Edenfield appears as a petit juror in the Prince George-Winyaw area (now around Georgetown) of South Carolina.

1740. Thomas Edinfield is appointed a constable in Brunswick, NC. The spelling of the surname that appears in the book, Edinfiele, is a misreading of the original manuscript held by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History (New Hanover Minutes)

1764 Oct 17. 200 acres in Granville Co., SC surveyed for Thomas Edenfield

1765. Thomas Edenfield is granted 200 acres near the Savannah River in Barnwell Co., SC

1776 -- Traditional date of death. Supposedly buried in Granville Co., Orangeburg Dist. SC. Haven't found any records to support this, though.

You may really be on to something there.

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Re: CREAMER & EDENFIELD NC/SC mid-1700s Jean Holley MacDonald 9/05/00

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