Father of Manuel N. McConnell & Father of Tabitha Ward
I have been unable to verify the name of Manuel Newell McConnell's father (I THINK it might be James) or anything about him. The "story" is that he was sent to America for a crime he committed in Scotland and that he worked on a penal farm (or whatever they were called)in Maryland, and that he later married a Tabitha Ward and lived in Abbeyville, SC. I have not been able to find any information about Tabitha Ward other than that she might have been born c. 1737 and died c. 1765.