Teige Cantey and his wife Elizabeth were brought to the first settlement on the Ashley River by their son George, as appears from a warrant issued to the latter, July 6, 1695. In the inventory of Teig's estate there is an item, "Left in the hands of Mr. Hooker in ye Iseland of Barbados in ready money"; so it is probable that he came directly from Barbados; and the first record of his being in South Carolina is on Aug. 24, 1672, when he received a grant of 24 acres, adjacent to the grant previously made to his son George. (Citing Historical Commission, Columbia, "Book 1672-92," pp. 19, 86, 131.)
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Calls himself "Teige Cantey of Ashley River." Names wife Elizabeth as executrix. Wits: John Stork, John Donoho, Ralph Marshall. Bequests to daughters, Mary Smericke & Catherine Manely, and to sons, George & William, and to two grandsons.
