Person:William Simpson (78)

William Simpson

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m. Abt 1745

Facts and Events

Name	William Simpson
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Abt 1729	Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland
Marriage	Abt 1745	County Antrim, Irelandto Mary Simpson
Death^[1]	1806	Laurens, South Carolina, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Holmes, Z. L. (Rev.). The Simpson Genealogy: of two distinct families of Simpsons who married and emigrated from County Antrim, Ireland, and settled in Laurens County, South Carolina, between 1770 and 1790. (Revised and brought to present time by Eugene S. Hudgens, 1958)
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... William Simpson, the first ancestor of the Simpson family of whom anything is known, was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1729. He married Miss Mary Simpson, the eldest child of the other Simpson family, and rearing a large family emigrated to Laurens County, South Carolina, about the year 1770, and settled near the place afterwards called Belfast, in the southeastern part of the County; and died in 1806, aged 77 years.
During the Revolutionary War, which commenced in 1776, he removed his family for safety to one of the forts near Charleston, ...