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    Daniel Heyward

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    • 5th Great-grandfather of John Watts Young — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 168 
    • Birth Date:
    • 20 JUL 1720 or 1721 
    • Birth Location:
    • James Island, Charleston, South Carolina 
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    • Death Date:
    • 4 Oct 1777 
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    • Burial Location:
    • Heyward Family Cemetery, Old House, Jasper, South Carolina  
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    • Notes: 
    • Col. Daniel Heyward is said to have been a large slave owner.

  • Additional marriages for Daniel Heyward


    • Spouse:
    • Mary Miles
    • Marriage Date:
    • 8 Mar 1743/1744
    • Marriage Location:
    • St. Helena's Parish, South Carolina

    • Spouse:
    • Elizabeth Simmons
    • Marriage Date:
    • 8 Sep 1771

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  • Sources for Daniel Heyward

    • 1 The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1965, Vol. 66, No. 4. p. 233.
    • 2 The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1922, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 116, 134, Marriage of Daniel Heyward and Mary Miles.
    • 3 Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 116-117.
    • 4 Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie, The Cuthberts, Barons of Castle Hill and Their Descendants in South Carolina and Georgia, Washington, D. C.: n. p. (1908), 40.
    • 5 Heyward, James Barnwell, The Genealogy of the Pendarvis-Bedon Families of South Carolina, 1670-1900, Atlanta, Georgia: Foote and Davies Company (1905), 211.