Migration of Hans WALTER and Mary [---]

1. Hans WALTER, died bef 15 Dec 1760 in Orangeburgh, South Carolina He married Mary [---], died 1738 in St. Philips Parish, South Carolina.

Notes for Hans WALTER: 1736 Feb 20 Surv. Lot 260 + 300 acres. Arrive ship Samuel 13th of July 1735, nine weeks after leaving Rotterdam, Holland, Council Journal 20 Feb 1736, 17 Sep 1736 (OGS News Vol. I, pg. 13). Four Holes Swamp. Land inherited by son Hans Walter 1760 to Henry Felder. REF: Plat 21:289; Grant 34: 477; Conveyance 2Z0:215. REF: "The Way it Was with our Ancestors" by William H. and Fonda Gilbert Waters Marcum, 1982. Part III "Waters and Allied Lines" pg 137 - 157. Some researchers gets Hans Walter of Orangeburgh confused with the John Walter of Walterboro outlined in "Colleton County, S.C. A History of the First 160 Years 1670-1830" by Evelyn McDanield Frazier Bryan, 1993, appendix III.

Notes for Mary [---]: The Rumph and Frederick Families. 28 March 1737/38 was buried Mary Walter. St. Phillips Parish Records Not to be confused with Mary Rumph Walter that married John Walter in Walterboro, South Carolina.

Children of Hans WALTER and Mary [---] were as follows:

a. Hans Hanil WALTERS, born abt 1730 in Switzerland; died bef 1794 in Burke County, Georgia. He married Anna Catherine DUSSEIGN.

b. Margaret WALTERS, died in St. George Parish, Effingham County, Georgia. The Way it Was with our Ancestors, Markham - Cobia, Waters - Gilbert (1982)Margaret Waters, a daughter of Hans Walter received 8 pounds, 10 shellings from the Colonial Government of Georgia for nursing Mary Hallbook in the smallpox in March 1765.

c. Hans Blaze WALTERS. History of Screven County GA (1989) pg.290.

d. George WALTERS, died 1 Aug 1749 in St. Phillips, Charleston, South Carolina. Possible son "On 1 August 1749 was buried George Walter." St. Phillips Parish Records, South Carolina.

Information provided by Gene Jeffries 16 Mar 2000.

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