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Patience Smith

Patience Smith

Female 1740 - Bef 1819  (< 78 years)   Has 2 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.


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  • Name Patience Smith
    Birth 1730/1740  NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female
    _UID F99B888DD2DAD4118AC4444553540000B83A 
    Death Bef 1819  Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2168  Marty and Karla Grant
    Last Modified 27 Jun 2026

    Father Smith
    Mother Rachael,   b. 1710/1720
    Marriage Bef 1730  Halifax Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID 67C25B15EB60C14786D15B4C57E355168F50 
    Family ID F1653  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Turner,   b. 1730/1740, Elizabeth City Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1800/1805, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Marriage Bef 1765  Halifax Co, NC (now Martin Co, NC) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _UID FE97117ADF6B864AB1A7D6263DEE6F92BAC5 
    Children 
     1. Reuben Turner,   b. 1760/1765, Halifax Co, NC (now Martin Co, NC) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1830/1840, Marion Dist, SC (now Dillon Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     2. John Turner,   b. 1765, Halifax Co, NC (now Martin Co, NC) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1840/1850, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     3. William Turner,   b. 1767/1768, Craven Co, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1855/1860, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years)
     4. Catherine Turner,   b. 1773/1774, Georgetown Dist, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850, Covington Co, AL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 77 years)
     5. Penelope Turner,   b. 1770/1775   d. Aft 1830, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 56 years)
     6. Mildred Turner   d. 1814/1819, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Sarah Turner,   b. 1790/1800, Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 May 1859, Houston Co, GA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
     8. Turner,   b. Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Marion Dist, SC Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F1652  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2026

  • Notes 
    • !PEE DEE QUEUE:Vol XXVIII, No 6, Nov-Dec 2004 pg 5 BILL OF SALE to Pations Turner a white woman:
      22 Jul 1769 Thomas Wethersby, Sr of Halifax Co, NC to Pations Turner for 60L, one mulatto man John;


      !DEED:22 Jul 1769 Halifax Co., NC Deed Book 11, p. 144
      Thomas Weathersbee Sr, Planter of Halifax to Patience Turner of same, for £60, one mulatto man named John. Wit: Jonathan Cain, Jesse Bryan, Henry Medford, William Bryan. Pr: Aug Ct 1770.;



      !CENSUS:1790 Georgetown District, SC Prince George Parish pg 56 w/John TURNER no ages (bef 1790) family listed as 10 others;

      !CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist, SC pg 803 w/John TURNER Sr no ages given, family listed as 5 Free Colored;

      !CENSUS:1810;

      !CENSUS:1820;

      !NAMED:22 Apr 1822 Marion Co, SC Deeds K-24 Willis FINKLEA Sr sayeth he lived with a woman named Olive SIMMONS near the Cape Fear River who often told him she had seen Patience TURNERs mother, wife of John TURNER Sr, decd and Mrs. SIMMONS often told him she was a white woman of the Irish breed & the mixed blood came by a black man & heard old Mr Abraham DEW say the mother of Patience TURNER was a white woman. S: Willis (X) Finklea Sr;

      !COURT:17 Sep 1860 Marion County Court of Common Pleas. Martin W. TURNER, vs Robert J. GREGG, declaration in Prohibition. John BLACKMAN Sr said he knew John TURNER, grandfather of Martin W. TURNER as a free person of color and also Patience TURNER the grandmother of said Martin W. TRUNER that John TURNER was half white and half African, that Patience was judging from her color and from reputation one fourth African blood. The father of said Martin W. TURNER, who was a son of John and Patience was named William TURNER who married Catherine MARTIN a white woman and had several children including Martin W. TURNER, who is only one eighth African blood and of very good character ...;

      !COURT:31 Oct 1860 Marion County Court of Common Pleas. Martin W. TURNER, Relator vs N.C McDUFFIE, Shff, declaration in Prohibition. John BLACKMAN Sr and James LANE Sr say they knew John TURNER alias Jack TURNER and he was a free man, a mulatto, one half white and half colored, that Patience TURNER his wife passed and was received as white not having more than one fourth Negro blood. That Reuben TURNER was one of their children, and passed and received as white man, married Dolly MARTIN a free white woman with no negro blood, that Martha TURNER alias Patty TURNER was one of their children and passed and received as free white woman, that Martin TURNER who is her so is reported son of Needham WATSON a white man of no mixture. (much more);


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