NATIONAL GENEALOGY SOCIETY
QUARTERLYVol. 65. December 1977 Number 4.
DE NORMANDIE FAMILY OF
BRISTOL,
BUCKS COUNTY, PA. Page 243.
By: LEWIS D. COOK, F.A.S.G., F.G.S.P.
Page 252. & 253.
34. SARAH
DE NORMANDIE, daughter of ANTHONY3 and MARY (
HALL)
DE NORMANDIE of
BRISTOL,
BUCKS COUNTY,
Pennsylvania, married first, evidently as his second wife, CHRISTOPHER PETER previous to 1787, as appears from their signing the marriage certificate of her brother JAMES
DE NORMANDIE 6 September of that year, in Newtown,
BUCKS COUNTY. They lived in
SMITH HALL, SAINT PAUL's
Parish,
Charleston District, South Caroline where he died testate, and his widow SARAH (
DE NORMANDIE) PETER married by license dated 7 January 1791 JOHN JOSEPH
ABERCROMBIE.
The Will of CHRISTOPHER PETER of SAINT PAUL's
Parish,
South Carolina, planter, dated 20 August 1790 and probated 1 March 1791, orders annual payment of L170 sterling to my wife SARAH PETER as my widow, and to my daughters ELIZABETH PETER and MARY PETER. Executors to sell part of my lands westward of Edisto or Pon Pon River to pay debts. Requests his children not be admitted to go northward or out of this State or forfeit L20 sterling for each offense. My driver fellow,
CESAR, to be freed, and to continue as driver on my
Cherry Valley Plantation, and to be paid L2 yearly by my executors or my daughter MARY PETER. The residue of my estate, real and personal, to my daugher MARY PETER. In case of MARY's death underage and without issue, my wife SARAH PETER and our daughter ELIZABETH to have one half of my moveable property. My wife to have the coaches and four of the best carriage horses with her living on my
Cherry Valley Plantation, until my daughter dies or marries, and then to my nephew WILLIAM
SMITH. The other half to be divided between my brother THOMAS SMITH's children: WILLIAM, THOMAS, JANE and
MORTON WILKS
SMITH. Appoints
MORTON WILKINSON, FRANCIS
WILKINSON, WILLIAM
SMITH, EDWARD
WILKINSON, WILLIAM PETER and JOSEPH SLANN executors. 52
The marriage of MR. ALFRED WALTER and MISS MARY
PETERS (sic), daughter of CHRISTOPHER
PETERS (sic), ESQ., decd., of ST. PAUL's
Parish, was noticed in City Gazette (
Charleston), 9 December 1799.
By deed 10 September 1791, DR. JOHN
ABRAHAM DE NORMANDIE of Burlington,
New Jersey, conveyed to JOHN JOSEPH
ABERCROMBIE, gentlemen, late of
South Carolina, now of
BRISTOL Township,
BUCKS COUNTY,
Pennsylvania a tract of 145 acres in that township, and by deed 17 Sept 1792, the said JOHN JOSEPH
ABERCROMBIE and wife SARAH conveyed the property back to DR.
DE NORMANDIE. 53
After their appearance in
BRISTOL Township,
BUCKS COUNTY, in 1791-1792, JOHN JOSEPH and SARAH (
DE NORMANDIE) are found in
Baltimore, Maryland, by 1796, as the register of SAINT PAUL's Church reveals. After 1799, they appear to have moved to Tennessee, from which state their son JOHN JOSEPH
ABERCROMBIE was appointed to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, in 1817.
Final account of JOHN JOSEPH
ABERCROMBIE, SR., has not been found for this report.
CHILD OF CHRISTOPHER and SARAH (
DE NORMANDIE) PETER:
48. i. ELIZABETH PETER, named in father's will, 1790.
CHILDREN OF JOHN JOSEPH and SARAH (
DE NORMANDIE) ABERCROMBIE:
49. i. HARRIET
ABERCROMBIE, bur. 9 July 1796,
Baltimore.
50. ii. ERNESTINE
ABERCROMBIE, b. 16 Sept. 1796, bp. 14 May 1797,
ST. PAUL's Ch., Baltimore; resided in Philadelphia, her letter dated 7 June 1861; m ____________________.
+51. iii. JOHN JOSEPH
ABERCROMBIE, b. 3 Mch. 1798.
52. iv. JAMES, b. 16 Mch. 1799; bp. 27 Oct, 1799.
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34. SARAH DE NORMANDIE's first husband, CHRISTOPHER PETER, was a son of CHRISTOPHER and ANN (BULLINE) PETER. On a deed dated 9 January 1766 he was among the subscribers to the building of a new meeting house in Willtown on the east bank of South Edisto River in ST. PAUL' s
Parish,
Colleton County,
South Carolina. He married, first, ANN, daughter of FRANCIS and MARGARET (ARDEN)
WILKINSON. SARAH's second husband, JOHN JOSEPH
ABERCROMBIE, was a son of ALEXANDER and ERNESTINE (D'HERENT)
ABERCROMBIE, and grandson of JAMES
ABERCROMBIE, a Scottish officer in the service of Holland, and his wife KATHERINE THOMSON of County Kent, England. He was an officer in the army of LOUIS XV1, and came to
South Carolina in 1774, where he became a planter. 68
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