The Allstons of Chicora Wood: Wealth, Honor, and Gentility in the South Carolina Lowcountry

APPENDIX A: The Allston and Petigru Families

185 appendix a The Allston and Petigru Families benjamin allston jr. (1766–1809)—married (1788) his cousin charlotte ann allston (1771–1824). six children: 1. Elizabeth Ann (b. Nov. 1, 1790; d. Sept. 13, 1822)—married John Hyrne Tucker (1780–1859), wealthy Georgetown District rice planter. 2. Charlotte Atchison (1793–1847)—married John Coachman. 3. Mary Pyatt (1795–1836)—married William H. Jones. 4. Joseph Waties (b. 1798; d. Aug. 13, 1834)—married first Sarah Pride, second Charlotte Nicholson, and third Mary Allan. Served in both the War of 1812 and the Seminole War and became a general in the militia. His two surviving sons were Joseph Blyth (1833–1904) and William Allan (1834–78). *5. Robert Francis Withers (1801–64)—married Adele Petigru. 6. William Washington (1804–23)—died unmarried. robert francis withers allston (b. apr. 21, 1801; d. apr. 7, 1864)—married (apr. 5, 1832) adele petigru at st. michael’s episcopal church, charleston. five surviving children: 1. Benjamin (b. Feb. 25, 1833; d. Jan. 15, 1900)—married first (Feb. 25, 1864) Ellen Stanley Robinson (1842–75) of Texas; second (1882) his cousin Louise North (1833–96). Graduated from West Point in 1853, resigned his commission in 1857, and served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, rising to the rank of colonel. After the war he engaged in rice planting and then became an Episcopal minister. 2. Adele (b. Aug. 16, 1840; d. 1915)—married (June 24, 1863) Arnoldus Vanderhorst (b. 1835; d. Dec. 1, 1881), a major in the Confederate army, and they had seven children. 186 appendix a 3. Elizabeth Waties (Bessie) (b. May 29, 1845; d. 1921)—married (Apr. 26, 1870) John Julius Pringle (b. June 21, 1842; d. Aug. 21, 1876). Planted at the White House and Chicora Wood after the war and wrote two books on rice planting. 4. Charles Petigru (b. July 31, 1848; d. 1922)—schooled at Octavius Porcher’s Willington Academy in Abbeville District until he joined Confederate army at age sixteen. Graduated from College of Charleston in 1869. Married (Dec. 1874) Emma Rutledge Lowndes. 5. Jane Louise (Jinty) (b. Dec. 1850; d. 1937)—married (Apr. 25, 1877) Charles Albert Hill (1844–1927), an Englishman. james louis petigru (b. may 10, 1789; d. mar. 9, 1863)— married (1816) jane amelia postell (1795–1869). Siblings of James Louis Petigru 1. Thomas (b. 1793; d. Mar. 6, 1857)—married (1829) Mary Ann LaBruce (1793– 1869). Captain U.S. Navy but had only a mediocre career and was dismissed from the naval service in fall 1855. 2. Jane Gibert (b. 1800; d. Nov. 5, 1863)—married (1827) John Gough North (b. 1802; d. Feb. 13, 1836). After her husband’s death she resided at Badwell, the Petigru family farm in Abbeville District. She opposed secession but supported the Confederacy. Three children: A. Caroline (Carey) (b. July 16, 1828; d. Mar. 8, 1887)—married (Apr. 19, 1853) Charles Lockhart Pettigrew (b. 1816; d. Nov. 20, 1873) of North Carolina, brother of Confederate general James Johnston Pettigrew (1828–63). B. Mary (Minnie) (b. 1832)—married (Dec. 1857) Joseph Blyth Allston (1833–1904), nephew of R.F.W. Allston. C. Louise Gibert (1833–96)—married (June 2, 1882) Benjamin Allston, eldest son of R.F.W. Allston. 3. Mary A. (1803–72)—never married; lived at Badwell with her sister Jane Petigru North. She was a political moderate. 4. Louise (b. 1809; d. May, 1869)—married (Oct. 13, 1829) Philip Johnston Porcher (1806–71), a Charleston real estate and slave broker. the allston and petigru families 187 *5. Adele (b. Nov. 11, 1811; d. Nov. 24, 1896)—married (Apr. 5, 1832) Robert F. W. Allston. 6. Harriette (b. 1813; d. June 1877)—married (Apr., 24, 1836) Henry Deas Lesesne (1811–86), Charleston attorney and law partner of James L. Petigru from 1840 to 1850. Children of James Louis Petigru 1. Caroline (b. Jan. 4, 1820, in Charleston; d. Aug. 15, 1892, in Rome, Italy)— married (Dec. 16, 1841) William Augustus Carson (1800–1856), owner of Dean Hall plantation on Cooper River and an alcoholic. Like her unionist father, Caroline never supported the Confederacy and moved to the North in 1861 and later to Europe. 2. Susan Dupont (b. 1824; d. Dec., 1875)—married (Mar. 30, 1843) Henry C. King (1819–62), son of Judge Mitchell King and law partner of James L. Petigru , succeeding Henry D. Lesesne in 1850. Susan was educated...