Ruth Latham

- Aft 1821

• Name	Ruth Latham
  Born	of York District, Sc
  Gender	Female
  Died	Aft 1821	York Dist., S.C.
  Record Change	12 Apr 2009
  Person ID	I37837	120k
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2015

  
  

  Family	Phillip Prather,   b. of Rowan Co., Nc ,   d. Prob. York or Pickens Dist., S.C.
  Married	04 May 1807	York Dist., S.C.
  Children	1. Jane Prather,   b. of York Dist., S.C.  [Natural]
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2015
  Family ID	F15904	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Research form Timothy Darwin-Grana Ruth Latham was the daughter of Richard Latham and Catherine Robinson. Catherine Robinson was the daughter of William Robinson and Margaret Clark. The Clarks and the Robinsons were among the earliest of white settlers in York Dist. The Lathams can be traced to their arrival in America from Ireland. They were not Irrish (the surname, which is Old English for "at the barn," originated in Yorkshirre), but English, who may have at some point settled in Ulster. In the 1760's. The colonial government of South Carolina, seeking to settle the thinly-populated upcountry, introduced a system of land bounties for Protestant "refugees" from the continent. It was such to claim such a land grant that the Lathams boarded the brig "Betty Gregg" in Belfast sometime in Dec., 1769. The arrival of their ship was reported in the South Carolina Gazette, Issue John Milford. The passenger list includes Andrew Latham (age 38), his wife Jean (or Jane) age 40, and children Richard (16), Moses (14), Andrew (12), Robert (9), and Sarah (5). Within two weeks of arrival, Andrew Latham had applied for 400 acres under the Bounty Act, and his eldest son Richard for 100 acres. Two and a half months later, the tracts of land were granted -- along the Broad River in what is now York Co., S.C. Richard Latham married Catherine Robinson, by whom he had 4 daughters before his early death, aged 36, on 20 Jan., 1788. One of Richard & Catherines daughters was Ruth, who married Phillip Prather.