Priscilla Franklin

1775-1853 · South Carolina

Born 1775, South Carolina

Died 1853

Father: John Franklin

Children include Winiford

Priscilla Franklin was a daughter of John Franklin of Chester County, South Carolina. She carried the name of her grandmother Priscilla, the wife of Thomas Franklin. Her brother Newton Franklin lived in Chester County until his death in 1818.

She married James Huey Jr., the son of a Chester County militia veteran, about 1810. On 13 December 1811 her father gave her an enslaved girl named Leaf, about ten or eleven years old. He put the girl in trust with Newton for Priscilla and "her Heirs of her body begotten." If she had no children, the girl was to go to her husband.

Within three weeks the Huey family left Chester County for Louisiana. They set out on 1 January 1812 and reached Ouachita Parish in April. Priscilla never lived in South Carolina again. Her father died in Chester County in 1817.

Her children are given as Jane, Harriett, Winiford, Mason, James Franklin, Charles Mason and Steven Franklin. The names Franklin and Mason ran through the family for two more generations. Her daughter Winiford, wife of Hugh Hinton, named a daughter Priscilla in 1854.

She died on 27 December 1853 and was buried in Bryan Cemetery near West Monroe. Her marble stone reads "Priscilla Huey, Born June 17, 1775, Died Dec. 27, 1853."

Parents

John Franklin 1763-1817

Children

Winiford Huey 1820-1887

Sources

Chester County, South Carolina, Deeds 1811 to 1816, deed no. 143, pages 149 to 150, recorded January 1812; FamilySearch full text, ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSLV-G9PN-S, image 149 of 575.

Bryan Cemetery, West Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana; photograph on Find a Grave memorial 20300597 (Priscilla Franklin Huey).

Chester County, South Carolina, deed no. 143, 13 December 1811 (FamilySearch, Chester County Deeds 1811 to 1816, ark 3:1:3Q9M-CSLV-G9PN-S); Find a Grave memorials 20300597 (stone photographs), 54751890 (John Franklin) and 54751975 (Newton Franklin); will of Thomas Franklin, Chester District Will Book A, pages 12 to 15, probate file 19, package 292, as abstracted at franklinsandwomacks.blogspot.com; National Society Sons of the American Revolution, approved lineages 1968, 1969 and 2020

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Cite: Heirology, "Priscilla Franklin (1775-1853)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/priscilla-franklin-1775-1853-50e266.