Elizabeth BELLINGER

• Name	Elizabeth BELLINGER  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  HIST	Jackie,  It just occurred to me that you perhaps meant Colonel John Palmer, not Powell.  If so, the line to my grandmother, Kate Powell McKagen runs as follows:   Sir Edmund Bellinger and Sarah Cartright had daughter Elizabeth Bellinger. Elizabeth married Col. John Palmer, had daughter Hannah Palmer. Hannah Plamer married Andre DeVeaux II, had son Andre DeVeaux III. Andre DeVeaux III married Catherine Barnwell, had daughter Margaret DeVeaux. Margaret DeVeaux married Richard Ash, had daughter Maria Louise Ash. Maria Louise Ash married Medicus Powell, had son Benjamin Medicus Powell. Benjamin Medicus Powell married Matilda Milling Mickle, had daughter Kate Powell. Kate Powell married William Walter McKagen.   Hope this helps.   John Everett A class on ancestors Share Send this page to your friends Print Create a hardcopy of this page Font Size: Default font size Larger font size Posted: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 6:00 am | Updated: 8:10 am, Tue Feb 8, 2011. By John Everett I am not unmindful of the fact that most people do not particularly want to hear about your ancestors. They don't give a damn. Consider this to be a brief history lesson. Genealogy is primarily the province of aged aunts, but not exclusively. When you are retired, with nothing much to do, it can become an interesting time filler, calling upon the earlier endeavors of those who have left their research in old shoe boxes. My family, both mother and father sides, have always been big in the Methodist church. That should be "big" with a capital B. When the doors of Trinity Methodist Church were open, my mother saw to it that I was in attendance. I did not mind going to church. In fact, I found the fellowship, music and pageantry during the Christmas and Easter seasons to be especially enjoyable. And, I and my fellow Sunday school classmates relished in driving our teacher into a frenzied state with philosophical questions about religion in general. I had started reading H.L. Mencken at a very early age, and he was not exactly the standard-bearer for Christianity. But I remained very active in the church and even became a member of the official board at age 18. College took its toll on my devoutness, and as with so many others, I gradually drifted away to more secular pursuits, with the exception of perhaps a brief period while living in Tennessee, where we joined what was called the "Philosophy Class" at the local Methodist church. This group was composed of a number of Ph.D. researchers from the Kodak plant, a couple of psychiatrists and several Harvard-educated MDs. The programs were stimulating and thought provoking. A new minister came along, with the first name of Spurgeon, and realizing that the philosophy class was drawing most of the members out of the other classes, shut us down. I began delving into genealogy after I had been retired a few years. When communicating your new found interest to others, you want to make sure that you get your words and spelling right. At my age, you do not want to tell someone you have become interested in gynecology. My first task was to trace the lineal trees back as far as I could. The Everett side had already been done. Charles Everett, my great-grand pappy (many times over) and progenitor of the southern Everetts, arrived in Jamestown in 1630. My mother's side has proved to be more interesting. Sir Edmund Bellinger (1658-1706), my 7th maternal great grandfather, was bestowed with title of nobility by King James II and the Lord Proprietors chose him to be the first Landgrave of South Carolina, giving him title to "Tombodly" and "Ashepoo" Baronies which encompassed Beaufort, Port Royal and Hilton Head Island and inland to Walterboro. These thousands of acres were not for him to keep, but rather to orderly distribute to new immigrants as they arrived. He was also a sea captain and is credited with bringing the first load of cattle to America. Sir Edmund was also one of those instrumental in bringing John Wesley, the founder of Methodism in America, to this county. Wesley would stay at the Bellinger plantation at Chulifinny, from which he would depart on his circuit rides throughout the South, spreading his gospel. "The History of Methodism in South Carolina," Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1883, recounts one of these visits, when a black lad was sent by Sir Edmund to accompany Wesley on the first part of his journey. The lad told Wesley that when he was at Ashley Ferry he went to church every Sunday. "Wesley's interest in the welfare of the Negro race was greatly intensified by this exchange, and he then laid down a plan of instruction which was adopted a hundred years afterward by the South Carolina Conference, and made the basis of all missionary operations among the Negroes." Sir Edmund Bellinger is buried at Paco Sabo Plantation at Frog Pond, S.C. One of Sir Edmund's daughters, Elizabeth, married Col. John Palmer, and they became my 6th maternal great grandparents. Col. Palmer spent most of his life fighting the Spanish in north Florida and was also considered the premier Indian fighter in the low country. In 1702, he was part of an expedition led by James Moore, the governor of Carolina, to attack and burn St. Augustine. Interestingly, this expedition, sailing from Port Royal, landed on the north end of Amelia Island, Fla., where I now live (I did not know this when we moved here), and marched through the island, burning several Spanish missions, one of which was almost within rock throwing distance of our home here, onto Fort George Island to the South, then along the St. Johns River and through what is now Jacksonville, crossing the river further south to reach St. Augustine. Col. Palmer returned to St. Augustine in 1728 and 1732, this time leading the expeditions to attack the Spanish in an attempt to drive them out of Florida. They burned the city, but could not penetrate the defenses of Castillo de San Marcos, the massive fort that guards St. Augustine harbor. Again, in 1740, he returned to St. Augustine, but was met with an overwhelming force of Spanish and Indian forces which massacred most of the expedition, including Col. Palmer. My grandmother, Kate Powell McKagen, lived with us from the time I was born. She was one of 15 children, and lived to the age of 98. Her father and my great-grandfather, Benjamin Medicus Powell, was a sharpshooter in the Confederacy, and is credited with killing the highest-ranking officer in the Civil War, Gen. John Sedgewick. For anyone interested, the complete account can be found in the archives of the Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, Nov. 25, 1917, or Google the General John Sedgewick website. My youngest grandson, Ben, named for Benjamin Powell, remains angry with his mother for not naming him Medicus. I guess kids like unusual names. Class dismissed.   John Malloy Covington Everett was born and grew up in Sumter, graduating from Edmunds High School in 1954. He and his wife, Bunny, live in Amelia Island, Fla. He can be contacted at johneverettai@gmail.com. Posted in Opinion, Columnists on Tuesday, February 8, 2011  [2, 3]
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  Father	Sir Edmund BELLINGER, I,   b. 1656/58, Westmorland County, England d. 1706 (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Sarah Elizabeth CARTWRIGHT,   b. Abt 1662   d. Aft 31 Jan 1709/10 (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	1674  [4]
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  Family ID	F43161	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Colonel John PALMER   d. 1737
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  Children	1. Hannah PALMER   2. Lucia PALMER,   c. 1730
  Family ID	F43694	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2026

  
  

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