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Personal data Mary Lynch Coachman 

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Household of Mary Lynch Coachman

She is married to John Joseph Simons.

They got married on May 7, 1812 at Georgetown, South Carolina, she was 19 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Allard Belin Simons  1831-1905
  4.    
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  12. Sarah Jane Simons  1836-1878
  13. ??  


Notes about Mary Lynch Coachman

On May 7, 1812, Two prominent families from South Carolina were united through the marriage of John Joseph Simons and Mary Lynch Coachman. They were married on the banks of Old Black River at a place called Rock Point located in the George Town District about 11 miles from Georgetown. The wedding was quite an elaborate affair. Every dish, plate, cup, saucer, spoon, knife, fork, all candlesticks, etc. used at the wedding was either gold or silver. There was not a cotton fabric on the place, only pure linen, silk, and broadcloth was used and every manner of food, meat, drink, and dessert was served.

John Joseph Simons was the only son of Shadrack Simons and Elizabeth Ann Brittian. Shadrack fought with General Marion during the Revolutionary War. Following the Revolution, Shadrack occupied a position of some prominence in Charleston society. His family lived near the Great Pee Dee River in the vicinity of Brittian's Ferry. His plantations with land grants covered some 6,681 acres in the George Town District. According to the 1800 Federal Census he owned 30 slaves. Shadrack was Milita Captain from 1785-1801. In 1790 he was appointed as a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention. in 1791 he was a member of the lower Board of Commissioners for the Pee Dee River District.From 1796-1797 he was elected to the House of Commons and represented the Willliamsburg election district in the Twelfth South Carolina General Assembly. In 1797 he was elected as Road Commissioner and in 1798 he became Justice of the Peace for Georgetown District.

Mary Lynch Coachman was the daughter of Captain Joseph Coachman and Margaret Belin. Joseph Coachman was also with General Marion in the Revolutionary War. He started out as Lt. Joseph Coachman leading a brigade of Pee Dee Indian troops recruited from a reservation that was established by him when he acquired land on the Edisto River. He ended the War with a rank of Captain. The 1787 tax list for Prince George Parrish, Georgetown County shows that Joseph Coachman owned 4,292 acres of land and 108 slaves.

The Coachman family was from originally from England and were thirteen cousins to Elizabeth l, better known as Queen Bess. Mary's mother was Margaret Belin. The Belin's came to South Carolina from France during the great religious persecution. They landed in Charleston with several other families, the Horry's, the Postills, the Trapperes, just to list a few. According to the diary left by John Joseph Simons, Mary was related to Sir Francis Drake. When her grandmother Mary Drake married John Coachman, the Drake family gave the couple 2,000 acres of land in South Carolina as a wedding present.

Today the wedding site is a State Park and the Coachman Cemetery is located near it.
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Mary Lynch Coachman

James Coachman
1732-1791
Hannah Poole
1750-1772

Mary Lynch Coachman
1792-1857

1812

John Joseph Simons
1793-1869

Joseph Coachman Simons
1816-1926
Allard Belin Simons
1831-1905
Elias Bonnell Simons
1834-1906
Elizabeth Ann Simons
1814-1889
Benjamin Isaac Simons
1823-1834
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Mary Charlotte Simons
1813-1901
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Shadrach John Simons
1821-1882
Margaret Hannah Simons
1827-1855
Sarah Jane Simons
1836-1878
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    Birthday October 8, 1792

    • The temperature on October 8, 1792 was about 5.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
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      • April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
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      • July 25 » The Brunswick Manifesto is issued to the population of Paris promising vengeance if the French royal family is harmed.
      • October 13 » In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.

    Day of marriage May 7, 1812

    • The temperature on May 7, 1812 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: helder. Source: KNMI
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      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
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      • August 16 » War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
      • October 19 » The French invasion of Russia fails when Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
    

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