James Furse "The Mariner" was English. His descendents did come to Allendale (Lower Three Runs) where if you look on Mills 1825 map of Barnwell Co., you will find at Lower Three Runs "Jas Furse" and "Furzes Cr."

I. William Furse married Ann, of Exter Devonshire. The Stephen Smith Furse branch of the family which lived in South Carolina had many keepsakes of the Furse family, among them large portraits of the first ancestors, William and Ann Furse.

• One known son
• James Furse, the Mariner, born in Exeter, Devonshire, England. He apparently had ships,  referenced in the early papers of Savannah, Georgia. James Furse married 1766  Herodias Redding.  James Furse died in 1783, going down with his ship, the Britannia. His will is dated 1774, probated 1790. His will states that he is of the City of Bristol.  He states children, but does not name them.  Herodias Redding Furse seems to have married a Mr. Clarke after the death of James Furse.  In the "Georgia Gazette 1796, 3/31 p. 2, c. 2, Newport & Grist Mills. In Orangeburg Dist., Winton Co., will positively be sold at the mill on Thursday the r9th day of May next, on a credit of 12 months, giving bond, with such security as shall be approved of with mortgage on the property, all the real estate belonging to Mrs. Herodias Clarke, deceased, of the City of Savannah, State of Georgia, via, that valuable Saw & Grist Mill; well known in that part of county known as Clarke's Mill; together with 3300 acres of land, more or less of land, etc. Also will be sold at the same time and place and on the same terms two other tracts of land belonging to the same estate; each tract containing 6-acres (superior to most and inferior to none) situated in Ninety-Six Dist. one of them on Rocky River, the other on Keowee River . . etc. Sam Elliott, James Furse Ex'ors."
  • James Furse and Herodias Furse had two children
  • Ann Furse born 1767, at Savannah, Georgia (source also states she was brought to America by her father), married a Cuthbert.  She is buried in Beaufort, South Carolina
  • James Furse born 1774 at Bristol, St. Austins Parish, England. Married 1^st Martha Wyld

Source: Garrett-Sharpe Brown-Poindexter and Allied Lines: A Genealogical Study with Biographical Notes, Indexed, Privately Published by The American Historical Company, Inc., New York, 1971.  Submitted by John D. Culbertson.

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