Nephew of McIntosh County

James Nephew was born in 1750, the son of Peter Nephew (died 1788) of St. Andrews Parish. He married Mary Magdalene Gignilliat, the daughter of James and Charlotte (Pepper) Gignilliat, in 1787. James was a Revolutionary War Soldier, serving in the Liberty County regiment, first as a lieutenant, then as a captain, for which he was granted 250 acres of land. His plantation was called Manchester, near Valona, overlooking the passage and Sapelo Island to Cedar Point. He died in 1827 at Manchester, and was buried beside his first wife in the Gignilliat Family Cemetery on the Contentment Plantation (near Shellman Bluff). Issue:[1]

• Charlotte Nephew, born 1788, married Hampden McIntosh in 1806.
• Susannah Nephew, born 1791, married William A. Dunham.
• Elizabeth Nephew, born 1793, married Leonard Bartow in 1812.
• Peter James Nephew, born 1796, died 1819.
• Sarah Evelyn Nephew, born 1796, married Charles West.
• Catherine Nephew, born 1804, married Barringham King in 1822 on the Ceylon plantation.

Shellman Bluff

Sources: [1] Early Days on the Georgia Tidewater by Buddy Sullivan.