Compiled by Clarence Blair Mitchell

The first generation in this record begins with Moses Mitchell.  Moses Mitchell immigrated to Charles Town in the Carolinas about fifty years before the Revolutionary War. The first evidence of his name appears in a deed dated October 2, 1735 in Dorchester. He was a member of the English Church. He married (a believed to be widow) Mrs. Mary A. Marriner, whose maiden name was Harris. She had been married in St. Philip's Church to Edward Marriner, who disappeared in 1727 after sailing to Boston. She believed him to be dead and married Mr. Mitchell. Moses Mitchell bought homes and land and increased his holdings. In the spring of 1748 Edward Marriner, after an absence of over twenty years, returned to Charles Town, to find that his former wife had become possessed of considerable property.   

(183p., Illus, Index, 1925)