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- Henry Junior, son of Henry Sr., son of James, was the oldest son of Henry L. Bradham, pursued the calling of a planter in the Big Branch and Sammy Swamp areas of Clarendon County. It appears that his parents might have spent their last years with him. The plantation on which Henry lived was perhaps in part some of the land originally purchased by his father when he settled in the Jack’s Creek area around 1800. Estimating his birth year from data in the 1800 census for Henry, Sr.’s, family, it is most likely that Henry, Junior, was born ca. 1794. By 1820 Henry, Junior, had married and the United States Census of that year enumerates him and his wife (no children) in Sumter District. He was living at that time either with or next door to his parents and he owned one slave. During his lifetime of less than 55 years, Henry Junior, was an active member of his community. His name is indexed more than a dozen times in the Mesne Conveyance Records, Sumter Co. C. H., Sumter, South Carolina. Although most of the lands he held were in what is now Clarendon County, deed registration was in Sumter, as Clarendon was at that time a part of Sumter District. He not only bought and sold numerous tracts of land, but served also as a witness to transactions involving his neighbors and friends. For more information see reference, page 25. [2]
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