Marty and Karla Grant
The Genealogy of Marty Grant and wife Karla Mangus Grant.
James Godbold
Bef 1757 - 1800 (> 43 years) Has 2 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.-
Name James Godbold Birth Bef 1757 Gender Male _TAG Uncle/Aunt ancestors _UID A23E5D09B6FDD711BD1200E09877E1C444C4 Death 1790/1800 Marion Dist, SC 
Person ID I17708 Marty and Karla Grant Last Modified 11 Feb 2019
Father Cpt John Godbold d. 1765, Craven Co, SC (now Marion Co, SC) Mother Elizabeth McGurney _UID 86C11DBDCB766646AF363C73EB997B17B803 Notes - !REFERENCE:As to the children of Cpt. John Godbold and Elizabeth McGurney:
From: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 117-125.
GODBOLD. John Godbold was the first who came to the region of Marion Court House. Bishop Gregg, p. 68, says: "He was an Englishman, and had been long a sailor in the British service. Though advanced in years at the time of his arrival, such was his enterprising energy that he succeeded in accumulating what for that day was a large property. He settled in 1735, about a half-mile below the site of the present village of Marion, being the first adventurer to that locality." * * * "During the French and Indian wars, Mr. Godbold was plundered of almost all the personal property he had gathered. Of thirty negroes, twenty-two were taken from him and never recovered ; a trunk of guineas, the fruits of many years' labor, was rifled. He married, after his arrival on Pee Dee, Elizabeth McGurney, by whom he had three sons, John, James and Thomas, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, from whom the extensive connexion in Marion have descended."
Family ID F8853 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 
Mourning Elizabeth Baker _UID 352AE058CEC6744C9561FC3781184F585468 Children 1. Lt Zachariah Godbold, b. 1755/1774 d. Aft 1804, Marion Dist, SC (Age > 31 years)2. Godbold 3. Sarah Godbold d. Aft 18 May 1801, Marion Dist, SC 4. Cade Godbold d. 1806, Marion Dist, SC 5. Abraham Godbold, b. 1765/1774 d. 1816, Marion Dist, SC (Age 42 years)6. Gen Thomas Godbold, b. 1765/1774 d. 1825, Marion Dist, SC (Age 51 years)7. Mary Godbold, b. 1774/1784 d. Aft 1802, Marion Dist, SC (Age > 19 years)8. Lt John Godbold 9. James Godbold Family ID F3905 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Aug 2026
- !REFERENCE:As to the children of Cpt. John Godbold and Elizabeth McGurney:
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Notes - !NOTES:
(1) This person is not related to me as far as I'm aware. However, I am interested in all Marion Co., SC families to some extent.
(2) This person is an ancestor of my aunt-in-law Debra Rogers McIntyre.
(3) This person is an aunt/uncle of my aunt Cherry Rogers.
!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/
!REFERENCE:A History of the Old Cheraws pp. 68-67;
!REFERENCE:From: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 117-125.
"James, the second son (of the first John), married Mourning Elizabeth Baker, by whom he had six sons, John, James, Zachariah, Cade, Abram and Thomas.
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The second son of old John was James; James had six sons, John, James, Zachariah, Cade, Abraham and Thomas. No account whatever is given as to these or their posterity, except Thomas, the youngest, who was the father of the late Hugh Godbold, as before stated, and who became a Brigadier General of the militia, and was quite a prominent man in his day; he died in 1825.
!JURY LIST:1778 Georgetown District, SC
Petit Jurors for the Parish of Prince George 1778
From [HorryGenWeb]
James Godbolt
John Godbold
Thomas Godbolt;
!TAXLIST:1786 Georgetown District, South Carolina
Prince George Parish, Capt. Stephen Godbold's Company
... (Name, Land, Negroes)
James Godbold, 1000, 0
Jesse Godbold, 50, 1
John Godbold, 200, 3
Thomas Godbold, 400, 5
Zachariah Godbold, 100, 0
Zachariah Godbold, 50, 0;
!CENSUS:1790 Georgetown Dist., SC Prince George Parish pg 507
James Godbold age 16+ (bef 1774)
4-1-2-0-1;
!CENSUS:1800 x
!NAMED-DEED:18 May 1801 Marion Co., SC Deed Book A page 154
Zachariah Godbold, Thomas Smith, Sarah Godbold, Cade Godbold, Abraham Godbold, Thomas Godbold and James Keen, heirs of James Godbold, deced, appt Abraham Godbold & Thomas Godbold our attorneys to sell land of decd. ...;
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