Excerpt from The Ancestry of Rosalie Morris Johnson, Vol. 2: Daughter of George Calvert Morris and Elizabeth Kuhn, His Wife

Daniel axtell 1 a merchant of London, was granted lands in South Carolina about and upon the nomination of John Archdale, Esquire, was elected a landgrave of Carolina by the Lords Proprietors, August 10, He came to South Carolina about this time, but died within a year or two, '1 his son Holland succeeding him as landgrave.

Lady Rebecca Axtell, widow of Landgrave Daniel Axtell, resided at her plantation, Newington, near the site of the present town of Summerville, for some years subsequent to the death of her husband. September I 5, I 705, she was granted one thousand acres of land on the north side of Ashley River, bounded south by her own lands, east on Gershom Hawks and Moses Martin, north on James Ford and west on John Boisseau and James Ford.

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