s Eleanor Laurens

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[Date Of Birth]

s-Eleanor Cunnington (Neé Laurens) was born on January 1777 in London, United Kingdom. She was the newborn daughter and only child of Martha Weatherell Manning and John Laurens. However, her father did not witness the birth of his offspring due to leaving to fight in the Revolutionary War months before she was due. It was a difficult delivery, She was born with many swollen areas on her body, but mainly her hip and thigh, prompting the doctor to cut off some of her hip and thigh. s was later baptized on February 18, 1777.

John Baker went to young s around the time she had gotten baptized, he wrote in his diary all about it.

[Early Life]

While Martha raised s alone in London, John was in America serving as an Aide-De-Camp. Martha heard that John was sailing down to to obtain French Aid, So, Martha and s sailed to to meet up with him, only to miss him by a day.

1780, London

When s was only 3 years old, Martha and s went to visit Henry Laurens at the Tower of London while he was imprisoned there.

1781,

s was 4, Martha Weatherell Laurens, had died due to illness since she was the only one in London and no other family member of hers or John's was in London at the time s became Orphaned.

1782,

When she was 5, her father, John Laurens, had died on August 27, 1782, in Combahee River, SC due to being killed in action by a British soldier. Shortly after, John's sister, Martha Laurens and David Ramsay, had taken young s into her care.

She was taught well and grew to be a smart girl for her age with the schooling of her new Godmother who was very smart.

1784,

When she was 7-years-old, she started living with Martha Ramsay, Polly Pinckney and her great aunt Mary in Bath. Martha took responsibility of caring and educating Polly and s.

11th May 1784, Charleston, SC

Martha, Polly, and s arrived in Charleston.

1792, Charleston, SC

Henry Laurens died due to illness before he died he asked to be burned instead of buried because of his fear of being buried alive like his daughter, Martha, almost was when she was a kid. In his will, he gave 14-year-old s a whole plantation.

[Marriage & Kids]

1795, Charleston, SC

At 17-year-olds, s married a Scottish merchant called Francis Henderson. Who her family strongly dislikes and disapproved of the marriage but that didn't stop her from wedding him.

1800 Charleston, SC

At 22-years-old, s, now Henderson, had a baby boy and decided with her husband to name him Francis Jr.

[Devastation & Divorce]

1801 Charleston, SC

At 23-years-old, s and Francis released from wedlock, Francis got full custody of Francis Jr and moved to. Francis and Francis Jr moved to Scotland while s stayed in America. A couple of months later, Francis left Francis Jr in Scotland while he collects inheritance from s. s then moved to England, where she would stay for the rest of her life.

[Marriage, Yay!]

1832, England

Francis Sr Henderson died. s then remarried to James Cunnington in Gloucester Place, Kentish Town. Changing her surname to Cunnington.

[Death & Dispare] 25th April 1860, England.

At the ripe age of 83, s Laurens Cunnington died.

Francis Henderson, Jr. Abbeville, South Carolina

Francis Jr, Graduated from the University of Edinburgh after presumably studying Law. Living in his mother's land she inherited from her grandpa, Henry Laurens.

He soon became an alcoholic and never married or had kids. He died in 1847. Ending the Laurens line.