Joseph Pendarvis (c.1699-1736) of St Philip's Pr, Berkeley County, SC; owned 1009 acres in Colleton County near Green's Savannah and a plantation on Charlestown Neck. Joseph never married, but his will, dated 11 Feb 1735/6, proved 17 Mar 1735/6, named his seven "children of a Negro woman named Parthena, deceased, that lived with me." The inventory of his father's estate, 1724, lists "Negro woman Pothenia and child." Joseph manumitted her and her children 8 Mar 1734/5, less than a year before her death. An old family story speaks of an unspecified seafaring father taking his son to the Caribbean to teach him how to be a man. The son found the women of the islands very beautiful, had his father buy one for him, and brought her home. . 1. James Pendarvis (c.1723-c.1797) m.3 Sep 1741 Catherine Rumph, lived in St Paul's Parish. . . . James was accepted as white, and in the Census of 1790 was enumerated with 123 slaves. . . . . 11. Elizabeth Mary Pendarvis (c.1743) married Benjamin Smith (or Thomas Smith, Jr) . . . . 12. William Pendarvis (c.1745-1786) . . . . 13. Ann Pendarvis (c1747) married Samuel Perry . 2. Brand Pendarvis (c.1724-1788) m.1748 Ursetta Jennings, lived in Orangeburg District see below . 3. William Pendarvis (c.1726) cohabited with Catherine Pfund, wife of Thomas Puckeridge . . . . 31. Anne Pendarvis (4 Oct 1756) married Henry Salley . . . . 32. John Pendarvis (22 Feb 1759) . . . . 33. William Pendarvis (1761-1782) died in Loyalist militia . 4. John Pendarvis (c.1728-after 1793) lived in Colleton County. Signed as witness to a deed in . . . .1779 as John Pendarvis, Sr. Accused of supplying guns to a rebellion of negroes in 1759. . . . .Lived with his brother-in-law David Rumph. . . . . 41. John Pendarvis, Jr . 5. Thomas Pendarvis (c.1730-1783) m.c1754 Hannah Hasfort, m.c1763 Elizabeth Eckells; lived in . . . .Dorchester County near Four Holes. . . . . 41. Sarah Pendarvis (1 Nov 1754) married Samuel Irons . . . . 42. Thomas Pendarvis (23 Sep 1756) . . . . 43. Joseph Pendarvis (3 Sep 1759) . . . . 44. Josiah Pendarvis (c.1765) . . . . 45. Frederick Pendarvis (c.1767) . 6. Mary Ann Pendarvis (c.1732-1783 [Lawrence says died after 1790]) m.c1747 David Rumph (d.1783) . . . . 61. Elizabeth Rumph (c.1748) m.23 Feb 1767 Henry Gissendanner (1742-1826) . . . . 62. David Rumph (1 Apr 1749) m(1) Miss Lewis; m(2) Anne Haddock (c1753-c1807) . . . . 63. Mary Rumph (16 Aug 1751) died young . . . . 64. Sarah Rumph (7 May 1752-c1808) married James DeWitt . . . . 65. Ann Rumph (27 Dec 1755-27 Jan 1825) married William Clayton . . . . 66. John Rumph (c.1756-c1810) . . . . 67. Joseph Rumph (c.1758) . . . . 68. Jacob Rumph (c.1760) married Anna Cooner . . . . 69. Christian Rumph (c.1762) . . . . 60. Catherine Rumph (c.1766) may have married a DeWitt . 7. Elizabeth Pendarvis (c.1734) died in infancy