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A Poston Family of South Carolina: Its Immigrant Ancestor and Some of His Descendants is a revised and authenticated 2025 digital edition of the landmark 1965 genealogy originally compiled by Erma Poston Landers and updated by Eric Chalmers Poston. This volume traces the Poston family lineage from John Poston, an early eighteenth-century immigrant recorded in Chester County, Pennsylvania, through the family’s migration south into Marion District—now Florence County, South Carolina. Drawing on probate records, Revolutionary War militia rolls, land warrants, deed books, census schedules, and other archival materials, the work reconstructs multiple Poston family branches across South Carolina and Georgia. The 2025 edition incorporates standardized names and dates, digital OCR restoration, archival cross-verification, structured genealogical indexing, and updated methodological notes. Intended for descendants, researchers, and regional historians, it serves both as a family reference work and as a documentary study of migration, settlement, and kinship in the South Carolina Pee Dee. This edition is especially relevant to readers researching early Pennsylvania settlement, southward migration along the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, Revolutionary-era family records, and the historical development of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. Recommended citation: Landers, Erma Poston. A Poston Family of South Carolina: Its Immigrant Ancestor and Some of His Descendants. Revised, authenticated, and updated by Eric Chalmers Poston. Ebook ed. The Poston Preserve, 2025. Title A Poston Family of South Carolina: Its Immigrant Ancestor and Some of His Descendants Subtitle Revised, Authenticated & Updated 2025 Edition Author Eric Chalmers Poston Publisher The Poston Preserve Publication Year 2025 Edition Ebook Edition, Revised, Authenticated & Updated 2025 Language English Rights © 2025 Eric Chalmers Poston. All rights reserved. BISAC HIS036060 — History / United States / State & Local / South REF027000 — Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry HIS012000 — History / Revolutionary Period (1775–1800) Keywords Poston family, South Carolina genealogy, Chester County Pennsylvania, Marion District, Florence County, Pee Dee history, Revolutionary War militia, Great Philadelphia Wagon Road, John Poston immigrant, South Carolina family history

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