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owners. Major Porcher was the fourth child of 

 Peter Porcher of Peru. In 1789 he married Har- 

 riet, daughter of Philip Porcher, by whom he had a 

 daughter, Harriet, who married James Gaillard, 

 second son of Peter Gaillard of the Rocks ; and 

 three sons, Philip, who married Selina Shackelford, 

 Thomas William, who married the daughter of 

 Peter Gaillard, Jr., and W. Mazyck Porcher, the 

 present proprietor. 



2. The next plantation was Burnt Savanna, now 

 a part of Belle Isle. For some time before the 

 revolution this place was the residence of General 

 Mar^Ion, and In its retirement he probably prepared 

 himself for the part he was to act in that stormy 

 period. He married late in life Mary Videau, and 

 died childless in 1795. 



3. The third plantation, '* Belle Isle," was the 

 residence of Robert Marion, Esq. He was the 

 third son of Gabriel Marion and Catharine Taylor. 

 His brothers, Gabriel and Benjamin, never mar- 

 ried. Of his sisters, Catharine died unmarried ; his 

 younger sister, Charlotte, married Anthony Ashby, 

 by whom she had a daughter, who married Richard 

 Smgleton, and after Mr. Ashby's death she married 

 Theodore S. Marion, by whom she had a daughter, 

 who. In 1808, became the wife of the writer. Mr. 

 Robert Marlon married Mrs. Esther Deveaux (nee 

 Gignllllat), mother of the late Stephen G. Deveaux. 

 This marriage produced no children. 



