A Poston Family of South Carolina: Its Immigrant Ancestor and Some of His Descendants: Revised, Authenticated & Updated 2025 Edition
About this ebook
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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About the author
Eric Chalmers Poston is an American author, attorney, and South Carolina native whose writing focuses on family history, local heritage, and the documentary record of the Pee Dee region. His work examines the Poston family of South Carolina, the history of Poston, South Carolina, and the broader relationship between genealogy, land, memory, and regional identity.
A graduate of Duke University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Poston brings a lawyer’s attention to evidence, chronology, and documentary detail to his historical writing. His books and archival projects are grounded in family records, public documents, newspaper accounts, photographs, and inherited local knowledge, with a particular interest in preserving the stories of South Carolina families and communities whose histories are often scattered across private collections and public archives.
Poston’s historical work is closely connected to The Poston Preserve, a family heritage and conservation property in Manning, South Carolina, and to his ongoing effort to preserve, organize, and publish records relating to the Poston family and the community that bears its name. His author work presents South Carolina family history in a readable public form while preserving the documentary foundation behind the narrative.
