When Alexander Broughton was born in February 1722, in South Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, Captain Nathaniel Broughton, was 32 and his mother, Henrietta Charlotte Chastaigner, was 28. He married Mary Jones Keating about 1745, in South Carolina, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He died on 1 October 1764, in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Saint Philips Episcopal Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States.
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On January 13, 1733, James Oglethorpe and around 130 colonists arrive in Charleston. Even though they land here, they are to go down to Georgia and establish it as a colony.
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English: habitational name from any of the many places in all parts of England called Broughton. The first element is variously Old English brōc ‘brook’, burg ‘fortress’, or beorg ‘hill, mound’; the second is in all cases Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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