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The following information is from a letter, dated January 10, 1347, from
Tilroe Threatt, principal at Helena High School, Timberlake, N. C. These
families are connected with the Thweatts. Some of the southern folk persist in
pronouncing the name Thweatt-Threatt. Mr. Tilroe Threatt says, in part: "I
remember a conversation I had with Mr. Tabb Treatt of Jefferson, S.C. some years
ago. (He is now dead). He said that his father and two brothers came to this
country from Virginia. One brother continued to reside in Virginia, one brother
came with his father to South Carolina, later going westward, either to Kentucky
or Tennessee." . Mr. Threatt continues, "There are three branches of
the Threatt Family in the vicinity of my Father. Mr. Tabb Threatt family of
Jefferson,S.C.:the Dr Thweatt family of the pageland S.C. teritory and my
fathers family of the same area. My father generally goes by the name of Will. I
have a brother John who married the daughter of another Will Threatt, no
relation. Through this union, the two families are bound--the Dr. Threatt and my
own Jessie Threatt." This should interest these families. In the South
Carolina census of 1730, there are recorded three heads of families by the name
of Fred, Miles and John Threatt. There are several Miles Threatts and a host of
John Threatts in early Virginia history. II is my opinion that the Threatts of
North and South Carolina can find the roots of their family in Virginia.
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