Married:     no later than 1769

Children:    Elizabeth 

    Two Langley brothers, Nathaniel and Samuel, married two Polhill sisters, Ann Elizabeth and Grace Mary. They probably met and married in South Carolina. Nathaniel’s father, George, had property in Colleton County, and Ann’s mother, Hannah, was probably living with her father after the death of her second husband, Nathaniel Polhill. In 1769, Nathaniel and Ann moved to Georgia, and, in 1770,  having “been a year in the province and had no land granted him and … desirous to obtain land for cultivation having a wife [and] a child” he was granted 200 acres in Effingham County. Later that year, Hannah, Ann’s mother, was granted 200 acres adjacent to Nathaniel and Ann’s land, and deeded the land to them. At some point Samuel and his wife and Ann’s brother Nathaniel Polhill must have also moved to Effingham County, as the Langleys and the Pollhills became two of the most active Loyalist families in the county during the American Revolution. Ann’s brother, Capt. Nathaniel Polhill, led a Royalist Militia regiment, of which Nathaniel Langley’s brother Samuel was a member. 

    After the war, Nathaniel Polhill’s property was seized, as happened to many Loyalists, but the seizure was eventually reversed, and half the property was returned to his widow, Elizabeth.

Ann Elizabeth’s wedding fan