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Captain Thomas Ladson (1690–1731), who was the father of William Ladson (1725–1755). William Ladson married Anne Gibbes (1730–1755), a daughter of
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is an American family of English descent that belonged to the
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Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
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Ladson Street and Ladson House in Charleston, the town of
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in the 1670s, where the family quickly became part of the
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Ladson House in Charleston, named after its former owner
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