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In you the rivers sing and my soul flees in them as you desire, and you send it where you will.
Aim my road on your bow of hope and in a frenzy I will free my flock of arrows. --
Pablo Neruda
Daniel
and Hannah Candler are the progenitors of most* American Candlers.The earliest documented evidence of their presence in the Colonies dates from the 1750’s at South River Settlement - present-day Lynchburg, VA. There is good circumstantial evidence that they were there from the late 1740’s.
*
Daniel Candler was not the earliest Candler to come to Colonial America nor the first in Virginia