James Garrett Estate

South Carolina Probate Re...d Loose Papers, 1732-1964  Laurens Probate Court, Estate papers 1800-1931:

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Box 26, #14
James Garrett Estate ca 1812?
Stephen Garrett, Admin.
Estate of Nicholas Garrett mentioned
Jesse Garrett mentioned Image 54
Edward Garrett mentioned Image 55
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William " "
Jas.  "  "

Cameron and White-Cherokee Ties

Walker County Messenger - Aug 29, 1990:

"...Alexander Cameron, who lived on his Lochaber estate in South Carolina with a mixed-blood wife...".

David Greer, Late Of Laurens, South Carolina

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Box 27, #11

David Greer

Image 265 mentioned Mrs. Nancy Greer, widow and Image 273

Petition of John Greer

Scroggins, Rices, And Tarrants

Harold Rice research sent (eventually) to me...:

"I think the Scroggins, Rices, Tarrants and Ransoms moved together from Virginia to Rutherford County, North Carolina, to Greenville and Pendleton District South Carolina to Green, Franklin and Juniper Counties, Georgia, then spread out to Franklin County, Tennesse, and to Gallatin County, Illinois.  I think the Mt. Airy people could have been ours.  Mt. Airy is in Sequatchie County, Tennessee, some of which had been Marion County, which is next to Franklin County, Tennessee.

I found an Ephraim Reese in 1790 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and there is an Ephraim Rice in Marion County, Tennessee, in 1840, in the Pendleton Distict of South Carolina.  On its list is Tarrants.

The 1790 census of South Carolina 96th District, Greenville County lists Humphrey Scroggins, David Reese, Benjamin Tarrant and John Rice.

The 1782 Henry County, Virginia, Military records lists the following in S. Tarrant Company:  Humphrey Scroggins, Thomas Scroggins, John Farris and Joseph Rice.  Oglethorpe Company, Georgia, 1794-1800: Phillip Scroggins, Thomas Rice, Humphrey Scroggins.

The Defense Of Charleston

 

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Giles Probate In Charleston

South Carolina Probate... Bound Volumes...Charleston Index to wills, 1671-1868:

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The Union Tug Plato

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"Plato" (With Torpedo Rake At The Bow) In The Stono River

Near Charleston

John Bonell's Claim

Audit Office : AO 12. Claims, American Loyalists - Series I : C-12903 (Image 496):

Halifax, 27th July 1786 - Evidence of John Bonell's Claim (formerly of Georgia)

• Claimant says he was in Georgia, about 80 miles from Savannah
• In 1784 he went to St. Augustine
• He now lives in Colequid in this Province
• Father lived upon Ogetchie Georg(ia) (and Briar Creek)
• Claimant was taken by the Rebels and taken prisoner

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"Says he joined the Militia under Col. Brown at St. Marys...".

Dispersing A Kansas Constitutional Convention

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Excerpts From Territorial Kansas Timeline:

January 24, 1856 - Pres. Pierce declared Topeka gov. to be in rebellion.
April 1856 - Major Buford arrived with men from S.C., Georgia, Alabama.
May 24-25, 1856 - Pottawatomie Massacre; five killed.
July 4, 1856 - Topeka legislature dispersed by U.S. troops.


More about Major Buford, et al, in this blog.

Castle Pinckney

 

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Letter from Alexander Cameron to [John Stuart]

Documenting the American South:

Letter from Alexander Cameron to [John Stuart]
Cameron, Alexander
May 10, 1766
Volume 07, Pages 207-213

Excerpt from the Cameron letter:

"Mr. Wilkinson notwithstanding his good economy, expended to the amount of £600 currency in making small presents to the Indians, and supplying them with provision, altho' I bore a part of the expence, I am however well convinced, that no man in the Province of South Carolina, could have done it at so little expence."

Giles In SC

South Carolina Probate Re... Bound Volumes, 1671-1977 Charleston Miscellaneous cases, 1783-1812;

Giles

Robert Giles In South Carolina

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Will of Robert Giles

Proved 14 January 1803

Wife Matilda

Looking for Matilda Fenwick Cameron? Giles White?

Alexander Cameron And The Greenville Tracts

Ca 1773 "Parker" Map - South Carolina And Cherokee Lands (LOC)

"...a series of individuals attempted to secure tracts of Greenville land while it was still beyond the [Native American] boundary.  The first of these individuals was none other than Alexander Cameron, the deputy Indian superintendent...".

Fort Prince George On A 1794 South Carolina Map (LOC)

"A Scot...[with] a commission as an ensign with the British Army, stationed at Fort Prince George (1762-1763). He settled on a land grant at Long Canes Creek in 1763...".

"He fathered a child by a Cherokee woman...chiefs offered him a tract of Greenville land in February 1768...". In 1770 the Cameron land was identified by surveyor Patrick Calhoun as 'Land reserved for an Indian Boy begotten by a White Man Alexander Cameron.'"[Source of all of the above text]

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections

Achilles Tarrant

  Franklin County, Tennessee: Wills, 1808-1876 & Deeds, 1801-1840, Thomas E. Partlow (links and image added):

Achilles Tarrant Will (Image 259)

12 Sept 1862

Heirs Rich L. and Archilles Tarrant, [Reubin Tarrant]

Ex: Bro Eastham Tarrant

Achilles Tarrant

Census 1860

9th District, Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Sex: Male

Age: 58

Race: White

Birth Year (Estimated): 1802

Birthplace: South Carolina

Census  1850

 Garrard, Kentucky, United States

Sex: Male

Age: 48

Race: White

Birth Year (Estimated): 1802

Birthplace: South Carolina

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Chanty C Tarrant Female 85 Virginia

Achilles Tarrant Male 48 South Carolina

Richd Tarrant Male 10 Kentucky

Achilles Tarrant Male 8 Kentucky

Colonel Davie After His Brillance At Charlotte

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See earlier post from A biography of General Davie (1756 - 1820) which was found in the Magazine Of America here.


Generals Sumner and Davidson continued their retreat across the Yadkin, while [Colonel William Richardson] Davie returned towards Charlotte, and he so vexed the British by cutting off the forage parties, and beating up their advanced posts, that Cornwallis began to feel great distress for want of forage and supplies.* [*Tarleton's Campaigns] 

When General Greene took command of the southern army in December, 1780, he met Colonel Davie for the first time. The commissary department became vacant by the resignation of Colonel Thomas Polk. The subsistence of the army had become very difficult, and Colonel Polk declared that it had become impossible. General Greene having formed a high estimate of Colonel Davie's abilities, earnestly and in most flattering terms solicited him to relinquish his hopes of brilliant service in the field, and accept the vacant office. At the call of patriotism he abandoned the tempting career which lay before him, and assumed the not less important but more unpleasant and arduous duties of a station which offered no distinctions. General Greene had himself set the example, having relinquished a brilliant career in the field to assume for years the duties of quartermaster-general of the army. Colonel Davie assumed the duties of his new post in January, 1781, and continued with the army for the next five months. Hardly any combination of circumstances could exist presenting greater difficulties to the commissary of an army than those under which he began. 

 

Battle Of Eutaw Springs

Battle Of Eutaw Springs

September 8, 1781 - Battle of Eutaw Springs

On The 5th Of September

On the 5th of September, 1780, [General William] Davie was appointed by Governor Nash colonel commandant of cavalry in the western district of North Carolina, with instructions to raise a regiment. When he had collected only about seventy men, with that force and two small companies of riflemen commanded by Major George Davidson, he took post at Providence, twenty-five miles from the British camp.

Remnants Of  Tree In Camden, South Carolina

Cornwallis, after resting at Camden till the first week in September, had advanced to the Waxhaws, forty miles below Charlotte, while the fragments of the American army were slowly gathering at Hillsboro, two hundred miles distant. South Carolina was wholly subjugated and North Carolina had not recovered from the shock of Gates's defeat.

See earlier post from A biography of General Davie (1756 - 1820) which was found in the Magazine Of America here.  

Captain McCall And Alexander Cameron

An article about Captain McCall And Alexander Cameron on the website, All Things Liberty (excerpted below):

"Captain McCall was publicly instructed to lead a 33 man expedition into the Lower Villages of the Cherokee for the purpose of negotiating the return of property taken in recent raids against the colonists.  His true mission remained unknown in a sealed packet of orders from Williamson."

Charleston, South Carolina

"Correlative with the investment and capture of Charlestown [Charleston] was the plan to combine the Indians and royalists of the up country against the patriots and supporters of the new State government. In the invasion of South Carolina by the British, the fierce Cherokees thought they saw a favorable opportunity to overwhelm the frontiers and sweep away the settlers in a hurricane of slaughter. The British plan and the Indian ambition were, therefore, in full accord." [Source]

South Carolina

"To counteract these influences, the Council of Safety had sent Capt. William Freeman to meet some of the head men of the Cherokees on the frontier...the Indians had been seduced from their friendly relations...[and]...it was decided to capture and remove ...[Indian Agent Alexander Cameron] from the scene of his mischief making." [Ibid]

"That hazard was entrusted to Capt. James McCall of the Ninety-sixth district, with Capt. James Baskin and Ensign Patrick Calhoun as his associates. The party marched from the Cherokee Ford on the Savannah River, and after a six days trip encamped near a large town in the nation where a conference was entered into with the chiefs. While thus engaged, the little force was surprised by a party of Cherokee warriors, and in the course of the affray, Calhoun and three others were killed and Captain McCall was taken prisoner." [Ibid]

Jonathan Clark's Affidavit

Jonathan Clark's Affidavit
South Carolina, Ninety-Six District:

"...on or about the thirteenth instant, being in the Cherokee country aforesaid, he saw and conversed with John Garwick, an intimate friend and countryman of Alexander Cameron, Deputy Superintendent...".

Ninety-Six on Map
(LOC - South-Carolina and parts adjacent, shewing the movements of the American and British armies.)

"That on this subject the said John answered that he, Jonathan, need not be under any apprehensions of danger until such time as there should be some disturbances below in the country between the King's army and the Colonists, and that then it would be high time for him, the said Jonathan, to take care of himself and remove from the frontiers." [Source] 

Cross-posted at Cameron Collections