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Notes: John and Ann Garner White landed in Charleston in 1767
aboard the ship "Earl of Donegal"
SOURCE: A COMPLIATION OF THE ORIGINAL LISTS OF PROTESTANT
IMMIGRANTS TO SOUTH CAROLINA 1763-1773, Complied by Janie Revill,
1968.
BACKGROUND: On 7-25-1761, General Assembly of SC passed the Bounty Act encouraging Protestant refugees from Europe to settle in the colony. Applicants must hold ceritficates verifying them as Protestant. Two new townships were laid out, one at Long Canes, near Boonesborough, the other named Belfast.
Records were entered in the Council Journals. Refugees petitioned the Governor's Board of SC for the land and bounty promised them by the Act. Warrants of Survey were prepared by the Secretary of the Board for the petitioners. No person could apply for land for any child 15 years or older; children 15 or older were entitled to land in their own right. An Applicant was entitled to 100 acres headright plus 50 for each dependent. Petitioners were to collect the Bounty in Sterling from the Public Treasury. However, if the refugee was unable to pay for passage, their bounty certificates were issued to the agents acting on behalf of the ship owners or masters and then released by them to the commander of the ship.
SOUTH CAROLINA COUNCIL JOURNAL 33, PP. 312-325
Council Meeting of Dec. 22, 1767
Ship: Earl of Denegal, Duncan Ferguson, Master, Port of
Charleston, 265 passengers
List of Irish passengers, certified Protestant. List delivered to the Board of Petitions praying to be allowed the said Bounty from the undermentioned persons:
Their to Bounty paid to Agents: Mr. Torrans and Pouag in consideration ot their passages in the amount of 4L and 2L sterling in accordance with their respective ages. The remaining 20 shillings sterling to the passengers. It is ordered that the Secretary do prepare the following Warrants of Survey on the Bounty for:
Land at or near Long Canes or in Craven County.
* Elizabeth wife of James Wilkiils, Sr. Received Headright of 100
acres, therefore, 15 years. Born 1752.
SETTLED about 3 miles SE of Chester, Chester Co. SC on the Chester-Great Falls Hwy, one third mile W of the Hwy. and 200 yards N of a large spring. GRANT FROM KING GEORGE III of England.
ACCORDING TO TRADITION: John White was killed near Youngsville, now Woodward, Fairfield Co. SC in a skirmish with Cherokee Indians, who often made raids on the Catawba Indians who usually allied with the settlers. He was buried in the Concord Cemetery which is near Woodward.
Sources: The White Family 1720-1969, complied and edited by
Dale White
Parish Records of Antrim, Ireland, Barnstaple Library, Barnstaple,
Devonshire, England
Records of SC and Records of Chester Co. SC
Dorothy Gray Wilkins, San Angelo, Tx.
Notes: THE CAROLINA GRANT: In 1663, Charles II grants to 8 noblemen (Lord Proprietors) 1 million square miles. The Lord Proprietory government lasts until 1719, when the colonists came to resent the Royal Charter of 1663 and the Lord Proprietors were bought out by the Crown. Royal government 1719-1776. In 1729 the colony was divided into North and South Carolina. In 1776 South Carolina adopted a separate constitution.
CHESTER DISTRICT of South Carolina = Town of Chester in
Chester Co. S.C. North central. 40 miles east of Spartanburg and
35 miles south of Charlotte, N.C.
The area is known as Upper or Backcountry of SC.
The area has been variously called:
The civil and religious organization of the area was called: St. Marks Parish. St. Marks Parish included the present day counties of:
Chester Co. was created in 1785 from
Chester District was
Until the border issue was resolved, lands formerly deemed part of North Carolina are sometimes called "north patents" in the South Carolina deed books. Until 1785 when Chester Co. was formed all deeds were recorded in Charleston, SC. Source: South Carolina Archives
Note: See list of old districts and counties and their dates of origin and duration.
THE NAME WILKINS sometimes spelled WILKINGS in various state and county records.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CHESTER CO:
Family attended PURITY CHIRCH of Chester District and early children baptized there. However no church records can be found concerning the Wilkins. Source: National Archive W0924
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE:
SC Archives Combined Alphabetical Index #0015 003 0157 0056100 page 33441 Account Audit ( File No. 8506) of Claims Growing Out of the Revolution, #0015 003 0157 0056100 page 33441. Stub Entries to Indent Book "W" No. 120.
Listed on the roster at the Battle of Fort Sullivan (Fort Moultrie) SE W 120 Sgt Arty (Charleston Br.) Wounded in the left collarbone for 120 days. Shortly after defeat of Charleston, he returned home and served in the Militia. During his absence, the family farm was raided by Tories and stock stolen: NARA W0924
South Carolina Indent Book "K" No. 288: Issued Jan 22, 1783, to James Wilkins for 8L Sterling for 62 days of duty in the South Carolina Militia in 1782: 43 days of duty under the command of Capt. Turner in Col. Wynn's Regiment and 20 days as Quartermaster.
James Wilkins is listecl within the "Revolutionary Claims of South Carolina," compiled by James McCall, Auditor General. Books U-W: "Stub Entries to Indents Issued in Payments of Claims Against South Carolina Growing Out of the Revolution."
James Wilkins is listed as a Patriot with the Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Lineage Book, Vol. 94, page 2.
LAND TRANSACTIONS IN SC
SC Deed Abstacts 1773-1778, Books F4 through X4, by Brent Holcomb, 1993.
BOOK N4, pp18-21: DEED OF RELEASE 20 Oct. 1770, James Wilkins of Parish of St. Mark in Craven County, planter, and his wife whose name before her marriage was Elizabeth White but now is Elizabeth Wilkins, to John Morrow of same parish, for 50L 100 acres granted 12 Aug 1768 to Elizabeth in parish of St. Marks on the waters of Rocky Creek in Craven Co., adjacent Robert McCarey. James Wilkins, Elizabeth White (X) Wit: Samuel Morrow, William White. Proved in Camden District by the oath of Samuel Morrow before John-Gaston, JP on 3 June 1774.
SC Archives Combined Alphabetical Index #0007 001 04N0 00018 page 33445.
SC Deeds Filed in Charleston: BOOK W3 pp 26-29: DEED OF RELEASE 3 Nov 1770, of 200 acres on Bull Run, Rocky Creek, Craven Co. Wit: James Wilkings.
SC Archives Combined Alphabetical Index #0002 005 0027 00430 00 page 33440, Grant Books of South Carolina, Vol 34
ROYAL GRANT FROM GEORGE III, Dated Nov. 20, 1770, to James Wilkin and his heirs 100 acres situate in Craven County between the waters of Sandy River and Rockey Creek beginning at a black oak station on William White's line running North 31.62 along Hugh Boner's line to a stake thence, West 31.62 to a black oak on vacant land, thence South 31.62 to a post oak on White's line, thence East to the beginning. On the 25th day of March of every year, James Wilkin is to pay the Crown via the office of....