This book began as Jean Stephenson's effort to validate the family
tradition that her great-great-grandparents emigrated from Belfast
to South Carolina under the leadership of Covenanter Presbyterian
minister William Martin in 1772. The author was not only able to
authenticate the crux of the story, but, in the process, to place
nearly 500 Scotch-Irish families in South Carolina on the eve of
the Revolutionary War. The impetus for the colonization was the
combination of exorbitant land rents in Northern Ireland, sometimes
provoking violent resistance, and the offer of free land and
inexpensive tools and provisions tendered by the colonial
government of South Carolina. For instance, each Scottish
Covenanter was entitled to 100 acres for himself and 50 acres for
his spouse, and an additional 50 acres for each child brought to
South Carolina. Faced with this crisis and opportunity, Reverend
Martin persuaded his parishioners that they had nothing to lose by
leaving Ulster, and before long he was in charge of a small fleet
of vessels bound for South Carolina. This story is recounted by Ms.
Stephenson from the records of the South Carolina Council Journal
and tax lists, passenger lists, church histories, and other sources
housed at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
Genealogists will want to pore over the land evidences assembled by
the author from entries found in the Council Journal, namely,
authorizations, survey abstracts, wills, deeds and other records
which demonstrate where each family settled, or was entitled to
settle. The families, which are grouped under the vessel they
traveled in, are identified by the name of the household head,
names of spouse and children, number of acres surveyed, county,
location of the nearest body of water and the names of abutting
neighbor, and the source of the information. For the reader's
convenience, there is not only an index of the persons found in the
list of survey entries and a separate subject index, but also a
table of spelling variants. A work of exacting scholarship,
Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772 is a crucial source
on settlement of the Palmetto State on the eve of the American
Revolution.
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