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From: K Haddad <>
Subject: [GOBLE-L] Daniel Goble b. 1669 ~ Life in PA, SC & NJ
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:00:12 -0700 (PDT)
1676: Sept. 26, Daniel Goble II was only 7 years old when his father, Daniel I, was hung for killing Indians, probably to "seal" a peace treaty with the Indians (see notes for Daniel I). We wonder if, during his last visit to his father in the Boston prison, he knew it was his last visit. Surely the neighborhood children made fun of him and called him names after the event; perhaps some of the other families refused to associate with Daniel's family after that. 1677: Nov. 20, his widowed mother remarried to Ephraim Roper. Ephraim's wife, Priscilla, and 3-yr-old dtr, Priscilla, and possibly his brother, John Roper, had been killed in the Indian massacre of August 22, 1675 at Lancaster, Wincester Co., MA. [Reference: www.rootsweb.com/~maworc/lancstr] 1681: After that, Lancaster was abandoned until its resettlement four years later by Daniel's and the other original families. Daniel was 12 years old. 1689: June 23, Daniel married Sarah Houghton of another gutsy Lancas!
ter family. 1692: July 18, there was a second Indian massachre. Daniel was now 23. 1696: Son Thomas born. 1697: Sept. 11, Daniel's mother, Hannah Brewer Goble Roper, his 14-yr-old half-sister, Elizabeth Roper, and his step-father, Ephraim Roper, were killed in the third Indian massacre of Lancaster. [Reference: Ibid.] 1697: March 10, S.C., the Act of Assembly (available in Transactions No. 5 and No. 68 of The Huguenot Society of South Carolina) allowed 63 aliens to obtain land "free of the Part of the Province and for Granting Liberty of Conscience to all Protestants." [Citation: "Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley" by J. Russel Cross, 'Orange Quarter (of Berkeley Colony)' pg. 111-115] The previous year a peace treaty was agreed on with the S.C. Indians. By now the only settlement in today's SC, Charles Town (Charleston), was 17 years old ~ created by English Lords Proprietor who had been given today's SC, NC & GA to expand England and the Church. Gentlemen f!
armers & merchants of Barbados and other British West Indies Islands had come there and settled. In one month alone, 500 dissenters (protestants, but not of the Church of England) had come. In 1680 the first shipload of French Huguenot fugitives arrived aboard the "Richmond" from England, and they kept coming until 1688.Lucrative exports to England included furs, lumber, tar, pitch, terpentine, beef & pork. Nearly every family hired an Indian to do the hunting for them. "Land in the vicinity of Goose Creek (area of Berkeley Colony and Charleston, S.C.) was granted to Huguenots as early as 1680....Among the French families prominent in Goose Creek during this time were the families of...John Goble." [Citation: "Historic Goose Creek, South Carolina 1770-1980" 'The Early Goose Creek Settlers', pg. 10-21, by Michael J. Heitzler] In 1682, the first Church of England ediface was built ~ St. Philip's1683, the Baptists arrived, having been run out of extreme S. Maine, Kittery,!
almost immediately by persecution such as loss of jobs, imprisonment, loss of possessions, etc. They were sponsored/supported by the First Baptist Church of Boston where Daniel Goble had grown up. In 1685 the Presbyterians/Independent built a building
In 1687 the Huguenots built their first building In 1695 the last immigrants to travel in a large group arrived from Dorchester, MA, just outside of Boston. They established themselves 20 miles from Charleston just NW of what would later be called Goose Creek and straight W. of the Orange Quarter settled by the French. These Massachusetts settlers built a Congregational Church, the same as what the Gobles attended in Boston. Is this what attracted John and Daniel Goble to move to S.C.? Did he arrive with them?
1698: Son Daniel III born 1699: March, Peter Girard reported 31 Huguenots in his congregation, including John Goble. [Citation: "Historic Goose Creek, South Carolina 1770-1980," 'The Early Goose Creek Settlers', pg. 10-21, by Michael J. Heitzler] This John may have been Thomas Goble's (of Concord, MA) brother. Or perhaps the son Thomas Jr.. But I believe he was the son of Thomas Goble's son Daniel, and a bro. of Daniel Jr. 1699: March 20, Daniel took out a warrant for 500 acres in Goose Creek, Berkeley. [Reference: Ibid.] 1699: Dec. 23, Daniel took out a warrant for 300 acres, giving him a total of 800 acres. [Reference: Ibid.]1700: Son Robert born 1702: A local militia attacked St. Augustine, FL, in retaliation for Spanish efforts to reclaim the Carolinas. Daniel and John Goble were probably part of this militia as there were so few colonists here at the time. 1705: Son Ephraim born 1705: March 9, Daniel's brother?, John Goble, filed a warrant for 500 acres !
in S.C. [Reference: Ibid.] 1706: The Goose Creek area also began to be known as St. James Parish Berkeley, for tax purposes. The French Orange Quarter area around the Cooper River also began to be known as St. Johns Parish Berkeley, extending also to St. Stevens Parish and St. James Parish Santee along the Santee River. 1706: Yellow fever hit Charleston. 1706: A privateer (pirate) with French & Spanish soldiers on board came to Charleston Harbor claiming Carolina for their countries. The Yellow Fever was confined to town, so the farmers from Goose Creek formed a militia along with local Indians and undoubtedly our John and Daniel Goble, and the invasion was repelled. 1706: Dtr Melitiah born
1707: Son Jonas born 1707: May 14, Daniel took out a warrant for 260 acres in Berkeley County in the Orange/French Quarter on the Cooper River next to the Goose Creek area. He now had 1060 acres. That same day others who took out warrants (all in Berkeley Co.) were Isaac Mazych, Ralph Izard, Lewis Mouzon, Elias Foissin. [Deed Source: SC Archives, Columbia, SC, Series S213019, Vol. 39, pg. 23, item 03, via www.archivesindex.sc.gov/search] Others taking out warrants and grants during that time were Frenchmen Jean Aunant, James Belin, James deBordeaux, John Carteau, etc. His neighbors were John/Jean Aunant, James Belin, Nicholas Bochet, James de Bordeaux, Solomon Bremere, John/Jean Carteau, Peter/Pierre du Tarte, Isaac Lesesne, Nicholas de Longuermare, Estienne Mounier, Philip Normand and Peter/Pierre Poitevin. That same year, his brother?, John, filed a survey for 400 acres on MacMillan Island in Colleton Co., just 30 mi. south of Charleston, S.C. which was near Berkele!
y Colony. [Reference: Ibid. Also "Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley" by J. Russell Cross, 'Orange Quarter" pg. 111-115] For more on the Gobles and this French settlement, see my notes for Daniel's brother, John Goble. Even more details are in the archives of the Goble mailing list through rootsweb dated April 18, 2001. 1710: The Lords Proprietor in England ordered a new town built at the next large harbor south of Charleston and called it Beaufort. The Yemassee Indians lived near there and went on the war path. They killed 190 colonists to within ten miles of Charleston. The militia in that area re-formed and counter attacked in that area. In the entire colony were 1500 men able to fight and 8,000-10,000 Indians. So the colonists armed 250 negroes, 150 men from VA and NC came to help, and New England sent arms. 1712: Dtr Jemima born 1714: Joanna Hayes sued Daniel Goble. I have not seen the record, so do not know why. However, it may be a clue to other f!
amily names in SC. [Source: SC Archives, Columbia, SC, Series S136002, Box 48, item 254, via www.archivesindex.sc.gov/search] 1714: Dtr Alice born 1711-15: More Indians attacked from the north through the French Orange Quarter, Dorchester, and Goose Creek. Men were scalped, children tortured and women enslaved. Finally the Indians were repulsed by the Goose Creek militia, including probably our John and Daniel Goble. But every planation within twenty miles of Charleston (including Goose Creek) was laid ruin, and prices in town shot up, putting everyone deep in debt. Many never recovered and sold out. 1716: Son Henry Harris born 1717 or 1718: Daniel sold 650 acres on the Cooper River in Berkeley Co., SC, to Mathurin & Sussanna Boigars, who in turn sold it on March 19, 1718, to James Bilbeaux and John Peneaux. They apparently sold it January 17, 1733. A title trace was made in 1733 which also listed Daniel Goble, Anthony Potevin, Daniel Triezevant, Nicholas Bo!
chet, Solomon Bremar, and Jonathan Russ. [Source: SC Deed Archives, Columbia, Memorial/Conveyance Series S111001, Vol. 4, pg. 134-139, dated Jan. 17, 1733; via www.archivesindex.sc.gov/search]
1718: Pirates Blackbeard, Thetch and Bonnet arrived in Charleston Harbor making demands. After both sea and shore battles and many mortally wounded, 40 pirates were finally captured and hung. Daniel May have left S.C. by now. Although some 25 years earlier Daniel Goble had fled from PA and the many Indian uprisings that had killed family members, he had just traded one problem for many others in S.C. He had become wealthy in SC, but times were bad. Perhaps even family members had been killed by the Spanish or the S.C. Indians. So, after a long absence from the north, Daniel moved his family to Morris Co., NJ, and settled just outside of Morristown, then called Hanover where it was more peaceful. Daniel changed from Puritan/Congregational (a dissenter version of the Church of England) to Baptist some time before his return north. Was he Huguenot at first, they being a counterpart of the Puritans of the Church of England that his father belonged to? He lived among t!
he French. When the Huguenots eventually merged with the Church of England, did Daniel change to Baptist? Was he sent to New Jersey by the Baptists in Charleston to start the church up there? Did he choose New Jersey because the Huguenots had come to America and settled in New Jersey in 1663, and Daniel understood the Huguenots? "One David [Daniel ~ a misreading?] Goble and family emigrated from Charlestown [-ton], S.C., and settled near Morristown. Being Baptists, they invited Baptist ministers to preach in their home." [Reference: Morgan Edwards, earliest historian of Baptist affairs in New Jersey, as quoted in "Historical Sketch of the First Baptist Church" by Walter R. Greenwood, Th.D.] The early Baptists of W. Hanover/Morristown, which began with Daniel, lived primarily on what is today Mountain Rd. or Mt. Kemble Ave. leading toward Basking Ridge and New Vernon. More about this church's early beginnings in notes for son, Daniel III. I am aware of no land trans!
actions of Daniel after his return. He had once owned over 1000 acres in S.C. Did he still have proceeds from it when he returned? If so, did he lend or give away his money to his children? 1730: April 6 & 29: Daniel died w/o a will. John Blanchard was assigned to administer the personal inventory of Daniel's estate including bonds due from Daniel and his two sons Daniel & Robert. I would like to see this inventory. It can be obtained by writing the Morristown courthouse and giving them the date. [Citation: "Abstract of Wills in the New Jersey Archives 1730-1750, Vol. 2, pg. 48]. What a difficult, challenging life he had lived. Indian wars and the hanging of his father in childhood, Indian wars and the killing of his mother in young adulthood, Indian wars and possibly more family deaths in middle age. We believe he finally found the peace he must have longed for in N.J. where he lived the last 12 or 13 years of his life. Katheryn Goble-Maddox Haddad
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