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From: "Jane Hurd" <>
Subject: [SCCOLLET] EBay listing for book about Rev. Martin's group
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 04:09:31 EDT


Hi,

I have never seen this book so I don't know how useful the info in it will
be but I thought someone might be interested in it.

I don't have the book and I don't know the seller. Let me know if you
object to me letting you folks know that this book is available.

Jane

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=304324799

Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772 [Rev. William Martin and His
Five Shiploads of Settlers] by Jean Stephenson c. 1971, softcover reprint in
mint condition, 137 pages
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our publisher
"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 pour over the land evidence 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, nd 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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Book rate $1.13, Priority $3.20 and thanks for looking!

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