Latest information on searching for the beginnings of " Matlock Church "
Notes by Susan Aldridge
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Dr William A. Webb of Aiken and Jackson, South Carolina asked me if I could help him find "Matlock SC" because the Matlock Baptist Church in Jackson, S.C. was originally built in "Matlock SC." This place was also written on a tombstone in Madison, Florida as a birthplace of Charles Beggs, brother of John Miller Beggs who also moved to Madison FL, son of James Beggs (1780-1832) and Anna Walker Goodwyn Beggs (1785- 1859). Anna Walker Goodwyn was the daughter of Major Charles Goodwyn who married Elizabeth- daughter of General Andrew Williamson of the Revolution. Ephraim Ramsey married her sister Mary Ann.
Source: South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Series: S165015
Year: 1791
Item: 00185
ignore: 000
Date: 1/18/1791
Description: GOODWIN, CHARLES AND EPHRAIM RAMSAY, ON BEHALF OF THEIR WIVES AND THE CHILDREN OF GEN. ANDREW WILLIAMSON, PETITION ASKING THAT THE AMERCEMENT UPON THE ESTATE OF THE LATE GEN. BE REMOVED, SO THEY MAY PAY HIS DEBTS. (4 PAGES)
Names indexed: GOODWIN, CHARLES; GOODWIN, ELIZABETH; RAMSAY, EPHRAIM; RAMSAY, MARYANN; WILLIAMSON, ANDREW; WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM
Locations: NINETY SIX DISTRICT
Document type: PETITION
Topics: AMERCEMENTS
Series: S165015
Year: 1791
Item: 00185
ignore: 000
Date: 1/18/1791
Description: GOODWIN, CHARLES AND EPHRAIM RAMSAY, ON BEHALF OF THEIR WIVES AND THE CHILDREN OF GEN. ANDREW WILLIAMSON, PETITION ASKING THAT THE AMERCEMENT UPON THE ESTATE OF THE LATE GEN. BE REMOVED, SO THEY MAY PAY HIS DEBTS. (4 PAGES)
Names indexed: GOODWIN, CHARLES; GOODWIN, ELIZABETH; RAMSAY, EPHRAIM; RAMSAY, MARYANN; WILLIAMSON, ANDREW; WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM
Locations: NINETY SIX DISTRICT
Document type: PETITION
Topics: AMERCEMENTS
Ephraim Ramsay and Charles Goodwyn bought Silver Bluff Plantation (Redcliffe) about 1800 from Thomas Galphin. Anna probably married James Beggs right after that and went from living either in a house in Edgefield or from Redcliffe Plantation to Burnside Plantation at Matlocke in Barnwell when she married James Beggs. Abut 1818 there was a settlement of some land involving Charles Goodwyn Sr- her father:
James Beggs, Chamberlain Leroy Goodwin, and Charles Goodwin Junior trustees named in a trust deed 1 June 1818 between persons above named and Charles Goodwyn Sr...
Charles Jr and Chamberlain were probably her brothers. By the 1830 census Jas. Beggs was on page 122 - Andrew K. McElmurray 2 pages later on 126 along with John Foreman. James Beggs and wife said they were 30-39 (later Anna says she is older than that) had 4 girls and 5 boys:
a boy 5-9 (John Miller Beggs)(b 1822)
2 boys 10-14 (Thomas 1817, Charles 1819)
2 boys 20-29 John Neal Beggs (1805)
2 girls under 5 (Mary 1829)
2 girls 15-19 (1811-1815)
The Beggs place being Burnside Plantation and McElmmurray's place being the Old Matlock Place. James Beggs was born in Scotland so the name Burnside is appropriate- Burns being the Scottish national poet. According to descendants, his son John Miller Beggs was born Dec. 1822 and brother Charles Beggs was born 21 Sept. 1819 at the family plantation called Burnside,near Peters Pond in "Medlocke" Barnwell District SC.
A current Peters Pond is listed as being below Rt 78 on the map below inside the yellow square in southern Blackville. This is far to north to be the original Peters Pond in Medlocke/Matlocke SC.
John migrated to Madison FL and his SC birthplace was recorded on his tombstone. His father James Beggs owned the present George McElmmuray property. James Beggs also bought land on Hollow/Hallow Creek or maybe the whole plantation was on Hallow Creek.
John Neal Beggs was born 1805, Thomas Beggs 1817, Fredrick Beggs 1818, Charles Beggs 1819, John Miller Beggs 1822 (went to Madison FL), Mary 1828.
1850 Barnwell Co SC
Anna W. Beggs 65 SC (dau of Major Charles Goodwyn)
Mary Beggs 21 SC
Thomas Beggs 33 SC
John Neal Beggs 45 SC
Mary Beggs 17 SC
1880: Madison, Madison, Florida
Father's birthplace: Scotland
Mother's birthplace: South Carolina
James (John) M. Beggs 57 SC County Clerk
Ann E. Beggs 45 SC
James D. Beggs 24
Elmore D. Beggs 18
Charles T. Beggs 14
J. Porter Perry 34
Margeret Donalson 35
Mary Donalson 11
According to deeds and wills, Andrew McElmurray lived on the old Matlock place which was near the Back Swamp. See 1830 census. The Back Swamp was associated with the Cracker Jack Neck or Cracker Neck as well. Just as the area of what is Aiken, SC today was originally called Clinton with a spring called Coker, the area of what is now called Jackson, SC was originally called Matlocke or Medlocke, although those born there sometimes spelled it Matlock. According to a Foreman tombstone at Beech Island SC, he was baptized at Matlock Church in 1832.
But where was this original church? According to indexed material at the SC archives, the Hamburg Journal printed a history of the Matlocke Regular Baptists Church of Christ in Matlocke SC. Residents of Barnwell County are petitioning in 1840. They are Jacob Foreman, Andrew McElmurray, John M. Beggs. Until 1769 this area was Granville County SC later part of Winton County 1785 and then Orangeburg and then Barnwell 1798. All deeds before 1786 are in Charleston. Thomas Newman lived at Back Swamp in Granville Co SC 1710-1766, later Winton 1785, Orangeburg, and Barnwell- and now Aiken Co. In 1768 there is a deed recording of Stephen Matlock in Craven Co SC which is the northern line of the state- perhaps he had sons who came down to the Savannah River.
In 1769 Granville split up and Newman's section became Orangeburg District. 1798 Orangeburg was cut in half 1798 and the Thomas Newman land was put inside Barnwell District. The Jack Wimberly place is nearby. Andrew McElmurray lives in the "old Matlock Place."
Winton County Functioned from 1785-1800. The remaining records (1785-1791) are in BARNWELL County. Renamed Barnwell District in 1800.
The church was said to have burned and to have been closer to Hallow Creek, 200 yards away. Was this after the Civil War or before? The new church was purportedly built at its present location and the old one on Hollow Creek. But at what point?
According to a church member, a gravestone in the back of the present location says the burial was 1860, but after going out to the church and looking in the graveyard, there must be gravestones missing, as I found the earliest burial to be 1920. Why would a church, built at the time of slaves in the 1800s, have the earliest burial at 1920? Now I have been told the graves of the oldest sort are way in the back near the woods which would give a clue to where the church building was at the time of burial. Have the present building(s) to the far left and the accompanying play ground been built over part of the graveyard? After examination I can see that the Foreman Fellowship Hall which I am told has hand hewn rafters built perhaps in 1878? has been covered up with a 20 foot extension to the front and a building addition on the left of it. The new church 1898? was built in front and to the right of the old Foreman Fellowship Hall. See white section peaking out above brick facing in foto.
According to the handwritten paper in the possession of Dr. Webb, the Foreman Fellowship Hall was the spot of the old church which was dismantled and taken away inside of 3 days. They probably did not want to disturb the grave yard and came up with the novel solution of building a Fellowship Hall on the foundation of the old church and building a new church to the front and right. The graveyard would have been to the left.
However at some point in later years did they cover the graveyard? Did they save the old stones and markers from the grave yard? Have they been recorded on paper? The land seems to sit on 5 acres, so I wonder that with so much land available they chose to cover the old graveyard. With the oldest grave being 1920, it can only be speculated there must have been discussions lasting till many midnights about building on top of graves. It is not unknown to do so, as the present day Quaker Race Street Meeting House in Philadelphia. Pa is built on top of graves from the 1700s, as well as their parking lot. When I went to find my ancestors grave, I was disappointed and stared at the black macadem of the parking lot and wondered where he was.
Dr Webb and his father Avery Alexander Webb belonged their whole lives to the "Matlock Church" so he was really interested to find out its early history. Church tradition says it is an off-shoot of the famous Silver Bluff Church when it split up in 1773 and that the Matlock Church gots its name when it was built by a man named Matlock after the church at Silver Bluff split up and the white congregation turned over the Silver Bluff church to the black church members. I saw no evidence of a church at Silver Bluff though. Where is it? The "new" church was in "Matlock SC" before and/or after it moved to its present location.
I drove out to the church this sunny afternoon. I got the feeling that this area has stood still and made a slow motion advance into this age, reluctantly going forward and lovingly staying original, except for the church which is relatively new and has had a tradition of building new on top of old foundations. Taling the road to the right f the Matlock Church, I drove down the Bluff Landing road to Silver Bluff and the Savannah River, astounded to find that the road is dirt- as it ever was- in perfect condition. I could drive 35 miles an hour with no problem. How do they do that? There were many gates I would have loved to enter, but dared not. I found what may have been a slave cabin on Bluff Rd. or it was a free negro cabin and stopped to take a picture. Yes, I would have loved to stay forever in this lost time and frozen beauty. Just set me in a buggy and off we would go.
As yet there is little evidence linking Matlock Church to Hollow Creek, however a family name linked with "Matlock SC" is Beggs. The "Old Beggs place" is now where George McElmurray lives, according to a source from Dr. Webb. Was the Beggs place on Silver Bluff Rd or Bluff Landing Rd? or did it go from one road to the other?
According to a church member, a gravestone in the back of the present location says the burial was 1860, but after going out to the church and looking in the graveyard, there must be gravestones missing, as I found the earliest burial to be 1920. Why would a church, built at the time of slaves in the 1800s, have the earliest burial at 1920? Now I have been told the graves of the oldest sort are way in the back near the woods which would give a clue to where the church building was at the time of burial. Have the present building(s) to the far left and the accompanying play ground been built over part of the graveyard? After examination I can see that the Foreman Fellowship Hall which I am told has hand hewn rafters built perhaps in 1878? has been covered up with a 20 foot extension to the front and a building addition on the left of it. The new church 1898? was built in front and to the right of the old Foreman Fellowship Hall. See white section peaking out above brick facing in foto.
According to the handwritten paper in the possession of Dr. Webb, the Foreman Fellowship Hall was the spot of the old church which was dismantled and taken away inside of 3 days. They probably did not want to disturb the grave yard and came up with the novel solution of building a Fellowship Hall on the foundation of the old church and building a new church to the front and right. The graveyard would have been to the left.
However at some point in later years did they cover the graveyard? Did they save the old stones and markers from the grave yard? Have they been recorded on paper? The land seems to sit on 5 acres, so I wonder that with so much land available they chose to cover the old graveyard. With the oldest grave being 1920, it can only be speculated there must have been discussions lasting till many midnights about building on top of graves. It is not unknown to do so, as the present day Quaker Race Street Meeting House in Philadelphia. Pa is built on top of graves from the 1700s, as well as their parking lot. When I went to find my ancestors grave, I was disappointed and stared at the black macadem of the parking lot and wondered where he was.
Dr Webb and his father Avery Alexander Webb belonged their whole lives to the "Matlock Church" so he was really interested to find out its early history. Church tradition says it is an off-shoot of the famous Silver Bluff Church when it split up in 1773 and that the Matlock Church gots its name when it was built by a man named Matlock after the church at Silver Bluff split up and the white congregation turned over the Silver Bluff church to the black church members. I saw no evidence of a church at Silver Bluff though. Where is it? The "new" church was in "Matlock SC" before and/or after it moved to its present location.
I drove out to the church this sunny afternoon. I got the feeling that this area has stood still and made a slow motion advance into this age, reluctantly going forward and lovingly staying original, except for the church which is relatively new and has had a tradition of building new on top of old foundations. Taling the road to the right f the Matlock Church, I drove down the Bluff Landing road to Silver Bluff and the Savannah River, astounded to find that the road is dirt- as it ever was- in perfect condition. I could drive 35 miles an hour with no problem. How do they do that? There were many gates I would have loved to enter, but dared not. I found what may have been a slave cabin on Bluff Rd. or it was a free negro cabin and stopped to take a picture. Yes, I would have loved to stay forever in this lost time and frozen beauty. Just set me in a buggy and off we would go.
As yet there is little evidence linking Matlock Church to Hollow Creek, however a family name linked with "Matlock SC" is Beggs. The "Old Beggs place" is now where George McElmurray lives, according to a source from Dr. Webb. Was the Beggs place on Silver Bluff Rd or Bluff Landing Rd? or did it go from one road to the other?
As I said, James Beggs who married Anna Walker Goodwin b 1785, is the daughter of Charles Goodwin who bought Silver Bluff from Thomas or his father George Galphin. James and Anna Walker Beggs' son, Thomas Beggs, had 53 acres on Hollow Creek among other tracts. It is recorded somewhere that Anna's son John Miller Beggs was born in "Matlock SC in Dec 1822." His brother Charles was born at "Burnside" Plantation on "Peters Pond " according to descendants in Madison Florida. Both Charles and John M. Beggs migrated to Florida and died in Madison, FLA along with brother Fredrick Beggs. The original name of the James Beggs place was probably "Burnside Plantation on Peters Pond at Matlocke, Barnwell Dist. SC."
As it turns out, the names McElmurray and Foreman are also tied to Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ by their petition in 1840 which I discovered indexed at the SC Archives, as well as the will of Andrew McElmurry (copy below) who says he lives on the "Matlock place." Adding to that, John Burgess, according to his 1829 Will, living in Edgefield above Minors Bridge near Old Jackson Hiway, bought land from Andrew McElmurry on the East side of Hollow Creek. John Burgess also bought or sold 915 acres on Hollow Creek to or from Jacob Foreman of Barnwell on 20 June 1828. John Burgess is in the Edgefield Co 1825 map as being on the west side of Hallow Creek near the Edgefield/Barnwell Dist. line but above Minors bridge. Most likely his land would have crossed over the Barnwell Dist line and on down to Hollow Creek and he could shout across to Andrew McElmurry and Jacob Foreman on the east side.
So using the Edgefield 1825 map, John Burgess was living above the Minors bridge going over Hallow Creek. Peters Pond was probably below the Minors bridge. The present church is a few hundred yards from Minors bridge. These planters owned thousands of acres and the properties went all the way to Back Swamp, noted as Big Back Swamp on the 1825 map of Barnwell. For the moment this information places Matlocke SC roughly between Hallow Creek and Big Back Swamp (aka Carolina Swamp?) and from above Minors bridge going down almost to Silver Bluff. Matlocke SC probably also went partially around Big Back Swamp to Crackers Neck and near a plantation called Silverton.
Matlocke would not have built a Meeting House in the woods where people had to tramp on paths to get there Sunday morning. He would have built it for easy access, which means that if it were on Hollow Creek, it would have been either near Minors bridge or at the Silver Bluff Rd crossing. Common sense reasons that the Meeting House or church would have been on Andrew McElmurry's land, known as the Matlocke Place by his contemporaries. But he may have had at least a thousand acres and several tracts and it could be any one of those places where he built a church. Search of deeds going back to him and before him may reveal the location of a Meeting House or church.
I see examples of deeds in the Archives where men owned 5000 or 10000 acres. Jacob Foreman had one transaction of 900 acres. Matlocke may have owned from Hollow Creek back to the Back Swamp. Or a piece here and a piece there up and down the Savannah River. I noticed that names from people living in Cambridge SC (now gone) also had land way down at Silver Bluff and made trips back and forth to Charleston. Perhaps they traveled more than we do when one counts hours of travel.
But that the map makers of 1817-1825 did not record the Matlocke Church presense is puzzling. Did they not see it? Or was it somewhere else? There is a "MH+" (i.e. Meeting House or church) designation on what is now Old Jackson Hi-way where Atomic Rd meets it today. (I believe that spot matches the old map.) Which church was that one? I drove out there today and found the place where the church must have been. It is at the confluence of Atomic rd and Old Jackson Hiway. There is nothing there but some scraggly trees and a couple wild dogs. Was this the the Canaan Fair church? attended by the free negroes descended from Galphin.
I have found in the SC Archives where extensive records are stored from 1840 calling Matlocke Church the Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ and records linking the Matlocke plantation to Andrew "McElmurry" 's plantation in an area bordering "Back Swamp." Andrew McElmurry also owned land at Cracker Neck sometimes associated with "Winton Co. Barnwell District" or Silverton. He also owned land on Hollow Creek. Other associations with the McElmurray family have been Four Mile Branch.
If Patrick McElmurray (a Tory), Andrew McElmurry's father, bought land before 1798 and after 1769, it would have been called Orangeburg District or Winton Co. After 1798 it became Barnwell Co. In 1800 Barnwell District. Before 1769 it was called Granville Co.- all records before 1786 are in Charleston. So there are several county court houses to search in pursuit of the history of Matlocke Regular Baptist Church. Inquiry must be made to ask about where the records were finally stored for Winton Co.. The missing link is finding a deed which grants land, perhaps part of an old plantation, for the Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ. Patrick's son Andrew bought the old "Matlock Place" which may have been next to Patrick's plantation.
It is not clear at this point whether the Matlock Church was really built by Matlocke, or whether the church was named so because the area was called Matlocke after the original settler, or because that settler Matlocke gave land for the church.
From Dodrill family history:
Searching in the SC Archives revealed the fact that the real name of Matlock Church is Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ and was petitioned 22 November 1840 by the citizens of Barnwell District to be incorporated as a church. Many times in those old days, churches had existed for decades without being incorporated. And many times the property had never been formally turned over to the church till the 1800s even thought the church had existed, say in 1769, as in the "Hardy Meeting House" on Stephens Creek in Edgefield.
Examination of on-line SC Archive files revealed that there are at least 2 sets of papers at the SC Archives and consist of 16 pages, including an article in the Hamburg Journal as evidence in the petition files, about the Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ. Hamburg SC no longer exists. Neither does "Matlocke" except in the memories of those buried there. Matlocke SC has probably been replaced with the name "Jackson SC."
The Matlocke Regular Baptist Church existed before 1840 according to available information. There is a recording on a tombstone at Beech Island which says a man was baptized in 1832 at "Matlock Church" and there is a recording somewhere which says John Miller Beggs (son of James Beggs and Anna Walker Goodwin b 1785) was born at "Matlock SC" in December 1822. It is not clear whether the church or the place name Matlocke came first. John Miller Begg's brother Charles Beggs was born 21 SEP 1819 at a family plantation called "Burnside," near Peters Pond in Medlocke, Barnwell Co. SC and died 2 SEP 1894 in Madison Co., Florida. The boy's mother Anna W. Beggs born 1785 was probably the daughter of Judge Charles Goodwyn and Elizabeth Williamson who bought half of Silver Bluff from Thomas Galphin. Anna's aunt and Elizabeth's sister, Mary Anne Williamson, was first married to a Walker before she married Ephraim Ramsey in 1790 in Charleston. (Anna W. Beggs is a widow in Barnwell in the 1850 census. Her property is on "Peters Pond" according to a plat at the SC Archives.)
SC Archives for Ramsey and Goodwin
Series: S165015 Year: 1796 Item: 00084
According Dr. Webb, the present George McElmurray property is the "Old Beggs" property. There is a source (see 1843 Will below) for the fact that the old "Matlock place" was occupied by Andrew McElmurry and that it bordered Back Swamp. Taking these old Orangeburg/Barnwell names and looking in the archives for Wills and census data, I could establish the area of original Matlocke SC.
Matlocke himself may have been a trader connected to Galphin. At any rate it seems he had moved on by 1790. In order to be sure of this, I would have to examine by hand each name in both the 1790 Orangeburg census and the 1800 Barnwell and 1810 Barnwell. Many names are misindexed and his name may actually turn up. There is a recording in 1788 in GA that a Stephen Matlock, age 14, his father was dead. That he was from Orangeburg District which in 1788 would have included future Barnwell Dist. In 1798 Orangeburg was divided into 2 districts to include the newly formed Barnwell. Orangeburg Court House will have information, if it was not burned.
The original church may have only been a log cabin, as was the custom in the 1700s in the back country, but there must have been a replacement at some point which included the slave gallery.
Back Swamp in Barnwell is mentioned in relation to the free Mulatto Galphins (George and Bryant/Brian) who were born at Back Swamp, as well as where the free Mulatto Hankersons / Hankersins lived. Was Back Swamp the name the free negros called their area and Matlocke what the whites called their area- after their church? In the 1825 map of Barnwell District at the Aiken Library, there is "MH" (Meeting House) which is unnamed on the fork of the road running to the right of Back Swamp- confluence of Old Jackson Highway and Atomic Road. What MH is this? Canaan Fair Chruch or Matlocke Regular? Matlock Church
SC Archives Series: S213190 Volume: 0032 Page: 00598Item: 002Date: 1796 C. Description: NEWMAN, JOHN, PLAT FOR 400 ACRES ON BACK SWAMP, GRANVILLE COUNTY, SURVEYED BY ISAAC PERRY ON DECEMBER 17, 1766.
Back Swamp is a place name where his son Thomas Newman
The following census pages are people who are living in Matlocke SC.
Series: S213192 Volume: 0044 Page: 00495 Item: 003
Date: 1/15/1818Description: BEGGS, JAMES, PLAT FOR 53 ACRES ON HOLLOW CREEK, BARNWELL DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY PHILIP LAMAR.Names indexed: BEGGS, JAMES; BUTLER; HANKERSON; LAMAR, PHILIP; TAYLOR, WALTER (Hankerson and Butler would have been neighbors of Beggs, and perhaps the others named)Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; HOLLOW CREEK; SAVANNAH RIVER; SILVER BLUFFDocument type: PLAT
As it turns out, the names McElmurray and Foreman are also tied to Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ by their petition in 1840 which I discovered indexed at the SC Archives, as well as the will of Andrew McElmurry (copy below) who says he lives on the "Matlock place." Adding to that, John Burgess, according to his 1829 Will, living in Edgefield above Minors Bridge near Old Jackson Hiway, bought land from Andrew McElmurry on the East side of Hollow Creek. John Burgess also bought or sold 915 acres on Hollow Creek to or from Jacob Foreman of Barnwell on 20 June 1828. John Burgess is in the Edgefield Co 1825 map as being on the west side of Hallow Creek near the Edgefield/Barnwell Dist. line but above Minors bridge. Most likely his land would have crossed over the Barnwell Dist line and on down to Hollow Creek and he could shout across to Andrew McElmurry and Jacob Foreman on the east side.
So using the Edgefield 1825 map, John Burgess was living above the Minors bridge going over Hallow Creek. Peters Pond was probably below the Minors bridge. The present church is a few hundred yards from Minors bridge. These planters owned thousands of acres and the properties went all the way to Back Swamp, noted as Big Back Swamp on the 1825 map of Barnwell. For the moment this information places Matlocke SC roughly between Hallow Creek and Big Back Swamp (aka Carolina Swamp?) and from above Minors bridge going down almost to Silver Bluff. Matlocke SC probably also went partially around Big Back Swamp to Crackers Neck and near a plantation called Silverton.
Matlocke would not have built a Meeting House in the woods where people had to tramp on paths to get there Sunday morning. He would have built it for easy access, which means that if it were on Hollow Creek, it would have been either near Minors bridge or at the Silver Bluff Rd crossing. Common sense reasons that the Meeting House or church would have been on Andrew McElmurry's land, known as the Matlocke Place by his contemporaries. But he may have had at least a thousand acres and several tracts and it could be any one of those places where he built a church. Search of deeds going back to him and before him may reveal the location of a Meeting House or church.
I see examples of deeds in the Archives where men owned 5000 or 10000 acres. Jacob Foreman had one transaction of 900 acres. Matlocke may have owned from Hollow Creek back to the Back Swamp. Or a piece here and a piece there up and down the Savannah River. I noticed that names from people living in Cambridge SC (now gone) also had land way down at Silver Bluff and made trips back and forth to Charleston. Perhaps they traveled more than we do when one counts hours of travel.
But that the map makers of 1817-1825 did not record the Matlocke Church presense is puzzling. Did they not see it? Or was it somewhere else? There is a "MH+" (i.e. Meeting House or church) designation on what is now Old Jackson Hi-way where Atomic Rd meets it today. (I believe that spot matches the old map.) Which church was that one? I drove out there today and found the place where the church must have been. It is at the confluence of Atomic rd and Old Jackson Hiway. There is nothing there but some scraggly trees and a couple wild dogs. Was this the the Canaan Fair church? attended by the free negroes descended from Galphin.
I have found in the SC Archives where extensive records are stored from 1840 calling Matlocke Church the Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ and records linking the Matlocke plantation to Andrew "McElmurry" 's plantation in an area bordering "Back Swamp." Andrew McElmurry also owned land at Cracker Neck sometimes associated with "Winton Co. Barnwell District" or Silverton. He also owned land on Hollow Creek. Other associations with the McElmurray family have been Four Mile Branch.
If Patrick McElmurray (a Tory), Andrew McElmurry's father, bought land before 1798 and after 1769, it would have been called Orangeburg District or Winton Co. After 1798 it became Barnwell Co. In 1800 Barnwell District. Before 1769 it was called Granville Co.- all records before 1786 are in Charleston. So there are several county court houses to search in pursuit of the history of Matlocke Regular Baptist Church. Inquiry must be made to ask about where the records were finally stored for Winton Co.. The missing link is finding a deed which grants land, perhaps part of an old plantation, for the Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ. Patrick's son Andrew bought the old "Matlock Place" which may have been next to Patrick's plantation.
It is not clear at this point whether the Matlock Church was really built by Matlocke, or whether the church was named so because the area was called Matlocke after the original settler, or because that settler Matlocke gave land for the church.
Hankerson family history:
Hankerson family original started on the Cracker Neck and Hankinson plantation at Silverton, Barnwell Co., SC - now known as Jackson, Aiken Co., SC. Simon Hankerson had two wives, first wife unknown, and his second wife, a free mulatto. After he married her, he became free which was between 1820-1830.
From Dodrill family history:
Land sale records in South Carolina reveal that the Daughdrill land in the Barnwell District of South Carolina was on the Indian Branch and Back-Swamp Waters of the Savannah River, known as "Cracker's Neck."Since there were no fences to keep the cattle from straying, men were hired to "ride herd." It was here that a special whip was designed and made and first used to help the men on horseback to control the herds. It was made with a short strong handle and an extremely long leather strip with a knot on the end. An expert whipman could snap this whip in the air above the cattle and make a loud crack that could be heard, over the noise of the herds, for an incredible distance. These were America's first cowboys, and the name spread all over the United States wherever cattle were raised. This part of the Savannah River area is still known as "Crackers Neck."
Searching in the SC Archives revealed the fact that the real name of Matlock Church is Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ and was petitioned 22 November 1840 by the citizens of Barnwell District to be incorporated as a church. Many times in those old days, churches had existed for decades without being incorporated. And many times the property had never been formally turned over to the church till the 1800s even thought the church had existed, say in 1769, as in the "Hardy Meeting House" on Stephens Creek in Edgefield.
Examination of on-line SC Archive files revealed that there are at least 2 sets of papers at the SC Archives and consist of 16 pages, including an article in the Hamburg Journal as evidence in the petition files, about the Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ. Hamburg SC no longer exists. Neither does "Matlocke" except in the memories of those buried there. Matlocke SC has probably been replaced with the name "Jackson SC."
The Matlocke Regular Baptist Church existed before 1840 according to available information. There is a recording on a tombstone at Beech Island which says a man was baptized in 1832 at "Matlock Church" and there is a recording somewhere which says John Miller Beggs (son of James Beggs and Anna Walker Goodwin b 1785) was born at "Matlock SC" in December 1822. It is not clear whether the church or the place name Matlocke came first. John Miller Begg's brother Charles Beggs was born 21 SEP 1819 at a family plantation called "Burnside," near Peters Pond in Medlocke, Barnwell Co. SC and died 2 SEP 1894 in Madison Co., Florida. The boy's mother Anna W. Beggs born 1785 was probably the daughter of Judge Charles Goodwyn and Elizabeth Williamson who bought half of Silver Bluff from Thomas Galphin. Anna's aunt and Elizabeth's sister, Mary Anne Williamson, was first married to a Walker before she married Ephraim Ramsey in 1790 in Charleston. (Anna W. Beggs is a widow in Barnwell in the 1850 census. Her property is on "Peters Pond" according to a plat at the SC Archives.)
SC Archives for Ramsey and Goodwin
Series: S165015 Year: 1791 Item: 00130
Date: 1/19/1791Description: GOODWIN, CHARLES AND EPHRAIM RAMSAY, ON BEHALF OF THEIR WIVES AND THE CHILDREN OF GEN. ANDREW WILLIAMSON, PETITION ASKING THAT THE AMERCEMENT UPON THE ESTATE OF THE LATE GENERAL BE REMOVED, SO THEY MAY PAY HIS DEBTS. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: GOODWIN, CHARLES; GOODWIN, ELIZABETH; RAMSAY, EPHRAIM; RAMSAY, MARYANN; WILLIAMSON, ANDREW; WILLIAMSON, WILLIAMLocations: NINETY SIX DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: AMERCEMENTS; DEBT
Date: 1/19/1791Description: GOODWIN, CHARLES AND EPHRAIM RAMSAY, ON BEHALF OF THEIR WIVES AND THE CHILDREN OF GEN. ANDREW WILLIAMSON, PETITION ASKING THAT THE AMERCEMENT UPON THE ESTATE OF THE LATE GENERAL BE REMOVED, SO THEY MAY PAY HIS DEBTS. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: GOODWIN, CHARLES; GOODWIN, ELIZABETH; RAMSAY, EPHRAIM; RAMSAY, MARYANN; WILLIAMSON, ANDREW; WILLIAMSON, WILLIAMLocations: NINETY SIX DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: AMERCEMENTS; DEBT
Series: S165015 Year: 1796 Item: 00084
Date: 12/8/1796Description: GOODWIN, CHARLES, FOR HIMSELF AND OTHER INHABITANTS ON THE SAVANNAH RIVER AT SILVER BLUFF AND IN WINTON COUNTY, PETITION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FERRY ACROSS SAVANNAH RIVER AT SILVER BLUFF AND FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TWO ROADS TO SAID FERRY. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: DUNBAR, W.; GALPHIN, THOMAS; GOODWIN, CHARLES; SMITH, STEPHENLocations: EDGEFIELD COUNTY; SAVANNAH RIVER; SILVER BLUFF; THREE RUNS; WINTON COUNTYDocument type: PETITIONTopics: FERRIES; STREETS, ROADS, AND HIGHWAY
According Dr. Webb, the present George McElmurray property is the "Old Beggs" property. There is a source (see 1843 Will below) for the fact that the old "Matlock place" was occupied by Andrew McElmurry and that it bordered Back Swamp. Taking these old Orangeburg/Barnwell names and looking in the archives for Wills and census data, I could establish the area of original Matlocke SC.
Matlocke himself may have been a trader connected to Galphin. At any rate it seems he had moved on by 1790. In order to be sure of this, I would have to examine by hand each name in both the 1790 Orangeburg census and the 1800 Barnwell and 1810 Barnwell. Many names are misindexed and his name may actually turn up. There is a recording in 1788 in GA that a Stephen Matlock, age 14, his father was dead. That he was from Orangeburg District which in 1788 would have included future Barnwell Dist. In 1798 Orangeburg was divided into 2 districts to include the newly formed Barnwell. Orangeburg Court House will have information, if it was not burned.
In fact, according to a hand written page Dr Webb has acquired, and not known to whom the source should be credited, it seems when the Matlocke church board decided to move or build a new church and decided that the most beneficial method of doing this would be to "give away" the old church and let it be transported by unknown black people who had 3 days to take it down and move it. That church had a slave Gallery (which of course it would - since it was built before 1832 at least). The building following that dismantling was the Foreman Fellowship Hall. It would be good to establish when it was built.
The original church may have only been a log cabin, as was the custom in the 1700s in the back country, but there must have been a replacement at some point which included the slave gallery.
Possible time line?:
1773 Log cabin built on Medlocke plantation
1800-1825 new church built with slave gallery
1840 incorporation
1878 church dismantled, new church?
church burned
1898 new church built? now located in its new home at
980 Main St in the town now named Jackson SC 29831
-a relatively new name.
The unknown Matlocke stayed long enough to make a name for himself and to build a church after which the area around it was named Matlocke SC. The Thomas Newman and James Beggs plantations were in this Matlocke area, and according to the Will of Andrew McElmurry, his plantation was called "the Matlock place." Deeds should be researched to find the name of the men who owned it before Andrew did. The Matlocke plantation was bordering "Back Swamp" and is near Thomas Newman (his father John Newman bought 400 acres in 1796 which was originally surveyed in 1766 near Back Swamp) and Cracker Neck, otherwise known as Cracker Jack Neck.
Back Swamp in Barnwell is mentioned in relation to the free Mulatto Galphins (George and Bryant/Brian) who were born at Back Swamp, as well as where the free Mulatto Hankersons / Hankersins lived. Was Back Swamp the name the free negros called their area and Matlocke what the whites called their area- after their church? In the 1825 map of Barnwell District at the Aiken Library, there is "MH" (Meeting House) which is unnamed on the fork of the road running to the right of Back Swamp- confluence of Old Jackson Highway and Atomic Road. What MH is this? Canaan Fair Chruch or Matlocke Regular? Matlock Church
Hannah, a slave of George I Galphin and the wife of George II, is listed in George I's Will as the mother of Brian. In the Will, Galphin frees Brian, who is in reality the son of George II and his grandson. He does not free Hannah, but gives her to his son, along with other slaves. Brian received 200 acres of Galphin land in the Back Swamp area behind Crackers Neck. So Back Swamp is associated with Galphins and free negros, but their church was Canaan Fair Church.
This area is also associated with Matlocke Regular Baptist Church and Matlocke SC. The family names most associated with Matlocke are Andrew McElmurray, Thomas Newman, Jack (John) Wimberly and Jacob Foreman. John Newman bought 400 acres on Back Swamp in 1796, recorded at the SC Archives and originaly surveyed in 1766 by Minor (Minors Bridge). There is a reference to a Stephen Matlock in GA records relating him to Orangeburg District.
SC Archives Series: S213190 Volume: 0032 Page: 00598Item: 002Date: 1796 C. Description: NEWMAN, JOHN, PLAT FOR 400 ACRES ON BACK SWAMP, GRANVILLE COUNTY, SURVEYED BY ISAAC PERRY ON DECEMBER 17, 1766.
Names indexed: NEWMAN, JOHN; NEWMAN, THOMAS; PERRY, ISAACLocations: BACK SWAMP; GRANVILLE COUNTY; SAVANNAH RIVER; SILVER BLUFF
Back Swamp is a place name where his son Thomas Newman
lived. This was in Granville Co 1710-1766 -later Orangeburg 1769 -later
Barnwell 1798 near Silver Bluff and this was near the
Andrew McElmurry place who lived on the old Matlock Place
which is possibly where the Matlocke Regular Babtist Church of Christ
was located.
The following census pages are people who are living in Matlocke SC.
References:
1830 Barnwell SC census for Jas. Beggs
1840 Barnwell SC census for Anna W. Beggs family
(son John M. Beggs born in Matlock SC 1822)
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Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ Records
at the South Carlolina Archives:
Series: S165015 Year: 1840 Item: 00031Date: 11/22/1840Description: CITIZENS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, PETITION TO BE INCORPORATED AS THE MATLOCKE REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST. (6 PAGES)Names indexed: ARDIS, HENRY Z.; BATES, ANDREW J.; BATES, J. S.; BEGGS, JOHN M.; BRADFORD, R.; BROWN, G. L.; BROWN, JAMES; FOREMAN, JACOB; FOREMAN, JOHN; LYNS, BENJAMIN; MCELMURRAY, A.; MEYER, DAVID W.; MEYER, J. J.; MEYER, JOHN W.; MEYER, THOMAS; MEYER, W.; RAMSAY, JOSEPH B.; SCOTT, G. T.; TURNER, A. B.; WIMBERLY, E.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: PETITION
Topics: BAPTIST CHURCH; MATLOCKE REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST
Series: S165015 Year: 1840 Item: 00012Date: 11/22/1840Description: CITIZENS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, PETITION, WITH SUPPORTING PAPER, TO BE INCORPORATED AS THE MATLOCKE REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST, WITH AN ISSUE OF THE HAMBURG JOURNAL AS AN EXHIBIT. (10 PAGES)Names indexed: ARDIS, HENRY Z.; BATES, ANDREW J.; BATES, J. S.; BEGGS, JOHN M.; BRADFORD, R.; BROWN, G. L.; BROWN, JAMES; FOREMAN, JACOB; FOREMAN, JOHN; LYNS, BENJAMIN; MCELMURRAY, A.; MEYER, DAVID W.; MEYER, J. J.; MEYER, JOHN W.; MEYER, THOMAS; MEYER, W.; RAMSAY, JOSEPH B.; SCOTT, G. T.; TURNER, A. B.; WIMBERLY, E.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: BAPTIST CHURCH; HAMBURG JOURNAL (NEWSPAPER); MATLOCKE REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST
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Andrew MacElmurray / MacElmuurah / McElmurry lists the Newman part of "back swamp" as being by his property and he mentions the "Matlock place" as being where he lives. Back Swamp may also have been called Carolina Swamp, perhaps meaning the Carolina side of the swamp thru which the Savannah River flowed? The Jack Wimberly Place and the "Cracker Jack Neck" are nearby. Mary Wimberly signs, as well as Thomas Beggs and T.B. Newman, all children of original settlers.
Series: S108093 Reel: 0005 Frame: 00602
Date: 2/6/1843Description: MCELMURRY, ANDREW OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, WILL TYPESCRIPT (MSS WILL: BOOK D, PAGE 38; ESTATE PACKET: BDL 84, PKG 1) (2 FRAMES).Names indexed: ANN (WIFE); ALBERT (SLAVE); ALIC (SLAVE); AMOS (SLAVE); ARDIS, HENRY Z.;BEGGS, THOMAS; BIT (SLAVE); CHARLOT (SLAVE); CLAYTON, MARTHA; EMMA (SLAVE); HANNAH (SLAVE); HARRIET (SLAVE); HATFIELD, FRANCES; ISAAC (SLAVE); JACK (SLAVE); JERRY (SLAVE); MARGARET (SLAVE); MATLOCK; MCELMURRY, ANDERSON; MCELMURRY, ANDREW; MCELMURRY, ANN CAROLINE; MCELMURRY, CORNELIA; MCELMURRY, JAMES ANDREW; MCELMURRY, MARY ANN; MCELMURRY, MINAS H.; MCELMURRY, PATRICK; MCELMURRY, RICHARD; NEWMAN; NEWMAN, T. B.; WIMBERLY, JACK; SOPHIA (SLAVE); TYMAN (SLAVE); WINGERLY, MARY (Mary Wimberly, formerly Newman, widow of William Newman, children are Patrick and Letty Newman)
Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; CRACKERS NECK SWAMP; GEORGIA; SAVANNAH RIVER, MATLOCK PLACEDocument type: WILL (TYPESCRIPT)
John Miller Beggs, son of James Beggs and Anna Walker Goodwin was born Dec 1822 in Matlocke, SC in Barnwell District. Anna W. born 1785 may have been the daughter of Charles Goodwyn/Goodwin, Esq. and Elizabeth Williamson. Goodwin owned 737 acres on Hollow Creek near Silver Bluff. Judge Ephraim Ramsey married Elizabeth's sister Mary Ann Williamson. There is a recording of Ephraim Ramsey's marriage to "Mary Ann Walker" in Charleston on 22 Feb 1790 which means she was first married to a Walker. There is ample evidence that Mary Ann was a Williamson in the court records of her father's estate in which Ramsey and she are named in 1791. Ramsey was admitted to the Charleston bar 28 May 1784 and bought Silver Bluff from Thomas Gulphin as part owner with his brother in law Charles Goodwin. They had both married the daughters of brig. General Andrew Williamson (a Tory) of Ninety-six who died 21 March 1786 near Orangeburg in St Pauls Parish near Charleston, His estate at Cambridge, Abbeville, Ninety Six District had 90 slaves valued at 2,600 pounds and was in litigation with Ephraim Ramsey and Mary Ann Ramsey, as well as Charles Goodwin and wife Elizabeth.
Gen. Andrew Williamsonwas the brother in law of Samuel Hammond a patriot, which fact saved Williamson's life, as he was almost hung twice. Ephraim Ramsey was named a guardian to John Hammond's children should Hammond's wife to die early.
Source for the Williamson girls:
Culler, Daniel Marchant,
Title: Orangeburg District 1768-1868 History & Records Publication: Name: The Reprint Co; Location: Spartenburg, SC,; Date: 1995; Note: ISBN 0-87152-482-1, pgs 737 Page: page 293
Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ Records
at the South Carlolina Archives:
Series: S165015 Year: 1840 Item: 00031Date: 11/22/1840Description: CITIZENS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, PETITION TO BE INCORPORATED AS THE MATLOCKE REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST. (6 PAGES)Names indexed: ARDIS, HENRY Z.; BATES, ANDREW J.; BATES, J. S.; BEGGS, JOHN M.; BRADFORD, R.; BROWN, G. L.; BROWN, JAMES; FOREMAN, JACOB; FOREMAN, JOHN; LYNS, BENJAMIN; MCELMURRAY, A.; MEYER, DAVID W.; MEYER, J. J.; MEYER, JOHN W.; MEYER, THOMAS; MEYER, W.; RAMSAY, JOSEPH B.; SCOTT, G. T.; TURNER, A. B.; WIMBERLY, E.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: PETITION
Topics: BAPTIST CHURCH; MATLOCKE REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST
Series: S165015 Year: 1840 Item: 00012Date: 11/22/1840Description: CITIZENS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, PETITION, WITH SUPPORTING PAPER, TO BE INCORPORATED AS THE MATLOCKE REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST, WITH AN ISSUE OF THE HAMBURG JOURNAL AS AN EXHIBIT. (10 PAGES)Names indexed: ARDIS, HENRY Z.; BATES, ANDREW J.; BATES, J. S.; BEGGS, JOHN M.; BRADFORD, R.; BROWN, G. L.; BROWN, JAMES; FOREMAN, JACOB; FOREMAN, JOHN; LYNS, BENJAMIN; MCELMURRAY, A.; MEYER, DAVID W.; MEYER, J. J.; MEYER, JOHN W.; MEYER, THOMAS; MEYER, W.; RAMSAY, JOSEPH B.; SCOTT, G. T.; TURNER, A. B.; WIMBERLY, E.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: BAPTIST CHURCH; HAMBURG JOURNAL (NEWSPAPER); MATLOCKE REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHRIST
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Andrew MacElmurray / MacElmuurah / McElmurry lists the Newman part of "back swamp" as being by his property and he mentions the "Matlock place" as being where he lives. Back Swamp may also have been called Carolina Swamp, perhaps meaning the Carolina side of the swamp thru which the Savannah River flowed? The Jack Wimberly Place and the "Cracker Jack Neck" are nearby. Mary Wimberly signs, as well as Thomas Beggs and T.B. Newman, all children of original settlers.
Series: S108093 Reel: 0005 Frame: 00602
Date: 2/6/1843Description: MCELMURRY, ANDREW OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, WILL TYPESCRIPT (MSS WILL: BOOK D, PAGE 38; ESTATE PACKET: BDL 84, PKG 1) (2 FRAMES).Names indexed: ANN (WIFE); ALBERT (SLAVE); ALIC (SLAVE); AMOS (SLAVE); ARDIS, HENRY Z.;BEGGS, THOMAS; BIT (SLAVE); CHARLOT (SLAVE); CLAYTON, MARTHA; EMMA (SLAVE); HANNAH (SLAVE); HARRIET (SLAVE); HATFIELD, FRANCES; ISAAC (SLAVE); JACK (SLAVE); JERRY (SLAVE); MARGARET (SLAVE); MATLOCK; MCELMURRY, ANDERSON; MCELMURRY, ANDREW; MCELMURRY, ANN CAROLINE; MCELMURRY, CORNELIA; MCELMURRY, JAMES ANDREW; MCELMURRY, MARY ANN; MCELMURRY, MINAS H.; MCELMURRY, PATRICK; MCELMURRY, RICHARD; NEWMAN; NEWMAN, T. B.; WIMBERLY, JACK; SOPHIA (SLAVE); TYMAN (SLAVE); WINGERLY, MARY (Mary Wimberly, formerly Newman, widow of William Newman, children are Patrick and Letty Newman)
Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; CRACKERS NECK SWAMP; GEORGIA; SAVANNAH RIVER, MATLOCK PLACEDocument type: WILL (TYPESCRIPT)
John Miller Beggs, son of James Beggs and Anna Walker Goodwin was born Dec 1822 in Matlocke, SC in Barnwell District. Anna W. born 1785 may have been the daughter of Charles Goodwyn/Goodwin, Esq. and Elizabeth Williamson. Goodwin owned 737 acres on Hollow Creek near Silver Bluff. Judge Ephraim Ramsey married Elizabeth's sister Mary Ann Williamson. There is a recording of Ephraim Ramsey's marriage to "Mary Ann Walker" in Charleston on 22 Feb 1790 which means she was first married to a Walker. There is ample evidence that Mary Ann was a Williamson in the court records of her father's estate in which Ramsey and she are named in 1791. Ramsey was admitted to the Charleston bar 28 May 1784 and bought Silver Bluff from Thomas Gulphin as part owner with his brother in law Charles Goodwin. They had both married the daughters of brig. General Andrew Williamson (a Tory) of Ninety-six who died 21 March 1786 near Orangeburg in St Pauls Parish near Charleston, His estate at Cambridge, Abbeville, Ninety Six District had 90 slaves valued at 2,600 pounds and was in litigation with Ephraim Ramsey and Mary Ann Ramsey, as well as Charles Goodwin and wife Elizabeth.
Gen. Andrew Williamsonwas the brother in law of Samuel Hammond a patriot, which fact saved Williamson's life, as he was almost hung twice. Ephraim Ramsey was named a guardian to John Hammond's children should Hammond's wife to die early.
Source for the Williamson girls:
Culler, Daniel Marchant,
Title: Orangeburg District 1768-1868 History & Records Publication: Name: The Reprint Co; Location: Spartenburg, SC,; Date: 1995; Note: ISBN 0-87152-482-1, pgs 737 Page: page 293
Also the History of Edgefield County printed 1897 written by John A. Chapman available for sale at Edgefield Historical Society in Edgefield.
SC Archives
Series: S213192 Volume: 0043 Page: 00040 Item: 002
Date: 5/7/1811Description: BEGGS, ANNA WALKER, PLAT FOR 42 ACRES NEAR PETERS POND, BARNWELL DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY J. E. C. STARPHEN.Names indexed: BEGGS, ANNA WALKER; BUTLER; CARNEY, JESSEE; HARKINSON; HOLMES, DAVID; MINOR, WILLIAM; STARPHEN, J. E. C.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; PETERS POND
Source: South Carolina Department of Archives and History Series: L10018 Year: 1804 Item: 0994A ignore: 000 Date: 6/16/1804 Description: MCCRACKEN, FRANCIS, ASSIGNEE OF JOHN MATHIAS EHRICK VS MARY ANN RAMSAY, ADMIX. AND JOHN RAMSAY, ADMINTR. OF EPHRAIM RAMSAY, JUDGMENT ROLL. (8 PAGES) Names indexed: EHRICK, JOHN MATHIAS; MCCRACKEN, FRANCIS; RAMSAY, EPHRAIM; RAMSAY, JOHN; RAMSAY, MARY ANN Locations: Document type: JUDGMENT-ROLL
Series: S213192 Volume: 0044 Page: 00495 Item: 003Date: 1/15/1818Description: BEGGS, JAMES, PLAT FOR 53 ACRES ON HOLLOW CREEK, BARNWELL DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY PHILIP LAMAR.Names indexed: BEGGS, JAMES; BUTLER; HANKERSON; LAMAR, PHILIP; TAYLOR, WALTERLocations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; HOLLOW CREEK; SAVANNAH RIVER; SILVER BLUFFDocument type: PLAT
Series: S213003 Volume: 004P Page: 00039
Date: 1/29/1818Description: EASON, SUSANNA TO JAMES BEGGS, GUARDIAN FOR JANE LOUISA BEGGS, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED LUCKY, ALIAS SUSAN, ABOUT 8 YEARS OLD.Names indexed: BEGGS, JAMES; BEGGS, JANE LOUISA; EASON, SUSANNA; LUCKY (SLAVE); SUSAN (SLAVE)Document type: BILL OF SALE
Thomas Beggs lived near Edgefield in Barnwell at Peters Pond and had 53 acres on Hollow Creek - he was interested in the Augusta- Coosewhatchie Road improvement inside of Edgefield:
Series: S165015 Year: 1844 Item: 00019
Date: 11/29/1844Description: CITIZENS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, COUNTER-PETITION ALTERING PART OF THE AUGUSTA-COOSAWHATCHIE ROAD IN EDGEFIELD DISTRICT. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: BEGGS, THOMAS; BUSH, DAVID; BUSH, ISAAC B.; BUSH, JOHN D.; BUSH, S. S.; CLAYTON, EDMOND; COCHRAN, JAMES; DUNBAR, SAMUEL; DUNBAR, WILLIAM;FOREMAN, ISAAC; FOREMAN, JACOB SR.; FOREMAN, JOHN; HAMMOND, J. H.; HAYNES, H.; KNIGHT, WILLIAM W.; MINOR, J.; NEWMAN, WILLIAM W.; STALLINGS, JOHN; SYMS, BENJAMIN; WILLIAMS, E. J.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; EDGEFIELD DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: STREETS, ROADS, AND HIGHWAYS
Where Thomas B. Newman of the Back Swamp lived:
Series: S213192 Volume: 0046 Page: 00197 Item: 001Date: 12/1/1819Description: NEWMAN, THOMAS B., PLAT FOR 300 ACRES ON TIMS BRANCH, BARNWELL DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY JOHN K. JOHNSTON.Names indexed: ANTHONY, JOHN; BUSH, JOHN; FOREMAN, JACOB; JOHNSTON, JOHN K.; JONAKIN, JONATHAN; NEWMAN, CAROLINE; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; TURNER, JOHN M.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; SAVANNAH RIVER; TIMS BRANCH; UPPER THREE RUNSDocument type: PLAT
I include the following interesting law suit since major supporters of the Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ are involved with pursuing justice and stood behind Ellen Sweat to be recognized as a lawful child of Thomas B. Newman-
Series: S165005
Year: ND00 Item: 04891
Date: 1857 C.Description: COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, REPORT ON THE PETITION FROM SUNDRY CITIZENS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT ASKING THAT THE ESCHEATED ESTATE OF THOMAS B. NEWMAN BE VESTED IN ELLEN SWEAT. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; SWEAT, ELLENLocations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEETopics: ESCHEATS; JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Series: S165015 Year: ND00 Item: 05100
Date: 1857 C.Description: OWEN, W. A., PETITION FOR ELLEN SWEAT ASKING FOR THE ESCHEATED BARNWELL ESTATE OF HER BROTHER, THOMAS B. NEWMAN, DESPITE ELLEN AND NEWMANS ILLEGITIMATE STATUS. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: DUNBAR, F. F.; FOREMAN, DAVID; FOREMAN, JACOB; NEWMAN, ALEXANDER; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; NEWMAN, WILLIAM; OWEN, W. A.; SWEAT, ELLEN; SWEAT, GIDEONLocations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: BASTARDY; ESCHEATS
Series: S165015 Year: ND00 Item: 05101
Date: 1857 C.Description: SWEAT, ELLEN AND INHABITANTS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, PETITION ASKING FOR HER TO BE VESTED WITH THE ESTATE OF HER DECEASED BROTHER, THOMAS B. NEWMAN, GIVING PROOF THAT SHE WAS NOT ILLEGITIMATE AND ASKING THE ESTATE NOT ESCHEAT. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: AARON, JOHN; ASHLEY, JOSEPH; BROWN, G.; BROWN, JOHN; BUSH, DAVID; DUNBAR, F. F.; DUNBAR, G. R.; FERGUSON, CHARLES; FREEMAN, J. W.; GRAHAM, S. B.; HAMMOND, E. D. S.; HARLEY, J. R.; HUTTO, J. N.; MARTIN, J. V.; NEWMAN, ALEXANDER; NEWMAN, STEPHEN; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; SWEAT, ELLEN; WALKER, N. G. W.; WOOD, W. R.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: BASTARDY; ESCHEAT
S165005 Year: 1857 Item: 00309
Date: 12/19/1857Description: COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, REPORT ON THE PETITIONS FROM ELLEN SWEAT AND FRANCIS AND DICKS ASKING TO BE VESTED WITH THE ESCHEATED ESTATE OF THOMAS B. NEWMAN. (2 PAGES)Names indexed: BOYLSTON, ROBERT B.; DICKS, FRANCIS ANN; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; NEWMAN, WILLIAM; SWEAT, ELLENLocations:
Document type: REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEETopics: BASTARDY; ESCHEATS; JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Series: S165015 Year: 1856 Item: 00071
Date: 1856Description: FOREMAN, DAVID AND JACOB FOREMAN, PETITION AND SUPPORTING PAPER, ASKING HALF OF THE ESCHEATED ESTATE OF THOMAS B. NEWMAN BE VESTED IN THEM AND THE OTHER HALF IN ELLEN B. SWEAT AND HER CHILDREN. (8 PAGES)Names indexed: BROWN, JAMES; BROWN, JOHN W.; DICKS, FRANCIS ANN; DICKS, THOMAS; DUNBAR, F. F.; FOREMAN, DAVID; FOREMAN, JACOB; GRUBS, ANN; GRUBS, JAMES; GRUBS, MARY; HELTON, ELLEN; MCDANIEL, WILLIAM; MCLENDON, ELIZABETH; NEWMAN, ALEXANDER; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; NEWMAN, WILLIAM; PARKER, WILLIAM; SWEAT, ELLEN B.; SWEAT, GIDEON; TOBLIN, CORNELIUSLocations: GEORGIA
Document type: PETITIONTopics: BASTARDY; ESCHEATS; ESTATE DISPOSITIONS
SC Archives
Series: S213192 Volume: 0043 Page: 00040 Item: 002
Date: 5/7/1811Description: BEGGS, ANNA WALKER, PLAT FOR 42 ACRES NEAR PETERS POND, BARNWELL DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY J. E. C. STARPHEN.Names indexed: BEGGS, ANNA WALKER; BUTLER; CARNEY, JESSEE; HARKINSON; HOLMES, DAVID; MINOR, WILLIAM; STARPHEN, J. E. C.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; PETERS POND
Source: South Carolina Department of Archives and History Series: L10018 Year: 1804 Item: 0994A ignore: 000 Date: 6/16/1804 Description: MCCRACKEN, FRANCIS, ASSIGNEE OF JOHN MATHIAS EHRICK VS MARY ANN RAMSAY, ADMIX. AND JOHN RAMSAY, ADMINTR. OF EPHRAIM RAMSAY, JUDGMENT ROLL. (8 PAGES) Names indexed: EHRICK, JOHN MATHIAS; MCCRACKEN, FRANCIS; RAMSAY, EPHRAIM; RAMSAY, JOHN; RAMSAY, MARY ANN Locations: Document type: JUDGMENT-ROLL
Series: S213192 Volume: 0044 Page: 00495 Item: 003Date: 1/15/1818Description: BEGGS, JAMES, PLAT FOR 53 ACRES ON HOLLOW CREEK, BARNWELL DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY PHILIP LAMAR.Names indexed: BEGGS, JAMES; BUTLER; HANKERSON; LAMAR, PHILIP; TAYLOR, WALTERLocations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; HOLLOW CREEK; SAVANNAH RIVER; SILVER BLUFFDocument type: PLAT
Series: S213003 Volume: 004P Page: 00039
Date: 1/29/1818Description: EASON, SUSANNA TO JAMES BEGGS, GUARDIAN FOR JANE LOUISA BEGGS, BILL OF SALE FOR A SLAVE NAMED LUCKY, ALIAS SUSAN, ABOUT 8 YEARS OLD.Names indexed: BEGGS, JAMES; BEGGS, JANE LOUISA; EASON, SUSANNA; LUCKY (SLAVE); SUSAN (SLAVE)Document type: BILL OF SALE
Thomas Beggs lived near Edgefield in Barnwell at Peters Pond and had 53 acres on Hollow Creek - he was interested in the Augusta- Coosewhatchie Road improvement inside of Edgefield:
Series: S165015 Year: 1844 Item: 00019
Date: 11/29/1844Description: CITIZENS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, COUNTER-PETITION ALTERING PART OF THE AUGUSTA-COOSAWHATCHIE ROAD IN EDGEFIELD DISTRICT. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: BEGGS, THOMAS; BUSH, DAVID; BUSH, ISAAC B.; BUSH, JOHN D.; BUSH, S. S.; CLAYTON, EDMOND; COCHRAN, JAMES; DUNBAR, SAMUEL; DUNBAR, WILLIAM;FOREMAN, ISAAC; FOREMAN, JACOB SR.; FOREMAN, JOHN; HAMMOND, J. H.; HAYNES, H.; KNIGHT, WILLIAM W.; MINOR, J.; NEWMAN, WILLIAM W.; STALLINGS, JOHN; SYMS, BENJAMIN; WILLIAMS, E. J.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; EDGEFIELD DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: STREETS, ROADS, AND HIGHWAYS
Where Thomas B. Newman of the Back Swamp lived:
Series: S213192 Volume: 0046 Page: 00197 Item: 001Date: 12/1/1819Description: NEWMAN, THOMAS B., PLAT FOR 300 ACRES ON TIMS BRANCH, BARNWELL DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY JOHN K. JOHNSTON.Names indexed: ANTHONY, JOHN; BUSH, JOHN; FOREMAN, JACOB; JOHNSTON, JOHN K.; JONAKIN, JONATHAN; NEWMAN, CAROLINE; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; TURNER, JOHN M.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICT; SAVANNAH RIVER; TIMS BRANCH; UPPER THREE RUNSDocument type: PLAT
I include the following interesting law suit since major supporters of the Matlocke Regular Baptist Church of Christ are involved with pursuing justice and stood behind Ellen Sweat to be recognized as a lawful child of Thomas B. Newman-
Series: S165005
Year: ND00 Item: 04891
Date: 1857 C.Description: COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, REPORT ON THE PETITION FROM SUNDRY CITIZENS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT ASKING THAT THE ESCHEATED ESTATE OF THOMAS B. NEWMAN BE VESTED IN ELLEN SWEAT. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; SWEAT, ELLENLocations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEETopics: ESCHEATS; JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Series: S165015 Year: ND00 Item: 05100
Date: 1857 C.Description: OWEN, W. A., PETITION FOR ELLEN SWEAT ASKING FOR THE ESCHEATED BARNWELL ESTATE OF HER BROTHER, THOMAS B. NEWMAN, DESPITE ELLEN AND NEWMANS ILLEGITIMATE STATUS. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: DUNBAR, F. F.; FOREMAN, DAVID; FOREMAN, JACOB; NEWMAN, ALEXANDER; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; NEWMAN, WILLIAM; OWEN, W. A.; SWEAT, ELLEN; SWEAT, GIDEONLocations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: BASTARDY; ESCHEATS
Series: S165015 Year: ND00 Item: 05101
Date: 1857 C.Description: SWEAT, ELLEN AND INHABITANTS OF BARNWELL DISTRICT, PETITION ASKING FOR HER TO BE VESTED WITH THE ESTATE OF HER DECEASED BROTHER, THOMAS B. NEWMAN, GIVING PROOF THAT SHE WAS NOT ILLEGITIMATE AND ASKING THE ESTATE NOT ESCHEAT. (4 PAGES)Names indexed: AARON, JOHN; ASHLEY, JOSEPH; BROWN, G.; BROWN, JOHN; BUSH, DAVID; DUNBAR, F. F.; DUNBAR, G. R.; FERGUSON, CHARLES; FREEMAN, J. W.; GRAHAM, S. B.; HAMMOND, E. D. S.; HARLEY, J. R.; HUTTO, J. N.; MARTIN, J. V.; NEWMAN, ALEXANDER; NEWMAN, STEPHEN; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; SWEAT, ELLEN; WALKER, N. G. W.; WOOD, W. R.Locations: BARNWELL DISTRICTDocument type: PETITIONTopics: BASTARDY; ESCHEAT
S165005 Year: 1857 Item: 00309
Date: 12/19/1857Description: COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, REPORT ON THE PETITIONS FROM ELLEN SWEAT AND FRANCIS AND DICKS ASKING TO BE VESTED WITH THE ESCHEATED ESTATE OF THOMAS B. NEWMAN. (2 PAGES)Names indexed: BOYLSTON, ROBERT B.; DICKS, FRANCIS ANN; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; NEWMAN, WILLIAM; SWEAT, ELLENLocations:
Document type: REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEETopics: BASTARDY; ESCHEATS; JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
| Series: S165005Year: 1858Item: 00297Page: 000Date: 12/13/1858Description: COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, REPORT ON THE PETITIONS FROM ELLEN SWEAT, JACOB FOREMAN, AND DAVID FOREMAN ASKING TO BE VESTED WITH THE PROPERTY OF THOMAS B. NEWMAN. (2 PAGES)Names indexed: FOREMAN, DAVID; FOREMAN, JACOB; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; SWEAT, ELLEN; TALLEY, WILLIAM H.Locations: Document type: REPORT OF LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEETopics: ESCHEATS; JUDICIARY COMMITTEE |
Series: S165015 Year: 1856 Item: 00071
Date: 1856Description: FOREMAN, DAVID AND JACOB FOREMAN, PETITION AND SUPPORTING PAPER, ASKING HALF OF THE ESCHEATED ESTATE OF THOMAS B. NEWMAN BE VESTED IN THEM AND THE OTHER HALF IN ELLEN B. SWEAT AND HER CHILDREN. (8 PAGES)Names indexed: BROWN, JAMES; BROWN, JOHN W.; DICKS, FRANCIS ANN; DICKS, THOMAS; DUNBAR, F. F.; FOREMAN, DAVID; FOREMAN, JACOB; GRUBS, ANN; GRUBS, JAMES; GRUBS, MARY; HELTON, ELLEN; MCDANIEL, WILLIAM; MCLENDON, ELIZABETH; NEWMAN, ALEXANDER; NEWMAN, THOMAS B.; NEWMAN, WILLIAM; PARKER, WILLIAM; SWEAT, ELLEN B.; SWEAT, GIDEON; TOBLIN, CORNELIUSLocations: GEORGIA
Document type: PETITIONTopics: BASTARDY; ESCHEATS; ESTATE DISPOSITIONS
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