PICKENS COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - Settlers near Keowee Church ********************************************************************** SCGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed SCGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Keowee Records Originals in Clayton Collection, Weslyan University, Central, SC Transcribed by: Lois E Branch - < email: Webevannin@aol.com> SETTLEMENT OF TERRITORY NEAR KEOWEE CHURCH YEAR......SETTLER................STREAM............SQUATTER 1784......Bernard Glenn..........Crow Creek 1784......Isaac Bogan............Sugar Creek.......John Blassingame (Rev. Hero) 1784......Capt. Geo. Sidle.......Keowee River 1784......Ephriam Mitchell.......Keowee River 1784......John Clark.............Keowee River 1784......Jean Anderson..........Keowee River 1784......George Benson..........Keowee River......John Martin 7 Families. Averaging 6 to family equals 42 people as actual settlers. 2 Squatters averaging 6 to family equals 12 people, or there were approximately 54 people here in 1784. _________________________________________________________________ 1785...***Daniel Bush............Mile Creek........***Light 1785......Alexander Bailie.......Keowee River 1785......James Gailey...........Keowee River 3 families averaging 6 equals 18 people here in 1785. _________________________________________________________________ 1786......John Portman...........Keowee River 1 Family averaging 6 equals 6 people here in 1786 _________________________________________________________________ 1789......Abraham Elledge........Keowee River 1 Family averaging 6 equals 6 people here in 1789. _________________________________________________________________ 1790......Robert Craver..........Crow Creek 1 Family averaging 6 equals 6 people here in 1790. _________________________________________________________________ 1791......William Anderson.......Crow Creek........John Wood 2 Families here averaging 6 equals 12 here in 1791. _________________________________________________________________ 1792......Isaac Elledge..........Keowee River......John Twilly 2 Families averaging 6 equals 12 people here in 1792. _________________________________________________________________ 1793......James Abbott...........Mile Creek........Duncan Cameron _________________________________________________________________ 1794......Leonard Farrar.........Crow Creek 1 Family averaging 6 equals 6 here in 1794. _________________________________________________________________ 1795......James Bradley..........Crow Creek........***Patterson 1795......Capt. Benj. Brown......Keowee River......Rev. John Harris 4 Families averaging 6 equals 24 people here in 1795. _________________________________________________________________ 1796......Stephen Barton.........Keowee River......Ellis Harlin...Felix Warley 3 Families averaging 6 equals 18 people here in 1796 _______________________________________________________________________ 1798......Jannet Gourley.........Crow Creek 1798......Simon Con..............Crow Creek........John Con 1798......John Green.............6 Mile Creek......***Anderson...James Beaty 6 Families averaging 6 equals 36 people here in 1798. ________________________________________________________________________ 1799......John Edwards...........Sugar Creek.......Joseph Logan...Glen...Brown 1799......James Jett.............Keowee River......Kennady...Kelly 1799......Henry Burch............Keowee River Transcribed by: Lois E Branch - < email: Webevannin@aol.com> SUMMARY OF SETTLEMENT SHEET YEAR............FAMILIES............AVERAGING............TOTAL NUMBER ________________________________________________________________________ 1784..............9....................6...................................54 1785..............4....................6...................................24 1786..............1....................6.................................... 6 1789..............1....................6.................................... 6 1790..............1....................6.................................... 6 1791..............2....................6...................................12 1792..............2....................6...................................12 1793..............2....................6...................................12 1794..............1....................6.................................... 6 1795..............4....................6...................................24 1796..............3....................6...................................18 1798..............6....................6...................................36 1799..............8....................6...................................48 ________________________________________________________________________ .................44....................6..................................264 Keowee River Baptist (Part 2) Transcribed by: Lois E. Branch July 5, 2000 It was here at this Old Fort that the betrayal of Ensign Cottymore took place. The treachery of Chief Oconostota is but another page of crime added to the large list of Indian trickery. Through this territory once roamed the Cherokee braves on their peaceful pursuit of hunting and fishing, or when at war their hideous war cry resounded in reverbrating echoes from hill to hill. Here abounded wild life in profusion. The bear, buffalo, wolves, catamounts, deer, and numerous other wild life roamed free. The streams were plentifully laden with fishes of all kinds. It was in reality the hunters paradise, and over these same hills and valleys hunted the famous Daniel Boone. Attakullakulla, by some termed the first South Carolinian, lived here, a friend of the white man, a leader of his tribe. It was he who sued for peace with Colonel Grant in the campaign waged in1761. He was a famous statesman among his tribe, and respected greatly by the whites. Who wants to live in a country free from tradition, folk lore, and legend? Here the legendary Indian Maiden, Cateechee, started on her long journey to Ninety Six to warn her lover of an impending Indian raid, and in crossing the streams from this point to Ninety Six, gave them the name of Mile Creek, Six Mile, Twelve Mile, Eighteen, Three and Twenty, Six and Twenty, and so on to Ninety Six. Of course we know today that this is pruely a legend, for old maps drawn and surveyed some 30 or 40 years before Cateechee made her trip in 1760 or 1761, have been found, and on these maps these streams which Cateechee was supposed to have named were already named. In all probability the early Indian Traders gave them their names. However, we love this old legend as well as others. Too, through this immediate territory, wound the famous old Cherokee Path, which led from Charleston to the Indian town of Keowee, thence on across the mountains to the Mississippi River. It was over this path that the early Traders traveled, that the Indians trailed, and that the conquering armies of the whites traversed. Within this territory in which we are gathered today was fought the Indian battles of Gap Hill and Eastatoe, for Colonels Montgomery and Grant in their wars of 1760 and 1761 traversed these same hills and it was Grant who broke their power in 1761. We might mention also that Colonel Williamson, in his Snow Campaign came through this territory and completely broke the power of the Cherokee Nation. So we see that this section of Pickens County is truly an historical spot, and as was said before, perhaps the most historical part of the county, and it seems fitting that we should gather here today, not only to commemorate the founding of this old church, but refresh our minds on some of the history of our county. If I were a minister of the Gospel I think I would take a text today. In Revelations is found a passage, written by John while exiled on the Isle of Patmos. It reads, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet.” We can with truth apply this verse of Scripture to us today. There comes from behind us a great voice as of a trumpet. That voice is the voice of the past. It rings clear to us the deeds of Ensign Cottymore, Chief Oconostota, and Attakullakulla. USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor.