York County ScArchives History .....South Carolina's 1776 Constitution 1776 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joseph H. Howard jhhoward@comcast.net May 8, 2007, 8:00 pm Robert Dickey (1745-1817) – 1. Margaret (Hillhouse) Dickey (d.1778) 2. Mary (Henry) Dickey (1755-1842) 1776, Robert represented "New Acquisition District" under the constitution of 1776. ("The Quarterly, York County Carolina." York County Genealogical and Historical Society, December, 1993, p. 31) Election District 10. For the purpose of drawing up South Carolina's 1776 constitution, districts were created from which delegates would be elected to a provincial congress. The area now known as York County was labeled "New Acquisition District" and called "election district 10. ... Under the consitution of 1776 ... fifteen men from the New Acquisition who were seated: William Byers, Joseph Woods, James Carson, Robert McAfee, Ezekiel Polk, Joseph Howe, William McCulloch, John Howe, Francis Adams, Thomas Neel, Alexander Love, Samuel Watson, Francis Ross, Thomas Janes, Robert Dickey. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/york/history/other/southcar43gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/scfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb