Subject: Carolina Townships and Parishes Resent-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 17:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 20:36:15 -0400 From: "Steven J. Coker"Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: http://members.tripod.com/~SCROOTS/index.html To: [email protected] "Acording to the new plan adopted in England for the more speedy population and settlement of the province; the Governor had instructions to mark out eleven townships, in square plats, on the sides of rivers, consisting each of twenty thousand acres, and to divide the lands within them into shares of fifty acres for each man, woman, and child, that should come over to occupy and improve them. Each township was to form a parish, and all the inhabitants were to have an equal right to the river. So soon as the parish should increase to the number of an hundred families, they were to have right to send two members of their own election to the Assembly, and to enjoy the same privileges as the other parishes already established. Each settler was to pay four shillings a-year for every hundred acres of land, excepting the first ten years, during which term they were to be rent free. Governor Johnson issued a warrant to St. John, Surveyor-general of the province, empowering him to go and mark out those townships. But he having demanded an exorbitant sum of money for his trouble, the members of the council agreed among themselves to do this piece of service for their country. Accordingly eleven townships were marked out by them in the following situations; two on river Alatamacha, two on Savanna, two on Santee, one on Pedee, one on Wacamaw, one on Wateree, and one on Black rivers...." Extracted From: An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. Volume II, pp. 27-28 By Alexander Hewatt Printed 1779 Reprinted 1962, 1971 by: The Reprint Company, PO Box 5401, Spartanburg, SC 29301 ISBN 0-87152-009-5 Library of Congress Card Number: A 62-5133 ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== ********** END QUOTING ABOVE THIS LINE ********** Email HTML: https://sites.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/listowners/html-off.htm Send comments about the Forum to: Steven J. Coker, SCRoots Manager [email protected] P.O. Box 359, Charleston, SC 29402 http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/9980/index.html The years teach us much the days never knew. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson