Hi all,
Here is my transcription of the younger David Segler's 5 MAR 1754 petition for
land and bounty to the Royal Council of SC.  This is the younger David who was
probably born in Wurttemberg in the mid 1730's.  He married Rachel Johnson or
Day in Edgefield Co.  and died there near Steven Creek about 1795.

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JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF HIS MAJASTYS
HON. COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

THIS 5th DAY OF MARCH  1754

Read the Petition of David Zegler.  Humbly setting
forth ~ That the Petitioner Shipt himself at Rotterdam
by the ship Caledonia.  Capt.  _____ on the encouragement
given here to foreign Protestants.  The Petitioner was bound to
Gaspar Margadotter of Goose Creek Carpenter and hasts
served him part of the four years and is discharged released
by his Indenter [and as] having paid his said master for
his freedom he is desirous of Settling himself in this province
and having never as yet any warrant or grant of Land
he humbly prays his excellency and Honorable order the
Surveyor General to layout or cause to be admeasured to the
Petitioner 50 acres of Land free of charge and his majastys
Bounty so that he may have a grant for the same __
and the petitioner as in Duty Bound Shall confess __
Charles Town the 19th Day of Febry 1754  David Zegler~
The said Petitioner being considered and the petitioner
appearing and Swearing allegiance to the King the prayer
thereof was granted and the Deputy Secretary ordered to
prepare a warrant and the Surveyor General Cause 50
acres of Land to be laid out to the Petitioner so that he [can]
obtain a grant for the Same and the Commissary General
to pay the Charges and his majastys Bounty.  ____

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The above transcribed by Robert D. Hemphill  20 Oct. 1997 from a Xerox copy from
the microfilm copy at the SC Archives in Columbia. The date that David Segler
arrived on the ship Caledonia in the port of Charleston has previously been
estimated 1750 based on his being bound out four years.  This partition actually
says part of four years, so his arrival date is unknown, being somewhere between
1750 and 1754.  A list of the dates the Caledonia made the port of Charleston
between these dates would help.  It is possible David arrived  on the Caledonia
with Alexander Harvie, Ship Master during or right after  the hurricane of
September, 1752.  The ship must have required serious repairs as it did not
clear port until the first week of January, 1753.  The story of the Hurricane
off the coast of the Carolinas and the ships that were lost at sea was in the 11
DEC 1752 issue of the "New York Mercury.  I have not seen this.  David's grant
was for 50 acres in the Cheves Creek or Sullivan Section of now Edgefield Co. 
The exact location is unknown to me.  It is believe to be a mile or so south of
the SC-34 Cheves Creek bridge, about  9 miles north of  Augusta, about 12 1/2
miles south of Edgefield.  See plat dated 3 Mar.1755 [ ? on date ]. It is not a
coincidence that this grant is in a gold and kaolin clay mining area.  Fritz
Zeigler (c1695 - c1756/90) selected 250 acres in a iron mining area for his
1754, 250 acre grant.  Wurttemberg, where we believe our Ziegler/Seglers came
From, was known for mining.  And, of course, Ziegler means tilemaker.

RDH 20 OCT
1997
SEGLERDAVIDPETI

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