-----Original Message-----
From: CALDWELL 
To: Dennis Smith 
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: FRASIER/FRAZIER


Yes, and Donald Frazier could have been related to mine.
>
>On the same ship from Ireland with my Frazier was William Gibson and John
>Hearst who also settled near Long Canes.
>
>Two generations later members of all three families had gone
>to Missouri settling in Frankin and Washington Counties.
>
>John Hearst was ancestor to the William Randolph Hearst and
>his descendants.  John Hearst II, son of John, the immigrant,
>moved to Franklin County between 1810 and 1820.  His second wife was Hester
>Frazier, daugher of Alexander Frazier,
>son or grandson of the Frazier immigrant.  The Fraziers were
>related to the Lewis family of Abbeville District.
>
>Hearst was older than she and after he died she married Elias
>Gibson in Franklin Co., MO.  He was an apparent grandson of
>William Gibson, the immigrant who arrived in SC in 1766.
>
>An Elias Gibson from the Abbeville area is mentioned in the
>Revolutionary War Indents in SC. He could have been the father
>of the Elias who appeared in MO or possibly his uncle.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dennis Smith 
>To: 'CALDWELL' 
>Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 5:07 PM
>Subject: RE: FRASIER/FRAZIER
>
>
You may already know that Donald FRAZIER was granted 100 acres on 12 Jan
>1764.
This grant was on Job's Creek in Boonesborough Township, Abbeville Dist.,
>SC.  This tract adjoins grants of Jean Lesslie and Robert Walker.  Long
Cane
>Creek is pretty much in the middle of the township.

Boonesborough was a township of 20,500 acres reserved for "Irish
>Protestants".  Actually most of the immigrants were Scots-Irish.

Within this area is the very small town of Donalds, SC.  They have formed
>the "Donalds Historical Society".  Substantial work has been done to place
>original plats on a current map as well as compile a history of the
township
>and Ft. Boone.

Good luck,

Dennis Smith

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