Subject: Re: Re: Mills Atlas From: Billie Etling Date: February 04, 1998 Thanks Steve! My folks are always hiding around the corners daring me to find them!! One of the land purchases was originally granted to George Robinson in Barnwell District. Do you know a lot about the "Memorials" of South Carolina and how to use them? If I understand it (and have never seen any of them myself) they recite owners of the land from day one up to a certain period of time....and I don't know what that date may be. Somehow I got the impression these had been printed and were in several volumes. South Carolinians, who work as my children say "with dead folks" might be as familiar with "Memorials" as us Geogia born are of the Land Lotteries and their gems. Don't worry about typos with me! I just add that to the list of many languages in which I claim to be fluent. Billie P.S. if you had any typos, I didn't catch them! At 01:15 AM 2/4/98 -0500, you wrote: >Billie, > >I looked in my copy. I didn't find the name Kemp in the Full Name Index or in >the Place Name Index. The index is credited to Mrs. Ella E. Lee Sheffield, >Texas City, Texas 77590. I wouldn't consider it 100% correct however, as my >ancestor's name is misspelled in the index although spelled correctly on the >Sumter District map. So, I gave a quick scan to the Barnwell District map but >didn't find the name. Still could be hiding somewhere though. > >Here is some information from the 1980 reprint Introduction by Gene Waddell. >Please excuse any typos. > >"Thomas Anderson, Deputy Surveyor, prepared the surveys of Edgefield and >Barnwell Districts. Both of his manuscript maps have survived and are signed by >him, and he is credited with having made both surveys in the Atlas. He was >given an advance in May, 1817, for the Edgefield map and received final payment >for it in December, 1818. .... His manuscript is highly exceptional in being >watercolored with blue for water, red for roads, and yellow for swamps. He was >paid an additional $1,000 on 26 August, 1819, for his map of Barnwell (1,440 >square miles). It is unusually detailed in that if often shows approximate >boundaries of individual land holding; it was clearly based in part upon plats. >.... The Barnwell map has the new scale of one mile to the inch and so is twice >as large as the published version and had to be reduced for it." > >I haven't seen the actual survey maps, but I wonder if there might be some names >on the surveys that didn't make it onto the Atlas maps? Perhaps because the >owner had died or moved when Mills prepared the updates for the Atlas? Wonder >if there are published copies of the surviving surveys available somewhere? > >Hope that helps, > >Steven J. Coker >[email protected] >http://www.wp.com/Coker > > > >DIBBLELAW wrote: -----Original Message----- From: Billie Etling Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |