Hi...I've been doing a lot of research in the SC records...thought some 
on this list might be interested in this information...it does not 
appear that there is a copyright on this "research paper" and as such I 
will be putting it in the Coats Family Archive as a scanned 
document..."a few days".......links to the Coats Family Archive are 
in my signature lines...somewhere at the bottom of the email, I 
think....if it doesn't show up...please let me know....there were some 
Quaker records that were either destroyed by fire or lost, i.e. the 
Fredericksburg Monthly Meeting or area....Charlotte

From: "C. Coats-Siercks" 
>Subject: Quakers SC Backcountry
>Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 06:54:58 PDT
>To: [email protected]
>
>Source:  Quakers in South Carolina's Back Country, Wateree & Bush River
>
>Introduction
>
>The subject of Quakerism in the South Carolina Backcountry has been an 
>area of interest to me for many years.  Quakers appeared at a very 
early 
>date in what is now Kershaw and Newberry Counties.  The origin of these 
>settlements has been (and still remains) an enigma.
>
>Part one is concerned with Wateree Meeting - often referred to as 
>Fredericksburg.  This is from pages 67-101 of "Historic Camden:  
>Colonial and Revolutionary" by Kirkland and Kennedy (1905)
>
>Part two is about Bush River Meeting.  It is taken from pages 28-36 & 
>329-359 of "The Annals of Newberry" by O'Neall and Chpaman (1892)
>
>These two accounts are the only printed sources that deal at length 
with 
>these meetings.
>
>Quakers had settled in South Carolina at Charleston as early as the 
>1680s.  There seems to be no connection between Quakers in Charleston 
>and those in the backcountry.
>
>Quakers at Wateree (now Camden, Kershaw County) date from at least 
1751.  
>In that year three families, Josiah Tomlinson, Samuel Wyly and Robert 
>Milhouse, settled there.  These Friends were from Timahoe, Ireland and 
>had intended to settle in North Carolina.  (See page 96 "Arthur Dobbs, 
>Esquire, 1689-1765" by Clarke (1957) "...but the captain of the ship in 
>which they went, not being well acquainted with the coast, ran to the 
>southward (of North Carolina) landed them at Charleston, South 
Carolina, 
>and thereupon they settled in that province."  (See page 28, Vol. 9 
>"Friends Library")
>
>These Friends left Ireland in April, 1751.  In October of that same 
>year, Samuel Wyly petitioned for land in South Carolina, stating that 
he 
>was "desirous of settling near the rest of his Friends on the Santee or 
>on the Wateree rivers..."  (See Council Journal 18, part 2, page 338.)  
>It is not clear whether Wyly was referring to Friends already settled 
>there or to Friends who came with him.  "The expansion of South 
>Carolina, 1729-1765" by Meriwether (1940) pages 103-105 points the way 
>to further investigation.
>
>No records of the Wateree Meeting are known to exist.  There is no 
doubt 
>that it was an established monthly meeting as espistles were exchanged 
>with London and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings.  Certificates of 
>membership were sent to and received from Wateree by various monthly 
>meetings.  Only regularly established monthly meetings sent and 
received 
>certficiates.  How it was established is unknown.  It is my guess that 
>it was set up by Carver's Creek Monthly Meeting, Bladen County, North 
>Carolina, whose records are also lost.
>
>The origin of Bush River Monthly Meeting is also somewhat of a mystery.  
>It is probably that it was set up by Wateree Monthly Meeting.  The 
>earlist records for Bush River are lacking.  Those that do exist have 
>been published in Hinshaw's "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 
>Volum I, pages 1015-1039.  The originals of these records are in the 
>Quaker Collection of the Guilford College Library, Greensboro, North 
>Carolina.
>
>There is no doubt that considerable information can be found in South 
>Carolina civil records as well as other archives and respositories - 
>should time ever become available.  The full story may never be told, 
>but a much fuller one could be.
>
>Willard Heiss
>
>______________________________________________________
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>

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