Steve,

Hi, Marv Welborn here.  I just joined the SCRoots list and missed parts one
and two.  Is it possible that you could send me copies?

Thanks,

Marv


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From: Steve Coker 
To: [email protected] 
Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 2:42 AM
Subject: Settlement of the Back Country (Part 4 of 4)


... Continued from part 3.

    From the first settlement of the upper country till the peace of 1783, a
succession of disasters had stunted its growth.  The years 1756, 1757 and
1758,
were attended with no uncommon calamity.  The same may be said of the years
between 1770 and 1775, but with these exceptions; the upper country was for
nearly twenty years of the first thirty of its existence kept in a constant
state of disturbance either by the Indians or tories, and the contentions
between regulators and Scouilites.  Under all these disadvantages it grew
astonishingly.  Prior to the revolution it had received such an increase of
inhabitants, as essentially contributed to the support of that bold measure;
but
since the year 1783, the improvement of that part of the State has exceeded
all
calculation.  In the course of the revolutionary war the Cherokees, having
taken
part with the enemies of the State, were so completely defeated, that in
1777,
they ceded to South Carolina all their lands to the eastward of the Unacaye
mountains.  In the year 1784 a land office was opened for the sale of this
land.  The price fixed was ten dollars per hundred acres, payable in debts
due
From the State.  This low price, the fertility of the soil, and the
healthiness
of its climate, allured settlers to this newly acquired mountainous
territory in
such abundance that its population advanced with unexampled rapidity.  The
extent of the limits of South Carolina -- the increasing population both of
its
old and new western territory, has within the last twenty-five years
elevated
the upper country from a low condition to be the most influential portion of
the
State.  The base of South Carolina on the sea coast below the falls of the
rivers, when compared with its apex above the falls, is nearly as three to
two;
yet its principal strength rests with the smaller section.  The latter
increases
in wealth, population and improvement of every kind, much more rapidly than
the
former.  What the flat sea-coast has slowly attained to in 138 years, is now
within the grasp of the hilly upper country; though very little more than
half a
century has passed since the first germs of civilized population were
planted in
its western woods.

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End of Chapter VI, The Settlement of the Back Country.

Source:
"Ramsay's History of South Carolina from Its First Settlement in 1670 to the
year 1808" Volume 1, by David Ramsay, M.D. (Preface dated "Charleston,
December
31st, 1808"),  Published in 1858, by W.J. Duffie, Newberry, S.C.  Reprinted
in
1959, by the The Reprint Company, Spartanburg, S.C.

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