Re: Thomas and Blair's of Edgefield, Greenwood and there abouts - Ghtanda
Subject: Re: Thomas and Blair's of Edgefield, Greenwood and there abouts
From: Ghtanda
Date: January 06, 2000

Looking for these SC families.  Would appreciate any help and am willing to 
trade information.    
    
Guy Thomas    
Houston, TX    
281 444-1366    
FAX 281 893-3475    
[email protected]    
    
Blair, George and William, I am searching for information on George (b 1750) 
and William Blair (b 1739) in Ireland.  Arrived Charleston South Carolina in 
March or before 1766, possibly Sept.1765.  They were Irish Protestants 
(possibly Presbyterians) that came and received Bounty Land in Belfast 
Township of Granville Country, South Carolina.  Have copies of original land 
grants dated March 1766. Land promoters in South Carolina at this time were 
Arthur Dobbs and Matthew Rea that also had land in Georgia.  It is said that 
Rea made a trip back to his home area County Down -- Lisburn, Ballynahinch 
and Dromore to recruit settlers.                  
George Blair b 1750, d 1787                                                   
         
+ Barsheba                                                            
        Children    Christopher  b 1780 d 1829 Edgefield Dist., SC            
                                              
                    Gabriel                                                   
          
                    Barsheba                  
    Christopher                                                            
        + Sarah                                                            
            Children    G W (Washington)  b1808 SC, d 1849 MS                 
                                          
                        Hazle              SC                                 
             
                        Elizabeth         SC                                  
                 
                        James             b 1814 SC                           
                    
                        Pulaski (P L)    b 1849 SC                            
                            
                        Sarah               SC                                
             
                        Christopher       SC                                  
                   
                        Columbus b1824   SC                                   
                      
                                                            
        G W (Washington) went to Scooba, Kemper County, Mississippi           
                                                 
            +Martha                                                           
 
                Children    Hasle (Hayes or H. H.) b 1833 SC                  
                                          
                            Nancy    b 1837                                   
                     
                            Sarah     b 1839                                  
                     
                            James    b 1841 AL                                
                        
                            Mary      b 1843 AL                               
                      
                            Martha   b 1848 MS                                
                        
                                                            
    
    
Seeking information on Jeremiah Thomas, place of Birth and parents.  Through 
a lease Jeremiah Thomas of the state of GA, planter, was present in Edgefield 
County, 96 Dist, SC in Oct 1795.  Sold land granted to him in Oct 1794 on 
Little Steven's Creek and waters of the Savannah River.  His name appears on 
the SC 1800 census.  I believe he had at least two sons, Joshua, b 1799 and 
Jeremiah 1800 something.  Joshua was my GGGrandfather.  My GGrandfather was 
William A. Thomas born in Green Cty, AL in 1829 and Grandfather was Charles 
William Thomas b Scooba, Kemper Cty, MS, in 3-10-1863 where he married Sallie 
Frances Blair in 1890 and moved to Houston, TX where he worked for the 
Southern Pacific RR.  Joshua and Jeremiah were present in Scooba, Kemper Cty, 
MS, in the mid/late 1800s.  Joshua at age 71 married to a Narcissa with a son 
David on the 1870 census.  I have these Thomas's in Texas to date.  There was 
a Josiah (John) Thomas at the Red Bank Baptist church on the little Saluda 
River in Edgefield Dist before 1792.  He was on the 1790 census for Edgefield 
Dist, SC.  Thought these names might be of the same family somehow.           
                                 
                                              
        
    
    
    
    

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