Everything but the kitchen sink.

Sephardic Jews have lived in the state for more than 300 years,(*) (*) (*) especially in and around Charleston (*). Until about 1830, South Carolina had the largest population of Jews in North America. Many of South Carolina’s Jews have assimilated into Christian society, shrinking Judaism down to less than 1% of the total religious makeup. In addition, Roman Catholicism is growing in South Carolina due to immigration from the North.

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via South Carolina: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article.

For those who love history, dream of adventure, riches, and fame; for those really believe they’ll hit the jackpot on the lottery scratch-off, for those still look up at night to see the stars and passing clouds. and for those who love to touch the past, here’s a challenge to give meaning to your visions and put money in your pocket.: Whatever happened to the Confederate gold?

If you worry about the fiscal state of the country or the money in your own pocket, the gold spoils of the civil war offer hundreds of chances to expand your net worth.

Thought the Confederacy was poor and in a state of penury by the war’s end? The central government still had great wealth even as the war put the administration on the run. The last Confederate Cabinet meeting presided over by Jefferson Davis was held on May 2, 1865, in Abbeville, SC, at the Burt-Stark House.

By the time Lee surrendered, five wagons of gold and silver—coins, bricks, and bars, the remains of the Confederate treasury’s reserve–were loaded May 24, 1865 in Richmond, at the train depot. Captain Parker of the Navy and an escort of armed troops, guarded the gold on the ride from Richmond, Virginia, to Anderson, South Carolina. There the gold was reloaded to wagons for shipment to Savannah or Charleston.

Confederate president Jefferson Davis met the caravan at Washington, GA. Later, scouts observed Union troops near Augusta, and the caravan returned to Washington (which is now in Lincoln County).

Unknown raiders attacked the wagon train near the Dionysius Chennault Plantation (the home of an elderly Methodist minister)–only a 100 yards from the house. During the attack, the gold disappeared. Most researchers and contemporary observers believe it was hidden, but the location of this cache of riches remains a mystery.

via OnMilwaukee.com – Reader Blogs.

# ID: I0848 View Post-em!

# Name: William JUSTICE

# Sex: M

# Birth: 1625 in Wales, England

# Death: 1664 in Weynoke Parrish, Charles City Co., VA.

# Note:

One source names his place of birth as South Hampton, London, England. One source lists him as a member of the House of Burgesses. One source lists him as the owner of the ship “Edward” that came from Bristol, England. About 1650 William Justice came from Wales or England and settled in Jamestown, VA. One source shows him receiving 1190 acres on April 26, 1656 for bringing 24 people from England. This was called the Kittewan, or Kittiewan Plantation, near Weyanoke, Charles City, VA.

Early Virginia Families Along the James River – Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches, Compiled and Published by Louise Pledge Heath Foley, Volume I, Richmond, VA 1974. This source contains the following:

Abstracts of Land Patents of Henrico County and Goochland County, including selected patents from Charles City, Chesterfield and Powhatan Counties (1624-1723) , Vol 1 Pages 16-19:

“WM. JUSTICE, 21 A., 2 R., 11 P., in Weynock in Chas. City Co., on N. side of James Riv., 20 Oct. 1665, p 537, (657). Beg. at a stake parting his own & land of MARGARETT HEWES, running N. by W. 300 po. then S.W. along Kittawan Br. & c. Being due & confirmed by order of the Genll. Ct. etc. dated 16 Sept. 1663.”

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Ancestors of Michael Justice.

# ID: I22822 View Post-em!

# Name: Robert HARDY 1

# Sex: M

# Birth: 1799 in Edgefield District, South Carolina

# Death: 1843 in Dollar, Coosa County, Alabama

# Note:

Robert Hardy and his wife Nancy Peebles Browning both came to Montgomery Co AL where they met and married in 1823. Nancy came with her parents in a wagon from Greene Co GA.

Robert´s cousin Susannah Hardy Crenshaw and her husband Stephen Crenshaw, related to the Charles Crenshaw(also Greenshaw) family, were born in the Tyger River area and went to Alabama with Robert Hardy about 1817 where they both bought property. I think Stephen was the son of Charles.

By 1818 Robert was paying taxes on land in Montgomery Co.- later became part of Lowndes County near Hayneville. Stephen was a surveyor and a Revolutionary soldier, with a large family, stores and stock, etc., and moved from Edgefield District, S.C.. He entered the land known today as Lowndes County, Hayneville, cutting the roads and bridges as they moved. Like Robert, he may have also still owned land in SC. Robert Hardy took Nancy back to his plantation in Edgefield SC where she gave birth to John B. Hardy in 1825. In 1828 Robert and Nancy sold land in Edgefield. See below. They probably lived a long distance marriage with slaves helping them in both Alabama and in Edgefield. Nancy probably stayed in SC where she had the luxury of a home and Robert spent time clearing land and building in Loundesboro. According to OUR FATHERS FIELDS, the Hardys worked side by side with their slaves in those early generations.

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Family Connections of William “Darrell” Hosey.

# ID: I4536

# Name: Benjamin Duvall

# Surname: Duvall

# Given Name: Benjamin

# Sex: M

# Birth: ABT. 1690 in Middle Plantation, Anne Arundel, MD 1

# Death: 1774 1

# _UID: C9176E45DD0D984480493A624A32B1E0CBF2

# Note: Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation by Harry Wright Newman, pgs470-484+:Benjamin DUVALL, you ngest son of Mareen the Emigrant, was bornin MiddlePlantation, All Hallows Parish, Anne Aru ndel County. Hisinheritance by hisparent’s will was “Howerton’s Range”, then in CalvertCou nty. A rent roll ofLord Baltimore shows that “Howerton Range” of 400acres, lying in Patuxen tHundred, was surveyed May 17, 1670, for JohnHowerton on “ye west side of abranch of the P atuxent River at yenorthernmost bounds of land of GabrlParrott”.

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Kaelin, Birkel, Kellar, Morrissey, Rutter, Woodward, Anderson, Butler in MD and NY.

Name: Mareen (the emigrant) Duvall

via RootsWeb’s WorldConnect Project: Kaelin, Birkel, Kellar, Morrissey, Rutter, Woodward, Anderson, Butler in MD and NY.

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Another lead to follow-up on.

- CAA

<a href=”http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH6&CISOPTR=57976″>Cansler Family In America – http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH6&CISOPTR=57976</a><BR>

ABBEVILLE — No one knows how many people have lived in the three one-room servant cabins sheltered behind the McGowan-Barksdale-Bundy House, but historians recognize the need to preserve the unusual 150-year-old buildings that dozens might have called home.

Often called The General’s House, the McGowan-Barksdale-Bundy House is unusual itself.

Located on North Main Street, the mansion features its own tower, a turret, multi-faceted roofs and windows in different sizes and shapes.

The building’s nickname follows its two most prominent owners, both generals: Confederate Gen. Samuel McGowan, who bought the property in 1865, and WWII Gen. W.E. Barksdale, the last owner to live in the home.

In its heyday, a time of carriages and wealth, multiple buildings would have stood behind the main home, including a kitchen building, stable, chicken coop and slave or servant quarters. Of all the adjoining buildings, only three remain: the raised one-room cabins built for the household servants.

via Index Journal | Greenwood, SC | News.

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Local Abbeville, South Carolina histrical site news.

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The original meaning of the word “Melungeon” is obscure (see Etymology below). From about the mid-19th to the late 20th centuries, it referred exclusively to one tri-racial isolate group, the descendants of the multiracial Collins, Gibson, and a few other related families of Newman’s Ridge, Vardy Valley, and other settlements in and around Hancock County, Tennessee. Some researchers limited application of the term further to the descendants of two early 19th century settlers of that area, Vardy Collins and his brother-in-law Shepherd Gibson. Recently, however, some researchers have begun to use Melungeon to mean almost all traditionally recognized tri-racial isolate groups of the Eastern United States.

[edit] Origins

[edit] A complex question

A common belief about the Melungeons of east Tennessee is that they are an indigenous people of Appalachia, existing there before the arrival of the first white settlers. But genealogists working in the late 20th century have documented, through a range of tax, court, census and other colonial, late 18th and early 19th century records, that the ancestors of the Melungeons migrated into the region from Virginia and Kentucky as did their English, Scots-Irish, Irish, Welsh, and German neighbors.[5]

The likely background to the mixed-race families later to be called “Melungeons” was the emergence in the Chesapeake Bay region in the 17th century of what historian Ira Berlin (1998) calls “Atlantic Creoles.” These were freed slaves and indentured servants of European, West African, and Native American ancestry (and not just North American, but also Caribbean, Central and South American Indian: see Forbes (1993)). Some of these “Atlantic Creoles” were culturally what today might be called “Hispanic” or “Latino”, bearing names such as “Chavez,” “Rodriguez,” and “Francisco.” Many of them intermarried with their English neighbors, adopted English surnames, and even owned slaves. Early Colonial America was very much a “melting pot” of peoples, but not all of these early multiracial families were necessarily ancestral to the later Melungeons.

via Melungeon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia….

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– Cathy Abernathy