Bibliography From Ramona Bethene Richey Hall
Notes from: Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1771
(Rev. William And His Five Shiploads of Settlers)
by Jean StephensonThe Book mailed from: Donna R. Hobating, 2255 Cedar Lane, Vienna,
Va. 22180Published 1971 by Jean Stephenson, 1228 Eye St., N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20005. Privately printed at Shenandoah Publishing House,
Inc., Strasburg, Virginia, U.S.A. May be ordered from Miss Thelka
G. Stephan, 5303 14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20011 U.S.A.
$6.95.Help in writing from staff of Department of Archives and History of
South Carolina. Information from also: Ulster Emigration to
Colonial America 1718-1775 by Dr. R. J. Dickson and passenger list
of the snow James and Mary which was published in the Belfast News
Letter.Pg 1: Presbyterian families, Ireland to South Carolina before
American Revolution after 1740. Info from - Council Journals -
South Carolina Department of Archives and History.Writer's Ancestor, Hugh Stephenson, born in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim,
Ireland, January 25, 1765 and wife Margaret Stephenson, Ballymoney
also.Pg 2: About 1768 "Lord Donegail," the absentee landlord raised the
rents to such an extent that even under normal conditions few
persons were able to pay without exhausting their resources. In
1772 the minister of the Covenanter Presbyterian Congregation in
the area, the Rev. William Martin proposed that the congregation
pool its resources, send to Belfast and charter ships, and the
entire congregation emigrate to South Carolina. They agreed.Pg 3: Others in the neighborhood became interested and joined the
group.Pg 4: Draper Papers, VV (Microfilm). (Letters dated in the 1870's,
quoting from articles printed or written between 1840-1855 by Dr.
Lyman Draper, gives quite an account of the Rev. William Martin and
the migration of his congregation to South Carolina.Pg 5: R. J. Dickson, Ulster Emigration to Colonial America, 1718-
1775, calls attention to the expiration in 1770 of the leases of
the Earl of Donegall's County Antrim estates and the disturbances
and evictions resulting from action taken to raise large sums in
connection with the renewal of such leases.Pg 6: Excessive rent was the paramount cause for this migration.
"South Carolina: land offered to settlers"
"...as early as 1731 "poor Protestants" were offered land if
they came to the colony to settle. This was on the basis of 100
acres for the head of the family and 50 acres for every other
person in the family."Pg 11: The purpose in compiling this list of these settlers was to
demonstrate the use of various types of records (newspapers,
surveys, grants, ship arrivals, ports of sailing, diaries,
ecclesiastical records and histories, histories of specific areas
here and abroad, etc.) "In the Council Journal, names are given of
the following ships: the Lord Dunluce, Hopewell, Pennsylvania
Farmer, and Free Mason, and another group of persons listed (prior
to the Free Mason group) without giving the name of the ship on
which they came.""A search of the Charleston, South Carolina, newspapers from
midsummer 1772 to mid-January 1773 showed arrival of five ships
from north Ireland ports at the right time, furnished names of the
captains and port from which they sailed, and these ports were all
those from which passengers from the Ballymoney area might
logically have embarked. Four of these ships were the Lord
Dunluce, Hopewell, Pennsylvania Farmer, and Free Mason. The fifth
was the snow, James and Mary, which sailed from the same port as
the Lord Dunluce, and as will be seen later, passengers on it are
known from several other sources to have been part of Rev. William
Martin's party."Pg 12: The James and Mary arrived long before the rest of the ships
(stating others would follow), was detained for some time in
quarantine because of smallpox having been on board; after some
delay surveys were authorized and apparently warrants and precepts
prepared December 11 but not issued. nor were the names of the
individuals entered in the Council Journal until after the arrival
of the Rev. William Martin.Pg 13: see South Carolina Historical Magazine, vol. 69, page 155.
(for description of the changing names of counties.Pg 15: What has been done demonstrates that it will not be
difficult to establish the identity of the first and probably the
second generation in this country of a large percentage of this
group of immigrants. The majority of them were probably from the
vicinity of Ballymoney, Ballymena, Kellswater, and Vow, County
Antrim. Those who can prove descent from such a person will know
the general area in Ireland in which to begin the search for the
immigrant ancestor abroad and his antecedents.For this purpose the maps and general information in Ulster
Emigration to Colonial America, 1718-1775 will be most helpful. It
is recommended that it be read carefully before work in Ireland is
initiated.Chapter 2
Pg 17: "No. 1612 Gulielmus Martin, filus natu maximus Davidus
Martin in Com. de Londonderry, Minister of the Irish Reformed
Presbyterian Church; ordained at Vow, near Rasharkin 1757," (W.
Innes Addison, Matriculation Album of the University of Glasgow'
1728-1850, P. 50.)
(As is well known, an error once in print is copied and recopied.Pg 18: William Martin returned to Ireland from Glasgow and was
ordained at Vow, near Rasharkin, Co. Antrim, 2 July 1757, and
placed in charge of the societies centering in Ballymoney 13 July
1757.Pg 19: Martin chose the Kellswater congregation and lived at Bangor
for many years.Activities of agents during the period that South Carolina
offered a bounty to settlers had resulted in considerable
migration. so it was not an unfamiliar undertaking by 1772....since the facts are clear that he did go and took with him
a party of some 467 families on five ships...Pg 20: Rev. Martin preached (in America) at a log church on the
dividing ridge between Great and Little Rocky Creeks.
Pg 22: He eventually was the only Covenanter Minister in America
"who professed to teach the whole doctrine of the Reformation, and
who kept alive the Covenanter Church in America."Chapter 3
Pg 25: ...it is also true that there were in Ballymoney other
congregations of presbyterians, and members of these groups were in
the party coming with him.
At Ballymoney the Presbyterian Church of Ireland.
The Seceders (a "splinter" Presbyterian group) members in
Ballyreshane, Derrykeghen, Ballymoney, and Kilroughts.
The Reformed Presbyterian Church (Covenanter)Pg 26: After 1772 the Seceders and Reformed groups remaining in
Ballymoney were too small to support a minister and 1799 the
remaining members were taken into the congregation of Ballymena.Pg 27: James and Mary: 200 tons; master, J. Workman; agents, Jas.
McVicker, John Moore, merchant. On July 29, hoped that passengers
would be punctual and allow vessel to sail Aug. 8. Finally sailed
from Larne Aug. 25, 1772.Pg 29: In The South Carolina Gazette, issue of 22 October 1772.
TIMOTHY'S MARITIME LIST
Arrived at Charleston
"Oct. 18 Snow, James and Mary, John Workman, from Larne."
"Charleston, Oct 22. Last Sunday upwards of 200 Irish settlers
arrived here in the snow, James and Mary, Captain Workman, from
Larne. Some other vessels with a greater number on board were soon
to follow this.""Oct. 29, 1772--Proclamation by Charles Greville Montagu, Captain
General, Governor, [etc.]
"Whereas, the snow Mary and James, John Workman, Master, is arrived
at the Port of Charles Town from Ireland, with several Passengers
who have the Small-Pox on board, now lying off Sullivans Island, I
therefore strictly forbid all Persons whatsoever either from going
on Board the Snow or vessel called the Mary and James or near the
said Island, at the peril of being prosecuted according to the Laws
in that case made and provided, without my express orders and
Direction for so doing.
Given . . . etc. . . this 26th Day of October A.D. 1772
Charles-Greville Montagu"It was the custom, when passengers were satisfied with their
treatment aboard ship to write a letter--for publication--
expressing appreciation of the courtesies of the captain, etc., and
in the midst of their illness and delays this was not forgotten.
The letter was duly published in the Belfast News Letter on
Tuesday, December 22, 1772, and is of considerable interest.Pg 30-31: Those signing:
Revd Robt. McClintock, John McClintock, Thos. Makee,
John Dicky, James Stinson,
John Peddan, James Hood, Wm. Anderson,
Joseph Lowry, John Montgomery, John Thompson,
Timothy McClintock, John Snody, Hugh Loggan,
John Caldwell, Peter Willey,
Nathan Brown, Robt. Hadden, David Thompson,
Samuel Kerr, Wm. Boyd, Hugh Mansoad,
James Peddan, Robt. Machesney, Robt. Wilson,
Alex. Brown, Wm. Eashler, Robt. Ross,
John Brown, Charles Miller, John Parker,
Thomas Madill, John Rickey, James Young,
Wm. Simpson, Charles Dunlop, Robt. Neile.E. A. Jones, ed., Journal of Alexander Chesney: A South Carolina
Loyalist in the Revolution and after, (Columbus, Ohio, 1821) p. 3.
states: ...the smallpox was so severe on the vessel and when the
surgeon came on board and reported it to the Governor "we were
obliged to ride at quarantine first three weeks, and then a second
three weeks and 8 days ***".Chapter 48
Pg 40: The head of a family was entitled to 100 acres for himself
and 50 acres for his wife and the same for each other member of his
family.Pg 82: South Carolina, 6 January 1773
It is ordered by his Excellency, the Governour, that the
Secretary do prepare warrants of survey for the undermentioned
persons.Pg 83: SOUTH CAROLINA, 6 January 1773
(The listing of the unnamed ship starts here and continues to
mid-page 95.)Pg 94-95:
407. John Richey, Senior....................................250
(b) Pl. Bk. 20, p. 121; 11 Dec. 1772; in Craven Co., northeast
side Reyburns Creek, on branch called Reynolds Branch; bd'd William
O'Daniel, vacant land; sur. 16 Jan. 1773.
(c) Laurens.
409. Mary Richey............................................100
(b) Pl. Bk. vol. 20, p. 125; 11 Dec. 1772; on branch of Reyburns
Creek called Jones Branch; bd'd vacant land; sur. 22 Jan. 1773.
(c) Laurens.
410. John Richey, Junior....................................100
(b) Pl. Bk. vol. 20, p. 122; 11 Dec. 1772; in Craven Co., south
fork of Reyburns Creek; bd'd vacant land; sur. 16 Feb. 1773.
(c) Laurens.
411. Eleanor Richey.........................................100
(b) Pl. Bk. vol. 20, p. 122; 11 Dec. 1772; in Craven Co.,
Reyburns Creek, on branch thereof called Daniels Branch; bd'd Benj.
Jones, William Daniel, vacant land; sur. 22 Jan. 1773.Chapter 5
Pg 103: Identification of Immigrants from Ireland.
Irish Baptists, Irish Quakers, Church of Ireland, Presbyterians
(Reformed [Covenanter], Associate, Burger, Anti-Burgher, Seceders,
etc.) "Scotch" is a drink. In Ireland the designation now is
"Ulster Scot." not Scotch-Irish.Chapter 6
Pg 111: Variation in Spelling of Names
Browne, Brown, Broon, Broun, Broune. MacClure, McLure. Richie,
Richey, Ritchie. Winn, Win, Wynne.Pg 117: Index of Persons:
Pg 118: Brown, Alexander, 31 & 83; Molly, Mrs., 80.
Pg 122: Gordon, Moses, 69; Thomas, 72.
Pg 126: McClure, James, 55; William, 82; Widow, 82.
Pg 129: Richey, Eleanor, 95; John 94, 95, 98; Mary, 95; Richey,
John, 61; Rickey, John; 31 & 94.(Book also includes an index of rivers)
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