The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-09-25


But this method must have proved a fail
urc, for the resolution enforcing it wore
fcsoindcd in December oc tho same year.
TIE COLLEGE LANDS.
1888 On tho eleventh Of October COM
mittco was appointed 'to run out tho Mount
Sion land" The following gentlemen COM
posing it: Con- Richard Winn, Col. Henry
Hampton and William Boyd.
1t would DO a matter of intcrest in ibis
connection TO know by what mcnns and
when tho Society came in possession Of its
lands. There is discrepancy between the
record and tradition in regard to this mat.
ter. 1t is said by some now living, who
received what they think to be The true
version of ii from those who wcre contompo-
rary with the time in question, that al
though tho titles were madc TO tho Society
by Gen. Richard Vim, yet tho land was
really donation from Col. John Wander
horst. II is difficult to reconcile this dis
crcpancy as there is no record of the real
facts in the cnsc.
There wcro evidently donations made
twice to tho Society. II may bc That Gen.
Winn and Colonel Vandcrborst, onch, made
n donation Of land, the latter making the
first, and the former, The second.
Eleven days after the committco was ap-
pointed to run out tho land they report cd
"that they had run out tho land, but that
the plat was misplaced 80 that they could
not make II full report at that timc." thcrc-
foro requested further timc--which was
granted.
Seventeen days afterwards, on the 9Th of
| November, the same committee reported the
plat Of the land, which had been run out,
and on tho 9th of December Nicssrs. Kcmp
Strothcr and Francis pringlc were appoint.
| ed committee "to draw up the deeds Of
Mount Sion Land" There is nothing to
show by whom this tract Of land was given,
if given at all, to tho Society There can
De no doubt that il was q small tract front.
| ing on Congress (v~ Ht~,n) s.scu,, Just
where tho stores Of Mr.. J. =. Matthews Jr..
and Capt Thos. Jordan now stand, and ran
back rs far as tho residence Of tho latter
gentleman stands.
No other action seems to have been taken
in reference to The College lands, until the
Fall of 1887, when the attention Of the Com
mittcc in Winnsboro was called by the So
cicty 10 The fact that parties had committed
'grcat waste on the Society's lands" But
there had been in tho meantime donation
fonc hundred acres made the Society, and
ohis is the gift about which tho difference Of
opinion exists as to who is entitled TO be
called The bcncfnotor. But, whilo there
may be discrepancy rs to who gave the
first tract Of land of tho Society, there can
be none as to these hundred acres; for the
original deed Of conveyance has come down
to tho present day, and forms Part of the
records of tho Society which have been
preserved. Il is recorded upon parchment,
dated July goth, 1856, and is signed bv
"Riohard winn," attcstcd by Josiah Smith,
d. DcSnussure and Geo II. Smith, Jr., and
examined and recorded by D. Mazyck.
Negistcr Nj. G. Though this last was not
done until the 9th September 1886.
But there is further proof that to Gen.
Winn the Society is indebted for This rene
rOns donation. On The 4th Of February
1883, the Committee Of Correspondence of
the Society in Charleston, addressed a
lotter of somo longth to tho Committee at
this place, in which, among other things,
they again cnll attention to the dcprcdation
committed upon the College lands. 1t seems
that from somc cause tho Society haa failed
to receive information that the Committee
acted promptly upon the instructions given
the previous Fall in regard to taking &C.
ton to stop tho depredations. As this cor.
respondonce will appear in full in another
part OF this history, only so p,uch Of tho
reply OF tho Committee to tho Society will
be given as will suffice to establish Tho
point now at issue. The following is tho
extract:
~ committee WAS appointed sometime
ago 20 run round and mask the Socieiy's
lands, but tho plat could not DO found"
rms IS the plat reported in tho proceedings
OF Novcmbor 9th, 1888 for although two
donations of land had very probably bcen
made to tho Society, yet only ono survey
nad pecn made. The committee hero alluded
to was appointed November 10th, 1871
Ihe letter continucs-"G Winn now
informs us that ho has the plat, and as
soon rs tho weather permits ho will run
outtlic land and plat the additional ono
w ~. 70 oSJOlHihS thc lOrIncr ONlch
ne gioes the Society, and will execute titles
thoreof witha plat annexed, and transmit
them TO town rs soon rs possible"
"ono hundred acres adjoining The form
or" Who gavo thai 'formcr'' tract or
whether the Society bought it, it is impos
siblc to toll. n"
Tho College land at thistimo vas scompos-
ed ~ of part of tract olive huntlrel
acres originally granted to Robert Wilson
In April, 176s5; end (2) of q part of anoth.
er tract Of Eve hundred acres granted to
Archibald Mcneil in l772, Tho tract of
Wilson's grant embraced what is now the
northern (inhabited) half of Winnsboro.
Whenthe Committee appointed for that
Purpose--who were Col John Winn, Mr..
McCaule Qhe first president Of the College
after the war), j. Milling and Con. Winn-.
mado tho second plat ofthe College tract,
Tho lands bounding it on the northern sido
belonged to Kemp strother, and those on
INC ! southern side, to Colonel John Wander.