The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-14

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- asaa sf6n OF whites took place.
At this period considerable colony OF
Germans arrived, and settled inseveral
parts of the district. From the third
year of their settlement, they had the
benefit of religious instruction from
the Rev. John Gisendanner."
EVery probably this is the same name
as Geisenhainer, sometimes Geiselhart,
who preached in Dutch Fork, before
the days of Parson Waller.]
zone of his children, born in 1742, is
still alive, lin 1926, the date Of publica-
ton of Mills Statisticsl. The first child
that he christened, born in 1856, is also
alive, lin 1s26,-S7 years oldl. This
reverend gentleman continued to ofll-
ciate among the emigrants for twenty
wears after their settlement in Orange
burg; and his register is exact. Three
or four individuals had previously SET
tied at the Cowpens, northwesterly OF
the low country white settlements.
These and the Cherokee and Catawoa
Indians were all the inhabitants who
had proceeded the Germans. In l1t9,
another colony of Germans settled here,
which with one Of Irish, much in
creased the population. The district
ri. e. Orangeburgi originally embraced
all the country from Savannah river to
Santee; and from Charleston aud Beau
fort districts to Edgefield, including
the Dutch Fork"
This quotation from Mills indicates
the way in which emigrants to the IL
terror of South Carolina obtained titles
to the lands on which they desired to
settle. When Henry Sterling applied,
in I704, for a grant to secure his rights
to certain lands in Orangeburg, the
person authorized by the King OF En-
gland TO superintend such transactions
with the settlers was Nathaniel John
son, one of Proprietary Governors.
Fifteen years afterwards, change took
place in the titles of these dignitaries.
After 1719 they were styled Royal
Governors,-having received their ap-
pointment directly from the crown,
instead OF from the Lords Proprietors.
Therefore, when John Adam Summer
came to the section of conntry now
called ''The Dutch Fork" and drove
into the ground the pine-knot-stake
to designate the place of his future
home, the person from whom he
received the grant that confirmed
him III his ownership was very proba-
bIy the Royal Governor William Bull
1877, or James Glen l743.
cannot refrain from making anoth-
er quotation from Mills on page lis,
not only to fix the date when the
Cherokee Indians had ceeded by treaty
to tie King of England nearly all their
lands in South Carolina, but also to
corroco7ate, by a beautiful incident,
the supposition of some learned anti
quagians that the North American In
dians are the continuous dispersion OF
the Ten Lost Tribes Of Isreal Having
crossed over to America at Behring's
straits. The transmission Of an event
to pesterity by impressing it upon the
mind of a very yorng bog, so that
when he becomes an old man he may
hand it down to some one of the next
generation for the perpetuation OF his
sorical knowledge, results among the
Indians, very likely, from the lingering
of an ancient Israelitish custom. (oee
Exodus, xiii: II, and Deuteronomy,
xxxii:7.
"When Governor Gleu"-so writes
Milis-''met the Cherokee warriors IN
their own country, and held treaty
with them, after he had finished his
speech, Chulochculla arose, and in an
swer spoke to the following effect.
What now speak our father the great
king should hear. We are brothers to
the people of Carolina; one house
covers US ALL Then taking boy by
the hand he presented him to the Gov
ernor, saying, we, our wives, and our
children, are all children of the great
King George; have brought this child,
that when he grows up, he may re-
member our agreement on this day,
and tell it to the next generation, that
it may be known for ever Then open
, ing his bag Of earth Isee2 Kings V: III,
and laying the same at the governors
: feet, he said: we freely surrender
part of our lands to the great king.
The French want our possessions, but
we will defend them, while one Of our
nation still remains alive Then de-
livering the governor ring Of wam-
pun, in confirmation of what he said,
he added: My speech is at an end; it is
the voice of the Cherokee nation. l
hope the governor will send it to the
king, that it may be kept forever
MUS Statistics OF South Carolina, page
Us.
In regard to John Adam Summer, 1t
cannot be far from the truth to state
that, after stalking off his lands so as to
have established points for description,
he applied to the Royal Governor
flames Glen, with scarcely any douot)
and obtained the grant which made
him Lord Of all he surreyed' with
his buIlis-yine for Gunter's chain, and