Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-17
BIRTHPLACE OF JACKSON.
Editors Caldwell and Hemphil Quarrel
Over Disputed History.

The Charleston News and Courier
birthplace of Andrew Jackson. copies
from A. S. Buell's history of Jackson,
as follows:
jackson was born in 1867. At that
time the exact boundary line between
the two colonial Carolinas was debat-
able; at least it had never been sub
jected to scientific delimitation. But
the spot where the McCamie cabin
born) was, in 1867, under the unques-
tioned-or rather the tacitly admitted
Jurisdiction of the colony Of South
Carolina. Therefore, Andrew Jackson
was born in that colony. But shortly
after the adoption Of the Federal con-
stitution in 1889 an amicable move
ment for the definitive location of the
boundary was made. This brought
about a survey during 1S93-'94 by John
| Floyd, the result of which was a read
| justment not only of the line between
the two Carolinas. but also of the south
boundary of Tennessee. So far as
concerned the Carolinas, but little
change was made, the readjustment
nowhere amounting to more than a
mile or two, and even that was due to
| the mere Strengthening of old lines
that had been carelessly located or in
accurately marked in the colonial sur
veys. At the particular point concern
| ed in this narrative the old and irreg-
ular line veered far enough from a
true parallel to throw the site of the
McCamie cabin on the South Carroll
| ma side. But Floyd's survey located
the line on the true parallel, which cut
| through a small chord of the former
erroneous arc and thereby located the
McCamie cabin about eighty rods
north of the line. in what was then
lI794 Mecklenburg county, but since
set off in what is now Union county,
North Carolina. Therefore. Jackson
though born in the colonial South Car
olina of 1867, was also born on soil
that became part Of the state Of North
Carolina in 1884"
These statements are in the teeth Of
affidavits gathered by Col. S. H. Walk
up and the facts verified by Parton,
the historian. We copy from Thomp-
kins' History Of Mecklenburg County:
For many years it was not known
in which state the McKemey cabin was
located, but the records of land titles
in the Mecklenburg county court house
established the fact that the site OF
the cabin has always been in North
Carolina. In a deed given by McKemey
to Crawford in 1892, 1t is described as
being north of Waxhaw creek The
Mecklenburg tract of land was sur
veyed in 1857 for John McKemey, and
was patented in 1851; was sold by
John McKemey to Repentance Town
send in 1861, and by Townsend to
George McKemey in 1866. McKemey
sold 1t to Thomas Crawford (son Of
James Crawford) in 1892 Crawford
to jeremiah Cureton in 1896: from
him it passed to his son, William j.
Cureton, from whose estate it was
purchased by ]. L. Rodman, the pres
ent owner (1903.) The records of
the transaction prior to 1912 are in
the Mecklenburg county court house;
after that year in Union county"
In his notification proclamation
Jackson declared himself a native OF
South Carolina. At another time he
said that he was born in the McKem-
ev sometimes called McCamie) cabin.
The date of his birth was March 15.
1867. If the McKemey cabin and
tract were in South Carolina, how does
it come that all the titles to them from
l1757-nine years before the birth OF
Jackson-down to the present time
are recorded in North Carolina? These
records are incontrovertible testi-
mony. Before them Mr.. Peulis|
statement that "the house in which
Jackson was born was in 1877, under
the unuuestiOned-Or rather tacitly
admitted-(note the modification) ju-
risdiction of the colony Of South Car
olina" will not stand for a minute.
This Is the case for the State
Charlotte Observer.