The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1921-12-01
RICINAL JEWELLERS
! IN WILLIAMSBURG
NAMES OF FIRST SETTLERS IN
THE TOWNSHIP OF WILL
LIAMSBURG.
(By William Willis Boddie)

sisting of 10000 acres of land, and
the reserved land for the township,
the territory within six miles from
the boundary line of the square town.
ship, was admeasured and laid out
and the plots signed by Anthony Will
iams on the 18th day Of March, 1885,
The middle point in the township was
Askex Kings Tree, presumably white
pine located on the bank of Black
river. The town of Williamsburg was
admeasured and laid and the plot
made and signed on the 25th day CT
August, 1887, by Anthony Williams.
David Johnson, Robert Erwin, Roger
Gordon, Archibald Hamilton, John
Scott, Sr., Francis Finlay, Andrew
Rutledge, Mathew Nelson, Edward
Plowden and John Porter settled on
lands in 1913 where Williamsburg
township was laid out in 1875.
Robert Erwin died in 1735 end his
widow, Jane Erwin, held the property
when the town was surveyed in 1877.
Jane Erwin and David johnson owned
the lands on the northwest Of the
town; Roger Gordon and John Hender-
son ON the northeast; Archibald Ham
ilton on the southeast; and Black nv
er swamps bounded it on the south
west.
In 1874, John Witherspoon and his
seven children, six of whom were
married and brought children of their
own, settled in this township on Bog
gy Swamp. His eldest daughter,
Janet, married John Flemming In Ire
land and they brought seven children
to Williamsburg.
John Witherspoon's son, David,
married Anne Pressly in Ireland and
tHey brought two children with them
to Williamsburg. John Witherspoon's
daughter, Elizabeth, married William
James in Ireland and they brought
with them four children to Williams
burg. Robert Witherspoon, son OF
John, married Mary Stuart and by
her had two children. Mary died in
Ireland and he married his second
wife, Hester Jane Scott, a short time
before he left Ireland and brought
her and her one child and his two
other children with him to Williams
burg. Mary, daughter of John With
erspoon, married David Wilson in
Ireland and they brought to Williams
burg two children, William and John.
Gavin, youngest son Of John, was
born in 1712 in Ireland and came to
Williamsburg unmarried.
From 1875 to 1887 a great many
settlers came from everywhere to
Williamsburg township. These are
those who had settled here up to 1887:
Robert Allison, John Anderson, James
Armstrong, David A,nett, John Atholl,
Robert Austin, John Ballentine, John
Barnes, George Barr, Joseph Barry,
John Basnet, Benjamin Bate, John
Baxter, Mathew Bernard, Joseph
Bignion, James Blakely, John Blakely,
Sarah Blakcly, John Bliss, Samuel
Boitevant, John Borland, James Brad
ley, Thomas Brown, George Burrows,
William Camp, William Campbell,
Henry Cassells, William Chambers,
John Cleland, William Cochran, John
Conner, William Copeland, James
Crawford, Thomas Dale, John Dick,
Nathaniel Drew, Thomas Dyel, Jane
Fldridge, Robert Erwin, Thomas Far
rington, Francis FinIay, Robert Fin
lay, James Fisher, John Flemming,
John Frierson, William Frierson
David Fulton, James Gamble, R. j.
Gibson, Gabriel Ginnard, Mary
Gleadow, William Glen, Roger Gordon,
Francis Goddard, Hugh Graham, Hugh
Green, Richard Hall, Thomas Hall,
William Hambleton, Archibald Ham
ilton, William Hamilton, John Ham
merton, Ann Hargrave, Christopher
Harvey, William Harvey, John Her
ron, Briget Hughes, Peter Hume,
George Hunter, John James, William
James, John Jamison, William John
son, David Johnson, Abraham Jordan
!. Samuel Kennedy, John Knox, Grafton
Kerwan, Richard Lake, John Lane
James Law, Patrick Lindsay, Richard
Malone, John Mathews, Richard Mid
dleton, Samuel Montgomery, Daniel
Mooney, John Moore, William Nor
gan, Joseph Moody, John Mccullough
Nathaniel Mccullough, Mary Muckle,
roy, Daniel Murray, David McCants
John McCants, James McCauley
James McClelland, Christian McClel.
{ land, Jane McClelland, Alexander Nc.
! Clinchy, William Mccormick, William
Mcknight, John McElveen, Archibald
&r(.rea William McDole, Hugh Nc.