The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1922-04-27

is plat to grant of land made TO Robert Craw-
ford by the governor of that Province of South
Carolina in 1915. The plantation granted con
tanned $40 acres, and lay along WaXhaw Creek
with the line between the Provinces of North
Carolina and South Carolina the eastern
boundary.
The certificate TO the plat recites that the tract
had previously been granted to Andrew Pickens
by the governor of North Carolina under the mis-
apprehension that ii lay within the bounds of
North Carolina At the time of Jackson's birth
the line between the two Provinces at this point
had not been agreed upon or blaZed out. In l'o4
Governor Bull had directed that straight line con-
Meeting gum tree on Twele Mile Creek with q
stone about a mile south of WaXhaw Creek should
be considered the line until an agreement should
be reached In 1712 this line was officially agreed
TO- and by that agreement the land wherein Craw-
ford then lived was shown to be South Carolina
territory and was then formally granted to Craw-
ford who had doubtless been on 1t for some years
In 1905 the States of North Carolina and South
Carolina entered into a conventional agreement
for definitely fixing the boundary line between
the two States at certain points. one OF these
points was the eight-mile line referred to above
In 1913 the commissioners and surveyors appoint
ed by the two States ran, blaZed out, and made
man of the line This map shows the landmarks
along the line. On the plantation granted to Rob
ert Crawford in 1775 two houses were shown on
this map, those of j. Crawford and X. Crawford
In 1920 the State of South Carolina began the
compilation Of series of maps of the districts
of the State under the supervision of Robert Mills
the great American engineer. The contract for
surveying and making a map of Lancaster district
was given to ]. Boykn, native of that section
of the State and surveyor of wide reputation.
His map fixes Gen. A. Jacksons birthplace on
the Crawford plantation exactly where the map
made under General JacksOn's direction in 1S43
placed it. Before publishing Mr. Mills sent proof
of the map to General Jackson who wrote back
that the birthplace thereon given correct that
he was born on the Crawford place. In the same
wear QS2O) Eugene Reilly, surveyor and en-
gineer" delineated a map of Lancaster district,
differing from BOykin's map regards landmarks,
but placing General Jackson's birthplace" ex-
actly where Boykin placed 1t.
There is no evidence within the reach Of the
general investigator to contradict Jackson save
that of several witnesses who have given testimony
from hearsay and tradition that Jackson was
born at the house of one George Mckinney, a rea-
tive There is not single direct statement
from anyone that he or she knew of his her
own knowledge of the place where Jackson was
born as all of this hearsay testimony offered
long after Jackson and all Of his elders and con-
temporaries dead
General jackson had half a dozen or more BIZ
ographers who wrote during his lifetime. at least
four of whom were his intimate friends-John
Reid, John H. Eaton, Gen. James Gadsden, Will
liam Cobbett Goodwin and Amos Kendal-and
every one of them credited him to South Carolina,
as did hundreds of newspaper and magazine writ
ers of his day; did the official publications of
South Carolina and other States, such as legisa-
tive reports and resolutions and Journals and
when he died very many editors and euogists, in
Guiding the great historian Bancroft, spoke of
him as native of South Carolina, yet fifteen
years later, after his contemporaries had passed
away and proofs had disappeared, claimants
rix-a1o tha RoId olo
North Carolina. But the evidence is against them
and South Carolina should acknowledge him as
our own" and place lasting marker on the spot
where he first saw the light.