The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-29
were many men in old williamsburg

VINO were HldfIieu loui liiHeS.
Margaret Gregg married three
times, somewhat exceptional for a
women even in that marrying gener-
alton. At sixteen, she married Sam
uel Scott. They had one daughter,
Elizabeth, who married fist John
Cunningham and second Willi:m Nc
Elveen. Samuel Scott died in 1853;
and, in ITO, Margaret Gregg Scott
married William Gordon. They had
four children, Samuel Scott, who mar
ried Catherine Mcconnell, Eunice who
married William Wilson of Marion,
Margaret who married Alexander
Gregg, and Rebecca Erwin WHO mar
ried first Arthur Cunningham and
second John Scott. William Gordon
died in 1884. Margaret Gregg Scott
Gordon married William Flagler in
1870 and to them were born William
Gordon and John. 1t will be noted
that Margaret named her first son
by her second husband for her first
husband and her first son by her
third husband for her second husband.
Samuel Scott, Margaret's first hus-
band, was the son of John Scott,
original settler in Williamsburg.
William Gordon, her second husband,
came from Pennsylvania to Williams
burg in 176S and settled in the Cedar
Swamp section. He was captain
in the Revolutionary War. Robert
Baxter, Justice of the Quorum of
Camden District, endorsed or Mar
garet's claim for pay for the serv-
ices of her husband in the Revolution
these words: Captain Gordon was
as constantly and as regularly in the
service of his country as any officer
in the Pee Dee Regiment" William
Flagler, Margaret's third husband,
came from Long Island, New York,
to Williamsburg just after the Revo-
lutionary War. 1t is believed that
he was captain in General Greene's
army; certainly he was a captain in
the Williamsburg militia just after
the Revolution and one of the Com
missioners to re.allot land in the
town of Williamsburg under the Act
of the Legislature of 1888.
The Gregg family is one of the
most ancient and most honorable of
the Irish-Scots. A Celtic prcverb
says "The mountains, the rivers, and
the MacGregors are coeval." A
Highland saying runs "Where Mac
Gregor sits, that is the head of the
table" Gregg or Gregory the Great,
as he is known in history, was the
fourth king of the Alpin Royal Line
and reigned from s75 to S93. He
was of mixed Scottish and Pictish
descent. The next Gregg king Of
Scotland was ninth in line after
| Gregory the Great. His grand
daughter, Lady Gruoch, became the
Lady Macbeth of history and of
Shakesperian drama.
The clans of Scotland first appear
ed in the reign of David | and the
"Mac" as now used was not a part
of fixed names until the eleventh
century. The Greggs and MacGreg-
ors were very prominent in medieval
times and a great deal of romantic
! interest attaches to the clan. 1t liv-
ed under acts of attainder or out
lawry for about three hundred years,
much of which time it was unlawful
i to name a child Gregg or MacGregor.
Sir Walter Scott secured from this
clan material for Rob Roy and the
Legend of MontroSe and the character
of Roderick Dhu in his poem, Lady
of the Lake.
/ David Gregg of the Clan Mac
Gregor, born in Argyle, Scotland,
was captain in Cromwell's army in
1865 and after the war settled in
Londonderry, Ireland. In 1889, ne
was maSSacred by lrlSh-CathollcS Dut
his wife and four sons escaped. In
1717, these four sons, John, Samuel,
David, and Andrew emigrated to
Boston. AS an old man, John finally
settled on Cedar Swamp in Williams
burg. He had four sons, James, John,
Robert, and William and three daugh-
ters, Margaret, Janet, and Mary.
This Margaret was the Margaret
Gregg Scott Gordon-Flagler of Will
liamsburg.
Gregg blood, whether transmitted
through the male or the female line,
has proved in South Carolina and in
many other Southern States that the
| ancient nnotto of the Clan "S' rioQhail