The Dolores star., 1922-04-21

is plat to grant of land made to Robert Craw
ford by the governor of that Province of South
Carolina in l1I5. The plantation granted con-
tained G2O acres, and lay along Waxhaw Creek,
with the line between the Provinces of North
Carolina and South Carolina tho 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 it lay within the bounds of
North Carolina. AT the time Of Jacksons birth
the line between the two Provinces at this point
had not been agreed upon blazed out. In 1894
Governor Bull had directed that straight line con-
Meeting gum tree Twele Mile Greek with
stone about a mile south of Waxhaw Creek should
be considered the line until an agreement should
be reached. In 1772 this line officially agreed
to, and by that agreement the land whereon 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 1908 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 the eghtmile line referred to above.
In 1913 the commissioners and surveyors appoint
ed by the two States ran, blaZed out, and made a
map of the line. This map shows the landmarks
along the line. On the plantation granted to Rob
ert Crawford In 1775 two houses shown on
this map, those of j. Crawford and r. 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
given to j. Boykin, a native of that section
of the State and surveyor of wide reputation.
His map fixes Gen. A. Jackson's birthplace" on
the Crawford plantation exactly where the map
made under General Jackson's direction in 1913
placed it. Before publishing Mr.. Mills sent proof
of the map to General Jackson, who wrote back
birtlplace thereon was fbot
he born on the Crawford place In the same
year GS2O) Eugene Reilly, surveyor and en-
gineer," delineated map of Lancaster district
differing from Boykn's map as regards landmarks.
but placing General Jacksons birthplace" ex-
actly where Boykn placed it,
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 McKeney a rela-
tive. There is not one single direct statement
from anyone that he or she knew Of his or her
own knowledge of the place where jackson was
born, as all of this hearsay testimony was offered
long after Jackson and all of his elders and con
temporaries were dead
General Jackson had half n dozen or more hi
ographers who wrote during his lifetime at least
four of whom his intimate friends-.John
Reid, John ii. Eaton, Gen. james Gadsden VII.
liam Cobbett, Goodwin and Amos Kendall-snd
every one OF them credited him to South Carolina
as did hundreds of newspaper and magazine writ
ers Of his day: so 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 eulogists. in
Guiding the great historian Bancroft, spoke Of
him as native OF South Carolina. vet 6fteen
years later, after his contemporaries had passed
away and proofs had disappeared, new claimants
arrived on the field to claim him as NATIVE n,
North Carolina. But the evidence Ia against th.
ana South Carolina should acknowledge him no
our own and place lasting marker on the snot
where he first saw the light