https://johnsonvilleschistory.org/files/original/7ac5900e8f223e0e86f58c6db2b83934.pdf 8abf0dfafc316951094bc256e79ed0c7 PDF Text Text Mm9c----- Our Huma~ Heritage • ree 1vers and fortune . Hut overall, there that "above one hundred ·and Anglicans as records indicate tfi!DLER was an amazing divergence sixty souls were settled on the that there was a dissenting of our among the first group of settlers said river , .. ," By 1726, con- · congregation located in the special that resulted in distinct com- struction of the church had same area in the 1720's. These iocy of the mw_iiti~s separated by religion, begun on Black River about a dissenters, mostly Calvinists , in the preJudices, peculiar speech and mile east of the present Brown's erected a Meeting House on roughly other characteristics, that Ferry bridge, This church later Church Creek on the River to survive to this day. The became the seat of Prince Williamsburg Georgetown ver to the character of the people can best Frederick's Parish when it was County line which is known to y to the be understood as we consider formed in 1734 . history as the Beach Mingo BrOIJlers'l to the ourselves creatures of our Obviously the area had at- Church, the Black River of this area historic past . Change seems to tracted more than just Meeting House, the "Wyneau old Williamsburg approach more rapidly in the dbeen carved 1970's as industry, businesses, County. As a and educational institutions Ibis section of sprout among the old farm land. i.t a part of And yet, even in the changes we live divisions-- discern evidences of the past. , Prince George ' Our very emotions and ideals ce Frederick's are shaped by an environment wn District. ' which had its origin in the days p County, when our forefathers ventured It District and into a bush wilderness, '8msburg County. uninhabited save for hordes of tbistoey transpired roving Indians . We build on ~ Of Black River, these ancient foundations . ~ Cedar Swamp, fer, Muddy Creek The ·first permanent settlers (Dee.. There are of this area followed navigable lleaa in our nation streams into the interior. They colorful gradually slipped beyond the wealthy narrow coastal strip up a..rury after Black River and Balck Mingo. les Town, 'In 1722 legislation created the bitants lived parish of Prince George. There t from was some contention as to Clrt. Few whether the parish Anglican Double chimneys and a high foundation are among willing church should be built at frhlBe Winyah <now Georgetown> or distinctive features of the Samuel Itly Wilson House, a iand the further up on Black River <near Greek Revival structure of handsome proportions built btthat the present Brown's Ferry) . A around 1850. Also called ''The Oaks.'' this house, which the year later a petition ad!lressed has been in continuous ownership of the family line, is Jiardy to the commons House from · now the home of Mrs. George H. Varn, Sr. settlers on Black River stated ;n ,._more Samuel Itly Wilson House om -- --- Land Congregation", or the Birch were terrifi.edby the howling Of r.tcCutcheD. Church. The Reverend John wolves and "feared being ~Scott, McBaxter, a prominent early devoured by wild beasts having (,1111 McGill. Presbyterian ministeir, served neither gun or dog, nol" any door · Sc:ott. this church during its early to our house." In the spring the ~·oantel. and 9..... days. There was a prosperous Indians came to hunt "in great settlement on Black Mingo numbers in all places like the Creek sometimes referred to as Egyptian Locusts but they were gst obscure 111 "Will town", though popularly not hurtful." The Williamsburg 111' 11 rea were the tJie 1755. bad been called "Black Mingo". By the Church was soon established ifl!O• !::eir hornes In time of the Revolution, the town and served a widely settled Nova Scotia> by was well settled and enjoyed the congregation including most of r11ies. These benefit of a bridge over the theinhabitantsofCedarSwamp 0 ,utb were deported creek, though one traveler later and Boggy Swamp. Many of the tboUCSthrOughout the described it as "a small set- second generation joined by ereli to the south. tlement of about a dozen in more recent immigrants from foioPI~ to reach different wooden houses built Ireland soo,n settled beyond the ~~ana where their mostly on one street .... " Some, reaches of the original township J,oui'8 re knows as ti August t756. rnore no doubt, had high hopes of its and in 1757 a Presbyterian " 111 diallS were sent future. including John Baxter Church was established on the ACaton to p r1nc . e and Charles Woodmason who headwaters of Black Mingo rles parish a nd were partners in the " Black Creek near the old Mingo Indian '5 the pe0ple of 008 Mingo Corporation ." The Black Village. Soon the congregation alll soon died In some Mingo families included of this church included people . vJrons. and sorne Whitely Dozier, Commander from as far south as Cedar en. but some Brockington, Hughes, Nesmith, Swamp and as far north as Oil · managed to Thompson. Snow, and Lane. Lynches River. From its in!Y the Englishw1th Governor Robert Johnson's ception the community at Inprotestants . Ch apung 's Exile Without township plan spurred set- diantown has been composed of' I that among the tlement in the back country and a homogeneious group ~th the ~families of the in 1732, Roger Gordon led a church as their strongest tie. J,BP1bert. Durant. and small band of Scotch-Irish to Commenting on the control of the King's Tree in Williamsburg the church over the community, fthe inhabi tants of the Township which became the )v. W.· Boddie wrote: ''No o country a round most successful of all the $andedrim at Jerusalem DCIJ: and Charleston. township endeavors. These first College of CIU'dinalJ at ~ d:1rist Church Parish Scotch settlers were all kin- in its time and ~qe,it~~ wee Bay , moved into settling along the P~ smen and were soon joined by exercised more e Lynches and their others of their relatives and control than did the Ses Among thern were countrymen. The Witherspoons Elders at Indiantown. es. H , es Britton. ugg1ns . had left the old country because · (irst settlers inqu~ and Simmons . Some of of "great distress to the per- names · as · Jam~. · ers who drifted into the cequted church." They settled were ol Huguenot exnear the King's Tree where they Thes.e French ' ' ~nts thrived in ton and on the Santee ·r influence is still ,felt Anyone who en1oys "pileau" owes a debt to Huguenots. The Durants. and Duboses have '01origins . The Lynches area also supported who had migrated from oothern provinces . The scamefrom the Jame in Virginia ; the Hannas Haseldens came from vania. These settlers blished territory with a eo e '111 ree Rivers· i! itne adnrtis befOre ~ mdividu Eadd:l llstrict li!eri CQ board principi review are is memlM It wi Tanne1 at the nounc' F1oren questi• pay, s and 1 necesi • the cl; King and t electe China Grove One of the earliest hou ses of the area. "China Grove:· the eighteenth century structt1re restored by and now the hon1e of Mr. and i\'lrs. B. !VI. Chandler, is a typica I ex:i111p le of the sturdy, unadorned houses built by early planters. c desire for new lands and a chance at prosperity . Many were successful. 1'here were two distinct groups among the early Anglicans and Scotch-Irish settlers Anglicans and Dissenters . 1'he Reverend William Screven of Kittery. Maine had settled near Winyah Bay by 1710 and his son , Elisha . laid out the plan for Georgetown . Among his descendants there was no doubt an inclination toward the Baptist dortrine. However . the large Baptist population in the Hemingway area probably owes its origins to later evangelists . The entire area was a hot bed during the American Revolution . The church at Indiantown \vas termed as a " sedition shop" and a remarkable skirmish was fought near Shepherd 's Ferry Oil Black Mingo . No family curt the I M1 Tale We escaped commitment and The years following the General Marion drew heavily Revolution were prosperous 011 the men of this section for years . The economic situation support. Indeed. they composed was encouraging . The the nucleas of his brigade. The inhibitants raised flax and re~ women of the era provided livestock . The indigo from had Marion with valuable in- Williamsburg was the finest in for formation on the movement of the province and brought a good tenc British regulars and Tories and price at Georgetown and to t these remarkable ladies Char Ies ton . And then rice the somehow managed to keep became the most important the families and plantations func - crop . soon to be replaced by 1 tioning. Major John James ' "King <;otton ." Cit encounter with Capt. Ardesif at Education in the early days 197 Georgetown no doubt ·'hastened was largely a function of the the rise of Marion·s brigade ," famil y and particularly the Certainly the James family church. By the mid i800 's there contributed as much as any were several " old field schools" patriot in America to the cause and Indiantown Academy was of independence . But there advertising its location " in a were others who felt just as healthy and moral neighstrongly their allegance to the borhood" where " Good boar- ovt King . Among these Tories were ding in respectable families can cit~ John Brockington. James be obtained at the exceeding buc Cassels. Amos Gaskins . John moderate price of three or four Mr Hamilton , and several others. dollars a month .... all the cit of an English bu, Jacob Bartell also served with branches the British . And no doubt some education together with a del inhabitants saw service on both knowledge of the Latin and ~h1 Greek language are carefully inc sides . fir The activities of General taught." The town of Hemingway and cu Francis l\1arion. The " Swamp J-' ox ." had made the area the surrounding communities st• famous in the Revolutionary give every evidence of corl.- fa history of South Carolina .. It was tinuing gro\vth and develoµ. on Snow's Island that rvtarion's ment. Lord Macaulay wrote in tt men had their most permanent the History of England that B· camp. One writer of· the Vic- "Those who compare the age in P torian age referred to the which their lot has fallen with a tt location of Marion's golden age which exists only in J1 c· headquarters as " the most imigination . may talk of F classic land in the Western degeneracy and decay ; but no world ." A poem entitled " Pee man \vho is correctly informed ~ Dee. Scene-Snow 's Island" . the as to the past will be disposed to author designating himself take a morose or desponding P "Phillippon." a ppeared in The view of the present. ,. Such is ~ 0 Sumter Watchman in 1855 ; our lot. On the same isle. brave Marion made a sta nd . Well for their country fought his Spartan band, A l\ t1': 1':TING OF THE ''CITI: As all were then of home and 1-:1.1-:CT JAl\'t1':S l\'l('CALL'' wi gear bereft. at !VlcCall's Supply on Thursda 1'heir country's cause was all at 7: 30 p, n1 . This is a public mi the foe had left ; 'Twas proud oppression no special invitation is req attendance. armed them for the fight, While justice whispered that their cause was right . · . Tli1':R1': WILL BE A GOSPEL featuring the Hopper Brot ... Here exiled liberty her refuge gained. · And well her glorious cause was here sustained. L~We-~· ~ \ l l \ l l l\l \ \ \l\ l l l \ \1 1 1 1 1 1\ l\~l l l . I I 111 1111 111~11 1 I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Weekly Observer Description An account of the resource The Weekly Observer was published out of Hemingway, SC from 1973 until printing ceased in 2012. The paper continues as an e newpaper on scnow.com Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1973-2012 Subject The topic of the resource Local Newspaper covering the Johnsonville and Hemingway communities. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Weekly Observer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Land of Three Rivers - Samuel Itly Wilson House, 4-8-1976 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Weekly Observer Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 4-8-1976 News Newspaper Weekly Observer