City Directories and History: Two important business leaders in Chester County, S.C. Map location includes section of Rocky Creek and Sandy Rivers. One section of this map states that part of the land was originally granted to on Thomas Loundes. It should read, Mr. Thomas Lowndes, Esquire in ca. 1775 received a tract of 12,000 acres, known as the Lowndes Barony south of Chester, S.C. The Revolutionary governor of S.C. was his father and his half brother, William Lowndes, helped with the Declaration of Independence and practiced law in Charleston, S.C.
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INDEX OF NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS MAP: Bull Run Creek, Rocky Mount Road, Douglas Grist Mill, Douglass Grist Mill, Caney Fork of the Sandy River,
Boyd, William
Douglas, John & Robert Douglas (Robert Douglas’s Mansion House)
Ellis, Benjamin & Mary Evans
Evans, Richard (Note: He is living along Caney Fork Creek of the Sandy River. See additional information on R&R for Richard Evans of Evansville Community, just south of Chester, S.C.)
Fullerton, Andrew or Andrew Fullerton
Kelsey, Elizabeth and Thomas Kelsey
Knox, Loundes – Lowndes Knox
McAlily, Thomas Esquire or Thomas McAlily Esquire
McAlily, James Captain – Captain James McAlily
McAlily, William (Widow) or the Widow of William McAlily
McClintock, James – McClintock, John – McClintock, William – McClure, Thomas Esq. – McNinch, John
Miller, William
Nelson, Robert
Presslar, B.H. – Reedy, John Captain John Reedy, William Robinson
Robinson, William
Ross, Abraham
Ross, Hugh
Joseph Fullerton
Shannon, Hiram – Walker, John Capt.- Walker, William – Wham, Widow – White, Abraham – White, Francis
White, John – White, William – Wilson, John – Wyley, Joseph or (Joseph Wylie)
Young, James
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