WESTERN CATAWBA LEASE MAP @TOOLS FORK / LEASING AWAY A NATION

City Directories and History: This historic plat map shows the early landowners / leaseholders in and around the Wildcat Creek and Tools Fork areas south and southwest of Rock Hill, S.C. This map provides a searchable index of the names provided on this particular map. Search further under the enlargeable PDF, this page. Other Mayhugh maps may offer similar information but under a different title.

*** See p. 69, Leasing Away a Nation PDF this page… for additional information on leaseholder: Isaac Smith and John McElwain dated Sept. 22, 1792.  Also see Thomas Roach received lease for 122 acres from Thomas Spratt on Feb. 20, 1799, p. 69.

• Thomas Simpson takes lease of the lands on Fishing Creek formerly held by James Wilson – See p. 70, Leasing Away a Nation PDF this page… for additional information on leaseholder.
• William Nivens receives lease on 232 acres on East side of Tools Fork Creek, dated April 28, 1811, p. 73
• John Steele receives lease for 160 acres on Sept. 14, 1811, p. 74
• William Little Sr., takes lease on 236 acres Tools Fork of Fishing Creek, May 18, 1813, p. 76
• John B. Barron receives a lease of 845 acres on June 1, 1813, p. 76.  This lease was taken over by Joseph Eakins on June 15, 1814, see p. 77.
• Thomas Simpson leases 126 acres on July 29, 1813, p. 76
• On Aug. 17, 1813 Thomas Bailey leased 242 acres along Tool’s Fork of Fishing Creek, p. 76
• Joseph McCorkle received a lease on 173 acres on Aug. 16, 1815, p. 77 and p. 78
• John Barron takes lease on 216 acres dated Jan. 25, 1816, p. 78
• William McCorkle took a lease of 290 acres on Wildcat Creek, dated Aug. 16, 1816, p. 78, later on July 1818, one Mr. John N. Henry takes this lease on 290 acres, p. 79
• Joel Bailes takes a lease dated May 21, 1818 on 108 acres about a mile above Harrisburg, on the east side of the Catawba River, p. 79
• John Barron receives lease on another 333 acres dated May 22, 1818, p. 79
• Thomas Ashcraft leases 88 acres on March 9, 1819, p. 79
• Samuel Steele leases 356 acres along Tool’s Fork of Fishing Creek, dated May 29, 1819,  p. 80
• Francis McWaters or Francis McWatters takes lease on 164 acres along the Rocky Branch of Fishing Creek, dated July 8, 1819, p. 80
• John McElwain leases 148.5 acres on July 29, 1819, p. 80
• John Steele takes lease on 138 acres dated Aug. 16, 1821, p. 81
• On May 13, 1824 Agnes Cathcart takes lease as “widow” on 269 acres along Wildcat Creek, p. 83

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