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John Richey and his family came to South Carolina in 1772 as part of the Rev. Martin’s five shiploads of 1,200 immigrants from Ireland. The Richeys had been impoverished tenant farmers in Antrim and they received land grants on Reyburns Creek in Laurens county. Later Richeys of this family...
Richard Fowler, son of Godfrey Fowler, the second Chapter IX. John Fowler, son of Richard Fowler of Laurens, S. C. Chapter X. Francis Fowler, son of Godfrey Fowler, the second Chapter XI. Capt. Moses T. Fowler of Greenville County, South Carolina Chapter XII. William Perry Fowler of ...
Fountain Inn, South Carolina is the 2,628th largest city in the US. What county is Fountain Inn, South Carolina in? Parts of Fountain Inn are located within Greenville County and Laurens County. What is the size of Fountain Inn, South Carolina in square miles? Fountain Inn has an ...
In 1884 he established a hardware business in Tampa with his brother-in-law, Henry Laurens Knight. Knight & Wall would become one of Tampa's most prominent and enduring businesses, lasting for nearly 80 years. Family members became prominent Tampa businessmen, mayors, judges, state ...
1777/11/1 Henry Laurens is elected as President of Congress. 1777/11/2 John Paul Jones sets sail in the USS Ranger to attack British ships in the Irish Sea. 1777/11/15 Second Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation. 1777/11/15 Americans evacuate Fort Mifflin after a devas...
David Ackerman – from Holland to New York.The Ackermans in Holland were members of the Protestant Reformed Church. David Ackerman had been born in Franckendale in 1580, the son of Laurens and Hester Ackerman. Sometime in the 1620’s these Ackermans moved to north Brabant where Protestants we...
he was operating a grist mill at Christians Creek there. Another Scots Irish family, headed by William Hutchinson, came to South Carolina in the 1770’s and settled in what became Laurens county. Their history was told in Frederick Hutchinson’s 1947 bookThe Hutchinson Family of Laurens County...