PROPERTY OWNERS
SAXE GOTHA & DUTCH FORK, SOUTH CAROLINA
From Colonial Plat Map #5 Saxegotha Township
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South Carolina Council Journals
The following were neighbors of John George Schmidtpeter (Smithpeter) who settled in 1752 at the Dutch Fork and was subsequently murdered by the Weberites on 24 February 1761.
Jacob Burghard: 1747, 100 acres, N side of Saluda or Santee River; petition dated 28 May 1742; SC Council Journal I, pp 68-68. (Convicted 1761 of the murders of Captain John George Smithpeter and Michael Hentz at Charles Town.)
Jacob Derer: 1748, N side of Saluda or Santee River; petition, 11 Nov. 1747, SCCJ, V I, pp 48-49.
Caspar Faust: 1744, 200 acres, N side of Saluda or Santee River.
John Jacob Geiger: 1744, of Sax Gotha, 150 acres in Fork between Broad River and Congree in neighborhood of Saxe Gotha. (SCCJ, Vol I, 31 Jan 1744, p 69.
1749; 200 acres, N side of Saluda, land opposite to SaxaGotha Township; seeking add'l 50 acres as now married Arsilla Anishansly with two children; SCCJ, Vol II, pp 513-514. (He sold 92 acres to John Mathias.)
(Convicted 1761 of the murders of Captain John George Smithpeter and Michael Hentz.)
John Jacob Friday: 150 arces, opposite (North) side of Saluda or Santee River to Sax Gotha Township; family of three children; SCCJ, Vol I, 13 March 1744.
John Friday: On 18 Sept 1746, SCCJ, Vol I, p 162, John Friday stated he had married Susanna Hembright, a Protestant Swisser, who was servant to John Morton, Esq. who came to SC c1744 in ship St. Andrew; asks for 100 acres in Sax Gotha by virtue of family right.
John (Mathys) Mathias: 1745, 150 acres, North side of Saluda; of Sax Gotha; 3 persons by virtue of family right; land in the Fork between Santee & Wateree Rivers over against the Township of Saxgotha; SCCJ, Vol I, p 504.
John Michael Rears:
Samuel Boaker:
Michael Augsten:
Godrey Drayer:
Henry Lockley:
Anna Shrymerin
John Grangett
Andrew Bush:
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