PUB 1980: North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina: The Darwintern

Title	PUB 1980: North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina
Short Title	PUB 1980: North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina
Author	Holcomb, Brent
Source ID	S23
Text	File No. 2011; Grant No. 437; Book 23, page 36. Plat of 9 February 1767, Surveyed for Zacariah Bullock, 580 acres on Ridge between Turkey and Fishing Creek....Wm Simms, Surveyor, Robert Swan, James Darwin, C.B. Issued 25 April 1767 Tryon County NC Deed of 20 July 1770: John FULTON sells 100 acres to James DARWIN, proved by Robt McCurdy. File No. 436, Grant No. 104; Book 20, p. 707. Plat surveyed for John McKenny, 176 acres on both sides of Lafertys Creek of Broad River, adj. Robert McCurdy, John McKnitt Alader (sic.)...Goin Moore, 25 July 1771. Jno Kirkconnell, Survr, Robt. McCurdy, James Darwin, C.B. Granted 14 Nov 1771.
Linked to	George COWAN James DARWIN

Notes

These are the earliest records found to date for the family outside Virginia, and arise from James Darwin's migration sometime in the 1760's. The region was subject to a competing territorial claims by both North and South Carolina: The region east of the Catawba River was re-surveyed in 1764, that west of it in 1772: prior to those dates, over a thousand land grants in those regions were issued by Mecklenburg County NC (formed from part of Anson County in 1763) and Tryon County (formed from part of Mecklenburg in 1769).

We have not had opportunity to view the originals of these records; they are transcribed in Holcomb, Brent: North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina (1980: Greenville, SC).