Jew’s Land Plantation – – Greenwood County
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodges,_South_Carolina
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 158 people, 56 households, and 42 families residing in the town. The population density was 201.8 people per square mile (78.2/km²). There were 64 housing units at an average density of 81.7 per square mile (31.7/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 88.61% White, 7.59% African American, and 3.80% from two or more races.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~longcane/hodgessc.htm
https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/jews-land-and-house-of-orange/
http://www.lib.unc.edu/apop/firstfamilies.html?counter=14
This gray, water-stained parchment, damaged during the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition of 1901–1902, can no longer be read. The large escutcheon in the upper left is the coat of arms of the Salvador family—a lion rampant between three gold fleurs de lys.
Francis Salvador’s grandfather was a Portuguese Jew who had migrated to England from Amsterdam early in the 18th century. The family had previously secured the right to a coat of arms…
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