However, it remains unclear whether their effort will succeed.
Lawyers for Joe Biggs, a Proud Boys organizer from Florida, revealed a subpoena Thursday that would compel Trump’s appearance in March and said they would seek the Justice Department’s assistance with serving Trump.
In my post ‘Justice For All’ I am setting up a political trap in order to get Mike Pence to testify. Here is Nikki saying secession is allowed by the Constitution. wrong!
Above is a pic of Rick Perry and wife with the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Three years ago I confronted the Three Pecenters as The Antichrist. How prophetic! The Republicans are down on the border trying to distract us by pointing to brown refuges from crime. They are trying to shove all this amazing history under the carpet – BECAUSE THEY LOST AGAIN! This is like trying to disappear The Boston Massacre. Justice for all – was aimed at TRAITORS trying to ESCAPE JUSTICE!
John Presco
“After publishing my declaration I was running for President – as a Two-faced Election Denier and Leftist Woke Radical who sees Trump as my New York Mob Boss Liberator – I saw Senator Lindsey Graham slinking away down a hall in our Capitol. A Grand Jury ruled NO DEMOCRAT was involved in Election Tampering, and, some people are GUILTY OF LYING!”
Most of the evangelical voters are down South, in the Red States. I am calling for the resignation of the President of the United States for the good of our UNITED Nation!
A special grand jury report on whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies tried to unlawfully interfere in the 2020 election results in Georgia says the grand jurors believe some witnesses may have lied under oath.
“A majority of the grand jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying before it,” said a section of the report released Thursday. “The grand jury recommends that the District Attorney seek appropriate indictments for such crimes where the evidence is compelling.”
John Witherspoon and his family were at one time the most educated in America. John was the President of Princeton. His daughter Ann married married Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith who became the President of Princeton after John.
“Haley was also asked about the cause of the civil war.
“I think you had one side of the civil war that was fighting for tradition and one side of the civil war that was fighting for change,” she said.”
After publishing my declaration I was running for President – as a Two-faced Election Denier and Leftist Woke Radical who sees Trump as my New York Mob Boss Liberator – I saw Senator Lindsey Graham slinking away down a hall in our Capitol. A Grand Jury ruled NO DEMOCRAT was involved in Election Tampering, and, some people are GUILTY OF LYING!
Two days ago I read Nikki Haylee spoke with my mortal enemies Sons of Confederate Vetwans, who PUSH THE LIE, the North HATED the churches of the South, and their humble way of life, that they sent an army of Satanic Socialist to – DESTROY GOD’S PEOPLE – who didn’t want Wokish Change. Being forced to give up their slaves – was so foreign to these Humble Souls who love Liberty!. I believe the Greater Idaho secessionists are selling the same LIES, taking advantage of the hate of the Election Deniers. I will convince Governor, Tina Kotek, this is a RACIST ATTACK on Oregon.
Seventy percent of Caucasians in America in 1776 were indentured slaves and convicts sent from Britain. Cromwell sent Scottish Rebels to America so the English could enjoy worshipping Jesus – in peace! I suspect the Presley family come from Scottish Freedom Fighters. Above is a painting of Signer John Witherspoon a great grandfather of Dottie Witherspoon who I rescued in Boston, where my alleged great, great, great grandfather’s ship – is still docked!
What I heard coming from the lips of Mile Pence and Nikki Haley, was a promise they will only BE THE PRESIDENT OF HALF OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE – like their Big Boss Man – was. At least I made the attempt to be the leader of all the American People. Because I am more than a President. I am an American Historian, and Representative to The People – befor the Constiuttion was signed.
I am…
The Highwayman! I committed crimes. I was convicted, and did my my time. Then they put me on a ship and sent me to America because it looked like a was unrepentitive Troublemaker!
And, that’s the name of that tune!
John Presco
The Red State President want to deny due process of law to those who tried to enter the U.S. illegally. John Rosamond was tried in England and sent to America as a indentured slave. William Rose was sold and put on a ship to America. More than half the white people living in this freedom land, were indentured slaves brought here against their will. It’s time for Good Americans to confront fellow Americans who take the false patriotism Trump hands them in order to divide this nation, and this world.
Name: John ROSAMOND “The Highwayman”· Surname: Rosamond· Given Name: John· Suffix: “The Highwayman”· Sex: M· Birth: ABT. 1710 in County Leitrim, Ireland (?)
“In 1724, my ancestor John ROSAMOND and his friend William Ray were arrested in Abingdon, Berkshire, England for stealing a hat, periwig, 30 pounds British sterling, five pairs of shoes, and a brown gelding. They were held in the gaol in Reading, Berkshire, after their trial where they were sentenced to be exiled to the colonies for 14 years hard labor.
I was a highwayman, along the coach roads I did ride With sword and pistol by my side Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade Many a soldier shed his life blood on my blade The bastards hung me in the spring of ’25 But I am still alive
She also told the Sons of the Confederacy that the Civil War was a battle of “tradition” versus “change,” not racism and slavery.
Two hours after my last post, I saw the news about the Grand Jury.
Lists of Scots removed to New England as Prisoners by Oliver Cromwell – 1651
“Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings – Oct. 1927 p. 5-28”
The aftermath of the battle of Dunbar and the treatment of the prisoners.
Until the time of the sailing of the “Unity” about 30 Scotch died each day or a total of 1600 before the sailing. Note that the ship only carried about 150 men. Unfortunately no list of these men exists but some can be identified from the end of their servitude.
A few of these were:
John STEWART – worked at the Lynn iron works, purchased by John PYNCHON and taken to Springfield, MA where he died 21 Apr 1691 leaving no family
Thomas HOLME/HUME sold to Henry SAYWARD of York for 30 pounds.
John and Sarah were still in Virgin ia)) James Rosamond, R255, M. Born ca 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia. Jam es died in Abbeville District, SC bef 10 Jul 1806, he was about 52. Occup ation: Farmer. James served in the Revolutionary War in the Ninety-Six District before a nd after the fall of Charleston. The Siege of Charleston occurrend in 17 80 by the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton. James furnished 150 lb s. of pork to the militia in 1782. He obtained land grants as a result of his service in the war. An abstract of his service in the Revolution army War is on file at the Historical Commission in South Carolina.
Several days ago I discovered there was a ship named Rosamond that was a Privateer. I wonder if she was owned by Captain Samuel Rosamond of Charleston. She was sunk with all hands lost. She was carrying $100,000 in plunder. I have been looking as to why the Rosamonds got up and left South Carolina and moved to Mississippi. Did Samuel mortgage everything in order to purchase this ship, including his two homes on Bay? Was this ship deliberately grounded so the fortune would not have to be shared with other investors? The Rosamond family bought several tracts of land in Mississippi and built plantations on them.
[fn p. 8:in August 1845 in Anderson district South Carolina, Mrs. Ann Pressley, 84, submitted the record of the births of her children in support of her assertion that she was acquainted with Samuel Rosamond a Captain in the war of the revolution and Colonel Anderson’s Regiment and his wife Sarah Hodges before their marriage; that they were married prior to the birth of her 2nd child, James Pressley in August 1787 and that they lived together as husband and wife during her acquaintance with them.
State of Georgia will County: Special Inferior Court January 14 day 1845 On this day of January 1845 personally appeared before the Honorable the Inferior Court held in and for said County and State the same being a Court of record, Mr. James Rosamond a resident of said County and State aforesaid aged 38 years past who being duly sworn according to law saith that the following statement is true to the best of his knowledge and belief and according to the information given him by his parents in which he verily believes to be true viz. That he is the son of Samuel and Sarah Rosamond both now deceased. That his Father the said Samuel Rosamond was a soldier and served in the War of the Revolution in the South Carolina Militia. That he held the rank of Lieutenant and Captain in Colonel Anderson’s Regiment — and for proof of the services of the said Samuel Rosamond he refers to the evidence hereto annexed. And deponent further states that he is informed and believes that the said Samuel and Sarah Rosamond his parents were legally married in Abbeville District South Carolina on the __ day of __ 1785. And deponent further states that the said Samuel Rosamond died on the 11th day of August 1814 in Anderson District South Carolina leaving the said Sarah Rosamond his widow and that she remains his widow to the period of her death. That she died on the 25th day of April 1844 without ever applying for a pension leaving Elizabeth Phyles, Ezekiel in right of wife Margaret Powell[,] Barksdale in right of wife Sarah Garrison[,] Abner in right of wife Lucinda Clark[,] James S in right in right of wife Jane Liddel[,] Madison Rosamond, Richard Rosamond, Mary Clark and James Rosamond, this deponent — her only surviving children and legal heirs then living. That this affiant was informed in the winter of 1844 that the act of Congress of 7 July 1838 gave pensions to widows of soldiers that were married prior to 1794 for the military services of their husband. That this affiant made some exertions prior to the death of his said mother Sarah Rosamond by letters to procure the necessary proof in order to procure her pension and that she died on the day aforesaid and never made application for pension. That He has qualified as administrator on the Estate of his mother Sarah Rosamond and makes this Declaration to obtain the pension due her at the time of her death. S/ James Rosamond
Dottie Witherspoon almost became Christine’s sister-in-law. She may have fathered my child the Seers said I had. They saw two faint leaves on my rose. A year later, my sixteen year old daghter appear in my life for the first time.
Shortly after Nikki Haley announced her campaign for president on Tuesday, footage was released showing the Republican former South Carolina governor saying states have the right to secede from the union.
“I think that they do,” Haley said in the footage, which Patriot Takes, an anonymously run social media account and fundraising Pac which claims to “monitor and expos[e] rightwing extremism and other threats to democracy”, said came from 2010 and featured an unnamed neo-Confederate group.
“I mean, the constitution says that.”
Haley also said she did not think South Carolina should secede.
Tweeting footage from the same interview, Tyler Jones, a South Carolina Democratic strategist, said the interview was conducted by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
That footage showed Haley discussing the placement of a Confederate flag on statehouse grounds and expressing support for a Confederate History Month in schools, which she compared to “Black History Month … as long as it’s done in a positive way and not in a negative way, and doesn’t harm anyone”.
Haley was also asked about the cause of the civil war.
“I think you had one side of the civil war that was fighting for tradition and one side of the civil war that was fighting for change,” she said.
The civil war was fought over slavery, which southern states led out of the union by South Carolina wanted to maintain.
Haley continued: “At the end of the day, what I think we need to remember is that, you know, everyone’s supposed to have their rights, everyone’s supposed to be free, everyone’s supposed to have the same freedoms as anyone else. So I think it was tradition versus change.”
Asked, “Tradition versus change on what?” Haley said: “On individual rights and liberty of people.”
Haley’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Responding the footage of Haley’s remarks about secession, Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor and political scientist at Georgia State University, said on Twitter: “No, Nikki Haley, the constitution does not provide a right for secession. See, Texas v White (1869). See also, the civil war.”
My kindred, Anthony Hodges, fought the takeover of the Sons of Confederate Veterans by Sweeney who Rick Perry blessed. My great grandmother was kidnapped by Cherokee chief and born him a son. Some of my genetic material is kin to the first landowners. I got a whole bunch of cousins who might be on the Rolls, and due Southern Land.
According to the Washington Times (via Nexis), in March 2000 Perry fired off a letter to Denne Sweeney, Texas commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans: “Although this is an emotional issue,” he wrote, “I want you to know that I oppose efforts to remove Confederate monuments, plaques, and memorials from public property. I also believe that communities should decide whether statues or other memorials are appropriate for their community.”
(Sweeney, for his part, later ascended to the position of commander in chief of the national Sons of Confederate Veterans, where, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported, he presided over “a purge of some 300 members, accused of disloyalty for criticizing racism in the SCV.”)
The Rev. Eric Dean, an American Southerner living in Europe, had been hearing the rumors for months. Finally, he decided to pay a visit to a former high-ranking leader of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), the Southern heritage group of which Dean had long been a proud member. Was it true, Dean asked last November, that the SCV was being taken over by racial extremists? Were the decent colleagues Dean remembered really being swamped by white supremacists?
Within days of his visit to Tennessee to see Anthony Hodges, the former No. 2 leader in the SCV who had earlier been purged by his enemies, Dean had reached a conclusion. Hodges, E-mailed comrades in the SCV, had told him the group was moving “towards a more politically active, secessionist and racist agenda.” “Racial groups,” Hodges added, controlled “key leadership positions.” As a result, there was an ongoing “exodus” of lifelong SCV members, including U.S. senators.
And so Eric Dean quit the SCV. Members of the unit he served as chaplain did, too. And with that, the SCV’s entire European division ceased to exist.
For Rev. Dean, the clincher was a sermon from the SCV’s chaplain in chief that attacked “racial interbreeding” as ungodly and described slavery as biblically sanctioned. But that was only the latest development in a long and ugly story. For almost four years now, the SCV has been embroiled in an increasingly nasty civil war, as racial extremists battle moderates for control of what is certainly the largest Southern heritage organization in America. In the last year and a half, under the leadership of a new national chief whose politics have become clearer as his term of office unfolded, the ascendancy of the radicals has become undeniable.
Since Denne Sweeney took over as SCV commander in chief in August 2004, the group’s executive council has been stripped of moderate former commanders. A purge of some 300 members, accused of disloyalty for criticizing racism in the SCV, was completed. An ancient alliance with the Military Order of Stars & Bars, a sister organization for descendants of Confederate officers, was scuttled, and a bitter war with another old ally, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, erupted. Sweeney suspended an entire state division of the SCV and replaced its leaders. He diverted money originally intended for the upkeep of a cemetery and building a museum to a brand-new political arm. He promoted followers with documented racist histories to key national leadership positions. Through it all, Sweeney presided over an exodus of fully 25% of the SCV’s membership, which fell from 36,000 to 27,000
“The slackers and the grannies have been purged from our ranks,” Kirk Lyons, a radical who first floated the idea of taking over the SCV in a 2000 meeting of neo-Nazis and former Klansmen, exulted in December. Now, Lyons added, the SCV needs to become “a modern, 21st century Christian war machine capable of uniting the Confederate community and leading it to ultimate victory.”
The Die is Cast
The first evidence of an attempt to take over the SCV came in early 2002, when it emerged that Lyons — a white supremacist attorney married on the grounds of the Aryan Nations by its neo-Nazi leader, Richard Butler– was running for a regional leadership position within the SCV. Though Lyons was narrowly defeated after the Southern Poverty Law Center drew attention to his candidacy, an unknown man named Ron Wilson managed to win election as the SCV’s commander in chief. It wasn’t long before it became obvious that Wilson was a close Lyons ally.
In the next two years, Wilson, who once endorsed and sold a virulently anti-Semitic book from his home business, joined the battle in earnest. He initiated a purge of those who had criticized racism within the SCV or were in any way tied to a rump group called Save the SCV that sought to eject racists. He strengthened ties to Lyons — whose stated goal is to turn the South into “a majority European-derived country” — and to Lyons’ Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC), a nonprofit that battles so-called “heritage violations” against white Southerners. And he allowed racists and anti-Semites to land key positions of power within the SCV.
But it wasn’t immediately clear where Denne Sweeney would come down in 2004, after two years of bitter internal strife inside the SCV. Many hoped that his election would bring calm and an end to the angry politics of Lyons and his friends.
By last April, it was obvious those hopes were without foundation. At a special convention held in Concord, N.C., Sweeney led a move that stripped former commanders in chief of the organization — many of whom had spoken out against racism — of their ex officiovoting power on the General Executive Council. At the same time, Sweeney expanded his own powers to help him control the SCV.
Sweeney’s second in command, Lt. Comdr. Hodges, had joined a lawsuit to prevent the changes to the executive council. Though the suit remained unresolved, Sweeney also used the convention, which was packed with his own supporters, to eject Hodges and replace him with a Sweeney ally. He then initiated a formal break with the Military Order of Stars & Bars (MOSB), whose former leader, Oklahoma City attorney Jeff Massey, had participated in the lawsuit that Hodges was also a part of. And he presided over the SCV’s donation of $10,000 to Lyons’ SLRC. Denne Sweeney had come down foursquare for the radicals.
I just discovered that my ancestor, Patriot Samuel Rosamond, bought two homes on Bay Street in Charleston in 1786. This makes us one of the Southern Gentry, we making one of the earliest real estate deals as a Free Nation.
It gets better!
Samuel Rosamond was on the State Commission to build canals around the city of Columbia that was designated the State Capital. It was going to be an ideal city where barges carried cotton downstream from the plantations. The State allotted a million dollars to the project which might be one of the largest civic real estate improvements since we became a Democracy.
There were several plantations owned by the Rosamond family. Our cotton ended up in Charleston. Samuel was able to sit on his terrace on the shore and watch the large ships bringing his cotton to one of the greatest cities in the South.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2013
Rosamond, Samuel Mortgage For Two Lots In Charleston, One Low Water Lot On Bay Street And Cooper River, And The Other High Ground Lot On Bay Street, Both Lots Purchased From Christopher Williman. (Plat And Appraisement)
The Beautiful South has awoken! The bloody flag of thorns and brambles, has been removed.
The Brothers Grimm included a variant Little Briar Rose in their collection (1812).[6] Their version ends when the prince arrives to wake Sleeping Beauty, unlike the stories of Basile and Perrault.[8] Some translations of the Grimms’ tale give the princess the name Rosamond.
The lost Rosamond graves are found!
“These graves are right along a paved road in the woods (I mean, the stones are right along the road). This cemetery is in bad shape. No one is taking care of it. It is over grown in weeds, trees and with poison oak and ivy everywhere. David, Mark and I ventured out into the cemetery a little ways. Couldn’t go to each stone because the poison oak & ivy is soooo thick.
Before the Commencement of the Colonial dispute (Revolution) my grandfather died, leaving a widow and twelve children . . . my grandmother was reduced to great suffering. The Indians burned her house and carried one of her daughters away captive. She returned home after the war, scarcely able to speak English. My grandmother had to fly for protection to the woods and shelter herself and children in the hollow of a large tree.”
Yes, I would very much like to know where these graves were located and if there are any other Rosamond graves there. The fact that this cemetery is overgrown indicates it may be one of those we missed when several of my cousins and I were touring SC cemeteries several years ago.
I suspect that Jane Westfield Rosamond was the wife of John Hodges Rosamond who was married to a Jane or Jennie Westfield. I have her birthdate as about 1791 which would fit pretty well with the dates given here. John Hodges Rosamond was the son of Captain Samuel Rosamond. I am very interested in locating his gravesite and it’s possible that he was also buried here.
Anthony Hodges was ousted from the Sons of Confederate Veterans by Denne Sweeney seen with Rick Perry and his wife.
The SCV filed a motion Thursday in a now 16-year-old lawsuit over the plates. It’s hoping to block Gov. Terry McAuliffe from removing the battle emblem that makes up part of the group’s insignia, which has been on the plates for years.
McAuliffe announced late last month that he was changing the plates, following the racially motivated mass shooting in Charleston and on the heels of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a Texas case that declared license plates to be government speech, not personal.
That meant the state could keep the flag off plates without worrying about 1st Amendment issues, McAuliffe said. The Sons of Confederate Veterans say McAuliffe jumped the gun, arguing that the laws in Texas and Virginia are different enough that the Supreme Court precedent doesn’t apply here.
Following the Feb. 17 court action, Commander-in-chief Hodges, in a statement posted on the Internet, sought to assure the organization’s 30,000 to 35,000 members that the ouster was “mandatory,” and that “the GEC acted in the best interests of the SCV.”
“Never before have we faced such an atmosphere of intimidation in the SCV, in which members, officers and GEC members have been suspended or threatened with suspension or expulsion for little or no reason,” Hodges wrote. “Our pride in history has become, for a few, a faÁade masking anger, resentment and an apparent desire to browbeat the SCV into a new direction, one with [a] politically ideological path determined by a select few.”
Hodges listed eight allegations against Sweeney, including suspensions and threatened suspensions of board members, conducting “harassing investigations” against opponents on the board, and “creating and maintaining a hostile work environment.”
Hodges closed by warning members, “Be very skeptical of the shrill voices of contentiousness.” He asked for members’ “prayers, support and patience” in the board’s efforts “to return the SCV to an organization committed to reasonable conduct, a precious heritage and the rule of law.”
In the 1990s, disagreements over the purpose of the organization emerged within the SCV. At issue was an alleged shift in the SCV’s mission from “maintaining gravestones, erecting monuments and studying Civil War history” to more issue-centric concerns. The SCV’s new concerns included “fight[ing] for the right to display Confederate symbols everywhere from schools to statehouses”.[7] The more “activist” members of the SCV gained electoral support and were increasingly elected to its leadership positions. Members of the more traditionalist camp alleged that the League of the South had influenced their organization’s new direction. One ally of the activist wing claimed that thousands of SCV members are also League of the South members. News reports state that the activists advocate “picketing, aggressive lobbying, issue campaigning and lawsuits” in favor of what they term “heritage defense” to prevent “heritage violations”. The SCV defines those as “any attack upon our Confederate Heritage, or the flags, monuments, and symbols which represent it”.[8]
The “Church at the Walnut Grove on Mulberry Creek” as it was always described by the clerk, did not show any gain in membership by the end of its third year. Beginning with eighteen charter members, it lost within two years two of these by letters of dismission and on Oct. 20, 1828 Susannah Rosmond died, the first loss by death. This brought the membership down to fifteen, but the addition of ‘Polly Hodges’, wife of James Hodges by letter from Turkey Creek about this time, brought the membership up to sixteen. Then on Jan. 4, 1830 after a sermon by the Rev. Nicholas Ware Hodges, the first two members [were] received by baptism. These were ‘Polly Hodges, sister of, and Mahala Hodges, the wife of Thompson Hodges.’ (This made the total membership eighteen again.) Incidentally, there are three ‘Polly Hodges’ already noted in the record.” (Ref. Newspaper)The ‘Nicholas Ware Hodges’ mentioned in the article was the sixth child of Nancy and James. According to information from author Margaret Watson, Nicholas Ware Hodges “was ordained in 1828 and organized several Baptist churches in upper South Carolina. He was on the committee for Furman Academy which operated for two years in Edgefield under Baptist auspices, and he was one of three men named by the State Baptist Convention to select a new site for the school.”
Presidential candidate, Rick Perrry, contacted Denne Sweeney, who I titled my mortal enemy on September 20, 2009. Perry reasured Sweeny that he would not mess with the Confederate flag. Perry made a secret trip to Israel to assure the Zionists he would back them and oppose the President of the United States. This is TREASON!
Denne Sweeny took over the leadership of the Sons of Confederate Veterans from my kinfolk, Anthoney Hodges. Above we see Sweeney ‘The Neo-Confederate Swine’ parading around with grown men in Confederate uniforms carrying Confederate flags. He is the big guy in gueenish-grey coat. Here are some of the captions that go with these photos. It sounds like Sweeney is commanding a imaginary army standing up for “their ancestors” who have risen from the dead, risen from their graves!
Perry’s flirtations with neo-Confederate organizations and symbols — ably documented by Justin Elliott– are so extraordinarily reprehensible that it should immediately and permanently disqualify him from being taken seriously for national office. [Amen!] The Confederacy was not a bunch of generally well-meaning dudes who went a little too far, it was a gang of racist traitors who launched a bloody war to defend a monstrously unjust institution. Having neo-Confederate sympathies in America should be equivalent to supporting the reconstituted Fascist party in Italy, or worse. It should not be considered something that 50 percent of the nation should be willing to look past, or even embrace.
And if that embracing happens it’ll be in part because of a press that won’t explicitly describe a disgusting sentimental attachment to a racist, brutal regime of oppression as anything other than an acceptable ploy to pick up Southern white support. armies,” and a society that “perpetuates the chivalric ideal of manhood.” The group rejects “the American Empire that now occupies the South.” This shouldn’t be surprising, but really, is this the guy so many in the GOP are pinning their hopes on?
We are planning a trip to Abbeville, South Carolina the last weekend of September and all Rosamond and related cousins are invited. We haven’t yet decided on where we will be staying, or the exact itenerary for the visit, so all suggestions are welcome. One of the definites for the trip will be a cleanup of the cemetery described in the email below from Gwen Rosamond Forrester. If you plan to come contact me at jrosamond@prodigy.net, or any of the Rosamond researchers listed on the OTHER RESEARCHERS page. I will be posting details online as they become available.
The following email was sent by one of the Rosamond cousins, Gwen Rosamond Forrester to the rest of the research cousins:
Hey Y’all,
Mark and I just got back from a trip to Halan Co., Ky., and Lee Co., Va., where his folks settled after leaving NC. We had a very successful trip with finding graves of his ancestors and meeting a relative. Since we were only about 200 miles from Abbeville, SC, we drove down there to look around, and guess what, we asked a couple of gentlemen, David Higgon’s and Mr. Richie (believe his name was Walter) in Ware Shoals, if they knew where the Walnut Grove Baptist Church was. (The church our Rosamond’s, Hill’s, Hodges, and Graham’s attended in the early 1800’s)
Sure enough, they both knew where it was. David lead us to it, and he lead us to the few graves on Mulberry Creek that mark the original site of the church that was organized in 1826. Talk about luck! This was so exciting!!! We were so lucky to have ran into these two gentleman.
These graves are right along a paved road in the woods (I mean, the stones are right along the road). This cemetery is in bad shape. No one is taking care of it. It is over grown in weeds, trees and with poison oak and ivy everywhere. David, Mark and I ventured out into the cemetery a little ways. Couldn’t go to each stone because the poison oak & ivy is soooo thick. There aren’t many stones. Some graves are marked with field stones and doesn’t have any writing on them, and some of the field stones looked as those they had been chiseled on but you couldn’t read it. There are Mays buried there and one stone was a Williams. Stones are in bad shape, you can hardly read them. They have black mildew, moss or what ever from the trees, all over them. There is one stone laying on the ground in perfect condition. No mildew or anything on it. You can read it clearly. It is the marker of Lucrete Mays born Dec 14, 1797 died Feb 14, 1845. Y’all, this is probably Sarah “Sally” Mays Rosamond’s mother. What do you think?
I couldn’t hardly leave there without looking at each stone, but the poison oak was to bad. Mark and I are highly allergic to these plants. I knew though, that we are all going to be there next year, or whenever and we can be better prepared to tackle this adventure. As soon as David left, Mark and I changed jeans, socks and shoes right there by the car on the side of the road. Pretty picture! That poison oak and ivy will go through your clothes if you give it time. We were very lucky, we were o’k the next morning. Only one car passed on that road the whole time we were at the cemetery, so it isn’t a busy one.
When we go there next year, or whenever, those of us allergic to these plants, will need to wear at least knee high rubber boots. We will also need to do some tombstone rubbings to be able to read the stones. Does anyone in this group know how to do tombstone rubbings? A lady in Lee Co., Va., showed me how by using paper and a pencil. She said you could also use colored chalk that children use at school. It wont hurt the stones at all. When it rains, it will wash the chalk off.
David told us the Walnut Grove Church has tried to put a book together about the History of the Church. He said this book is at the church. We were there on Monday, and no one was there. David said the original church (1826) on Mulberry Creek was a brush arbor, which was posts with brush on top to protect them from rain. They were having Church service when it stated to rain. Had a flash flood that swept the brush arbor away. Everyone was scramming to get to higher ground, scared the horses so bad they all ran away. That’s when they moved the Church to higher ground. It was built next to where the Walnut Grove Church stands today.
Ruth, do you know the History of Walnut Grove Church, and do you know who is buried in the original cemetery?
Abbeville is a beautiful Old Historic town. It takes you back in time. Has a lot of old beautiful two story homes. I have a pamphlet listing the motels in the Old 96 District when we get ready to make reservations. If we stay in Abbeville, there is a Belmont Inn on town square that would be perfect for us to stay in, if y’all like this sort of thing. The Belmont Inn was built 1902-03 as the Eureka Hotel to accommodate “drummers” of the textile trade, patrons of the Opera House, traveling salesmen of the day, and the railroad men who had layovers in Abbeville. It’s listed on the National Register of Historic places in Abbeville. It has 25 newly remodeled, decorated rooms. They let Mark and I walk through it. The rooms that didn’t have occupants in them, they leave the doors open so we were about to view them. They are furnished with old antique furniture, some rooms have large pieces of furniture. It has wooden floors and looks like bedrooms in antebellum homes, only a bit smaller. It is nice and very clean. Really takes you back in time. Prices are very reasonable. More on that later.
The Belmont Inn is next door to the Opera House and two doors from the court house. The Library is one block away. If yall had rather stay in a motel there are three motels around Abbeville, but the nicer ones are in Greenwood, which is only 15 miles away. Mr. Richie told me the Library in Greenwood was better than the one in Abbeville. I only got to spend a couple of hours at the Library in Greenwood. They have a lot of old books for research, made several copies, but don’t think I found too much of what we don’t already have. Haven’t had a chance to look it over.
Something else we might want to think about. This pamphlet I have says Edgefield County, (which we all know is part of Old 96 District) has D.A. Tompkins Memorial Library. It serves as a genealogical and historical research center focusing on the Old 96 District. It is the headquarters for the Courtesy Center and Archives. If we have time, we might want to check this out.
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Your Cousin, Gwen Rosamond Forrester
Another cousin, Ruth Long Menhel, left the group the following day although for a happier reason. She and her husband had purchased a new home and she had to take care of all the various activities that accompany a move from one home to another.
The next day the cousins visited the Rosamond-Sweeney Cemetery. A large stone (pictured at the left), was that of James Rosamond. This stone was sitting alone toward what I will define as the back of the small cemetery. Most of the other stones formed two rows across the front of the cemetery. None of these stones bore the Rosamond name, but all the names were known to be related to the Rosamonds in some manner. The cousins used metal prods to try and find additional stones that might have been buried during the intervening years, but only a few foot stones were found. These were all located by Michelle Smith, the only teenager accompanying the group through all it’s activities. Many of the stones were put back in place, and propped up as well as they could be.
After a picnic lunch was enjoyed by all we got back to work. Prior to leaving the cemetery, wild flower seeds were spread across the entire area in hopes that these would take over from the weeds and other growth that was found there upon arrival.
Later, a group of the cousins visited the library in Kosciusko. The library has a small genealogy section and their holdings contain a fairly significant amount of information on the Rosamond family. One folder has family group sheets tracing the family from South Carolina through it’s move to Mississippi. These were copied, and Tom Rosamond was generous enough to make additional copies of these documents after his return home and mailed copies to the other cousins.
A wonderful autobiography of Nicholas Ware Hodges was kindly provided by Jimmy Rosamond. It provides remarkable, priceless pieces of information about Nicholas and all his family. The following are some excerpts from the work:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICHOLAS WARE HODGES
“In the 44th year of my age, being confined at home by protracted illness, from which it is very uncertain whether I may ever recover, I proceed to the execution of a task, which I have desired and intended for many years, viz: to write a brief narrative of my life, for the instruction and benefit of my own children. . . . I must first gratify a natural curiosity in giving some account of my parentage. My grandfather, Richard Hodges, emigrated from Virginia, before the Revolutionary war, and settled in Abbeville District, on Mulberry Creek, then a frontier settlement in the vicinity of the Cherokee Indians. His wife’s maiden name was Jones. She survived her husband many years. I can recollect her when she was nearly a hundred years of age. My father’s name was James [Hodges]. There being no school established in that newly settled part of the country, and all that were capable being necessarily employed in opening the country and reducing it under cultivation, my father had no opportunity of going to school. Three days were the most of his schooling. The deficiency he lamented in [later] life and endeavored to supply it by his own efforts. He learned to read and sign his name.
Before the Commencement of the Colonial dispute (Revolution) my grandfather died, leaving a widow and twelve children . . . my grandmother was reduced to great suffering. The Indians burned her house and carried one of her daughters away captive. She returned home after the war, scarcely able to speak English. My grandmother had to fly for protection to the woods and shelter herself and children in the hollow of a large tree.” [This is the account of Dorothy Hodges written about earlier.] My father was about 18 years of age at the commencement of the war and was soon engaged in active scenes. He was not the man that ever shrunk from danger, where duty or necessity called, and was consequently employed by his captain, with other daring young men, in several dangerous adventures against the Tories. . . . In all these battles, my father never received a single wound, though he never deserted his post and saw many fall dead on his right hand and on his left. If this was not an evidence of a special providence I know not where to find any. After the return of peace, my father married Ann [Nancy Ware], daughter of Nicholas Ware, who had emigrated from Virginia and settled on Turkey Creek, Abbeville . . . . My mother’s parents [Nicholas and Peggy Ware] both dying, left under my father’s care their two youngest sons, Edward and Nathaniel A. Ware, at a tender age. He brought then up as his own children and gave them the best education which the schools in his reach afforded. . . .” [For information on Nathaniel Ware, see his section.]
“I was born on Lord’s day, 1st Jan 1797 and was the sixth of eleven children. I was delicate in appearance and thought not to be equal to the labors of the farm. My uncleselected me from the rest and begged my father to keep me at school until he himself should finish his education, and he would then educate me, by way of return to my father for the kindness he had shown to him. My father did so. . . . One trait of character early developed itself – that was fondness for reading; but unfortunately I had no access to suitable books. . . . Having read all I could lay my hands upon in my father’s little library, I at length found an old book with very fine and dim print. I resolved to know its contents. It was the Bible. I commenced at the beginning and read on with increasing interest. I often read by fire-light, after the rest of the family had retired to rest, and thus early injured my eyes, from which they never fully recovered. Very salutary impressions were made on my mind at this age. I saw that God befriended those patriarchs wherever they were and suffered none to hurt them. I had a great desire to be like them. I was now about 12 years of age. In the summer of 1810, my uncle came to carry me to Abbeville, to commence the study of Latin with him, whilst he was pursuing the study of law.” Nicholas further writes: “I must stop here to review the scenes among which I had been brought up – together with their effect on my mind . . . my mother [Nancy Ware] had a great respect for religion, which she had imbibed from her parents. [Nicholas and Peggy Ware.] They were both pious members of the Baptist church on Turkey Creek. She used to reprove her children about using bad words and indulging passion. My father was brought up in the Episcopal Church in Virginia, and certainly had great respect for religion and ministers; but very little for the church in which he had been brought up. He often read the Testament and other good books, but said nothing to his children about doing so. The Testament, however, was generally used as a school book . . . . I hated Latin because I was to be made proud by learning and could not become the humble Christian I had desired since I first read the scriptures, and gave way to grief and melancholy. After some months my uncle entered me as a student, at Old Cambridge and engaged boarding for me with Mr. Thomas Chiles.”
Nicholas continued, “After a short stay at my beloved home, I was carried back to Cambridge, in the beginning of the year 1811. My uncle having made his arrangements to move to Natchez, Miss., paid me a short visit. He gave me good advice which made an impression upon me. This was the last time that I ever had the pleasure of seeing that dear uncle to whom as an instrument I am indebted for what education I have. I became deeply interested and prosecuted the study of Latin, Greek and higher English, and succeeded in taking the prize offered our class. I remained until the close of the year, 1812. I spent the year 1813 in reviewing, reading, and instructing my younger brother and sisters. During the present year, l8l3, my religious impressions increased. I began to discover my depravity more and more, and was often in much distress. I made many resolutions, but was unable to keep them, which destroyed my peace of mind. But, as yet, I knew not the way of salvation. In the year, 1814, being about 17 years of age, I taught a school at Turkey Creek Church and boarded with my Uncle Edmond Ware, at Scuffletown. I returned to Cambridge in 1815.
[. . . .] During the following vacation I occupied a student’s cabin alone. Here, happy in my seclusion, I had much time for meditation and prayer. I began to reflect seriously upon my situation as a sinner. I had been long striving to obtain religion, but found myself further off, instead of approaching nearer my object.
[. . . .] I thought myself the chief of sinners and was at my wits end. I could make no greater exertion than I had already made, which had proved abortive. Thus the lord was stripping me of my self-righteousness; for I had been, for years, trying to work myself into His favor.”
In closing, Nicholas relayed how, “one Sunday morning I was sitting in my cabin, reading . . . about a man who was in the habit of cock fighting. Having lost a bet, he took a solemn oath not to be engaged in such sport. . . . He was, at length, tempted himself . . . but was struck dead in an instant. When I read this I closed the book and thought I was as guilty as that man, for violating so many solemn resolutions. I looked for the hand of God to be let loose and cut me down. I rushed out of the cabin and sought the woods. Falling upon my knees I cried to God for mercy. Tears gushed from my eyes which afforded some temporary relief. I returned slowly to the cabin with despair seated at my heart. . . . I concluded to read again the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. . . . When I came to the 10th chapter, new views began to be presented. I read, ‘Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth . . . the word of faith, which we preach: that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.’ These remarkable words arrested my attention. I thought ‘Is it possible that salvation is placed on such easy terms merely to believe?’ I had been all the while under the impression that I must reform and do something to gain the divine favor. Here was a new doctrine to me, and I felt ready to lay hold upon it, for every other refuge had proved a failure. I then asked myself, ‘Do you believe in the lord Jesus?’ I answered ‘I most certainly do’. I then began to feel some degree of joy from the thought that there was a bare possibility for such a sinner as myself to be saved. This joy gradually increased until I left my cabin to walk in the open fields. Here as I looked around, all nature seemed to put on a new and more lovely aspect.” [You can find the autobiography in its entirety on the web.]
Nicholas was so inspired that he spent the rest of his life preaching the gospel. He married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth (Eliza) Hughes of Edgefield.
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They had two sons, Charles and Edward. There were more children by his second wife whose name is not known. Nicholas died of tuberculosis at the age of 44 on October 7, 1841. His mother, Nancy Ware Hodges, would outlive him by 15 years; dying in 1856 at the age of 89. Nancy’s husband had also predeceased her in 1828. “James’ wife, Nancy Ware Hodges, as his widow, applied for his pension #W7776. Charlie Hodges sent an affidavit to support the pension request, March 20, 1846, in which he stated that James was his brother.”
Legend has it that, in the mid-1800’s, Cypress’ beautiful wrought iron fence along the sidewalk of College Street was “donated” by Jeanette Hart to the Association in return for the burial of Hart’s beloved slave, Sarah, in the Hart family plot. At that time, the Assoication was likely incensed at the idea of a “mixed” cemetery plot. But, in return for the fence, the Assoication acquiesced as long as Sarah’s plot was unmarked. The unmarked grave still exists today.
A hundred years pass and a prince from another family spies the hidden castle during a hunting expedition. His attendants tell him differing stories regarding the castle until an old man recounts his father’s words: within the castle lies a beautiful princess who is doomed to sleep for a hundred years until a king’s son comes and awakens her. The prince then braves the tall trees, brambles and thorns which part at his approach, and enters the castle. He passes the sleeping castle folk and comes across the chamber where the Princess lies asleep on the bed. Struck by the radiant beauty before him, he falls on his knees before her. The enchantment comes to an end by a kiss and the princess awakens and converses with the prince for a long time. Meanwhile, the rest of the castle awakens and go about their business.
The Real President and Commander In Chief spoke to the Nation last night, and NAMED who the real enemies of the United States – ARE! President Biden NAMED the ELECTION DENIERS whose base is in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida – where the Racist Confederates Traitors grew like fruit bats on magnolia trees. and who resorted to extreme violence in order to – KEEP THEIR SLAVES.
Oregonians have the privilege to VOTE DOWN SLAVERY in Oregon, however, many are voting for Red State Fruit Bats, when they cast a vote for Christine Drazan, who employs a cookie-cutter tactic other Treacherous Fruit Bats employ – TO WIN YOUR VOTE! The Batties USE the homeless and criminals to become Lawmakers and hold a seat in our Government. I am wise to THEIR TRICK. When in power – Republican’s NEVER offer Secular Solutions to our Social Needs, but hang in the trees – waiting for the Democrats TO FAIL, then, swoop down and suck the blood of Good Democrats – WHO DID NOTHING WRONG! The Election Deniers – KNOW THE DEMOCRATS DID NOT STEAL ANY ELECTION! The Bloody Batties – KNOW THE DEMOCRATS DID NOTHING WRONG!
The ED BATS are Parasites on Society! They use our Constitution and Jesus to get in office so they can end Social Security and Medical. Do you know about the Faith based Initiative. Some churches have applied and received FEDERAL FUNDING? How many preachers in our Democracy give Anti-Government Sermons – then pocket thousands? These Ministers of Treachery – hand out FAKE PATRIOT BADGES – and want to be called Heroes of God and Jesus! Incist that they sign The Iron Clad Oath!
The Real President of the United States REMINDED true citizens – that Real People fought Real Battles in order to Found this Democracy. My great grandfather fought in the War of Independence, along with his brother, Captain Samuel Rosamond. They fired their rifles at The Soldiers of the Crown, as did their commander, FRANCIS MARION. In Oregon, there is a County named after him, as well as a County named after Senator Thomas Hart Benton, whose son-in-law was JOHN FREMONT the first candidate for the Republican Party – he help found – along with the Real Radical Republicans. Fremont founded the Radical Democracy Party – to force Lincoln’s hand!
On this day, November 3, 2022…..I am asking Betsey Johnson, and Christian Drazan…TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR, for the reason they USE the Homeless and Criminals to propel themselves into office. As of yet, these two have not published a concise plan on how they will END homelessness, and STOP crime. I get $850 a month to live on. I am disabled and on SSI. I have taken on criminals – most of my life! I helped the homeless and stood up to radicals – who preyed upon the homeless. I got very littl help.
On this day, I refound Fremont’s Radical Democracy Party – that will REPRESENT every criminal -and all the homeless in the United States of America. With a team of attorneys we will hold every politician accountable for every promise they make to end homelessness, and stop crime. The Radical Democracy Party will work with all groups in prison.
Jesus ministered to a criminal while – dying on the cross! My ancestor was a Highwayman, who got arrested – and sent to America as an indentured slave. William Rose was kidnaped – and sold into slavery. Seventy percent of white folks in America, were poor indentured slaves who depended upon their master – for a roof over their head. These are THE PEOPLE who did most of the fighting. They fought the wealthy church-going Loyalists – who treated them like chattel. The descendants of these True Americans, are not the Political Slaves of the MAGA ED BATTY!
Freedom! Here comes THE FREEDOM WAVE! I am going to make sure The Highwayman becomes Oregon’s State Song! Our history – has just begun to fight! Our future – will always look bright!
((birth was between 1750 and 1760 when John and Sarah were still in Virgin ia)) James Rosamond, R255, M. Born ca 1754 in Augusta County, Virginia. Jam es died in Abbeville District, SC bef 10 Jul 1806, he was about 52. Occup ation: Farmer. James served in the Revolutionary War in the Ninety-Six District before a nd after the fall of Charleston. The Siege of Charleston occurrend in 17 80 by the British Army led by Sir Henry Clinton. James furnished 150 lb s. of pork to the militia in 1782. He obtained land grants as a result of his service in the war. An abstract of his service in the Revolution army War is on file at the Historical Commission in South Carolina. James may have been married to a Dorothy/Norah Hodges (daughter or John Ho dges and Elizabeth ?) prior to marrying Mary Daugherty. No one has been ab le to find any record of this. Barbara Morgan lists a Lettice Jones as a p ossibility for James’ first wife. Much depends on when his first wife die d, and the date he married Mary. In the first national census in 1790, James, his brother Samuel, and his m other Sarah were the only Rosamond Heads of Household listed in South Caro lina. From info received from Ruth: “The census listing shows him as living in t he Ninety-Six District 1 male & 1 female age 40-50, 2 males under 16 yea rs and 9 slaves.” This can’t be the 1790 census data as that census didn ‘t break down the ages except the males, and that only younger and older t han 16. Also, there is no 40-50 age group for the 1800 census.
The Red State President want to deny due process of law to those who tried to enter the U.S. illegally. John Rosamond was tried in England and sent to America as a indentured slave. William Rose was sold and put on a ship to America. More than half the white people living in this freedom land, were indentured slaves brought here against their will. It’s time for Good Americans to confront fellow Americans who take the false patriotism Trump hands them in order to divide this nation, and this world.
Name: John ROSAMOND “The Highwayman”· Surname: Rosamond· Given Name: John· Suffix: “The Highwayman”· Sex: M· Birth: ABT. 1710 in County Leitrim, Ireland (?)
“In 1724, my ancestor John ROSAMOND and his friend William Ray were arrested in Abingdon, Berkshire, England for stealing a hat, periwig, 30 pounds British sterling, five pairs of shoes, and a brown gelding. They were held in the gaol in Reading, Berkshire, after their trial where they were sentenced to be exiled to the colonies for 14 years hard labor.
In January 1865, Marx wrote to Lincoln on behalf of the International Workingmen’s Association, a group for socialists, communists, anarchists and trade unions, to “congratulate the American people upon your reelection.”
House Bills 616 and 327 would bar teachers from discussing racism — a national sickness that officials say led to the massacre of Roberta A. Drury, Margus D. Morrison,Andre Mackneil,Aaron Salter, Geraldine Talley, Celestine Chaney, Heyward Patterson, Katherine Massey, Pearl Young and Ruth Whitfield May 14 at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo.
House Bill 327 would also restrict how public colleges and other public entities such as police departments and libraries offer training or instructions to employees, contractors or outside groups about so-deemed “divisive concepts” such as racism, sexism, inequality and religious intolerance.
Christians claim God – IS TRUTH – and they uphold this and most family and political traditions. They claim they follow the Bible and it is the pure word of God. They insist secular government and secular culture must be destroyed so they can construct the delusional kingdom of God – here on earth. Millions of Christian lunatics claim – TRUMP WON! If John Fremont and the founders of the Republican party – were alive – they would order these lunatics out of THIER PARTY, and insist they form THEIR OWN PARTY that would resemble A CHURCH.
Consider the Parable of the Sower. There were Marxists and Socialists in the first Republican Party. Most Christian leaders, and Fox News – hate Socialists! Build the Party of Jesus – on good ground! Followers of Prosperity Gospel may be wondering why they have been having – BAD LUCK!
My kindred, Samuel Rosamond, Lemuel Benton, and Gavin Witherspoon, fought under the Francis Marion ‘The Swamp Fox’ in the War of Independence. John Witherspoon is a Signer and is kin to the Preston family, as are the three Patriots above. These four men are kindred to the Stewart family, and thus William and Harry Windsor. Add to this roster, the Hart and Hull family, then here is America’s most illustrious and Patriotic Family.
He sent Lt. Col. Lemuel Benton with sixteen men to seize the pass over Horse Creek. Horry’s men stumbled over a sentry who fired a shot, and they quickly rushed Sumter’s home with Col. Marion’s remaining 134 men closely behind them. In a brief fight, they killed or captured 22 British Regulars and two Loyalists. One of the Continental prisoners, Capt. Perry Benson of the 5th MD Regiment, was wounded as well.
Rosamond, Samuel Ninety-Six District Regiment 1777 1782 A Captain under Col. Robert Anderson at Siege of Ninety-Six (1781) (Upper Ninety-Six District Regiment). A Lieutenant under Capt. Adam Crain Jones during 1782. Also at battle of Kettle Creek (GA). Aka Samuel Roseman.
Benton, Lemuel Cheraws District Regiment 1775 1777 Promoted to Major in 1777. Promoted to Lt. Col. In 1780, then Colonel in 1781.
Witherspoon, Gavin Berkeley County Regiment 1780 1782 From Williamsburg District. A Captain under Col. Richard Richardson, Jr. (aka Richardson’s Regiment) Pee Dee Swamp w/4 men, Tearcoat Swamp, Halfway Swamp #1, Georgetown #6, Wiboo Swamp, Witherspoon’s Ferry, Fort Motte, Quinby’s Bridge, Shubrick’s Plantation, Eutaw Springs, Videau’s Bridge, Wadboo Swamp
Witherspoon, James SC Light Dragoons 1779 1782 1779-1780, a Captain under Maj. Hezekiah Maham, Col. Daniel Horry. 1781-1782, a Captain under Lt. Col./Col. Peter Horry (Kingstree Regiment, Horry’s Light Dragoons, and SC 4th Regiment of State Dragoons). From Williamsburg District. Georgetown #6, Eutaw Springs
Witherspoon, John Lower Craven County Regiment 1777
From Williamsburg District. Earlier, a Lieutenant. A Captain under Col. Hugh Giles.
Terry Lipscomb, “South Carolina Revolutionary Battles – Part Ten (MS H-2-2)”, unpublished, p.29:
Benton personally led his troops in a second skirmish higher up on Black Creek, which is believed to be the Battle of Williamson’s Bridge mentioned in local tradition; this corresponds to the present bridge on state secondary road 35 in Darlington County, four miles southeast of Darlington. Alexander Gregg, D.D., History of the Old Cheraws, Richardson And Company, 1867, pp.387, Another skirmish took place about this time, higher up on Black Creek, Colonel Benton commanding. The Tories were routed and fled, but being overtaken and surrounded, were forced to make a hand to hand fight, suffering very severely. Colonel Benton had no fire arms except his pistols. One man, pressed by the colonel, turned about, and was in the act of firing his musket, but, before he could do so, Benton discharged his pistol at him, missing him, however, then threw it at him and knocked him from his horse to the ground. JP: Black Creek Skirmishes 1 & 2 seem to have taken place in the last half 1781 or early 1782
Samuel BENTON “the Immigrant” ABT 1720 – 1770 ID Number: I99600
RESIDENCE: England and Granville Co. NC BIRTH: ABT 1720, Worcester, England DEATH: 1770, Granville Co, North Carolina RESOURCES: See: [S3615]
Family 1 : Francis KIMBROUGH MARRIAGE: Craven County, (now Johnston Co.) North Carolina 1. +Lemurel BENTON 2. +Jesse BENTON Sr. Notes
Native of England (probably Worcester County). Was appointed Justice of Granville County Court in 1746. Sheriff in 1764. Member of House of Commons from 1760 to 1768. Registrar of the County from 1761 until his death in 1770. Clerk of Court of Common pleas and Quarter Sessions from 1764 to 1770. Lt. Col. of militia under Gov. Wm. Tyron in 1768 during some of the Regulator troubles. Gave land for new courthouse at Oxford Plantation – part of 1,000 acres he owned. Before 1763, was responsible for erecting St. George’s Chapel in Granville, South Carolina. Buried in family cemetary on plantation, Oxford Granville Co SC.
Children: 2 Samuel BENTON , Jr. b: ABT 1740 + UNKNOWN b: ABT 1740 2 Lemuel BENTON b: 23 Oct 1754 d: 18 May 1818 + Elizabeth KIMBROUGH b: ABT 1774 d: ABT 1855 2 Jesse BENTON , Sr. b: 1747 d: Aug 1791 + Ann (Nancy) GOOCH b: 1758 d: 3 Jan 1838 2 Joseph BENTON b: ABT 1740
Jesse BENTON Sr. 1747 – Aug 1791 ID Number: I99602
RESIDENCE: Granville and Orange Cos. NC BIRTH: 1747, Granville Co. North Carolina DEATH: Aug 1791, Orange Co. North Carolina RESOURCES: See: [S3615] Father: Samuel BENTON “the Immigrant” Mother: Francis KIMBROUGH
Family 1 : Ann (Nancy) GOOCH 1. +Thomas Hart BENTON Notes
Member of the Assembly 1781. Owned a plantation on Eno River (Hartford) which was purchased from Thomas Hart III. See info. in Patriot Index, Vol. I (DAR Papers p. 55). Children: 2 Mary BENTON b: 1780 d: 1817 2 Thomas Hart BENTON b: 14 Mar 1782 d: 10 Apr 1858 + Elizabeth MCDOWELL b: 1794 d: Sep 1854 2 Jesse BENTON , Jr. b: 1783 d: Sep 1843 + Mary CHILDRESS b: ABT 1783 + Barnissa BENSON b: ABT 1783 2 Samuel BENTON b: 1785 + Mary HUNTER b: ABT 1785 2 Nathaniel BENTON b: 1786 + Unknown BRANCH b: ABT 1786 2 Margaret BENTON b: 1788 d: 1806 2 Ann “Nancy” BENTON b: 1788 d: 1807 2 Susannah BENTON b: 1791 d: 1811
Col. Lemurel BENTON 23 Oct 1754 – 18 May 1818 ID Number: I45174
TITLE: Col. OCCUPATION: Rev War Marion’s Brigade RESIDENCE: NC and Cheraw Dist. Darlington Co. SC BIRTH: 23 Oct 1754, Granville Co. North Carolina DEATH: 18 May 1818, Stoney Hill Estate, Darlington Co. South Carolina RESOURCES: See: [S1631] [S3615] Father: Samuel BENTON “the Immigrant” Mother: Francis KIMBROUGH
Family 1 : Elizabeth KIMBROUGH 1. +Penelope BENTON 2. +Gilly Hinton BENTON Notes
Lemuel Benton, (1754-1818), served in Marion’s Brigade until the close of the war. In 1783 he was a delegate from St. David’s Parish to the Legislature. He was born in Granville Co., N. C.; died in Darlington District, S. C. Children: 2 John BENTON b: ABT 1794 2 Lemuel BENTON , Jr. b: ABT 1794 2 Buckleigh (Buckley) K. BENTON b: abt 1794 d: 1836 + UNKNOWN b: abt 1794 2 Alfred BENTON b: ABT 1794 2 Clarissa BENTON b: ABT 1794 + William Little THOMAS b: ABT 1794 2 Gillie Hinton BENTON b: ABT 1794 + Isaiah DUBOSE b: ABT 1794 2 Charlotte BENTON b: ABT 1794 + Laurence PRINCE b: ABT 1794 2 Elizabeth BENTON b: ABT 1794 + George BRUCE b: ABT 1794 2 Penelope BENTON b: ABT 1794 + William BROCKINTON b: ABT 1794
“Married his first cousin on his mother’s side. He and his brother, Jesse, signed the “Redressor Papers” in protest of the Regulator movement in NC before emigrating to SC. Then he moved to SC and settled in section of Cheraw District that is now Darlington Co SC. There he became a planter and acquired extensive landholding. During the Revolution, he attained the rank of Colonel and served under General Francis Marion as commander of the PeeDee force, retaining his commission until he resigned in 1794. He was a member of the legislature in 1781-84 and 1787.
He was Darlington Co Court Justice 1785-1791. He was Escheator of Cheraw District 1789-91. He was delegate to State Constitutional Convention in1790 and the 1788 Convention in Charleston that ratified the federal Constitution. He was elected the first congressional representative from the PeeDee District. He served as a Democrat in the 3rd, 4th and 5th Congresses 1793-99. He opposed the administration of John Adams and was defeated for re-election. He was buried on his estate, Stoney Hill. He and Elizabeth had 4 sons and 4 daughters. Only 1 son survived to reach manhood.”
Lemuel Benton (1754 – May 18, 1818) was an American planter and politician from Darlington County, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1799. Colonel Benton resided on Stoney Hill Farm, located in Darlington County near Mechanicsville. Stoney Hill is currently owned by the Burns family.
Other names: Williamson’s Bridge What: Skirmish, *Lt. Col. Lemuel Benton vs. unknown British (or allied) commandeer. Unknown date, 1780 (last half 1781?). Where: 34.2707096 -79.7867283 Black Creek 2, Williamson’s Bridge Maps: [map notes] 34.2707096 -79.7867283 Black Creek 2, Williamson’s Bridge ACME Mapper. National Map Google GNIS record for Williamsons Bridge. Note mapping options. Confidence: 5 Sources:
Terry Lipscomb, “South Carolina Revolutionary Battles – Part Ten (MS H-2-2)”, unpublished, p.29: Benton personally led his troops in a second skirmish higher up on Black Creek, which is believed to be the Battle of Williamson’s Bridge mentioned in local tradition; this corresponds to the present bridge on state secondary road 35 in Darlington County, four miles southeast of Darlington. Alexander Gregg, D.D., History of the Old Cheraws, Richardson And Company, 1867, pp.387, Another skirmish took place about this time, higher up on Black Creek, Colonel Benton commanding. The Tories were routed and fled, but being overtaken and surrounded, were forced to make a hand to hand fight, suffering very severely. Colonel Benton had no fire arms except his pistols. One man, pressed by the colonel, turned about, and was in the act of firing his musket, but, before he could do so, Benton discharged his pistol at him, missing him, however, then threw it at him and knocked him from his horse to the ground. JP: Black Creek Skirmishes 1 & 2 seem to have taken place in the last half 1781 or early 1782
of Granville County, North Carolina As a young man he moved to the Pee Dee section of Cheraw District, South Carolina. In 1789, he was granted 1,940 acres in Cheraw where he established his plantation, Stony Hill. Later he received grants for 659 acres at the fork of Saltketcher River in Colleton county and 89 acres on the Great Pee Dee River in Darlington District, South Carolina. [2, 6]
MILI He was commander of Pee Dee Reg’t., Francis Marion Brigade His first public service was in the militia during the American Revolution. He was commissioned a lieutenant (1775-1776), served as a captain (1776) and a major (1777), and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in command of the Cheraw militia (1781-1782). His regiment was allied with Francis Marion’s Brigade from 1781 until the end of the war, and his unit often confronted Tories in Black Creek skirmishes. After Yorktown, he continued to serve as colonel of the Cheraw Regiment until 1794 when he resigned his commission due to the appointment of Tristram Thomas as brigadier general of the Cheraw Brigade. [2, 6] Occupation 1st member of Congress (1790’s) elected from Upper Pee Dee; planter; sheriff of Cheraw District (1789, 1791); Darlington County court judge (1785, 1791), and commissioner, to superintend the opening of navigation of the Great Pee Dee River (1805) [2, 7] http://www.singletonfamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I11821&tree=1
Lemuel Benton
Note for: Lemuel Benton, 23 OCT 1754 – 18 MAY 1818 Index
Residence: Place: Cheraw Dist. (Darlington County, SC)
Individual Note: Married his first cousin on his mother’s side. He and his brother, Jesse, signed the “Redressor Papers” in protest of the Regulator movement in NC before emigrating to SC. Then he moved to SC and settled in section of Cheraw District that is now Darlington Co SC. There he became a planter and acquired extensive landholding. During the Revolution, he attained the rank of Colonel and served under General Francis Marion as commander of the PeDee force, retaining his commission until he resigned in 1794. He was a member of the legislature in 1781-84 and 1787. He was Darlington Co Court Justice 1785-1791. He was Escheator of Cheraw District 1789-91. He was delegate to State Constitutional Convention in1790 and the the 1788 Convention in Charleston that ratified the federal Constitution. He was elected the first congressional representative from the PeDee District. He served as a Democrat in the 3rd, 4th and 5th Congresses 1793-99. He opposed the administration of John Adams and was defeated for reelection. He was buried on his estate, Stoney Hill. He and Elizabeth had 4 sons and 4 daughters. Only 1 son survived to reach manhood.
FROM: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000396 BENTON, Lemuel, (great-grandfather of George William Dargan), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Granville County, N.C., in 1754; as a young man moved to that section of Cheraw District which is now Darlington County, S.C.; engaged as a planter and subsequently became an extensive landowner; elected major of the Cheraw Regiment in 1777 and served throughout the Revolutionary War, being promoted to the rank of colonel in 1781; resigned his commission in 1794; member of the State house of representatives 1782-1788; county court justice of Darlington County in 1785 and 1791; escheator of Cheraw District (composed of what is now Chesterfield, Darlington, and Marlboro Counties) in 1787; delegate to the State convention at Charleston that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788; sheriff of Cheraw District in 1789 and 1791; delegate to the State constitutional convention at Columbia in 1790; elected to the Third Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1799); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1798 to the Sixth Congress; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Darlington, Darlington County, S.C., May 18, 1818; interment on his estate, “Stony Hill,” near Darlington, S.C.
Even though he was a Continental officer Marion had been elected to the South Carolina General Assembly as the senator for the Parish of St. John Berkeley. He left Horry in charge of his brigade while he was at the general assembly in Jacksonboro. Hezekiah Maham still considered his unit totally independent and would only take orders from General Greene, not Peter Horry. On the advice of Marion, Horry moved the brigade to Wambaw Creek near the Santee River. The forage was more available there and it had better protection from the British troops. Colonel Benjamin Thompson, a Loyalist from Massachusetts, learned that Marion was at the general assembly and that there was a breakdown in communications between Marion’s two colonels. Thompson decided to attack the partisans while their guard was down. Thompson had put together a cavalry force that consisted of all the mounted units in Charlestown. He wrote that “the principal objects of the expedition were to practice the Cavalry in marching in Regular order in the Enemy’s Country, and to accustom them to act with the mounted militia, who will be very useful in covering our flanks. They are all armed with rifles as well as Swords, and are perhaps the best marksmen in the world for shooting on horse back.” Horry was on the other side of the Santee River visiting his plantation and had left Colonel Archibald McDonald in command while he was gone. Marion had told Horry that if he had to absent himself for any reason the command should go to Maham, however Maham was with Marion at the assembly. On the morning of February 24th Colonel Thompson set out from Daniel’s Island and rode towards Marion’s camp. Colonel Lemuel Benton held a position at Durant’s Plantation. Benton’s men 33 Patrick O’Kelley consisted of two regiments of “six month’s men” and were made up of “reformed Tories.” These men had come in under Governor Rutledge’s amnesty proposal. Major William Benison commanded the scouts in St. Thomas’s and told Benton that the British were approaching his position. Benison proceeded to Colonel McDonald’s headquarters and also told him of the approaching enemy. Many of the officers there were eating dinner and most of the Patriot officers did not believe that the British were going to attack. Colonel Benton was one of the few who did believe the reports and rode to Durant’s plantation only to encounter the advance of Thompson’s army. Major John Doyle did not wait for the rest of the cavalry force to arrive and charged Marion’s men at Wambaw Bridge. Major William Young wounded Benton as he was about to cut down Lieutenant Simon Jones, Thompson’s adjutant. Benton’s dragoons fled and raced across the Wambaw Bridge. The stress was too much for the old bridge and it broke under the weight of men and horses. Many of Benton’s men tried swimming across and a few drowned. The men who had not fled across the bridge hid themselves in thickets. This saved them from capture and death because the British were giving no quarter. Major James had two British dragoons try to cut him down, but he kept them at a distance with his pistols. He leapt the twenty foot chasm in the bridge and rode to safety. The rest of Marion’s Brigade fell back to Mrs. Tydiman’s Plantation in between Echaw and Wambaw. Thompson continued to raid the countryside and was able to capture and parole Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.25 Beaufort, South Carolina Skirmish 24 February 1782 Colonel Robert Barnwell and his St. Helena Volunteer Militia Company attempted to cross the Savannah River at Beaufort to burn the British stores in Georgia. He was attacked by the Beaufort Loyalist militia under the command of Major Andrew Deveaux and
“I think you had one side of the Civil War that was fighting for tradition and one side of the Civil War that was fighting for change,” Haley said.
“I think that they do,” Haley said when asked if states have the right to secede. “I mean, the Constitution says that.”
Two hours after my last post, I saw the news about the Grand Jury.
Nikki Haley said in a 2010 video that states have the right to secede from the Union, a view that was c
The next day the cousins visited the Rosamond-Sweeney Cemetery. A large stone (pictured at the left), was that of James Rosamond. This stone was sitting alone toward what I will define as the back of the small cemetery. Most of the other stones formed two rows across the front of the cemetery. None of these stones bore the Rosamond name, but all the names were known to be related to the Rosamonds in some manner. The cousins used metal prods to try and find additional stones that might have been buried during the intervening years, but only a few foot stones were found. These were all located by Michelle Smith, the only teenager accompanying the group through all it’s activities. Many of the stones were put back in place, and propped up as well as they could be.
Later, a group of the cousins visited the library in Kosciusko. The library has a small genealogy section and their holdings contain a fairly significant amount of information on the Rosamond family. One folder has family group sheets tracing the family from South Carolina through it’s move to Mississippi. These were copied, and Tom Rosamond was generous enough to make additional copies of these documents after his return home and mailed copies to the other cousins.
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