Newberry County SC Wills and Estates
Bush
River, Quaker Cemetery. In 1783 an ordinance was passed to divide the
districts of Charleston, Georgetown, Cheraw, Camden, Ninety-Six,
Orangeburg and Beaufort into counties not more than forty miles square.
When the County Court Act was written in 1785, a court was held (in
every county) once every three months and the first court was held at
the house of Colonel Robert Rutherford on September 5th.. The Justices
present were Robert Rutherford, Robert Gillam, George Ruff, Levi
Casey, John Lindsey, Philemon Waters and Levi Manning. William Malone
was appointed clerk serving until 1794 with his deputies, viz: Thomas
Brooks Rutherford, Major Frederick Nance and William Satterwhite. It
was not until 1787 that another location for holding court was
designated, being on the north side of the Bush River. William Caldwell
and Joseph Wright were appointed to run a line agreed upon by the
Justices to fix the public buildings by, which survey was produced at
the house of John Coate.
The county seat is the town of
Newberry. This part of the upcountry was settled by Germans,
Scotch-Irish, English, and emigrants from the sister States of North
Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The German settlement was
in the fork, between the Broad and Saluda Rivers to within three miles
of the Newberry Court House. Soon thereafter the line was extended eight
miles below Hugheys on the Broad River to the mouth of Bear Creek, on
the Saluda River. Germans were so prevalent in part of Newberry County
that it become known as Dutch Fork. Adam Summer, the father of Colonel
John Adam Sumner, headed the settlement beginning in 1745. Colonel
Sumner and Major Frederick Gray were known to be whigs. Among those
settling were the religiously oppressed Palatines who were driven from
the Rhine, Baden and Wurtemburg into England during 1710 where they
were quartered in tents and booths near London. From there, they were
sent to North Carolina and South Carolina. The first German settlers
were: Summers, Mayer, Ruff, Eigleberger, Count, Sligh, Piester, Gray,
DeWalt, Boozer, Busby, Buzzard, Shealy, Bedenbaugh, Cromer, Berley,
Heller, Koon, Wingard, Suber, Folk, Dickert, Cappleman, Halfacres,
Chapman, Black, Kinard, Bounight, Barr, Harmon, Bower, Kibler, Gallman,
Lever, Hartman, Frick, Stoudemoyer, Dominick, Singley, Bulow, Paysinger,
Wallern, Stayley, Ridlehoover, Librand, Leaphart, Hopes, Houseal,
Bernhard, Shuler, Haltiwanger, Swigart, Meetze, Schumpert, Fulmore,
Livingston, Schmitz, Eleazer, Drehr, Lorick, Wise, Crotwell, Youngener,
Nunamaker, Souter, Epting and Huffman. The Quakers settled on the Bush
River and the Beaverdam about three or four miles on each side of the
river. Among them was William Coate who resided between Spring Field and
the Bush River and Samuel elly, a native of King County, Ireland, who
came to Newberry from Camden to settle at Spring Field. Others were:
John Furnas, David Jenkins, Benjamin Pearson, William Pearson, Peter
Hare, Robert Evans, John Wright, Joseph Wright, William Wright, James
Brooks, Joseph Thomson, James Patty, Gabriel McCoole, John Coate, (Big)
Isaac Hollingsworth, William O Neall, Walter Herbert, Sr., Daniel
Parkins, Daniel Smith, Samuel Miles, David Miles, William Miles, Samuel
Brown, Israel Gaunt, Azariah Pugh, William Mills, Jonathan and Caleb
Gilbert, John Galbreath, James Coppock, John Coppock, Joseph Reagin,
John Reagin, Abel and James Insco, Jesse Spray, Samuel Teague, George
Pemberton, Jehu Inman, Mercer Babb, James Steddam, John Crumpton, Isaac
Cook, John Jay , Reason Reagen, Thomas and Isaac Hasket, Thomas Pearson,
Enoch Pearson, Samuel Pearson, Nehemiah Thomas, Abel Thomas, Timothy
Thomas, Euclydus Longshore, Sarah Duncan, Samuel Duncan and John Duncan.
Newberry County Wills and Estates Available to Members of
South Carolina Pioneers
Indexes to Probate Records
- Will Bk L, some abstracts
- Will Book A (1776 to 1814)
- Will Book E (1805 to 1826)
- Will Book F (1823 to 1860)
- Will Book 4 (1840 to 1858)
- Deed Book 1776 to 1792
- Deed Book 1792 to 1794
- Deed Book 1798 to 1800
- Deed Book 1800 to 1803
Transcripts of Newberry County Wills (1774 to 1790)
Testators:
Ballentine infants, guardian appointed; Richard Bonds, James Chandler,
Cornelius Cox, Jacob Crommer, Rebecca Crommer, George Dawkins, Daniel
Dewalt, Peter Dewalt, Michael Dickert Sr., Enos Elliman, Laurens Feagle,
James Ford, Peter Galloway, John Gary, William Gilliam, John Glen,
Thomas Grasty, Thomas Green, Nathaniel Harris, James Hodges, Henry
Kesler, Charles King, Stephen Lewis, John Lindsey, Robert Man, James
Murphey, John Newman, William O;Neall, Jacob Oxner Sr., Isaac Parmer,
Benjamin Pearson, Samuel Pearson, Jacob Setsler, John Suber, William
Taylor, Elizabeth Turner, William Turner, John Vaun, John Adam Wicker,
Mathias Wickert.
Transcripts of Newberry County Wills (1840 to 1848)
Testators:
Anderson, Richard, Anderson, William, Brown, I. R. S. , Buchanan, Lucy ,
Bundrick, Sarah, Burton, Aaron, Burton, John, Caldwell, John, Caldwell,
John (2) , Cary, Elizabeth, Chalmers, Thomas, Calmes, George, Cannon,
Richard S., Chapman, Mary, Conwills, Sophia, Counts, John,Cromer,
Christiana, Cromer, Hannah, Cromer, Michael, Crooks, John, Darlyrmple,
Thomas , Davenport, Jonathan, Davidson, John, Davis, Thomas, Dennis,
Prudence, Dominick, George, Dominick, Margaret, Downing, J. W., Duckett,
Jacob, Enlow, Margaret , Eppes, George , Eppes, William, Erskin,
Margaret, Feagle, Laurens, Floyd, Charles Jr., Frisock, Barbary,
Gallman, Henry, Galloway, John, Garner, James, Gibal, A., Glenn, Naomi ,
Gordon, Eli , Gray, Peter , Griffin, Isaac, Harmon, David , Harmon,
William, Hatton, David, Henry, James, Holloway, John, Hume, David ,
Keller, Jacob, Kelly, John, Kelly, Robert ,Kenner, James, Kenner,
Samuel, Kinard, George,Kinard, John Michael , Kinard, Martin, Koon,
John, Lake, Enoch, Lane, Nancy, Langford, Polly, Lindsey, Benjamin,
Lindsey, James, Livingston, John, Long, John Thomas, Lyles, Robert ,
Lynch, Elijah , Maybin, John, McConnel, Andrew, McCrackin, Nancy, McKee,
Joseph, McLemore, M. E., Miller, Nancy, Nance, Clement, Nance,
Frederick Sr., Paysinger, John, Polk, John, Rauskett, Thomas, Rees,
Jane, Renwick, Jane , Rikard, Michael, Riser, Martin, Robinson, James,
Rudd, Mary An,Rutherford, William, Shumpert, Jacob, Sligh, Jacob, Smith,
Martha, Spearman, John, Stabler, Moses, Stone, Phebe, Suber, Andrew,
Summers, Rosannah, Thomas, John G., Thomas, Mary, Vaughn, Drury,
Waldrop, Milly, Wearts, George Henry, Wertz, John ,Wheeler, Barbara ,
White, William, Whitmire, William ,Wicker, Simon, Willhelm, Peter,
Worthington, Jacob ,Young, Harriet , Young, John T.
Abstracts of Newberry County Will Bk L
- Adams, Sarah
- Buchanan, Micajah
- Coppock, Joseph
- Lagrone, John
- Mangum, William Sr.
- Taylor, Benjamin
- Taylor, Elizabeth
- Taylor, William
- Wadlington, James
- Waldrop, John
Miscellaneous
- Release of Charleston Littleton to Wadlington
- Marriage Contract between Eve Margrete Dickert and John Folk
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