Timeline 1700-1800Key events in Britain, South Carolina and the Abercrombie family: 1701 War of Spanish Succession begins; Alexander Abercrombie witnesses the will of William Lyte, Esq. in St. George's Parish, Barbados on November 27; Lyte's will mentions "cows I brought from Scotland" 1702 Death of William III, accession of Anne; Carolina colony, under Lords Proprietors, invades Spanish Florida 1705 Margaret Colvill (?-1751) marries Alexander Abercrombie of Brunston on September 15 1706 James Abercromby (1706-1781), British commanding general in North America in 1758 during the French and Indian War and eldest son of Captain Alexander Abercromby of Glassaugh and Helen Meldrum, baptized at Fordyce Parish, Banffshire, Scotland on October 15 1707 Union of England and Scotland 1708 James Abercromby (1708-1775), attorney general of South Carolina from 1730 to 1744 and son of Alexander Abercromby of Tullibody and Mary Duff, baptized at Alloa Parish, Clackmannanshire, Scotland on August 24 1710 Alexander Abercrombie marries Mary Lower at Christ Church Parish, Barbados on April 7; William Abercromby, traditional immigrant to South Carolina and son of Sir James Abercromby, 2nd baronet of Birkenbog, and Mary Gordon, baptized at Fordyce Parish, Banffshire, Scotland on May 29 1711 British Captain James Abercromby arrests Father Justinien Durand, French Catholic parish priest of Port Royal, Nova Scotia, at the Mass House early in the year, after the surrender of the fort of Port Royal to British forces led by Francis Nicholson; John Abercromby, traditional immigrant to South Carolina and son of Sir James Abercromby, 2nd baronet of Birkenbog, and Mary Gordon, baptized at Fordyce Parish, Banffshire, Scotland on October 11 1712 Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander and Mary Abercrombie, is baptized at Christ Church Parish, Barbados on February 2 1713 James Abercromby, traditional immigrant ancestor of Laurens County, South Carolina Abercrombies and son of Sir James Abercromby, 2nd baronet of Birkenbog, and Mary Gordon, baptized at Fordyce Parish, Banffshire, Scotland on July 21; Peace treaty of Utrecht concludes the War of Spanish Succession 1714 Death of Anne; accession of George I 1715 Jacobite rebellion aimed at overthrowing the Hanoverian succession fails 1716 Lieutenant John Abercromby of Skeith, aid-de-camp to Lachlan Macintosh's regiment of the Jacobite army captured at Preston, is transported from Liverpool on June 29 on Elizabeth and Anne, Edward Trafford master, to Virginia, lands unindentured 1717 James Abercrombie (1717-1760), a sea captain who settled in Philadelphia and son of James Abercrombie and Janet Maxwell, is born at Dundee, Scotland on December 22 1718 Mary Abercrombie witnesses the will of Edward Lovell, gentleman, at Christ Church Parish, Barbados on December 23, which will mentions land bounding John Lower, deceased, lands of Charles Hatton, lands late of Thomas Pritchard, deceased, among others 1719 Carolina colony rebels against Lords Proprietors, who had founded the colony in 1670 at Charles Town 1720 South Sea Bubble: many investors ruined after speculation in the stock of the South Sea Company 1721 Walpole ministry 1722 Atterbury Plot, the most notable Jacobite plot 1727 Death of George I; accession of George II 1729 End of proprietary rule in Carolina; Carolina becomes a royal colony, split into North and South; Sir Alexander Cuming (1691-1775), 2nd baronet of Culter, a Scot, sails to Charleston, South Carolina, inspired by a dream his wife had, arriving in December 1730 Walpole/Townshend split; Sir Alexander Cuming sails in May with seven Cherokee warriors from Charleston, South Carolina for London to sign a treaty of friendship with Britain after visiting the Cherokee in their back-country towns; James Abercromby first appears in South Carolina as justice of the peace on July 12 and is appointed attorney general on November 30; James Abercromby signs original copy of the rules of the Saint Andrew's Society of Charleston, South Carolina, dated November 30; Robert Johnson, governor of South Carolina, promotes townships to increase settlement on the frontier, then 60 miles from Charles Town; George Abercromby (1706-1776), son of Sir James, is in Jamaica for the last time 1732 First land survey in South Carolina for James Abercrombie, Esq. is certified for 1,000 acres on Pon-Pon [South Edisto] River in June, but apparently never granted; South Carolina Attorney General James Abercromby departs South Carolina for Britain on June 25; Alexander Skene and Justice Robert Wright lay out the town of Kingston [now Conway, Horry County] on the Waccamaw river in South Carolina; Georgia is chartered as a colony to protect South Carolina from invasion from the Spaniards in Florida, but the introduction of Negro slaves is forbidden and land tenure is limited in Georgia, discouraging settlement there 1733 Sir James Abercromby (1668-1734), 2nd baronet of Birkenbog, signs his name "J. Crumby" to a list of his debts in June; Alexander Abercromby (1707-?), a merchant and brother of the South Carolina attorney general, marries Rebecca Colquhoun [Calhoun] (1714-1750) in Glasgow, Scotland in November 1734 James Abercrombie of St. John Hackney, "batchelor," marries Mary Vickers of same, spinster, at St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, London, England on May 29; Survey of 2,000 acres of land on the Waccamaw river in South Carolina for Attorney General James Abercromby certified in July, but apparently never granted; Alexander, son of James Abercromby, gardener, and Mary, is baptized at St. George in the East, Stepney, London, England on September 15; Sir James Abercromby (1668-1734), 2nd baronet of Birkenbog, dies in debt on September 20 at Banffshire, Scotland, after which his son and heir, Sir Robert Abercromby (1705-1787), 3rd baronet, labors for several years to free the estate from accumulated burdens; Arthur Abercromby (1707-1761), son of Sir James, working in Amsterdam, Holland and living with the Scot, Mr. Thomas Wilkieson, son of Alexander Wilkieson, Authur having previously been in Rotterdam, asks his brother, Sir Robert Abercromby (1705-1787) who had previously been in London at Forrester's Coffee House and later in Yorkshire, but is now at Birkenbog, Scotland, for deer skins in September [note: deer skins were a major export of South Carolina]; James Abercromby warns in SC Gazette against cutting wood on his property opposite Dorchester, South Carolina in November; William Hinckley sails from Jamaica to Charleston, South Carolina as master of schooner George & Elizabeth in December 1735 Brunstin [Alexander Abercrombie of Brunston who married Margaret Colvill in 1705] is working in Scotland for Henrietta, Duchess of Gordon, Protestant widow of the Catholic Alexander, 2nd Duke of Gordon, in January; South Carolina Governor Robert Johnson dies in May; James Abercromby (1713-?), son of Sir James, is "governor" or tutor to Cosmo (1721-1752), 3rd duke of Gordon; Attorney General James Abercromby demands his fee on lands granted to settlers even though the South Carolina settlement fund faces a deficit; First land granted in South Carolina to James Abercromby, Esq. in June [1,000 acres on Waccamaw River at Kingston township] after that township was opened to inhabitants of the colony this year; James Abercromby (1708-1775) serves on a commission to run a boundary line between North and South Carolina; James Abercromby (1708-1775) serves as counsel for Georgia Trustees in June 1736 James Abercromby, Esq. is granted 2,000 acres in four tracts in June: in Peedee township on Lynches Creek Lake [200 acres], in Queensburgh on the Peedee river [400 + 400 acres] and on the Peedee river [1,000 acres] (Note: According to MapQuest.com, Lynches Lake is north of Lake City in southern Florence County, South Carolina near Williamsburg County. On 4 October 1763 William Guess petitioned the South Carolina Council for 100 acres "on a branch of the Lake of Lynches Creek formerly settled by Tho's Doyal [Dial]." This was probably part of the 450 acres of land on Lynches' Creek that Thomas Dyal [or Dyall] petitioned the Council for on 7 January 1752. Thomas Dial, Sr. moved from North Carolina to Williamsburg, South Carolina about 1720 and had a son, Thomas Dial, Jr. Thomas Dial, Sr. is said by his descendants to have been a son of Isaac Malcolm Dial and Harriet Blackwell, traditional grandparents of Hastings Dial (1732-1809) and Martin Dial (1744-1843), who married sisters, Rebecca Abercrombie (1739-1825) and Chrystie Abercrombie (1746-1804) in Laurens County, South Carolina.) 1737 William Bull (1683-1755), a South Carolina native, becomes governor of South Carolina; John Wesley (1703-1791), Anglican priest and founder of the Methodist Church, visits Purrysburg, one of the South Carolina townships on the Savannah River settled by Swiss and German immigrants, after having left Oxford in 1735 to be chaplain to the English community in Savannah, Georgia; James Abercromby owns lot #206 on Church Street near Broad Street in Georgetown, South Carolina, two blocks from William Hinckley who owns lot #160 at the corner of Duke and Screven Streets; James Abercromby (1708-1775) is granted 980 acres in Prince Frederick Parish, South Carolina on Peedee River in May, property that became part of Marlboro County, South Carolina [near the Dillon County line] in 1785, at least part of which deeds [SC DB V-5, 146-148 and SC DB V-5, 444-446] show belonged to James Abercrombie as late as 1777; James Boyd marries Mehitable Clegg, widow of Samuel Clegg, at Prince Frederick Winyaw Parish, South Carolina in November 1738 Smallpox outbreak in Charleston, South Carolina; James Glen (1701-1777) is appointed governor of South Carolina, but does not arrive in the province until 1743; John Wesley's "conversion" in London and start of Methodism, although the Methodists were not clearly separated from the Anglican Church until 1784, and Wesley considered himself a member of the Church of England until his death in 1791; Thomas Dial, Jr., said by his descendants to have been a grandson of Isaac Malcolm Dial and Harriet Blackwell [traditional grandparents of Hastings Dial (1732-1809) and Martin Dial (1744-1843) who married sisters, Rebecca Abercrombie (1739-1825) and Chrystie Abercrombie (1746-1804)], marries Catherine McGinney at Prince Frederick Winyaw Parish, South Carolina in March [1737 old style]; James Abercromby (1713-?), son of Sir James, returns to London with Cosmo, 3rd duke of Gordon, after accompanying him on European travels, and James (1713-?) considers going into the army 1739 War of Jenkins' Ear: Anglo-Spanish naval war; Yellow fever outbreak in Charleston, South Carolina; James Abercromby's horse "Cherokee" advertised in SC Gazette to race at Mrs. Sureau's in April; James Abercromby is granted 3,000 acres on Peedee River in South Carolina in May; Sir Robert Abercromby (1705-1787), 3rd baronet of Birkenbog, marries his first cousin, Helen Abercromby (1713-1791), sister of South Carolina Attorney General James Abercromby (1708-1775), in Scotland in July; James Abercromby elected to represent Prince Frederick Winyah Parish in Twelfth Royal Assembly of South Carolina 1739-1742; James Gordon (?-1739), adjacent landowner of Mr. Abercrombie on the Peedee River in Prince George Winyah Parish, South Carolina, dies in South Carolina between June and October, naming sons Cosmus, Patrick, Charles, James and daughter Clementine in his will; Stono slave rebellion 20 miles below Charleston, South Carolina in September; War between England and Spain declared in October; John Thomson, Jr. (?-1742), a Cheraw Indian trader, is questioned by the South Carolina governor and Council about his actions, alleged to have caused misunderstanding between Welsh settlers and Indians in Prince Frederick Parish 1740 War of Austrian Succession; Alexander Skene dies in South Carolina before March 24 with James Abercromby a witness to his will made on 25 May 1739; James Abercromby (1708-1775) succeeds Alexander Skene as president of the St. Andrew's Society of Charleston, South Carolina; Hugh Swinton, planter, mortgages to James Abercromby (1708-1775) a tenement and 700 acres bounding southeast on the Peedee River and 250 acres, except 70 acres sold to James Gordon, bounding northwest on Peedee River in South Carolina as security on several bonds in January [Afterwards, when Swinton did not pay the bonds, Swinton confirmed these properties in September 1746 to James Abercromby, who in September 1750 sold them to George Seaman, who in April 1751 sold them to George Gabriel Powell. Later, in October 1767, Judith Swinton, widow of Hugh Swinton, a physician who had resided in New York for several years before his death, renounced her dower for these properties after Seaman and Powell purchased her claim.]; James Abercromby (1708-1775) conveys 5,000 acres [400+400+200+1,000+3,000 = 5,000] in South Carolina, granted to James Abercromby in 1736 and 1739, to Hugh Swinton in February; James Abercrombie (1713-?), son of Sir James, writes his brother, Sir Robert, from London in February after returning from France, urging Sir Robert to support the re-election to Parliament of Captain [later General] James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassaugh, and signs his name "Ja Abercrombie"; Mr. Points [Poyntz] prevails on General Lord Cathcart to make James Abercrombie (1713-?), son of Sir James, judge advocate of that part of the army under his command on a military expedition to South America, a post of ten shillings a day; James Abercromby, Esq. advertises in SC Gazette that a watch was stolen from his house in Charleston, South Carolina in May; Fire destroys much of Charleston, South Carolina including 300 houses in November; Mr. Abercromby advertises in SC Gazette in December that a boy belonging to him found a silver snuff box and a gold ring the night the fire happened 1741 William Abercromby (1723-1741), younger brother of South Carolina Attorney General James Abercromby (1708-1775), becomes ill and dies at a new plantation near Georgetown, South Carolina before May, after being cared for by Dr. [George] Dick and Capt. Cleland's lady [probably Mary Perry Cleland]; News from Jamaica before May reports James Abercrombie (1713-?), son of Sir James, has recovered from illness or injury sustained while participating as judge advocate on a failed British military expedition against the Spanish at Cartagena, South America on which many died of yellow fever; Brigadier-General Thomas Wentworth, who took command after Lord Cathcart's death, commissions Sir Robert Abercromby (1705-1787), 3rd baronet of Birkenbog, a Captain in Col. Robert Fraser's regiment of marines onboard the Grafton in Port Royal harbor in the West Indies on June 16 and in Col. James Cochrane's regiment of marines at the camp in the isle of Cuba on October 12; Cosmus Robert Gordon, probably son of James Gordon (?-1739), is buried from St. Philip's Parish, Charleston, South Carolina on August 8; James Abercromby serves on a committee in October to distribute funds allocated by Parliament to those in Charleston, South Carolina who suffered loss from the fire of 1740 1742 Fall of Walpole; Mary Gordon (1671-1942), widow of Sir James Abercromby (1668-1734), 2nd baronet of Birkenbog, dies in Banffshire, Scotland; William Swinton (?-1742), a Scot and surveyor of Georgetown, South Carolina, dies in South Carolina with James Abercrombie, Esq. as one of the executors of his will, made in 1741, which mentions land bought from John Prichard; Bunker Hill James Abercrombie (?-1775) enters the British army in May as 2nd lieutenant in the 1st regiment in General St. Clair's battalion in Ireland; South Carolina Assembly petitions the Crown for three companies of troops and James Abercromby (1708-1775) goes to London to get a captain's commission for one of them and provides information to the Duke of Newcastle in November concerning the strength of the Spanish attack against Georgia 1743 Governor James Glen (1701-1777) arrives in South Carolina; Mary Duff (1680-1743), wife of Alexander Abercromby (1675-1753) of Tullibody and mother of the South Carolina attorney general, dies in May in Scotland; James Abercromby is one of the attorneys empowered to sell lands in South Carolina belonging to the estate of Robert Hume on August 5; Attorney General James Abercromby returns to Charleston, South Carolina from England in October 1744 Ministry of Pelham; South Carolina Attorney General James Abercromby (1708-1775) elected to represent Prince George Winyah Parish in Thirteenth Royal Assembly of South Carolina, but leaves South Carolina for the last time in June; John Cromby [Abercromby?] marries Mary Tompkins at Prince Frederick Winyah parish in April; James Abercromby advertises in May in the SC Gazette that all persons to whom he is indebted should bring in their accounts so that they may be paid; Captain James Abercrombie (1717-1760), master of the ship Lydia, on voyage from Rotterdam to Charleston, South Carolina with 170 Palatine families onboard, is taken in July by six French ships homeward bound from the West Indies, but is let go after they plunder his ship and passengers; Captain James Abercrombie (1717-1760), master of ship Lydia, is taken by Spaniards in September in his passage from Jamaica to Charleston, South Carolina; George Abercromby (1706-1776), son of Sir James, is in Rotterdam, preparing to sail to Cadiz, Spain in September; James Abercrombie (1717-1760), master of ship Lydia, and Alexander Abercromby (1707-?), brother of South Carolina Attorney General James Abercromby (1708-1775), are returned to Charleston, South Carolina after an exchange of prisoners with the Spanish at Havana in October 1745 Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland led by 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'; John Kingston of Charleston, South Carolina advertises in SC Gazette in July that he is ready to pay a debt due to James Abercromby 1746 Battle of Culloden: the duke of Cumberland routs the Jacobite army in April; John Abercrombie posts bond in Anne Arundel County, Maryland in August; James Abercromby (1708-1775) is commissioned judge advocate in August for a military expedition under General James St. Clair (1688-1762) that attacks the coast of Brittany at Port L'Orient in September and October (Colonel James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassaugh, later a general, was also on the expedition); George Abercromby (1706-1776), son of Sir James, marries the only daughter of John Ingleby, eldest son of a Yorkshire squire, in Mexico 1747 James Abercromby (1708-1775), former South Carolina attorney general, resides in city of Westminster, the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, and from London, gives letter of attorney to dispose of his lands in South Carolina in February 1748 Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle concludes War of Austrian Succession; Robert Abercromby (1724-1748), a seaman and younger brother of the former South Carolina attorney general, dies at Bombay, India on June 30; James Abercromby (1708-1775) becomes London agent for the North Carolina Assembly, a post he holds until 1761 1750 Cosmo (1721-1752), 3rd duke of Gordon, writes to Sir Robert Abercromby (1705-1787) at Birkenbog from Gordon Castle, Scotland in January and mentions that "your brother [probably James (1713-?)] is very well."; James Abercromby (1708-1775) entertains and advises young Peter Manigault (1731-1773), son of Gabriel Manigault (1704-1781), when Peter is in London from Charleston, South Carolina for his education 1751 Margaret Colvill, widow of Alexander Abercrombie of Brunston, dies in East Blair, Ballingrie Parish, Scotland; James Abercromby (1708-1775) becomes London agent for Virginia's governor and Council, a post he holds until 1773 1752 Adoption of Gregorian calendar; James Abercromby (1708-1775) writes An Examination of the Acts of Parliament Relative to the Trade and the Government of Our American Colonies; Cosmo, 3rd duke of Gordon, dies August 5 while traveling at Breteuil, Amiens, France 1753 Jewish Naturalization Bill in Britain; Alexander Abercromby (1675-1753) of Tullibody, father of the former South Carolina Attorney General James Abercromby (1708-1775), dies in Scotland in March; Charter of Georgia Trustees expires and Georgia becomes a royal province; James Abercromby (1708-1775) purchases Bandeath in Clackmannanshire, Scotland on November 17 from Archibald Dow, his wife, Margaret Bell, and their son, James Dow 1754 Newcastle ministry; Lt. Colonel James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassaugh resigns from Parliament representing Banffshire, which area he had represented since before 1740; Estate of Captain William Abercrombie is administered in Pasquotank County, North Carolina in January by Hannah Abercrombie; Daniel Blake (1731-1780), who had traveled in England with fellow South Carolinians Peter Manigault (1731-1773) and William Drayton (1732-1790) in the early 1750s, advertises in SC Gazette to sell land on Ashley River opposite Dorchester Bay belonging to James Abercrombie, Esq. in February 1756 Seven Years War: Britain allied with Frederick the Great of Prussia against France, Austria and Russia; South Carolina Governor James Glen (1701-1777) recalled and William Henry Lyttleton (1720-1808) named royal governor of South Carolina; James Abercromby (1708-1775) witnesses on February 13 a codicil to the will of Charles Pinckney (1699-1758) when Charles and his wife, Eliza Lucas (1722?-1793), are in London from South Carolina; James Abercrombie (?-1775) is commissioned a captain in the 42nd Regiment on February 16; Staats Long Morris (1728-1800), born in New York but a general in the British army, marries Catherine Gordon (1718-1779), widow of Cosmo, 3rd duke of Gordon, on March 25; Alexander Abercromby (1736-1756), the eldest son of Major General James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassaugh, dies May 6 while a captain in his father's regiment; Major General James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassaugh arrives in Albany, New York on June 25 and briefly holds the chief command of about 3,000 British regulars in America before Lord Loudoun [John Campbell (1705-1782), 4th earl of Loudoun] arrives on July 22; Robert Abercrombie (?-1784) marries Ann Hatton in Baltimore County, Maryland on August 6 1757 Pitt-Newcastle ministry; James Abercromby (1708-1775) becomes deputy auditor-general of plantations in London, a post he holds until 1765; Lord Loudoun embargoes all trade from all American provinces in March to prevent trading with the enemy, but lifts the embargo in June after sailing for Halifax, Nova Scotia to attack Louisbourg, but Loudoun returns to New York after finding a superior French fleet at Louisbourg; Robert Abercromby (1715-1779) commissioned as justice of the peace in Orange County, North Carolina in June 1758 News of Pitt's decision to relieve Lord Loudoun of his duties and replace him with Major General James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassaugh, to improve the rank of provincial officers relative to regulars, and to subsidize the war effort reaches the colonies on March 10; James Abercromby (1708-1775) purchases Brucefield in Clackmannanshire, Scotland on June 26 from Robert Bruce; On July 4 John Cleaveland (1722-1799), a Yale-educated chaplain born in Connecticut who was with the British and American forces attempting to take Fort Ticonderoga from the French, writes in his diary describing a visit he and several other chaplains paid to General James Abercromby's (1706-1781) tent during which the general "treated us very kindly, told us he hoped we would teach the people their duty and to be courageous...The General treated us with a bowl of punch and a bottle of wine."; On July 8 a smaller French force defeats General Abercromby at Ticonderoga [New York]; Bunker Hill James Abercrombie (?-1775), a captain of the 42nd Regiment, is also at Ticonderoga in July when half of the first battalion of the 42nd is killed or wounded. (According to Eric and Andro Linklater, The Black Watch (London: 1977), "The battle was not regarded as a disaster, but as a triumphant display of Highland gallantry. Though it achieved nothing, it showed a heroic temper, and without a heroic temper, an army is worth very little."); On July 13 General Abercromby authorizes Lt. Colonel John Bradstreet and Brigadier John Stanwix to attack Fort Frontenac, which the French surrender on August 27, giving the British a large store of goods held there, despite the fact that nothing in Pitt's instructions authorized Abercromby to do so; On July 23 General Abercromby authorized Brigadier General John Forbes, a cousin to former South Carolina Governor James Glen, who had stayed on as a merchant after being replaced as governor and who helped Forbes obtain Cherokee warriors, to negotiate directly with the Ohio Indians, and as a result a peace treaty was concluded on October 26, even though such negotiations violated protocols of Indian diplomacy; British under General Jeffrey Amherst capture Louisbourg, Canada from French on July 26 after six weeks of siege, and Captain John Abercromby (1722-1758) of the 1st Royal Regiment, younger brother of former South Carolina Attorney General James Abercromby (1708-1775), dies at Louisbourg in July; On September 18 Pitt issues orders to relieve General Abercromby from command appointing General Jeffrey Amherst (1717-1797) as his replacement; Arthur Abercromby (1707-1761), son of Sir James, is in London preparing to go to China with the Dutch East India Company in September 1759 General James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassuagh leaves America for Britain in January and is promoted to Lieutenant General; British take the French Guadeloupe on May 1 and its neighboring island of Marie-Galante the end of May; British victory over the French in Canada: British take Fort Niagara and Ticonderoga in July, Crown Point in August, and Quebec in September with Bunker Hill James Abercrombie (?-1775) participating as aid-de-camp to General Amherst; Cherokee War erupts on South Carolina frontier and 27 settlers on "Rabourns Creek" [Rabun Creek, modern Laurens County] are killed late in the year 1760 Death of George II; accession of George III; Smallpox outbreak in Charleston, South Carolina kills nine percent of population there; British Colonel Archibald Montgomery with the Highlanders and Royal Scots attacks the Cherokee in the South Carolina back-country, burning villages and crops from April to July; James Abercrombie (1717-1760), captain of Charming Peggy, imports "Madera wine" to Charleston, South Carolina, advertised to be sold in May by three merchants: John Hume, Ogilvie and Forbes, and James Abercrombie; British General Amherst takes Montreal, Canada in September, with Bunker Hill James Abercrombie (?-1775) participating after having been promoted to major of the 78th regiment on July 25; James Abercrombie (1717-1760), his ship Charming Peggy and all the crew are lost in the German Ocean near the mouth of the river Elbe in October; Robert Abercromby (1715-1779) of Orange County, North Carolina sells land on October 22 in Augusta County, Virginia, which land had been patented to him in 1759 1761 British Lt. Colonel James Grant (1720-1806), a Scot, arrives in South Carolina in January and attacks the Cherokee again until November after Indians slaughter the garrison retreating from Fort Loudoun in present eastern Tennessee; Peace talks with Cherokee Nation in Charleston, South Carolina in December end hostilities; Thomas Boone, a descendant of the Colletons, and successful governor of New Jersey, appointed royal governor of South Carolina, arrives in December to replace William Henry Lyttleton, who had been appointed governor of Jamaica; James Abercromby (1708-1775), former South Carolina attorney general, elected to Parliament from Clackmannanshire, Scotland, which he serves until 1768; Arthur Abercromby (1707-1761), son of Sir James, dies in service of Dutch East India Company; Isobel Abercrombie, daughter of the deceased Rev. Robert Abercrombie (1694-1751), minister at Leslie, Scotland, marries John Copland, merchant in Aberdeen, at St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, Scotland on June 8 1762 Bute's ministry; John and Isobel (Abercrombie) Copland have a daughter, Margaret Copland, baptized on April 17 at Aberdeen, Scotland; Charles Woodmason, Anglican minister and tax collector, advertises in SC Gazette in March regarding taxes unpaid, as of May 1761, on land in Prince Frederick Parish, South Carolina owned by non-residents, including 3,000 acres on Peedee River said to belong to James Abercrombie, Esq. of London; Lord Adam Gordon (1726?-1801), the fourth son of Alexander, 2nd duke of Gordon, is made colonel of the 66th Regiment of foot 1763 Peace of Paris concludes Seven Years War: France cedes the territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River to Britain; King George prohibits granting or purchasing land west of the Appalachians; Grenville ministry during which the Navigation Acts, previously ignored by American colonists, were to be strictly enforced; John Stuart (1719-1779), a Scot, appointed British Indian Agent for the southern colonies, holds Indian conference at Augusta; Bunker Hill James Abercrombie (?-1775), Major of the 78th regiment, retires on half pay when the 78th is disbanded; Lt. Colonel James Grant, a Scot who had led the British expedition against the Cherokees in South Carolina in 1761, is appointed royal governor of East Florida 1764 Colvill Abercrombie (1764?-1847), who spent much of his life in Laurens County, South Carolina, is born; Lord Adam Gordon, the fourth son of Alexander, 2nd duke of Gordon, takes the 66th Regiment of foot to Jamaica, where William Henry Lyttleton, former governor of South Carolina is governor, after which Lord Adam Gordon begins a year-long tour of the American colonies, starting in East Florida, where James Grant, who led the 1761 military campaign against the Cherokees in South Catrolina, is governor, and where John Gordon (?-1778), a Charleston, South Carolina merchant, had purchased a large tract of land around Tampa Bay from departing Spaniards; Lord Adam Gordon organizes the East Florida Society of London to promote colonization of Florida, but abandoned the effort in 1770 1765 Rockingham ministry; American Stamp Act attempts to make
the defense of the American colonies self-financing, but is repealed in
1766 after colonists protest; Lord Adam Gordon, younger brother of Cosmo,
3rd duke of Gordon, records in his journal of his tour of the American
colonies that the Savannah River is navigable for large boats to Augusta,
that Georgetown, South Carolina is a "pretty little town," and,
"The back country towards the Cherokee Mountains and nation is all
healthy and fertile land, producing large oak and other deciduous timber,
and is finely watered without much sand or pine barren, but is not yet
fully 1766 Chatham ministry; Lord Charles Greville Montagu, younger son of duke of Manchester, appointed royal governor of South Carolina, arriving in June; James Abercromby (1708-1775), former South Carolina attorney general, still trying to sell land in South Carolina, mentions widow Swinton's [Judith Simons Swinton (1711-1781), daughter of Benjamin and Mary Ester (Dupre) Simons of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, South Carolina and widow of Hugh Swinton, a physician and brother of William Swinton, the surveyor who laid out Georgetown, South Carolina] dower in letter to James Wright, dated November 29; James Abercromby (1708-1775), a Member of Parliament, votes against repeal of the Stamp Act; Robert Abercrombie (?-1784) buys land called "John's Habitation" in Baltimore County, Maryland in June 1767 John Stuart holds Indian Conference at Hard Labor Creek; Cherokee border with South Carolina province established at present Greenville-Laurens county line in July; Vigilante 'Regulators' police the South Carolina back-country and commit excesses; James Abercromby granted 100 acres on Reedy Creek in now-Laurens County, South Carolina on October 30th, but conveys this land to Acquilla Hall sometime before April 1779 when Hall was hanged at Ninety-six, South Carolina as a Loyalist; Hastings Dial (1732-1809) is granted 250 acres on branch of Little River in modern Laurens County, South Carolina on same day, October 30th, as James Abercromby's grant; Mary Abercromby, eldest daughter of Sir Robert Abercromby (1705-1787), 3rd baronet of Birkenbog, and Helen Abercromby (1713-1791) and niece of the former South Carolina attorney general James Abercromby (1708-1775), marries her distant cousin, William Abercromby (1739-?), eldest surviving son of General James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassaugh, at Fordyce Parish, Banffshire, Scotland on November 15; John Abercrombie (c.1726-1806), a professional gardener attached to the royal palaces of London, publishes one of the most successful gardening books ever published, Every Man His Own Gardener, which had at least 21 editions in his lifetime and was still in print in 1854 1768 Grafton ministry; John Copland granted 100 acres on Reburns Creek [Laurens County] South Carolina "on the bounty," a provision for foreign immigrants 1769 James Watt's steam engine patented; Circuit Court Act establishes judicial districts in South Carolina, including Ninety-six District, where court would be held in the back-country; James Abercrombie is a justice of the peace, an office appointed by the royal governor, at Ninety-six District; Isaac Abercrombie purchases 100 acres on a "branch of Reburns Creek" in now-Laurens County, South Carolina from John Copland in August; John Abercrombie granted 200 acres adjacent to James Abercrombie on "Rayburns Creek" in now-Laurens County, South Carolina in December 1770 Lord North's ministry; Bunker Hill James Abercrombie (?-1775) re-enters active military service as lieutenant-colonel of the 22nd regiment on March 27; British Captain Thomas Preston is acquitted during the Boston Massacre trial in October with Josiah Quincy, Jr. (1744-1775) acting as a defense attorney and his older brother, Samuel Quincy, as a prosecutor 1772 Hugh Abercrombie petitions the South Carolina Council for 200 acres "on the bounty" on November 14th; Ninety-six District Justice of the Peace James Abercrombie charged with a misdemeanor in his office by a grand jury led by Patrick Calhoun on November 16th, reported in SC Gazette in December; Slavery abolished in England 1773 Bostonian Josiah Quincy, Jr. (1744-1775), on a visit to Charleston, South Carolina, records in his journal on March 3rd that a Frenchman named 'Abbercrombie' [ John Joseph Abercromby] who just arrived and cannot speak a word of English played a first fiddle beautifully at a St. Cecilia Society concert in Charleston; Britain orders all colonial governors to cease granting lands except to veterans of the French and Indian war in March; Bunker Hill Lt. Col. James Abercrombie (?-1775) of the 22nd regiment arrives in Dublin, Ireland and corresponds with Lord Loudoun in October; Boston Tea Party: American colonists protest against the East India Company's monopoly of tea exports to America in December 1774 John Joseph Abercromby plays a violin solo at a concert in Charleston, South Carolina on February 15; James Abercrombie is granted 150 acres on Raburn Creek [Laurens County, South Carolina] on September 6, which land had been surveyed 3 December 1770 per warrant of 5 June 1770 [before the 1773 order to stop granting land except to veterans]; Hastings Dial is granted 250 acres adjacent to his previous [1767] grant in July; James Abercromby (1708-1775) writes De Jure et Gubernatione Coloniarum, or An Inquiry into the Nature, and the Rights of Colonies, Ancient, and Modern; South Carolina is by far the wealthiest of the American colonies based on Alice Hanson Jones' research of mean aggregate wealth per inventoried estate in 1774, Charleston is wealthier than Boston or New York or Philadelphia; Anne Arundel County, Maryland is the next wealthiest district after Charleston, South Carolina, but is valued at less than 30% of Charleston 1775 In January John Joseph Abercromby opens a dancing school and teaches guitar while residing at Mrs. Deveaux's in Charleston, South Carolina; Battle of Bunker Hill: British win at great loss of life, including Lt. Colonel James Abercrombie of the 22nd Regiment who was mortally wounded while leading the grenadiers on June 17; Lord William Campbell, fourth son of the duke of Argyle and husband of South Carolinian, Sarah Izard, is appointed South Carolina royal governor, arriving in June; James Abercromby (1708-1775), former South Carolina attorney general, dies in Clackmananshire, Scotland between September and December 1776 Declaration of American Independence in July; George Abercromby (1706-1776), son of Sir James, dies in December in Mexico where he had settled by 1746 as a miner and trader after being in Jamaica in 1730, in Holland from 1738 to 1744, whence he sailed to Cadiz, Spain; Jonathan "Grandsir" Abercrombie, Sr. (c.1776-1862), great-great-great grandfather of Brenda Abercrombie Ledet, is born in South Carolina 1777 John Joseph Abercromby marries Sarah (Hinckley) Mitchell (?-1787), second wife and widow of Moses Mitchell (?-1775), in Charles Town [Charleston], South Carolina on January 4, soon after which he departs for Europe, leaving his new wife in Charles Town; State government of South Carolina prescribes a loyalty oath in February: those who refuse to acknowledge that South Carolina is a sovereign state are to be banished and given one year to sell their lands and remove their property; Thomas Lynch, Jr. (1749-1779), Esq., signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his wife Elizabeth, sell to James McDonald, Esq. a tract of 3,000 acres on Peedee River in South Carolina known as "Abercrombies Tract" in May, which tract had been previously purchased at a sale of the Provost Marshall by Andrew Johnston and conveyed by him to Thomas Lynch, Esq. (1727-1776), deceased, who devised the same to seller Thomas Lynch; Gazette of the State of SC advertises 1,000 acres on "Reyburn's Creek, Saludy River" bounding lands of John Abercrombie, Richard Owings and William Kilms [Hellams?] for sale in June and December 1778 Fire destroys 250 homes and other buildings on Queen Street and Union [now State] Street, Charleston, South Carolina in January; David Abercrombie marries Margaret Swinton at St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, London on February 19; John [Joseph] Abercromby advertises in South Carolina and American General Gazette on March 5 for "a runaway negro fellow named 'Scipio,' a shoemaker by trade, formerly the property of the deceased Mr. Moses Mitchell, can read and write very well"; John Abercromby (1752-?), born in Mexico son of George (1706-1776), is a captain in the Spanish army and visits relatives at Birkenbog, Scotland for the first time between April 13 and November 1; "John Joseph Abercrombie, Esquire, planter in the Province of South Carolina," registers a coat of arms at Edinburgh, Scotland on August 10 with John Hooke Campbell, Esq., Lyon King of Arms 1779 Five Loyalists -- Aquilla Hall, Charles Draper, Samuel Clegg, James Lindley [father of Mary Ruth Lindley, wife of Colvill Abercrombie (1764?-1847)], and John Anderson -- are hanged by Patriots after a "trial" at Ninety-six, South Carolina in April; Spain declares war on Britain; Captain John Abercromby (1752-?), son of George (1706-1776), writes to his uncle, Sir Robert (1705-1787), from Madrid on July 1 that he will rejoin his regiment soon; "John Abercrombie" [John Joseph Abercromby] returns to Charleston, South Carolina from France on the brig Polly by July 22; Will of Robert Abercromby (1715?-1779) of Orange County, North Carolina proved in August; William Abercrombie marries Ellen Lynch at Doneraile Parish, Cork, Ireland in October 1780 Gordon Riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon (1751-1793), the third and youngest son of Cosmo, 3rd duke of Gordon, develop in Britain from a procession to petition Parliament against the Catholic Relief Act, after which Lord George Gordon was arrested and charged with treason, but was acquitted by the skilful defense of Thomas [later Lord] Erskine; Charleston, South Carolina falls to the British on May 12 after a 42-day siege with Colonel Robert Abercromby (1740-1827), nephew of former South Carolina attorney general James Abercromby (1708-1775), participating; William Hinckley (?-1780) dies at Charleston, South Carolina in May mentioning his sister, Ann Abercromby, in his will; John Cottrell leaves goods for David Abercrombie and David Woodbury with Eunice Carruthers at New Bern, North Carolina in December, but goods are taken by the British, and David Abercrombie dies at Charleston; John [Joseph] Abercromby advertises a concert for "the Amusement of the Gentlemen of the Army, Navy, and most respectable parts of the loyal Inhabitants" in South Carolina and American General Gazette in December 1781 General James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassaugh dies April 28 at Glassaugh, Scotland; American victory: British troops under Lord Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown, Virginia on October 19; Administrators of estate of David Abercrombie (?-c.1780) file suit in New Bern District, North Carolina in December to recover goods left there for David Abercrombie and David Woodbury by John Cottrel, who later attempted to recover the goods and send them to "relations of Abercrombie and Woodbury", but was told the goods were taken by the British 1782 Second Rockingham ministry; British leave occupied Charleston, South Carolina in December 1783 Shelburne ministry; Peace of Versailles recognizes independence of American colonies in September; Fox-North coalition; Younger Pitt's ministry; James and Elizabeth Abercrombie named administrators of the estate of William McDonald [McDaniel] in Abbeville County, South Carolina probate records on November 22 1784 Robert Abercrombie (?-1784) dies in Baltimore County, Maryland 1785 South Carolina State Gazette and Daily Advertiser runs ad for estate of William McDonial [McDaniel], placed by his administrators, James and Elizabeth Abercrombie "in Ninety-six District," on February 9; Thirty-four South Carolina counties are established, including Marlboro from Cheraws District and Laurens from Ninety-six District 1786 South Carolina General Assembly agrees to move the state capital from Charleston to Columbia to satisfy up-country settlers; John Abercrombie, George Hollingsworth and Marmaduke Pinson appraise the estate of James McCain in Laurens County, South Carolina 1787 Sarah (Hinckley) Mitchell Abercromby, wife of John Joseph Abercromby, dies in Charleston, South Carolina on January 7; Sir Robert Abercromby (1705-1787), 3rd baronet of Birkenbog, dies March 11 at Banff, Scotland; James Abercrombie, William Obannon and John Pinson witness the will of William Baugh on May 4 in Laurens County, South Carolina; John Cottrell testifies in Martin County, Newbern District, North Carolina court in August that he heard that David Abercrombie and David Woodbury died at Charleston sometime after he left goods for them with Eunice Carruthers at New Bern, North Carolina in December 1780 and that the goods were taken by the British 1788 South Carolina becomes the 8th state to join the Union on May 23 1789 French Revolution; Isaac Abercrombie (?-1825) purchases land in Anson County, North Carolina on August 18 1790 First United States census: population of South Carolina is 249,073 including 107,094 slaves; population of Laurens County, South Carolina is 9,337 including 1,120 slaves; four Abercrombie households [John, Colvil, James, James] totaling 44 persons, including 15 slaves, are in Laurens County, South Carolina; Isaac Abercrombie's household of 6 persons, no slaves, is in Anson County, North Carolina; James Abercrombie, Jno. Abercrombie, George Hollingsworth and Thomas Cunningham appraise the estate of James Lindley, who had been hanged as a Loyalist in 1779, in Laurens County, South Carolina 1791 John Joseph Abercromby marries Sarah (Denormandie) Peter, widow of Christopher Peter (?-1790) at Pon-Pon Parish, South Carolina in January; Robert Abercrombie, son of Robert Abercrombie (?-1784) of Baltimore County, Maryland, is in Fairfax County, Virginia by February when he conveys his portion of land called "John's Habitation" in Baltimore County willed to him by his father, to Chainey Hatton; End of primogeniture in South Carolina law; Helen Abercromby (1713-1791), widow of Sir Robert Abercromby (1705-1787), 3rd baronet of Birkenbog, and sister to the former South Carolina attorney general James Abercromby (1708-1775), dies at Glassaugh, Scotland where she was staying with her eldest daughter, Mary Abercromby, who had married her distant cousin, William Abercromby (1739-?), son of General James Abercromby (1706-1781) of Glassaugh, on 15 November 1767 1792 Charleston City Gazette advertises on April 7 a "List of Post-Letters remaining in the Post-office 31st March 1792, which if not taken up by the 30th June next, will be returned to the general post-office as Dead Letters," including one for John Joseph Abercromby 1795 Bishop Francis Asbury (1745-1816) preaches in an old Presbyterian meeting-house then repaired for the Methodists at Kingston township on the Waccamaw River in South Carolina [now Horry County]; James Abercrombie, Archibald Owens, George Hollingsworth and Isaac Cook appraise the estate of Samuel McClerken in Laurens County, South Carolina on May 2; Colwel [Colvil] Abercrombie is one of the purchasers at the estate sale of Joseph Pinson in Laurens County, South Carolina on June 13; Isaac Abercrombie, freeholder of Anson County, North Carolina, sells 100 acres in Laurens County, South Carolina, purchased in 1769 from John Copland, to James Abercrombie on November 8th, delivered to James Abercrombie, Junior 1796 William Hall of Charleston, eldest son and heir of Acquilla Hall, deceased, sells 100 acres on Reedy River in Laurens County, South Carolina conveyed to Acquilla Hall, original grant [1767] to James Abercrombie, to Abraham Box in April 1798 Ann Abercrombie, wife of James Abercrombie, a planter, releases her dower for 100 acres in Laurens County, South Carolina purchased from Isaac Abercrombie in 1795 upon sale to Anderson Arnold on February 22 1799 Napoleon appointed First Consul in France 1800 George Abercromby (1705-1800) of Tullibody, elder brother of the former South Carolina attorney general, dies in Scotland; Catherine Abercromby is buried from St. Philip's Parish, Charleston, South Carolina on June 21; Second United States census: six Abercrombies in Laurens County, South Carolina [John, James, Jonathan and William Abercrombie are in Capt. John Cochran's militia company #21; Alex Abercrombie is in Capt. William Owens' company #4; and Calvin (Colvil) Abercrombie is in Capt. Joseph Holmes' company #20]; Isaac Abercrombie (?-1825) is in Anson County, North Carolina 1801 British Union with Ireland; First British census; General Sir Ralph Abercromby (1734-1801), nephew of the former South Carolina attorney general, James Abercromby (1708-1775), is wounded while leading battle against Napoleon's forces at Abukir, Egypt on March 21, dies onboard the flagship Foudroyant on March 28, and is buried at Malta 1804 John J. [Joseph] Abercromby of Charleston, South Carolina conveys 1,000 acres on Waccamaw River, granted in 1735 to James Abercrombie, Esq,. to Archibald Taylor of Georgetown, South Carolina on August 29 with his wife Sarah Abercromby renouncing her dower; James Abercrombie is one of the purchasers of the estate sale of William McDaniel (?-1804) in Laurens County, South Carolina 1806 Charleston, South Carolina city directory includes "Mrs. Sarah Abercrombie" living at 9 Beresford Street [now Fulton Street] 1807 Jonathan Abercrombie, Jr. (1807-1886), son of Jonathan Abercrombie, Sr. (c.1776-1862) and Mary "Polly" Woods (1778-1851) and great-great grandfather of Brenda Abercrombie Ledet, is born in Laurens County, South Carolina on April 30 1808 Dr. Shecut at 216 King-Street, Charleston, South Carolina, advertises a remedy for worms in Charleston Times in May including a testimonial letter from John J. Abercromby of No. 28 Bridge-street, Baltimore; Dials Methodist Church organized as Dials Methodist Society by Bishop Francis Asbury in Laurens County, South Carolina home of Martin Dial (1744-1843), widower of Chrystie Abercrombie (1746-1804), who were great-great-great-great-grandparents of Brenda Abercrombie Ledet Revised 14 July 2002, 14 June 2003 Copyright 2002, 2003 by Brenda Abercrombie Ledet. All rights reserved.
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