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In 1806Hardy and Jemima Morgan Brian once again prepared to leave South Carolina and move the Louisiana Territory. In the book East Feliciana Parish Past and Present: A Sketch of the Pioneers by H. Skipworth there is the following account of the movement of the settlers from the Carolinas into East Feliciana parish. The entry reads: A moving panorama truthfully depicting the march of civilization in the Third Ward of East Feliciana would lift the curtain in 1802 and disclose the Carneys and Rogillios felling the cane breaks and fighting the panthers and bears over the identical land now included within the cooperate limits of the town of Jackson. That was the nucleus that attracted the Scotts, Winters, McKneelys, Kellers and McCants from Union District, South Carolina in 1805, the Brians from Darlington District and Benjamin Fauvre and Temple Nix from Edgefield District in 1806. Many of whom found not only good lands but good wives among the primeval cane breaks and forest in Jackson and its immediate vicinity and many of those who have been conspicuous in shaping the civilization of the ward trace their genealogy to a graft of the South Carolina blood upon the old Carney and Rogillio stock. Hardy Brian sold everything he could not move and set out on the journey. A description of that move is recorded in the book East Feliciana Parish Past and Present: A Sketch of the Pioneers by H. Skipworth. The entry reads: On a fleet of flat boats they floated out of South Carolina down the headwaters of theTennessee River through the perilous Muscle Shoals, down the Ohio River and the Mississippi River to Natches, Mississippi. The Tennessee River, the largest branch of the Ohio River is formed by the meeting of the Holston and French Broad Rivers about four miles about what is today Knoxville, Tennessee. The Tennessee River flows southwest through the State of Tennessee and enters the State of Alabama at the northeast corner where the Muscle Shoals, a series of rapids, stretches thirty six miles and the River drops one hundred and thirty two feet. The Tennessee River enters the State of Tennessee again then flows northward through Tennessee and northwest across the state of Kentucky emptying into the Ohio River. The Ohio flows southwestern and empties into the Mississippi River. On this fleet of flatboats, out the same neighborhood came of column of immigrants with their families, slaves and household goods and from Natches, Mississippi, the oldest city on the Mississippi River, on foot and in wagons, probably along the same trail which old Leonard Hornsby blazed in 1802, came to the banks of Beaver Creek, near which most of the colonist commenced their clearings. This large column of colonist coming into Ward 3 of East Feliciana Parish in 1806 embraced the ancestors of the Doughtsys, Rents, Brians, Morgans and Whites, who used to tell their descendants some thrilling tales of the hairbreadth escapes from shipwrecks on the snags, sawyers and hidden rocks in the unknown channels of the French broad and how appalled by the angry roars of the swift torrents, whirlpools and eddies of the Muscle Shoals, the immigrants from Darlington District landed their wives, little ones and slaves at the head of the shoals and trusted the arks containing their herds and household and kitchen goods and plantation outfits to the skilled Indian pilots, who standing with their long poles at the bow with their squaw at the helm, would brave the dangers of the perilous passage, while the human passengers footed around the Shoals by a cutoff . In 1806 the Louisiana Territory was still under the rule of the Spanish Government and remained so until 1810. The part of the Louisiana Territory East of the Mississippi Rivers, then known as West Florida was annexed by the United States in 1812 and was admitted as the eighteenths state. Hardy Brian cleared about five hundred acres ofland located about five miles north of the present town of Jackson, Louisiana and established a cotton and sugar cane farm. On June30, 1806, according to the records a the Welsh Neck Baptist Church in Darlington County, South Carolina, Hardy Brian requested a transfer of his church membership to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. On July 25, 1806 Jemima Morgan Brian was received into the membership of the Ebenezer Baptist Church by transfer of membership from the Welsh Neck Baptist Church in Darlington County, South Carolina. The following entry is found inthe book, Minutes of Ebenezer Baptist Church of Amite County, Mississippi compiled in 1948 by Arthur Lester White: June 31, 1806, Saturday. Met in conference. Received Hardy Brian from Welsh Neck Church, South Carolina by letter. Received Laban Bacot by letter from Mt. Pleasant Church, South Carolina. Motion made and seconded for the choice of a deacon. It is laid over until next conference. July 5,1806, Saturday Met in conference. Laban Bacotappointed church clerk. Hardy Brian chosen deacon. Ezra Courtney, Mark Cole, Batson Morgan, James Morgan and Eaes Parkins chosen visitants at the conference at Coles Creek Church on Friday before the firs Sunday in August. Friday,July 25, 1806 Met in conference. Ezra Courtney ordained by the Reverend Richard Curtis and Thomas Mecer. Received by letter Jemima Brian from Welch Neck Church, South Carolina. Batson Morgan was dealt with for shooting out the eyes of a bul which belonged to Lewis Perkins, for which he is laid under censure. Ezra Courtney called to take the pastoral care of the church. Hardy Brian served the EbenezerBaptist Church faithfully and became on of its most devoted members. In 1807, 1808 and 1809 he was elected a messenger from the church to the Mississippi Baptist Association meeting. The following entry is found in the book, Minutes of Ebenezer Baptist Church of Amite County, Mississippi compiled in 1948 by Arthur Lester White: Saturday, August 1, 1807 Received by letter MarySkinner from Burke Camp Church, Curks County, Georgia.

The record reads as follows: 1790 United States Census Darlington County, Cheraws District, South Carolina BRIAN, Hardy One Free White Male over 16 years One Free White Male under 16 years 3 Free white females Hardy Brian purchased atract of land near Lake Swamp on the PeeDee River and established another small farm. The land records at the Darlington County Courthouse in Darlington, South Carolina record this purchase. The record reads: County of Darlington, South Carolina Sale of Thirty five acres of land in Section I, N2, 103E, to Hardy Brian by Andrew Tomlins Hardy Brian was living on tract of land when the Second United States Census was recorded in 1800. The record reads: 1800 United States Census Darlington County, South Carolina, Page115 BRIAN, Hardy In 1800 Hardy and Jemima Morgan transferred their membership from the Ebeneezer Jeffreys Creek Baptist Church to the Welsh Neck Baptist Church. The Welsh Neck Baptist Church was one of the first churches formed in the Cheraws District. In the book Names In South Carolina by Claude Neuffer, there is the following entry regarding the Welsh Neck Baptist Church: Welsh settlers began coming to South Carolina in 1736. They settled in the bend of the PeeDee River know as James Neck. This settlement was to become a place of great Baptist influence in that part of the State. In 1738, thirty of the settlers constituted the PeeDee Baptist Church. There are two traditions existing as the origin of the name PeeDee. One version is that it is the name of an Indian Tribe, the other that it was named after Patrick Daley, and explorer who discovered this area. This section of the District soon became know as Welsh Neck and the name of the church was changed to Welsh Neck Baptist Church. In 1798 the Welsh Neck Church was moved to Society Hill, but the name was never changed. Hardy Brian learned about the land available from settlement in the Louisiana Territory and set out tomove this family to this new area. The book East Feliciana Parish Past and Present: A Sketch of the Pioneers by H. Skipworth provides an account of how the settlers learned about the Louisiana Territory. Vast schemes of colonization were generated in the older settlement when Mr. Jefferson made proclamation in October 1803 that a boundless fertile un-populated empire had been transferred the previous April by France to the United States. That famous state paper found eager reads among our immediate ancestors, a population clinging to the sides of the mountain ranges of the Carolinas. In 1804 Hardy Brian sold his land in South Carolina of land and prepared to move his family to the new Louisiana Territory. He was not able to make the trip by sea that year because the United States government had placed an embargo on all ships due to the war expected with France. Hardy Brian changed his plans and prepared to move his family to the Louisiana Territory overland. An uprising of the Cherokee Indians along the Tennessee river caused him to abandon this plan and to once again settle in Darlington County, South Carolina.

Hardy Brian did not serve continually during the war years but would volunteer from time to time and participate in special campaigns in the Cheraws District. In the book, Early Settlers Of The Cheraws there is an account of a special campaign that occurred in the Cheraws District in 1782. The account reads as follows: In thelater part of 1781 a large group of British troops landed in the District near Georgetown at the mouth of the Great PeeDee River and then preceded up the PeeDee River into the heart of the District. The mission of the British troops was to cut off the supplies and support the citizens of the District were providing for the soldiers of the Colonies. The British established a temporary garrison near the settlement of Cheraws and from that garrison would sent out patrols to burn nearby farms and kill those sympathetic to the cause of the Colonies. In 1782 a company of troops had been assembled from the Ninety Sixth and Charleston Districts to rid the area of the British troops. But the men, being unfamiliar with the many swamps in the area, were unable to penetrate the area. A group of local men were employed by Generals Marion and Matthewson to assist the force by serving as guides. The battle plan was established and the men of the District were summoned to assist in the campaign. The District produced a force of well over two hundred men and under the leadership of Thomas Williamson they set out to rid the District of the British. The British troops must have been warned of the upcoming battle for when the men from the District reached the garrison the British troops had already left. The men of the District followed the British to the mouth of the PeeDee River and encountered them near the settlement of Holly Branch. The matter was settled without a single man from the District being lost and this was the last permanent garrison the British attempted to establish in the District . Recordson file at the Darlington County Courthouse in Darlington, South Carolina indicated that Hardy Brian was a participant in this campaign. Hardy Brian participated in several other campaigns with the militia of the Cheraws District in 1781 and 1782 serving both as a soldier and a scout. Records also indicated that 1782 Hardy Brian and his wife Jemima Morgan Brian sold several head of cattle to the army of the colonies during 1781. A record of this payment, on file at the National Archives in Washington, DC reads as follows: In 1785 Hardy Brian petitioned the state of South Carolina for payment for his service in the Cheraws District Militia. Records on file at the National Archives in Washington, DC show where Hardy Brian was paid for his service. The records read as follows: No 346 Book F South Carolina Pursuant to an act of the General Assembly passed on the 16th of March 1783 We,the Commissioners of the treasury have on this day delivered to Mr. Hardy Brian this indent certificate for the sum of five pounds sterling for duty done as a scout in the militia of the Cheraws District in 1782 under the command of General Thomas Williamson. No 694 Book Y South Carolina Pursuant to an act of the general assembly passed on the 16h of March 1783 We, the commissioners of the treasury have on this day delivered to Mr. Hardy Brian this indented certificate for the sum of seven pounds sterling for duty done on foot in 1781 and 1782 in the militia of the Cheraws District under the command of General Thomas Williamson. No 694Y, No 90 South Carolina December 31, 1785 Hardy Brian for 98 days duty as a private soldier in General Marions Brigade in 1781 and 1782. Seven Pounds Sterling. In 1785 Hardy Brian purchased fifteen acres of land adjacent to his farm from Archibal McBride. A record of that land transaction is on file at the Darlington County Courthouse in Darlington, South Carolina. The record reads as follows: County of Darlington CherawsDistrict, South Carolina To wit, Recorded for the right to the sale of fifteen acres of land owned, settled and occupied by Archibald McBride of said District. The said tract of land being located as part of section II, NR, 123, South, Bounded by High Hill Creek and The recorded Homestead of 2E11 and 2H15 of Harold Harness to Hardy Brian for payment as agreed. Final payment for this tract of land was made by the assignment of and indent issued to Hardy Brian in 1782 by the State of South Carolina for his service in the Revolutionary War. The record reads as follows: Hardy Brian was living on this tract of land with his wife Jemima Morgan Brian when the first United States Census was recorded in 1790.

The church was a plain square building with a porch in front. A large room was added to one side of the building for the use of the Negroes. It was divided from the larger part by a low wall about as high as the backs of the pews. An isle in the middle of one of each side led back to the pulpit and a lower platform on one side. several of the pews were square with seats on three sides. Pews were rented and each family had its own. The pulpit was a high one with a flight of steps on each side and doors which closed. The seats could accommodate at least three ministers. The Welsh Neck Church was the mother of the other Baptist Churches in and around Darlington. Its ministers preached to or assisted weak congregations up and down the river; its people let it to aid in forming other Baptist groups; it descendants cover the PeeDee section with branches of this church. The following map provides a look at the Cheraws District of South Carolina. Hardy Brian became a member of the Welsh Neck Baptist Church inMarch 1772 when he was seventeen years old. Hardy Brian listed his church affliction as Episcopalian although there is no record of an Episcopalian church in existence tin that area of South Carolina. Hardy Brian probably listed the church affiliation of his father William Brian. The record where Hardy Brian was accepted into membership of The Welsh Neck Baptist Church reads as follows: Welsh Neck Baptist Church, March 1772 Accepted for membership: Hardy Brian, Church affliction, Episcopalian, Accepted by baptism. On May 15, 1778Hardy Brian married Jemima Morgan in Darlington County, Cheraws District, South Carolina. Jemima Morgan was born June 4, 1762 in Darlington County, Cheraws District, South Carolina. Jemima Morgan was the daughter of Solomon Morgan and Sarah Ludlow. More information will be included on the Morgan family at the end of this chapter. Since Jemima Morgan wasunder eighteen years old, South Carolina law required she have permission from her parents to marry. A copy of the application for a certificate of marriage and a copy of the consent is on file at the courthouse in Darlington, South Carolina. The application reads as follows: Count of Darlington CherawsDistrict Petition for marriage filled this the 10th day of May, 1778 by Hardy Brian, a citizen and resident of said county to marry and wed Jemima Morgan, the daughter of Reverend Solomon Morgan of said District. The consent to marriage of Jemima Morgan, a minor being under eighteen years of age, so filed by her father, Reverend Solomon Morgan Given by my hand the right and privilege to marry Jeffery Mattewson, Clerk of Courts After their marriage Hardy and Jemima Morgan Brian lived on a small tract of land near High Hill Creek near thehome of his parents. In 1781Hardy Brian filed a Homestead Claim with the state of South Carolina for right to this property he had settled. The South Carolina Homestead Law required a person to live on a tract of land for at least two years and to make improvements to the land to produce an income from farming. The following entry is found in the land records at the Darlington County Courthouse in Darlington, South Carolina: CherawsDistrict, South Carolina June 1,1781 To record my right to twenty-five acresof land located near the site of the old courthouse near High Hill Creek as a homestead for and with my wife and family. Justly settled by me and cleared and cultivated since the year of 1778. Hardy Brian The exact location of this tract of land is notknown because many of the early land maps of the Cheraws District have been lost or destroyed. Hardy Brian andhis wife Jemima Morgan Brian joined the Jeffreys Creek Baptist Church in Darlington County, South Carolina. Hardy Brian served this church as a deacon and as a messenger to the association meetings for several years. It would The following entry is taken from the book South Carolina Baptist by Crozer Edwards: Ebenezer, Jefferys Creek Baptist Church 1780 Solomon Morgan, Pastor; Hardy Brian, Messenger 1781 Solomon Morgan, Pastor; Hardy Brian, Messenger 1782 Solomon Morgan, Pastor; Hardy Brian, Messenger 1783 Solomon Morgan, Pastor; Hardy Brian, Messenger When the colonies declared their independence from England a group of men in the Cheraws District established asmall militia to fight against the British troops. Hardy Brian enlisted in the militia and served under the leadership of such famous Revolutionary War generals as Nathaniel Green, Thomas Sumpter and Francis Marion, nicknamed the Swamp Fox .

It was here, from the years 1731 and 1732 that some of the first settlements were made. It was laid out on the Great PeeDee River, a short distance from the mouth of the Little PeeDee River. The favorable conditions and enticing inducements were very appealing to a group of Welsh settlers then living in Delaware. Because the soil was very suited to the Raising of hemp and flax, in 1737 this party of immigration settled on the PeeDee River, in the township of Queensborugh. The book Names In SouthCarolina by Claude Neuffer describes the area of Society Hill where the Brian family lived. Removal of theplanters from the Welsh Neck on the Marlboro County side of the Great PeeDee River to Long Bluff on the west side in what is now Darlington County was made between 1748 and 1752. The name Long Bluff was given this settlement for its extensive bluff, extending without a break for about three miles along the west bank of the PeeDee River. About the year 1785 the name Long Bluff was changed to Greenville, so called in honor of General Nathaniel Green of Revolutionary War fame. The circuit courts of the Cheraws District were held at Greenville until the year 1791. Charles Mason, Evander McIver, Thomas Power and William Dewitt set forth in their petition to the Legislature that they had laid out the town of Long Bluff on the PeeDee River out of their own property, haven given the streets, several lots of land, Town House and Market Place. In December 1778, St. Davids Society was incorporated for the purpose of instituting and endowing a seminary of learning in the District of the Cheraws. The first building was erected near the site now occupied by the Welsh Neck Baptist Church and as the inhabitants began to move into the hills about half a mile from the site of Greenville, they gave the name Society Hill to the new settlement, named for St. Davids Society Seminary. This was about the year 1798. The Welsh Neck Baptist Church, founded in the year 1738, erected their first meeting house in the Welsh Tract in what is now Marlboro County. Soon after the settling of Society Hill, about the year 1798, the Church was moved to that location. In the book A History of Darlington County South Carolina by Erwin, the following account is provided of the Welsh Neck Baptist Church. In 1738a group of the early Welsh settlers organized a Baptist church and erected in 1744 a small house of worship. The first meeting was held at the home of John Jones, a prominent man in the little Welsh Neck group at this time. From the time of its founding to March 1759, Reverend Joshua Edward and Reverend Robert Williams served as pastors; Reverend Nicholas Bedgegood served as pastor from 1759 to 1775. The first house of worship was a small building that was erected on the east bank of the river, a very short distance from the ferry. The construction of this building was completed in 1744. The second, a building 45 by 30 feet was constructed in 1759 on a lot given by Daniel Devonald. In 1798 the little church was moved to the West side of the river and a building was erected on the present site.

RichardWilliamson came to the United States in 1639 and settled in Isles of Wright County Virginia. On June 23, 1640 Richard Williamson witnessed a deed of John Upton to Christopher and Ann Benn of some land on Pagan Creek in Isle of Wright County, Virginia. On Jun 23, 1641 Ambrose Bennett used his name for a head right in patenting land in Isle of Wright County, Virginia. On April 18, 1646 Richard Williamson and John Newman witnessed a deed made to John Snellock by Farrar Flinton. On March 14, 1647 Richard Williamson and Thomas Wombwell witnessed a deed of William Yarrett to Thomas Brandwood. By August 9, 1659 Richard Williamson had died and his wife Margaret Williamson married was married to John Druett. In 1659 John Druettconveyed to Thomas Elmes a tract of land that had been conveyed to his wife Margaret Druett by her parents George and Elizabeth Brown. The book Isle of WrightCounty, Virginia - Seventeenth Century by Boddie states: On September 29, 1664 Dr. Robert Williamson was granted seven hundred acres on the third swamp of the Blackwater, River. Three hundred and fifty acres at the mouth of a branch parting over from Mr. Bouchers land, the other three hundred and fifty acres being opposite this on the other side of the swamp. Sara Jane Williamson was previously married to Peter Crocker. It is not know when SaraJane Williamson and Peter Crocker were married. Peter Crocker was living in Isle of Wright County, Virginia in 1746. On February 7, 1746 he purchased three hundred acres of land on the Southside of the Tar River in Edgecombe County, North Carolina from William Reynolds. Peter Crockers name is mentioned several times in the Edgecombe County, North Carolina Deed Records as either purchasing or selling land or witnessing the sale of land by his neighbors. The will of Peter Crocker was filed at the Courthouse in Edgecombe County, North Carolina on October 24, 1752. Sara Jane Williamson is named as the executor of the estate. There are children mentioned in the will, however they are not names. The executor of Peter Crockers will was Francis Williamson, Sara Jane Williamson father and the will was witnessed by James Williamson, her brother. HARDY BRIAN Hardy Brian wasborn May 20, 1755 in Darlington County, Cheraws District, South Carolina. He was the oldest child of William Brian and Sara Jane Williamson. Hardy Brian lived on the land owned by his father and helped his father and younger brothers with the clearing of the land and the farming. A description of Darlington County South Carolina in 1700 is taken from the book A History of Darlington County South Carolina by Erwin: From the years 1696 to 1730 immigrationto South Carolina was very slow. To encourage more rapid expansion and settlement, in the later part of 1730 the Crown adopted a new system which proved even more successful than was previously anticipated. This plan, known as the township system, offered land to the colonist under very encouraging conditions. As a result of this scheme, Governor Johnson was instructed to mark out eleven Townships, in square plots, on the sides of rivers, consisting each of 20,000 acres, and to divide the land within them into shares of 50 acres of each man, woman and child that should come over to occupy and improve them. There was very little delay in carryingout the orders issued. The township on the PeeDee was named Queensborough.

The record reads as follows: First Census ofthe United States - 1790 CherawsDistrict, Darlington County, South Carolina Brian, William 1 Free White Male 16 years and upward 2 Free White Females 1 Slave In 1797 William Brian and Sara Jane Williamson joined the Padgett Creek Baptist Church in Darlington County, South Carolina. In the book South Carolina Baptist by Leah Townsed April 19, 1797 PadgettCreek Baptist Church CherawsDistrict, Darlington County, South Carolina Church body called to meeting to acceptmembership, on statement of faith, of William Brian and wife Sara Jane. Membership accepted without no objections or conditions by unanimous vote. William Brian and Sara Jane Williamson remained active members of the Padget Creek Baptist Church until SARAH JANE WILLIAMSON BRIAN Sara Jane Williamson was born October 8, 1727 in Isles of Wright County, Virginia. Shewas the daughter of Francis Williamson and Mourning Thompson and a descendent of Richard Williamson. FrancisWilliamson was born in England, one of five children born to Francis Williamson and Ann ____________. In 1721 he was married in Isle of Wright County, Virginia to Mourning Thompson. Francis Williamson died in 1737 in Isle of Wright County, Virginia. FrancisWilliamson and Mourning Thompson had seven children; Francis Williamson, James Williamson, Martha Williamson, Sarah Jane Williamson, Benjamin Williamson, Joseph Williamson and Mourning Williamson. FrancisWilliamson II was born in England, the son of Robert Williamson and Joan Allen. Francis Williamson II was married in Isle of Wright County, Virginia to Ann. They had five children; Francis Williamson, Martha Williamson, Arthur Williamson, Benjamin Williamson, and Joseph Williamson. Robert Williamson was born in 1625 in London, England. He was the son of Richard Williamson and Margaret Brown. Robert Williamson was married in Isle of Wright County, Virginia to Joan Allen. Joan Allen was the daughter of Arthur Allen and Alice Tucker. Richard Williamson died in 1670 in Isle of Wright County, Virginia. Richard Williamson and Joan Allen had four children; Robert Williamson, George Williamson, Arthur Williamson and Francis Williamson. RichardWilliamson was born in Kent, England, the son of James Williamson. He was married to Margaret Brown. Richard Williamson and Margaret Brown had four children; Richard Williamson, Thomas Williamson, John Williamson and Robert Ramson.

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