History of the Old Cheraws, Alexander Gregg

History of the old Cheraws: containing an account of the aborigines of the Pedee, the first white settlements, their subsequent progress, civil changes, the struggle of the revolution, and growth of the country afterward; extending from about A.D. 1730 to 1810, with notices of families and sketches of individuals (1867)

Author: Gregg, Alexander, 1819-1893
Subject: Cheraw Indians; Pedee region (South Carolina); South Carolina -- History
Publisher: New York, Richardson and company
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Digitizing sponsor: MSN
Usage rights: See terms
Book contributor: University of California Libraries
Collection: americana; cdl

.....Of the Gibsons, Gideon and Jordan were brothers. The latter went to the West as a companion of Daniel Boone. Gideon Gibson came with his father from Virginia to Pedee. There is a public record of a grant to him for 550 acres of land as early as April, 1736. He settled at a place called Hickory Grove, five miles from Sandy Bluff, on a large and fertile body of land, long after noted as the most valuable in that region.....

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