History of Old Pendleton District [South Carolina]; with A Genealogy of the Leading Families of the District

The Pendleton District in northwestern South Carolina has a complex history. It was originally part of the Cherokee Indian lands which were divided in 1789 to create Pendleton and Greenville counties. The name was subsequently changed to Pendleton District and it finally ceased to exist as a political unit about 1825 when it was subdivided to form the present Anderson and Pickens counties. This volume provides a brief (70 pages) history of the region followed by hundreds of genealogical sketches of district families which includes the following: Adams Adger Anderson Bee Bellotte Benson Blassingame Bowen Broyles Burns Burt Calhoun Cornish Craig Davant Davis Dickinson Dickson Dupree Earle Gaillard Gibbs I-fall Hamilton Hanckel Harrison Hastie Hayne Hubbard Hunter Jenkins Latta Ligon Lorton Martin Mavrick Mays McBryde McElhenny Miller Newton North Owen Pickens Pike Pinckney Poe Potter Randell Reese Robinson Ross Scott Seaborn Shanklin Shaw Simpson Sitton Sloan Smith Steel Stevens Stirling Symmes Taliaferro Taylor Thompson Trescott Warley Watkins Whitefield and Whitner. Many of these families and individuals were from Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia and North Carolina as did many of the wealthy residents of the low-country of South Carolina. (1913) reprint 2007 2011 New Every-Name Index 264 pages.