The following are emails received by me over several years concerning the emigration to South Carolina.  I include them because they are informative and will give you some of the great source people that I was able to contact.  They may be more explanatory than my attempts.

 

om: Waring Hills <wwhills@yahoo.com>

Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 11:20 PM

Subject: Wappetaw settlers:MA>SC 1696

 

From Archdale's Carolina, 1696, June 26th. Rev. Wm. Hubbard writes to Governor Archdale of Carolina, that a considerable number in Ipswich intend to emigrate thither. This emigration took place. It appears to have been about Oct. 11th, when several were dismissed from Salem-village church, who were bound to the same part of our country.

 

Hendrick family (6 members) John Hendrick - d. 1735

Mary (?) Hendrick

Children:

Timothy Hendrick - d. 1727

William Hendrick - d. 1749

Mary Hendrick

Mother/aunt?

Abigail Morse Hendrick Pingry (?)

 

Hollybush family (2 members) John Hollybush - d. 1722

Mary Hollybush

 

Murrell (Morrill, Murrill) family (13-15 members) Robert Murrell

wife ??

 

John Murrell - d. 1706 wife??

John Murrell

William Murrell

 

Jonathan Murrell - d. 1743 Elizabeth Murrell

children

Anthony Murrell

Richard Murrell

Elizabeth Murrell

Susannah Murrell

Sarah Murrell

Mary Murrell

Martha Murrell

 

Severance family (5 members) John Severance - d. 1722 Catherine Severance

Sarah Severance

Joseph Severance

John Severance

 

Webb family(4-5 members) Benjamin Webb (16??-1734)

Additional Note on Hubbard :

EARLY INHABITANTS OF IPSWICH, MASS. By Abraham Hammatt , page 168-170

 

HUBBARD, William, came to Boston in 1630, and made application to be freeman to the General Court, October 19, of that year.

He settled at Ipswich, in 1635, and was one of the_.wealthiest and Most respectable of the first inhabitants.

1643, 4th, 2d mo. Granted to Mr. William Hubbard the parcel of land, &c., containing about fifty-one acres; twenty-five whereof is in consideration of the highway that, leadeth through his farm; and the other twenty-five acres are for work to be done towards making the great swamp sufficient:

Mr. William Hubbard gave an acre of land toward the founding of the GRAMMAR SCHOOL; and was a feoffee of that institution from its foundation in 1650, until his removal to Boston in 1662. The lot he gave was probably that part of the lot on which the School house [1854] stands.

He was deputy to the General Court six years, between 1838 and 1646. He was commissioned by the General Court to marry people in 1651.                                                                    He died between June 8 and August 19, 1670, leaving sons

William,

Richard,

Nathaniel.

 

William Hubbard 2, Son of William 1 was born in Eng­land about 1621, and came to America with his father in 1630. He was of the first class that was graduated at Harvard College, 1642.

He commenced his ministry as colleague with Mr. Cob­bett, July, 1656; and continued to officiate until August 2, 1702,-on which day, as it appears by the church record "The Rev'd Mr. Hubbard detained the Brethren of the Church and signified and declared his inability (thro age), to carry on the work of the ministry any longer among them, and desired that they would take care and procure help to carry on sd work.^"  He expended his patrimony which was large, and left his widow in indigence at his death, Sept. 14, 1704.

He mortgaged to John Richards of Boston, July 20, 1674, his Dwelling house in the Town of Ipswich; and thirty acres of land being part of Hattfields farm; and twelve acres of other land for £324 sterling.

At a Town Meeting held Oct. 26, 1704 it was voted That “ye twenty pounds due to ye sale of ye old Meeting house, ye Treasurer shall pay ye said twenty pounds toward ye defraying Mr.. Hubbard's funeral."

His first wife was Margaret Rogers, daughter of the Rev'd Nathaniel Rogers.  She, dying, he married the widow of Samuel Pearce (who had died in 1698.) This marriage, Mr. Felt says, was not agreeable to most of his parish.  They would allow her to be a worthy woman, but not of sufficient distinction to be their minister's wife.

At a Town Meeting held “ March ye 14, 1709-10, Voted that twenty pounds money be added to the Town rates for supplying Mrs. Hubbard in her distressed condition."  She died in 1710‑11.

 

Here byes ye Body
of Mis^' Mary Hub
bard (late wife of
ye Reuerend Mr.
William Hubard),
who died February
ye 2 , 1710-11 Aged
53 years

 

Rev. William Hubbard left two sons, John and Nath­aniel; and one daughter Margaret, who married John Pynchon, and removed first to Boston and afterwards to Springfield. While they resided in Boston she joined the church of Ipswich by "taking the covenant," Jan. 18, 1673^.

Mr. Hubbard wrote a work entitled "Present State of New-England," which was printed in London in 1678. This was afterwards recast and printed under the title of Indian Wars. The General Court appoint a committee May 19, 1680, to peruse his History of New England and report, so that they may judge "about having it printed."

In 1663, they vote him £50, a "half of this sum to be paid him now, if he procure a fayre coppie to be written, that it be fitted for the presse." This "fayre coppie" re­mained in manuscript until, the Massachusetts Historical Society, aided by a donation from the General Court, had it printed in 1815.

 

John Hubbard 3, son of William 2, came into the church in full connection, Jan. 25, 1673.  Freeman Oct. 11, 1676.

 

Richard Hubbard 2, William 1, was graduated at Har­vard College in 1653. His father when he removed to Boston in 1662, gave him a valuable farm in the part of the town called the Hamlet;—now the town of Hamilton.

In 1664 he had a double share in Plum Island, &c., which indicates him as being one of twenty-seven of the richest out of 230 freeholders. He was selectman, 1665; feoffee of Grammar School, 1665; tithingman, 1677. He died May 3, 1681.  He left a widow Sarah; sons Richard, Nathaniel, John, Simon ; and a daughter Sarah, wife of John Cotton. A son William was born Nov. 29, 1666.

His farm consisted of 220 acres, with a dwelling house, out houses, orchard.

1691, April 22. Richard, son of Mr. Richard Hubbard,. chose his uncle, the Rev'd William, guardian ; John, chose Daniel Epps ; Nathaniel chose Capt. Thomas Wade.

 

 

 

From:          Christopher Brooks <chb@sau35.k12.nh.us>

Sent:           Tuesday, January 25, 2000 10:50 AM

Subject: Re: [NORTHEAST] MA colonizing in SC, 1698-1705

 

---- Origina1 Message ---From: Bruce Lord

 

the colonizing in Dorcester, SC was done in part by a group from Dorcester,  MA led b Rev. Joseph Lord. He remained in that area for 20 years before returning to Massachusetts. Part of that group or another group that went  to the same or a near area was from Andover, MA. A brief description is at the site below

 

 

 

 

Bruce:

 

I was quite astounded to find the two Concord names I mentioned unambiguously identified in the History of  Dorchester, SC excerpt on your web page. The Joshua Brooks in question, the first of six consecutive Joshuas to be  Congregational deacons, is my 6th great-grandfather, and Simon Dakin his son-in-law.

 

Researchers have been publishing on Joshua's line (he was the son of Capt. Thomas Brooks, founder of this line) since the 1830s (Savage, Shattuck's History of Concord, Bond in 1860, etc.). Yet the 19th-century authorities hadn't a clue about SC -- Joshua simply disappears into the sunset in their works, followed by the probate of his will.

 

I've never had much use for Ancestral File/IGI stuff, yet I think *someone* figured out that Joshua went to Carolina – and over the years Dorchester, SC became corrupted to the more familiar Dorchester MA as a place of death. Once again proving that there's often a grain of truth in oft-repeated canards, if you can only puzzle it out.

 

Nothing's Iiable to happen overnight, but I'll see what else I can dig up to share with you. I'll follow up with some queries to Web-based SC historical entities, but I still think the most authoritative- information is liable to come from the MA end. Someone, somewhere, has written a scholarly account of this colonization effort, or at least a detailed chapter in a larger work. 1'11 be pleased to share whatever I can dig up.

 

One last question -- could you give me publication particulars for Henry M. Smith, "The Town of Dorchester, in South Carolina - Sketch of its History"?

 

Sent                  Tuesday, January 25, 2000 11:18 AM Subject: Dorchester, SC

 

Bruce,

This just arrived from Waring Hills, wwhillsC vahoo.com. I will include your address in my reply to him.

Hi Christopher,

Bob Bamford sent me your email concerning this group of settlers. Yes, they migrated to SC in 1696 and settled at Dorchester on the Ashley River about 25 miles NW of Charleston. The ruins of the town (now Dorchester ,State Park) are still there and I'll get you the email of one of the park rangers who has lots of history on them. There are quite a few articles on this group and a few books.  Dorchester was abandoned by them in the 1740's and the group went to found Midway, GA, just south of Savannah, where they built another town and church. One of the diaries of the original colonists survives and he talks about their relocation here, additionally another group of 52 settlers from Essex county left just after the Dorchester group and settled at Wappetaw, 15 miles NE of Charleston. This group had been involved in the witchcraft trials (Aaron Way at Salem Village settled with the group at Dorchester).

 

More later...best wishes,

 

Waring Hills

Descendent of NE settlers to SC in 1696

From:          <Pilgrimpjm a@aol.com>

Sent:           Tuesday, January 25, 2000 1:15 PM

Subject: Re: (NORTHEAST] MA colonizing in SC, 1698-1705

 

Hi Bruce

 

In reference to your post (below), I believe I may be of some help. I have found some information regarding the Dorchester settlement near Charleston, SC, in a 4-volume series entitled "History of South Carolina" by Dr. Edward McCrady.  Reference was made to the 1696 settlement by the Congregationalists from Dorchester, MA, led by Rev. Joseph LORD, in the first two volumes (Vol. 1, pp. 326, 327, 345, 707; Vol. 2, pp. 66, 489).  If you are interested, I will be most happy to copy the pages and forward them on to you.

I live not too far from old Fort Dorchester and have been there several times. It is amazing to see the remnants of the old White Meeting House walls (made of `tabby' - a mixture of oyster shells, lime & sand) which still stand today as well as the brick church tower. I will drive out there (after the snow melts away) and pick up copies of the literature the Park Service has issued, and include it in the packet I'll send. I will be happy to take photos of the area as well. Just let me know if you are interested.

 

I will be visiting the SC Historical Society within the next couple of weeks. I thought I'd snoop around a bit and see what I can find on the early settlement ,a t Fort Dorchester. I'll let you know if I am successful. Is Rev. Joseph LORD an ancestor of yours?

 

Kindly let me know where I should mail these items to you. I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Regards,

 

Pamela Rhett Molzan Charleston, SC pilgrimpjm @ aol.com

 

<<the colonizing in Dorcester, SC was done in part by a group from Dorcester, MA led by Rev. Joseph Lord. He remained in that area for 20 years before returning to Massachusetts. Part of that group or another group that went to the same or a near area was from Andover, MA. A brief description is at the site below. I would be interested in anyone who may have more information

Bruce W. Lord

 

 

This may not be the same group but waring Hills has information on one group if he is still subscribed.

Bob

 

1/24/2000 -0500, Bruce Lord wrote:

The colonizing in Dorcester, SC was done in part by a group from Dorcester,  Rev. Joseph Lord.  He remained in that area for 20 years before returning to Massachusetts. Part of that group or another group that went to the same or a near area was from Andover, MA. A brief description is at the site below. I would be interested in anyone who may have more information.

 

>Bruce W. Lord

 

>------ Original Message -------

>From: Christopher Brooks <brookscgLANDMARKNET.NET> >

 Sent: Mo day, January 24, 2000 7:15 PM

>Subject: MA colonizing in SC, 1698-1705

>

>> > I'm looking for any pointers, resources or books which might document a short-lived attempt by Dorchester, MA Congregationalists to colonize what was then called "Carolina," now SC, between roughly 1695 and 1701. I have only a few details and a hazy hypothesis and would welcome any research leads.

 

Here are the fragments I have:

 

(1)  God's Messengers: Religious Leadership in Colonial New England, 

1700-1750," by J. William T. Young Jr., Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1976,

 

Dismissal was a serious blow to a minister's career. Some could never attain another parish. Others, who did continue in the ministry, often iserved nferior parishes...John Cotton, dismissed from Plymouth, went to South Carolina." *

 

*Endnote: Quotes a letter of Cotton -- probably the grandson? of the famous Puritan divine of the same name -- to his wife Joanna, from SC,  dated 9 Apr 1698.

 

(2) John Brooks Threlfall, "Thomas Brooks of Watertown and Concord," originally published in TAG, reprinted in the Brooks Family Historian, n.d.: Writing of Simon Dakin and his wife Elizabeth Brooks, he says:

 

"They resided in South Carolina 1696-1701 where two ch. were born. They were undoubtedly members of the Dorchester group which sailed in Dec. 1695 to found a colony and carry the Gospel to the Carolinas, but returned to Concord."

 

(3) Elizabeth's father, Deacon Joshua Brooks, spent his life at Concord, MA, but left no death record there, although his 1697 probate is of record.

 

Ancestral File-quality files often list a death date about this time for him, citing Dorchester, MA as the place. However, there's no death record at Dorchester either.

 

This morning I grabbed my atlas to take a closer look at SC. Sure enough,  there's a Dorchester, SC, a few miles inland from Charleston. I'm wondering

 

 (a) whether it was founded and named by the MA colonists, and (b), whether

Deacon Joshua Brooks may have died *there.*

 

Any pointers on where I could research this colonization attempt further?

Thanks,   Chris

From: Waring Hills <wwhills@yahoo.com>

Date: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 5:07 PM

Subject: More Wappetaw relationships

 

I just had some interesting dialogue with Stafford Ames Morse of the Morse Society. He was searching for the reasons behind why Moses Pingry's wife, Abigail Morse Hendrick Pengry, left for Carolina before him and what became of their daughter, Abigail Pengry.

 

As noted earlier, I suspect that Abigail went with John Hendrick and Dorothy Hendrick Webb, her children by John Hendrick (1648-before 1694).

 

Moses Pingy probably stayed behind in Ipswich (will of 1699 mentions his wife in Carolina and he is bound for Carolina) to tidy up his business affairs and estate/property questions for his children who remained behind.

 

So far, I can find nothing on Moses or Abigail Pengry here, but lots on her children John Hendrick and Dorothy Webb. The group of 52 who came in the fall of 1696 were shipwrecked at Cape Fear and only one child was lost on the trip (sickness or shipwreck??).  This child could very well have been Abigail Pengry.

 

Additionally, Abigail Morse, Hendrick Pengry's mother was the Elizabeth Morse tried for witchcraft in 1679 at Newbury.

Butch//

From:              Waring Hills <wwhills@yahoo.com>

Date: Tu esday, December 15, 1998 7.30 PM

Subject: Rev. Job Parker

 

Seasons Greetings,

Does anyone have anything on Rev. Job Parker, possibly of Haverhill/Newbury. He would have been born late 17th century or early 18th century and died at Wappetaw, Charleston, SC, Oct. 1735.

 

Butch Hills

Mt. Pleasant, SC//

 

To:                             <bwl@ma.ultranet.com>

Sent:                        Monday, January 31, 2000 10:22 AM

Subject:                  Dorchester Settlment in SC info enroute

 

Hi Bruce,

 

I have a packet of info for you regarding the Dorchester Settlement here in SC. I found quite a bit of information, most of it from the "South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine." I have indicated the Volume numbers for you in the top left corner. Some of it is repetitive, but you never know when you might find that one little piece of info you can use.

Other sources include "The History of South Carolina" by Dr. Edward McCrady; and "Dorchester County, South Carolina" by Legare Walker.

 

In the SCHGM, I found some letters written by the Reverend Joseph Lord. I thought you might like copies of them. I always like to see things actually written by my ancestors. You can tell much about the personality of the writer by viewing his own words.

 

Butch (Waring) Hills suggested that I contact Mr. Dan Bell, an  archaeologist at the Dorchester site, to see what additional info I can find.

I went out there Friday and snapped some photos, but I'm uncertain how they will turn out as it was gloomy and wet. I did see an interesting display regarding the early settlement. I didn't even attempt taking photos as it was encased in glass and I felt certain the flash would reflect. I'll ask Mr. Bell if he would open the case and allow me to photograph the display one day soon.

 

Chris Brooks and Butch Hills will be receiving identical packets to yours. If you would be good enough to see that any other interested parties get copies, I would be grateful. I hope this information is useful to you. I'll be back in touch with you once I have seen Mr. Bell.

 

Regards,

 

Pamela Rhett Molzan Charleston, SC

pilgrimpim@aol.com