BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

In a posting I just uploaded, I told readers of this blog that I recently found the original plat for John Green’s survey of 838 acres on the Keowee River in Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1793. That plat is in the Lawrence Family Papers in Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (box 1, mss 114). The posting I linked at the start of this paragraph explains the process of transmission that, I think, caused the original plat issued to John Green in 1793 to end up in the hands of the Lawrence family who lived next to John and Jane Green in Pendleton District.