Or, Subtitled: “The back parts of this Province will ſoon be better ſettled than ever, abundance of people coming daily from the northward”
I ended my penultimate posting saying, “In my next posting, I’ll discuss the problem of determining what became of Samuel Kerr elder and wife Margaret Pickens after they acquired land on the northwest fork of Long Cane by October 1762 — as I have concluded was the case — and after they apparently settled on that land.”
Then it occurred to me I hadn’t done enough to explain how confusion about the identity of Samuel and Margaret Kerr’s son William has caused some researchers to cast doubt on the conclusion that Samuel and Margaret’s son Samuel came with his parents to the Long Cane settlement (as their son William also did) and married Mary Calhoun there about 1764. So I devoted another posting, my previous one, to an examination of that issue and an extended discussion of how the 9 September 1795 Abbeville District, South Carolina, will of William Kerr naming Mary Kerr as his sister-in-law helps to tie the family of Samuel and Margaret Kerr together with several other Kerrs who arrived from Augusta County, Virginia, on the northwest fork of Long Cane close to the time that Samuel and Margaret came there.[1]
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 