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Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] Check out R1B1C7 Ashley/Duncan Connection in BarnwellCo. SC
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:12:58 EDT

_History - Early Days_ (http://www.williston-sc.com/Intern/H3EarlyDays.htm)

_History - Early Days_ (http://www.williston-sc.com/Intern/H3EarlyDays.htm)
Note the two separate Ashley/Duncan references. quote
"The house was spared by William Sherman because a woman and sick child were
resting in a bedroom upstairs" The Ashley's and Duncan's Plantation's must
have been really close
G. Ashley
Do the names Joseph West, Dr. Henry Woodward, and Lord Ashley sound familiar
to you? They should, for Joseph West had commanded three English ships that
left England in order to establish a province less than one hundred miles
from here. History tells us that upon arrival these early settlers happened upon
Dr. Woodward, who had miraculously escaped from the Spaniards. The
West-Woodward party landed on the western side of the Ashley River in April, 1670.


Joshua Ashley (1791-1869), came to this area from Virginia. He bought a
great deal of property and farmed extensively. His holdings included the Goose
Pond tract which he purchased in 1833. It was here that the picnics, barbecues
and horse races took place. These events often attracted statewide interest.
The Ashley cemetery is located about three miles from Williston on the road
to Barnwell, just across from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson Bates.
_History_ (http://www.williston-sc.com/Intern/H1History.htm)
During the Civil War Union forces under Sherman made a concerted effort to
cut and then destroy the rail line, which was an important supply route from
the interior to Charleston. On February 8, 1865, Major-General Kilpatrick, the
commander of the Union Cavalry, reached Williston. He set up a headquarters
in the Ashley-Chapman House and, pushing on, fought a sharp skirmish with
Confederate forces guarding the rail line two miles west of the center of town
near White Pond. Units of the First Alabama Cavalry were badly routed and a
number of baffle flags captured.
Over the next several days successive Union forces moved into and through
Williston on their way to Columbia tearing up the railroad ties and track in
their wake. Much of the town was burned as they left, with only the
Ashley-Chapman house and a nearby house where a woman had just given birth spared.
Sherman’s comments on the matter were “we don’t burn occupied houses, but if
people vacate their own houses I don’t think they should expect us to protect
them." Kilpatrick is reputed to have said that when he got through, Barnwell
County would have to be renamed "Burn well." Many honored dead from the war are
buried in the town cemetery


Our contributing genealogist, Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson's Site
_http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dobson_
(http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dobson)
_Duncans in Barnwell Co. SC_
(http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dobson/sc/scbarnwe.htm)
Duncan was a lineal and most direct heir of the "Jennings Estate." His
mother being a Miss Jennings of England. His father was a Scotchman, a lineal
descendant of Lord Duncan (King Duncan).
MAD: This family is also included in "The Carmichael Clan, Westbrook and
Allied Families" compiled by Mrs. Opal Carmichael Phoenix, 1963 (FHL book
929.273 C212p) and on pages 188-190 in "TN Records: Bible Records & Marriage Bonds"
by Jeannette Tillotson Acklen, ca 1933 (FHL book 976.8 D2aj and FHL films
823,813 item 4 and 164,696)
Possible Duncan connection for Ashley family: Joseph Duncan born ca 1747,
married Hannah Jennings in 1785 in Fauquier Co. VA, to Barnwell Co. SC by
1787, died 1823 in 67th year of his life. - Said to have married first? to Sarah
Fletcher in 1767 and second? to Hannah Freeman in 1771, both Fauquier Co. VA
from Family Group Sheets filed with LDS church, but not proven. This Joseph
cannot be the son of Marshall Duncan the Elder, whose son Joseph was in Rowan
Co. NC in 1768 on the tax list, and was later in Warren Co. KY with a wife
Susannah. OR there may be an unidentified Duncan connection in Jackson Co. AL.

Plantation Information
* Location – Barnwell County
* Origin of name – Named for Duncan's ancestral home in Scotland
Present Owner (XPres) George Herbert Walker (1930).
* Other names – Melrose
* Current status –

Timeline
* ? – Earliest known date of existence
* 1835 – House built
The house was spared by William Sherman because a woman and sick child were
resting in a bedroom upstairs.

Land
* Number of acres –
* Primary crop –

Owners
* Alphabetical list – Duncan; Easterling; Harley; Thomas S. "Sandy" and
Suzanne Wilson McMillan (1952); George Herbert Walker (1930).




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