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  1. Thomas Newman: Birth: 14 JAN 1767 in Silver Bluff, Orangeburg District, South Carolina. Death: 20 MAY 1818 in Monroe County, Alabama

  2. Jane Newman: Birth: 1768 in Silver Bluff, Orangeburg District, South Carolina. Death: BEF 1840 in Barnwell County, South Carolina

  3. John Newman: Birth: 16 OCT 1774 in Silver Bluff, Orangeburg District, South Carolina. Death: AFT 8 AUG 1807 in Barnwell District, South Carolina


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a. Note:   1765: Named in will of Uncle Alexander Shaw as son of Martha Shaw Newman. ITEM I Will and Bequeath the other one third part of my Personal Estate to my Beloved Sister Martha Newman During her natural Life & at her Demise to Her Issue John George Alexander & Susannah Newman & Ann Newman now Filput Martha Newman other wise Smith to be equally divided between them to them and their Heirs forever. April 16, 1765 ************************************* 1771: Book I, South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol XXVI, P. 122-123 April 1771: Petition of John Newman setting forth that he was settled in the Province of GA on lands purchased by him and was possessed of 4 Negroes for who he had never applied for or had any land granted him Wants 200 acres of Land bounded on Ogeeche on Lambert's Big Creek and that a grant for the same might pass to and in the name of William Hardin. Source: Governor's Council, P 309. 1778 John Newman, a Juror in Orangeburg Dist, SC "Between the South Fork of Edisto & Savannah Rivers. [ Winton Co. SC Court Minutes.] *************************************** Silver Bluff 3 April 1841 I went yesterday to Morriss Bridge on Hollow Creek to see old Jacob, the Patriarch of this region. I was surprised to see learn that he was a son of old Cofe. Old Cofe was an old negro, formerly owned (so he told me) by James Boone of Virginia, a brother of the celebrated pioneer, Daniel Boon. He came here long before the Revolution, and was old George Galphin's miller here at my mill. He said that 3 mills were burned down during his time here. He (Cofe) died on the "cold Saturday" in Feb. 1833, over 100 years old. He lived in a house of Colvin's about a mile above the mills over the Creek. Jacob was born and raised on the mill and is now near 80, he says 85. He says his master (George Galphin) ran 8 saws and 2 sets of stones on this stream before the Revolution and sold his lumber in Savannah at $8 pr M. He had 3 stones at the Bluff, and on any day 100 Indians with loads on their horses might be seen. Galphin was a famous Indian Trader. Jacob remembers a great deal of the Revolution. He was a great Whig and told me a number of incidents chiefly of Jim McCoy the Plunderer, Jacob called him a Whig and knew him and his father and brothers well. Tradition says he was a Tory. He no doubt plundered and murdered both. He was tall, light haired, grey-blue eyed, and very active. He lived in an old field on this side the Creek about a quarter of a mile below the mill, part of which I planted in cotton today. There he killed his wife. He left home in the morning for Steel Creek. That night a rifle was put through a crack at the head of her bed and her brains blown out. His rifle patch was found on the bed, tradition says. He was sent for the next day, came home and cooly attributed the murder to Joseph Ambrose, a Tory who ranged on Horse Creek. He also decoyed one Murdock from the Red House, where old John Newman lived, and asked him to ride with him. When they got on the dam here, he shot him dead. John Black was one of his men. Paddy Carr, an Irish boy named by old Galphin, was a very staunch Whig and became a Colonel. John Newman himself was killed by a Tory named Bill Conway who lay in wait for him, as he old Galphin, and P. Carr were returning from a muster at Cracker's Neck where Newman had received a Commission that day. At the first hail [of] gunfire Galphin and Carr put spurs to their horses and fled. Newman was on a mare subject to what is called studs, who refused to move. He was shot dead. His brother Alex. Newman came up soon after and was so shocked that he suffered himself to be taken. In the retreat of the Tories they shot him in the back and left him for dead, but the ball had probably rolled out of the gun as nothing but the wad struck him and he survived.... [ Secret & Sacred, The "Diaries of James Henry Hammond a Southern Slaveholder" edited by Carol Blesu, page 51 & 52] 1789: In the old "Shingle Book," Deed Bk. A-1. Barnwell, p 138, Nov. 3, 1789. Thomas Newman was appointed guardian to Jno. Newman an infant above the age14 yrs. Alexander Newman enters himself security in the sum of five hundred pounds for the faithful and legal conduct of the guardian. Prdrd that the said guardian take the property of his ward where he can find it so it be done peacibly [Winton County, South Carolina Minutes of County Court and Will Book 1 1785-1791 ] Hard copy on file ************************************************ An old deed in the possession of Miss Laura B. Jones, Columbia, S.C., Book DD page 521, concerns the conveyance of land "Known as the Crossley or McMurphy land," and names Mrs. Jane Foreman, wife of Benjamin, as "the heir of Mary Crossley." [THE BUSH FAMILY AS DESCENDED FROM JOHN AND MARY BRYAN BUSH OF NORTH CAROLINA, Elizabeth Willis DeHuff Dec.1967 Augusta, Georgia] Family Story: The Newman-Randon Bible which is said to name the wife of John Newman as Drucilla would not have come into existence until after the marriage of James Alger Newman and Elizabeth Randon on 5 October 1825. I have made mistakes about my own grandparents. So what we have are two family stories one says Drucilla and the other says Elizabeth Crossley. When Martha died, William Crossley married Rachael____. In his will dated 25 Sept. 1787, he mentions daughters Mary Crosle [sic], Anne Murphey and Susannah MacMurphey; but does not name Elizabeth Newman, who had preceded him in death It is known that John Newman and his wife died leaving three orphans: Thomas, John and Jane. Thomas Newman lived with his uncle Alexander Newman until he became of age; John Lived with his Aunt Martha Newman, wife of Stephen Smith and Jane was named in the will of her maiden aunt Mary Crossley. It is my opinion that the Thomas who was appointed guardian to Jno. Newman an infant above the age14 yrs is the elder brother of John and not his grandfather Thomas Newman who would have been an elderly man in 1789. His uncle Alexander Newman [with whom Thomas had been living until he had become of age] is posting security. ********************************************************* Page Num. 55 Colony of South Carolina Compiled by: Paul R. Sarrett, Jr. Records of 1716 to 1783 Internet: [email protected]@aol.com L Name F Name Date County St Type Township NEWALL , Thomas 1743 Colony, SC Resident Purrysburgh NEWMAN , Anthaony 1716 Colony, SC Petitioner No Twp. Listed NEWMAN , Anthony 1717 Colony, SC Petitioner No Twp Listed NEWMAN , John 1779 Colony, SC Resident Old 96th DISTRICT *****************************************


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