Benjamin Harper

Notes:

IMMIGRATION RECORDS

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Charles Town, South Carolina; Year: 1767; Page Number: 93

Name: Benjamin Harper
Birth Year: abt 1737
Arrival Year: 1767
Arrival Place: Charles Town, South Carolina
Age: 30
Source Publication Code: 7343
Primary Immigrant: Harper, Benjamin
Annotation: From the Journals of the Council of the Colony of South Carolina. Names and land allotments under the Bounty Act of 1761.

Source Bibliography: REVILL, JANIE. A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773. Columbia [S.C.]: State Co., 1939. 163p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1981.
Page: 93

Arrival Date: December, 1767
Ship: The Earl of Donegal
Shipmaster: Duncan Ferguson
Listed on the ship included:
Benjamin Harper, age 30
Martha Harper, age 24, his wife
William Harper, age 4, his son

As well as his father, mother, brothers, and sisters:
William Harper, age 63
Margaret, age 56, his wife
John Harper, age 14, his son
Jane Harper, age 11, his daughter

Robert Harper, age 25
Agnes, age 24, his wife
John, age 6, his son

Daniel Harper, age 21
William Harper, Jr., age 18
James, age 16

The males over age 16 made applications for land grants in Craven Co. SC, which part is now in Lancaster Co. SC.

William Harper, Sr. received 250 acres on Wild Cat Creek in Craven Co.; He was granted 100 acres for himself and 50 acres each for his wife and two youngest children, John and Jane. Each of the boys over age 16 received 100 acres in their own names for Daniel, William, Jr. and James.

CENSUS RECORDS

Name: Benjamin Harper
Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Lancaster District, South Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Number of Slaves: 4
Number of Household Members Under 16: 3
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 10

Buried:
Grave location and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Harper&GSiman=1&GScid=2131051&GRid=10224818&
Inscription: [decoration: eagle with outspread wings clutching in one claw three arrows and in the other an olive branch.]

In Memory of
BENJAMIN HARPER
who died June 12th A.D. 1801.
Aged 66 Years.
Friend, do not carelefs on thy road
O'erlook this humble fhrine;
For, if thou art a friend of God,
Here lies a friend of thine.
His clofet was a bethel fweet;
His houfe a houfe of pray'r:
In humble ftrains at Jesus' feet
He wreftled daily there.

Benjamin married Martha. Martha was born ca 1743, Ulster, Ireland; died 01 Jan 1815, Lancaster Co. SC; was buried , Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Riverside, Lancaster Co. SC. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Charles Town, South Carolina; Year: 1767; Page Number: 93

Name: William Harper
Birth Year: abt 1763
Arrival Year: 1767
Arrival Place: Charles Town, South Carolina
Age: 4
Source Publication Code: 7343
Primary Immigrant: Harper, William

Annotation: From the Journals of the Council of the Colony of South Carolina. Names and land allotments under the Bounty Act of 1761.

Source Bibliography: REVILL, JANIE. A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773. Columbia [S.C.]: State Co., 1939. 163p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1981.
Page: 93

Arrival Date: December, 1767
Ship: The Earl of Donegal
Shipmaster: Duncan Ferguson
Listed on the ship included:
Benjamin Harper, age 30
Martha Harper, age 24, his wife
William Harper, age 4, his son

Plus his grandparents, aunts, and uncles:

William Harper, age 63
Margaret, age 56, his wife
John Harper, age 14, his son
Jane Harper, age 11, his daughter

Daniel Harper, age 21
William Harper, Jr., age 18
James, age 16

Robert Harper, age 25
Agnes, age 24, his wife
John, age 6, his son