Camerons In A Book Of British Officers

British Officers Serving In America:

Alexander Cameron And The Greenville Tracts

Ca 1773 "Parker" Map - South Carolina And Cherokee Lands (LOC)

"...a series of individuals attempted to secure tracts of Greenville land while it was still beyond the [Native American] boundary.  The first of these individuals was none other than Alexander Cameron, the deputy Indian superintendent...".

Fort Prince George On A 1794 South Carolina Map (LOC)

"A Scot...[with] a commission as an ensign with the British Army, stationed at Fort Prince George (1762-1763). He settled on a land grant at Long Canes Creek in 1763...".

"He fathered a child by a Cherokee woman...chiefs offered him a tract of Greenville land in February 1768...". In 1770 the Cameron land was identified by surveyor Patrick Calhoun as 'Land reserved for an Indian Boy begotten by a White Man Alexander Cameron.'"[Source of all of the above text]

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Jonathan Clark's Affidavit

Jonathan Clark's Affidavit
South Carolina, Ninety-Six District:

"...on or about the thirteenth instant, being in the Cherokee country aforesaid, he saw and conversed with John Garwick, an intimate friend and countryman of Alexander Cameron, Deputy Superintendent...".

Ninety-Six on Map
(LOC - South-Carolina and parts adjacent, shewing the movements of the American and British armies.)

"That on this subject the said John answered that he, Jonathan, need not be under any apprehensions of danger until such time as there should be some disturbances below in the country between the King's army and the Colonists, and that then it would be high time for him, the said Jonathan, to take care of himself and remove from the frontiers." [Source] 


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