Joseph Cameron, Jr.

Camerons in the Race and Slavery Petitions Project:

PAR Number 21382235
State: South Carolina Year: 1822
Location: Fairfield  District

"Abstract: Joseph Cameron Jr. contends that his grandfather, Joseph Sr., left him a slave named Bristol in his will. He notes that, since many of the slaves left in the Cameron estate showed a "disposition to elope," Bristol was placed with Cameron Jr.'s father, John...[who] in turn, died... ."

Adjoining Cameron Cowpens

Source

Land grants and surveys, v. A-C 1784-1788 (Greenville, South Carolina)

...being above the Indian boundary on the grove adjoining Cameron Cowpens....

Also see survey/grant/deed on the same page here.

Cross-posted at In Deeds

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]

Cross-posted at Detour Through History

Cameron's Cowpens In South Carolina

Source  

*Land designated for Alexander Cameron, Indian Agent....

From Greenville: The History...By Archie Vernon Huff:

*"...Indian boundary to the east to the Saluda River and included all but the upper reaches of Golden Grove Creek."

"When Judge Henry Pendleton purchased a tract on Golden Grove Creek in 1784, the land was designated 'Camerons Cowpens.'"

Source
Land grants and surveys, v. A-C 1784-1788 (Greenville, South Carolina)

Source

Land grants and surveys, v. A-C 1784-1788 (Greenville, South Carolina)

21 May 1784

Note: Cross-posted at In Deeds

Alexander Cameron, British Agent Among The Cherokee

 From an 1811 "History of Georgia..."

Coastal Area

Patrick Calhoun Sent To Capture Alexander Cameron

Colonial Families of the United States...

Patrick Calhoun's Memorial at FindAGrave.

Alexander Cameron At Fort Prince George

A Map of the lands ceded by the Cherokee Indians to the State of South-Carolina... (LOC)

"Stuart, who likely had observed [Alexander] Cameron serving at Fort Prince George during the Cherokee War of 1759-1761...". [Source]

Cameron In The History Of Georgia

From The History of Georgia:

"Taking advantage of the unsettled condition of affairs and hearkening to the advice and the bribes of royal agents the Cherokees in violation of established treaties began depredating upon the frontiers of Georgia and the Carolinas. To these lawless and bloody acts were they largely incited by Captain Stuart his majesty's superintendent of Indian affairs in the Southern Department and by Mr. Cameron, his assistant."

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] 


Cross-posted at Detour Through History

Alexander Cameron At Keowee

See (Where Alexander Cameron Sent His Letter) at my In Deeds blog:

Source [Page 210]

Search At The South Carolina Archives

Search screen at the South Carolina Archives for Revolutionary War Claims:

Cameron, Alexander

Plat for 50 Acres

Craven County

South Carolina [abolished in 1768]

Alexander Cameron's Land Grant In Craven County

 

Source was the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (online).

Series: S213019 Volume: 0041 Page: 00099 Item: 000 Date: 6/26/1736 Description: ...50 ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY Names indexed: CAMERON, ALEXANDER Locations: Craven County Document type: Land Grant

Bartram And Alexander Cameron

A Scene In South Carolina

Timeline of William Bartram:
1775
May 10, left Fort James and crossed the Savannah River near Calhoun Falls. He traveled through Abbeville County and lodged with Alexander Cameron for several days.

Source

Robert Dews To Alexander Cameron

As seen at the website, My Southern Family:

From Colonial Office Records (, Vol 80) in Public Records Office, London U. K.
Transcribed from microfilm copy in Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. by Jerry L Clark

Letter dated April 9, 1779
Ustenalla Town
Robert Dews to Alexander Cameron:

NOTES: 

Robert Dews = Robert Due (grandfather of Diana Rogers, Cherokee wife of Sam Houston) 

Alexander Cameron = British Agent to Cherokees since 1868; he had at least 3 mixed-blood children. [John] McDonald, [Walter] Scott, [Nathaniel] Hicks, and Anthony Foreman are my ancestors [Jerry Clark]. 

Alexander Cameron's Letter To Price

From The manuscripts of the Earl of Dartmouth:


, March 16 and 27. Toquo — -With note by G. P[rice].
" Mr. Tinkler will certainly run a great risk if ever he comes to this quarter, and particularly if Rum should be in the way."

Endorsed . — Extracts from Mr. Cameron's letters to Mr. Price, sent March 16th, 1765, to Captain Cochran at Charlestown (about a design to kill all the white people in the Cherokee country, and about the French prisoners.)

Note. — Mr. Cameron was commissary for Indian affairs. Ensign Price, 60th Regiment, was commanding officer at Fort Prince George, South Carolina. 

Loyalists In Sabine's Book

Biographical sketches of loyalists of the American Revolution ..., Volume 2  By Lorenzo Sabine:

Alexander Cameron's Will

Note: Cross-posted at Detour Through History

Alexander Cameron's Will

Savannah, Georgia, Visitor's Center
Alexander Cameron's Will Was Written In Savannah

"...Alexander Cameron of the province of Georgia, Esquire, do make my last will and Testament....".

Son, George Cameron
*Susannah Cameron, oldest daughter
Joaney/Jeany/Jane Cameron, youngest daughter
Molly Grafton/Stratton?, for faithful service
Slaves James and Delia
Cousin Donald Cameron, one half of my plantation in South Carolina called Lochaber
Nephew Alexander Cameron, the other half  "    "
Bequeath to nephew Alexander Cameron, Man named Will
Bequeath to Margery Cameron, living in Argyleshire...my sister
"  unto Duncan Cameron plantation...upon Saludy River in South Carolina...first granted to Charles ?...
Bequeath to Charles Taylor...
...lands...in West Florida...
....establishing a fund for Molly Stratton...widow....

Appoint William Oglivy, Charles Shaw, Duncan Cameron and Donald Cameron to be executors...

Excerpt From Alexander Cameron's Will
Heirs' Names Included

Will written in Savannah, Georgia

24th Dec 1781

Witnesses: John McGillivray, John McIntosh, Ferg. Bethune [Farquhar Bethune]

March 1872 witnesses swore that they were present and Donald Cameron was qualified to be executor and oath taken [James Wright]


*Susannah Cameron m. Dr. Guerineau

Transaction Between Cameron And Baker In SC

From South Carolina Estate Inventories and Bills of Sale at Fold3 (Index):

Fold3 also had the document (Page 240) of the transaction between Alexander Cameron and Joseph Baker (excerpt below):

Cameron Platted In Fairfield County, South Carolina

South Carolina In The Capital City

Alexander Cameron (and other Camerons) on this website by Ken Shelton who has platted land in Fairfield County, South Carolina (a name from the Table View at the website):


Alexander Cameron 100 acres on south branch of Little River Thomas Holsey 96.1a

John Cameron's Estate In Abbeville

South Carolina Probate Re... Bound Volumes, Abbeville Wills, 1787-1815, Vol. 01:

Image 35

7 April 1789

Administration of John Cameron Estate

...was granted to Alexander Cameron.....

Extracts of Cameron transactions in Abbeville found here.