This article came from a page # 14 and is incomplette in that I don't have the continued pages. Taken from Book of Gaston Co NC or SC. part with BARNETT. To men in buckskin on the edge of the wilderness, witrh plenty of land and vebnison and corn meal but acustomed to look carefully at both sides of each rare penny they possessed rent payment for lands were difficult even so. 1753, was a good yr in the number of grants allowed in the South Fork Area. WILLIAM BARNETT recieved title to lands in the Point on 31 Mar 1753. Jacob Kastner got his grant abt same time. On 30 Aug, tracts werw granted to Frederick Hambright, John and Benjamin Hardin and William Haggerty. John Armstrong, a boy volunteer during the Spanish Alarm, was old enough and solvent enough yto take up his own farm on the South Fork that same day, and James Armstrong recieved Grant on Beaver Dam Creek some miles to the west. George Rutlege , in establisjhing his claim, had to settle boundry differences with Robert Leeper. Other vexations than high rents awaites some of the Landowners. The boundry line between N C and S C had not yet been exactly agreed upon west of the Catawba, and surveyors, settlers, and officials hotly disputesd during the 1750's. The frontier farmers on both sides were called upon to pay taxes and once the Anson Co sherrif was arrested. Gov James Glenn od Sc incited the Catawba's to drive the white people out and the ernstwhile freindly Indians burned crops and killed cows and hogs. in 1743. One South Fork settler suffered in the bussiness. It was james Armstrong on Beaver Dam Creek to whose cabin door came a war party of Catawba's hot on trail of tribal enemies, theCherokees. They asked Armstrong to give them food and he gave tyhem only a small slab of corn bread. as he had warning of them coming and hastily his the rest of his food. One Indian poked around and found it and all took it and left. Several other incidenta s as such brought a investigation by N C commissioners. and they threatened the Catawba's . end of page. cont if someone out there has page 15 or so of this docunment. This was from Gaston Co Book by Gaston Co Hist. Soc. Maxine Wilton mmwaw@sprynet.com