-----Original Message----- From: GAshley923@aol.com Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:12:38 EDT Subject: Ashley Barony, South Carolina 1670 To: chantillycarpets@earthlink.net Hi Susan DNA does not lie ,so we are some how we are distant cousins I see you have a great passion for genealogy, so don't be so hard on me. I can keep up you with research of the clans .Ashley is known as the Ash tree dwellers .In the south we were gone with wind I am related to the Ashley of Wilkes county Georgia thus Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the wind fiction of course on purpose .. There are several lines of Ashley's my search previously pointed out some lines have had relations with Duncan on multiplex occasions; I have been doing research on my family for over fifty years without speculation and conjecture Sorry to disappoint you on your Ashley research my line of Ashley' Owned large plantations in South Carolina 'Georgia and Florida were British subjects until England traded Florida for the Bahamas I live in Gainesville Florida rent my commercial real estate to other business by the square ft . one is a Regions Bank . I don't like to ramble on unless I have I have just cause and usually do anyway... happy hunting leave you gun home Gene _King Charles II_ (http://www.ricehope.com/history/KingCharles2.htm) issued a_ land grant_ (http://www.ricehope.com/history/LandGrants.htm) to his Lord ProprietorsCarolina, as defined by the Charters of 1663 and 1665, extended from coast to coast. North and South Carolina did not become separate colonies until about 1710. The colony was governed by representatives they appointed. Lord Ashley Cooper was the most energetic supporter of the ventureIn 1675 the Coosa Indians surrendered to the English a large tract of land which constituted Ashley Barony, and in 1682 what appears to have been a still more sweeping land cession was signed by several of the Cusabo chiefs. In 1693 there was another short war, this time between the Whites and the Stono. A body of Cusabo accompanied Colonel Barnwell in his expedition against the Tuscarora in 1711-12, and this fact may have quickened the consciences of the colonists somewhat, because in 1712 the Island of Palawana, "near the Island of St. Helena," was granted to them. It appears that most of their plantations were already upon it but it had inadvertently been granted to a white proprietor. The Cusabo here mentioned were those of the southern group; there is reason to think that the Kiawa and Coosa were not included. Early in 1720 "King Gilbert and ye Coosaboys" took part in Col. John Barnwell's punitive expedition against St. Augustine (Barnwell, 1908). In 1743 the Kiawa were given a grant of land south of the Combahee River, probably to be near the other coast Indians. Part of the Coosa may have retired to the Catawba, since Adair (1930) mentions "Coosah" as one of the dialects spoken in the "Catawba Nation," but others probably went to the Creeks. At least one band of Cusabo may have gone to Florida, because, in "A List of New Indian Missions in the Vicinity of St. Augustine," dated December 1, 1726, there is mention of a mission of San Antonio "of the Cosapuya nation and other Indians" containing 43 recently converted Christians and 12 pagans.