14 Feb 1919: My fathers youngest brother Wm. Jasper Faris b. 1840 d. last Sunday. Also the dau. of my father's oldest 1/2 brother, Miles Faris b. 1809 and Mary Ann Hutchinson b. 1838. She said repeatedly that James and mary were 1st cousins. She was grown when they died and knew them intimately. Your James to S.C. -- from Va. as he claimed -- must have been as early as 1755 (see note). If true, one of very earliest settlers. The Waxhaws is recorded as having been the earliest settlement in upper S.C. in 1755. Charlotte, the oldest town -- 18 miles -- had only 20 houses in the Revolution. York -- 10 miles -- die not exist until 1782. (note: The first settlers in the Waxhaws of Lancaster County came in 1751. There is no land record there for a Faris.)