Folks, I am enclosing a recent note from another list regarding settlers of Kingstree, Craven Co (current Williamsburg Co) SC. It may help in the future to shed some light on the origins of David Fulton who obtained a land warrant in 1731 in Kingstree, Craven Co, SC. Notice that the Seawrights came from Londonderry, Northern Ireland to Kingstree, SC about 1730, which may have preceded the orgainized settlement of Kingstree by the land agents advertising in Northern Ireland starting ca. 1732. Pat Stark has provided more discussion of David Fulton in the Fulton Family newsletter 1992 starting on page 75 and on this forum that explains how the descendants of this David Fulton are found at Midway, Liberty Co., GA, (1760-1820) and Maury Co., TN, (1803-1830) with later generations moving to Alabama. Finding out more about the Rev. John Baxter and his "band of Presbyterians" may help us to resolve David Fulton's origins. Roberta R. (Fulton) Hirth Harriman, New York, 10926 FULTON web page at: http://www.frontiernet.net/~elisa96/hirth/fulton.htm ********************************************************************************* Subject: SEAWRIGHT Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:47:29 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:45:34 EDT From: KateTX@aol.com To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com Hi, According to Billy Kennedy's "The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas," The Seawrights - This Londonderry family first reached South Carolina about 1730 and settled at Kingstree in the Williamsburg county. William Seawright and his wife Esther Thompson and family had arrived in Charleston with a band of Presbyterians led by the Rev John Baxter. Other Seawrights landed in Pennsylvania and migrated into Virginia and then to South Carolina. The various sections of the family received land grants at Camden County and members distinguished themselves as doctors, ministers, teachers, builders and farmers. Brothers Andrew and Samuel Seawright, arrived at Charleston with their families in a party of 50 and within a short time they had acquired 1,150 acres at Boonesborough township in the Long Cane area close to Abbeville. Andrew was killed in the Revolutionary War and two of his grandchildren froze to death hiding from (Tory) loyalists in the cane brakes. Katy