Gesslr@aol.com wrote: > > I found this bit of info in my paper files. It was sent to me a number of > years ago. Unfortunately I do not know the source. Does anyone out there > know where this came from? > "The settlers between the Enoree and the Tyger petitioned the SC Presbytery > on Sept. 24,1794 to be taken under its care and supplied a minister. In the > early days of the church the congregation consisted of these > families---Otterson, Dugan, Crenshaw, Gordon, Johnson, Valentine, Buford, > Caldwell, and Hamilton. Maj. Otterson and Maj. Gordon were elders." Thank > you, Sheila Hello Sheila I do not know your sorce but I do know that these families are in the book Gordons of the Deep South. Major Thomas Gordon is my direct ancestor. harold