>> I was browsing through the USGENWEB archives and happened across this >> reference to Benjamin Arendell. >> >> -------------------------------------- >> http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/special/afas/volume2/vol2no2. >> txt >> >> >> THE ARNOLD FAMILY ASSOCIATION OF THE SOUTH >> Volume II Winter Quarterly Number 2 November 1971 >> 58 >> REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS > > Page 5 "I sign the within contents to Timothy Rives for value Rec¹d. this > 1st Day of April 1786. > Benjamin Arnold > > No. 330, Book X" > Editor¹s Note: Cf. p. 27, 1790 Heads of Families, South Carolina -- three > names in a row: Timothy Reeves, Thomas Taylor, James Taylor. They lived in > Camden District, Richland County. Cf. p. 64 this issue, for 1790 census > records of Benjamin Arendall who, in spite of the spelling of his name as > ARNOLD in some of the five pages above, is the selfsame Revolutionary > patriot. He is also the identical person who signed the Revolutionary > "Association for Public Defense" (District East of the Wateree). This is > referred to as the Fredericksburg Declaration of Rights by Mr. Andrea. > Fredericksburg Township was situated in Craven County in Camden District, > District of the Parish of St. Mark. It is now in parts of present counties of > Kershaw and Sumter. Soon after the Battle of Lexington, 19 April 1775, the men > met at the Pariah Chapel of Ease and made a strong protest against the British > and in favor of Independence of the Province of South Carolina. Here he signed > his name as Benjamin Arendall. He is also the person referred to in the > History of Maries County, Missouri by Everett Marshall King, p. 821, a copy of > which was sent to us by our member, Jeanette Osteen: "Joseph Jones Arendall, > born in Kentucky, 22 March 1812, and died in Miller County, Missouri, 2 > December 1883. He is claimed to have descended from Lord Arendall of England > and his more immediate ancestor was probably Benjamin Arendall who lived in > Cheraw District, South Carolina in 1790." (Mary Eleanor Wood, Spartanburg, > South Carolina, found this Benjamin Arendell among those who petitioned for a > German Protestant Church, called Bethany on Greene Creek, Richland County, > Camden District (10th Church to petition for Church in 1788): Charles > Binnicher, Casper Coon, Jacob Faust, John Faust, George Frederick Hoch, > Juctice Keller, Harry Dansar, Godfrig Cromer, Gaspar Bush, Benjamin Arendall, > Ulrich Beard, Lucas Price, Daniel Faust, Peter Danser, Caspar Faust, Jr.)