Hi, Brenda. I apologize for giving you incorrect information in my previous message about a 1773 purchase of 300 acres by James Benson from Samuel Young. The purchaser was a different James Benson, a member of the Spartanburg Co SC family--not the James Benson of Union Co SC. The deed abstracts confused me because there were a lot of different Anson Co NC grants to Samuel Young and to John Gordon, and a lot of different waterways called Little River at different times. However, there was only one NC grant to a Thomas Timmons by 1754, and I know where that one was. It's on the south fork of Tyger River (apparently called Little River in the 1750's, at least in NC), west of I-85, and south of the town of Wellford SC in western Spartanburg Co. The Fort Prince historic site was described as "near Timmons Old Field", which adjoined the land purchased by that other James Benson. Your James Benson of Union Co owned a 300-acre tract in addition to his 100-acre grant. The SC provincial and state deeds through 1788 do not include a record of the purchase. If he bought land from the state of SC, there is no longer a record of the plat. James Benson Jr. inherited that particular land, and must have sold it before leaving for Ohio in 1805. The record of that sale would be in the Union Co deed books, and should describe its location and its chain-of-title. Harriet