----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 8:48 PM Subject: RE: Robert Lang Indian Trader Would anyone have information on Robert Lang Indian Trader? My Robert Lang was in S. C. as early as 1737. I am trying to determine where he came from. Was he the same Robert Lang, Trader in NC? From the Early Clarks of Carolina Edward Clark Jr's immediate neighbors included many of the so called Chickasaw Indian Traders, e.g. Robert Lang, John Pace, Thomas Whitmell, etc. Who settled near Occoneechee Neck between 1713 and 1725. These traders would take Indian trail south in the late fall to the Chickasaw and Cherokee winter camps along the bluffs of the Broad River. Both Gibsons were part of the small community of Indian traders known as the "Chickasaw Traders" who between 1710 and 1730, settled along the main north/south Indian trail near where if forded the Morattock (later Roanoke) River, and area the traders named Occoneechee Neck. Chowan and Bertie Precinct land records establish that Gideon Gibson acquired land from William Maule and Robert Lang (an Indian trader) in 1721 and 1722 along the south shore of the Roanoke River adjacent to Quankey Creek. From "THE EXPANSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA" 1729-1765 by Robert L. Meriwether, 1940 Between 1736 and 1741 several English names are to be found among the Saxa Gotha plats: Robert Lang senior and junior, William Baker, Thomas Berry, Richard Myrick, and John Gibson had surveys near Savannah Hunt Creek. PAGE 55 > From "THE EXPANSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA" 1729-1765 by Robert L. Meriwether 1940 Chapter V Between 1736 and 1741 several English names are to be found among the Saxa Gotha plats: Robert Lang senior and junior, William Baker, Thomas Berry, Richard Myrick, and John Gibson had surveys near Savannah Hunt Creek. PAGE 55 Philip Raiford, Junior and James Leslie were also on Broad River by 1756. Samuel Lines went to the lower Saluda while Robert Lang senior and junior, or two men of their name, went one to the upper Saluda, the other to Crims Creek, a branch of Broad. PAGE 62 Chapter X This troop (a troop of rangers)......was provided for by the assembly in April of 1748 because of the capture of George Haig, the murder of a trader in the Cherokees, and other threats of an Indian outbreak......Within two days after receiving Glen's letter Francis (James Francis) enlisted twelve men, "All living in Saludy Settlements".. Of the twelve John Turk, Robert Lang, Charles Banks, David Ball, John Reed, and Henry Foster received warrants in the Saluda valley between 1749 and 1755,......Francis begged the governor to allow him to enlist two more white men in place of the Indians,(each troop had two friendly Indians) and gave a hint of the occupation of his neighbors by saying that "As for their usefulness in hunting provision...I question whether e'er an Indian on the main can compare with some of the men in listed, not only in killing provisions or the like but any other property that an Indian is adapted to," PAGE 119 Charles Banks was also from the northward and formerly in the Cherokee trade. Robert Lang and his father had land in Saxa Gotha by 1740 and at some time one or both of them probably were also traders. PAGE 120 Chapter XI Robert Lang in 1757 asked the Commons House to pay him twenty pounds for the plundering of cattle and goods, and the burning of his house by the Cherokees. PAGE 131 Thank you for any help. Roger