The following was forwarded to me because it contained my keywords Edgefield and SC. I have added some info. I hope will be helpful below Don's post. ___________________________________ Match: Edgefield AND SC Source: HATCHER-L@rootsweb.com From: Dhatch48@aol.com Subject: Re: [HATCHER-L] I'm SO excited! Cousin Nel and all, I am one of those "SC Hatchers". I would be happy to help in the research but presently I reside in California and, unfortunately, not able to get to those places necessary to do this research. I will be retiring in approximately one year and moving back to Aiken County, SC, and at that time will be able to do this. I would like to add that what used to be Edgefield District was carved up in late 1800's into Edgefield, Aiken, and Barnwell Counties. John Hatcher, Sr (son of Benjamin Hatcher, Sr) came to the Edgefield District, SC, from VA, and apparently settled near what is now the Edgefield/Aiken County line area. Shaws Creek is in Aiken County and "Hatchers Pond" was in the same area. One can find Hatchers Pond on old circa 1800's SC maps. Don H. ____________________________ Additions by Billie Jones To Add a little and make a bit of a correction to what Don says about the area. Don states "I would like to add that what used to be Edgefield District was carved up in late 1800's into Edgefield, Aiken, and Barnwell Counties" , but that is not quite right. 1769-1784 Old Ninety Six Dist and Orangeburg Dist. included the areas that he mentions before. Barnwell dist was never in the Old Ninety Six dist or a part of Edgefield Dist, but was in the Orangburg Dist when it was formed in 1800. 1785, The Dist. were divided into 20 Counties within 7 districts. Edgefield was in Old Ninety Six and Winton Co., which later would be Barnwell Dist was in Orangeburg Dist. 1791 - Edgefield Dist. now contains large cos. of Abbeville, Edgefield, Newberry, and Laurens Co. (Laurens and Newberry were the same from now on.) 1800 - Barnwell Dist. formed from part of the old Orangeburg Dist. (looks like most if not all of the Winton co. that formed in 1785. 1871 - Aiken Co formed from part of sourthern Edgefield and part of Northern Barnwell. The area of Shaws Creek would now be in Aiken Co.and Edgefield Co. as the line divided the Shaws Dist. in half. [In an 1871 map by Isaac Boles that was drawn prior to the formation of Aiken co, there are household listed on the map. I found no Hatchers listed in the Edgefield area. I also realize that the area east of the Edisto River on that map was in Lexington Co. so you might want to check there as well for your Hatchers. It was formed in 1804 from the Old Orangeburg Dist.] 1895 - Saluda Co. formed from NE part of Edgefield 1897 - Greenwood Co. formed from part of Edgefield, and Abbeville Cos. Bamberg formed from part of Barnwell Co. 1916 - McCormick Co was formed from SW part of Abbeville and the NW portion of Edgefield. 1919 - Allendale Co., last county to emerge, was formed from part of Barnwell and Hamption Co. Source: "The Formation of Counties in SC", Michael Stauffer, SC Dept of Archives and History. There is of course a lot more info. on other counties in the book, but I only mentioned those that seemed to be of interest to those wondering about Edgefield, Aiken and Barnwell Cos. So... if you are looking for Shaws Creek, it depends on the time table. I think it would be in southern Edgefield and into a part of northern Barnwell after 1871 and then in either Edgefield or Aiken Cos. From my present Aiken Co. DOT map, Shaws Creek empties into the South fork of the Edisto River, about 3/4 of the way down from the Edgefield Co. line, and does not flow into present day Barnwell. But it probably would have entered Barnwell Co. from 1800 - 1871. A wonderful site that shows the evolution of counties beginning with formation of the Proprietary Countis in 1682 and the location of the Parishes of the Anglican church thru today can be found on the SC GEN WEB site. I can't remember that URL, but you can get there thru www.genweb.com> click on state map > click on SC > look for a box about old Districts. I cannot remember it showing the creeks in the area. Now, for my question..... Do any of you Hatcher researchers in the area of Shaw's creek run into any Rauton/Rotton or Coursey families in your research. According to the following census record, my gg-grandparents, William S. Rauton and Elmina Burnett are found in the Shaws township in Aiken Co. in 1880. Old spelling was Rotton/ present family uses Rauton, but I have seen it spelled many ways. 1880 Aiken County, SC Census, Shaws Township, p. 253 gives the following information on William and his family. William Ruton 45 w m farmer SC SC SC Elminy 32 w f at home SC SC SC [nee BURNETT] Ida 14 w f farm hand SC SC SC attend school within the census year Henry 10 w m farm hand SC SC SC arm broken " Yancy 8 w m " " *Hildy 6 w f " (my g-grandmother m Charles Franklin Coursey.) Wm 4 w m " Charley 1 w m " Parents and daughter Ida could and write. ANY information on the above surnames would be much appreciated. Billie Jones Camden, SC tjones@camden.net