In response to the question of land grants in South (and North) Carolina. It was because of the act allowing bounty Land passed on July 25, 1761. This act was to settle the land and was mainly advertised in Irteland and England. It allowed 100 acres of land for each head of household and 50 acres for a spouse and each child. An account of over 1000 Scotch-Irish in Jean Stephenson's book "Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772. Excerts of this book and a lot of other information are availible on a Broderbund CD #517 from Family Tree Maker. It is on Early South Carolina Settlers 1600s-1800s. I had two family lines cross with the Rev. William Martin in 1772.One line settled in York county and their GGreatgrandaughter married the Greatgrandson of the one who settled on Fishing Creek in Chester county.Both men served in the American Revolution. This CD will only work in conjunction with the Family Tree Maker software for genealogy. Glen Stevenson Holmen, WI