The 1825 Mills Atlas shows only one Panther Creek, and it's in Marlboro Co in the Cheraws District. Go north up Rte. 38 from Bennettsville to the NC state line. Panther Creek enters from NC where the road crosses the state line, runs ESE for a bit over 2 miles before Boggy Branch joins it from the NW, then it enters Beaverdam Creek another mile SE from there. Beaverdam runs NE into Gum Swamp, after which it becomes the Little Pee Dee River. If you're just southwest of the NE corner of Marlboro Co at the NC border, you should be pretty close: there's only ~3 miles of Panther Creek within SC. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Matthews" <dialzero@bellsouth.net> To: <sc-genealogy-l@rootsweb.com> Cc: <scedgefi-l@rootsweb.com>; <scbarnwe-l@rootsweb.com>; <scaiken-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [SCEDGEFI] Reading plats > The plats you find in SC for this time period are going to be from the > metes > and bounds system. The numbers, ie. 63.46.20, are going to be chains (66 > feet or 4 poles) / poles (16.5 feet or 25 links) / links (7.92 inches). > Without some existing geographical marker (ie. a waterway or a big rock > etc.) I don't know if you are going to have any success in knowing EXACTLY > where the plat is. If the reference to Panther Creek is drawn precisely > enough you should be able to get pretty close. The tree markers obviously > won't be of much use since those are most likely long gone. > > What software are you using to plot the land? There are packages out > there > that plot metes and bounds. > > Regards > Greg Matthews > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carolyn Brown" <cpink@flash.net> > To: <sc-genealogy-l@rootsweb.com> > Cc: <scedgefi-l@rootsweb.com>; <scbarnwe-l@rootsweb.com>; > <scaiken-l@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 6:04 PM > Subject: [SCEDGEFI] Reading plats > > >> Can anyone out there help me a bit reading the old plats from the late >> 1700's in Cheraw Dist, SC? I have similar ones in Edgefiedl and Barnwell. >> >> They are drawn with references such as NE 63.46.20 on one boundry line, >> SE 47.23 on the next, SW 41.25 next, SE 49.40 next, SW 82.28, NW >> 80.12.34, >> SW 85.30 and lastly SW 25.33. >> >> This is an odly shaped plat of 207 Acres. Below that is says 206 and >> something I can't read at all. Corners are a black circle with Pine 3x0 >> or >> Post Oak 3x0, etc. Other trees are marked, such at the edge of Panther >> Creek. >> >> No where do I see a distance. I tried plotting that with the plotting >> software, but didn't get the same form. Sort of but one line didn't go >> right at all. Are the NE 63.46.20 type notations degrees and minutes? Or >> is something else included there. >> >> All help appreciated. I have several plots I need to locate and the >> landmarks aren't enough. Perhaps I will have to expand my number of >> plats. >> Someone posted a link the other day to a site showing lots of Old Ninety >> 6 >> plats. I accidentally deleated that. Could someone send it again. >> >> Thanks, >> Carolyn Brown