Marcie, Both references are of early day (1811 - 1820) Manchester and Camden. Scott writes of his move to Manchester when he was 9 (1812).He speaks of the families, businesses, etc. : "From Sumter we moved to Manchester on the main road from Camden to Charleston....on the Wateree River. Besides the residences, it had a tavern (inn) kept by my father, a shoe shop, tailor shop, blacksmith shop, a school house and two or three stores - the pricipal one owned by Duke Goodman who soon after went to Charleston, where he became a leading cotton factor and a Methodist exhorter.........The school house, built of logs, had a stand at the Eastern end, that served as a pulpit whenever a stray Methodist preacher happened to call and hold divine service, which was done by at least one of them in my time, who declared that he was not ashamed to be called "old bawling Jenkins". He was widely known as a zealous Christian, had been a faithful soldier in the Revolutionary War, and bore an excellent character in every respect, which together caused him to be elected doorkeeper of the Senate in his extreme old age" Scott also mentions that when he went to Manchester on his way to Salem years later the only two dwellings still standing were the house in which his family had lived and the old school house. His only mention of the Kennedys was as one of the leading families of Camden in that era. I listed the other families yesterday. Blanche