Janelle, I do not know of a Web site for Covenanters but I thought you might like an article I did for my local history column, Nearby History, done for the York Observer, a supplement of the Charlotte (NC) Observer. REV. WILLIAM MARTIN AND THE COVENANTERS By Louise pettus During the late colonial period Protestant immigrants of good character were recruited as settlers for the South Carolina upcountry. It was cheaper to pay passage for settlers than it was to keep soldiers stationed in the area to guard against Indian attacks on the low country. Land grants of 100 acres for the head of the family and 50 additional acres for each member guaranteed a steady stream of newcomers, especially land-poor Scotch-Irishmen. A majority of the Protestants who came into York, Lancaster and Chester counties were members of four Presbyterian sects known by various names such as Covenanters, Associates and Old Seceders. They varied in their interpretation of Presbyterian doctrines but shared a mutual dislike of anything English. In 1772 the Rev. William Martin brought 180 settlers to Charleston from north Ireland in a ship called Don Luce. Martin, a native Scotsman, would have liked to keep his group together but the system for alloting lands did not accomodate such colonies. Martin¹s Covenanters were scattered from Camden to Mecklenburg County and west as far as Spartanburg. However, many Covenanters, including Reverend Martin, received grants on Rocky Creek in present-day Chester County. Martin was the first Covenanter minister in the area when he took up his 400-acre grant. He added 240 acres by purchase from William Stroud on Big Rocky Creek, making his total acreage one mile square. There, Martin built a rock house and a rock spring-house. Martin¹s house was two miles east of Catholic Presbyterian Church which had been built as a meeting house in 1759. Eventually, Martin was to become minister at Catholic and to be dismissed from the church because he was intemperate in drink. When the Revolutionary War broke out, Reverend Martin was what the church historian, Dr. George Howe, called a ³warm Whig.² Martin¹s thundering sermons against the British became known as ³Blast of the Trumpet.² To the British, Martin was a major inciter of insurrection and there was soon a price on his head. Charleston fell to the British in May 1880. British troops spread over the state. Within a month, 51-year-old Reverend Martin lay in chains in Camden jail. A church he had built, Covenanter Meeting House, was burned by by the British. After six months in jail Martin was brought before Lord Cornwallis, general of all British forces in South Carolina, at his headquarters in Winnsboro. According to Howe, Martin, a tall, large man, faced the charge of rebellion ³erect, with his gray locks uncovered, his eyes fixed on his lordship.² There was no apology. Martin stated that theDeclaration of Independence was merely a statement of what his religion had always maintained. Cornwallis was so impressed by the man that he released him. In spite of his excessive drinking, Martin lived until 1807 but some years before, ten of his neighbors testified in court, he had lost his good sense. Proof of the charges was found in Martin¹s will. His widow was his third wife, Susannah Boggs. In a confused fashion, Martin wrote that he was leaving Susannah ³the sum of fifty dollars and it is also my will she is to keep the mare I gave her, at the judgment of men, at seventy dollars, and also twenty-one dollars she lifted from Col. Senfe of my money.² A daughter had married John McCaw of York County but she was preceased her father. There are no known descendants of the Covenanter minister who is said to have caused more than 1,000 poor Scotch-Irishmen to come to America. The Covenanters, minus their leader, either drifted away from Chester or joined the Associate Reformed Presbyterians. One group, opposed to slavery, went to Ohio where they established the only surviving Covenant church.