Hi Jim and Louise, Thats right abt the Catawba. My 6th gr grandfather was Jonnathon Barrett who lived with and like the Catawba Indians and was so well liked that Chief or king Haigler gave his dau. Jarmon "Jarfly" Haigler to Jonathon for a wife. They had Abel and Bathsheba Barrett who mar. Samuel Oxford and their dau Bathsheba Oxford mar Jacob Byler 11 who had a powder mill ansd it blew up killing him and several others. Jonnathon lived at the foot of a Mt and therefor the Mt became known as Barrett's Mt. along or close to the Catawba River in 1700's. Maybe you have heard of some of these people in your looking for imfo about this area. My Barnett also ended up mar to a direct line descendant of Jonnathon Barret and these Barnett's came from York Co S C My5th gr grandfather was Thomas barnett b av bt 1767 in York Co SC and he and his wife are bur. in the Bethel Church yard Cem there in York Co by the Bethel Church. They d in early befor I think 1850's. When the Catawba's fought the other Indians the white people took the Catawba women and children to Va for safety and when their fight was over then most went back to Va . Jarman died and Jonathon then mar. Elizabeth Henderson. Just thought you would like to add to more to your research, or maybe some of this you have seen. Descendat, Maxine Baldwin in Roy, Wa [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Louise Pettus <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [SCYORK-L] Indianland >Jim, >You have Indian Land confused--there are two Indian >Lands: >(1) is the community in Lancaster County that Hwy 521 >runs through from the NC line below Pineville down to a >point almost to the Andrew Jackson State Park (you said >it was in York County, this community isn't). >(2) historically there was the Catawba Indian Land which >was an area designated by the Treaty of Augusta in 1763 >(at end of French and Indian Wars) as a reservation for >the Catawba Indians. It was an area of 144,000 acres or >approximately 15 miles square and was ended by the >Nation Ford Treaty of 1840. In today's terms that Catawba >Indian Land took in much of the Lancaster County present- >day Indian Land but not all (not the communnity of Osceola >which is below Twelve Mile Creek and is a part of Indian >Land township). In York County the Catawba Indian Land >encompassed all of present-day Fort Mill township and >then westward of the Catawba River in a way that is hard >to define but if you look at Tega Cay in Fort Mill township >on a map and draw an imaginary line southwestward and >do a right angle that takes you between Rock Hill and >McConnells and go straight on dipping a half mile south >of the York-Chester County line and right angle that >toward the east on the York County side to go to the Catawba >river directly opposite where Twelve Mile Creek empties >into the Catawba on the east side (just barely north of >the Borel Brick Plant at Van Wyck) then you have drawn >a rough map of the Catawba Indian Land. There was a long >suit between the Catawba Indians that began in the 1970s >and ended in 1993 in which the Catawbas claimed the >pre-1840 Indian Land on the basis that SC never lived >up to the terms of the Nation Ford Treaty and never >took the treaty to the U. S. Congress to be ratified (all true). >The Catawbas finally made a cash settlement with the State >of SC. So when you hear the term Catawba Indian Land it >means something different from the Indian Land >community. >They call it Nations Ford Road in Charlotte and the street >signs of Rock Hill also say Nations Ford, but the correct >spelling is Nation Ford (correct by the SC Archives >standards for historical markers, there was a post office >called Nation Ford and the 1840 Treaty is the Nation Ford >Treaty). > >Louise Pettus >(PS: I was born in Indian Land, Lancaster County and my >family still live there.) > >Jim McDonald wrote: >> >> Indianland is a community in York County, SC which lies on Hwy 521 just >> south of Pineville, NC as you go toward Lancaster, SC. The Nations Ford >> probably refers to the crossing (ford) on the Catawba River where the >> Indians crossed the river. There is a Nations Ford Rd. which comes northward >> toward Charlotte,NC from the area around the Catawba River. Charlotte was >> built around a crossroads of Indian trails, hence there is a small community >> in the area called Inian Trail. >> Jim >