William Pettypool^[1]

1755 - 1849  (93 years)

• Name	William Pettypool
  Birth	12 Sep 1755	, Halifax, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1782	, Halifax, Virginia, USA   [3]
  Residence	1785	, , , USA   [4]
  Residence	1790	, Caswell, North Carolina, USA   [5]
  Residence	1800	, Greenville, South Carolina, USA   [6]
  Residence	1830	, Greenville, South Carolina, USA   [7]
  Residence	1840	, Greenville, South Carolina, USA   [8]
  Death	10 Jun 1849	Locust Hill, Greenville, South Carolina, USA   [2, 9]
  Burial	Travelers Rest, Greenville, South Carolina, USA   [2, 9]
  Person ID	I41405	Master
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2020

  
  

  Father	Seth Pettypool,   b. 1730, Prince George, Prince George, Virginia, USA d. 4 Aug 1789, Oxford, Granville, North Carolina, USA (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Mary Wood,   b. 1735, Bristol Parish, Prince George, Virginia, USA d. 1789, , Granville, North Carolina, USA (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	1755	, Granville, North Carolina, USA
  Family ID	F9687	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Street,   b. 12 Sep 1755, , Granville, North Carolina, USA d. 19 Aug 1842, Locust Hill, Greenville, South Carolina, USA (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	1780
  Children	1. Seth R Pettypool,   b. 1770   d. 31 May 1821 (Age 51 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Wesley Earl Poole,   b. 1782, , , North Carolina, USA d. 1828, , , South Carolina, USA (Age 46 years)   3. William Petty Poole,   b. 1782, Sumpter, Laurens, South Carolina, USA d. 14 Jan 1854, Hallsville, Harrison, Texas, USA (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Ervin Pettypool,   b. 1782   d. 1828 (Age 46 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Rebecca Pool,   b. 1783, , Caswell, North Carolina, USA d. 16 Apr 1838 (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Martha Boswell,   b. 1784   d. 31 May 1844 (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. John Petty Pool,   b. 1785, , Greenville, South Carolina, USA d. 1 Mar 1848, , Greenville, South Carolina, USA (Age 63 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. William Pettypool,   b. 1792, , Greenville, South Carolina, USA d. 5 Dec 1858, Northport, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA (Age 66 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 9. Seth R Petty Poole,   b. 1 Feb 1795, Locust Hill, Greenville, South Carolina, USA d. 19 May 1879, Travelers Rest, Greenville, South Carolina, USA (Age 84 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F9673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2020

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 12 Sep 1755 - , Halifax, Virginia, USA Residence - 1782 - , Halifax, Virginia, USA Residence - 1785 - , , , USA Residence - 1790 - , Caswell, North Carolina, USA Residence - 1800 - , Greenville, South Carolina, USA Residence - 1830 - , Greenville, South Carolina, USA Residence - 1840 - , Greenville, South Carolina, USA Death - 10 Jun 1849 - Locust Hill, Greenville, South Carolina, USA Burial - - Travelers Rest, Greenville, South Carolina, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Some Greeneville History, Excerpted from "History of Greenville South Carolina" by James M. Richardson Chapter III, Fort Prince George Built About the year 1750, the piedmont section of South Carolina began to receive its first permanent settlers. These did not come from the coast, however, but principally from Virginia, Pennsylvania and western New York, moving down the valleys of the Alleghenies, bringing their families and all their portable property with them. They were of the crude pioneer type, having little wealth and education, and living in close touch with nature. Every family supplied itself as best it could from the soil and forests. For the most part, these new settlers were Scotch-Irish, and adhered to the Presbyterian faith in religion. Some, however, were of the sturdy Quaker stock. But in contrast to these simple hard-working frontiersmen were the dwellers of the low country, who, by this time, had a well-formed social system, and established religion (Episcopal) and a great deal of accumulated wealth, with many families of culture and refinement. And in order to understand the sectional differences, which have played such a prominent part in the social, political, and economic life of South Carolina, one must bear in mind the different types of people making up the citizenship of the up-state and the coastal section. With the coming of the French and Indian war in 1754, both the French and the English were anxious to secure the aid of the various Indian tribes. The Cherokees had always been friends and allies of the English, but the French had never lost an opportunity to court their favor, so they now sent emissaries among them, with costly presents, who spoke in glowing terms of the advantages to be obtained by a French alliance. But the Cherokees were satisfied with existing conditions and hastened to assure the Carolinians that they would remain true to their pledge of friendship with the English. They expressed fears, however, of the French making an attack upon the colony by marching through their country. Such a move on the part of the French, they did not feel themselves strong enough to check, and an attack upon the Carolina frontier from their nation, they realized, might cause the English to question their sincerity. For years the government in Charles Town had realized that it was unprepared to withstand an attack upon its frontiers made from the Cherokee country, whether coming from the French or the Indians themselves. Now seemed an opportune time to gain the consent of the Cherokees to build a few forts at strategic points in their nation, so Governor Glen went out from Charles Town in 1755 to enter negotiations with the Cherokees, relative to securing sufficient lands in their territory upon which to build these fortifications. The Governor and his party were met in one of the lower Indian towns by Atta Kulla Kulla, who, it will be remembered, had gone to England in the Cummings party, and about 500 warriors. Out of this conference came a formal treaty (the first between the Cherokees and Carolinians), by which the colony was given permission to build forts in the Indian country, and in addition it was granted a vast territory of Indian lands of uncertain boundary. This treaty was reduced to writing and formally signed by Governor Glen for the colony, and Atta Kulla Kulla and other Indian chiefs for the Cherokees. The original is on file in the office of the Historical Commission at Columbia, and should prove interesting to those who delight in using high-sounding words and well-turned phrases to obscure their real meaning. Reading that document now, in the light of later events, one can but think it was the studied purpose of the Carolinians when preparing the instrument, to acquire color of title to a major portion of the Cherokee holdings while leading the trusting savages to think that only fort sites were being granted. If not, why the vagueness of wording? One taking title to land does not trust to such hidden meanings and vague descriptions as are found in this treaty. But regardless of the intention of the Cherokees, and in the face of vigorous protects from their chief, Atta Kulla Kulla, the Carolinians took possession of the major portion of the Indians; rich grazing and hunting lands in South Carolina, claiming it under the treaty. Roughly, this new acquisition comprised the territory now constituting the counties of Edgefield, McCormick, Greenwood, Abbeville, Laurens, Newberry, Union, Spartanburg, York, Cherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Richland, and a portion of Lexington. The Cherokees retained only that portion of the colony embraced within the present counties of Anderson, Greenville, Pickens, and Oconee. After the treaty was entered into, England made haste to erect a fort across the river from the Cherokee town of Keowee, and called it Fort Prince George. Another fortress was built on the Tennessee River and named Fort Loudon. During the year of the Cherokee compact, General Braddock was defeated and for a time thereafter the French arms were in the ascendency, thus leaving the frontiers of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia exposed to French and Indian attacks from Fort Duquesne on the Ohio. Faced with this danger, great numbers of the settlers there turned southward to join their neighbors and friends who had already moved into upper South Carolina. Colonel Clarke had come from Virginia and settled on Pacolet River, in what is now Sp themselves on the three forks of Tyger River. They were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and within a few years established Nazareth church out of which grew Fairview of present Greenville County. The names of some of these were BARRY, MOORE, ANDERSON, COLLINS, THOMPSON, VERNON, PEARSON, JAMISON, DODD, RAY, NICHOLS, all names still common in Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. Patrick CALHOUN (ancestor of John C.) settled on Long Cane in present Abbeville County in 1756, finding there two families who had preceded him, one of whom was named GOWDY, and the other EDWARDS. By 1760 this settlement had grown to a population of near 200. From 1751 to 1754, eight or ten families emigrated from Pennsylvania and settled on Fair Forest creek, in what is now Union County. First among these to come were George STORY, James MCIlWAINE and a Mr. DUGAN. Another settlement near the present town of Union was made from Pennsylvania about 1754. Among the Settlements were made in present Newberry and Laurens Counties on waters of Enoree river, Kings creed, Gilders creek, Indian creek, Duncan creek and Tyger river as early as 1749. Others are known to have taken up lands in all other of what are today referred to as Piedmont Counties, except such as were undeniably Cherokee territory. In fact, such a steady stream of immigration flowed in, that by now these new settlers came, and the manner in which they set about the task of making a home for themselves in this new country, is well described by Dr. William A. Schaper in his valuable work, "Sectionalism in South Carolina" in the following words; "The people came in groups, many driving their stock before them, from the frontiers of Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. They followed the great valleys and adjoining plateaus that run in a general southwesterly direction, from western Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. These natural highways afforded an easy approach to the uplands of South Carolina, where lands were fertile and far removed from the Indian disturbances of that time. They located first in Waxhaws, in what later became Lancaster District, and on the Cane Lands of Abbeville. From these points, settlement gradually spread over the more accessible tracts toward the mountains. These frontiersmen were mostly Scotch-Irish, a hardy band of frontiersmen who stood guard over the advancing civilization from the Carolinas to Western New York. Only the hunter and trapper, and the Indian trader had preceded them into the wilderness. But unlike their predecessors, they came to stay, at least long enough to see a more settled community arise.... The Carolina pioneers brought their families, their rude and scanty store of household goods, their crude implements, seed, and domestic animals, ready for the work of frontier farming. The first task was the building of the log cabin. This was the work of a day or two. With a jug of cider or whiskey to make merry, the pioneer invited his neighbor to lend a helping hand....The furniture was scarce, but the faithful rifle always hung in the chimney corner within easy reach....The great task of the pioneer was the work of clearing and breaking up the land. Each family owned from 50 to 200 or 300 acres....They were almost completely shut in from the outside world. There were no navigable streams to join them with the civilized world or the older settlements. Below them was the middle country--a sandy tract, covered with dense pine forests....In a region where every man must rely on his own strong arm and his rifle for the support and protection of his family, there are no distinctions. It was a strongly democratic society, then, that grew up here, typical of the West. Wealth accumulated very slowly and there were very few slaves until the close of the century. The people enjoyed their rude but wholesome life spent in close touch with nature." And now had begun the actual settlement of the "back country", as it was then termed. For more than a half century, this great section had been the source of one of the colony's richest natural recourses in its peltry trade; but that asset was about to give way for another--its sturdy Scotch-Irish men and women, who were to furnish the future state with some of her most conspicuous leaders in every activity of life. The First Cherokee War The effect of the Cherokee treaty of 1755, followed by the defeat of General Braddock in Virginia, was to bring an influx of new settlers upon the frontiers of South Carolina, as has been previously discussed. But unfortunately, due to the blundering tactics of Governor Lyttleton of South Carolina, these newcomers were soon faced with the same dangers from which they had fled---hostile Indians upon their frontiers. Early in the conflict, the Cherokees joined forces with Great Britain and her American colonies, against the French and their Indian allies. And after the British reverses in Virginia, the Cherokees dispatched a number of warriors there to reinforce their hard-pressed allies. In 1758, Fort Duquesne fell before a combined attack of the English, Virginians and Indians, the Indians being led, it is said, by Captain Richard Pearis, afterward a resident of present day Greenville County; and with the removal of this great French stronghold, the southern colonies began to breathe freely again. The Cherokees, seeing that they were no longer needed, set out upon their return to Carolina, but on their homeward journey they incurred the wrath of a few Virginia settlers who fired upon them. Being greatly enraged, the warriors hurried to their Carolina homes and reported the ill treatment, which had been accorded them. The young men of the Nation were for immediate and indiscriminate war upon the whites, but the leaders endeavored to restrain them from committing any overt acts till a conference with the governor at Charles Town could be arranged. However, a number of the young Indians, without the sanction of their head-men, raided the frontier settlements of present Spartanburg, Laurens and Abbeville Counties, killing a number of the inhabitants. When it became known in the Cherokee nation that the wishes of the head-men had been disregarded, there was great alarm among the Indian people, and a deputation of 32 of the leading chiefs, led by Occonostota, was immediately started to Charles Town, where it was hoped a settlement of the difficulties could be effected. The Cherokees had always been on terms of the closest friendship with the Carolinians, and they greatly desired that this friendly relationship continue. But unfortunately, James Glen, who fully understood the Indians, was no longer governor; instead William Henry Lyttleton, a hot-head, who had his own ideas of how to handle the situation, now held that position. So after traveling for more than 200 miles upon their mission of peace, the Indian envoys were not even permitted to lay their petition before the governor. Instead, they were bluntly told that the governor did not care to hear them, and that he was even then about to march upon their people with an army. The Indians were assured, however, that they would be permitted to return to their own country since they had come on a friendly mission; but they were advised that the safest way for the return would be with the troops. Within a few days after the coming of the chieftains, fully confident that the governor would receive them in the same spirit of friendship that had prompted their mission, these chosen leaders of a proud people, found themselves in the humiliating position of returning to their country, virtual prisoners in the hands of avowed enemies. Till the Congarees (Columbia) was reached they were permitted to march with the army, but upon leaving this encampment they were all made prisoners, and carried back to Keowee under heavy guard. Such treatment was inconceivable to the Indian mind, except it came at the hand of an enemy. In friendship, and on a mission of peace, their chiefs had journeyed to the seat of the white man's governments, and they were brought back in chains and lodged in prison. Could such conduct be condoned? Never in the eyes of the proud Cherokee race! An unpardonable injury had been done them, and nothing short of bloodshed could propitiate that wrong. Governor Lyttleton was as ignorant of the methods of Indian warfare as he was of the savage's ethics of life. The expedition had been hurriedly undertaken, and his troops were ill supplied with food, clothing and ammunition to withstand an Indian attack in that remote region. Many of the soldiers, realizing the incompetency of their leadership, soon began to show their discontent, and the governor, fearing mutiny, hurried messengers to Atta Kulla Kulla, the leading chief of all the Cherokees, requesting his immediate presence at Fort Prince George. Upon the arrival of this old chief, Governor Lyttleton, making as great a show of strength as possible, told him that he had brought his army into the Indian country to make war upon the red men if 24 of their number (this being the number of whites killed in the recent raid) were not immediately delivered up to be dealt with as might seen best. Atta Kulla Kulla proposed that three of the imprisoned chiefs, including Occonostota, be liberated to assist him in finding 24 of the young men who had taken part in the massacre. The suggestion was taken, and three of the Indians prisoners were released. But on the following day, after two of the guilty young men had been brought in, Atta Kulla Kulla set out upon his journey home. He had not proceeded far, however, when he was overtaken by a messenger from the governor requesting his return. Accordingly, the old warrior retraced his steps and again presented himself at the camp of Governor Lyttleton, where he frankly stated that additional time must be given if any more of the raiders were to be captured. The governor having already realized his mistake, and knowing that his army could not be held together longer, proposed a treaty by which 22 of the chiefs, then held prisoners, should be retained as hostages till an equal number of Indians were delivered in compliance with the original demand. This was acceded to by Atta Kulla Kulla, and such an agreement was reduced to writing and formally signed by Governor Lyttleton for the colony, and six Indians chiefs in behalf of the Cherokees. This done, the army was withdrawn. Although the treaty was signed by the Cherokees, they never seemed to hold themselves bound by its terms, and no effort was made to deliver up any portion of the 22 Indians demanded. Occonostota continued to smart because of the treatment accorded him and his friends who had gone to Charles Town, and set himself to the task of releasing the hostages still confined in Fort Prince George. After gathering his warriors, he delivered an assault upon the fort, but little impression could be made. Seeing that he could not hope to accomplish his purposes in this manner, he used deception to draw Captain Cotymore from the fort, and no sooner was he outside its protecting walls than he was shot down by Indians previously placed in ambush for that purpose. As a consequence of this Indian treachery, orders were given at the fort to put the hostages in irons, but they resisted, and the garrison fell upon them and butchered them all in a most horrible manner. The Cherokee issue had been unwisely handled from its inception, and this last act was a fatal blunder. There was hardly an Indian in the Nation who had not lost a relative in the massacre of the hostages, and now a cry for the blood of their enemies "to propitiate the spirits of their dead brothers" went up over the entire Cherokee country. With the hatchet, scalping knife and torch in hand, the savages rushed down upon the frontier settlements, leaving death and destruction in their wake. Men, women and children fell innocent sacrifices everywhere to the inefficient rule of Governor Lyttleton. Some escaped the tomahawk by fleeing to the woods only to die there of hunger, while others were taken prisoners to be subjected to themselves, hurried messenger after messenger to Charles Town imploring aid, while the savages each day added new victims to their harvest of blood. But an epidemic of smallpox was sweeping over the coast country and no help could be furnished, and these unhappy people were left to contend with the savage scourge as best they could. Small forts and block-houses were hastily constructed along the entire Cherokee frontier, and into these crude fortifications the sorely beset settlers crowed with their movable property, where they remained in a state of defense, till the fury of their enemies exhausted itself in the systematic destruction of their unprotected homes, provisions and fields. At this time, the present Greenville County, still being Indian territory, bristled with these places of defense all along her eastern and southern boundaries, where are now found Spartanburg and Laurens Counties. After a time, Virginia and North Carolina came to the rescue of the South Carolinians by sending down seven troops of rangers, which were joined in a short time by Colonel Montgomery with a small force of British regulars. Montgomery, assuming command, marched into the Cherokee country where he inflicted heavy losses on the Indians. But he was recalled to the northern provinces within a short time, and again the Carolina frontier was left exposed to the savage attacks. A provincial regiment was then raised and put under command of Colonel Middleton. Among the officers of this regiment, who later gained prominence in South Carolina military and political history, were Henry Laurens, William Moultrie, Francis Marion, Isaac Huger and Andrew Pickens. This force united with a regiment of British regulars under Colonel Grant, who had been sent to Carolina when it seemed that the Indian trouble there was becoming so serious as to endanger the British cause in America. The command of the united forces was entrusted to Colonel Grant, who, now at the head of 2,600 men, pushed rapidly into the wilderness of the Cherokee country, utterly destroying the homes, granaries and growing crops of the Indians, who fled before the approaching army into the mountains, where they often attacked from ambush, but without inflicting sufficient losses upon the advancing forces to seriously impede their progress. This expedition was known as the Grant Indian war; and it brought the Cherokees into complete submission, thus ending the first conflict of arms between the Cherokees and South Carolina. Note.--The agreement between Governor Lyttleton and the Cherokees with reference to holding the hostage chiefs, and the treaty which terminated the Grant campaign were both reduced to writing, and are on file in the office of Historical Commission at Columbia. Excerpted from "History of Greenville South Carolina" by James M.Richardson

  
  

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