Re: Agnes Adair m. John Gibson son of Jordon Gibson, Bladen Co., N.C.
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In reply to:
Agnes Adair m. John Gibson son of Jordon Gibson, Bladen Co., N.C.
Shirley Walsh 12/27/02
According to GREGG, Gideon GIBSON (brother of Jordan GIBSON) was one of the wealthiest men at Sandy Bluff.
(Perhaps John Gibson was wealthy in his own right and that may be why James Adair left them little inheritance) ?
Gideon GIBSON had lived near the Occoneechee Neck adjacent to land owned by Arthur KAVANAUGH, Ralph MASON,
and Richard TURBEVILLE before buying land on Quankey Creek
from Robert LONG,a Chickasaw and Cherokee Indian trader.
LONG also owned land at Elk Marsh and Plumbtree Island. LONG had received his land patensts at Quankey Creek and Plumbtree Island on 1 March 1719/1720.
According to GREGG, Gideon's brother, Jordan GIBSON (f-in-law of Agnes ADAIR ?), went West (from .......... ?)with Daniel BOONE. Benjamin CUTBIRTH (Cuthbert ?) (also known as CALVERT/COLBERT) was also a member of Daniel BOONE's entourage.
Robert LONG and Gideon GIBSON were not the only woodsmen who lived at Quankey Creek in North Carolina. Joseph SIMS and James MOORE also lived there. Like the COLSONs and TURBEVILLEs of Plumbtree Island, these woodsmen traded with the Chickasaws. During the off-season they often rested at Sandy Bluff before returning to North Carolina. In 1732 Joseph SIMS and James MOORE witnessed the selling of land between two men from Albermarle County, North Carolina, at Quankey Creek. A third witness was James LOGAN.
Was there a widow SIMS who m. Adair ?
A number of Chickasaw Indian traders lived along the Pee Dee River during the "off-season" at a settlement called Sandy Bluff (in present day Marion County, South Carolina). Several North Carolina and Virginia "squatters" had lived at Sandy Bluff since the early 1730s and a substantial community had evolved by 1734.
William BYRD (did he marry an Adair ?) made reference to the Pee Dee River in his book HISTORY of the DIVIDING LINE when describing the Indian Trading Path which crossed the northwest section of present day Warren County in North Carolina on its way "to the Catawbas and other southern Indians." According to BYRD, the Pee Dee was a place "where the traders commonly lie for some days, to recruit their horses' flesh as well as to recover their own spirits."
Sandy Bluff was farther down the Pee Dee that the "usual" rest stop for traders. At first, it was occupied by only a few of the Chickasaw woodsmen before they proceeded to Virginia and North Carolina. Geographically, Sandy Bluff was remote from any of the major Indian paths or large towns in South Carolina. It was considered "out-of-the-way". In all respects, Sandy Bluff was a "self contained isolate community".
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