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Here is an unproven outline for the Arnetts of Wilkes Co GA with reference to Fairfield Co SC Arnets who may not be related. My ancestor's brother Moses Stephens said his mother Mary Ann Arnett who married John Stephens b 1761 had been born in Maryland, the same place John Querns cames from (Harford MD).
MD/SC/GA Arnett
(unproven)
unknown b 1720 married unknown Querns b 1720, had 2 boy Querns in Maryland, including John Querns b ca 1740 of Harford (not Hartford, a misspelling) MD. He is registered in Harford MD and 1768 by the Wrightsborough community in GA (Wilkes) He is listed as having fought in GA in the Rev. Part of his time may have been spent in SC keeping out of the way of the Tories.
unknown married Spears, had John Spears ca 1750 and Ann Spears ca 1752, half siblings to John Querns
Ann Spears 1752 married Edward Arnett Jr (this is a guess- some say Samuel Arnett) who may have been the Arnett (no first name is given) who died 1811 (Edward Arnett Sr ca 1730 died 1783 or 1807). "Mrs. Ann Arnett" was still alive in 1817. She is mentioned in a court paper as the "mother" of the following children. These children are proven.
(tentative Arnett birth dates)
1. Mary Ann Arnett 1769 m John Stephens b 1761 moved about 1818-1820 to Montgomery, AL which became Lowndes Co AL 5 children: Sarah m. Ransom Meadows, William, John, James Edward (Jim Ned) who picked up money for his mother Mary Stephens from the court in Wilkes from the John Quern estate), Moses
2. Samuel Arnett 1771 (1830 census is 50-59) d 1831 m unknown and widow Anne Catchings Ashmore
3. Edward Arnett b 1774 died ca 1811 married Catherine Querns b 1774, probable niece to John Querns. 4 children:
John 1794.
Catherine (Kitty),
Martha Ann,
Felix 1809 who died in Bainbridge, Decatur GA and is buried there. He was a commissioner of the Flint River.
4. William Arnett 1776 (1820 census 26-44, 1830 is 40-49) m Sarah Glaze and had 12 children or more
Berry A. Arnett 1818
John Q 1804 Eliza T. Coleman and Frances Elam His will includes 2 illegitimate children H. Paulina and William Thompson Roberts of Chester,SC children of Lucie Roberts
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Thumbnails.aspx?recordId=306365
Wiliam Glaze Arnett 1818 m. Sophia Bird
Mitchell Arnett
Albert Winfrey Arnett b: 1822 m. Mary Ann Kilgo
Samuel J. Arnett m. Ellen Cullers
Bradford Arnett
Mary Ann Arnett b: 10 APR 1803 in Lincoln Co, GA Marriage 1 Thomas Dallis ,Jr. Marriage 2 ? Glaze Marriage 3 Isaiah Cullars
Milly Arnett m. William Florence
Sarah Arnett Marriages 1 Taylor Or Tyner 2 Ben Cartledge 3 William Corneilson
Jane Arnett
5. Margaret Arnett b 1777 m Charles Anderson b 1777- no information as yet
6. Nancy Arnett b 1781 (1830 census is 40-49) d 1848 m Martin Anderson b 1769 d 1814. She is a widow in 1830 census and living near her brothers William and Samuel (same page).
This should prove that this William in 1820 and 1830 Wilkes GA is the descendant of Catherine Querns Arnett, as the descendants are all living together still in 1830 Wilkes while Wiliam Arnett of Edgefield/Abbeville is living in Indiana with wife Sarah Henderson.
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Reference William Arnett of Edgefield (Sarah Henderson)
(not of Wilkes GA, not directly related to John Querns)
William Arnett and Sarah Henderson -
1794: Edgefield Co, SC
William Arnett, John Slater and John Glover witnessed a deed of land from Drury Glover to Jacob Miller of Edgefield Co, SC on Cuffey Town Creek at mouth of Beaver Dam Creek. Deed Bk 11, pg 124-126 [from Edgefield County South Carolina, Abstracts of Deed Books 1-12]
Series: S213190
Volume: 0032
Page: 00474
Item: 002
Date: 10/28/1795
Description: JONES, MOSES, PLAT FOR 458 ACRES ON MOUNTAIN AND HORSEPEN CREEKS, EDGEFIELD COUNTY, NINETY SIX DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY SHADRACK STOKES FOR PETER JONES ON NOVEMBER 24, 1794.
Names indexed: ARNET; GLOVER; JONES, MOSES; JONES, PETER; STOKES, SHADRACK
Locations: EDGEFIELD COUNTY; HORSEPEN CREEK; MOUNTAIN CREEK; NINETY SIX DISTRICT; SAVANNAH RIVER; STEVENS CREEK
Document type: PLAT (Horse Pen Creek is where the german settlement was)
Series: S213192
Volume: 0036
Page: 00049
Item: 004
Date: 2/27/1797
Description: BLOCKER, JOHN JR., PLAT FOR 132 ACRES ON WAGGONERS BRANCH OF CUFFEETOWN CREEK, EDGEFIELD COUNTY, NINETY SIX DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY JAMES BLOCKER.
Names indexed: ARNET; BLOCKER, JAMES; BLOCKER, JOHN JR.; COURSEY, WILLIAM; GLOVER; JONES, PETER
Locations: CUFFYTOWN CREEK; EDGEFIELD COUNTY; NINETY SIX DISTRICT; SAVANNAH RIVER; WAGGONER BRANCH (Cuffeytown Creek is where the german settlement was)
Document type: PLAT
The area mentioned as Cuffeytown and Horse pen Creek as well as Hard Labor Creek was settled by Germans about 1766 who had come by way of London by the king of England. They would have been labled "poor protestants immigrants" perhaps. perhaps the German Arnutt became Arnett.
A Samuel Arnet received 100 acres on Long Cane Creek in 1768 and this may have been related to the German immigrants who came in 1766 applying for land, but may never have moved there as it was a more dangerous area and had already had a massacre called the Long Canes massacre in 1760. Long Canes separated British South Carolina from the Cherokee Nation. Since this was right on the edge of civilization it was a risky place to live. Forts were established to serve as protection for the region. The Cherokee had been useful to the British in resting the lands from the French control. After the French were driven out the British started moving in. The Cherokee Indians were probably incensed by the continued increase in the number of settlers.
www.next1000.com/family/EC/LongCane.massacre.html
This attack was made on February 1st, 1760, on a descent just before reaching Patterson's Bridge, as they had stopped to encamp for the night, while they were entangled by their wagons, and could make but little resistance. Some, by cutting loose the horses, and joining a portion of the company in the advance, were so fortunate as to escape, under cover of the night. Among the slain was the mother of the family, Mrs. Catherine Calhoun, and a curious stone, engraved by a native artist, marks the spot where she fell, among her children and neighbors. Two little girls, daaughters of William Calhoun, brother of Patrick, were carried into captivity, the eldest of whom was, after some years, rescued; the other was never heard of. [Reference: MS. of M. E. Davis] The grandfather of Mr. Samuel Clark, now of Beech Island, and several members of his family, were killed in the attack. The wife and four children escaped.
In the congregation of Long Canes, about the end of 1763, the Creek Indians broke in and killed fourteen persons in one house, on the Savannah River. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lynneb/articl.index.html
So what I am saying is that the Germans considered Long Canes too dangerous and settled further east. These may have been the Fairfield Co Arnets. The Spartanburg Edward Arnett was more likely from Maryland. The Catchings were from Maryland, as well as john Querns.
From the Book "The Hard Labor Section"
Col. John Henry Christian de Stumpel, a German officer, out of a job, in order to receive large grants for bringing emigrants to America, persuaded about 500 Germans called Palatines to leave their country and sail to America by way of London. Fearful of frequently hostile Indians and their murderous raiding parties, this advance group chose the thinner land east of Hard Labor Creek, west of Cuffee Town creek rather than richer lands of Ninety Six or Long Canes near Abbeville.
On the 15th of March 1765, Governor Bull in a letter to the Lord's Proprietors said:
"I have the honor to acquaint your Lordships that in obedience to his majesty's command, the German Protestants are settled together about 12 miles south of Ninety Six, which spot was pitched upon by the first party who went out of town as most eligible on account of their security, having many English settlers on their Frontiers, who are more accustomed to see Indians and know better how to behave toward them. The land where the Germans are seated is good but not quite so rich as that which lies more westerly; this they were informed of, but for the reason above mentioned declined going there."
From The South Carolina Palatines of 1764 Narrative:
" Maps indicate an area of 16,000 to 18,000 acres, and we know that Lt. Gov. Bull directed that Patrick Calhoun, a prominent and respected back country landholder, and Deputy Surveyor John Fairchild should select "about 20,000 acres of good land" for the Germans. That instruction was given in a letter dated December 23, 1764, nearly two weeks before the first party of Palatines left Charles Town. It is now clear that most of the Germans did not choose to settle on lands within the designated area. Instead, we find them widely scattered to the east and southeast, some as far as sixteen miles from the town site. Lt. Governor Bull reported that a town site was laid out for them twelve miles south ofNinety Six. Today, the village of Kirksey is situated at that approximate location, but it is morelikely that Bull was referring to Londonborough, fifteen miles southwest of Ninety Six, as the crow files. November, 1964, a marker with the title "Londonborough Settlement" was erected onthe west side of State Route 48 near the eastern boundary of the Zimmerman property tocommemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of that community.
"Cuffee Town.
Although the location of the small stream which bears its name is well known and easilyfound on South Carolina maps even today, Cuffee Town itself is a place which has disap-peared without leaving a trace, or even a documented statement as to its former location.That it lay somewhere between Kirksey and Winterseat is certain, but exactly where, is not.Perhaps the most definitive references to its location may be found in the plats of MichaelKeiss (see below, "Palatine Land Grants on Horsepen Creek") and George Schieldknecht.Both are described as being "at a place called Cuffee Town." The Schieldknecht land wassome three miles northeast of the Keiss place, and five others in the immediate vicinity ofSchieldknecht are described as "near Cuffee Town." If we ignore the Keiss reference, all ofthe remaining plat data would support a location very near where Highway 25 crossesCuffeetown Creek.
"The recorded land plats surveyed by John Fairchild show that the Palatines remained to agreat extent segregated according to the ship on which they were passengers. The first toselect lands and have their plats recorded were from the Union, probably because they wererelatively healthy on arrival and did not require the long period of recuperation needed by thepassengers on the Dragon. Their homesteads were located in clusters, one along Cuffeetownand Horsepen Creeks in the vicinity of Kirksey (now Greenwood County), another about tenor twelve miles west on Hard Labor Creek north of Winterseat (now Greenwood County),another three miles southeast of Winterseat on Cuffeetown Creek (now McCormick County)and another on Sleepy and Little Stephens Creeks in northern Edgefleld County.By mid-June, 1765, all but one of the Union people had had their plats recorded. Betweenthat time and the end of August, those who had arrived on the Dragon and Planters Adven-ture were settled along the various branches of Turkey Creek called Log, Mountain, LittleTurkey, Little Rocky, Sleepy, and Little Rocky, Sleepy, and Little Stephens Creeks in Edgefleld County midway be-tween Kirksey and the town of Edgefield."
After the War, the Loyalists properties were confiscated and they were treated as outcasts. Those who were Loyal to England, were put on ships and sailed to Nova Scotia to start over, in what was their original destination and were put out in Charleston SC instead."
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The Fairfield Arnetts
Samuel Arnett of Fairfield died in 1806 and left a will. He had no Edward and no William in the will. However since William Arnett of Edgefield (Sarah Henderson) has a dau Agnes, I would be cautious in excluding him from the Fairfield Arnetts. A widow Agness Arnet was from Fairfield. I think John Q. Arnetts of Wilkes GA relationship to Fairfield was the Colemans or other family, not the Arnetts.
Looks to me like the Fairfield District Samuel Arnett is identified by this will and his wife was Elizabeth McDowell. Will is March 12, 1807. However I would like to note that the spelling of Elizabeth is in the German form as Elisabatte or Elisabette.
children
Hugh
Samuel Ervin (gets a saddle from his uncle James McDowell 9 Nov 1813)
John
Martha
Esther (gets a horse from uncle James McDowell 9 Nov 1813)
Ten
Agnes (William Arnett of Edgefield named a dau Agnes)
Mary
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Thumbnails.aspx?recordId=306829
names: ARNET, AGNES; ARNET, ELISABATTE; ARNET, ELISABETTE; ARNET, ESTER; ARNET, GEORGE (Witness- probably brother or nephew); ARNET, HUGH; ARNET, JOHN; ARNET, MARTHA; ARNET, MARY; ARNET, SAMUEL; ARNET, SAMUEL EWIN; BUCHANAN, JNO.; MCDOWELL, JAMES (brother in law0; POTTS, ROBERT
Samuel"s mother was probably Agnes who received land in 1768. William ARnett of Edgefield?Abbeville names a daughter Agnes.
Series: S213019 Volume: 0017 Page: 00286 Item: 000
Date: 5/13/1768
Description: ARNET, AGNES, LAND GRANT FOR 100 ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY.
Names indexed: ARNET, AGNES
Locations: CRAVEN COUNTY
Document type: LAND GRANT
James McDowell's father was most likely Alexander McDowell whose will was written 2 July 1793
Alexander mcDowell executed 1799. Typed is Jane Annah, but it is indexed as Jane Arnet... perhaps that was Elisabeth Jane because her brothers Hugh, James and Andrew are mentioned also receiving only one dollar and she names a son Hugh. Sons Smith and Alexander not yet 21 in 1793 receive the estate. Wife Jane to receive house and 5 acres and slave.
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/ViewImage.aspx?imageNumber=S108093001100363000a.jpg&recordId=306946
James McDowell- talks about sister Elisabeth as executrix.
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/ViewImage.aspx?imageNumber=S108093001100363000a.jpg&recordId=306946
Her is a reference to Arnet and McDowell in a plat in Camden District of Fairfield Co SC-
Series: S213190
Volume: 0025
Page: 00335
Item: 001
Date: 1/26/1791
Description: BREADY, ROBERT, PLAT FOR 90 ACRES ON WATERS OF WATEREE CREEK, CAMDEN DISTRICT, SURVEYED BY ANDREW MCDOWELL.
Names indexed: ARNET, SAMUEL; BREADY, ROBERT; MCCROREY, MRS.; MCDOWELL, ANDREW; MCQUATEN, HUSTON
Locations: CAMDEN DISTRICT; WATEREE CREEK
Document type: PLAT
This is for land NOT granted-
Series: S213197
Box: 0001
Item: 00024
Date: 4/10/1773
Description: ARNET, SAMUEL, UNRECORDED PLAT FOR LAND NOT GRANTED, 50 ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY, SURVEYED BY ALEXANDER TURNER.
Names indexed: ARNET, JANE; ARNET, SAMUEL; MCDOWEL, ALEXANDER; TURNER, ALEXANDER
Locations: CRAVEN COUNTY
Document type: PLAT
Samuel was in the Revolution.
Series: S108092
Reel: 0003
Frame: 00506
Date: 1776 C. or later
Description: ARNET, SAMUEL, ACCOUNT AUDITED (FILE NO. 156) OF CLAIMS GROWING OUT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Names indexed: ARNET, SAMUEL
There was a Samuel Arnet who received land on Long Canes in 1768 but he may never have settled there for obvious reasons. He may have sold it immediately. The family of William Arnett who married Sarah henderson claim his father was William but I find no proof for this.
Samuel Arnet plat-
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Thumbnails.aspx?recordId=104586
Susan Aldridge
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