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In the fall of 2000, I spent some time in York SC at the York County Courthouse. The earliest Westmoreland-related deed I could find read:
"This indenture made this fifteenth day October, one thousand Eight Hundred Seven, between Samuel Watson of the one part & Edmund Westmoreland of the other part, both of the District of York and State of South Carolina. Witnessth that the aforesaid Samuel Watson for and in consideration of the sum of Seventeen Hundred dollars to him in hand paid by the aforesaid Edmund Westmoreland for a certain tract of parcel of Land containing by estimation four hundred acres ...[?]... more or less lying and being in the District and State aforesaid on the west side of Bullocks Creek Including in part said [?]. Beginning on a double white Oak on the East bank of said Creek and running thence No 88 W 16 chains to a post Oak, thence So 55 W 35 to a Black Jack, thence So 18 E 29.50 to a pine, thence So 18 W 11 to a pine, thence So 5 E 40 to a white Oak, thence No 49 E 46 to a post Oak, thence So 32 E 28 to a pine, thence No 86 E 24 to a white Oak, thence No 30 W 27 to a Maple on the East Bank of the Creek and thence winding to the course of the ditch to the Beginning. To have & hold the said tract of Land and all and singular the appurtenances .. to the said Edmund Westmoreland his Heirs and assigns forever."
The numbers were very hard to read and I could be mistaken about several of them; it would be great to have another try at reading it. However, there's no question about the land being on the "west side of Bullocks Creek", the surveying wrapping from a point upstream westward and then southward and eastward to a point "below the confluence of the Buckhorn fork of Bullock Creek":
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=34.98336&lon=-81.35011&size=l&u=4&datum=nad27&layer=DRG
If you stood at that fork today and looked up the creek and on its west side, you'd be looking at much of the 400 acres.
Note also that 1807 was the year that Reeves' will was probated. I've seen a citation for it as "Will Probated, Estate sale - York Co., SC Case 65, File 3081", but I haven't seen the will. Perhaps that sale provided the resources for Edmund's land purchase. Is there a transcript available for this document?
At the York library I then found a cemetery-listing book that showed the information subsequently recorded as http://www.rootsweb.com/~scyork/Cemetery/Bersheba.html .
That memorial-stone record is the the only place I've ever seen him listed as Reeves ***Senior***, leading me to speculate that Reeves Jr may have been his son and may even have been the one in Iredell County NC in 1800. However, Edmund and many of his siblings - but no Reeves Jr - are listed in the will of Samuel Harwell (father of Susannah Harwell, Mrs. Reeves Westmoreland). Is the stone a much later memorial based on speculation?
To address that question, I then went looking for the stone at Beersheba Church:
http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&lr=&q=beersheba+church&near=York,+SC+29745&radius=0.0&latlng=34994167,-81242222,9487186627095638642&sa=X&oi=local&ct=authority
I couldn't find it, and maybe I never could have. The stones all around there have taken a brutal amount of corrosion in recent years, and it may be worn off or broken off.
Again, the will and estate sale record might clear up whether Peterson, Robert, Jackson, and Rhodi Westmoreland of Iredell Co NC are his sons as is commonly cited, or whether they might be his grandsons by a Reaves Westmoreland Jr.
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