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Surnames: Chestnut, Kershaw
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYI.2ACEB/206
Message Board Post:
"Frontier communities gained conhesion and established discipline among their members more slowly. In the South, movement was by individual, drawn to a future less of towns than of landed estates. Joseph Kershaw, an immigrant from Yorkshire, left Charleston, South Carolina, in 1758 to establish Camden in the west. But his earnings went into the twenty thousand acres and seventy slaves he owned by the time of the Revolution. John Chestnut, a virginian who got his start in Kershaw's store, came to possess ten thousand acres and twenty-six slaves. Here in the upcountry, clannishness was often the only stabilizing force. As some British administrators had feared, many settlements fell into rough, disorderly, and brutal ways. They varied greatly, according to the circumstances of their establishment and the character of their founders. But all shared the general traits of societies formed in defiance of authority: an unwillingness to accept orders from outside, a dispos!
ition to improvise, and a stubburn insistence on autonomy."
I am not related to Joseph, I am just passing on a paragraph from a book titled "A Restless People" by Oscar & Lilian Handlin. 1982.
Joyce