FLADGER SLAVES
Including those fromKeene, Davis, & Bethea Plantations
FROM MARION COUNTY,SOUTH CAROLINA
{Unless otherwisespecified}
Jean Fladger Shanelec
August 20, 2002
June 30, 1730
Mortgage from <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>RobertFladger, butcher
of
Charlestown, to John Carmichael for 537 pounds.Mentions five negroes and
20shillings. [SC Archives, Columbia]
1735
Living (in 1735) onthe west side of Little Pee Dee in the Neck was Robert
Fledger. He gotpossession of about 2000 acres, lived on them, and had at the
sale 25 slaves,3 riding horses, 4 mares and 50 head of cattle. In the short
period of sixyears, a wilderness had been reduced to a habitable and
profitable plantation. Rambles in the Pee Dee Basin by H.T.Cook, p. 28, as
quoted in Marion CountyChurches & Churchmen, by Victor Bland Stanley Jr.
(1938) p.34. Also Sellers.
June 5, 1737
Robert Fladger buys 700 acres on the Little Pee Dee Riverfrom William Borland
for 1,464 pounds and tennegro men: Tom, etc. (I did not copy all of the
names. This document can befound in the State Archives in Columbia, SC.)
7 Nov 1769 Charleston, SC
This indenture made between Buckingham Keen of theProvince of South Carolina
of the one part Elizabeth Keen Daughter of saidBuckingham Keen and James
Johnston of Charleston in the said Province Baker ofthe other part witnesseth
that the said Buckingham Keen for and inconsideration of the Natural Love and
Affection which he hath and beareth tothe said Elizabeth Keen and for the
better maintenance and livelihood of herthe said Elizabeth Keen hath given
granted conveyed and confirmed unto the saidElizabeth Keen and the heirs of
her body lawfully begotten and to the saidJames Johnston, all those two Negro
slaves Judy and her son Minoros together with their future issue and
increaseTO HAVE AND TO HOLD (etc. etc.)
Buckingham (K his Mark) Keen. In the presence of Nath’lBalline and Wm.
Clarkson.
15 Oct 1770 Berkeley County, SC
Berkley County Js. Sworn to by Nathaniel Balline beforeRobert Brisbane J.P.
and Recorded the same day.( Charleston Misc Records Vol LLpp 386-7 (Vol. 00)
[Also Mesne Conveyance 1768 to 1771, Charleston,SC]
Bright Star
Souce info supplied by:
Jean Fladger Shanelec
Ellsworth, KS