Bishop

• Name	Bishop
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I3691	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Rebekah Brown,   b. Bef 1751, of, County Wexford, or Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland ,   d. Aft 1787, of Duncans Creek, Laurens, South Carolina, United States  (Age > 38 years)
  Married	Bef Sep 1787	of, Laurens, South Carolina, United States
  Last Modified	28 May 2021
  Family ID	F955	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. The book "Laurens County South Carolina - Minutes of the County Court, 1786-1789," by Brent H. Holcomb, SCMar, Columbia, South Carolina, 2004. The book notes: "This is a record that has only been recently found after being lost for so many years. It is incomplete missing the first 54 pages, pages 103-126, and an unknown number of pages at the end of the volume. There is at least one other volume, still missing, covering the years 1790-1799." It also notes: "Laurens County was formed in 1785 as a county of Ninety Six District. In that year justices of the peace were elected by the General Assembly to be administrators of the county courts. Within the pages of these court minutes are small court cases, lists of deeds presented to be recorded, applications for administrations on estates and wills proved (beginning in 1787), jury lists, petitions of various kinds, appointments for various offices, apprenticeships, estray animals tolled, and other items. The cases heard for debt or damages could not exceed £50, and cases heard for personal damages could not exceed £20. Criminal cases heard could not call for the loss of life or corporal punishment. Larger court cases were heard in the district courts, such as Ninety-Six." There are many Adair and related family entries. The following is for Rebecca Brown. On the entry on pg. 183, Colleen Gwynn [cghistree@msn.com] comments on Rebecca who may be the sister of Roger Brown: "The Rebecca Brown now Bishop matches with a deed between Rebecca Brown and Roger Brown in Laurens County, S.C. Deed Book; however, the deed made no mention of Brown now Bishop as this record does. The amount of property matches. This may be the clue to Rebecca's married surname." The quotation: Pg. 183, 12 Sep 1787: "A Lease and Release for the Conveyance of 100 acres of land from Rebecca Brown now Bishop to Roger Brown acknowledged in open Court and Ordered to be recorded."