PROTESTANT IMMIGRANTS TO SOUTH CAROLINA 1763 - 1773

South Carolina Council Journal No. 33, Pages 41-50
Meeting of February 27, 1767

His Excellency informed the Board that a vessel with poor Irish protestants had lately arrived here on the encouragement of the Bounty given by the Act of the General Assembly passed the 265th July 1761 and that he had now directed them to attend and they being called into the Council Chamber they presented the following Petitions for Warrants of Survey for Land on the Bounty VIZT

• David PRESSLEY    350 Acres
  In Boonesborough or Belfast Township
  
  Ordered that the Secretary do prepare Warrants of Survey on the Bounty agreeable to the prayers of their petitions and that the public Treasurer do pay the Bounties given by the said Act to Messrs. Torrans and Pouag and Mr. Robert Bath for the owners of the ship Hillsborough in consideration of their passages to the said province agreeable to the directions of the said Act.
  

South Carolina Council Journal No. 33, Pages 41-50
Meeting of February 27, 1767

The following persons also presented petitions setting forth that they were protestants and had come into this Province in the said ship Hillsborough on the encouragement of the said Act and therefore prayed to be allowed the Bounty given by the same.

• Ester PLESSLEY        Age 36
• Samuel PLESSLEY    Age 11
• David PRESSLEY      Age 6
• Agnes PRESSLEY     Age 4
  
  It was ordered that the public Treasurer do pay the several Bounties to Messrs. Torrans and Pouag and Bath in Consideration for their passages in the said Ship.

South Carolina Council Journal No. 36, Pages  242-245
Meeting of December 1, 1772:

Petitions from the undermentioned persons verified by their affidavits, setting forth that they were severally Protestants, and had arrived in this Province from Germany on the encouragement but that they had never received any Warrants for Lands & therefore Humbly Prayed for Warrants of Survey free of charge were presented and read VIZT

• David PREESLY    100 Acres
  Ordered that the Secretary do prepared Warrants of Survey as prayed for by the Petitioners.

South Carolina Council Journal No. 37, Pages 15-25
Meeting of January 6, 1773

A list of the passengers who arrived in this Province from Ireland in the Brigantine Free Mason, & this day petitioned for land, viz.

• John PRESSLEY        300 Acres
  In South Carolina.  Able to pay.

The undermentioned persons are not able to pay for their Warrants.

• Mary PRESLEY        100 Acres

Source: A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1763-1773
Compiled by Janie Revill
Published by Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc, 1999