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George Galphin (1708–1780) was an American businessman specializing in Indian Trade, an Indian Commissioner, and plantation owner who lived and conducted business in the colonies of Georgia and South Carolina, primarily around the area known today as Augusta, Georgia.
The Silver Bluff Baptist Church was founded between 1774-1775 [1] in Beech Island, South Carolina, by several enslaved African Americans who organized under elder David George. [ 2 ] The historian Albert Raboteau has identified it as the first separate black congregation in the nation, although others contend for that distinction, including the ...
George escaped and ran away again, this time encountering a Scottish trader named George Galphin (appears in some records as Gaulfin, Gaulphin), for whom he worked four years at Silver Bluff, South Carolina. Because of his close association with the Native Americans, Galphin enslaved many people who had intermarried with the Creek.
South Carolina has forgotten history of its own. For the first time, there will be an event to commemorate the 1876 Hamburg Massacre, a violent attack on the Reconstruction era rights of Black ...
The Galphin family and Crawford demanded that interest be paid on the estate. At the time Congress was in session, but the three officials decided to settle the claim on their own. On May 2, 1850, the Secretary of Treasury paid out $192,352.89 for the land and interest. William Meredith kept $3,000 for himself while Crawford kept $94,176.44. [2 ...
While it was not officially organized until 1788, it grew from members who founded a congregation in 1773. Its claim of "first" is contested by the Silver Bluff Baptist Church, Aiken County, South Carolina (1773), [2] [3] and the First Baptist Church of Petersburg, Virginia, whose congregation officially organized in 1774. [4]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of South Carolina that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1 ...
South Carolina (2-6, 1-5 in SEC play) needs to win its four remaining games to become bowl-eligible, and will look to end its four-game losing skid to a strong Jacksonville State squad (7-2, 5-1 ...