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1730 The colonial government marks out eleven townships of twenty 

 thousand acres each, and offer fifty acres, rent free for ten years, to 

 every man, woman and child who would come over to occupy 

 them. After that period a rental of four shillings per one hundred 

 acres was to be paid annually. 



1731 The government offers Peter Pury £400 for every one hundred 

 effective men brought over from Switzerland. Three hundred and 

 seventy arrive, and are granted forty thousand acres on the lower 

 Savannah river, at Purysburg. (Full fare across the ocean at this 

 time is £5 for immigrants.) 



1733 The Scotch-Irish descendants of the Scotch Covenanters, from 

 Downe county, Ireland, settle Williamsburg county, named after 

 King William III. 



1735 A colony of Germans settle in Orangeburg county, wliich is 

 named after the Prince of Orange. 



173G The Assembly grants a large tract of land on the Pee Dee to 

 Welsh settlers from Pennsylvania. 



1739 The council appropriate £6,000 as a bounty to the first two hun- 

 dred immigrants (above twelve years of age, two under to count 

 as one over that age) from Wales, settling upon the Welsh tract on 

 the Pee Dee. They offered in addition to each head above twelve 

 •years, twelve bushels corn, one barrel of beef, fifty pounds pork, 

 one hundred poinds rice, one bushel salt, and to each male one 

 axe, one broad hoe, one cow and calf, and one young sow. 



1746 After the battle of Culloden many of the Scotch rebels were 

 removed to South Carolina. 



1750 Saxe Gotha township (Lexington county) was laid off and occu- 

 pied by settlers from Saxe Gotha, Germany. In the same year a 

 colony of Quakers from Ireland settle Camden (Kershaw county). 



1755 Governor Glenn opens the upper-country for settlement by a 

 treaty he makes with the Cherokee Indians, obtaining from them 

 the cession of a large tract of territory, and by erecting in the 

 Northwest (Pickens county) Fort Prince George. 



1760 After Braddock's defeat, numbers of Pennsylvanians and Vir- 

 ginians, feeling insecure on account of the Indians, move overland 

 to the upper-country of South Carolina. 



1764 King George furnishes £300, tents, one hundred and fifty stand 

 of arms and two small vessels, to a colony of Germans, who receive, 

 on reaching Charleston, £500 from the Assembly, and are assigned 

 lands in Londonderry township (Edgefield county). 



1764 Two hundred and twelve French Protestants reach Charleston, 

 and are furnished transportation to Long Cane, Abbeville county, 

 where they settle New Bordeaux township. 



