Samuel Laird Jr.

• General Notes
  • Member Lower Long Cane Assoc. Presbyterian Church.
    
    The Lairds came on the ship "The Earl of Hillsbourgh" with the
    exception of Samuel Laird (the family head) who was already in the
    colonies.
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    Name:    Samuel Laird
    Year:    1766-1767
    Age:    2
    Place:    Charles Town, South Carolina
    Source Publication Code:    7343
    Primary Immigrant:    Laird, Samuel
    Annotation:    From the Journals of the Council of the Colony of South
    Carolina. Names and land allotments under the Bounty Act of 1761.
    Source Bibliography:    REVILL, JANIE. A Compilation of the Original
    Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773. Columbia
    [S.C.]: State Co., 1939. 163p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing
    Co., Baltimore, 1981.
    Page:    70
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    Name:    Samuel Laird
    Year:    1767
    Age:    2
    Place:    Charleston, South Carolina
    Source Publication Code:    3627.37
    Primary Immigrant:    Laird, Samuel
    Annotation:    Place and date of immigrants' or discharged military
    person's petition requesting reimbursements of passage, additional
    land, headrights, bounty, etc. from the South Carolina government or
    of letter expressing satisfaction with the voyage to America.
    Extracted from The South-Carolina Gazette, "The Governor and Council
    Journal" (located at the South Carolina Archives), and "Records of the
    Public Treasurers of South Carolina" (also at the SC Archives in
    Columbia).
    Source Bibliography:    JONES, JACK MORELAND, and MARY BONDURANT
    WARREN. South Carolina Immigrants, 1760 to 1770. Danielsville, GA:
    Heritage Papers, 1988. 430p.
    Page:    177
    
    Served under Capt John McGaw in Rev. War 1780-83, S. Carolina Militia