• General Notes

  From "Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773" by Janie Revill.
  
  The immigrants listd in this volume were protestant refugees from Eruope who came to South Carolina on the encouragement of an Act passed by the General Assembly of the Colony on July 25, 1761, called the Bounty Act. The explanation or opinion of the Attorney General shows that it was a broadening of earlier immigration laws, for the special benefit of these religious refugees.
  
  Applicants had to have certificates showing that they were protestants and entitled to receive the benefits allowed by the new Bounty Act, which was evidently modified and renewed from time to time.
  
  Council Journal 34, pages 24-33.
  Meeting of January 12, 1768
  
  The Clerk reported that he had in pursuance of his Excellency the Governors directions been on board the Snow James and Mary. John Moore Master from Larne and administered the oaths to such of the poor protestants as were of age who had lately arrived in her into this Province on the encouragement and Bounty given by an Act of the General Assembly of this Province passed the 25th July 1761 agreeable to the following list...
  
  William Scott age 40
  Mary Scott 35
  James Scott 14
  William Scott 10
  Robert Scott 7
  Ann Scott 8
  John Scott 4
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  Source: Family History LDS Files
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Details of William 's family with Mary  MILTON