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The volume at hand--a reprint of Volume II of the printed records of Cambridge--is a transcription of the records of Cambridge town meetings and meetings of selectmen from the town's beginnings until 1703.
This book is a rich, historical compilation of the prominent Gaston family from many sources. It includes several files from major researchers as well as the author's addition of wills and pictures. Major researchers include Betty J. Carson, Linda Hull, and Robert Brice Land. It is a history of Jean (John) Gaston and his descendants. It is also a history of many of the intermarried families who fought and died in the Revolutionary War, especially in South Carolina. Jean (John) Gaston, and his immediate descendants, "left precious little in the way of documentation for future generations to build on. Virtually everything we know about the Patriarch has been handed down through oral tradition, which we call the 'Gaston Legend.'" Jean (John) Gaston was born about 1600, in either Scotland or France, of Huguenot decent. Although there is controversy regarding the date he emigrated from France to Scotland, records indicate that he fled France unmarried, married in Scotland, and his children included three sons: John, William, and Alexander, who immigrated to county Antrim, Ireland, about 1660-1668. Of these sons, probably John, whose name appears on the hearth-money rate list for Ireland in 1669, is of Magheragall, county Antrim. This John had, among others, several sons; some remained in Ireland and some immigrated to America, as did the sons of other brothers. The Gaston name can be found woven throughout America's history. According to tradition, in May 1780, news of the "Waxhaws Massacre" reached Fishing Creek and the home of John Gaston. John's wife, Esther, along with her sister-in- law, Mary McClure, left at once to help care for the wounded survivors who had been carried to the Waxhaw Meeting House. However, the most famous Gaston descendant is Chester Alan Arthur, twenty-first president of the United States (1881-1885). Early in the Civil War, Arthur also served as Quartermaster General of the State of New York. An every-name index adds to the value of this work.
Discover how "Huck's Defeat" spurred on the South Carolina militiamen to future victories during the Revolutionary War. In July of 1780, when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure, a small but important battle took place on James Williamson's plantation in what is now York County, South Carolina. The Battle of Williamson's Plantation, or "Huck's Defeat" as it later came to be known, laid the groundwork for the vicious partisan warfare waged by the militiamen on the Carolina frontier against the superior forces of the British Army, and it paved the way for the calamitous defeats that the British suffered at Hanging Rock, Musgrove's Mill, Kings Mountain, Blackstock's Plantation and Cowpens, all in the South Carolina backcountry. In this groundbreaking new study, historian Michael C. Scoggins provides an in-depth account of the events that unfolded in the Broad and Catawba River valleys of upper South Carolina during the critical summer of 1780. Drawing extensively on first-person accounts and military correspondence, much of which has never been published before, Scoggins tells a dramatic story that begins with the capture of an entire American army at Charleston in May and ends with a resounding series of Patriot victories in the Carolina Piedmont during the late summer of 1780---victories that set Lord Cornwallis and the British Army irrevocably on the road to defeat and to surrender at Yorktown in October 1781.
John Gaston, son of William Gaston, married Esther Waugh in Ireland. Theyhad twelve children.They immigrated to America and settled in Pennsylvania. They moved to South Carolina in about 1751. He died in 1782.