eight slaves. Louisa Jane and her mother appeared in the 1830 U.S. census of the same county. They were enumerated by gender and age range, Louisa Jane female age under five and her mother female age between 20 and under 30. 4 Louisa Jane’s mother’s ancestor, James Brownlee, immigrated to colonial South Carolina from Ireland. He with son George and others named Brownlee arrived in Charleston on the brig Lord Dungannon from Belfast, 12 February 1768. 5 James acquired his first land as bounty. The colonial government through the Bounty Act of 1761 had offered free land to immigrants willing to settle the frontier as a defense against the Cherokee. A year later, the government established Boonesborough Township on upper Long Cane Creek as a settlement specifically for Irish immigrants. 6 James’s bounty was surveyed almost immediately after he arrived and granted that year. The land was 200 acres on a branch of the West Fork of Long Cane Creek known as Clark’s Creek. It may not have been within the Township. The C HEROKEE P ATH bisected the land. He had no abutters. 7 After the war, James acquired more 4 “United States Census, 1820,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLQ-T49 : 2 June 2020), Francis B Clinkscales, Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 25, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 118; FHL microfilm 162,021. Also, “United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5S-HTG : 2 June 2020), Francis Clinkscales, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States; citing 67, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 169; FHL microfilm 22,503. 5 Janie Revill, compiler, A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773 (1939); reprint (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. for Clearfield Company, 2008), 104-05. Also, “Custom-House, Entries Inward,” The South Carolina Gazette; and Country Journal , 9 February 1768, online archives (https://www.newspapers.com) : 24 July 2020), p. 6, col. 3. Also, “James Brownlee (1724- 1798),” WikiTree (https://www.wikitree.com : 5 July 2020). Lord Dungannon carried cargo and passengers to Charleston from Ulster and cargo to Philadelphia from Charleston and to Ulster from Philadelphia. See Richard K. MacMaster, Scotch-Irish Merchants in Colonial America: The Flaxseed Trade and Emigration from Ireland, 1718-1775 (2009); reprint (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2013), 156-157, 209, 240. 6 Walter Edgar, South Carolina: A History (Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 1998), 52-59. 7 South Carolina, Colonial Plats, Copy Series, S213184, vol. 13:390, item 2, James Brownlee, 200 acres in Granville County, 4 March 1768; digital image, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Online Records Index (http://scdah.sc.gov : 7 July 2020).
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