I thought the only thing that would be "out of place" would be a record that somehow was about someone or someplace wrong, under someone's Ancestry listing. I scanned through a few of the generations a couple back, the great granfathers etc. Nothing came to mind. There are frequently hints posted by others on Ancestry, having the same line, and maybe something different in their information.
This is rather lame, but one important ancestor, the son of a Revolutionary War Soldier, moved to South Carolina to Union District. And some of the records are listed under Union, Union County, South Carolina, and some under Union District.
Yep that seems pretty petty to me, as enough of the families occur with one or the other home places. Obviously (to me) it was originally just a district, before a town was formed, and the county named. And Union District was formed from "Old 96 District!"
James Gibbs and his youngest son, Hiram Gibbs, apparently received grants of land, 500 acres for his father in 1769 in "Old 96 District," and a land grant of 640 acres for James in 1772 in Fairforest near the Lower Fairforest Baptist Church.
But here's the Lower Fairforest Baptist Church on a modern map, in Union County SC.
Just the passage of time.
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