Edgefield SC where the Rountrees settled

From Wikipedia with editing by myself...go here for whole article, as I'm only posting around the time when I know my ancestors lived there.

The county of Edgefield, South Carolina

History

"... the area which later became Edgefield County was a vast wilderness of virgin forests, occasional prairies, great cane brakes and sparkling rivers and creeks. It was bisected by the fall line, with sandy soils on the southeast side of this line growing primarily pine trees, and rich clay soils on the northwest side growing primarily oak and hickory. Wildlife was abundant with deer and turkey, but also with elk, buffalo (bison), panther and bear.

"The initial settlement of present-day Edgefield County occurred in the quarter century between 1750 and 1775. Some settlers came up from the South Carolina low country but more poured down "the Great Wagon Road" from the colonies to the north.

[Great post describing the Great Wagon Road in detail here! You could actually follow it from Philadelphia to Edegfield County!]

"In this colonial period the economy was primarily a subsistence one in which the settlers consumed what they raised. Initially there were no courts or law enforcement here, but beginning in the mid-1760s, the law-abiding settlers began their struggle to bring law, order and government to the "backcountry" of South Carolina.

"The colonial period was followed by the prolonged conflict with Great Britain which began in 1775. By this time there were many settlers living in present-day Edgefield County and almost all of them were involved, on one side or the other, in the Revolutionary War. Some Edgefieldians were die-hard patriots from the outset who believed that the American colonies should be free and independent. Others were loyal to the king who had granted them land and provided a home for them in the New World. Still others wanted no part of the conflict but were inevitably drawn into it by partisans on each side. Finally, others were strictly opportunists who switched sides back and forth as they perceived their best interest. The conflict was, in this area, a bitter civil war in which personal vendettas often superseded politics as the cause for fighting. Cousins fought against cousins and neighbors against neighbors. When General Lighthorse Harry Lee later wrote about the Revolution in this area, he stated that "in no part of the South was the war fought with such asperity as in this quarter. It often sank into barbarity."

"Following the Revolution, citizens turned their attention to establishing local government and to rebuilding the economy. In 1785 the 96 District was divided into smaller counties. The boundaries of Edgefield County were established at that time and the Courthouse site was designated. Although a substantial but unsuccessful effort was made in the late 1780s to bring tobacco to Edgefield County as a money crop, short staple cotton began to assume that role in the late 1790s. For the next two decades the cultivation of cotton spread like wildfire across the county. The rich clay soils of the piedmont proved ideal for growing cotton. African slaves were brought in to provide the labor for cotton cultivation, resulting in a mushrooming of the slave population of Edgefield County. During the first two decades of the 19th century, Edgefield County, like most of piedmont South Carolina, began to experience unprecedented prosperity.

"With the construction of the jail and court house at the designated county seat beginning in 1785, a village began to grow up around the public buildings: first, houses for the public officials, then a tavern, then a store, gradually other houses and then other stores. By 1811 a school was established, then several churches and more houses. By 1826 South Carolina architect Robert Mills could describe Edgefield Courthouse Village as "a neat little village ... [with] between forty and fifty [houses]. The buildings are neat, commodious, and generally painted . ... The population is estimated at 300."

"In the antebellum era, Edgefield was not the market town of the District. In the Plantation economy, the plantation owners took their cotton to market in Augusta or Hamburg and bought the majority of their supplies from merchants in those market towns. The merchants of Edgefield Courthouse Village primarily filled in the needs of the planters between trips to the larger market towns.

"While planting, politics and violence captured the imagination of most white Edgefieldians, a number of other bright young men looked for opportunities in industry and commerce.

"Dr. Abner Landrum developed a pottery industry which was to have a major impact on Edgefield for more than half a century. [As a potter, I was interested to see this industry included in the history of the county.]

"Edgefield has rich clay deposits which provide the source for alkaline-glazed stoneware pottery which was developed by Dr. Abner Landrum in the early 19th century. The slave potter David Drake, who produced many large storage jars in the period between 1830 and 1870, was literate, signed his work, and became more widely known as [a] popular artist a century after his death.^[6] Unsigned pottery from kilns in Pottersville and Edgefield today are known by the names of their owners; the artists were largely undocumented.

"The upland area also was developed for cotton plantations, after invention of the cotton gin made growing short-staple cotton profitable. Several mansions and a plantation have been preserved from this era: Blocker House, Cedar Grove, Darby Plantation, and together with the Edgefield Historic District, Horn Creek Baptist Church, and Pottersville, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[7]

Horn Creek Baptist Church, Edgefield SC

Horn Creek Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located near Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina. It is a one-room meeting house style frame church building on a fieldstone foundation. A door behind the pulpit leads to a creek for baptizing. The church’s adjoining cemetery has excellent iron work. It is one of the oldest Baptist churches in the South Carolina Upcountry, having been incorporated in 1790.^[2][3]

Blocker House facad

 One of the oldest surviving houses in the area, the Blocker House is an important visual example of eighteenth century living in Edgefield. Originally built in 1775 as an overseer’s house by Michael Blocker, a Prussian émigré, the house was later used by the Blocker family after their large plantation house burned. In Edgefield, Blocker became known as “the Colonizer” because he sent his son John back to the Fatherland to persuade emigrants to settle in Carolina. The last member of the Blocker family to own the house was Mrs. Nancy Brooks Blocker, an aunt of U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks. After being owned by the Blocker family, the Hughes family purchased the home. One Hughes family member, Dr. William Crawford Gorgas, was noted for his control of yellow fever and malaria in the Panama Canal Zone. The house is a two-story white clapboard with a one-story shed-roofed porch supported by four original, square columns. Two original end chimneys and double front doors are intact. Michael Blocker brought magnolias and cedars to the area for his home, and the centuries old trees still stand on the property and add to the historic landscape. The family cemetery, with its large graves, is a town landmark dating back to 1811, as are several outbuildings. Listed in the National Register May 14, 1971.{4}

Cedar Grove, Edgefield SC Photo by By Bigskybill - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39175783

Cedar Grove is a historic plantation house located near Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina. It was built between 1790 and 1805, and is a large two-story, Federal style house with a white clapboard exterior and high gable roof. It features a double-tiered portico with delicate Adamesque detail. This home has many unusual architectural features including a barrel-vaulted hallway, elaborately carved mantelpieces, and the right front parlor retains an early hand-painted French wallpaper.
The property features a landscape of tall cedars, as well as old English boxwoods and traces of an original rose garden like at John Blocker's father’s home, the Blocker House. The gardens at Cedar Grove were reputedly laid out by Andre Michaux, the renowned botanist who had designed the gardens at Middleton Place in Charleston, South Carolina. The famous English boxwoods of Cedar Grove were sold during the Great Depression to the Rockefeller family and placed in the gardens of the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, Virginia.{5}


Pottersville is a historic archaeological site located near Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina. It was the site of the Pottersville kiln, which was in existence until the American Civil War when it was abandoned. The kiln was involved in the production and distribution of the alkaline glazed wares. The Pottersville kiln site is now a large mound in a grassy field atop a hill. An adjoining depression may have been the kiln itself with the waste dumps now the mound.^{{8}
A photo is given showing a diorama of a possible pottery yard, but is under copyright, so I can only give the link, not the photo.{9}}


 {2} Ruhr, Nancy F.; Willette W. Fay. "Horn Creek Baptist Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
{3} Horn Creek Baptist Church, Edgefield County (off S.C. Sec. Rd. 133, Edgefield vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 5 July 2012
{4} National Register.SC 
{5) Wikipedia
{6} Dave the Slave Potter". Our Infamous History. Edgefield, South Carolina. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
{7} National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
{8} Pottersville, Edgefield County (Address Restricted)" 
 {9} dave-slave-potter

 
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And on another topic, today, Feb. 12, is the birth anniversary of Elizabeth "Bettie" Bass Rogers, my great grandmother. She was born in Old Waverly, San Jacinto County, Texas in 1860, and lived until July 17, 1924, when she died in Galveston, TX.

Richardson Roundtree, Revolutionary War and War of 1812

Richardson Roundtree, my 5th great grandfather, born between 1738-45...

Another Ancestry member posted this:
His name is recorded in the list of "Persons Receiving payments for Duty Done in Colonel Brandon's Regiment" in "A History of Union county" chapter II, page 20-22. Published by Union co Historical Foundation 1977." Notes GSW 2000 (AA 66334, X3098; McCall IIm 55)
Source: hagers1 in 2010
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Col Brandon's 2nd Regiment SC Militia

(quoting from Ancestry below)
Brandon's Regiment
"Reading about the time leading up to the Independence and the Revolutionary War fighting in the Up Country of South Carolina we see some of his neighbors and church members were Tories; who were the Loyalist to the Crown of England. This on top of arguments amongst themselves as to the advantages of becoming Patriots and the constant battling against the Indians, we have what became known as the "Hot Bed of Contention". Alot of activity and many meetings began to take place out on some of the large plantations. Sides were being drawn and groups being formed. It wasn't long before the South Carolina militia was formed.

Union County at the time was located on the edge of what was considered the frontier, which the Indians still considered their land. With the Whigs rebelling against the Crown, the British sent a party of men into the Cherokee Indian Territory to encourage the Indians to raze and kill these rebellious Whigs living near or on their land. To protect the Loyalists frontier settlers the British told them to hang a white cloth or flag on the front of their home and instructed the Indians not to harm these people or their homes with the white flags. The British felt this would make the Whigs want the protection of the British Army and therefore become Loyalists again.

What the British didn’t realize was that the Indians didn’t care who was Patriot or a Loyalist, they want all the setters off their lands and started razing and killing any settlers they came across. With the loss of family members or the loss of their home, many of these Loyalist and the ones that didn’t want involved in the War, became Patriots against the Crown because of this action.

South Carolina assembled a militia to go and put down these Indian uprisings..Williamson’s Cherokee Campaign of 1776. They marched up the mountains of the frontier under the command of Lieutenant Renny Belue. Their tour was for six weeks at Fort Prince. Williamson’s Cherokee Campaign lasted longer where they destroyed every Cherokee Indian settlement or home they found and killing many Cherokee men, women, and children.

The Revolutionary War lasted almost eight years starting in 1775, in the northern colonies and ending in 1783, with the surrender of General Cornwallis. It wasn’t until after the fall of Charleston in May, 1780, when the fighting had moved into the Carolinas. There were several skirmishes and two important battles in the Union District; Musgrove’s Mill August 18, 1780, and Blackstocks Battle November 20 1780.

Colonel Brandon also was involved in the October 7, 1780 Battle at Kings Mountain defeating Lt. Colonel Ferguson’s regiment of 1000 men and the January 17, 1781 Battle at Cowpens where they defeated Lt. Colonel Tarleton’s two regiments.  Two turning point battles of the Revolutionary War. What the British failed to realize was the back county Carolina colonist were skilled marksmen as hunters and many were experienced Indian fighters. With these two battles keeping Lt. Col. Ferguson and Tarleton’s regiments engaged in South Carolina, General Cornwallis couldn’t engage his full army against George Washington’s army in the north.Thus, these Carolinians played a most important part in the turning of the Revoluntionary War.

Source: Ancestry member hutzlern in 2012
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  It is not known which battles Richardson Rountree participated in. We do know, he fought under Col. Brandon's SC militia, 2nd Spartan Regiment.

 Brief History of Regiment:
Sometime around September of 1775, the Spartan Regiment was organized and John Thomas became its Colonel. This regiment of men was made up of men from the upcountry. The regiment, loaded with ammunition from Fort Charlotte, was soon ready for engagement. In December of 1775, it participated in the "Snow Campaign."

Spartanburg County, South Carolina bears a proud Revolutionary War heritage. The county has more Revolutionary War engagement sites than practically any other locale in the United States. The fiercely independent upstate settlers rallied ‘round the cause' early on, with the Spartan Regiment being formed in the late summer of 1775.

As independent as they were, some could not see the sense in breaking away from the crown. Staunchly Loyalist settlers seethed beside neighbor Patriots. The first engagement seen by local troops involved not a single British soldier. That winter, the Spartan Regiment was bloodied along with other Patriot troops in a fight against regional Loyalists in the Battle of the Great Cane Break, along the Reedy River.

In July 1776, a new threat erupted. Alarmed at the news of a British fleet at Charleston, the Cherokee swept over the frontier borders in a maelstrom of violence. Whites fled to forts, but hundreds of settlers in the border areas were killed before a counterattack could be formed. In early 1777, the Spartan Regiment was split into two - the1st Spartan Regiment and the 2nd Spartan Regiment.

Colonists all along the western frontier raised a large militia, which pursued the Indian army. As was often the case when European and Indian cultures clashed, many noncombatants suffered. The white militia destroyed scores of Cherokee villages and by mid-1777, Indian aggression collapsed. A treaty was signed in July 1777 forcing the Cherokee to relinquish most of their lands in South Carolina

The British regained the colonists’ full attention in 1780, when they captured Charleston in May. The Redcoats began their trek inland over three main routes. Initially, the Patriots thought they were whipped. Their situation seemed hopeless, as they faced the might of the greatest military power on earth. Many laid down their arms and surrendered. Benjamin Roebuck did the opposite - he raised his own regiment - Roebuck's Batallion of Spartan Regiment.

The war very well could have ended then, but for the British’s savage violation of their own terms of surrender. At the Waxhaws at the end of the month, a troop of Virginians were slaughtered after throwing down their arms. Homes of independence-minded Carolinians were burned; their properties seized. The Patriots’ anger rose.

The straw that broke the camel’s back was the British order, in direct violation of their own terms of surrender, that the Patriots don the red coat to serve the crown. The Rebels took the order another way, concluding that the violation of their surrender released them from their parole. The time for peace had past.

The clashes that ignited in the ensuing months in Spartanburg County sent shock waves throughout the world. The area saw six engagements in four weeks, beginning in July with the first battle of Cedar Spring. In quick succession and escalating violence, there quickly followed the battles of Gowen’s Fort, Earle’s Ford, and Fort Prince; then came the second battle of Cedar Spring and the battle of Musgrove Mill. These battles set the stage for two decisive engagements.

Nearly two months later, Patriot forces assembled from several states scored a major victory at the nearby battle of Kings Mountain. The Patriot forces suffered less than 30 killed and some 60 wounded, but the troops of the crown bled red – nearly 160 killed, about 150 wounded and a staggering 760-odd taken prisoner. Most of the crown’s casualties were American Loyalists.

Kings Mountain was a great victory, but it was a merciless one. The British had not seen fit to honor their own terms of surrender. Now 760 men looked to the Rebels for compassion, but they found only hardened hearts. The prisoners were marched to the North Carolina foothills, where the Patriots held a trial and found 36 men guilty of Loyalist atrocities. They were sentenced to hang, though all but nine were pardoned

Three months after Kings Mountain, the conflict returned in full fury to the Spartanburg County area, when Continental General Daniel Morgan gave British Colonel Banastre Tarleton “a devil of a whipping” at a crossroads known as the Cowpens. The battle at this holding area for cattle being driven to market put the British on the road to surrender at Yorktown.

After the war, some Loyalists fled to Canada. The settlers returned to the land, having subdued both the Cherokee and British threats. More settlements grew up in the area, and the new district began to form its government. Court officers originally met at several plantations, but legislative pressure forced them to choose an official site. In January 1787, they approved the purchase of two acres of land from Thomas Williamson for five shillings. The new courthouse was smack in the middle of the county. The town of Spartanburg was born.
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 Thanks to Ancestry member, Hutzlern, in 2012 for giving this writeup. 

And about the War of 1812.  Richardson had lived in Edgefield SC since the census of 1800 or before, and still in 1810 when he was 60-70 years old (if he had been born in 1740). 

 But there he is in 1812 as a South Carolinian fighting the British again.  

U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815

Name	Richardson Roundtree
Company	1 REG'T (MEANS') SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA.
Rank - Induction	CORPORAL
Rank - Discharge	CORPORAL
Roll Box	179
Microfilm Publication	M602

 He died in 1819, the same year that a bill of sale exists for his selling a slave.  As mentioned elsewhere, his two sons James and Daniel were asked to inventory his estate because he died intestate...no will.  Daniel was his youngest son, and James was probably his half brother.  If his second wife died in 1782 as Ancestry trees say, the last 4 of his children had a different mother, unknown at this time.

Richardson Roundtree and a Revolutionary War story

Richardson Roundtree (or Rountree) was born in New Kent County, VA in between 1738 and 1745, in Blissland Parish (There's also a St. Peter's Parish in that county.)

New Kent County was established in 1654 from York County^[3] and was organized and settled by William Claiborne.^[4] The county's name originated because several prominent inhabitants, including William Claiborne, recently had been forced from their settlement at Kent Island, Maryland by Lord Baltimore upon the formation of Maryland.^[5] Claiborne had named the island for his birthplace in Kent, England. Source Wikipedia.

Richardson's parents were William Rountree, Abt.1700-1766 and Dorcas Dudley Rountree 1703-1766.

Colonists against one another - Tory vs. Patriot

Richardson is about in the middle of 15 siblings (according to Ancestry). The following quote is on Ancestry under his name, a well documented discussion of Dr. CWOKR's research.

"He is not mentioned, so far as I can determine, in any record until his father’s will, dated 1 October 1765 and proven 16 September 1766 in Goochland County.[1] The will left him 200 acres, one slave and five cattle. He must have left Virginia almost immediately after his father’s death, for he was of South Carolina on 25 September 1768, when he sold to his brother Randall Rountree the 200 acres in Goochland County which was “…part of the tract on which William Rountree, deceased, lived and devised by his last will and testament to the said Richardson Rountree.”[2] This deed appears to have been a mortgage, for on 27 November 1770, Richardson Rountree, still “of the Province of South Carolina”, made a completed sale to his brother Randall to facilitate Randall’s sale of the land.[3]"

He is probably the “Richard” Rountree for whom at least two surveys were made just north of Fairforest Creek in 1771 and 1773 in the predecessor counties of Union District.[4] By the time the Ninety-six District was formed, he was living there. Richardson Rountree’s name appears on both the grand jury list and the petit jury list for the “Spartan” Division (later Union District) of Ninety-six District in February 1779.[5] His brother Turner Rountree, who was still in Virginia in 1771, had joined him in South Carolina for Richard and Turner appear consecutively on both jury lists. 

He is an accepted DAR patriot, based on a records that he engaged in “militia duty in Brandons Regt., before & since the fall of Charlestown.”[6] A grandson, Andrew Jackson Rountree (born in 1818, the son of Richardson’s youngest child, Daniel Rountree), gave an account in the 1890s of this service:[7]

“…He is of South Carolina Stock, his grandfather and father having lived in Edgefield District. Richard (sic) Rountree, his grandfather, was living there during the revolutionary war, and was a very wealthy planter. He joined the patriot army, serving as a captain, and on one occasion while at home an incident occurred which showed his great nerve and courage. He was known as a man of wealth, and believed to be possessed of no small amount of money. This was a tempting bait to the tories, who, learning of his presence at home, surprised and captured him, and attempted to force him to divulge its hiding place. With determined courage he held out against them, although they went to the desperate extreme of tying and leaving him in the swamp. After the tories left, a faithful negro released him after he had been in the swamp two days and saved his life, and he lived to raise a large family. This remarkable man had a family of eighteen children. Three daughters remained in South Carolina. One of these married Wiley Barry; another Samuel Stalnaker, and a third Thomas Goldsmith. Five of the daughters settled in Jasper County, Ga., one marrying Jefferson Smith, another Cary Cox, another Asa Cox, another Stevens and the fifth Wilborn. [note the Wilborn is my ancestor.]

 We also have a lengthier account of the same story from a great-grandson, William T. Goldsmith, writing about 1900.[9]

Following the war, on 3 April 1786 Richardson was granted 316 acres on Buffalo Creek, a branch of the Fairforest. He sold part of this grant on 21 December 1790 to Ephraim Wilborn with Richard Powell and his son James Rowntree as witnesses.[10] A few earlier plats for Richardson Rountree exist in the South Carolina archives for lands in the same vicinity, but I have not obtained them. 

 Richardson Roundtree was in the 1790 census of Union County, in Col. Thomas Brandon’s Regiment, with two males under sixteen, seven females, and six slaves.  

The 1790 household should have included eight females, counting his wife, unless one of the daughters married earlier than is thought. Thus we must consider the possibility that Mildred might have been a second wife. Richardson Rountree’s wife is first mentioned on 15 March 1793, when Richardson and his wife Mildred sold 125 acres to Thomas Wilborn.[11] Then on 1 January 1794 “Richardson Rountree, planter, and Mildred his wife”, of Union County, sold the remaining 100 acres of the 1786 grant.[12]It appears that following this sale, Richardson and Mildred, along with several minor children, moved southward into the northern part of Edgefield District. Several grown and married children were left behind in the Union County area 

 Richardson is enumerated in both the 1800 and 1810 censuses of Edgefield District, as head of a household of seven whites and five blacks in 1800 and of five whites and seven blacks in 1810.[13] Both censuses suggest (as does the 1790 census) that that there might have been one additional son who predeceased his father. His wife Mildred was still living on 3 February 1814 when she and Richardson made a deed of gift to their son Daniel Rountree.[14] She evidently died sometime in the next five years, for Richardson’s estate records do not mention her.

Richardson died intestate in Edgefield District, evidently in March 1819. On 26 March 1819 his sons James and Daniel Rountree applied for letters of administration. They were made coadministrators on 20 April 1819. James and Daniel were the only surviving sons left in South Carolina by this time. Daniel, the younger son by about 30 years, carried the bulk of the administrator duties, apparently because James was living in Union County. Richardson Rountree’s estate sale on 18 and 19 May 1819 included purchases by several of the children, and the settlements of the legatees identify them.[15] These records make it clear Mildred had died before Richardson. 

Mildred was identified as “Mildred Hart” in a genealogy published in 1937, without supporting evidence.[17]  However, none of the earlier published records of this family (see above) identify her as a Hart. An old theory that she was the daughter of John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, has long been disproved.

Analysis of Richardson’s estate records[18] identifies the same twelve children named by Andrew J. Rountree. If, as Andrew said, there were six more, they must have died before their father and without heirs of their own. And all but one must have died before 1790, for the censuses of 1790, 1800, and 1810 fit the known family with the exception of one son.

...5. Mary Rountree (1772 – 1851?) married Elijah Wilborn, probably after the 1790 census (where only a Epraim Willburn is enumerated). He is in the 1800 Union District census with one male and four females under 10. He reportedly died in 1819 in Union County.  Mary is said to have died in Panola County, Mississippi in 1851. They had at least three children – Mary, Jane, and William Rountree Wilbourn.

[I have left out all the other 11 children's information which she details explicitly]
(Source: Ancestry member drcwokr 2013) See footnotes at end of posting.
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The following is my version of his life, and his 2 wives.  It may prove to be somewhat fictional, as more documents show people were alive when I thought they had died, or they had died when I thought they were alive...

When he was a young man in 1760  he married Mathilda Anderson in Goochland County, VA, and then they started raising their family, having about 9 children before Mathilda died in 1774.  Before that time, Richardson had acquired property in South Carolina, and by 1768 (apparently) he had two children born there, but then returned to VA for the next several children's births. His wife, Maathilda probably died in VA.

In 1775 he remarried a younger woman, Mary Mildred Hart from Maryland. Her father may (or may not) have been the signer of the Declaration of Independence, Hon. John Hart.  Richardson and Mary Mildred had another 9 children born in the 96th District, or Union County, SC.  Mary Mildred Hart may have died in 1782, but he fathered 3 more children after that date.  Either the date of her death is wrong, or he married again and we don't know who that wife was.

Richardson served in the War of Independence under the South Carolina forces.  More about that tomorrow...
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Footnotes of Ancestry member drcwokr:
[1] Goochland County Deed Book 9, p38-39 (will) and p39-40 (inventory)
[2] Goochland County Deed Book 9, p207
[3] Goochland County Deed Book 10, p123
[4] Reference not noted. Land indices at the SC archives show plats in what was then Craven and Granville counties to a Richard Rountree on the waters fo the Pacolet River just north of Fairforest Creek in 1771 and 1773.
[5] The Jury Lists of South Carolina 1778-1779, Hendrix & Lindsay, ed., (1975) p80, p102. Turner and Richardson Rountree appear consecutively on both the grand jury list and the petit jury list, both dated sometime after February 1779, for the Spartan Division of 96 District (which included what was later Union County),
[6] South Carolina Stub Entries to Indents, Vol. X, p178
[7] The Memoirs of Georgia, (1895), Vol. 1, pp377-78
[8] Mr. Rountree’s information on his uncles and aunts is credibly accurate, and it provides a measure of proof that our William Rountree was indeed a son of Richardson Rountree.. It is apparent, however, that he mixed up Thomas (who died in Tennessee) and William (who settled near Huntsville).
[9] Historical Collections of the Joseph Habersham Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, Vol. II (Atlanta, 1902) pp30, 148
[10] Union County Deed Book C, p33
[11] Union County Deed Book C, p364[12] Union County Deed Book C, p351]
[13] Edgefield District 1800 census, p165: Richardson Roundtree 02001-12001-5. 1810 census, p42: Richardson Rountree 10201-00001-7.
[14] Edgefield Deed Book JJ, p?.
[15] Edgefield District probate records, box 25, piece 891.
[16] Tobacco and Slaves, Allan Kulikoff (1986), p56-7, quoting studies of Virginia’s Northern Neck and Middlesex County, Virginia.
[17] The Compendium of American Genealogy, Frederick A. Virkus, Vol. 6 (1937), p106.
[These genealogies were contributed by correspondents and published without verification.]
[18] In loose fibreboard boxes, Edgefield County
[19] SC Revolutionary Indents, “for service in Brandon’s Regiment”.
[20] Union District Deed Book B, p34.
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http://www.genfiles.com/rountree/RichardsonRountree.htm

And if all of that isn't enough to be mind-boggling, Richardson Roundtree also was engaged in the War of 1812.  More about him tomorrow...