Generation No. 5
16. Pierce Butler32,33,34,35,36,37,38, born 11 Jul 1744 in County Carlow, Ireland; died 15 Feb 1822 in Philadelphia, PA. He was the son of 32. fifth Baronet of Cloughgr Sir Richard Butler and 33. Henrietta Percy. He married 17. Mary Middleton 10 Jan 1771 in Edgefield, SC39.
17. Mary Middleton, born 1748 in Beaufort, Beaufort, SC; died 1790 in Prince William, SC. She was the daughter of 34. Col. Thomas Middleton and 35. Mary Bull.
Notes for Pierce Butler:
BUTLER, Pierce, a Delegate and a Senator from South Carolina; born in County Carlow, Ireland, July 11, 1744; pursued preparatory studies; came to America in 1758 as an officer in the British Army; resigned his commission prior to the Revolutionary War and settled in Charles Town (now Charleston), S.C.; planter; aided the American cause during the Revolutionary War; delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787; member of the convention which framed the Federal Constitution in 1787; elected to the United States Senate in 1789 for the term ending March 3, 1793; reelected December 5, 1792, and served from March 4, 1789, to October 25, 1796, when he resigned; again elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Ewing Colhoun and served from November 4, 1802, until his resignation November 21, 1804; died in Philadelphia, Pa., February 15, 1822; interment in Christ Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa
Introdution
Pierce Butler, who represented South Carolina at the Constitutional Convention, was a man of startling contrasts. As late as 1772 he was a ranking officer in those British units charged with suppressing the growing colonial resistance to Parliament. In fact, a detachment from his unit, the 29th Regiment of Foot , had fired the shots in the "Boston Massacre" of 1770, thereby dramatically intensifying the confrontation between the colonies and England. But by 1779 Butler, now an officer in South Carolina's militia and a man with a price on his head, was organizing American forces to fight the invading Redcoats . Butler lost his considerable estates and fortune during the British occupation of South Carolina, but at the end of the Revolutionary War he was among the first to call for reconciliation with the Loyalists and a renewal of friendly relations with the former enemy. Although an aristocrat to the manor born, Butler became a leading spokesman for the frontiersmen and impoverished western settlers. Finally, this Patriot, always a forceful and eloquent advocate of the rights of the common man during the debate over the Constitution, was also the proud owner of a sizable number of slaves.
The unifying force in this fascinating career was Butler's strong and enduring sense of nationalism. An Irish nobleman, he severed his ties with the old world to embrace the concept of a permanent union of the thirteen states. His own military and political experiences then led him to the conviction that a strong central government , as the bedrock of political and economic security, was essential to protect the rights not only of his own social class and adopted state but also of all classes of citizens and all the states.
The Patriot
Pierce Butler was the third son of Sir Richard Butler, the fifth Baronet of Cloughgrenan and a member of the Irish Parliament. Traditionally British aristocrats directed younger sons into the military or the church, and Butler's father was no exception. In the honored fashion of the times, he bought his son a commission in the 22d Regiment of Foot (today's Cheshire Regiment). Butler demonstrated both military skill and the advantages of powerful and wealthy parents in his subsequent career in the British Army. His regiment came to North America in 1758 to participate in the French and Indian War and served in the campaigns that resulted in the capture of Canada from the French. Butler later transferred to the 29th Foot (today's Worcestershire and Sherwood Forresters Regiment), before returning to Ireland in 1762.
The overwhelming success of the forces of the British Empire and its allies ended French territorial claims in North America and brought about profound changes in the nature of the mother country's relationship with its American colonies. To occupy Canada and other new lands won during the war, Parliament for the first time ordered the permanent stationing of large British garrisons in North America. Because the government had incurred heavy war debts, Parliament chose to support these troops by levying new taxes on the colonists. Americans generally disagreed with Parliament over the need for the garrisons, arguing that their local militias could handle the defense of the colonies. They also opposed the new taxes that began with the Stamp Act of 1765.
Butler's regiment was serving on garrison duty in Nova Scotia at the time, but he could not long escape becoming embroiled in the growing controversy. In 1768 the intensity of protests over Parliament's taxes in Massachusetts led London to order the 29th Foot, along with a second infantry regiment, to Boston to maintain the King's peace. In 1771, the year after the "Massacre," Butler, now a major, married Mary Middleton, the daughter of a wealthy South Carolina planter and colonial leader. Marriage led him to seek new directions, for when the 29th received orders to return to Britain in 1773, he decided to leave the army. He sold his commission and used the proceeds to purchase a plantation in the coastal region of South Carolina, adapting to the lifestyle of a southern landowner with apparent ease. Management skills learned in the military undoubtedly proved useful as he increased his land holdings to over 10,000 acres (40 km²). He also began to accumulate a small fleet of coastal vessels to support his expanding business ventures.
When war broke out between Great Britain and the colonies in 1775, Butler joined several other former British officers (including the future generals Horatio Gates, Charles Lee, and Richard Montgomery) in casting his lot with the American cause. In Butler's case the success of his business interests as well as the important role played by the Middleton family in the Patriot movement in South Carolina clearly influenced his decision. Butler's father-in-law had been the president of the First Continental Congress, and a brother-in-law would soon sign the Declaration of Independence. Butler himself lost little time in expressing his patriotic sentiments by standing for local election. He began his public service in 1776 when his neighbors elected him to a seat in the South Carolina legislature, a post that he continued to hold until 1789.
The Soldier
Although bad health prevented Butler from assuming an active combat role, he offered his military talents to his state, and in early 1779 Governor John Rutledge turned to the former Redcoat to help reorganize South Carolina's defenses. Butler assumed the post of the state's adjutant general, a position that carried the rank of brigadier general, although he continued to prefer to be addressed as major, his highest combat rank.
The decision to reorganize South Carolina's defenses followed in the wake of a shift in Britain's war strategy. By 1778 the King and his ministers found themselves faced with a new military situation. Their forces in the northern and middle states had reached a stalemate with Washington's continentals, now more adequately supplied and better trained after Valley Forge. The British also faced the prospect of Frances entering the war as an active partner of the Americans. In response, they adopted a "southern strategy." Assuming that the many Loyalists in the southern states would rally to the Crown if supported by regular troops, they planned a conquest of the rebellious colonies one at a time, moving north from Georgia. They launched their new strategy with the capture of Savannah in December 1778.
Butler joined in the effort to mobilize South Carolina's citizen-soldiers to repulse the threatened British invasion and later helped prepare the state units used in the counterattack designed to drive the enemy from Georgia. During the operation, which climaxed with an attempted investiture of Savannah, Butler served as a volunteer aide to General Lachlan McIntosh. The hastily raised and poorly prepared militia troops were no match for the well-trained British defenders, and the effort to relieve Savannah ended in failure.
In 1780 the British captured Charleston, and with it most of South Carolina's civil government and military forces. Butler, as part of a command group deliberately left outside the city, escaped. During the next two years he employed his considerable military talents in developing a counterstrategy to defeat the enemy's southern operations. He and his fellow South Carolinians, along with their neighbors in occupied portions of Georgia and North Carolina, refused to submit to London's demand that they surrender. Instead, they organized a resistance movement. Butler, as adjutant general, worked with former members of the militia and Continental Army veterans such as Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter to integrate their various partisan efforts into a unified campaign, in conjunction with the operations of the Southern Army under the command of Horatio Gates and later Nathanael Greene.
These partisan tactics involved considerable expense and personal risk for Butler who, as a former Royal officer, remained a special target for the British occupation forces. Several times he barely avoided capture. Once, surprised by the sudden arrival of enemy dragoons in the middle of the night, he escaped by sneaking from his home dressed only in his nightshirt. On another occasion, a British regiment, repeatedly denounced by Butler for plundering civilian properties?he called it a "band of jailbirds"?placed a bounty on his head. Throughout the closing phases of the southern campaign he personally contributed cash and supplies to help sustain the American forces and also assisted in the administration of prisoner-of-war facilities.
The Statesman
Military operations in the latter months of the Revolution left Butler a poor man. Many of his plantations and ships were destroyed, and the international trade on which the majority of his income depended was in shambles. These economic realities forced him to travel to Europe when the war ended in an effort to secure loans and establish new markets. Betraying a singular tolerance for a foe who had caused him much personal harm, Butler took the occasion to enroll his son in a London school and to engage a new minister from among the British clergy for his church in South Carolina. In late 1785 he returned home, where he became an especially outspoken advocate of reconciliation with former Loyalists and equal representation for the residents of the backcountry. Testifying to his growing political influence, the South Carolina legislature asked Butler to represent the state at the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia in 1787.
Butler's experiences as a soldier and planter-legislator influenced his forceful support for a strong union of the states at the Convention. As a military leader during the campaigns in the south he had come to appreciate the need for a national approach to defense. As a planter and merchant, especially after his trip to Europe, he came to understand that economic growth and international respect depended upon a strong central government. At the same time, he energetically supported the special interests of his region.
This dual emphasis on national and state concerns puzzled his fellow delegates, just as other apparent inconsistencies would bother associates throughout the rest of his political career. For example, Butler favored ratification of the Constitution, yet absented himself from the South Carolina convention that approved it. Later, he would serve three separate terms in the United States Senate, but this service was marked by several abrupt changes in party allegiance. Beginning as a Federalist, he switched to the Jeffersonian party in 1795, only to become a political independent in 1804. These changes confused the voters of his state, who rejected his subsequent bids for high public offices, although they did elect him three more times to the state legislature as an easterner who spoke on behalf of the west.
Butler retired from politics in 1805 and spent much time in Philadelphia where he had previously established a summer home. He continued his business ventures, becoming one of the wealthiest men in America with huge land holdings in several states. Like other Founding Fathers from his region, Butler also continued to support the institution of slavery. But unlike Washington or Thomas Jefferson, for example, Butler never acknowledged or grasped the fundamental inconsistency in simultaneously defending the rights of the poor and supporting slavery.
The contradictions in this fascinating man led associates to label him an "eccentric" and an "enigma." Within his own lights, however, he followed a steady path along lines which were intended to produce the maximum of liberty and respect for those individuals whom he classed as citizens. His later political maneuverings were animated by his desire to maintain a strong central government, but a government that could never ride roughshod over the rights of the private citizen. He opposed the policies of the Federalists under Alexander Hamilton because he decided that they had sacrificed the interests of westerners and had sought to force their policies on the opposition; he later split with Jefferson and the Democrats for the same reason. Butler never wavered from his central emphasis on the role of the common man. Late in life he summarized his view: "Our System is little better than [a] matter of Experiment.... much must depend on the morals and manners of the people at large." This was certainly an interesting view, coming as it did from a former member of the British hereditary aristocracy.
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Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 24 November 6, 1786-February 29, 1788
Portrait of Pierce Butler
386 August 1, 1787
the Governmt. of the whole. I hope We may succeed. Our Country expect much of Us. We have satt every day since the 25th of May till last Saturday when We adjourned for one week---;having placed my Family here, Philadelphia not being so healthy, I embraced the opportunity of Visiting them. I go back to Philada. on Sunday; and shall return home the first week in November. In future You may write me, if You please, as may my Son & friend Huger, by the Packett when no Vessel offers immediately for Charleston---;when You write by the Packett You may put Your letters under Cover to Mr Meade of Philadelphia. I mean such of Your letters as You think can not reach this by November---;any that will get here before then may be directed to myself at Convention in Philada. I observe by the publick Prints that the Mynhiers tired of the blessings of peace and tranquility are courting the Curses of Civil War and Domestick strife---;much good may do them. If they had tasted as much of it as my ill luck forced on me, they woud putt away the bitter draught. The Political State of things in America prevents Me for the present, from gratifying the first wish of my heart. I hope the day is not far distant when Our Goverment will shew stronger features of permenancy---; then I shall gladly embrace an early oppy of testifying in person, the sincerity and warmth with which I subscribe myself, Dear sir, Yr Very affecte. friend, P. Butler.
[P.S.] My family Unite in presenting their best regards to Mrs Butler & Your flock.
I rejoice at Your being pleased with my friend Doctor Cobham. He is a good Man, possessing the strongest Phillanthropy.
RC (British Museum: Additional Manuscripts, 16,603). Enclosed in a letter addressed to his son Thomas at "Doctor Butlers Chene Walk, Chelsea, London." Endorsed: "Recd. 20 Sept. Ansd. 2d Octr."
1 A writer and lecturer, the Revd. Weeden Butler (1742--;1823) preached at the fashionable Charlotte Street Chapel in London. He was also master of aclassical school at Chelsea where Pierce Butler had enrolled his oldest child, Thomas, in 1784. DNB. For Pierce Butler's distinguished Irish lineage, his service in the British army before establishing himself in South Carolina in 1773, and his postwar visit to the British Isles, see Francis Coghlan, "Pierce Butler, 1744--;1822, First Senator from South Carolina," South Carolina Historical Magazine 78 (April 1977): 104--;19.
2 Butler was a South Carolina delegate to the Philadelphia Convention.
3 That is, Mary Middleton Butler, daughter and heiress of Thomas Middleton and Mary Bull. See Bio. Dir. of S.C. House, 3:109.
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Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 24 November 6, 1786-February 29, 1788
Pierce Butler to Weeden Butler
Dear Sir,(1) New York August the 1st 1787.
Though I came here to change the scene, and pass two or three days in idleness, yet I cannot let the Packett Sail without expressing my Thanks to You for Your two, as usual, very friendly and very acceptable favours of the 20th of February and 18th of April. The former was forwarded to me to Philadelphia in July;(2) the latter I received yesterday. Allow me first to Congratulate You, which I do with real sincerity, on the restoration of Mrs Butler's health, and Your own recovery; the tidings were highly gratifying to all my family who are as well acquainted with You both, & talk as familiarly about You, as if they had been under the same roof with You. All my letters, that I wrote to You before my departure from Carolina, coud not have reachd You when You last wrote to me. My Dear Sir If I was to repeat what I, and my Mrs Butler(3) feel, I shoud never cease a moment to thank You and Your good Lady, for Your Parental attention to Our dear Boy. I assure You We feel it in all its force. I will therefore say no more at present on that head. The Accts. You favor Us with of Our Son's disposition---;health, improvement in hearing and above all of his conducting himself so as to meet Your approbation, are truly comforting---;great as my expectations are I fondly hope they will not be disappointed. I am pleased with his last letter. I think he begins to improve in his writing. I am anxious to have him write a fair, good, free hand. I hope as he advances in Years he will take a studious turn, because he has an infinity to attend to. I think the habitt is or may be acquired early in life---;unless he is very bookish, like Your Eldest Son, he can never get through all I shall require of Him. I have my fears on the score of application; but it is to be acquired, I am therefore comforted by knowing he will be put in the way to acquire it. I conclude he learns French, and is also under the Dancing Master's hands, which I wish him to be---;other things will come in dueseason.
My last letter from Carolina woud inform You of my intended visit to Philadelphia. As I declined the Honor my fellow Citizens offerd me of the Chief Magistracy, I coud not refuse the last Appointment of Acting as One of their Commissioners to the Convention to be held at Philadelphia. No doubt You have heard of the purport of the meeting---;To form a Stronger Constitution on strict FOEderal Principles, for
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More About Pierce Butler:
Burial: Christ Churchyard, Philadelphia, Pa
Immigration: He was born in County Carlow, Ireland and came to America in 1758
Military service: His Maj. 22th Reg
More About Pierce Butler and Mary Middleton:
Marriage: 10 Jan 1771, Edgefield, SC39
Children of Pierce Butler and Mary Middleton are:
8 i. William Hezekiah Butler, born Abt. 1772 in Pendleton District, S.C.; died Bef. 1822; married Elizabeth Hembree Bef. 1810.
ii. Sarah Butler, born Abt. 1777.
iii. Frances Butler, born 1779.
iv. Thomas BUTLER, born Abt. 1773.
18. David Hembree40,41,42,43, born Abt. 1727 in Goochland County, Virginia; died 1809 in Pendleton District (now Anderson Co) South Carolina. He was the son of 36. James Hembree and 37. SARAH. He married 19. Elizabeth.
19. Elizabeth
Notes for David Hembree:
ROOTS BRANCHES LEAVES
by Bob Hembree 11819 Maple st. Whittier, ca. 90601
DAVID HEMBREE was born in VA. ca 1728 and died in Anderson County, S.C. in 1809. Others list his birth as 1739 and would only be 9 or 10 yrs. of age if born in 1839, a little young to be a taxpayer. Also we know he owned land in 1752 and was most certainly in excess of twelve or thirteen yrs. of age. Although I possess no documents which state he had a brother, I feel certain he had at least four brothers, namely, James, (whom I call James #2 for identity purposes only), John, William, and Edward. He, John and James #2 were in the same area in Lunenburg County, VA, Granville County, N.C., and Spartanburg County, S.C. David later lived in an area of Anderson County, S.C. known as 26 mile Creek where he died and his estate was probated. From the probate records we know his wife’s name was Elizabeth, that he had four children who lived to maturity, and we get the names of several of his g-children.
He received 400 acres in Granville County, NC. In 1754/55 he is on the Muster Roll of Capt. John Sallis Co., Granville County, NC and in 1760 he had a land grant on Bluewing Creek, Orange County, NC. (Present day Person Co.) During this period of eleven years he is in the same area as James #2, and John as they all owned land there.
Sometime between 1760 and 1768, David, James #2, John & other Hembree’s moved to the northwestern portion of the State of SC. David’s land grant of 200 acres on Jamey’s Creek was surveyed on 24 Nov. 1767 and granted on 5 Jul 1768 so we know he was there for at least a period of time before the survey date. James, William, John & other Hembree’s are also in the same area about the same time. David’s land was in what is now Spartanburg County, a few miles from James and William's lands. He later sold this land and moved to what is now Anderson County, SC in the area of 26 mile Creek.
Two very interesting things about the Deeds of Grants to David’s lands in SC. 1. The land grant in Spartanburg County specified Quit Rents for 10 years beginning 29 Jul. 1768, which tells us this, was a passage grant. If my research is correct, this is the same as the head rights in VA where the person was given 50 acres of land to come to this country if he paid his own passage, otherwise it was given to another for that passage. Although I only have a summary of David’s grant, James grant which I presume was the same as David’s, was given by King George the 3rd. Later, when SC was clearing the records ending the free land for passage, David’s name appears on the list so we know it was passage land. 2. On a Deed in 1803 when David deeded 30 acres to Edward Hembree, it states “Part of original land grant deeded by William Hembree to David Hembree”. (This deed was not recorded until 1817 when Edward deeded the land to Lucy Davis). Each of the foregoing raises a question. QUESTION #1: Why were David and James receiving land for passage? They were born in VA. If they were the people I’m sure they were. QUESTION #2: This question has two parts, first, which William & which Edward? Second, does anyone have anything on the original grant to William and or David? (This is land on 26 mile Creek). We can be fairly certain that David moved from Spartanburg County to Anderson County sometime between 1779 and 1790, as he served on the Jury in Spartanburg County in 1779 and was on the 1790 Census of Pendleton (Anderson County) with his wife, but he did not sell the Spartanburg property until 1791.
Later census prove Edward to be the same as the Edward from Halifax, VA which means that Edward, John, James and David were all in the Halifax area and again in the same general area of SC. The John referred to here, is David’s brother not his grandson.
The 1800 Census show David & wife in Anderson County, SC and the last recorded record is the administration of his estate in 1809 which continued for may years.
In tracing David’s movements it is first important to know that Halifax County, VA. was formed from Lunenburg County and what appears to be movement from Lunenburg to Halifax was only the creation of Halifax County and the changing of the records. The second important step is to be aware that the area of N.C. where David was is today Person County, which was formed from Granville County in 1791. It means that you may find records in any of the four counties even though old land records show only Lunenburg and Granville counties. It is also important to know how the militia of the day was formed. Generally the largest landowner was the person with the most influence and the very size of his holdings indicated some ability to organize and direct people. He was therefore named to form a militia not unlike what we might find as a Volunteer fire department in a small rural area today. Thus you will not likely find a connection of the militia to the colonial army. It is usually a waste of time to look for individual records of these men other than a membership roster, however the roster itself is proof that the person resided in that general area, as they were strictly local groups. Since they did not join in one area and serve in another, you can accept the roster as proof of residence in the area, for at least some period of time. It’s important because land ownership in itself, is not proof of residence and we want to know where they lived, married, raised a family, and died to do research.
Again it is important to know the general area surrounding the area of residence, as several of David’s g-children appear to have moved off to Georgia. These are Rev. James children and it’s true they moved to GA. but Hart County, GA. where we find several of them is located just across the river from Anderson County, S.C., so it was still easy to get to grandma’s house for Christmas. Generally speaking Amariah & his descendents are in Hart County, GA. John and his descendents stayed in Anderson County, and James Jr. moved deeper into Ga.
It is only a generalization but David’s descendents from Anderson County, moved south into GA. and then westward at Arkansas, Texas, etc. David’s brother, James descendents from Spartanburg moved northwest to Tennessee, then north to MO, IN & Ohio, then westward. Abraham & Drury (Parents unknown) moved from Spartanburg to N.C., TN, MO and IN, and generally stayed in MO and IN. William’s descendents from Pickens County moved to GA. The result was that those from Spartanburg went one way and Anderson, Pickens went another way.
Earlier I stated I feel certain that David had other brothers and all evidence points to that as fact, however it flies in conflict with stories I keep hearing as to the original immigrants, as that would eliminate David and James as being the original immigrants as some seem to indicate. The stories boil down to two tales: 1. There were two brothers who landed in S.C. and all generations are their descendents, or 2. There were originally four brothers who arrived in Virginia and were split up but finally reunited in S.C. It appears these stories are passed on from people who only knew part of the facts as there certainly were more than two Hembree lines in S.C. however they may trace back to only two lines. Both stories have the family coming to this country from England via Barbados. ------------------------------------
On January 30, 1760, David Hembree received a patent for 690 acres in Orange County, VA, in Saint Matthew’s Parish on Blue Wing Creek.
On July 5, 1768 David Hembrey was granted 200 acres in Craven County, SC(afterwards part of Spartanburg County) in an area called “Fairforest” – “on abranch of Tyger River called James Creek, bounded southeast by Wm. Hendricks.
Survey certified 11-27-1767, granted 7-5-1768. Quit Rent begins in 10 years. Recorded 4-29-1768.” [Newberry County Court Records] On September 6,1768 “David Amery” made a petition for a survey warrant for the same 200 acres.
In 1768 Samuel DeSaurency, a Huguenot, was granted 367 acres in CravenCounty and 67 acres of that was then granted to “James Amare”.Other French Protestants moving into the South Carolina back country were Rev. Abraham Imer / Emer of Purrysburg then of Saxe Gotha, who died Oct1766. David Lewis Imer / Imrie who died April 1781 and was buried at St. Philip’s Parish in Charleston. And Dr. Frederick Imer / Imrie who was granted100 acres in Craven County in May 1768 but died in 1771. (Abraham Emery was married at St. Philip’s.)
A William Embry of Virginia also moved into the upcountry in the CamdenDistrict. Bob Hembree links this William Embry to Col. Henry Embry of Virginia. Does David Hembree (1728-1809) belong to the plantation Embry’s of Virginia, the French protestants, a different Virginia family, or the South Carolina Emorys/Amorys?
David Emray on the 1749 tax list of Lunenburg Co, Virginia (listed near William Embry of the “plantation” line and Edward Owen). He was the father of Rev. James H. Hembree (1759-1849). Bob Hembree, the “dean of Hembree researchers”, has traced this family back to Goochland County, Virginia. As Bob frequently notes, David’s father was a James Hembree (b.c.1700), not William as so often reported.
William’s brother Robert (d.1790) is thought by Martin family genealogists to have lived in Virginia and upper North Carolina,.
When David came to Spartanburg District he was affiliated with the Virginia and North Carolina Baptists. David’s family sometimes spelled the name Emery. In 1800 “James Emery” (James H. Hembree) was the representative of the Shockley Ferry Baptist Church. (So thesurname was not precise.)
The Hembrees were early members of the Tyger River Baptist Church, which became the Friendship Baptist Church, and possibly the Goucher Baptist Church, both of which Abraham attended.
It is important to remember that David and James Hembree did not come into upper South Carolina before 1768. Drury and Abraham were born before that in upper South Carolina.
According to The Descendants of David Hembree by Patricia B. McMillan, David and James Hembree served in the Granville County, North Carolina Although no relationship has been proven between David and James of Virginia and the South Carolina Emory/Hembrees, there is the tendency to consider the two lines together.
A land deed in 1773 refers to 150 acres on “Jameys Creek of Tyger River” surveyed in 1770 as being adjacent to land of “David Hembry”. (Deed recorded December 31, 1785.)
* Also cited by John B.G. Hembree Jr & Clara A. (Hembree) Maxcy in Hembree (self published, 1983): p.3. [June Clark Murtie, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774,
(Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.,1986): pp. 723,756]
In South Carolina Baptists 1670 – 1805 (Baltimore: Genealogical PublishingCo, Inc, 1974), Leah Townsend notes the beginning of the Baptist migration:
Granville County Militia commanded by Jno. Sallis on 6 September 1755 in Granville County, Colony of North Carolina
More About David Hembree:
Burial: Old Salem Cemetery, Pendleton District, South Carolina; No tombstone has been located but it is likely that he was buried here.
Military service: 1754, Granville County, North Carolina militia
Children of David Hembree and Elizabeth are:
9 i. Elizabeth Hembree, born 1776 in Pendleton, S.C; died Aft. 1837 in Benton Co., AL; married William Hezekiah Butler Bef. 1810.
ii. Susanna Hembree, born 1761; married Mark Pitts.
iii. MARGARET Peggy Hembree, born Bet. 1770 - 1775; married Nicholas Welch.
iv. James Hembree, born 1759 in Granville County, North Carolina; died 1849 in Anderson County, South Carolina; married Asenath Felton.
Notes for James Hembree:
He was a Baptist minister after 1800 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. The Reverend James Hembree answered the call a few years after his 40th birthday. He was in the pastorate at the Old Salem Baptist Church most of his life. He was a pastor at the Hopewell, Mountain Creek and other churches in the Saluda Association. He withdrew from the Saluda Association and joined the Fork Shoals Association in a disagreement over the subject of missionary boards, Biible, tract, and temperance societies which he was firmly against.1 An unknown person and an unknown person were married by him on 25 December 1839 in Georgia.2 He made a will in Anderson District, South Carolina, on 5 May 1847.3 James died on 16 August 1849 in Anderson District, South Carolina, at age 90. The cause of death was dropsy (congestive heart failure).1 His body was interred in Old Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Anderson District, South Carolina, in Old Salem Baptist Church Cemetery. The headstone for Reverend James Hembree has been removed from the cemetery by the Anderson Historical Society and was located at the Anderson Historical Museum to protect the stone. The cemetery was on the verge of distruction by cattle
20. James Cleland, born 1750; died 24 Dec 1822 in Newberry County, South Carolina. He married 21. Elizabeth Hemsley.
21. Elizabeth Hemsley44, born Bet. 1750 - 1760.
Children of James Cleland and Elizabeth Hemsley are:
10 i. Robert CLELAND, born 17 Dec 1778 in SC; died 12 Sep 1856; married Sarah Jane Plunkett.
ii. James CLELAND
iii. John CLELAND
iv. William CLELAND
v. Sarah Cleland, born 1780.
vi. Mary Cleland, born 1785 in Newberry County, South Carolina.
vii. David Cleland, born 1790.
viii. Agnes Cleland, born 1794.
ix. George Cleland, born 25 Mar 1796.
x. Elizabeth Cleland, born 1798.
22. Robert PLUNKETT45, born Abt. 1750 in Ireland; died Abt. Jun 1805 in Newberry District SC. He was the son of 44. Charles PLUNKETT and 45. Hannah Cleland. He married 23. Margaret MURDOCK.
23. Margaret MURDOCK45, born Bef. 1755 in Killyleagh, Down, Ireland; died 10 May 1846 in Newberry, SC. She was the daughter of 46. Hambleton MURDOCK and 47. Mary Cleland.
Children of Robert PLUNKETT and Margaret MURDOCK are:
11 i. Sarah Jane Plunkett, born Abt. 1780; died Abt. 1826 in SC; married Robert CLELAND.
ii. Elizabeth Plunkett, married HUGHENS.
iii. Hannah PLUNKETT, born 15 Feb 1780 in SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA; died 31 May 1862; married Benjamin CRUMLEY.
iv. Agnes Plunkett, died Abt. 1848; married David MURDOCK.
v. Ann Plunkett, died Abt. 1834; married CLELAND.
vi. Ruth Plunkett, married HENDRIX.
vii. Edney PLUNKETT, died Abt. 1806.
viii. Charles PLUNKETT, died Abt. 1836; married Mabel Jones.
ix. William PLUNKETT
x. Alexander Hamilton PLUNKETT, married Jane Rees.
