Jacob Threfts (anglicized to Drafts) is our immigrant ancestor who arrived in the port of Charleston on 31 Dec. 1744 (see details below) while S. C. was still a colony & had not yet joined the USA (South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on May 23, 1788 & become a state in the USA).
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Photo of Monument: Jacob Drafts and another man were scalped & killed locally as civilians by Cherokee Indians. This Jacob Drafts memorial monument (photo at top of this page) erected by Ruth Caughman in 2003 toward Saluda River east off of Corley Mill Road onto Center Street & then take the first right onto Glenkirk Lane & then down toward end of Glenkirk Lane, about #262, to the right and on top of roadside embankment. It is possible, even likely, that the original church had no cemetery prior to the second church of 1792. So, he was probably buried on his homeplace property (location unknown but likely close to here).
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He being a colonial era immigrant (1744), I am listing him on this Find a Grave memorial with the anglicized name carried in our local Dutch Fork history.
Jacob is the original Drafts immigrant from Germany, arriving in Charleston, S. C. (31 Dec. 1744) on the St. Andrew. He was a pioneer settler in the Switzers Neck area of Lexington County, S. C. (& thought to be a founding member of Zion Lutheran Church [ZLC] which is thought to have organized as early as 1745). Most of settlers to that area west of the Broad, Saluda & Congaree rivers between 1730-1750 were German speaking Swiss who were followed beginning in the 1750s by Germans.
In August 2017, Hanne Enderle, genealogist in Germany, contacted me by email to notify me of a Dutch Fork web site listing many original germanic Dutch Fork immigrants from Germany, the compilation made by her from old German church records. Here is what Hanne sent about Jacob:
Extracted from Old German Bible records: The first surname spelling in about 1695 was "Treffts" in Grossaspach area. Johann Jacob Treffts emmigrated in 1744. From Grossaspach, [zip code 71546] Aspach, Landkreis Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was born 7 July 1712, son of Johann Michael Treffts and wife, Sibylla. He married 23 February 1734 in Grossaspach to Anna Maria Brod, born 24 November 1717, the daughter of Johann Michael Brod. Their children: (1) Anna Maria, born 20 March 1735; (2) Johann Michael, born 31 May 1742; and (3) Gottfried, born 5 May 1744. Jacob Treffts/Threfts was killed and scalped by Cherokee Indians on 10 March 1760 at Jenkins Creek in Lexington County. The family name in SC was later Drafts; in Germany the surname was later Trefz.
More from Hanne Enderle: I note the link to the website Hanne is creating about these early German immigrants to S. C. HERE (https://enderle-german-settlers.jimdo.com).
Also, Hanne brought a Dutch Fork website to my attention listing information derived from old German Church records about MANY German families coming to the Dutch Fork area of S. C., HERE (http://dutchforkchapter.org/auswanderer_early.html).
Also, I created a "Coming to America" story page, linked HERE (http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/bigstory.html).
Book = Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), page 274: "The papers in Philadelphia (Pennsylvanische Berichte, American Weekly Mercury) reported that the captain in effect forced the German immigrants to land in Charleston rather than Philadelphia and that the ship was chased by French privateers."
On 2 Jan. 1745, before the S. C. Council in Charleston: "His Excellency also acquainted the Board that the Palatine Protestants to the number of one hundred, who had lately arrived in Capt. Brown's Ship came on the 31st of December last, in a Body to the Council Chamber and took the State Oaths to His Majesty, all of them having determined to remain and settle in this Province."
On 27 Jan. 1745, before the S. C. Council in Charleston: "Read the petition of a considerable number of Protestant Palatines, most humbly showing that the poor petitioners have been on board the St. Andrew, Captain Brown commander, these twenty-six weeks past, and there is as yet no likelihood for them to get free of her, because there are none of us yet who have purchased their service; they therefore humbly pray his Excellency and Honors that they may find so much favor as to their passages that a sum equivalent to discharge the same be raised by the government, for which they promise to join in a bond to repay the same within the term of three years, with lawful interest; and that if any of them shall not be able to pay the above sum within that time, that the government in that case shall have full power to dispose of them and their families as they shall think proper, &c. Ordered to make investigations and report."
He and wife, Anna Maria Brod, had at least one child, George Drafts (1740-1786).
Many Drafts descendants in the area have been members of Zion Lutheran Church ever since. And, here is a quick history of that church and the Dutch Fork area from earliest times, HERE (http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/ZLChistory.html).
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Photo of Monument: Jacob Drafts and another man were scalped & killed locally as civilians by Cherokee Indians. This Jacob Drafts memorial monument (photo at top of this page) erected by Ruth Caughman in 2003 toward Saluda River east off of Corley Mill Road onto Center Street & then take the first right onto Glenkirk Lane & then down toward end of Glenkirk Lane, about #262, to the right and on top of roadside embankment. It is possible, even likely, that the original church had no cemetery prior to the second church of 1792. So, he was probably buried on his homeplace property (location unknown but likely close to here).
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He being a colonial era immigrant (1744), I am listing him on this Find a Grave memorial with the anglicized name carried in our local Dutch Fork history.
Jacob is the original Drafts immigrant from Germany, arriving in Charleston, S. C. (31 Dec. 1744) on the St. Andrew. He was a pioneer settler in the Switzers Neck area of Lexington County, S. C. (& thought to be a founding member of Zion Lutheran Church [ZLC] which is thought to have organized as early as 1745). Most of settlers to that area west of the Broad, Saluda & Congaree rivers between 1730-1750 were German speaking Swiss who were followed beginning in the 1750s by Germans.
In August 2017, Hanne Enderle, genealogist in Germany, contacted me by email to notify me of a Dutch Fork web site listing many original germanic Dutch Fork immigrants from Germany, the compilation made by her from old German church records. Here is what Hanne sent about Jacob:
Extracted from Old German Bible records: The first surname spelling in about 1695 was "Treffts" in Grossaspach area. Johann Jacob Treffts emmigrated in 1744. From Grossaspach, [zip code 71546] Aspach, Landkreis Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was born 7 July 1712, son of Johann Michael Treffts and wife, Sibylla. He married 23 February 1734 in Grossaspach to Anna Maria Brod, born 24 November 1717, the daughter of Johann Michael Brod. Their children: (1) Anna Maria, born 20 March 1735; (2) Johann Michael, born 31 May 1742; and (3) Gottfried, born 5 May 1744. Jacob Treffts/Threfts was killed and scalped by Cherokee Indians on 10 March 1760 at Jenkins Creek in Lexington County. The family name in SC was later Drafts; in Germany the surname was later Trefz.
More from Hanne Enderle: I note the link to the website Hanne is creating about these early German immigrants to S. C. HERE (https://enderle-german-settlers.jimdo.com).
Also, Hanne brought a Dutch Fork website to my attention listing information derived from old German Church records about MANY German families coming to the Dutch Fork area of S. C., HERE (http://dutchforkchapter.org/auswanderer_early.html).
Also, I created a "Coming to America" story page, linked HERE (http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/bigstory.html).
Book = Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), page 274: "The papers in Philadelphia (Pennsylvanische Berichte, American Weekly Mercury) reported that the captain in effect forced the German immigrants to land in Charleston rather than Philadelphia and that the ship was chased by French privateers."
On 2 Jan. 1745, before the S. C. Council in Charleston: "His Excellency also acquainted the Board that the Palatine Protestants to the number of one hundred, who had lately arrived in Capt. Brown's Ship came on the 31st of December last, in a Body to the Council Chamber and took the State Oaths to His Majesty, all of them having determined to remain and settle in this Province."
On 27 Jan. 1745, before the S. C. Council in Charleston: "Read the petition of a considerable number of Protestant Palatines, most humbly showing that the poor petitioners have been on board the St. Andrew, Captain Brown commander, these twenty-six weeks past, and there is as yet no likelihood for them to get free of her, because there are none of us yet who have purchased their service; they therefore humbly pray his Excellency and Honors that they may find so much favor as to their passages that a sum equivalent to discharge the same be raised by the government, for which they promise to join in a bond to repay the same within the term of three years, with lawful interest; and that if any of them shall not be able to pay the above sum within that time, that the government in that case shall have full power to dispose of them and their families as they shall think proper, &c. Ordered to make investigations and report."
He and wife, Anna Maria Brod, had at least one child, George Drafts (1740-1786).
Many Drafts descendants in the area have been members of Zion Lutheran Church ever since. And, here is a quick history of that church and the Dutch Fork area from earliest times, HERE (http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/ZLChistory.html).
Jacob Threfts (anglicized to Drafts) is our immigrant ancestor who arrived in the port of Charleston on 31 Dec. 1744 (see details below) while S. C. was still a colony & had not yet joined the USA (South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on May 23, 1788 & become a state in the USA).
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Photo of Monument: Jacob Drafts and another man were scalped & killed locally as civilians by Cherokee Indians. This Jacob Drafts memorial monument (photo at top of this page) erected by Ruth Caughman in 2003 toward Saluda River east off of Corley Mill Road onto Center Street & then take the first right onto Glenkirk Lane & then down toward end of Glenkirk Lane, about #262, to the right and on top of roadside embankment. It is possible, even likely, that the original church had no cemetery prior to the second church of 1792. So, he was probably buried on his homeplace property (location unknown but likely close to here).
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He being a colonial era immigrant (1744), I am listing him on this Find a Grave memorial with the anglicized name carried in our local Dutch Fork history.
Jacob is the original Drafts immigrant from Germany, arriving in Charleston, S. C. (31 Dec. 1744) on the St. Andrew. He was a pioneer settler in the Switzers Neck area of Lexington County, S. C. (& thought to be a founding member of Zion Lutheran Church [ZLC] which is thought to have organized as early as 1745). Most of settlers to that area west of the Broad, Saluda & Congaree rivers between 1730-1750 were German speaking Swiss who were followed beginning in the 1750s by Germans.
In August 2017, Hanne Enderle, genealogist in Germany, contacted me by email to notify me of a Dutch Fork web site listing many original germanic Dutch Fork immigrants from Germany, the compilation made by her from old German church records. Here is what Hanne sent about Jacob:
Extracted from Old German Bible records: The first surname spelling in about 1695 was "Treffts" in Grossaspach area. Johann Jacob Treffts emmigrated in 1744. From Grossaspach, [zip code 71546] Aspach, Landkreis Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was born 7 July 1712, son of Johann Michael Treffts and wife, Sibylla. He married 23 February 1734 in Grossaspach to Anna Maria Brod, born 24 November 1717, the daughter of Johann Michael Brod. Their children: (1) Anna Maria, born 20 March 1735; (2) Johann Michael, born 31 May 1742; and (3) Gottfried, born 5 May 1744. Jacob Treffts/Threfts was killed and scalped by Cherokee Indians on 10 March 1760 at Jenkins Creek in Lexington County. The family name in SC was later Drafts; in Germany the surname was later Trefz.
More from Hanne Enderle: I note the link to the website Hanne is creating about these early German immigrants to S. C. HERE (https://enderle-german-settlers.jimdo.com).
Also, Hanne brought a Dutch Fork website to my attention listing information derived from old German Church records about MANY German families coming to the Dutch Fork area of S. C., HERE (http://dutchforkchapter.org/auswanderer_early.html).
Also, I created a "Coming to America" story page, linked HERE (http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/bigstory.html).
Book = Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), page 274: "The papers in Philadelphia (Pennsylvanische Berichte, American Weekly Mercury) reported that the captain in effect forced the German immigrants to land in Charleston rather than Philadelphia and that the ship was chased by French privateers."
On 2 Jan. 1745, before the S. C. Council in Charleston: "His Excellency also acquainted the Board that the Palatine Protestants to the number of one hundred, who had lately arrived in Capt. Brown's Ship came on the 31st of December last, in a Body to the Council Chamber and took the State Oaths to His Majesty, all of them having determined to remain and settle in this Province."
On 27 Jan. 1745, before the S. C. Council in Charleston: "Read the petition of a considerable number of Protestant Palatines, most humbly showing that the poor petitioners have been on board the St. Andrew, Captain Brown commander, these twenty-six weeks past, and there is as yet no likelihood for them to get free of her, because there are none of us yet who have purchased their service; they therefore humbly pray his Excellency and Honors that they may find so much favor as to their passages that a sum equivalent to discharge the same be raised by the government, for which they promise to join in a bond to repay the same within the term of three years, with lawful interest; and that if any of them shall not be able to pay the above sum within that time, that the government in that case shall have full power to dispose of them and their families as they shall think proper, &c. Ordered to make investigations and report."
He and wife, Anna Maria Brod, had at least one child, George Drafts (1740-1786).
Many Drafts descendants in the area have been members of Zion Lutheran Church ever since. And, here is a quick history of that church and the Dutch Fork area from earliest times, HERE (http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/ZLChistory.html).
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Photo of Monument: Jacob Drafts and another man were scalped & killed locally as civilians by Cherokee Indians. This Jacob Drafts memorial monument (photo at top of this page) erected by Ruth Caughman in 2003 toward Saluda River east off of Corley Mill Road onto Center Street & then take the first right onto Glenkirk Lane & then down toward end of Glenkirk Lane, about #262, to the right and on top of roadside embankment. It is possible, even likely, that the original church had no cemetery prior to the second church of 1792. So, he was probably buried on his homeplace property (location unknown but likely close to here).
***********
He being a colonial era immigrant (1744), I am listing him on this Find a Grave memorial with the anglicized name carried in our local Dutch Fork history.
Jacob is the original Drafts immigrant from Germany, arriving in Charleston, S. C. (31 Dec. 1744) on the St. Andrew. He was a pioneer settler in the Switzers Neck area of Lexington County, S. C. (& thought to be a founding member of Zion Lutheran Church [ZLC] which is thought to have organized as early as 1745). Most of settlers to that area west of the Broad, Saluda & Congaree rivers between 1730-1750 were German speaking Swiss who were followed beginning in the 1750s by Germans.
In August 2017, Hanne Enderle, genealogist in Germany, contacted me by email to notify me of a Dutch Fork web site listing many original germanic Dutch Fork immigrants from Germany, the compilation made by her from old German church records. Here is what Hanne sent about Jacob:
Extracted from Old German Bible records: The first surname spelling in about 1695 was "Treffts" in Grossaspach area. Johann Jacob Treffts emmigrated in 1744. From Grossaspach, [zip code 71546] Aspach, Landkreis Rems-Murr-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was born 7 July 1712, son of Johann Michael Treffts and wife, Sibylla. He married 23 February 1734 in Grossaspach to Anna Maria Brod, born 24 November 1717, the daughter of Johann Michael Brod. Their children: (1) Anna Maria, born 20 March 1735; (2) Johann Michael, born 31 May 1742; and (3) Gottfried, born 5 May 1744. Jacob Treffts/Threfts was killed and scalped by Cherokee Indians on 10 March 1760 at Jenkins Creek in Lexington County. The family name in SC was later Drafts; in Germany the surname was later Trefz.
More from Hanne Enderle: I note the link to the website Hanne is creating about these early German immigrants to S. C. HERE (https://enderle-german-settlers.jimdo.com).
Also, Hanne brought a Dutch Fork website to my attention listing information derived from old German Church records about MANY German families coming to the Dutch Fork area of S. C., HERE (http://dutchforkchapter.org/auswanderer_early.html).
Also, I created a "Coming to America" story page, linked HERE (http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/bigstory.html).
Book = Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), page 274: "The papers in Philadelphia (Pennsylvanische Berichte, American Weekly Mercury) reported that the captain in effect forced the German immigrants to land in Charleston rather than Philadelphia and that the ship was chased by French privateers."
On 2 Jan. 1745, before the S. C. Council in Charleston: "His Excellency also acquainted the Board that the Palatine Protestants to the number of one hundred, who had lately arrived in Capt. Brown's Ship came on the 31st of December last, in a Body to the Council Chamber and took the State Oaths to His Majesty, all of them having determined to remain and settle in this Province."
On 27 Jan. 1745, before the S. C. Council in Charleston: "Read the petition of a considerable number of Protestant Palatines, most humbly showing that the poor petitioners have been on board the St. Andrew, Captain Brown commander, these twenty-six weeks past, and there is as yet no likelihood for them to get free of her, because there are none of us yet who have purchased their service; they therefore humbly pray his Excellency and Honors that they may find so much favor as to their passages that a sum equivalent to discharge the same be raised by the government, for which they promise to join in a bond to repay the same within the term of three years, with lawful interest; and that if any of them shall not be able to pay the above sum within that time, that the government in that case shall have full power to dispose of them and their families as they shall think proper, &c. Ordered to make investigations and report."
He and wife, Anna Maria Brod, had at least one child, George Drafts (1740-1786).
Many Drafts descendants in the area have been members of Zion Lutheran Church ever since. And, here is a quick history of that church and the Dutch Fork area from earliest times, HERE (http://www.theeffectivetruth.info/ZLChistory.html).
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