Andrew Paul

Andrew Paul

• Father: John Paul b. circa 1737, d. circa 1775
• Mother: Jean Liddell b. circa 1741, d. circa 1775

• Andrew Paul was born circa December 1764 in Scotland.
• He was baptized/christened on 20 December 1764 in Clockburn, Parish of Killearn, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
• Both parents of Andrew Paul and John Paul died and left them in the care of executor William Bow, who lived in the city of Glasgow.
• He and John Paul migrated from Belfast circa 1784 to Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
• He migrated from Philadelphia after about six months to South Carolina.
• He relocated to Peedee, South Carolina, at one time called Liberty, after a few years.
• He married Deborah McRee, daughter of John McRee and Ann Green, on 25 April 1793 in Marion District, South Carolina.
• The following appeared on 10 November 1815 in The Star: Valuable Lands for Sale, in S. Carolina. The Subscriber offers for sale his Valuable and Highly Improved Plantation on the East side of Great-Pedee, containing 2000 Acres. About 300 acres are cleared and the greater part under fence, including Rich River Swamp (of which about 80 acres are cleared) and high land with a considerable quantity to clear. On the premises are, a comfortable dwelling house, store house, cotton house and other necessary out buildings, and negro houses sufficient to contain 60 negroes. This plantation is valuable for cotton, and affords the best range of any lands in this quarter. Also, for sale, a tract of land on the West side of Pedee, containing 1132 acres of well timbered Pine Land, well calculated for Naval Stores, and lying contiguous to a Mill Seat, and within one mile of the River. Also, his Lot, of Seven acres of Land, at Marion Court-House, on which is a commodious dwelling house, store house, ware house, and other necessary out houses. This is an excellent stand for the Mercantile Business, and in a very healthy and improving Village. Another tract of land, adjoining the above plantation, is likewise offered for sale, containing 2500 acres, lying on both sides of Peedee River, on which is 100 acres cleared and under fence, with a comfortable dwelling house and other necessary out buildings. On this tract is a valuable Mill Seat, (the dam already made) within one mile of a landing, and a quantity of well timbered pine land, convenient to the same. This is a valuable property, being near a Market and so convenient to Navigation. On the premises is also a Ferry, where a Shad fishery could be carried on to great advantage.-- These lands are situated 55 miles from Georgetown, 8 miles from Marion Court-House, and possess advantages that cannot be well here described. Great bargains will be offered, if early application is made, as the proprietors wish to remove from the State.
       Apply on the premises to Mr. Joseph Burch or to the Subscriber. Andrew Paul. October 31st, 1815. 45 7tpd.
• The following appeared on 30 June 1819 in the Winyaw Intelligencer: Five Hundred Dollars Reward. The subscriber's fellow Limerick, eloped on the 12th inst.-- He is stout, young and likely, very plausible in his address. Since his departure he observed his intention was to go off with a white man, with whom he had made a previous contract. He formerly belonged to Col. McRea, of Marion; was sold by Andrew Paul to Major Capers. The above reward will be given for said White Man; and Negro in any Jail in South-Carolina, with sufficient proof to the conviction and execution of said white man, ten dollars will be given for the delivery of the fellow to the subscriber, to Mr. John Coachman, Mr. W. Mellune, or in any state Jail-- fifty dollars for sufficient proof of his being harboured by a white man, 25 for like proof of his being harboured by a person of Color-- All persons are herein warned not to harbor said fellow, as they will assuredly be dealt with as the law directs in such case. James C. Postell, Kershaw District, June, 12th, 1819. 2i.
• Andrew Paul became a widower at the 21 September 1822 death of his wife Deborah McRee.
• Andrew Paul wrote the following about 1830:
       Marion District, So. Carolina.
  For the information of my children:
       As it frequently happens that Europeans immigrate young, before they are able to receive an account of their ancestors, and that, no doubt, when they arrive at the age of maturity, would be highly gratified to learn something of their ancestors, I give my offspring a short but accurate sketch of myself.
       I was born in Scotland, parish Kilcarn [sic], on or about the year 1764. My precise age, I do not know. My father's name was John Paul, and his wife was Jean Liddell. They only had two children, my brother and myself. My brother was the oldest. My father and mother both died and left us in the care of an executor, William Bow, who lived in the city of Glasgow. Losing my parents and with but slight acquaintance with few to attract me to my native country, I soon decided to leave the country. Accordingly, about the age of twenty, in company with my brother, we went to Belfast. We landed in Philadelphia after a voyage of two months. After staying in Philadelphia about six months, I went to Carolina where I have continued to live ever since. A few years more I removed to Peedee, at one time called Liberty, but afterward Marion, South Carolina, where on the 25th of April 1793, I was married to Deborah McRee, she being in her eighteenth and I in my twenty-eighth year.
       My oldest child, John McRee, was born 15th December 1804. The second child, Andrew Liddell, was born on the 12th of Feb. 1809. My daughter Jane Green was born January 6, 1811. Her first name was in remembrance of my mother. My third son, William Bow, was born on the 23rd of Oct. 1813.
       ~ Quoted from Helen Johnstone Rose's book Our Family History: Johnstone, LeGrand, MacGillivray, Maclaren (1981), generously shared by her nephew John Baldwin Johnstone.
• Andrew Paul died circa 1837.
• Photographs of present-day Killearn.

• Last Edited: 18 Oct 2014