Re: Way Book on CD Disk: Correct Date of the Way Arrival in SC

[DaneBowen@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/24/2002 10:26:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jsq@quarterman.org writes:

Bowen:
> It was 60 years later after the Salem witch trials and the death of 
> >Aaron Way, Sr., that the Ways and company swarmed  in Mass. and flew off to 
> >SC, arriving in 1697, not 1695 as stated in different places in the 
> >Quarterman book.  And it was another half century before they swarmed against 
> >and flew off to Midway. 



Quarterman:
> According to Elder Pratt's diary, they arrived in Carolina 20 Dec 1695,
> and picked and named Dorchester S.C. 14 Jan 1696.


Bowen:
The confusion on the year the Ways and others arrived in SC stem from two sources. First, there was an advance scouting party the previous winter to look over the situation, and, second, the difference in the calendar used then and now.  One will see sometimes the date written Feb. 22, 1696\7, the date of their arrival in SC I believe.
. That means it was 1696 under the Julian calendar but 1697 under the present-day Gregorian calendar.  The British then used the Julian calendar that was 11 days off when it was dropped in 1758 and they did not start the new year until Mar. 25. Geo. Washington was born Feb. 11, 1731, under the Julian but it is now observed as Feb. 22, 1732. Still on the Julian calendar when Lenin seized power on Nov. 7, 1918, the Russians always celebrated it as "the great October Revolution."   

Quarterman:
> Other than that, I agree with everything you say.


Bowen
Thank you. A la orden.


Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Carlton (Carleton), Luker, Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Maverick, Richey (Ritchie, Richie, Ritchey), Spence, Sumner, Way, and Wells families.