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



I struggled with the same confusion over the "lots" referred to in the SC article.  Apparently the entire 4,050 acres came to be designated as Dorchester, or Dorchester Township, while the town was called the "trading town," or the "place of trade in Dorchester."  Then later the town itself was restricted to the name "Dorchester."

By the way, could you re-post the information on how to order the "Way" book on disk?



--- DaneBowen@aol.com wrote:
>
>I have the same information in my Way book.  On p. 120 I have a quote listing 
>the same eight men.  The quote is from Harold Field Worthley, An Inventory of 
>the Records of the Particular (Congregational) Churches of Massachusetts 
>Gathered 1620-1805, Cambridge, Mass., 1970, p. 3. I too have info from the 
>First Church of Dorchester and from Stacy, quoting Elder Pratt.
>
>While apparently there was no Way in the advance party, there was Deacon 
>Increase Sumner, brother of Aaron Way, Sr.'s widow, Joanna Sumner Way.
>
>That the advance party returned from SC to Mass. is indicated from the fact 
>that Elder Pratt and Deacon Increase Sumner, among others, made both trips.
>
>The Rev. Norman, who was from Carolina, no doubt stayed in SC after the first 
>trip. In the summer of 1696 the Congregationalists were busy petitioning the 
>crown for additional land grants, ultimately obtaining some 4,000 acres 
>before they left Mass in Jan. 1697.
>
>I found some confusion in the use of the term "lots" at Dorchester.  The term 
>seems to have applied both to the farms, and then to the town lots.
>
>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.
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