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The Burgesses of Clarendon and Williamsburg Counties, SC

Generation No. 2

2. JOSEPH² BURGESS (UNKNOWN¹)³ was born in Antrim Ireland⁴, and died in Mecklinburg Co., NC⁵. He married MARGARET ARMSTRONG.

Notes for JOSEPH BURGESS:
            Sallie Rueberry Burgess wrote in February, 1930:
      "'Who are they and whence came they?' The historians trace their ancestry back to ANTRIM and ULSTER in North Ireland, but they are not natives of Ireland. In the great struggle for freedom and Protestantism in England, the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, because of their Romanish sympathies, forfeited their great landed estates, where Belfast now towers in her morality and Christianity above Dublin and Cork. These lands were settled by colonist from Scotland and England and are now known as 'Scotch-Irish'. All the world knows their proud record and great moral influence. This stream of Scotch-Irish flowed chiefly through the port of Philadelphia, but our family came directly through the port of Charleston, S. C., and settled in the 'low country' of South Carolina, in Clarendon, Williamsburg, and Sumter Counties. Our great-grandfather, JOSEPH BURGESS and wife, Margaret Armstrong, came from Antrim, Ireland, near Belfast, to America on 'The Irish Volunteer', a sailing vessel, landing at Charleston in 1791, with six chirlden. They were three months on the journey across the Atlantic. After crossing the Gulf Stream safely, they were caught in a storm and swept back - - so they crossed it three times. On coming up the Black River, they made a narrow escape from drowning when the flat almost capsized. ... our great-grandfather first settled in Williamsburg where others of the family had located sometime before, and later moved to Mecklenburg County, N. C. .... There they lived and are buried at old Providence Presbyterian Church, ten miles from Charlotte, N. C."

More About JOSEPH BURGESS:
Fact 2: 1791, Sailed from Londonary to Charleston aboard the "Irish Volunteer"⁶
Fact 3: Accompanied by 6 children
Fact 4: Buried at Providence Presby Ch. ten miles from Charlotte, NC⁷

More About MARGARET ARMSTRONG:
Fact 4: Buried at Providence Presby Ch. ten miles from Charlotte, NC⁸

      Children of JOSEPH BURGESS and MARGARET ARMSTRONG are:

JOHN³ BURGESS, b. Antrim Ireland⁹.

Notes for JOHN BURGESS:
Moved to Monroe County Alabama and settled at Bell's Landing

4.	ii.		ANDREW BURGESS, b. January 14, 1774, Antrim Ireland; d. May 17, 1850.
	iii.		JOSEPH BURGESS, b. Abt. 1778, Antrim Ireland¹⁰; d. AL.¹¹.

Notes for JOSEPH BURGESS:
Moved to Alabama with his brother John.

iv.

MARY BURGESS, b. Abt. 1780, Antrim, Ireland¹²; m. STEWART.

Notes for MARY BURGESS:

More About MARY BURGESS:
Fact 1: Settled in Alabama near her brothers.¹³

5.	v.		MARGARET BURGESS, b. Abt. 1782, Antrim Ireland; d. Mecklinburg Co., NC.
6.	vi.		THOMAS BURGESS, b. February 10, 1783, Ireland; d. March 18, 1854, Sumter Diistrict, SC.

3. JOHN² BURGESS (UNKNOWN¹)¹⁴ was born Abt. 1725 in Ireland¹⁵, and died 1794 in Williamsburg Co., SC¹⁶. He married MARGARET GAMBLE¹⁷ in Ireland¹⁸.

More About JOHN BURGESS:
Fact 2: Abt. 1745, Immigration according to Burgesses of Ireland¹⁹
Fact 3: 1770, Williamsburg
Fact 4: One of the commission which defined the limits of Kingstree.
Fact 5: According to WFT V. 5 # 712, 1770 may have been immigration year²⁰

Children of JOHN BURGESS and MARGARET GAMBLE are:

7.	i.	JAMES³ BURGESS, b. December 15, 1763, Ireland; d. 1816.
	ii.	JOHN BURGESS , JR., b. Bef. 1770, Ireland²¹.
8.	iii.	WILLIAM BURGESS, b. August 12, 1770, Ireland; d. January 24, 1816, SC.

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