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- Settled in the Pudding Swamp area of Williamsburg County, South Carolina. He had three sons. He married Margaret Gamble before departure for American. ¶ The first Burgess who came to South Carolina was the orginial John Burgess of Williamsburg County. He came from Londonderry, Ireland, about the middle of the 18th century. He had a large land grant from King George III, and soon became a man of affairs in his community and at the “King’s Tree”, a few miles away. The name King’s Tree soon became the name of Williamsburg’s County seat. It first signified the tax paid on all pine trees to England’s king, along with all the other taxes imposed on the colonists. John Burgess was one of the commissioners that defined the limits of King’s tree as a town. The land first lay in the great Sumter District, later it became a part of Clarendon County, and more recently it was shifted to Williamsburg. So it is that Thomas E. Burgess, great-grandson of the original owner, has the unique distinction of living in three counties without moving from his ancestral plantation. “Uncle Tommie”, as he is familiarly known, is the oldest member of House of Burgesses, being 82 years old in 1930, and he arises at dawn to attend to his farm duties, which no one else can do so well. [2]
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- 1795
