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Facts and Events
| Name |
Eliza Wrentz |
| Alt Name |
norris _____ |
| Gender |
Female |
| Marriage |
Bef 1750 |
SCto Robert Norris |
| Death[1] |
1 Feb 1760 |
Long Cane, SCCause: (killed in the Long Cane Indian Massacre) |
References
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# ID: I10240
# Name: Eliza Wrentz
# Sex: F
# Birth: ABT 1725
# Death: 1 FEB 1760 in South Carolina
# Reference Number: BRF10240
# Note:
Killed by Indians in the Long Cane Indian Massacre.
The following items were printed in the South Carolina Gazette:
From Issue February 2-9, 1760:
The Long Cane Massacre
Yesterday night the whole of the Long Cane settlers, to the number of 150 moved off with most of their effects in wagons to go towards Augusta in Georgia and in a few hours after their setting off, were surprised and attacked by about 100 Cherokees on horseback, while they were getting their wagons out of a boggy place.
They had amongst them 40 gunmen, who might have made a very good defense, but unfortunately their guns were in the wagons; the few that recovered theirs fought the Indians half an hour, and were at last obliged to fly. In the action they lost 7 wagons and 40 of their people killed or taken -- including women and children the rest got safe to Augusta whence an express arrived here with the same account on Tues. morning.
From Issue February 9-16, 1760:
Many children have been found wandering in the woods, of the party that were attacked removing from the Long Canes settlement; one man brought no less than 9 of them to Augusta, which he picked up in two different parties, some of them terribly cut with tomahawks and left for dead, and other scalp'd, yet alive.
From Issue February 16-23, 1760:
PATRICK CALHOUN, one of the settlers of Long Canes attacked by Cherokees on the 11th informs that of 250 settlers their loss amounted to about "50 persons, chiefly Women and Children, with 13 loaded waggons and carts; that he had since been at the place where the action happened, in order to bury the dead, and found only 20 of their bodies, most inhumanly butchered; that the Indians had burnt the woods all around, but had left the waggons and carts there empty and unhurt; and that he believes all the fighting men would return to and fortify the Long Cane Settlement, were part of the Rangers so stationed as to give them some assistance and protection."
From Issue No. 1334, March 1-8, 1760:
MISSING CHILD
MARGARET CLARK whose husband was killed with the Long Canes settlers, seeks her daughter, JANE CLARK, 6 yrs. who was not found dead among the dead.
The following excerpt was taken from The Scotch-Irish, and their First Settlements on the Tyger River, and Other Neighboring Precincts in South Carolina, a Centennial Discourse, delivered at Nazareth Church, Spartanburg District, S.C., September 14, 1861, by George Howe, D.D.; reprinted 1981 by A Press, Inc., Greenville, South Carolina.
The margins of many streams almost equaled the cane-brakes of the South-West. These facts are established by the names which many of the streams in the Up-Country still bear, as Reedy River, Reedy Fork, Cane Creek and Long Canes. The cane growth of the country was, we are told, the standard, to many, of the fertility of the soil, a growth twenty or thirty feet high denoting the highest fertility, and that no higher than a man's head, a more ordinary soil.
But now came a season of dreadful trial to these devoted people. The Indian tribes, which almost surrounded them, became incensed against the whites, and rose in arms to destroy them. The inhabitants of Long Canes, in Abbeville, fled for refuge to the older and more settled parts of the country. A party, of whom Patrick Calhoun was one, who were removing their wives and children and more valuable effects to Augusta, were attacked by the Cherokees, on February 1st, 1760, and, according to contemporary journals, some fifty persons--according to other accounts, twenty-two persons--mostly women and children, were slain, and fourteen carried into captivity. After the massacre, many children were found wandering in the woods. One man brought fourteen of these young fugitives into Augusta, some of whom had been cut with tomahawks and left for dead. Others were found on the bloody field, scalped, but living still. Patrick Calhoun, who returned to the site to bury the dead, found twenty dead bodies, inhumanly mangled. The indians had set fire to the woods, and had rifled the carts and wagons, thirteen in number.*
[Footnote: *This attack was made on February 1st, 1760, on a descent just before reaching Patterson's Bridge, as they had stopped to encamp for the night, while they were entangled by their wagons, and could make but little resistance. Some, by cutting loose the horses, and joining a portion of the company in the advance, were so fortunate as to escape, under cover of the night. Among the slain was the mother of the family, Mrs. Catherine Calhoun, and a curious stone, engraved by a native artist, marks the spot where she fell, among her children and neighbors. Two little girls, daughters of William Calhoun, brother of Patrick, were carried into captivity, the eldest of whom was, after some years, rescued; the other was never heard of. [Reference: MS. of M. E. Davis] The grandfather of Mr. Samuel Clark, now of Beech Island, and several members of his family, were killed in the attack. The wife and four children escaped.
In the congregation of Long Canes, about the end of 1763, the Creek Indians broke in and killed fourteen persons in one house, on the Savannah River.
Marriage 1 Robert Norris b: 1722 in Charleston S.C.
* Married: 1745 in Charleston, South Carolina
Children
1. Has No Children Ezekiel Norris b: 1746 in South Carolina
2. Has No Children William Norris b: 1748 in South Carolina
3. Has No Children John Norris b: 1750 in South Carolina
4. Has No Children Robert Norris b: 1752 in South Carolina
5. Has No Children Nancy Norris b: 1757 in South Carolina
6. Has No Children Sarah Norris b: 1759 in South Carolina
source:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sbadgley&id=I10240
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