THE ANNALS OF NEWBERRY, HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL AND ANECDOTICAL; ALSO RELIGIOUS, MEDICAL AND LITERARY: PART SECOND, BY JOHN A CHAPMAN, A. M. NEWBERRY, S. C.: I. THE FRIENDS AND THEIR MIGRATION TO OHIO. The readers of the Annals of Newberry will be glad to find, I think, the following supplementary chapter to Judge O'Neall's work, contributed by Mr. David Jones, of Ohio, a relative of Lambert J. Jones, Esq., of Newberry. The chapter is strictly supplementary and not a continuation in time of the former work: "I have read one very interesting narrative or history of Newberry District written, as I have been informed, by the late John Belton O'Neall, a resident of said district, from birth until death, embracing a period of more than sixty years, during a long portion of which he held the office of Supreme Judge of the State. Having learned that another history of said district is in preparation by Mr. John A. Chapman, I will furnish, at his request, some account of the most prominent families who left there near the beginning of this century, and contributed to the peopling of three counties, namely, Miami, Warren and Clinton, in the State of Ohio. "I feel interested in the task because my parents and maternal grandparents cane from there, bringing those grand traits of the pioneer, namely, industry, enterprise, fortitude and indomitable courage. I know that the present inhabitants of Newberry District will not feel dishonored when they learn something of what has been wrought by her emigrant citizens and their descendants. "In O'Neall's history we are told in part of the Friends, or Quakers, who resided in the district, the exodus of whom and others between the years 1800 and 1810, reflexively decimated the district. He says, also, that they held a large quarterly meeting on Bush River, where he had often seen more than five hundred Friends assembled. "There must have been some great moving cause or causes that induced such an exit in so short a period. O'Neall ascribes it to their repugnance to the 'peculiar institution' of the South, together with frightful predictions of war and carnage made by an itinerant minister of this church, |