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- John Newman Oglethorpe seems a likely possibility to have been the
grandfather of John Culpepper, since he was the only Oglethorpe living
in geographic proximity to the Culpeppers in the 1770's.
Researcher Janet Biondo has found our earliest references to
date on John Newman Oglethorpe. In 1738, in the South Carolina
Gazette:
OGLETHORPE, Newman (address unknown),
Doctor................................................ Local News
Article, 01/19/1738 Charlestown Jan. 26
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We hear that at Mr. William Flud's at the Sign of the Harp and
Crown, is held a Lodge of the ancient and honourable Society of Free
and Accepted Masons, belonging to the Lodge of St. John, Doct. Newman
Oglethorpe being chosen Master.
OGLETHORPE, ??? (address unknown),
Doctor.................................................... Financial
Notice, 11/08/1751, 11/13/1751, 11/18/1751 Article Subjects: Financial
Affairs, Bonds & Notes, and Loans and Money.
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Doct. Oglethorpe (in order to satisfy his creditors) desires
every person that has not lately settled his or her accompt to his
satisfaction, to do it before the first of January next, after which
day he is determined to sue every person who pays not a due regard
hereto.
OGLETHORP, ??? (King's Tree, SC),
Doctor..................................................... General
Advertisement, 11/05/1753, 11/16/1753, 11/20/1753 Article Subjects:
Auctions, Real Estate, and Law Enforcement.
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TO BE SOLD for ready money, at public vendue, in Charles-Town,
on tuesday, the 4th of December next, a house and lot in the township
of Williamsburgh, at the King's-Tree, lately belonging to ___?___
Jameson deceased, seized on execution; being the place now or late
possessed by Doctor Oglethorp.
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We next find John Newman Oglethorpe in Rowan County, NC, where
he was described as a "chirurgeon" or surgeon. He owned land along
Abbott's Creek in that portion of Rowan County lying east of the
Yadkin River. In 1755 he purchased two town lots in the north square
of Salisbury, apparently for speculative reasons (from Carolina Cradle
by Robert W. Ramsey, p. 159).
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No records have yet been found for John Newman Oglethorpe
between 1755 and 1764, but at some point during that period of time he
returned to South Carolina, whether to Charleston, or to Camden
District, is not certain.
Craven Co. SC, 15 May 1764, Hardyrice Jernigan and Needham
Jernigan, of Craven Co., to Joseph Kershaw & Co., merchants, of Pine
Tree Hill, for L 595:2:5 currency, 3 Negroes belonging to HardyRice
Jernigan, & 200 ac. on Jumping Gully conveyed to Needham Jernigan by
James McGirt. Date of redemption: 1 July next. Witnesses: John
Chestnut (merchant), Ely Kershaw. Before John Newman Oglethorpe, J.P.
Entered in Secretary's Book & p. 257 on 25 May 1765 by George
Johnston, Dep. Sec. Recorded 26 Oct 1765 by Fenwicke Bull, Register.
By 1765, John Newman Oglethorpe was in Camden, SC, where a deed
was witnessed in his presence as a Justice of the Peace (SC Deed Bk
E-3, p.186, recorded 21 Oct 1765).
On another deed recorded that same day, Robert Milhous, Hannah
Oglethorpe and Thomas Oglethorpe witnessed a deed with John Newman
Oglethorpe as Justice of the Peace (SC Deed Bk E-3, p. 192) .
The next day Robert Milhous, Thomas Oglethorpe, and Samuel Wyly
witnessed another deed between the same parties, Samuel Gibson and
Isaac Ross, with John Newman Oglethorpe as J.P. (SC Deed Bk E-3, p.
194). The land in these deeds was on the Wateree River, which is near
Camden.
TheHannah Oglethorpe, mentioned above, was John N. Oglethorpe's
wife. On two occasions in 1768, Thomas Oglethorpe was reimbursed by
the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly for transporting a
prisoner to jail (Citizens and Immigrants--South Carolina, 1768, by
Mary B. Warren). So perhaps he was the son of John N., and was about
16 to 20 years old in 1768.
John Newman Oglethorpe was a Presbyterian, which displeased the
itinerant Anglican minister, Charles Woodmason. On Sunday, August 7,
1768, he wrote: "And yet there is a Magistrate here -- but he is a
Presbyterian -- So are these Wretches. Instead of this Magistrate
punishing these worthless Sinners he protects them-- and he had the
Assurance to write to me to make them Satisfaction for my Admonitions
to them (they not being of my Church he said) or he should indite me
for an Assault--This dirty fellow I must report to the Governor and
Council: How can Ministers suppress Vice, thus openly countenanc'd and
protected?..." But elsewhere in his writings Woodmason was kinder:
"There's Mr. Oglethorpe, there he sits, God bless Him, I say it in his
face, He's a Jewel of a Man, and strives to compose Peoples Janglings
all he can, as far as he knows and no Man can do more--and yet very
often instead of being prais'd and Esteem'd for admonishing and
reproving offenders against the Laws He is often hiss'd and hooted at
When by St. Patrick would he exert his Authorityship properly, He
might commit them to the stocks, or bind them over to their Good
Behavior...." These quotes are from Charles Woodmason, The Carolina
Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution, edited by Richard J. Hooker.
Pp. 221-226: 15 May 1767, Col. Isaac Brunson & wife Mary of St.
Marks Parish, Craven Co., planter, to Andrew Rembert Senr., planter
(lease s10, release ), 250 A adj. Porcher, Thomas Jones, granted 24
Mar 1756 to Isaac
Brunson Isaac Brunson (LS), Wit: Isaac Brunson, Peter Brunson.
Prov. in Craven County before John Newman Oglethorpe by Isaac Brunson,
19 May 1769. Rec. 7 May 1771 (SC Mag of Ancestral Research, Vol. IV,
p. 201).
Pp. 284-290: 6 Sept 1764, John McGowen & wf Sarah of Berkley
County, SC, planter, to Joshua English of Fredericksburgh Township,
Craven County, planter, (lease s 10, release £ 400), 300 A in
Fredericksburgh Tonwship, adj. Alexander Rattray, William Kelly,
granted 5 Sept ____, to James McGowen, and by the death of James
McGowen, became the property of John McGowen as son and heir Jno
McGowen (LS), Sa McGowen (LS), Wit: John Stevenson, John Hunter.
Proved 27 Sept 1768 before John N. Oglethorpe, by John Stephenson.
Rec. 18 May 1771 (SC Mag of Ancestral Research, Vol. V, p. 38).
In January 1768, a belated deed, dated 22 May 1739, was recorded
in Charleston, between John (German script) Pnuder, Shoemaker, and Ann
Eleanor, his wife, and John Pearson, all of Berkeley County. Witnesses
were John Newman Oglethorpe, John Hearn, and Philip Morris, John
Perkins, J. P. (National Gen. Soc. Quarterly, 1985, Vol. 73, p. 190).
John Newman Oglethorpe was foreman of the first Grand Jury to
sit in Camden District, SC, in November 1772 (South Carolina Gazette,
10 Dec 1772).
A Memorial dated 5 January 1775, for Paul Porcher, 500 acres in
Granville County, St. Peter's Parish. Bounded North on Oglethorpe, now
Middleton; East on Loriman; South on John Bull, and West on the
Savannah River [Book 13-217:2].
A Memorial dated 11 February 1775, for John Newman Oglethorpe, 450
acres in Craven County, bounded on the South on an open branch of the
Black River, bounded NE on land surveyed; other sides vacant. Survey
certified 29 March 1773; granted 26 August 1774. Quit Rent in two
years. Jno. Belton, DS. Delivered 27 April 1775 to John Adamson [Book
13-308:1] (South Carolina Memorials of Land Titles 1774-1776 by Jesse
Hogan Motes III and Margaret Peckham Motes).
A Memorial dated 15 May 1775 for John Chisholm: 200 acres in Granville
County. Bounded South on Oglethorpe's Barony; East and West on vacant
land [Book 13-479:5].
On 10 November 1777, John N. Oglethorpe, Esq., one of the justices
assigned to keep the peace in Camden District, took the oath of John
Belton on a deed (Kershaw County SC Deed Book A, p. 351).
In November 1795, John Newman Oglethorpe was ordered by the court to
examine the witnesses of the will of John Kelley. "By the court help
for Newberry County 2 March 1793 ordered letters of administration for
the estate of John Kelly deceased granted to Abijah O'Neal, Samuel
Kelley Junr. By the judges of the county Court of Newberry Ordinary 21
Nov. 1795 by virtue of a didimus from under the hands of William
Campbell Governer directed to John Newman Oglethorpe of Camden
District to examine the witnesses of the will of John Kelley Sen.
Deceased letters of administration granted to Samuel Kelley Junr. And
Abijah O'Neal and an inventory to be made" (Abstracts of Newberry
County Will Book A, p. 176, as found in The SC Mag. of Ancestral
Research, Vol XI, Summer 1983, #3, p. 160-1
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