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- Henrick Gasper (or Henry Gasperd) arrived in Charlestown, SC on Feb 10, 1768 among a group of French and German protestants aboard the ship "Brigantine St Peter", William Cawley, master.The group was organized by a French Huguenot, Jean Louis du Mesnil de St Pierre.The ship left London, England on Sept 26, 1767 headed for Halifax, Nova Scotia but was blow off course by a storm.The record of St Pierre's passengers petition for land under the Bounty Act of 1761 is found in Council Journal 34, page 101-103, Meeting of 9th March 1768. Henrich Gasper was awarded 100 acres of bounty land in Hillsborough Township on Savannah River adjacent to land for Henry Dreyer, John James Stiefel, and Jeremiah Rogers.The size of the grant indicates that he was single when he arrived.Hillsborough Township was located in what is present day McCormick County, SC on Little River just below the mouth of Long Cane Creek.e Making of McCormick County", by Bobby F Edmonds; Cedar Hill Unltd; 1999; pp.73-77. https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/cosper/444/hop Francis Asbury, migrated to South Carolina in 1768
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