“B” is for Boonesborough Township. Boonesborough was one in the second wave of townships that South Carolina laid out during the mid-eighteenth century to defend her frontier from the Cherokee. Patrick Calhoun, father of John C Calhoun, surveyed the 20,500-acre Township on the headwaters of Long Cane Creek in 1762. Boonesborough lay between the Carolinians and the Lower Cherokee towns. The majority of the settlers were Irish or Scots-Irish, many of whom came in response to the Bounty Act of 1761, which authorized free land and other settlement incentives. Governor Thomas Boone, for whom the Township was named, and the Royal Council authorized four petitioners to select two sites for two townships to be reserved for Irish immigrants. One became Boonesborough (sometimes called Belfast), and the other became Londonborough. The first immigrants settled in Boonesboro Township in 1763.
“B” is for Boonesborough Township
