Purrysburg is an unincorporated community in Jasper County, South Carolina. While the town itself was abandoned, the settlers were successful. The town...

Pickens Courthouse Pinckneyville Purrysburg Robbins Jarvis, Robin (November 22, 2022). "The Abandoned Town In South Carolina That Most People Stay Far, Far...

Loyalists. The remnants of the defense of Savannah had retreated to Purrysburg, South Carolina, about 12 miles (19 km) upriver from Savannah, where they were...

sent South Carolina Brigadier General William Moultrie from Purrysburg, South Carolina with a mixed force composed mainly of militia, but with a few...

settlement in the Province of Carolina. He established the Colony of Purrysburg (present day Purrysburg, South Carolina) and lived as a planter on 12...

them settled in regions of today's Pennsylvania as well as North and South Carolina. In the next years until 1860 about as many Swiss arrived, making their...

municipality in South Carolina, growing 53.4 percent from 2010 to 2014. The earliest European settlement in the region was Purrysburg, a former Swiss...

has been estimated at about 30. When Howe's retreat ended at Purrysburg, South Carolina he had 342 men left, less than half his original army. Howe would...

local militia as well as militia from North Carolina and Georgia. From a base at Purrysburg, South Carolina, Lincoln directed these forces to monitor key...

The 4th South Carolina Regiment was raised on November 13, 1775, at Charleston, South Carolina, for service with the South Carolina Troops and later became...

The parish system in South Carolina was created by an act of the Commons House of Assembly, commonly called the Church Act, on November 30, 1706. Ten parishes...

of Purrysburg, SC. Had 2 sons who inherited from her uncle Rodolph Pury, Baron of Pury, philanthropist of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Marriage in South-Carolina...

Savannah and marched for Purrysburg, South Carolina, at the start of the Carolinas campaign. The regiment proceeded through South Carolina, burning enemy facilities...

comes from Swiss natives who originally came to South Carolina and had settled in the nearby Purrysburg settlement on the banks of the Savannah River,...

Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865. University of South Carolina Press. p. 295. ISBN 1-57003-682-9. Coleman...

The South Carolina Line was a formation within the Continental Army. The term "South Carolina Line" referred to the quota of numbered infantry regiments...

Colony of Purrysburg, a colony in the British Empire for Swiss Protestants, in present day South Carolina. De Pury's father died in Purrysburg, and was...

would be given two seats in South Carolina's Commons House of Assembly. Townships created under this program were Purrysburg, New Windsor, Fredericksburg...

family was established by Jean-Pierre Pury, who founded the Colony of Purrysburg. Members of the American branch became planters in the Southeastern United...

reached the border of South Carolina by early December, and proceeded to establish headquarters near Savannah in Purrysburg, South Carolina, the following month...

problems, and after Ashe left camp on February 28 to attend a war council at Purrysburg, Bryan moved the camp about one mile (1.6 km) north, nearer the Savannah...

British in the Battle of Charleston. He commanded The South Carolina State Militia at Purrysburg in 1778. He was captured by the British when they took...

portions of Jasper and Horry Counties in South Carolina as well as Chatham County, Georgia. Purrysburg, South Carolina received the highest rainfall total...

Savannah, Georgia in late 1778. Ashe's troops first marched to Purrysburg, South Carolina, where Lincoln had established his camp, but was then sent north...

shore of the Savannah River 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) upstream of Purrysburg, South Carolina, after striking a snag. She later was raised. Heatherbell  United...

in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-57003-682-8. Smith, William Roy (1903). South Carolina...

would settle Purrysburg, but it would be after Georgia's founding, and it was positioned north of the Savannah River rather than south of it. However...

for a few months in 1779 while General Rutherford was in South Carolina for the Purrysburg expedition in early 1779. Brigadier General Henry William...

local militia in Lincoln County, North Carolina during the American Revolutionary. It was created by the North Carolina General Assembly of 1778 on February...