Descendants of Thomas Galphin, 2000 June.

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Descendants of Thomas Galphin, 2000 June.

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Family history listing descendants of Thomas Galphin, father of Indian Trader George Galphin (1709-1780) of Silver Bluff, South Carolina, with notes on descendants in areas of South Carolinia counties of Aiken, Barnwell, Edgefield, and elsewhere; also including letter by compiler, Isabel Vandervelde.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Galphin family.

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Vandervelde, Isabel

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Galphin, Thomas, d. 1734.

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Galphin, George, -1780

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George Galphin (ca. 1709-1780), a native of Ireland, emigrated to South Carolina in 1737. He established an Indian trading post at Silver Bluff on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, a few miles below Augusta, Ga. By the 1740s he had obtained a trading license from the President of Georgia and began trading with the Creek and Cherokee Indians in both South Carolina and Georgia. Through the next several years Galphin became involved in Indian affairs and assumed some importance as an u...