Lawrence Avinger (abt. 1768 - 1864)

Born about 1768 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 28 Nov 1864 at about age 96 in Vance, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Lawrence Avinger lived to be very old and has a prominent place in family stories. He acquired very considerable amounts of land in the area between Providence Swamp and the Santee River. He and his wife are buried at the Whitmore Family Cemetery near Santee, SC.

On 24 Jun 1802 Lawrence bought from John Avinger 100 acres near the head of Horse Range, Waters of Four Holes Swamp, bounded by John Peter Horlbeck to the northwest.^[1]

Lawrence filed a plat for 188 acres on Horse Range, surveyed 19 Oct 1807, bounded to the northeast by “Horlback” and “Ms. Huze” (Miss Glaze); southwest by John Taylor; southeast by Frederick Dantzler, Laurence Avinger, and John Stoudemire.^[2]

He was mentioned in a plat for John Carr for property adjacent Frederick Dantzler and others, near Providence Swamp.^[3]

Lawrence was part of the long effort to get what is now Hwy. 301 from the Santee to Orangeburg designated a public road, a process that began in the 1790s and ended only in the 1840's.^[4]

In 1849 Laurence Avinger and his brother Henry petitioned to be granted the property of Gottlieb's widow.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Orangeburg Clerk of Court Office. Book 7, page 384.
2. ↑ Lawrence Avenger, State Plat Books (Columbia Series) (S213192). Plat for 188 Acres on Horse Range Branch, Orangeburgh District, Surveyed by Dennis Gilmore. Series: S213192 Volume: 0041 Page: 00174 Item: 001. 10/19/1807.
3. ↑ Carr, John, Plat for 133 Acres in Orangeburgh District. State Plat Books (Columbia Series) S213192, Vol. 42, P. 184, Item 1. 30 nov 1809. South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
4. ↑ Inhabitants of St. Mathews Parish. Petition to be Granted a Public Road Leading to Orangeburg Court. No Date. Series S165015, Item 3583. South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
5. ↑ Avinger, Laurence, and Henry Avinger, of St. Matthews Parish, Petition asking to be granted the property of their stepmother who died intestate rather than allow the property to escheat to the state. Petitions to the General Assembly. S165015. Year: 1831, Item 128. 24 Nov 1831. South Carolina Department of Archives and History.