James Chastain Sr. (abt. 1740 - abt. 1819)

Born about 1740 in Manakin, Goochland, Virginia

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Died about 1819 at about age 79 in Greenville County, South Carolina, USA

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Biography

It is reported that James was a Baptist minister at Genestie Church, Pendleton Dist., South Carolina BET 1790 AND 1792. Also a Baptist minister of Little Horst Creek Church, South Carolina BET 1794 AND 1798; and a Baptist minister at Mountain Creek Branch, Savannah River in South Carolina 7 miles southeast of Anderson County until his death.^[1][2]

Records

Land - On 10 Dec 1779, in North Carolina, James entered a land grant of 300 acres on Indian Camp Creek in what became Sullivan County, Tennessee. The grant was issued on 10 Oct 1783.^[3][4]

Land - On 14 Apr 1785, Warrens Branch (Tyger River), Ninety-Six District, South Carolina. Land Grants of 135 acres, 547 acres.^[5]

Land - On 17 Mar 1786, Reedy Fork (Tyger River), Ninety-Six District, South Carolina. He obtained land grant of 547 acres.^[6]

Census - 1790, in Pendleton District, South Carolina in the French Broad River Valley. The household consisted of two males 16 and over, four males under 16, and three females.^[7]

Census - 1800, in Buncombe Co, North Carolina.^[8]

Census - 1810, in Buncombe Co, North Carolina.^[9]

Census - On 7 Aug 1820, in Greenville, South Carolina, Marian Chasteen was head of household at age 45+. She is believed to be the widow of James Chastain.^[10]

Occupation: - Reverend.^[11]

Buried - Fork Shoals Cemetery, Greenville, South Carolina, United States.^[2]

Research Notes

Message Board Post - Posted: 18 Jan 2000, by Mary Meyer

The following paragraphs appeared in A HISTORY OF THE SALUDA BAPTIST ASSOCITION by T. H. Garrett, published by B. F. Johnson Publishing Co, Richmond, VA, 1896 (pp. 25-26):

The next [annual] meeting was held August 12, 1820, at Durban's Creek church, in Laurens county....Two new churches--viz., Antioch, in Pickens county, and New Hope, No. 2--situated somewhere in the bounds of old Pendleton District, were received as members of the body. Seneca River church was dismissed to join the Tugaloo Association....

The Association was called on this year to mourn the loss by death of James Chastain, one of its oldest ministers, who was said to have been a most excellent man and a good preacher. He was intimately connected with the early history of the churches at Shockley's Ferry and Mountain Creek, and was probably their first pastor. [This means he died after the last annual meeting held August 1819, and before this one held August 12, 1820.]

Garrett explains (p. 17): "...at the meeting of the Bethel Association, in 1802, nine churches, situated east and west of the Saluda River, in Greenville and Pendleton districts were, at their own request, dismissed from tht body for the purpose of uniting with a number of other churches in the same section, which had never belonged to any like body, to form a new association. Accordingly, on November 5, 1803, messengers from these churches met at old Salem meeting-house, four and a-half miles northwest from the present city of Anderson, and formed what was then by unanimous consent called the Saluda Baptist Assocition, which title it has ever since borne and honored.

Sources

1. ↑ Chasteen Genealogy and Family History; Author Naomi Ruth Jackson Chasteen; Publisher Gregath Co. 1987
   • After 1810, he lived near the Savannah River in SC preaching at Mountain Creek Branch (7 miles southeast of Anderson County) until his death in 1820.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Find a Grave, database and images (Find A Grave: Memorial #102087781: accessed March 23, 2024), memorial page for Rev James Chastain Sr. (1740–1815), Find a Grave Memorial ID 102087781, citing Fork Shoals Baptist Church Cemetery, Pelzer, Greenville County, South Carolina, USA.
3. ↑ State Archives of North Carolina; (http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov/DisplaySearchResult.aspx : accessed 24 Jan 2015); Land Office: Land Warrants, Plats of Survey, and Related Records. TN, Sullivan Co. File #205, James Chastain (Warrant #2344); Years 1779, 1783. Acres 300, Grant #212, Issue 10 Oct 1783; Entry #2344; Entered 10 Dec 1779; Book 53; p 164; On Indian Camp Creek.
4. ↑ "North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee 1778-1791", page 26, compiled by Cartwright and Gardiner. Info provided by book titled: Chasteen Genealogy and Family History by Naomi Ruth Jackson Chasteen. 1987.
5. ↑ South Carolina, Dept of Archives; http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/SearchResults.aspx. Series: S213190, Volume: 0007, Page: 00478, Item: 001, Date: 4/14/1785.
   • Description: Chastain, James, Plat for 135 acres on Warrens Branch, Ninety Six District, Surveyed By William Benson.
   • Names indexed: Benson, William; Chastain, James; Collins, John; Prince, Henry.
   • Locations: Ninety-Six District; Tyger River; Warren Branch.
   • Document type: Plat.
6. ↑ South Carolina, Dept of Archives; http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/SearchResults.aspx. Series: S213190, Volume: 0021, Page: 00184, Item: 000, Date: 3/17/1786.
   • Description: Chastain, James, Plat For 547 acres on Reedy Fork, Ninety Six District, Surveyed By James Wofford.
   • Names Indexed: Chamberlee, Jacob; Chastain, James; Goodley, William; Jordan, James; Nickols, John; Reeves, William; Wofford, James.
   • Locations: Ninety Six District; Reedy Fork; Tyger River.
   • Document Type: Plat.
7. ↑ 1790 United States Federal Census, Pendleton, South Carolina; Roll: M637_11; Page: 80; Image: 0013.
8. ↑ 1800 United States Federal Census, Morgan, Buncombe, North Carolina; Roll: 29; Page: 166; Image: 75.
9. ↑ 1810 United States Federal Census, Buncombe, North Carolina; Roll: 39; Page: 268; Image: 00160; Family History Library Film: 0337912.
10. ↑ 1820 United States Federal Census; Greenville, South Carolina; Page: 94; NARA Roll: M33_120; Image: 155.
11. ↑ Traditions and history of Anderson County; Chapter IV. The churches; p44; Original data: Vandiver, Louise Ayer.. Traditions and history of Anderson County. Atlanta, Ga.: Ruralist Press, 1928.
    • Ancestry.com shared link

• Some Rivers, Creeks, and Streams In Greenville Co., South Carolina as found in some old records
• 1776 Map
• https://www.geni.com/people/James-Chastain/373419019810003759

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Chastain-153 created through the import of RamageRice102011.ged on Oct 12, 2011 by Molly Rice.
• Thank you to Theresa Ellenwood for creating WikiTree profile Chastain-266 through the import of RobertJamesChasteenAncestors.ged on Mar 5, 2013.
• 'This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. Chastain-618 was created by Eric Wilson through the import of Wilson _ Carter_2014-06-04_01.ged on Jun 4, 2014.