Hayden and Bonham

From the Greenville County Register of Deeds web site;

                           96th District of South Carolina

       The 96th District of South Carolina was a court district created on 1769.
After the Treaty of DeWitt's Corner between South Carolina and the Cherokee
Indians in 1778, the land ceded soon became a part of the 96th District. This land
included all of present day Anderson County, the major part of present day
Pickens and Oconee counties and all of present day Greenville County except for
that portion annexed from Laurens County on 1791.

       After the close of the Revolutionary War, nearly bankrupt South Carolina
decided to issue to its veterans IOU's as pay for their service during the War and
these IOU's could be used to pay for land, ($10/100 acres) on this land recently
acquired from the Indians.

       Offices for two Commissioners of Locations were set up - one on the North
side of the South Saluda River and one on the South side of the South Saluda
River.

       The surveyed plats of land later to become Greenville County, were
recorded in the Office of the Commissioner of Locations - 96th District - North of
the Saluda. And, these plat descriptions are the ones, herein, abstracted and the
abstract contents indexed.