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St. Jacob's Church, Chapin, South Carolina
    The earliest history of St. Jacob's Church has not been described.  When the church was founded is a matter of conjecture.  The earliest record of St. Jacob's is its participation in the organization of the Ecclesiastical Union Hill of 1788.  Early bounty grants for the St. Jacob's Church area include:  John Michael Ergil, John Fayt Kersinger, Jacob Haltewanger, Olrig Sleys and Ann Mary Wilder, wife of Jacob Lindler.  All of these family names are found among signers of the petition for membership of St. Jacob's Church into the Ecclesiastical Union.  St. Jacob's Church is located on the 150A survey of 1748 to Christian Theus (Colonial Plats 4:468).  This survey was the earliest in the Wateree Creek area.  Theus sold the land to John Geiger.John Geiger in 1768 sold the south 100A part of the survey to Christian Reister and fact is confirmed by early state surveys adjacent the land grant of
Christian Theus.  The original church was located on the north side of the old road that passes through the grant and it would be assumed that part of the grant was deeded over to the church at some point, either in the Colonial or early statehood period, and either by Rister or Boyer.

Signatures of Petitioners for St. Jacob's Church for Membership in Ecclesiastical Union

Names as interpreted in Quattlebaum, Paul.  "German Protestants in South Carolina in 1788; a Petition for Incorporation of Their Churches."  SC Historical and Genealogical Magazine, XLV:4 (Oct 1946).  Names in parenthesis represent modern or alternative equivalents of name.
 

Jacob bindler ser.  (Lindler)
Conrad (X) Shleis  (Slice)
Jacob bindler ju.  (Lindler)
Johan Vetter Bondscher (Peter Baltscherrer)
Johan J. Jungling  (?)
Johan Heinrich Seitz
Jacob Hauber
George Froeschle(r)  (Freshley)
Wilhelm Ziegler
Adam (X) Paltzer  (Saltzer, Salser)
michel (X) Ergle
Michael Carle  (Charles)
Johannes Ergel
Christian (X) Rucker  (Rister)
Banerman Getzunger (X)  (Getsinger)
Tobias Yttler (X)
John Smith
Colonial Surveys to Women in the St. Jacob's Church Area
  The following is a list of women's surveys all of which are thought to be in the St. Jacob's Church or Wateree Creek area of Lexington County.  Deeds to the sale of late Colonial surveys in old Newberry District reveal that it was a common practice at that time for women to obtain surveys and grants in their maiden name.  The names of owners of adjacent lands are given in the following list.  Some of the women in this list may have been obtaining lands adjacent their husbands.  Following the name of grantee is found the acreage, date of plat certification, and Colonial SC plat book reference.
Written by Dr. Carl W. Nichols
(Article was published in the Dutch Fork Digest, Vol. XIV, April-June 1999)