Colonial and Revolutionary History of "Upper" South Carolina By Dr. John B. O. LANDRUM. Publ. The Print Co., 154 W. Cleveland Park Drive; Station B; Spartanburg, SC., Ed. 1900, Page 26-27

By examination into early court records of SPARTANBURG Co., SC. beginning in 1785 (formation from Ninety-Six District ..prs) and U.S. Census returns for 1790, which this (Dr. Landrum) writer has procured from the Census Office in Washington, DC. we readily see that the early settlers of Spartanburg Co., were composed for the most part, of the following familiar family names:

ALEXANDER; ALLEN; ARNOLD/[ARENDELL]; ABBETT; AUSTELL BAGWELL; BALLARD; BARNETT; BELCHER; BENNELL; BERRY; BISHIP; BITER; BLACKSTOCK; BOBO; BONNER; BOSTICK; BRICE; BROWN; BRUTON; BRYANT BUFFINGTON; BURNETT BURTON; BYRARS; CAMP; CANNON; CASEY; CASSELBURY; CENTRAL; CHESNEY; CHILDERS; CLAYTON; COLE; COOK; COOPER; COUCH; COX; CROCKER; CROW; CROWDER; CULBERSON; DAVIDSON; DAVIS; DEAN; DEWBERRY; DODD; DRUMMOND; EDWARDS; ELDER; EVANS; FARROW FIELDER; FINCH; FLOYD; FOSTER; FORD; FOWLER; GARNETT; GASTON; GENTRY; GIBBS; GILBERT; GOODLETT; GOLIGHTLY; GRIFFIN; HAMMETT; HARRIS; HARRISON; HENDERSON; HILL; JACKSON; JOHNSON; KELLY; KIRBY; LANCASTER; LANFORD; LAWRENCE; LEMASTER; LEWIS; LIBSCOMB; LITTLEJOHN; MASON; McABEE; O'SHIELDS; PEARSON; PRICE; POOL; RAINWATERS; RAY; RHODES; RODDY; ROEBUCK; ROGERS; ROSS; SARRATT/SURRATT; SIMS; SMITH; STONE; TAPP; THOMAS; THOMSON; TINSLEY; TIMMONS; TODD; TOLLESON; TRIMMIER; TURNER; UNDERWOOD; VARNER; WAKFIELD; WALDROP; WALKER; WARD; WATERS; WATSON; WELLS; WEST; WESTMORLAND; WHITE; WILKENS; WILLIAMS; WILLIAMSON; WILSON; WINGO; WOFFORD; VAUGHN; YOUNG, and many other family names, which are almost impossible now to gather up.