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He then served as Deputy Surveyor in 1703, Clerk of the Council in 1703, and Deputy Secretary of the Council in 1704. While a surveyor, according to the [https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/barnwell-john/ South Carolina Encyclopedia], he "mapped the newly settled Sea Islands around Port Royal Sound", where he "staked his claim to 6,500 acres of land" and "became one of the first British settlers of Port Royal Island and an active trader with the Yamassee Indians". After mapping Port Royal Sound, he continued to map further in the region, eventually making "the great mother map of the American southeast from which all subsequent maps of the area were made" ([https://www.geni.com/people/Col-John-Barnwell/6000000008552216467 Geni.com].
In 1711, the Tuscarora Indians launched an attack against white settlers, and as per [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1739:61360 Appleton's] entry for John Barnwell, 137 were killed in one night in Roanoke alone.Barnwell led the 1711 expedition of (either 30 or 600) Carolinians and several hundred friendly Indians, as per [https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1739:61360 Appleton's], against the Tuscarora Indians and killed 300 in the first engagement in Narhantes, and ultimately more than 1,000 were killed or captured, and the remnant escaped to the Five Nations of New York.
Subsequently in 1715, the Yamassee War was started at Pocotaligo, near Beaufort, by the Yemassee, Creeks, Choctaws & Catawbas, which took the lives of Indian Commissioner Thomas Nairne and 400 British settlers south of the Edisto River. Two or three British settlers on Port Royal Island fled to Barnwell's plantation, and together they escaped to a British merchant ship at anchor in the Beaufort River, joined by 300 other colonists.
* Alice Killaly Turner (b. London, ON; m. 1871 Toronto, ON)
Christopher and Lord Cecil were both members of the British Rifle Brigade, and resigned their commissions at Ottawa in 1868 in order to devote themselves to evangelism and Christian ministry. Also pointed out that in Christopher and his wife Alice's marriage record, they identified denominationally as "Christian ch. catholic, not R. catholic".
==Watson family==