January 14, 2025

Cambridge and Ninety Six

26 minutes

Ellenberg Homesite

The modern town of Ninety Six hold close connections to my family. It's where my grandparents lived, as well as some other, more notorious relatives. Before modern Ninety Six came the college town of Cambridge, named with aspirations of reaching the lofty status of its namesakes in Massachusetts and England.

Resources for this episode:

Finding Your Roots - Season 5, Episode 10 "All in the Family"

Samuel Campbell Clegg

From a National Park Service report - Ensign Samuel Clegg Samuel Clegg (ca. 1740-1779) was a prominent Loyalist and plantation owner in Craven County

and Edgefield District, South Carolina. He was living in South Carolina by 1766 and owned land by 1768. By the late 1770s Clegg owned more than 1,400 acres in South Carolina. At the time of the American Revolution was married to Barbara Marie Flick and they had four children. Clegg served an Ensign in Colonel Boyd’s regiment and he helped to raise recruits and he participated in the battle of Kettle Creek. Clegg, who was considered by the Patriots to be a “ring leader” of the Loyalist uprising, was captured in the battle and marched as a prisoner to Ninety-Six. Clegg was tried for sedition and treason, and hanged at Ninety-Six in late April, 1779 (S.C.D.A.H. 2009; Cann 2004:4-7; Davis 1979b:172-181).

Star Fort - National Park Service

Cambridge Hash blog post

Siloam Baptist Church

Cambridge Tavern:

Cambridge Hall, later Siloam Baptist Church:

AI voices by ElevenLabs

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