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Notes for Samuel HASELDEN

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Samuel Haselden was believed to have been born in England. He arrived in
Williamsburg about 1770 from Pennsylvania and settled at Muddy Creek in
Williamsburg County, South Carolina. There he built a huge log house,
the location coinciding roughly with the location shown in Mills Atlas of
1823 and identified as Mr. Haseldus. Samuel Haselden married Ann Owens
and many of their descendants have maintained an enduring relationship
with Johnsonville and Hemingway.

Before 1850 three Methodist churches were established on Lynches River.
They were Ebenezer of Muddy Creek, followed by Prospect at Prospect, and
Trinity near Johnsonville. An early Methodist congregation was formed at
Muddy Creek. This was believed to be associated with Bishop Francis
Asbury's missionary journeys through South Carolina. Boddie states that
"... the part of Williamsburg that he usually visited along what is now
the Georgetown-Williamsburg line and the Santee River were the only
portions at that time not entirely within the control of the Presbyterian
Church." Bishop Asbury was rejected by most homes on his route; but,
Samuel Haselden, who lived on Muddy Creek in the northeastern corner of
Williamsburg, was always glad to receive him, as were several men at
Murray's Ferry.

Bishop Asbury first came to Williamsburg County in 1786. Between that
time and 1820, there was no Methodist Church in the county, but Methodism
was kept alive by heroic circuit riders who, in Boddie's words, "...
preached and prayed and sang in private homes wherever they were
received, in barns on plantations wherever they were permitted, in brush
arbors erected for them, and most frequently at crossroads gatherings.
Bishop Asbury's was not a popular doctrine. It required that men and
women walk in a straight and narrow way. It had no history."

The first Methodist Church established in Williamsburg County was
Ebenezer Methodist Church located on Muddy Creek and on the land of
Samuel Haselden. In his will dated August 1, 1822, Haselden mentions "my
beloved daughter Violette L. Haselden," small children and wife Ann in
bequests of land, "except two acres of my land which I freely give and
renounce... where the Methodist Church now stands." The will was
witnessed by William Johnson, Samuel Marsh, and Thomas Haselden.

This land was formally conveyed July 15, 1837, with the following persons
in trust: William Johnson, Edward H. Britton, Stephen C. Haselden, James
H. Stone, and James Snow by the heirs of Samuel Haselden: James G.
Altman, Violette Cane, Samuel W. Haselden, Stephen C. Haselden, William
Haselden, John C. Haselden, and Mary W. Haselden.

The first worship building was a one room log hut with side doors and a
clay chimney but no windows. The original building has been replaced by
several others on the same site.

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