Registration Opens Today: Tuscarora Jack with John Warley

We continue with the popular Beaufort History Museum-Beaufort County Library local history series that the BDC coordinates. The second program in Season 6 features a key figure in Beaufort District's early colonial history, John Barnwell. 

John Barnwell was an early Anglo-Irish settler of the Carolina colony. He held political offices, led military expeditions, and sired descendants who formed the core of South Carolina's planter class and political elite up to the Civil War period and beyond. 

Come learn about Colonel John “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell (1671-1724) from one of his descendants, John Warley, who just so happens to have been living in Beaufort since 2005.  He will share Tuscarora Jack's underappreciated contribution to the survival of Beaufort and the other English settlements in both North and South Carolina.  Both the Yamasee and Tuscarora Indians made concerted efforts to drive the colonists into the Atlantic, and both failed largely due to Tuscarora Jack’s courage, skill and determination. And when it came time for South Carolina to free itself from the clutches of the Lords Proprietors, there was only one man to send to London to make the case: Colonel Barnwell.

John Warley is the author of five works of fiction, one history of his undergraduate alma mater: Stand Forever, Yielding Never, The Citadel in the 21st Century and is currently working on a biography of his seventh great grandfather, John Barnwell.  John lives in Beaufort and currently serves as vice-president of the Beaufort History Museum. 

Registration is required; Space is limited. Registration will close when room capacity is reached. Reservations are good until 5 minutes to program start. Registration is now open for this local history program at https://beauforthistorymuseum.wildapricot.org/event-4884890. 

Reminder: All units of the Beaufort County Library will be closing at 5 pm on Wednesday, November 23 and will remain closed on Thanksgiving Day, November 24th and the day after, Friday, November 25th, 2022. Those units normally open on Saturdays will be open on Saturday, November 26th. (Note: The BDC Research Room is not open on Saturdays.) 

Looking ahead: The Christmas holidays are a bit longer for staff this year because of when Christmas Eve and Christmas Day fall. All units of the Library will be closed from December 23 - December 27, 2022. Regular operations will resume on Wednesday, December 28, 2022.