Shadrach Jacobs

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Shadrach Jacobs is listed in Ederington's History of Fairfield County South Carolina begining on pages 9 and 10. Following is that account:

It may not be amiss to here mention the hanging of Shadrach Jacobs. In the year 1809 or 1810, Ezekiel Wooley, a constable, had a state warrant to arrest Shadrach Jacobs, and while riding with Capt. Andrew Feaster toward and near Jacob's residence, Capt. Feaster was killed by a rifle ball fired by Jacobs. The account given and proved in court in 1829 or 1830, twenty years afterwards, when Jacobs was tried and convicted of the murder, was that Jacobs had shot Feaster thinking he was Wooley. It seems that Wooley asked Feaster to change horses not long before the latter was shot, and it being near dusk in the evening, Jacobs could not discriminate between them, Feaster riding Wooley's horse. Jacobs absconded to the wilds of Georgia soon after the act was committed, and his whereabouts was discovered twenty years after and he was attested and brought to Winnsboro, convicted of murder and hanged in 1829 by Sheriff Moore. In this instance was verified the truth of the lines translated from the German: ""Though the mills of God grind slowly, Yet they grind exceedingly small; and patiently he stands waiting, till with exactness grinds he all."" Although it was evident that Jacobs killed Capt. Feaster through mistake, yet his purpose was murder, and besides, his general character was that of a villian, and at the time of trial there was a requisition for his body from the Governor of Georgia.

In the early censuses (1800, 1810), a "Shade" Jacobs was listed among the residents of Fairfield District, South Carolina. I'm pretty sure this "Shade" was Shadrach. (possibly abbreviated, Shad'r, which could look a lot like "Shade" in the old style hand script). They often abbreviated first names in the censuses.

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