AIKEN COUNTY, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) — As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, one historian says the story of the American Revolution cannot be told without Aiken County, South Carolina — and the Irish-born Indian trader who kept a powerful Native nation out of the fight.
Milledge Galphin Murray is a volunteer historian and direct descendant of two Revolutionary-era figures. He holds original pre-1800 documents tied to that history, including one bearing the signature of George Walton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
“This document right here was a pre-1800 document — an original. This is George Walton, who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence,” Murray said…