Closing the gap between Cecil County MD and Jackson County GA

Lately I've been working on how to close the gap between the Ewings of Cecil County GA and when William bought land and was found paying taxes in Jackson County in 1801. My latest leads take me to Pendleton District (Old 96) in SC, which is where the vast majority of early Jackson County settlers came from. Since William was unmarried, and the Jackson County land he bought was cheap (3rd quality uncleared, and only 50 acres among many neighbors who came from Pendleton District), it is likely he did not have much money, and may have been a sharecropper for one of those neighbors before coming to Georgia. So I'll be looking through records of his neighbors in Pendleton District, looking for an extra adult male farmhand. If I find him in Pendleton District, then I have a pretty good idea how he left Cecil County, and where to look next.