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acres Allston Ashley River Ball Barony Beaufort beautiful Belvidere Bluff brick house British Broughton building built Calhoun called Camden Capt Charles Charleston Christ Church Parish Church Colleton Colonel colonial Columbia Cooper River Daniel Huger daughter death died Drayton Drayton Hall Edisto Island Edward Elias Elliott England erected father Fenwick Ferry front Gailliard garden Georgetown Gibbes Goose Creek Governor Hall Hampton Henry Henry Laurens Hill Huger interesting Izard James John John Colleton John's known LaFayette land Landgrave Laurens lived Lucas mansion married Middleton miles mill Miss Mulberry negroes oaks old house owner Parish piazza Pinckney plantation Porcher possession Ravenel residence Revolution rice road rooms Rutledge Santee Santee River says Seabrook settlement Shubrick side Singleton Sinkler South Carolina stands Stephen's story Street Thomas Thomas Pinckney tion town tract Wando River Washington WESTERN BRANCH wife William Winyah
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Page 26 - The house stands a mile from, but in sight of the road, and makes a very handsome appearance; as you draw near it new beauties discover themselves ; first the . . . vine mantleing the wall, loaded with delicious clusters.
Page ix - Springs campaign in style. — She repairs to the seat of war with a mighty force of trunks and band-boxes, like so many ammunition chests, filled with caps, hats, gowns, ribands, shawls, and all the various artillery of fashionable warfare. The lady of a southern planter will lay out the whole annual produce of a rice plantation in silver and gold muslins, lace veils, and new liveries ; carry a hogshead of tobacco on her head, and trail a bale of...
Page 283 - Ladies, the home of Washington is in your charge — see to it that you keep it the home of Washington. Let no irreverent hand change it; no vandal hands desecrate it with the fingers of progress. Those who go to the home in which he lived and died wish to see in what he lived and died. Let one spot in this grand country of ours be saved from change. Upon you rests this duty.
Page 294 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by — The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I.
Page 98 - The legislature of the United States shall pass no law on the subject of religion; nor touching or abridging the liberty of the press; nor shall the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus ever be suspended, except in case of rebellion or invasion.
Page 194 - The first day's march brought these detachments to the country settled by the original emigrants into Carolina. The scene was both new and delightful. Vestiges, though clouded by war, everywhere appeared of the wealth and taste of the inhabitants. Spacious edifices, rich and elegant gardens, with luxuriant and extensive rice plantations, were to be seen on every side.
Page 218 - He subsequently became professor of obstetrics and diseases of women in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and consulting physician to the Nursery and Child's Hospital, at St. Mary's Hospital, Brooklyn. He was also surgeon and one of the founders of the Woman's Hospital in New York.
Page 138 - Our difficulties are so numerous, and our wants so pressing, that I have not a moment's relief from the most painful anxieties. I have more embarrassments than it is proper to disclose to the world. Let it suffice to say that this part of the United States has had a narrow escape. / have been seven months in the field without taking off my clothes.
Page 182 - ... creek or River, commonly called Awindaw Creek or Seawee River, being the bounds of Craven county, to the South-East by the Sea, to the West by Wando River, and to the North-West partly by the said River, and partly | by a line drawn from the Cowpen of Capt. Robert Daniel, or the Swamp at the head of Wando River exclusive, to the Cowpen of Joseph Wigfal, on the head of the said Awindaw Creek or Seawee River inclusive."1 The first church was begun in 1707, but was not completed for some years.
Page 99 - In my first communication I mentioned the civility with which I was received at St. James, and at the Office of Foreign Affairs. The only circumstance worth mentioning in my conference with the king was that Lord North's rope of sand appeared not to have been entirely effaced from his Majesty's memory; so I infer, from his mentioning the different circumstances between the Northern and Southern parts of our country tending to produce disunion.