Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick: Arranged by Mary A. Maverick and Her Son Geo. Madison MaverickExcerpt from Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick Samuel Augustus Maverick, my husband, was born July 23rd, 1803, at Pendleton, South Carolina. His parents were Samuel Maverick and his wife Elizabeth Anderson. She was the daughter of General Robert Anderson, of South Carolina, and of Revolutionary note, and his wife Ann Thompson of Virginia. Samuel Maverick was once a prominent merchant of Charleston, S.C., where he had raised himself from the almost abject poverty, to which the war of the Revolution had reduced his family, to a position of great affluence. It is said of him that he sent ventures to the Celestial Empire, and that he shipped the first bale of cotton from America to Europe. Some mer cantile miscarriage caused him subsequently to withdraw from, and close out, his business, and he retired to Pendle ton District* in the north west corner of South Carolina, at the foot of the mountains. Here he spent the balance of his days, and invested and speculated largely in lands in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. |
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| Title | Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick: Arranged by Mary A. Maverick and Her Son Geo. Madison Maverick Women's Studies Archive: Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922 |
| Authors | Mary Adams Maverick, George Madison Maverick |
| Editors | Rena Maverick Green, Mrs. Mary Rowena Maverick Green |
| Compiled by | George Madison Maverick |
| Publisher | Alamo printing Company, 1921 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | May 2, 2008 |
| Length | 136 pages |
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