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 fj^:rt II. 
 
 BY THE 
 
 ANCIENT LADY, 
 
 i'RLESTON, S. C. 
 Edward PRimyTfeiNTER, Stationer & Binder, 149 Meetixc; St, 
 
 1870. 
 
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 ANCIENT LADY, 
 
 AlTTltOR OF '-OTR TORKFATHEBS, THEIR IIOMKS AND TIIKll! Cin KCIIFS.' 
 
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 CHARLESTON, S. C: 
 
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 Entered according to an Act of Congres.'*, in the year 1870, l>y 
 MRS. !•:. A. POYAS, 
 
 111 the nflir'O of ilie Lil)ran':in of Congre><s at Wa^liington. 
 
 EDWARD PERRY, PKINTEK, 
 14<J Meeting St., Charleston. 
 
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 '' Wlicu, Lord, to this our Westeru IuikI, 
 Led by Thy providential hand, 
 
 Our wandering fathers came, 
 Their ancient homes, their friends in youth, 
 vSent forth the heralds of Thy trnth 
 
 To keep them in Thy name. 
 
 " Then through our solitary coast 
 The desert features soon were lost ; 
 
 Thy temples there arose. 
 Our shores, as culture made them fair, 
 Were hallowed by Thy rites, by prayer, 
 
 And blossomed as the rose." 
 
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 BMABOWB ©JF fHl iPABf 
 
 LETTER. "VI. 
 
 BISHOP SMITH. 
 
 My Dear Young Friends : 
 
 To you of the established Churcli, wlio reverence time- 
 lionored ceremonies and authorized forms, this letter may 
 be especially acceptable ; to none may it prove tedious or 
 dull since we know that there is good in all, and being 
 ever careful to call none '' schismatics" shall escape being 
 distinguished as bigots. 
 
 Beaufort has long borne the character of Piety, Hospi- 
 tality and Politeness. 
 
 Well do we know that much of the best blood of Caro- 
 lina continues to flow through the veins of families in 
 that district. In times of old, Benjamin, of the house of 
 Elliott, was foremost in the work of charity. It was in 
 1762 that the clergy of this State formed themselves into 
 a Society on the 21st of April, under the influence of 
 amiable and pious feelings, such as deserve to be recorded 
 to the honor of our nature, for the relief of the widows 
 and orphans of the cler^vmen of the Church of Encrlarid. 
 
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 They thought to exclude lay members. New Yorlc, New 
 Jersey and Pennsylvania, formed such Societies about 
 17G9, and it is highly gratifying to us, the knowledge, 
 that amongst the first contributors to those were Colonel 
 Henry Laurens, then forty-five years of age ; Mr. Thomas 
 Smith, the grand-father of the Mr. Khetts and sister, 
 then fifty years old ; also Messrs. Robert Pringle, Thomas 
 Lynch and Benjamin Elliott. In 1771, nine years after 
 the commencement of our Society, aid was solicited from 
 the community. Mr. David Deas joined immediately, and 
 at the next meeting Henry Peronneau, Benjamin Dart and 
 Henry Middleton, Escj^a., on application were elected mem- 
 bers. Dr. Robert Smith, who may, with propriety, be 
 called the father of the Clcrcjy Socieiy^ was born in tlie 
 county of Norfolk, England, of respectable parents, and 
 carefully educated. .He took his Bachelor's degree at the 
 age of twenty-one, and was elected to a Fellowship at 
 twenty-three. He continued to reside at Cam1)ridge, and 
 was ordained Deacon on the 7th of March, and Priest on 
 the 21st of December, 1756. From AVilliam Mason, Esq., 
 M. P., he received liberal patronage, and from his recom- 
 mendation was engaged as an Assistant Minister for St. 
 Philip's Church, Charleston. He arrived on the od of 
 November, 1757, the Rev. Mr. Andrews liaving resigned 
 after a term of three years to leave the province. On the 
 resignation of i\\Q Rev. Mr. Clarke, in 1759, Mr. Smith 
 was elected to the Rectorship of the Church, having, by 
 the faithful performance of his duties, established himself 
 in the confidence and esteem of the parishioners. Pre- 
 viously to this he had intermarried with Miss Elizabeth 
 Paget, of St. Thomas' Parish. When the British com- 
 manders approached our coast, not to conciliate, but as 
 they believed, to subdue, Mr. Smith convinced them that 
 he was not a man to be trifled with, for early in the Revo- 
 
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 lution he sliouldered his musket, and amidst the scenes of 
 the greatest danger, did both by precept and example, 
 stimulate to intrepid resistance. He was appointed, with 
 the approbation of Greneral Lincoln, Chaplain to the Con- 
 tinental Hospital in South Carolina; and after the peace, 
 when the Cincinnati was established, he became one of its 
 members. It is true that the commencement of the mis- 
 understanding between the parent country and the colonies 
 liad found him a loyal and faithful subject of the British 
 realm, in Church and State, but he soon discovered cause 
 to change his conduct, and felt it his duty to exert all the 
 influence which his character, fortune and station gave 
 liim, in animating the minds of his friends and people for 
 the approaching conflict. His constant and indefatigabki 
 hibors had, by 1768, so impaired his health that he spent 
 two years in England. He returned in 1770, resumed the 
 duties of his charge, and went no more. At the siege of 
 Charles Town, by Sir Henry Clinton, he preached as he 
 felt the crisis to require, encouraging the people by his own 
 example in the defence of their liberties and homes, by 
 going himself to the lines, armed as a common soldier. 
 At the surrender of the town he was confined by illness to 
 his bed, yet so great was tlie fear of his influence that a 
 sentinel, placed over him, was not allowed to rpiit his 
 chamber until he had been removed from it, under a 
 guard, to be transported to Philadelphia. Blessed with 
 opulence, his charities were unbounded ; the needy wept 
 his departure with unfeigned sorrow, for benevolence was 
 enthroned in his heart. His clerical brothers found in 
 him a friend, and mourned in him a father. Many chari- 
 table institutions were benefited, both by his exertions and 
 liberality, but the Clergy Society, which, with utility 
 beyond the reach of praise, gives relief to the bereaved 
 widow, and rescues the helpless orphan from the pangs of 
 
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 want and misery, originating with him, was to tlie latest 
 hour of his life, fostered with peculiar delight. It was 
 originally composed of: First, Alexander Garden, Jr.: 
 (nephew of the Commissary who had left the province in 
 1756, having been here from 1719.) The nephew came in 
 1743, was Minister of St. Thomas and St. Dennis, and 
 died in 1783, honored and beloved by all who knew liim, 
 after forty years in America. The second was James Har- 
 rison, who came in 1752 (tlie 3^ear of the great hurricane) 
 as Minister of St. eJames' Goose Creek. He was received 
 by the parishioners with great kindness and was frequently 
 gratified by tokens of their esteem. He transmitted to 
 the Society, May 2d, 1765, the account of tlie Rev. Mr. 
 Richard Ludlam's legacy of 1728. Near Groomsville, in 
 St. James, there v/as a few years ago an old brick school 
 house, where poor children on the Ludlam bounty were 
 then taught ; but the funds have been neglected and the 
 accounts confused. In 1774, Mr. Harrison resigned the 
 Parish, and the Rev. Mr- Edward Ellington was elected in 
 1775, he had first been a Missionary at Augusta, Georgia, 
 then settled at Beaufort in 1770, and in 75 at Goose 
 Creek. He removed back to Georgia in 1793, where he 
 did not long survive. Mr. Harrison removed to the Par- 
 ish of St. Bartholomew's in 1776, resigned in 1784, and 
 died in 1788. The third member, the Rev. Robert Bar- 
 ron, who arrived in 1753, preached in St. Bartholomew's 
 eleven years as Rector. He died in 1764, deeply lamented 
 by his people, and was buried at Pon Pon Chapel. The 
 fourth was Winwood Sergeant, who came in 1757. He 
 had been Assistant Minister at St. Philip's previously to 
 1759, but was from Dorchester, St. George's Parish, in 
 1762, when the Society was formed. He retired from 
 America in 1767. The fifth was the Rev. Robert Smith, 
 afterwards the first Bishop of the Episcopal Church in 
 
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 Carolina. He liad reached us in 1757, and was the Rector 
 of St. Philip's at the period of Avhicli we write. On his 
 landing here the Vestry had presented him with £200. 
 He was elected Bishop in 1795, and was consecrated at 
 Christ Church, Philadelphia. He died of a fever after a 
 lew days illness, in 1801, having entered his 70th year. 
 -The sixth, was Robert Cooper, Avho came in 1758, was 
 made Rector of Prince Williams', and went to town the 
 next year to take upon him the duties of Assistant Minis- 
 ter of St. Philip's, he continued such to 1761, when on the 
 1st of February he was invited, and accepted of the new 
 Church, called St. Michael. The following year he joined 
 tlie Clergy Society. But in 1776 refusing to take the 
 oath prescribed by law. he removed to England and vv- 
 ceived a pension of iilOO", per annum, as a loyalist, and 
 afterwards became Rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill. Ho 
 died about 1812, aged upwards of eighty years. The 
 seventh was John Tonge, who had arrived i]i 1759. He 
 was fourteen years Rector of St. Paul's Parish, and died 
 in 1778, and was buried near the east end of the Church. 
 He left a widow who long survived him, residing in her 
 Dutch-roofed, humble habitation, in St. George's Parish, 
 not far from Bacon's Bridge. Their only son left a large 
 estate in St. Paul's Parish. Eighth, the Rev. Abraham 
 Imer, who arrived in 1760, joined in 1762, and died in 
 1766, prol>ably he had no cure. The ninth was Joseph 
 Dacre Wilton, who came in 1761 ; he lived six years, and 
 at his death left his family in great distress, and unfortu- 
 nately the Society could give little assistance at that early 
 period of its existence. He was the Assistant Minister of 
 St. Philip's, and was buried in the Cemetery of that 
 Church. The Vestry, '" from their sincere esteem for him, 
 who had faithfully and conscientiously performed his 
 duty," raised, by subscription, among the inhabitants of 
 
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 Charles Town, the sum of £2177, currency, lor the sup- 
 port of his widow and children, Avho were about to return 
 to their friends in England. A tomb was erected to his 
 memory, the inscription upon which told that lie died on 
 the 6th of October, 1767, aged 37 years ; and that he v;as 
 universally lamented b}' all who knew him. The tenth 
 member was Joseph Stokes, who had come in 1762, and 
 died within the same year. Eleventh was Offspring 
 Pearce, A. M., who arrived in 1762, and was the ensuing- 
 year elected Rector of Prince George's Parish, Winyaw : 
 he was both, amiable and pious. On the 24tli of June. 
 1767,' he took on him the care of St. George's Dorchester, 
 (thus relinquish in<:i; the Prince for the Saint.) He died in 
 1782. " - 
 
 In 1769, England was visited by him, lie returned in 
 1771 and was twenty years from his first coming to the 
 time of his death. "Dear old Mr. Pearce," as often styled 
 by Mrs. Richard Waring, of Tranquil Hill. She had been 
 taken as a lovelv bride to the neioliborliood of Dorchester, 
 the year of his return to his congregation there, She al- 
 ways attended on his preaching in his beautiful church, 
 and united her tears with those of many others, when that 
 loved edifice was iired by the English and partially 
 defaced. 
 
 He performed the service over the remains of her lius- 
 band, who went down to an early grave in 1781, and was in- 
 terred at Pine Hill, his family burial place. 
 
 Of Mr. Waring we arc told that he had adorned religioji: 
 and that oji his lips the words of truth and sincerity ever 
 hovered. To the partner of his joys and griefs he vrilled 
 his entire estate. 
 
 We will resume, uur account of Ihc Rev. Dr. Smith, wlio 
 remained in Maryland until the establishment of peace, 
 taking charge of St. Paul's Parish, Q,ueen Anne's county, 
 
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 0)1 the eastern shore. He retuTned in May, 1783, and was 
 joyfully welcomed home again. St. Philip's Parish in par- 
 ticular, gladly hailed 'the arrival of their honored and he- 
 loved minister. The deranged state of the finances of his 
 church at this period, as well as of his own estate, made it 
 ]iecessary for him to add to the multiplied labors of his 
 pastoral function, the arduous and anxious responsibility of 
 tuition. From Lis fidelity and diligence as the preceptor 
 ^)f youth, lie was resorted to l)y parents of all ranks and 
 conditions in life, and it was many years before he could 
 entirely relinquish tlu^ occupation, from which the mem- 
 bers of the church, especially, derived such favorable 
 •"opportunities of education for their sons. In 1790, the 
 School having become '' The Charleston College," was kept 
 in one of the old brick barracks that had been fitted up for 
 its accommodation ; v.'ith rpiite a domain to the north and 
 west i'or a campus, or play ground, where tlie boys often 
 amused themselves with digiug musket balls out of the old 
 ramparts. 
 
 On the 22d of February, 1734, the General Assembly 
 granted £100 towards building the parsonage house for Sr. 
 Philip's Parish, and that a grant of £G00, (nirrency, was 
 made by the Assembly, on the 25th of January, 1739. to- 
 wards defraying the expense of building the parsonage, etc., 
 for St. Philip's Parish, which we presume was immediately 
 v'ccupied by Commissary Alexander Garden, wdio on his 
 lonth visitation, April 10th, 17-10, had nine Clergymen 
 present, the sermon was jjreacbedby the Rev. William Orr. 
 then assistant minister at St. Philip's. That year was re- 
 markable for the trial of the Pev. George Whitefield, in 
 the ecclesiastical Court ; and remarkable for a destructive 
 lire on the 18th of November. A solemn Fast Vv\asheldon 
 ihe 28th of the month. The Rev. Mr. Garden resigned on 
 the 29th of October. 1 753. ITc preached his farewell ser- 
 
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 mon on the 31st of March, 1754. In liis Dee<l of resigna- 
 tion, lie gives wp to the church wardens and vestry "ample 
 and clear disposition of the said Rectory, Avith all demand 
 or title, which he might claim, by any manner of means, 
 for touching, or in any wise concerning the said Rectory of 
 the Parish church of St. Philips." " And I promise, that 
 at no time hereafter shall I ever make any claim to the 
 said Ptcctory, or to any salary, fees or perc|uisitcs/' Pie 
 had lived thirty-four years as Rector, and twenty-three as 
 Commissary of the Province. The Vestry presented him 
 with a handsome piece of plate, on which was engraved 
 the west front of St. Philip's church, and an inscription. 
 The Rev. Richard Clarke succeeded him as Rector in 175G. 
 and left in 1759, when as you have been told, the Rev. Dr. 
 Robert Smith, having served two years as a Deacon, was 
 elected Rector, and he continued such through the ensuing 
 thirty-six years, until 1795, Avhen he was chosen as the first 
 Bishop of South Carolina, which office he administered 
 respectably until his death, on the 28th of October, 1801, 
 when the solemn tolling of St. Michael's bell caused the 
 hearts of many listeners to die within their breast. It was 
 not until 1798, that he resigned his place as Principal of 
 the College, three 'years after being consecrated a bishop. 
 Advanced as was his age, he had not attained the termina- 
 tion of the career of usefulness of which he was capable. 
 He was forty-four years in Chariest own. On the 14th of 
 July, 1759 we see him as the newly ordained Rector send- 
 ing forth in the '' Carolina Charles Town South Gazette No. 
 1000, adorned Avith the Lion and the Fnicoi-n fighting fo;- 
 the crown," the following notice : 
 
 " Strayed off Charles Town green, a red cow with a black 
 rump, who shall deliver at the Parsonage of St. Philips shall 
 have forty shillings. Robert Smith." 
 
 And again in the tiny paper of the sam^' dnte wo read : 
 
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 " Ten pounds reward will be given to find out who knock- 
 ed off the balls and injured the fence at the Parsonage, two 
 nights, I have reason to suspect the soldiers, having re- 
 ceived much abuse from that quarter, 'tis hoped that the 
 Serjeants will endeavour to linci out the offenders." 
 
 R. Smith." 
 
 Bishop Smith was born six months after President George 
 Washington, on the 25th of August, 1732, and has been 
 dead fifty-nine years this month, October the 28th, 1860. 
 Convinced that here he had "no continuing city," that 
 change was his portion in this the house of his pilgrim- 
 age, and that he " would not live always, away from his 
 God." He was early in life weaned from this uncertain 
 world, and brought to live under the powers of the world 
 to come, therefore he could hear with calm equanimity 
 whatever it was seen meet to lay upon him. The rapid 
 approach of cheerless gloomy winter is urging us to the 
 greater diligence in the prosecution of this our gigantic 
 undertaking. The honored Bishop died at the age of sixty- 
 nine years and a few months, and throughout that prolong- 
 ed existence we know of only one faux pas committed, 
 which w^as that of engaging the Rev. Robert Purcell, A. M., 
 as an assistant minister for St. Philip's. On the 25th of 
 April, 17G8, the Rev. Mr. Crahlan resigned his office in 
 the church. He was deranged, and had made an attempt 
 on his life by throwing himself out of a window at the 
 old Parsonage in St. Philip's street (now gone). On his 
 passage to England ho jumped overboard and was lost. 
 Dr. Smith then engaged Mr. Purcell, Avho had beenOurate 
 to the Rector of Shipton-Mallet for eight years, and was 
 l^iighly recommended for talent and piety. He arrived in 
 17G9, and v.'as elected assistant, the Vestry compliment- 
 ing him with £200 curre. In 1775 he resigned and went 
 to England, feigning to mnke some arrangement for the 
 
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 Church of Shipton-Mallet, where he had left a substitute. 
 It was believed that he never intended to return, having 
 been greatly disliked, but the war breaking out just then 
 afforded him an excuse for remaining in England, receiving 
 a pension of £100 per annum as a Loyalist. Liberty of 
 the Press must have existed here to its full extent at that 
 time, and surely enough was published to drive him from 
 the Province, for in the "News Paper" bearing date Sep^ 
 tember G-, 1774, his vile character is painted out in glow- 
 ing colors, a disgrace to the Church and to humanity. Nor 
 do we think that the sensible folk of our town would have 
 been willing ever again to wear the yoke of this foreign 
 tyrant. His barbarous manner of treating the relatives of 
 of the poor, whom he was required to bury, testing their 
 patience by making them wait hours in the hot sun, or 
 pouring rain, at the graves, and abusing them shamefully 
 when they met, or going too early himself, then retiring 
 to some eating-house and declaring " they may do without 
 his services," literally planting his iron heel upon the de- 
 fenceless wherever he could, whilst he bowed and cringed 
 to the wealthy. Dr. Smith possessed no power over him ; 
 jiot being yet a bishop, he could not " haul this refractory 
 son of the Church over the coals," neither had we a Com- 
 missary Johnson or Garden to do it. No, not so mucli as a 
 Sir Nathaniel Johnson, with his Board of Lay-commission- 
 ers, remained — those sons of England " wlio took too mucli 
 upon them." As a literary curiosity, my dear young 
 IVicnds, I give the communication to the paper verbatim. 
 " To the Printer, Sir : You will agree with me, tliat Vice 
 in general is infinitely odious, and that it is viewed with 
 particular Dislike in the conduct of a Clergyman, whose 
 immoral Life must of necessity be considered as a common 
 injury to the cause of Keligion. The following Letter is 
 written with a design to prevent this Evil, and as every 
 
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 Bejievolciih Heart must approve the design, I doubt not 
 your giving it a place in your Gazette, which will certainly 
 oblige all your readers, who wish well to the cause of 
 Ohristianity, and desire to see its Ministers adorn their 
 profession by an exemplary, pious and holy life." 
 
 LETTER TO THE REV. MR. ROBERT PURCELL. 
 
 Scptcmhcv 6(h, 1774. 
 Slr : It is a just Observation that the best Mark of a 
 Christian Spirit is Charity ; but whatever Charity we are 
 to have for Men's Persons, it is most undoubtedly true that 
 we are to have none for their Vices. And the greatest Act 
 of Charity one can do to persons in general is to advise and 
 exhort them seriously to consider their Ways, in Order to 
 reform and amend their Lives. This Duty indeed is neces- 
 sary for all, but it is more particularly so for vicious and 
 immoral Clergymen, whose indecent Conduct gives Offence 
 to all good People, and even those who are not good. Be- 
 hold in it a most scandalous Prostitution of the sacred Char- 
 acter. How wdll such answer to God at the Great Day 
 who, instead of ])eing examples to their Flocks of Virtue, 
 Sobriety and Holiness, are the foremost to lead them on in 
 the Ways of Sin and eternal Ruin ? Can it be thought that 
 transcribing printed Sermons, getting up in the Pulpit upon 
 a Lord's Day and reading over those Sermons only as a 
 Matter of Form, and then all the Rest of the Week living in 
 such a loose Manner as to contradict Everything there de- 
 livered, is performing the whole Duty of a Clergyman ? 
 Lay your Hand on your Heart and ask your c^n onscienceC 
 what Figure you will make when you stand before the Judg- 
 ment Seat of Christ. You have taken a great Charge upon 
 you, and a most strict and solemn Account you must give. 
 And ought you not to exert your utmost Endeavors to save 
 
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 your own Soul, and the Souls of others particularly com- 
 mitted to your Charge ? Be not startled, Sir, at this Ad- 
 dress, which proceeds from a Christian Spirit, and if you 
 read with the same Spirit it w-ill do you good. But if this 
 should happen to raise your Indignation I can assure you 
 that shall raise no other Passion in me than Pity. If you 
 think yourself above Censure you are greatly mistaken, for 
 the least Spot in a Clergyman's Character wili-be magnified 
 into a Crime. If so, what shall w'e think of Vice, particu- 
 larly of the odious and detestable Vices of Drunkenness, 
 Debauchery and Irreverence. Now that you are one of 
 those bad Clergymen is demonstrable ; and I am confident 
 there is no Set of Men in the World so apprehensive of Dis- 
 respect, or can so little bear the Examination into their Con- 
 duct as the greatest Part of the Ecclesiastics. It is not so 
 with the Lawyer, Physician, soldier, merchant and the pro- 
 fessors of almost every Science, for they are the first to ex- 
 pose the knaves and fools among them ; but I cannot tell by 
 w^hat Fatality it happens that if the Layman do but touch the 
 Vices of the meanest of their Order so many of them cry 
 out and make an Uproar ; their Order is profaned, derided 
 and exposed ; Religion itself in Danger, and Socinian, Deist 
 or Atheist is' the best Word often given to their most inti- 
 mate Friends. Or some of them, more moderate, will tell 
 you " not to speak against the Clergy, as you are more or 
 less connected with them in your Situation of Life." To 
 which I answer : "If Clergymen would avoid contem];)t let 
 them avoid the Causes of it. Let them not do as you do, 
 seek after debauched Company, and prefer the Bottle and 
 Pipe to the cohsciencious Discharge of your Duty, and hoard 
 up Riches at the Expense and Affability of your Acquain- 
 tances, nor let them accept of a Living in this Part of the 
 World, and at the same time impose on the People of Eng- 
 land by holding a Stipend, or two or three, at £60 Sterling 
 
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 pev vAiii and leave a poor Brother Professor (who has a 
 wife and a number of smair children) laboring in the duty 
 for one Half of the Money. Let them not, as you do, be- 
 have so haughty and with so much insolence to those who 
 pay 7/oi(, (so very genteel a Living as you receive here ; good 
 God ! what ingratitude for the Bread you eat), and before 
 you came here, lived in the greatest Amity and brotherly 
 Love with their Clergymen. Let them not, as you do, make 
 so invidious Distinction, and behave so indecent when per- 
 forming the solemn funeral Services, between the Eich and 
 Poor, the Care of whose Souls ought to be in the discharge 
 of your Duty to both alike. Let them not, as you do, 
 neglect to visit those Under Affliction with that modest and 
 humble Deportment which is so necessary, a Qualification to 
 Persons of your order, nor let them despise the Work of 
 God, because all Men have not Gifts alike. Let them not, 
 as yoic do, refuse to attend some of the Houses of Mourning 
 where Poverty dwells, notwithstanding it may be ever so 
 much accompanied with Humility and every other Virtue. 
 Nor let them appoint the Time for a Corpse to be brought to 
 the Burying Ground, and because it is not there exactly at 
 the Moment goes away unconcerned, sauntering about, and 
 leaves the Kelations waiting, perhaps in the hot sun or a 
 shower of rain, an Hour or an Hour and a Half, and at last 
 be obliged to bury the Corpse without a Minister, or tho 
 least oflices being performed over it. Let them not, as 
 you do, positively deny going t"o pa.rticular Houses, and by 
 that Means frecjuently oblige People to bury the Deceased 
 at another Place of Worship far distant from where the 
 Family have been accustomed to bury for perhaps forty or 
 fifty years back. Let them not, as you do, at some of the 
 melandioly Scenes of Distress, when the silent Corpse excites 
 the Relation^' tenderest Tears, torment the afflicted with- 
 vour ill-natured Messages, viz.: 'Whv^ or if vou do not 
 
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 move the Corpse immediately I will go Home and you may 
 bury the Body without a Minister.' Let them not, as you 
 do, at Funerals, brow-beat and abuse the^ People within 
 those sacred Walls, especially if none of the great Dons are 
 present, and tis a poor Person that is to be buried, by say- 
 ing, ' Why did you not come before ? The Corpse shall not 
 be carried into the Church, so go along to the grave with 
 it.' Let them not, as you do, refuse to listen to ever so 
 ' good a Reason or make some Allowance for unforseen Acci- 
 dents that happened in those Cases, though you are in- 
 formed that some of the Relations or pall-Bearers, &c., did 
 not come sooner. Let them not, as you do, give so little 
 attention to the solemn Duty of Prayer by so abruptly 
 breaking off and saying to some By-stander : • You, Sir, 
 pull off your Hat,' or 'You Black Rascal, hold your tongue,' 
 and then return, with a sullen countenance, to call upon the 
 Lord to have Mercy upon us. Let them not, as you do, 
 refuse to comply with the usual decent Custom of attend- 
 ing Funerals from the House of the Deceased to the Burying 
 Ground, which has been the practice of other Clergymen 
 to oblige, ever since the Province has been settled, but even 
 refuse what is your real Duty, that of attending them from 
 the Gates to the Grave, which you have been civilly asked 
 to do, and have positively denied, by saying to the Parents 
 of the Deceased: 'Give me none of your impertinence; if 
 you do not have the Child carried to the Grave without my 
 going before it, the Child shall not be buried at all.' Let 
 them not, as you in your churlish Manner, say : ' 1 will Jiot 
 be out burying a Corpse after Sunset to injure my health 
 and Constitution.' Yet you take so much pains to seek for 
 jovial Company in Vvdiich you can sit up till past Midnight, 
 and then in wandering to your Lodging at unreasonable 
 Hours, disturbing the Inhabitants by calling at a poor Man's 
 House, when he was guarding the Inhabitants in tlieir silent 
 
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 repose, and treating liis wife ^Yith indecency, and after- 
 wards going to the Watch House and Cjuarreling with the 
 Officer of the Guard, who, being a consciencious Man, and 
 as his Euty rer|iiired him, the next morning reported yoitr 
 Behavior, among other Transactions, to the Governor, who 
 did, upon your false Eepresentation of the Matter, oblige 
 the Officer to deliver up his Commission, because he would 
 not alter the Truth of what he had reported and beg your 
 Pardon. 
 
 These are Facts, Sir, you cannot deny, of which I leave 
 the "World to judge if they are becoming the Dignity of a 
 Clergyman ? Upon the whole, then, let Clergymen win Re- 
 spect and wear it, and let them not earn Infamy and de- 
 mand Veneration ; let not those of them who live in all 
 Manner of Vileness, add AVant of Shame to their Want of 
 Grace, and bewail that they are contemned while they are 
 deserving of it. Who can own and reverance a Clergyman 
 who is rioting every Saturday, and talk of his Dignity and 
 Embassadorship on Sunday, to be our Guide to Heaven, who 
 is himself going a contrary Road, and rioting in those Vices 
 which his whole Duty is to restrain. The Honor of the 
 good Clergy is promoted by exposing the bad, for a bad 
 Priest is the Disgrace and Bane of his own Order, and they 
 who stand forth and adopt his Infamy, polute themselves, 
 and here I list myself under the Banners of good Clci-gy, 
 and with The utmost Sincerity desire to pay all Affection, 
 Esteem and Reverence to those Clergy v/ho answer the End 
 of their Institution, and whose Lives and Manners Grace 
 and adorn their Professions and Doctrine. I wish this may 
 be taken as it is intended, but be the Event what it may, I 
 have this comfortable Satisfaction in my own Breast, that I 
 have hereby endeavored to promote your Eternal Welfare ; 
 whose spiritual Wretchedness and Misery I heartily deplore. 
 I have onlv to add fervent Pravers to the Throne of Grace. 
 
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 I 
 
 that a Divine Blessing may attend this, and set it Home to 
 your innermost Conscience, and bring you to a speedy and 
 sincere Eepentance." " Philo Clericus." 
 
 How unlike was this naughty man to the Rev. Dr. Smith, 
 of happy memory, he who was ever teaching the rising 
 generation, or else preaching to every sex and age, reserv- 
 ing no portion of his time for the indulgence of ease, and 
 very little for the enjoyment of domestic pleasure, even in 
 his own family, but devoting all his thoughts and attention 
 to the happiness and prosperity of an admiring and grate- 
 ful community. The paper of 1774 containing the above 
 masterly rebuke, was sent by Mr. Eveleigh, an English 
 merchant, to his relatives at home, and returned a half 
 century after to a member of the Same family in Charles- 
 ton, who continues to be the proud possessor of it. With 
 it came one of 1752, giving an account of the terrible 
 hurricane of the 15th of September — after which the bodies 
 of Mrs. Bedon, one of her children and a Dutch boy who 
 lived with them, were taken up in the pasture of the Par- 
 sonage, and in the hour of dire distress, buried on the spot. 
 Her husband floated along Broad street, and was caught 
 through a south window into a house now owned and occu- 
 pied by the Hon. Alfred Huger, our valued Postmaster, of 
 many a long year of faithful service. A negro woman of 
 Mr. Bedon's was founll clinging to the branches of a tree 
 on Coming's point (or Harleston's Green, as it had then 
 come to be called,) and was rescued from an untimely end. 
 The Bedon house in Church street, near the Baptist church, 
 (now the Mariner's) had been washed down and several 
 members of the family killed. The Parsonage of that day 
 was the second on the site in St. Philip's street, on which 
 the Normal School now stands ; its pasture extended to 
 Beaufain on the south, and to or beyond Coming on the 
 west ; which led some persons to think that the bodies dis- 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 21 
 
 covered in 1852, at the junction of Coming and Beaufain 
 streets, v^^ere those of the drowned in 1752, or others who 
 had died at the Parsonage suhsequently to that time. Many 
 of you will remember that finding of human remains hy 
 workmen engaged in making a large excavation for the 
 purpose of constructing a fire well ; pieces of wood in a 
 decayed state were thrown up, and on a further examina- 
 tion three or four cofiins were discovered, each containing 
 a human skeleton. The bones were apparently those of 
 adults, and were partially decomposed. Nobody knows 
 how they got there, but it was an ascertained fact that just 
 above the spot where they were found a brick drain had 
 been constructed within the last ten or fifteen years — the 
 masons never dreaming of the dead, a few^ feet below their 
 work. The square bounded by Coming and Pitt, Beaufain 
 and Wentworth streets was a common until about 1812-13, 
 when a house was erected on the N. W. corner by a Ger- 
 man, named Michael Bloomstoch. A creek run through 
 the square from opposite Wilson street, to the corner of 
 Wentworth and Coming streets — a drain in Beaufain street 
 emptied into the creek. By looking back upon the earliest 
 grave-yard on this Oyster Point, which was laid out as a 
 town in 1672, v/e find that the burial place for all its in- 
 habitants extended \\^est, and north from the present Arch- 
 dale street to the south boundry of "old Aunt Comings'" 
 land ; she who, in 1698, generously made the donation of 
 seventeen acres of land to the English Church, (St. Philip's, 
 on the site of St. Michael's, then the only one.) They are 
 situated upon Beaufain, Wentworth, Coming and St. Philip's 
 streets, constituting the present Glebe of St. Philip's and 
 St. Michael churches. For the Rev. Mr. Samuel Marshal], 
 the then minister, she had in that year built the Parsonage 
 on a part of the land — on its extreme eastern boundry, St. 
 Philip's road. The deed confirming the gift of the land 
 
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 was signed on the ist of iJecember, Anno JJomlni 1G08, in 
 the presence of F, Randolph, George Dearsley, George Lo- 
 gan, Jonathan Amory and John Penning. That first "Field 
 of Rest" did not extend fnrther sonth than Queen street, 
 which w^as called in a deed of January 20th, 1697, " a 
 little street that runs from the Cooper to the Ashley river," 
 and north to wdiat was afterward named Beaufain street, 
 through respect to Hector Berenger De Beufain, Esq., who 
 was born in France, in 1697, and removed iTom London in 
 1733; he died amongst us in 1766, deservedly regretted. 
 "The Field of Rest" would extend as far west as required 
 from time to time. Having located the ground, we will 
 now proceed to fill it. The Rev. Mr. Marshall died the 
 year after taking possession of the first Parsonage, (in 1699) 
 of the yellow fever, fully the fourth of a century after in- 
 terments had been made east of the Ashley. A letter from 
 Mr. Isaac Norris, dated November 18th, 1699, old style, 
 states that 150 persons had died in Charles- Town in a few 
 da7/s, the survivors had fled into the country, and the town 
 was thinned to a^very few people. In September and Octo- 
 ber 160 died and were buried. The population of the town 
 consisted, at that early period, of many more adults than 
 children, and of a larger number of men than women. 
 All of these facts are substantiated by a reference to 
 history. 
 
 The second burial place established was the south yard 
 of St. Philip's, built in 1680, and across Broad street, on 
 the lot now the City Square, all of which you have been 
 informed long ago in *' Carolina in the Olden Time." By 
 1697 that ground was so filled w^ith Episcopalian bones 
 that it became necessary to forbid that any more inter- 
 ments should be made there. The east part of the church 
 yard was bought in 1697 for £10 sterling, on the relin- 
 quishing the north yard. There we had hoped to find a 
 
SHADOWS OF THE l^AST. 23 
 
 stone commemorative of the virtues and services of the 
 Rev. Mr. Marshall, who ended his career of usefulness in 
 1699 ; but have been disappointed in our search thus far. 
 In 1690 the "White Meeting" had laid out a yard. 
 Other dissenting churches followed in rapid succession to 
 do the same. Yet still there was much use for the com- 
 mon ground, which, in all probability, was divided into 
 two parts for the reception of master and slave. The 
 Amory property (lost to the family of Dr. Joseph Johnson 
 and others) which extended from the channel of Cooper 
 River westwardly to King street, from the south side of 
 Hasel to the north side of Wentworth. " The lot No. 48, 
 adjoining Comings' land," also extended beyond the pres- 
 ent King street to St. Philip's, to where old Aunt Comings' 
 land commenced, and where she erected the first parson- 
 age in 1698, and extended back to the street which now 
 bears her honored name, and south to Beaufain. Once 
 again reverting to the Rev. Robert Purcell, we ask is it 
 not a pleasing reflection that he left no relatives here ? 
 Those of his name residing in St. George's Parish are of an 
 entirely distinct family. Their forefather, the Rev. Henry 
 Purcell, D. D., caane in 1770, and officiated at Dorchester 
 during the absence of the Rector, the Rev. Offspring 
 Pearce, from '70 to '71. Some time previous to the Revo- 
 lution he was elected Rector of Christ Church Parish, and 
 during the war he occasionally officiated at St. Michael's. 
 On the 7th of May, 1776, he was appointed Chaplain to 
 the Second vSouth Carolina Regiment, commanded by Col. 
 Moultrie, and on the 17th of February, 1778, he was 
 appointed Deputy Judge Advocate General of South 
 Carolina and Georgia. After the evacuation of Charles 
 Town he v/as elected Rector of St. Michael's, and was 
 honored with the degree of D. D. by the College of New 
 Jersov. He died on tlie 24th of March, 1802. leavino; a 
 
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 widow and six children to reap the benefits of the Clergy' 
 Society. Dr. Purcell was esteemed as a good scholar and 
 a sound divine. As a school companion we remember a 
 grand-daughter of his in 1804, Miss Sarah Smith, a c|uiet, 
 modest girl, who won and kept many hearts. She has 
 often crossed our mind as seeming to possess in an emi- 
 nent degree that natural refinement of mind and manners 
 which education and a knowdedge of the world so often 
 fail to give, while it seems intuitive in others. And now 
 that the day is far spent let me ask you, my fair readers, 
 whether you do not perceive ominous signs all around us 
 as if the ivorld's last and closing " night watch " had set 
 in ? The billows are heaving high. Art thou ready ? If 
 this night were indeed the very last, and the thunders of 
 judgment were to break upon thee ere daybreak — wouldst 
 thou be able, in the assurance of an eternal dawn, to say — 
 
 " I will both lay me down in peace and sleep ; 
 For thou, Lord, ouly makcst me dwell in safety." 
 
 Now, in tlie hour of need, pray you for 
 
 The Ancient Lady. 
 
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 XjBTT:mR. "VII. 
 
 Parsonage, Odoher 30, 1860. 
 
 " Bear lightly on their foreheads, Time ! 
 Strew roses on their way, 
 The young in heart, however old, 
 That prize the present day ; 
 And wiser than the pompous proud, 
 Are wise enough to play. 
 
 " 'Tig something when the noon has passed 
 To brave the touch of Time, 
 And say Good friend, thou harm'st me not, 
 My soul is in its prime ; 
 Thou cans't not chill my warmth of heart, 
 I carol while I climb." 
 
 THE THREE PARSONAGES OF ST. PHTTJP'S 
 CHURCH. 
 
 My Bear YouNa Friends : 
 
 You know that the fii-Rt Gliurch that bore the distinc- 
 tive name of "St. Philip" was built in 1682, on the site 
 originally designed for it in the model of the town sent 
 out in 1671, and that it stood where the only St. Michael 
 now stands, at the southeast corner of Broad and Meeting 
 streets. Buil,t of black cypress upon a brick foundation, 
 "large and stately/' surrounded by a neat white palisade. 
 
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 When Joseph Blake was Governor in 1696, although a 
 dissenter, it is recorded that his lady, who was a Baptist, 
 contributed liberally towards the adornment of the edifice. 
 Its first Minister wa.s the Rev. Atkin Williamson. He 
 died at an advanced age in 1711, having, from 1696, out 
 of the public treasury, received the sum of £30 a year for 
 his support. The Rev. Samuel Marshall, an amiable, 
 learned and pious man, succeeded him in 1696. His con- 
 duct and talents had given such satisfaction, and his income 
 from the church being precarious, the General Assembly, 
 on the 8th of October, 1698, passed "An Act to settle a 
 maintenance on a Minister of the Church of England in 
 Charles Town." Then it was that Mrs. AflVa Coming, 
 a lady of eminent piety and liberality, the widow of the 
 late Captain John Coming, generously made a donation of 
 lands to the church on the 10th day of December, 1698. 
 Sevetecn acres, situated uj^on Wentworth, Coming, Beau- 
 fain, St. Philip's, Glebe and George streets, constituting 
 the present Glebe of St. Philip's and St. Michael's Churches. 
 It was enacted that the Rev. Mr. Marshall should " havo 
 and enjoy all the lands, houses, negroes, cattle and moneys 
 appointed for the use, benefit and behalf of the Minister 
 of Charles Town," with a salary of £150 per annum to 
 him and his successors forever ; and directed that a negro 
 man and woman, four cows and calves be purchased foi- 
 his use, and paid for out of the public treasury. (The Act 
 was repealed on the 30th of November, 1706, and the 
 Church Act passed on the same day.) And " to be built 
 for his use a good brick house on a plantation." This par- 
 sonage was at some distance beyond the fortifications of 
 the town, as shown on the map of Edward Crisp, in 1704. 
 Mr. Marshall, as told, died in the autumn of 1699, of the 
 yellow fever. AVithin the short space of eleven years, in 
 1709. '' this parsonage being much out of repair, the 
 
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 Assembly ordered on the 5th of November " that the Pub- 
 lic Receiver pay out of the treasury unto the Wardens of 
 the Church the sum of £60 towards its reparation, and 
 that the present Minister (Commissary Gideon Johnson) 
 living in the same' for the future keep it in repair. The 
 Rev. Richard Marsden had occuj)ied it from 1705 to 1707, 
 when Johnson arrived. He was then elected Rector of 
 Christ Church Parisli, but having repaired the parsonage 
 to the amount of £20 was reimbursed by the x\ssembly on 
 the 10th of February, 1708. In 1723 the white popula- 
 tion in the 2:)rovince was about 14,000, the colored 18,000. 
 "In 1731 the houses in the town were computed to bo 
 between five and six hundred;" a few lordly mansions, 
 but the greater part of the buildings were said to be 
 " clumsy, miserable huts, constructed of wood, a frame 
 covered with clap-boards without, and plastering it with 
 lime within, of which they had a plenty, made from oyster 
 shells ; even the best of their houses built of timber were 
 neither well constructed nor comfortable. Robert Johnson 
 returning in 1730 as Royal Governor of the province it 
 improved in building and in many other respects. A 
 taste was introduced for brick buildings, and more neat 
 and pleasant habitations." 
 
 This brings us to the 22d of February, 1733, when the 
 General Assembly granted £100 towards building the 
 second Parsonage for the second St. Philip's Church. 
 " Many ingenious artificers and tradesmen had found en- 
 couragement in Charles Town." And then it was that 
 they erected that chef cVmuvre which has lately disap- 
 peared from St. Phili|)'s street. It was finished for the re- 
 ception of the Rev. Mr. Garden. They must have been a 
 long time in setting about, or slow in accomplishing the 
 mighty hal>itation,for it was not until the 25th of January, 
 1788, that a grant of £600 currency was made by the As- 
 
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 sembly towards defraying the expense ot iiiiialiing the 
 Parsonage, Avhich, after an occupancy of sixteen years by 
 Commissary Alexander Garden and family, v»'as formally 
 resigned in 1754. The Rev. Pvichard Clark stepped into 
 the Castle as Rector in 1756, and his successor, the Rev. 
 Robert Smith, followed in 1759 ; and that was the Par- 
 sonage where " tlie balls were knocked off," ^'■^^ from 
 whence ''the red cow had strayed." 
 
 Now come we to The Parsonage in which we write : bui 
 lirst let us recapitulate. The old wooden Church of St. 
 Philip was taken down in 1727, eight years after the arri- 
 val of Garden. An Act of Assembly had been passed in 
 1710 for building the second St. Philij^'s, and another in 
 1720 for completing it and repairing the damage it had 
 sustained from storms. It was probably preached in by 
 •1727, when the old one of forty-five years was pulled 
 down, yet not completed until 1733. We have no Paro- 
 chial Register before 1720, nor journals of the Vestry be- 
 fore 1732, the year of the future Bishop's birth. The 
 wardens were Capt. Robert Austin and William McKensie. 
 Vestrymen — His Excellency Robert Johnson, Col. Samuel 
 Prioleau, Capt. Greene, William Yeamans, Gabriel Mani- 
 gault, Mr. Motte and Thomas Fairchild. In the latter 
 year the Commissary, who had arrived in 1719, the year 
 of our first revolution, held his second visitation of the 
 clergy on the 19th of April. He was Rector thirty-four 
 years and Commissary twenty-three out of that time. He 
 resigned on the 29th of October, 1753, as you have been 
 told; also, that January, 1755, placed Mr. Clarke as the 
 Rector, whose resignation in 1759 installed Mr. Smith in 
 his stead, who in 1768 went to England for the restoration 
 of his health. He returned early in 1770, and on the 7th 
 of April an Act was passed providing for the building of 
 a new Parsonage house for St. Philip's, and authorizing 
 
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 the leasing part of the Glebe. The proprietors of the land 
 called Comings' Point had preferred a petition to the As- 
 sembly on this subject. 
 
 Charles Town was daily becoming more populous, and 
 an additional number of streets and building lots were re- 
 c[uired in the northwest part of the town. " By laying 
 out the streets a great part of the large and ancient Glebe 
 of St. Philip's may be divided and put into lots, and leased 
 to great advantage for the benefit of the Rector and for 
 other purposes, and will yet leave a large and commodious 
 piece of land for the habitation of the Rector, who, with 
 the Vestry and Wardens, are desirous the same may be 
 done." *' But as by laying out the said streets the present 
 Parsonage will be much confined and made too public and 
 inconvenient, we will build a large handsome Parsonage 
 on another part of the Glebe land, and the Vestry and 
 Wardens are hereby fully authorized, directed and required 
 to lay out a piece or parcel of the said Glebe land for 
 building and erecting the new Parsonage (now ninety 
 years of age) and proper out-houses, and for the laying 
 out of a garden, orchard and pasturage, for the habitation, 
 use and occupation of the said Rector or Minister of the 
 said Parish of St. Philip's for the time being. After that 
 they shall divide and lay out all that remains of the Glebe 
 (excepting a part that is specified to be sold) into so many 
 lots as they think proper, to be let out on written leases 
 with reserved rents thereon, for the use of the Rector, or 
 for the uses, for a term not exceeding thirty-one years." 
 From this comfortable home the Rev. Mr. Smith was taken 
 to be banished. He was placed on board ship and landed 
 at Philadelphia, where he did not long remain, for adopt- 
 ing the sentiment of Addison, "While I yet live let me 
 not live in-vain." And feeling the obligation to do good 
 in all its force, and no British mandate able to forbid it, he 
 
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 immediately took the temporary charge of St. Paul's 
 Parish, Queen Anne's county, on the Eastern Shore of 
 Maryland, where he was long remembered with respect 
 and affection. Doubtless during the possession of Charles 
 Town some lordly British officer had occupied the Parson- 
 age, and thankful may we be that it escaped destruction, 
 for in the hearts of our enemy heaven-born mercy was ex- 
 tinguished, since even the temples of the Most High were 
 consumed by flames in some parts of the State, kindled by 
 their sacrilegious hands. Greatly did they tarnish the 
 glory of the British arms, disgrace the profession of British 
 soldiers, fixing indelible stigmas of rapine, cruelty, perfidy 
 and profaneness on the British name. 
 
 And now, having brought our terrible tirade against 
 them to a conclusion, we will turn our thoughts to a more 
 agreeable topic, and tell you of a nice old house recessed 
 next door west of the beautiful Grace Church, in Went- 
 worth street. It is the property of a landlady whose en- 
 ergy, honorable promises, politeness and generosity ever 
 secure a tenant. Indeed she is wholly unlike most of those 
 to be met with as landlords or landladies, from the gene- 
 rality of whom we fervently pray, conserva Mie^ Domme. 
 This politic lady (since, surely, next to honesty, politeness 
 is the best policy on earth) quite wins the heart and cap- 
 tivates the ear by the assurance that in her researches after 
 the age of the house, to establish it as one of the land- 
 marks of the city, she has discovered that it was occupied 
 by the Rev. Mr. Smith on his return in 1783 (finding the 
 Parsonage hired out for a year), and there commenced the 
 germ of that school which was transferred to the Parsonage 
 basement, a part of which was used as a chapel. 
 
 In that former school-room we now take our meals, and 
 often do I pause a little time to meditate on the past, and 
 think what a variety of scenes may have passed within 
 
SHADOWS OF THE TABT, 31 
 
 hese walls, now so beautifully papered, and lighted at 
 ii^iit with resplendent gas. Where, we ask, are the 
 9achers, those well qualified classical men, who, under Dr. 
 )mith's superintendence, conducted this academy, until it 
 )ecame of sufScient importance to 1 3 removed to a larger 
 )uilding, and incorporated as a college." " Dear old school- 
 oom ! . Couldst thou speak, we should be told that eminent 
 nen have been nurtured in thee : ingenious mechanics, on 
 vhom the comfort of the community depend ; athletic 
 armers, laying the forest low, and forcing earth to yield 
 iier increase ; physicians, blessed by the sick sufferer ; elo- 
 quent lawyers, wise statesmen, holy priests, who faithfully 
 interpret the word of the Almighty to the glad listener," 
 That the Rev. Dr. Smith should have been made a member 
 of the Cincinnati Society was a testimonial of the army's 
 high appreciation of his soldierly qualities and private 
 virtues. Amongst our inmates we have one who is con- 
 temporary with the Charlestown Gazette of 1774, and has 
 attained the age of eighty-six. Long passed the Scriptural 
 limit of human life, it is fast approaching extinction, yet it 
 seems that the activity of her mind will remain to the last. 
 This paper, from which we have copiously drawn, tells us 
 that in the year of her birth " Philip Henry, at his office 
 in Meeting street, ojDposite to James Simpson, Esq., offers 
 to bring up books with the utmost despatch. He offers 
 for sale, by private contract, 1200 acres of land, on the 
 head branches of Beaver Dam Creek, a branch of Thickett 
 Creek, the water of Broad River." " Also, 450 acres of 
 land, near the boundary line of Orangeburg Township, on 
 a branch of Edisto River, known by the name of Lime 
 Stone Swamp ; and 300 in Hillsborough Township, joining 
 lands of Robert Beache, Daniel and Jean Davids, and 
 James Pillfree. The purchaser may have a long credit, 
 paying interest and giving security if required." " For 
 
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 private sale, 250 acres in St. Mark's Parish, on the branches 
 of Dutchman's Creek, waters of the Wateree River, bound- 
 ing north and north-eastwardly on land belonging to 
 George Pain ; 500 on Kelsey's Creek, on branches of Fair 
 Forest. A lot, very valuable on account of its advan- 
 tageous situation, on the corner of two wide streets, con- 
 taining 144 feet front on Meeting street, and 200 on 
 Hasell street. A plantation in St. Sames, Goose Creek, of 
 415 acres, joining lands of Elizabeth, the wife of Henry 
 Smith, Esq., and Mr. AVilliam Withers; on the premises is 
 a good, newly-built dwelling house of six rooms, with a 
 large piazza, and other necessary buildings. This planta- 
 tion is well situated for a brick-kiln, being on a large 
 creek, where schooners of any burthen may load with 
 ease." "A pleasant, commodious, and well finished house 
 in Orange street, opposite to the Hon. Thomas Knox 
 Gordon, Esq., consisting of six airy rooms, a kitchen, fowl- 
 house, good cellar, and every requisite building. The lot 
 contains forty-two feet front, by one hundred feet deep. 
 Also, 300 acres in St Thomas' Parish, bounding north- 
 west on Samuel Wells' land, south-west on Elias Wigfall's 
 land. On this tract is an excellent saw mill, just built. — 
 P. H.'" " James Davis informs Thomas Sumter, J. P., of a 
 bay mare taken up in Camden District." '' Horses were 
 tolled before Roger Pinckney, Esq. — Thomas Turner, J. P.* 
 " A bay horse, thirteen hands high, branded on the mount- 
 ing shoulder A and a ffetcr de luce at the top, with a small 
 star in his forehead, is in the care of Joseph Palmer." "A 
 bay horse, in the care of Francis Vanvelsin." "A sorrel 
 horse, in the care of John Palmer, Jr. The owners must 
 apply and 2:)rove their property before John Palmer, Jus- 
 tice of the Peace." *' Carolina and New England Factors, 
 recommended by Atkins and Weston." " Stephen Prosser 
 removed his office to the house wherein Thomas Phippoe, 
 
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 Eeq., lived lately, next door to Mr. Lawrence's warehouse 
 in Bedon's alley, wliere books and accounts will be brought 
 up and clearly started." " Just arrived in the Pallas, 
 Captain Turner ; the Portlajid, Captain Wilson ; the Britain. 
 Captain IJrquhart, from London ; and the Live Oak, Cap- 
 tain Lundberry, from Bristol, England." " A large assort- 
 ment of dry goods, to be sold yery cheap, by Mansell and 
 Corbett — silks, rich brocades, lutestrings, tobines and 
 satins, entire new patterns, the first out of the looms ; 
 painted and printed tambor-worked muslins, cheap hats, 
 thread and cotton stockings, Marseilles counterpanes and 
 petticoating, flowers and corded dimitys, fine plain India 
 dimity, carpets, glass, and china Avare, perfumery, hair- 
 powder, sheeting, white plains, superfine broad cloths and 
 cassimeres, waistcoat shapes, guns, shot-lead and gun- 
 powder, coarse linings, twelve yards in a piece, for thirty 
 shillings, all kinds of nails and plantation tools, iron- 
 mongery, cutlery, saddlery, pewter goods, iron and copper 
 ware, grocery and linendrapery." Then it was, dear friends, 
 that we reaped the benefit of direct trade with England — 
 and why shall we not again ? The paper from which we 
 will continue to copy was numbered 458. 
 , "The Lion and the Unicorn guarding the Crown.' 
 " The South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal con- 
 taining the freshest advices, both foreign and domestic — 
 Tuesday, September 6th, 1774 — printed by Crouch & 
 Clray," in which George Cooke & Co. call for a settlement 
 of all accounts due to the 1st of January last. They must 
 be paid by the 1st of November next. " Christ Church 
 Parish — two horses strayed from the pasture of Jonathan 
 Scott." "St. Paul's Parish, July 29th, George Bell had 
 tolled a strong brown bay, poor and galled ; and Samuel 
 Bowman a mare, sides and breast much galled by the har- 
 ness ; owner to prove property; Andrew Leith, J. P." 
 
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 ■• An address tu Uie inhabitants of South Carolina, by a 
 Carolinian. My Dear Countrymen — Every new arrival 
 from England brings intelligence of some new attack upon 
 the rights of the Americans. Every new Act of Parlia- 
 ment astonishes us with some prodigy more horrible than 
 the former. I think it hajipy, my countrymen, that 
 Providence has so ordered it, that by their own conduct 
 they should have opened the eyes of all mankind. A 
 milder administration might have blinded us forever.' 
 Then it was that Lord Caermarthen had boasted, as an 
 Jirgument against American freedom, that "'America was 
 at least as much represented in Parliament as Manchester, 
 which had made no complaint of a want so wiagumry.' 
 But the time was fast coming, however, when freedom 
 should be claimed in Manchester as boldly as it was in 
 America, whose peaceful land was doomed to become the 
 scene of fierce and murderous contention. And here 
 again clouds are shadowing our political horizon, threaten- 
 ing to burst in tempest of sorrow on our devoted State. 
 God in His mercy grant that our wishes for a peaceful 
 secession may be safely and speedily attained. If con- 
 querors, may we *.'bear our honors meekly ;" if vanquished, 
 with Christian fortitude. We, of the present crisis, look- 
 ing back, recalling the great lessons taught by the deeds 
 of our ancestors, feel that such was their conduct in those 
 cases. The eventful 1774, on the 14th of January, gave 
 birth to Robert J. Turnbull, " the intrepid and successful 
 asserter of the rights of the State ; author of the address 
 of the Convention to the people of South Carolina, and 
 other able productions in support of Constitutional liberty." 
 An obelisk in the west yard of St. Philip's Church is the 
 monument to his memory. He was the son of Dr. Andrew 
 Turnbull, who was born and educated in Scotland, re- 
 moved early in life to Smyrna, in Asia Minor, where he 
 
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 became a distinguished practitioner of medicine. There 
 he married a Grecian lady, Gracia Maria. After many 
 years he enlisted colonists for a new enterprise, chiefly 
 Greeks and Minorcans by birth, to settle in an English, 
 colony. In the year 1768 they proceeded to St. Augustine 
 with a company of fifteen hundred persons, three or five 
 hundred were men. Their settlement was called New 
 Smyrna, and they were under the patronage of Lord Hills- 
 borough. He had, in 1766, received a grant of twenty 
 thousand acres from the British Government in East 
 Florida. With them came priests, both of the Eoman and 
 Grecian Church. The colony prospered until the revolu- 
 tion broke out, when a difference arose between Dr. Turn- 
 bull and Patrick Tonyn, Esq., the Governor of Florida. 
 He released the colonists from their indentures, they then 
 forfeited their right to the land, the reward of nine years 
 labor. The doctor was literally ruined by the revolution, 
 although taking no part in it. He removed to Charle.-^ 
 Town in May, 1781, with a large family and few servants. 
 His talents and social qualities were such that he soon rose 
 to the head of his profession, commanding the esteem and 
 respect of all who knew him. 
 
 And novr, soothing our spirits to rest, we will resume 
 the ancient paper, which tells us that, " On Thursday la.st 
 liis Majesty's packet-boat Le Despencer, Captain William 
 Pond, sailed for Falmouth, with whom went passenger Mr, 
 Thomas Shirley, merchant." And that '' on Saturday, be- 
 tween 11 and 12 o'clock, the stables belonging to Mr.Wil- 
 liman, the upper end of Queen street, was entirely con- 
 sumed by fire, together with the upper part of his dwelling 
 house." "Yesterday his Majesty's packet-boat Sandwich, 
 commanded b}?" Captain Michael Kelly, sailed with the 
 mails for Falmouth." "From Savannah, Ga., we learn 
 that the inhabitants of St. John's Parish were to ehuse 
 
36 DAYS OF YOKE, OR 
 
 depiitios to attend the approaching Congress, and that they 
 liad also collected one hundred and seventy barrels of rice 
 and £50 cash to be sent to the poor of Boston." " New- 
 bern, North Carolina, elected deputies to represent that 
 Province in the General Congress of the Colonies to be 
 held at Philadelphia." " Gov. Martin, of North Carolina, 
 had a2:)pointed the Hon. James Hasell, Esq., Chief Justice 
 of that Province, in the absence of the Hon. Martin 
 Howard, Esq., gone to Ehode Island." "Married, at Sa- 
 vannah, Nathaniel Hall, Esq., to Miss Nancy Gibbons, 
 daughter of Joseph Gibbons, Esq., deceased." " In Charles 
 Town, Mr. Thomas Cochran to Miss Sarah Clifford." 
 '■ Died, at his house near Cross Creelc, sincerely and uni- 
 versally lamented, Richard Lj'-on, Esq. He was the first 
 who established a trade at that place, and lived to see it 
 the principal part of the country. During upwards of 
 twenty years in that part of the Province he had the sin- 
 gular good fortune to ])e esteemed and respected by all 
 parties, however violent against each other. But it could 
 not be otherwise, for v/ith the strictest sobriety he was re- 
 markably hospitable and charitable to the distressed ; a 
 fond husband, an indulgent father, and a gentle master, and, 
 to crown all, a man of unspotted integrity." " In Charles 
 Town, within a few days of each other, died Messrs. Ed- 
 ward Dobell, Sr. and Jr., lather and son." " The price of 
 rice is 50 shillings per 100 lbs." "Custom House entries 
 inwardf< — On the 1st the Snow- Poggy, Alexander Ilardio, 
 from Bristol, England ; ship Jupiter, Samuel Brown. On 
 (ho 2d, two schooners from Georgia. On the 3d, four ditto, 
 and two from New Providence. On the 5th, ship Fanny, 
 AVilliam Main, from Africa. Gone out — Captnin Hardie. 
 for Gosport, and the Snow Gambia for Bristol." 
 
 Well, well, quite worn out with the day's exertion, I 
 will Viid vou aood-nioht : vet fio ravii^hin^lv beautiful i;3 
 
SHABOWB OF THE PAST. 37 
 
 this Autumn sky that wo must enjoy it a short time befoi'e 
 retiring to rest upon our bed, and reflect on the goodness 
 of that God who has made our prison so radiant, and of 
 the saints who have all these beautiful stars beneath their 
 feet. 
 
 That pleasant dreams be yours is the prayer of 
 
 The Axcient Lady. 
 
38 PAYS OF YORE, Oil 
 
 XjETTEIE^/ "VIII. 
 
 T. O V E T H K L I) . 
 
 *' I love the old ; to lean beside 
 The antique, easy chair, 
 And pass my fingers softly o'er 
 A wreath of silvered hair : 
 To press my glowing lips upon 
 The furrowed brow, and gaze 
 Within tlie sunken ^ye, where dwells 
 The * light of other days.' 
 
 " To fold the pale and feeble hand 
 That on my youthful head 
 Has lain so tenderly, the while 
 The evening prayer was said ; 
 To nestle down close to the heaH, 
 And marvel how it held 
 Such tomes of legendary lore, 
 T)ie chronicles of Eld. 
 
 •*0h ! youth thou hast so much of joy, 
 So much of life and love, 
 ^0 many hopes : Age has but one — 
 Tlie hope of blips above. 
 Then turn awhile from these away 
 
 To cheer the old, and bless ^ 
 
 The wasted heart-string with a stream ' \ 
 
 Of gushing teudernei^>!. 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 39 
 
 '•Thou treadest now a path of blooui, 
 And thine exulting soul 
 Springs proudly on, as though it mocked 
 At Times' unfelt control. 
 But they have marched a weary way 
 Upon a thorny road, 
 Then soothe the toil-worn spirits crc 
 They pass away to God. 
 
 " Yes, love the aged, bow before 
 The venerable form, 
 So soon to seek beyond the sky 
 A shelter from the storm. 
 Ay, love them ; let thy silent heart 
 » With reverence untold, 
 
 As pilgrims, v ry near to Meareit, 
 Regard and love the Old." 
 
 '' OBITUx\RY." 
 
 '"Died, in "Williamsburg Districfc, South Carolina, on the 
 16th of November, 1859, Miss Nancy Jlouzon, the daugh- 
 ter of William Henry Mouzon, and his wife, Ann Taylor. 
 She was born October the 8th, 1769, on Sunday at eleven 
 o'clock, forenoon. The deceased, from her advanced age, 
 and the thrilling experience of her early life, deserves 
 more than a passing memorial. She was born where she 
 died, in the year 1769, as told above, and was consequently 
 about ninety years of age. She was often heard to say 
 that she first saw the light the same year with Napoleon 
 the I.; he was born on the 15th of August. Her natural 
 vivacity and sprightliness of disposition ; her communica- 
 tiveness and her teeming recollection of past events always 
 rendered her an object of attraction to her friends. Her 
 father, Captain Wm. H. Mouzon, was commandant of one 
 of the four companies that formed the original Brigade of 
 
40 DAYS OF YOKE, OK 
 
 General Francis Marion. After the fall of Charles Town 
 in 1780, on the 12th of May, and the memorable mission 
 of Major John James to the British commandant at George 
 Town, the patriots of Williamsburg mustered into service 
 four companies under Captain William Henri/ Mouzon, 
 James McCaulay, John James of the Lake, and William 
 McCottry. Her chief command devolved on Major James, 
 and a special message was sent to General Gates, just 
 before the disastrous 1)attle of Camden, to grant them a 
 general officer who had seen service. It is well known 
 that General F. Marion was furnished in answer to the 
 request. Before his arrival, however, and previously to 
 the battle of Camden, the rising in Williamsburg was re- 
 ported at the British headquarters in Charles Town, and 
 the fiery Tarleton was dispatched to quell it. Crossing 
 the Santee at LeNud's Ferry, he arrived at Kingstree on 
 the 6th of August, 1780, and encamped for the night, all 
 the way .expressing his desire for a pass at arms with the 
 Whigs of Williamsburg. His zeal abatjed, however, when 
 he heard of the approach of McCottry, and daring the 
 night broke up his encampment and retreated precipitately 
 up the Black river road towiirds Camden. Early next 
 morning he reached the residence of Captain Mouzon. 
 The subject of this memoir, then eleven years old, was on 
 the roof of the smoke house, aiding in spreading the bacon 
 to the sun, and was the first to descry the approach of the 
 enemy and give the alarm. Captain Mouzon was then at 
 home, and had just time to .escai^e to the swamp and to 
 conceal himself. His daughter well remembered the per- 
 sonal appearance of Colonel Tarleton, and also of Colonel 
 , his Tory ally, and the dress of the British troop- 
 ers — leather caps with plumes, red coats with white panta- 
 loons and half boots. Tarleton approached Mrs. Mouzon 
 courteously, xind told her, with apparent regret, that her 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 41 
 
 husband had turned against the King, George the III., 
 and must consequently be broken up." Orders were then 
 given to set fire to the premises, and in a little time the 
 family mansion, the out-houses, fourteen buildings in all, 
 were wrapped in flames. This was the first act of atrocity 
 of the kind in Williamsburg, and was followed by the 
 devastating march of Wemyss a few weeks afterwards 
 which laid waste a tract of country seventy miles in 
 length, and in places fifteen miles in breadth. The follow- 
 ing spring the march of Colonel Watson was interrupted 
 at the bridge on Black river, six miles below Kingstreo, 
 by General Marion, and Miss Mouzon heard and counted 
 the guns of the British as they tore the branches of the 
 trees above the heads of the Whigs who were fighting as 
 it were in the sight of their own wives and children to 
 .save them from worse calamity than they had experienced 
 a few months before. Yet Miss Mouzon's recollections of 
 the scenes of the Revolution were not more interesting, 
 perhaps, than the more peaceful and happy ones of the 
 church. Early taught the lessons of religion and attend- 
 ance on the worship of the sanctuary, it was but natural 
 for her to treasure up the traditions of the fathers as well 
 as remember events that occurred in her own day. Of the 
 Ministers and Elders of Williamsburg Church and of the 
 principal events in its history, she had a very accurate 
 knowledge back to the time of the Revolution, and from 
 her lips many details were gathered a few years since, 
 which would have been otherwise irrevocably lost. For 
 about thirty years she had followed the Saviour, having 
 professed her love to Him during the ministry of the Rev. 
 John M. Erwin. and united with the church. During the 
 last ten years of her life she was seldom able to visit the 
 house of God. But although infirm in body she was 
 iitrong in faith, and nothing seemed to her more refreshing 
 
42 BAYS OF YORE, OR 
 
 tliah the prayer-meetings t^at were frequently held at tlic 
 Louse where- she resided. Never was she found too feeble 
 to enjoy the services, though borne from her own chamber 
 to recline on the parlor sofa during the exercises. Many, 
 too, were the conversations enjoyed by her Pastor with her 
 in reference to her evidences for Heaven. She delighted 
 to talk of her future prospects, and of her departure, 
 whicli she felt to be near. No doubts nor darkness ol)- 
 scured the brightness of her hope, whicli was of that hum- 
 ble yet confiding kind that maketli not ashamed. Looking 
 forward from the scenes j^f this world she was ever ready 
 to say with the devout Psalmist, " I shall be satisfied when 
 I awake with thy likeness." Thus another of those links 
 that connected us with the past has been sundered. We 
 felt when conversing with her as though we held commu- 
 nion with one who had come from the grave, because those 
 of her own generation were all there. The venerable 
 members of that venerable church had fallen, one by one, 
 before, vsome even passing their four-score years, until she 
 was left like a lone tree where a forest once stood. Many 
 v\^ho were her juniors preceded her to glory, and now to- 
 gether they rejoice, where partings are no more. 
 
 " Z. A. W., Dalton, Georgia." 
 The Family Tabic of Henry and Ann Mouzon reads 
 thus: Their first child was Ann, after her mother ; she was 
 born on the 19th of September, 1738. Their second was 
 Esther, on the 20th of November, 1739; then Williani 
 Henri/, May 18th, 1741, and was married on the 10th of 
 January, 1769, at the age of twenty-eight years, by the 
 Rov. Mr. Spencer, of Black River, to Susanna, the daugh- 
 ter of Samuel and Ann Taylor ; she was born on the Ist 
 of December, 1752, consequently she was a bride at sweet 
 seventeen. Their children were first, x\nn, born October 
 8th, 1769. an told, on Sundav. at 11 o'clock, forenoon; 
 
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 DA^YB OF YORE ; 
 
 t 
 
 OR 
 
 SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 
 
 BY THE 
 
 ANCIENT LADY, 
 
 ADTHOK Of "OUR F0RBFATHBR8 THEIR H0MB8 AND THEIR CHURCHES." 
 
 AC, &C. 
 
 C HARLESTON : 
 
 BROAD STREET, 
 
 1870. 
 
Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by 
 
 MRS. E. A. POYAS, 
 
 In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
 
 WILLIAM G MA2YCK, PRINTER, 
 56 Broad St., Charleston. 
 

 MYMH. 
 
 in the morn of life, when youth 
 
 With vital ardor glows, 
 And shines in all the fairest charms 
 
 That beauty can disclose : 
 
 Deep in thy soul, before its powers 
 
 Are yet by vice enslaved, 
 Be thy Creator's glorious name 
 
 And character engraved : 
 
 Ere yet the shades of sorrow cloud 
 
 The sunshine of thy days ; 
 And cares and toils, in endless round. 
 
 Encompass all thy ways ; 
 
 Ere yet thy heart the woes of age, 
 
 With vain regret, deplore, 
 And sadly muse on former joys, 
 
 That now return no more. 
 
 True wisdom, early sought and gain'd. 
 
 In age will give thee rest : 
 then, improve the morn of life, 
 . To make its evening blest. 
 
^ 
 
D^YS OF YORE, 
 
 OR 
 
 SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 
 
 LETTER L 
 
 Charleston, April 20th, 1860. 
 My Dear Young Friends. 
 
 After a very moderate siesta my pen has resumed its 
 occupation to tell you that 
 
 <'I am not Old — tliovigh j^ears have cast 
 
 Tliciv weary shadows on my way ; 
 
 I am not old — though youth has passed 
 
 On rapid wings away ; ^ 
 
 For in my heart a fountain flows, 
 
 And round it pleasant thoughts repose. 
 
 And sympathies and feelings high 
 
 Spring like the stars on evening's sky. 
 
 "I am not Old — Time may have set 
 His signet on my brow ; 
 And some faint furrows there have met. 
 Which care must deepen now. ; 
 Yet ^lemory a chaplet weaves, 
 Of fresh young buds and verdant leaves ; 
 Thus still in fancy I can twine 
 Thoughts sweet as floWers that once were mine.'^ 
 
 n,n 
 
 stii 
 
 .!^ever,to grow old in feeling should be our daily prayer 
 
 i effort; convinced that although a Father's hand has 
 
 ewn many a sorrow in our pathway, it has placed 
 1 
 
DAYS OF YORP:, OR 
 
 joys there also, in the kindness and sympathy of friends. 
 Life with its quick succession of interesting and useful 
 occupation, leaves us little leisure for growing old, al- 
 though much for doing good. To merit the "Well doiie' 
 at the great Tribunal, it is not requisite that you should 
 be what the world calls "highly accomplished" or tliat 
 too great care and cost be bestowed on your persons; oh 
 no, rather let the utmost of your aspiring be to attain 
 wisdom and piety. Let not one of those accomplishments 
 be wanting that are required to set you off to the best 
 advantaire, and render vou not deficient in the courts a- 
 bove. Fitted for that home, filled with celestial treasures 
 and endless attractions, where you shall freely recieve 
 an undisputed inheritance, where you will not only be 
 actively engaged, but daily improving in the knowledge 
 of God and the Universe , to the great increase of your 
 own happiness and that of the assembled multitude of 
 saints and angels. Preparatory to that blissful state, 
 you my dear young friends can become ministering spirit 
 in human form. In the huts and at the hearths of 
 widowed want and sorrow, and in the lowly habitations 
 of vice and ignorance the tread of your feet may not be 
 a strange sound, you need not walk without balm in 
 your hands througl\ the world, applying it wherever 
 you see wounds. At the bed of death you can be found 
 with soft tones and soundless tread. "The tender and the 
 faithful wife too, twining her mysterious self, like a 
 green and flowery wreath, around every stern and rug- 
 ged duty which rises in the path of her husband's life 
 is truly an angel on earth." Yes, as maiden, wife or Tlrid- 
 ow, like the angels' let your footsteps be gentle, your 
 touch tender, your voices soft and harmonious. Let 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 3 
 
 your hints to dull and careless pilgrims through the 
 wilderness of life, be both free and courteous ; and as 
 angels do you not only arouse the sleepers, but after- 
 wards help them on their way to the right. Yes, yes — 
 
 "•I have seen angels by the sick one's pillow 
 Their's was the soft tone, and the soundless tread, 
 When smitten hearts were drooping like the willow, 
 They stood, 'between the living and the dead.' 
 
 And by his side there moved a form of beauty. 
 Strewing sweet flowers along his path of life, 
 And looking up with meek and love blent duty, 
 I called her angel, but he called her wife. 
 
 ! many a spirit walks the world unheeded, 
 That when its veil of sadness is laid down, 
 Shall soar aloft with pinions unimpeded. 
 And wear its glory like a starry crown." 
 
 And are you not almost angelic as you calmly pursue 
 your daily course, as a daughter whose filial love prompts 
 to share all her parents cares and fatigues, as far as com- 
 patible with your station and ability, not merely as a 
 duty but a privilege. Well is it with the youthful mai- 
 den when the whole warp and woof of her heart is com- 
 posed of devotion to father, mother, brothers and sisters, 
 a happy household. Too soon perhaps may the time ar- 
 rive when she may be constrained to exclaim "alas, for 
 man's stability." 
 
 As life wears on, learn to reflect that you have watch- 
 ful friends above, in saints and angels, take care that 
 you disappoint not their hopes, and as regards this world 
 that you.disgrace not your ''Forefathers" or cause the 
 names of your "Ancestors" to be despised; born of 
 
4 DAYS OF YOKE, OR 
 
 honorable parentage, learn to be wise, vet without an 
 immoderate esteem of self, lest such foU^ should justly 
 l^rovoke censure. Regard home as your true sphere, 
 where every thing should be managed with promptitude 
 and decision, aim not to be witty or brilliant, but good 
 tempered and sensible. "Never be found seeking to 
 intrude on the attributes of the other sex ; rather let the 
 objects of your pursuit be to sooth pain, alleviate suf- 
 fering, soften discord, solace the time-w^orn spirit on 
 earth; and to train the youthful ones for heaven; thus 
 employed, may you each steal noiselessly on to your 
 appointed bourne, '"the world forgetting, by the world 
 forgot" having no ill fortune to force you into a pub- 
 licity, little consistent with your taste or natural sphere, 
 but be enabled to pass your time quietly in such gentle 
 occupations as are woman's best employment. Thank- 
 ful that your lot has been cast in an age and country 
 wliere men have the gallantry to allow you to be a com- 
 ponent part of creation, for we cannot forget that in dark 
 days women were utterly and entirely overlooked; and 
 that it was the promulgation of the Christian religion 
 that first elevated them to a high station in society. And 
 remember that with such advantages as you now possess 
 each individual has the power of perpetual improvement, 
 and in so far, the control of her own destiny, and each 
 generation having the chance of educating their succes- 
 sors better than the last, our race must have the power 
 of illimitable advancement. And when death approach- 
 es, and the solemn scenes of eternity unfold themselves 
 to your view, may you be enabled to read your title clear 
 to a habitation not made with hands, eternal in tlie heav- 
 ens. And now that the shades of night call to refresh- 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST 5 
 
 ing slumbers, may you all retire with calm hearts, and 
 arise with cheerful spirits when the day dawns upon new 
 duties and pleasures to be performed and enjoyed — 
 Thus prays your sincere friend 
 
 The Ancient Lady. 
 
 1* 
 
DAYS OF YORE, Oil 
 
 - LETTER 11. 
 
 SumwerviUe^ Mr. Yoses Hoteh \^ i 
 
 Tuesday, July 2.Uh, 1860. j ^^ 
 
 "Fair and young thou blooniest now 
 AVliilst I full many a year have told ; 
 But read the ]\eavt and not the brow, 
 Then shalt thou find I am not old." 
 
 Illness, nij dear friends, ■sveall know incapacitates for 
 every exertion either physical or mental; months have 
 elapsed since the date of our last epistle to you, and even 
 now that the pen is resumed it is guided by such a feeble 
 hand that the writing may prove as diificult to decipher 
 as ancient hieroglyphics; unlike its former self, when 
 although entirely without beauty, it had, notwithstand- 
 ing the great merit of distinctness, and plainness so de- 
 sirable in a letten or manuscript. Tlie great Proprietor 
 of life has seen fit to revoke the lease of existence to 
 youthful ones around us, their short allotted terms hav- 
 ing expired, whilst led by His unerring hand to this 
 health restoring spot, your aged friend may continue y£t 
 for a time traversing this world's wilderness depths, 
 with its pleasures so facinating, its persuits so engros- 
 sing. Yet to her the world is becoming stripped of its 
 counterfeit charms its hollowness, the treachery of its 
 promises and the fleeting nature of its most enduring 
 friendships; no longer may she delude herself with false 
 hopes and lofty aspirations as respects the things of time 
 but better far turn steadfastly to reflect upon that glori- 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 7 
 
 ous day which is to know no night ; the eternal noon-tide 
 whence all shadows do flee away. Reconciled to earth's 
 severest dicipline, by the thought of that endless, sinless, 
 and sorrowless immortality held up to view by the word 
 of inspiration, may we all go on our way rejoicing; striv- 
 ing to bear with calm equanimity each encountered grief, 
 and having been kept through all life's dangerous way 
 never suffered from His pasture to rove, may we all sit 
 down together in the bright world above, where neither 
 change or disappointment can ever reach or disturb us, 
 and where our path can no longer be hedged up with 
 thorns and thistles. 
 
 This charming, rural, picturesc[ue town with its health 
 promoting atmosphere, is situated twenty-two miles from 
 our City, four and a half from the Ashley River. It 
 is partly in Charleston and Colleton Districts the divid- 
 ino; line of St. James' Goose Creek and St. Georoje's 
 Colleton passing through it. "This delightful summer 
 resort, has for sixty years been noted for the salubrity 
 of its climate, which is delightful throughout the year. 
 The temperature during the Summer months is warm 
 at mid-day, the thermometer not unfrequently rang- 
 ing from 90 to 95 degrees, yet the nights are cool and 
 refreshing. The atmosphere is remarkably dry and 
 balmy, inducing indolence and sleep. The ponds and 
 water courses in every direction may be the immediate 
 causes of its salutary condition, as they drain the land, 
 while a thick foliage of trees and luxuriant undergrowth 
 shut in any poisonous exhalations that might otherwise 
 arise. These ponds and branches, however are mostly 
 running streams, where the waters do not stagnate." 
 
 Well do we remember the ancient hospitalities of this 
 
8 DAYS OF YoRE, OR 
 
 place, and the genial spirit of its inhabitants ; the deer 
 hunts of the olden time, with tlie dinners that followed. 
 There are a few of the descendants of those worthies of 
 the chase and feast, still residing here, who inherit the 
 hospitable spirit of their fathers, as we can well attest 
 having spent two delightful months in private families, 
 carefully nursed into health, andforgetfulness of wrongs, 
 before allowed to sojourn among strangers. We are 
 told just now that the inhabitants of this place seem to 
 be under the influence of a new spirit, "The sluggish apa- 
 thy of the past has disappeared and an enthusiasm for 
 progress pervades the community. We note the expen- 
 diture to adorn private residences, and the turn out of 
 handsome equipages, so unlike those of the olden time. 
 We are now, however, in the hands of a new adminis- 
 tration, with the Rev. Mr. Limelicuse at the head. 
 Abundantly are we blessed with schools and churches, 
 the former kept by Mr. Hughs, Mr. John Gadsden and 
 Mr. Gray. Of the Episcopal Church tli^ Rev. Mr. Philip 
 Gadsden is pastor, and on the Sabbath the solemn bell 
 of St Paul's is heard, calling us to worship. The Meth- 
 odist meeting has circuit preachers. The Presbyterian 
 pulpit is tilled by the Rev. Andrew Pickens Smith of 
 Alabama, ayoungman eminent alike for his social qual- 
 ites, his piety, learning and abilities." He is the great 
 grand son of the Rev. Josiah Smith who was born in 
 1704 and died in 1781 — he was the son of Dr. Geor<::je, 
 and grand son of the first Landgrave Thomas Smith, who 
 was born at Exeter, England, in 1648, and died in 
 Charles Town, South Carolina in 1694, aged 46. "There 
 still exists, within a few miles of this town, the noble 
 old relic of Newington. The standing and cross walls, 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 9 
 
 some fifty feet high, of a princely mansion, yet remain. 
 The grounds are shut in by huge oaks, with a dense 
 tano-le of vine and underbrush obstructing the elevated 
 portals of this once imposing and massive structure. 
 The fish pond, with its waters darkened by the overhan- 
 o-ino: branches of immense trees, is still to be seen in 
 gloomy shade, a melancholy type of past luxury and 
 present decay. Nor can the visitor behold the noble 
 avenue, in part remaining, that leads to this grand old 
 ruin, without experiencing emotions of a sad and quick- 
 ening nature. The building was destroyed by fire soon 
 after 1845 — the precise date we have been unable to 
 learn : but in the vear above named a friend assures 
 us the buildins; was in good condition, and he went 
 through the rooms of the mansion, which were furnished 
 with "dark walnut," in a corresponding style of elegance 
 to the external appearance of the place. The property 
 w^ith muc hof the surrounding country, is now owned by 
 the Hon. Henry A. Middleton of Charleston," (he niar- 
 ried a Miss Kinloch). One of the earliest settlers of 
 Summcrville of w^hom we have any positive evidence, 
 was Mr. James Rousan Stewart, w^lio» having in 1793 
 sold his Beech Hill Plantation to Mr. Richard Scott, 
 from St. Andrew's parish, soon after that period located 
 here, with Col. Isaac Walter, they were followed by Dr. 
 William Morgan whose wife was a sister of Mr. Stewart, 
 and then came Mr. Iiaac Perry, subsequently to 1800, 
 also Capt. Joseph Waring, of Clay Field, and Dr. Rich- 
 ard Waring, his cousin, from Clay Hill adjoining. 
 
 With Col. Walter came his step-daughter Miss E. W. 
 Hopkins, she was "born in Charlestown in 1771, and 
 died here at the age of 86 years. "About the begin- 
 
10 DAYS OF YORS, OR 
 
 ning of the 19th century Dr. Bloomingberg also removed 
 hither, his family emigrated hence about twenty years 
 ago ; a number of other settlers soon succeeded him, 
 whose numerous descendants are still residents of the 
 Town, enjoying in a very remarkable degree the health 
 of its climate and the fascination of its agreeable society; 
 but not until a few years since has any material increase 
 to the population taken place. Notu^ the old village 
 has become somewhat metropolitan in its appearance, 
 regulations and taste. The primative cottage homes of 
 the early inhabitants are fast giving place to a more 
 pretending style of architecture. Handsome churches 
 and commodious hotels abound, such as Mr. Brown's, 
 Capt. Vose's and Mr. Cooper's Paradise, where many 
 persons spend their summers, not because they are sick 
 but that they may keep in good condition, enjoying the 
 pure air and pleasant company." "The Marshal, who 
 is Chief of Police, 'owns his horse' and is a terror to 
 evil-doers ; and the new Town Hall, with its ornamen- 
 tal cupola, sends forth its edicts and ordinances, with 
 due formality, for the better regulation of grave and 
 admiring citizens. Summerville has also its suburban 
 as well as its urban allurements. Attractive farms are 
 just beyond its limits, and within an hour's ride are the 
 less aspiring villages of Stallsville c^nd Smithville. It 
 has likewise its fashionable drives, thronged, when in 
 Season, Avith gay equipages and fair equestrians — and 
 there are shady walks where lovers range through w^his- 
 pering groves, in sight of running brooks, and breathe 
 their vows in hearing of the singing birds." The last 
 census of the Town and its immediate vicinity was ta- 
 ken with the following result ; 
 
SHADOWS CF THE PAST. 11 
 
 Number of White Males, 259 
 
 " " Females, .... . 289 
 
 White Population, 548 
 
 Black " 540 
 
 Total Number of Inhabitants,. . . . . 1088 
 
 Number of dwellings and servants' houses, . 372 
 Churches, Episcopal, Presbyterian and 
 
 Methodist, 3 
 
 Stores, 9 
 
 Hotels and Boarding Houses, 5 
 
 Public buildings, Council Hall and Ball-room 2 
 
 Total number of Buildings, 891 
 
 Horses, 129. 
 We will now draw your attention to an ancient place 
 of Sepulture in this immc diate neighbourhood, yet scarce- 
 ly known of. This solitary resting place of the dead 
 is situated in an old field about a hundred to a hundred 
 and fifty yards from the old Orangeburg road, but little 
 travelled since the establishment of the South Carolina 
 Rail Road; it is only four miles from Summerville, be- 
 longing to the Mount Boone tract in the Olden Time, 
 and where rest the mortal remains of some of those who 
 inhabited the Boone Mansion. On a massive slab about 
 five or six inches thick, apparantly of granite and on 
 a foundation of brick surmounted by an urn is the fol- 
 lowing inscription. 
 
 Here Lyeth the Body of 
 
 Mr. Joseph Boone, 
 
 « 
 
 W ho departed this Life the 24"' 
 
 day of February 1734, 
 
 Aged 57 years. 
 
12 DAYS OP YORE, OR 
 
 Mr. Boone liad early in life been united to Anne, a 
 daughter of Col. Joseph Blake, the faithful friend to 
 Avhom in 1694, the first Landgrave Thomas Smith left 
 his stive?' tobacco box. iLer sister Sarah was the first 
 wife of the second Land<i;rave Smith, who died four vears 
 after Boone, aged 68. 
 
 When in 1706 the Gov. Sir Nathaniel Johnson, re- 
 garding the dissenters as enemies to the constitution of 
 both Church and State, framed a bill in such a manner 
 as to exclude then, entirely from the House of Repre- 
 sentitives,, Joseph Boone was sent to England to petition 
 Queen Anne in their behalf. His widow in her will da- 
 ted December 1st, 1749, begins thus : "My desire is to 
 have a private funeral, and to be iriterred at my planta- 
 tion, called Mount Boone. Item : I give to my beloved 
 nephew, the Hon. Joseph Blake, Esqr., my Dorchester 
 plantation, given me by my mother, called MountBoone, 
 with all the buildings and im.provements thereon, unto 
 him, and to his heirs and assignees forever." After 
 many other legacies she goes on to direct her executor 
 (Henry Smith, of Goose Cieck mansion.) and her exec- 
 utiix, (Mary his mother) to sell all of lier estate, either 
 in South Carolina or elsewhere, giving all the money 
 in trust to her nephew the Hon. Joseph Blake to be put 
 out at interest by him, for the sole, separate and dis- 
 tinct use of her beloved grand daughter Anne, the in- 
 terest to be paid her annually, without the power, control 
 or intermeddlir fjof her husband, Andrew Slann, and at 
 her deat h to be divided between her children. The Will 
 in full, you have read in our "Carolina in the Olden 
 Time." We find no monument to her memory — her suc- 
 cessor gave the English nameof Newirgton to his inher" 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 13 
 
 itance. On removing to England Col. Glaze was ap. 
 pointed his agent, and divided his time between the 
 Ponds Plantation and Newington, where the Ancient 
 Lady has often counted the hundred windows on the 
 front of that noble edifice, sang childish songs to its in" 
 dulgent inmates and danced minuets and im'prom'ptit 
 fancy-dances to the grand piano touched by the large 
 stately and all accomplished Miss Ann Smyth of Colum. 
 bia, the sister of Mrs. Glaze and frequently her guest 
 for months. 
 
 The other inscriptions in that '*city of the dead" are 
 upon upright stones, and read as follows : 
 
 Sacred to 
 
 the memory of Mrs. 
 
 Catherine Grimes, 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 October 13^^ 1823, 
 
 Aged 60 years. Also 
 
 her husband 
 
 John Grimes, 
 
 {the date defaced) 
 
 Sacred to 
 the memory of 
 
 Mr. Henry Clayton, 
 who departed 
 
 this life 21^^ July, 1820. 
 aged 39 years. 
 
14 DAYS OF YORE, OR 
 
 I N R I 
 
 I H S 
 
 Sacred to 
 
 the memory of Mrs. 
 
 Ann L. Gell, 
 
 Wife of Mr. John Gell, Junr. 
 
 and daughter of Mr. 
 
 Henry and Mrs. Levinea Clayton, 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 m^ September, 1823, aged 
 
 16 years. May she rest in peace. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
 I N Rl 
 
 I H S 
 
 Sacred to 
 
 the memory of Mr. 
 
 John Gell, Junr. 
 
 Who died 23^^ of June, 
 
 1824, aged 26 years. 
 
 May he too rest in peace. 
 
 amen. 
 
 And sooner or later shall we all pass into the land of 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 15 
 
 oblivion, not very long to be remembered through the 
 changes of this busy, changing life, by those fast tram- 
 ping at our heels Whilst Time endures may each of 
 us hear the Directing Voice saying "This is the way, 
 walk ye in it," then will He be our defence and refuge 
 in the hour of disolution. Good night to you, and may 
 each succeeding morning find us all better prepared for 
 the glorious waking-time of immortality, when "the day 
 shall break" and earth's shadows shall forever "flee 
 away." 
 
 Yours, 
 
 The Ancient Lady. 
 
16 DAYS OF YORE, OR 
 
 LETTER III, 
 
 Summe7'viUe, Tuesday^ Slsf July^ 1860. 
 GROWING OLD. 
 
 " Do ye think of the days that are gone, Jeanie, 
 
 As ye sit by your fire at night ? 
 Do ye wish that the morn would bring back the time, 
 
 When your heart and your steps were light ?" 
 " I think of the days that are gone, Robin, 
 
 And of all that I joyed in then ; 
 But the brightest that ever arose on me, 
 
 I have never wished back again." 
 
 " Do ye think of the hopes that are gone, Jeanie, 
 
 As ye sit by your fire at night ? 
 Do ye gather them up as they faded fast 
 
 Like buds with an early blight?" 
 '<I think of the hopes that are gone, Robin, 
 
 And I mourn not their stay was fleet ; 
 For they fell as the leaves of the red rose fall 
 
 And were even in falling, sweet." 
 
 " Do ye think of the friends that at are gone, Jeanie, 
 
 As ye sit by your fire at night ? 
 Do you wish they were round you again once more. 
 
 By the hearth that they made so bright ? 
 I think of the friends that have gone, Robin, 
 
 They are dear to my heart as then ; 
 But the best and the dearest among them all, 
 
 I have never wished back again." 
 
 What a spirit of resignation breathes through this 
 poetry. We wish some one would own or claim this 
 anonymous song, it is so very charming for simplicity 
 and pathos. The sensible writer of "Woman's thoughts 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 17 
 
 of women" has introduced them into her pleasant and 
 instructive book, as selected or borrowed. 
 
 Such an aged piece of paper has been shown of late 
 that we copy for our young friends its entire contents 
 — news of one hundred years ago, the year in which 
 Catharine Gendron marked her sampler, now the prop- 
 erty of the Ancient Lady : 
 
 THE AMERICAN 
 
 A man on 
 
 A figure (^/\<^ II ^ ^ifViV Horseback 
 
 §|a:«| 
 
 Mercury. ^AVV iV it;' 1^ II P SimVIt llJtmil P^ Trumpet. 
 
 From Thurfday October 7^^ to 
 Thursday October 14^^ 1731. 
 
 tells of "an Act of Parliament in 1727, the first year of 
 the reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Second, 
 by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France and 
 Ireland — King, Defender of the Faith, et cetera.'' "An 
 Act for importing from his Majesty's Plantations in 
 America, directly into Ireland, goods not enumerated 
 in any Act of Parliament as forbidden — such as sugar, 
 tobacco, cotton, wool, indigo, ginger, speckle wood, or 
 Jamaica wood, fustick or other dying wood ; rice, molas- 
 ses, beaver skins and other furs ; copper ore, pitch, tar, 
 turpentine, masts, yards and bowsprits, of the growth, 
 product or manufacture of the said Plantations, and 
 such things as shall be imported into Ireland, must be 
 in British Shipping, where the Master and Three 
 fourths of the Mariners at least, are British." This 
 scrap of paper has been preserved, from the fact of an 
 old bill being pasted on it, bearing the names of John 
 Walking and Mary Jones. It belongs to Mr. Titus 
 Bissell, Scnr. The same old gentleman has favored 
 
18 DAY?^ OF YOKE, OK 
 
 US "with the loan of an account book, kept at the store 
 of Mr. William Logan at the northeast corner of 
 Church and Elliott streets, dated 1761, (close upon one 
 hundred years ago). " Charleston May 14th — Paid 
 George Saxby in fiall for my Note £1000, Interest i;i8 
 13s 4d. 15th, Lent William Savage on F. Clayton's 
 Note X500. 16th, Paid the freight on Stephen Lord's 
 bed 10s. For a keg of Butter 53 ft) weight at 3s. and 6d. 
 £9 5s 6d. Isabella Orr bought ribbons, crucls and tea. 
 Lionel Chalmers, snuft'. Theodore Trezeva)it, 10 sticks of 
 Tailor's twist. Ann Watson, dress maker, crow-silk and 
 ferret. Edward Fenwicke pullies and pins. Adam and 
 Milford, silk mitts at 33s 9d. Twenty three dozen 
 hinges at 65s, £6 10s. Josiah Perry, Nankeen aiid 
 brown Holland, 3 yds. Garlix, Ten yards white Chintz, 
 Six pair Women's Thread Jiose^ Three pair of Boys' do, 
 gloves, ribbons, one ivory Fan 45s. Four dozen fine 
 clear lawn handkerchiefs, two china bows, one Port- 
 manteau Trunk 110s. Nine yards Duroy, Wide Du. 
 rant. Coat and breast buttons, silk, twist and garlix. 
 Blue Breeches pattern 70s, Buckrum, Mitts, and tno 
 Wax Necklaces 30s, total £105 17s. May 19th.— 
 Richard Bedon, senr., two loaves sugar. Thomas Scott 
 sugar and shot, two pair cotton hose, one Keg Powder, 
 Dozen Flints. David Boillatt, Poplin, Persian and 
 paper. Isaac Holmes buff Breeches pattern 70s, girls 
 shoes. Martha Logan for twelve pieces India Calico, 
 110s, Twelve gallons of Vinegar, 20 oz. of Nutmegs and 
 Cloves, Two pair of gloves. 
 
 James Poyas One tin candlestick 8s 9d, one Spitt 32s 
 6d. Richard King, Osnabirgs, &c — Archd. McNeill) 
 sugar &c — Josiah Pendarvis, blue serge, shallon, Osna- 
 
SHADOWS or THE PAST. 19 
 
 birgs kc — £18 6s 3d. May 21st, Georc/c Logan blanket 
 70s, purple calico, £9 17s. Charles Dawson, women's 
 gloves and ribbon. Downes and Jones for one pound of 
 spermacati £1 7s 6d. John Beswicke, and Co., Richard 
 Capers, Richard Beresford, William Fuller, Elizabeth 
 James. JoJm Logan to David Boillatt for five dozen 
 bottles at 15s, .£3 15s. To John Beswick and Co., for 
 goods 'f Smith. Adam and Sharp £995 5s 2d. Ann 
 Wainwright for sundries £17. May 22d — John and 
 William Guerin three piec^ s of brown rolls, gloves, 
 thread hose &c. — Ogilvie and Forbes, Garlix ai.d brown 
 Holland, and boys thread hose, 15s. Nicholson and 
 Bamfield, sugar, calico, k shoes. William Savage one 
 Fan 40s, one niece of Nankeen 90s. Thomas Smith 
 ten yards of white ChiiUz £22, four yards Durant 55s, 
 Dishes, 62s 6d. David and John Deas, Portmanteau 
 trunk £5 10s. Davies u,nd Co., Garlix, buttons, brush 
 and coffee. Downs and Jones, one blue breeches pat- 
 tern £3 5s. Dacosta and Farr, tea. Daniel Doyley, 
 one hogshead of sugar. John Jones, Mitts and salt. 
 Ancrum, Lance and Loocock, one bottle of oil £1. 
 May 23d — Alexander Garden, one pair of calico shoes 
 and ribbon. Ann Wainwright one piece of cambrick 
 £8. Peter Butler, ribbon and shoes. Levi Durand, 
 girls mitts, one sett knives and forks, ribbon and shoes, 
 twenty yards of gauze, £10. Benjamin Fuller six pair 
 of knitted cotton hose, 65s, pair of Pinchbeck Buckles 
 35s. Thomson and Hunter six dozen gilt breast but- 
 tons. Martha Logan canvas, three hams, three pair 
 of calico shoes, twelve pounds of candles, one water Jug 
 at 15s, four pair of gloves, two tumblers, one sugar- 
 dish, two bottles of Mustard £3 15s. Nicholas Zorn 
 
:!{) DAYS OF YORE, OR 
 
 Henry Crum, rum and sugar. Sarah Boddie. Dun- 
 bar and Young one bottle of Walnut catsup. Richard 
 Capers, £21 7s 7d. Alexander Tuffe. May 28th— 
 Estate of Richard Capers, £S. William Capers for 
 Iflack mitts 12s. John Sweet, W'm. Lloyd. Mary 
 Douxsaint, nine yards of white Chintz. James Kirk- 
 wood one socket spade, £1 7s 6d. Robert Wright fifty 
 yards of Osnabrugs. Charles Dewar, three yards of 
 Crown Mantua. Joseph Whilden, rum, powder, shot; 
 and eight yards of linen. William Trewin calico shoes, 
 and spectacles 65.9.. Samuel Cardy, osnabrigs. Es- 
 tate of William Fuller, one set of pinchbeck buckles £1 
 15.s\ Charles Pinckncy one osnabrigs shirt, one pair 
 breeches £1 5s; Richard Hart four kegs of red lead <£12 
 Josiah Perry £38. Hester Bonhoste sugar and tea. 
 and a cotton gown £5. May 30th — Thomas Bee, one 
 silk hat 60s. one pair Flour I aces 25s. John Hon, 
 breeches and knee garters, gloves and cotton hose, silk 
 twist and buttons X20. Elizabeth Hunt, two osnabrigs 
 frocks and two pair of breeches. Henry Young, ?attin 
 ribbon. Thomas and William Ellis and Co. John 
 Hume, one pair women's mitts. John Logan to John 
 Hon £S for a child's crib. Jennet and Wilson. June 
 1761. Andrew Marr, Margaret Saunders, one black 
 silk hat £3. David Singletary, garlix. June 8th. 
 John Logan, for a riding chair £211, Joseph Dra- 
 mus. Martha Logan, one set dish matts, 5s. 8d. two 
 iiallons of rum 55s. and nails. John Linda r, clothing 
 £54. Josinh Pendarvis, paper, per knife, quills, one 
 handkerchief one bible. William McLaughling, calico 
 shoes £\ 15s. John and William Gudrin, ten yards 
 -ofgrey Sagathie, twist, breast buttons, brown Hollands 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST 21 
 
 knee garters, desk lock, bottle of snuif at 25s." This 
 store was kept in the former mansion of his grandfa- 
 ther Col George, his parents were G-eorge Logan and 
 Martha Daniell, as I shall show you in a subsequent ta- 
 ble-his first wife Mary Baker died in 1751 and in 1757 
 he married Margaret, the daughter of Mr. Crokatt, a 
 merchant, and removed from St. George's parish to 
 Charleston, His mother and other relatives are shown 
 as purchasers from him. Her name will ever live as as- 
 sociated with horticulture, she having written "A Trea- ^^ 
 tise on Gardening" when 70 years of age, and died in 
 1779 aged 77 years, wasted but majestic still, shrunk- 
 en yet neither melanchoUy or austere, never enveloping 
 her house in gloom, nor banishing comfort from her 
 board; but happy and cheerful to the last. Possessed 
 of a high order of intellect, great energy and a noble 
 perseverance, crowned by sound practical piety, and 
 busy in good works she descended peacefully to the grave. 
 How consoling the reflection, that the hour which to the 
 unwary and unwatchful would have been one of darkness 
 and terror was to her the eve of the blessed Sabbath of 
 Eternity, the thresh-hold and the portal of a world of 
 endless joy. Alas ! how little are we influenced and 
 impressed by the solomn records of death around us. 
 Friend after friend departs; the circle of our acquain- 
 tance is narrowed, ever sounding the proclamation with 
 fresh emphasis in our ears "Be ye also ready" for your 
 departure hence. 
 
 - You have read in "Our Forefathers" of John Wat- 
 son, the English gardener of Mrs. Henry Laurens ; he 
 afterwards formed a spacious garden for himself on the 
 ground where Dr. Deas now has a fine dwelling on Chap- 
 
22 V DAYS OF YORE, OR 
 
 el Street, near the North Eastern Rail Road Depot 
 and subsequently on a larger lot stretching from King 
 to and beyond Meeting Street, erecting the first Nurse- 
 ry garden in Carolina, from which he introduced seve- 
 ral productions of ours into the public gardens of En- 
 gland. This good example was highly influential, others 
 caught the diffusive ray ; Robert Squibs did honor to 
 the Province by circulating its curious in<ligenous plants. 
 These promising attempts were all laid waste in the Re- 
 volution. At the siege of Charleston in 1780 Col. Jno. 
 Laurens and his light infantry prepared and brought 
 facines of choice exotics, with elegant shrubbery from his 
 father's Eastern Paradise to the lines, repaired the breach- 
 es in the fortifications, where most required aiid then re- 
 sumed their post of danger in front of the Horn-works. 
 His mother you have been told died in 1770. Watson's 
 garden was revived after the war and continued for 
 many years, as we observe that in the paper of Fri- 
 day the 23d. of December 1785, printed by J. V. 
 Burd and R. Haswell, No. 24 East Bay at $5.00 per 
 annum, he has the following notice "Fresh seeds at 
 my garden near Charleston, John Watson." The same 
 paper offers for sale "150 bbls. of Tar and 50 of Tur- 
 pentine in lots of ten barrels, by Gibbes and Graham." 
 *'Jacob Jacobs has a negro wench and child for sale." 
 "Choice London particular Madeira wine. No. 5 Elliott 
 street, by William McWhann." "Demands against 
 the Estate of Mr. John Balfour of Cheraw District will 
 render an account to William Lindsey, No. 46 Bay.*' 
 ''The creditors of Richard Latham, gunsmith, apply 
 to Joseph Gaultire." "Garden seeds just ariived by 
 Captain Jay, sold by William Lee 127 King street.'' 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 28 
 
 "For St. Eustatia the Schooner Betsey, apply to the 
 Captain or to Jeremiah Brower 98 King street." ''A 
 very elegant assortment of 3ilks, Sattins, Ribbons and 
 Edgings : Soap, Wine in cases. Oil in barrels, and a 
 few hundred bushels of St. Ube's Salt. Tobacco will 
 be taken ir. payment, Harry Grant No. 90 Meeting 
 ,, street ; and all persons indebted to the same, or to 
 [ Grant Simons are requested as soon as their Cropn 
 : come to Market to make payment ; those who cannot 
 i- accomplish the whole, surely as honest men, they can 
 have no objection to give their Bonds. For sale a oom.- 
 pleat set of Drawing Room Furniture just imported for 
 • a gentleman who means to leave the State, to be sold 
 cheap for Cash." '*Three guineas reward for Collins 
 or Dick run away." ''Wine, coal and citron, in boxes 
 to be sold on board the ship Thomas, Capt. Hail, at 
 Jervey and Walter's wharf, apply to Mr. William Ma- 
 cleod and Co. No. 17 Elliot street." "For sale a re- 
 markably fine handy handsome Mulatto hoy^ fifteen 
 years of age," "Quantity of Lumber by Primrose and 
 Thomson for sale." "Thaver and Bartle have on hand 
 for sale. Brandy, Riding Chairs, and one Kittareen." 
 '•The brig Sally at Scott's wharf." "Horses for sale 
 by Richard Humphreys." "At 113 Broad street for 
 cash only, a few tons of Brazillitto, Lignum-Vitae, Ma- 
 hogany in large logs, and Cofi'ee ; by the sloop Aurora, 
 Capt. William Eve, from New Providence, Daniel 0' 
 Hara." For London a new British-built ship, Charlotte 
 (wife of George the third,) John Pitt, Commander, at 
 Prioleau's wharf." "Lawson, Price and Co. to Harry 
 Grant for sale two hundred barrels Turpentine, Negro 
 cloth, Blankets and Irish Linens." "For London the 
 
24 DAYS OP YORE, OR 
 
 ship Sally, J. Creighton Master, for freight or passage 
 apply to Thompson and Lenox No. 105 Broad street." 
 "For Liverpool the ship Thompson, Joseph Bell Com- 
 mander." "For sale or charter, for any Port within 
 the Straits (being provided with a Mediterranean Pass) 
 or any Port in France or Spain ; the ship America, 
 Edward Allen Commander, apply to him or to Daniel 
 Bourdeaux." "The beautiful fast-sailing ship George, 
 lying opposite Russell's wharf, apply to Arthur Har- 
 per on board or to Daniel O'Hara." "Best Brocaded 
 Lutestrings for sale." ''Arnoldus VanderhorFt, Inten- 
 dant of Charleston, 1785." Thus end our gleanings, 
 lest we neglect to return and inhale the balmy zephyrs 
 of those Gardens of which we were speaking so cheerily. 
 In the late volume "Our Forefathers," you have had a 
 full account of the celebrated traveller and botanist of 
 1786, Andr^ Michaux. who established a botanic garden 
 ten miles from Charleston, now all passed away: from 
 which we have had the Fragrant Bay, the Citterina, 
 and the Tea-plant or fragrant Olive. More than a cen- 
 tury ago, Mrs. Lamboll had in the south-west extremity 
 of King street, a garden richly stored with flowers and 
 vegetables for family use. Mrs. Martha Logan and 
 Mrs. Hopton, emulated the good example, in Meeting, 
 George, Logan and King streets, on spots now covered 
 with fine buildings of various sorts. The former lady, 
 you will ever remember as the eldest daughter of the 
 last Proprietary Governor, Robert Daniell, who died in 
 1718 ; she was married at the age of 15 to the eldest 
 son of Col. George Logan, who came from Aberdeen in 
 Scotland at a very early period. And when in our next 
 letter you have had the family tables you will be con- 
 
SHADOWS OIF THE PAST. 25 
 
 strained to confess that not even Mr. Charles Fraser 
 himself with all his Legendary lore could surpass our 
 laborious research on this subject Alike in taste we are 
 now in age, fast resigning the pen to others, since like 
 Autumn leaves, seared, shrivelled and wan; Nature and 
 Providence are summoning us to be gathered to our 
 fathers; whilst the shades of our many departed friends 
 rise up befare us warning that it is time to follow them to 
 that land of rest The companions of our youth, and 
 the associates of our middle age where are they ? Even 
 he, with his comforts thick about him, continuing in 
 the habitation long possssed and surrounded by Avise, ac- 
 tive and obliging gentlemen must sometimes find himself 
 almost a solitary being in the midst of a new generation, 
 whose faces are all strange to him as his must be to 
 them We are told that in him is to be found every 
 thing open, frank and truthful ; experience has enlarg- 
 ed his mind and improved his former ideas of many 
 things, guarding against the evil man's insidious snares 
 and temptations he is nearing his end in peace. And 
 as Job tells us that '^Days speak and multitude of years 
 speak wisdom" let us be thankful for the guidance of 
 those who have learned much by expeiience. 
 
 Yours, 
 
 The Ancient Lady. 
 
^ DAYS OF YORE, OK 
 
 LETTER IV. 
 
 Summerville^ Tn^esday\ 14th August, IS^O, 
 My dear Friends: 
 We will return to^ 
 
 "Those who speak to us of other yeai'& 
 
 E're we had learned the world was full of tears." 
 
 ROBERT DAN I ELL. 
 
 Whilst tlie correspondent of the Londo-n Time^, writ- 
 ing from Washington City, in 1864 — 8, gives us "-Glimp- 
 ses of the Future," we, more wise, will take a "Peep 
 into the Past" where we shall find tcld by our historians- 
 that Governor Archdale having, in 1696, finished his- 
 negotiations in Carolina, returned to Britain. Before 
 he embarked the Council presented to him an address^ 
 to be transmitted to the Proprietors, expressing "the 
 deep sense they had of their Lordships' paternal care 
 for the colony, in the appointment of a man of such 
 ability and integrity to the government, who had been 
 so happily instrumental in establishing its peace and se- 
 curity." This was laid before them, together with an 
 account of the state of the country, and the regulations 
 he had established in it, showing the necessity of abolish- 
 ing many articles in the constitutions, and framing a 
 new plan of government. Accordingly forty-one dif- 
 ferent articles were drawn up and sent out by Major 
 
SHADOWS OF THC PAST. '27 
 
 Robert Daniell in 1698. However when Gov, Joseph 
 Blake laid these new laws before the assembly for their 
 vussent and approbation, they treated them as they had 
 clone the former constitutions, laying them aside. 
 
 In 1700, when James Moore succeeded Joseph Blake 
 ?is Governor, Daniell, Trott, Ehett and Dearsley were 
 his adherents. 
 
 In 1702 Governor M=oore made the expedition against 
 St. Augustine. Port Royal was the place of rendez- 
 vous, and in September, at the head of his warriors, he 
 'embarked. Col. Daniell, with a detached party, was 
 sent by the inland passage to make a descent on the town 
 from the land, whilst the main body should proceed by 
 sea and block up the harbor. The brave Colonel entered 
 and plundered the town before their arrival in sight. 
 The Spaniards, with four months' provisions, their 
 money and most valuable effects, had retired to their in- 
 vincible castle. As they could not be dislodged without 
 suitable artillery, the valiant Colonel was dispatched 
 with a sloop to Jamaica to procure them. But, in the 
 meantime, the Governor was induced to raise the siege, 
 by the appearance of two Spanish ships of sixteen and 
 twenty- two guns near the mouth of the harbor. He 
 abandoned his ships and retreated to Carolina by land, 
 leaving his vesssls, provisions and ammunition, to en- 
 rich the enemy. 
 
 • Col. Daniell, standing in for St. Augustine, found, 
 to his surprise, the deranged state of affairs, and with 
 difficulty made his escape. We lost only two men in 
 this expedition, but it entailed on the young colony a 
 debt of six thousand pounds sterling. Four years after 
 that they came to return us the compliment of an attack. 
 
2^8 
 
 DAfS OF YORK, OK 
 
 The Govenor, Sir Nathaniel Johnson, hastened down 
 from his plantation of ''Silk Hope," in St. Thomas' 
 Parish' (where, in 1713, he was buried, and his grave 
 is well cared for to the present time). A troop of horse, 
 commanded hj Capt. George Logan, soon arrived. Mr, 
 Rhett, possessd of conduct and spirit, was commissioned 
 Vice-Admiral of our little fleet,- all of which has been 
 repeated in "the Carolina of the Olden Time," how near- 
 ly three hundred of the foe were killed or taken prison- 
 ers, and how the Governor publicly thanked us for the 
 unanimity and coura>ge shown in repelling the invaders-. 
 On the 15th of April, 1715, commenced the fright- 
 ful Indian massacre, when Gov. Craven marched 
 against the largest body of savages. He appointed 
 Col. Daniell Deputy Governor in his absence. In 
 1713, on the death of Sir Anthony Ciaven, the Gover- 
 nor received permission to return to England, yet he 
 would not abandon the Province whilst menaced with 
 danger. John Earl, of Bath, having succeeded Craven 
 as Palatine, several persons of character and influence 
 in Cai^olina were created Landgraves, among whom 
 were Edmund Bellinger, John Baley and Robert Dan- 
 iell. Craven, on his departure for England in 1716, 
 left Daniell to fill the office of Governor until the plea- 
 sure of their masters should be known. During his 
 term, in 1717, a change was made in electing the mem-, 
 bers of Assembly. He too joined in complaints against 
 the government, which could not protect the people, 
 anxiously desiring to be taken under the protection of 
 a powerful sovereign. Robert Johnson arrived with a 
 commission from London, given by Lord Carteret, 
 bearing date April 30th, 1717, investing him with the 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 29 
 
 government of the Province, to which office a salary of 
 four hundred pounds sterling was annexed. 
 
 Col. Daniell cheerfully retired to Daniell's Island, 
 where he died on the 7th of May, 1718, aged 72, and 
 there was first buried. His name has become extinct^ 
 and his lands possessed by strangers. He has descen- 
 dants, however, amongst the Glens, Parkers, Law- 
 rences, and the Gantts. But the Logan family are the 
 nearest relatives now living. Colored crayon portraits 
 of the Governor and his wife, taken in the reign of the 
 ''good Queen Anne," are in the keeping of their great- 
 grand-daughter (Miss Honoria Logan). The Govern- 
 or left a widow- and five children. His widow mar- 
 ried Col. George Logan, and died in 1742. Martha, 
 (lis eldest child, was united to George, the eldest son 
 of Col. George Logan (her step-father), from whom 
 Mr. William Logan, (39 years our respected Librari- 
 an) was descended in a direct line. He having been 
 the eldest male of the oldest branch, shall subsequent- 
 ly have a ''Family Table" of his own. Robert, the 
 Governor's eldest son, married Helen, the daughter of 
 Col. George Logan, from whom are the Lawrences 
 and Parkers, of St. Thomas' Parish. John, the Gov- 
 ernor's second son, removed to North Carolina. Sal- 
 ly Daniell married Mr. Blakenay; they left no child. 
 A:ine, her sister, married Mr. Conway, by whom, or 
 liis desce-ulants, Coitwayborono-li, in tJiis State, was 
 mottled. 
 
 To the memory of Gov. Robert Daniell, a slab, 
 
 with suifable inscriptions, was placed by his daughter 
 
 Martha on the family vault, built by her order in St. 
 
 Philip's Church Yard. Tlio no«v chnvr-b extends over 
 
 8* 
 
30 DAYS OF YORE, OR 
 
 this vault, which is now directly under the altar, north 
 of which the slab has been placed, as forming part of 
 the pavement around it. There was a corresponding 
 one to Col. George Logan, her husband's father, 
 which was too much mutilated when our holy and 
 beautiful temple, where our fathers worshipped, was 
 burned up with fire, and all our pleasant things de- 
 stroyed, to be placed in the new sanctuary, but has 
 been fixed in the lot of ground east of it, allotted the 
 Logan family, in lieu of the family vault over which it 
 extends. In removing the remains of Gov. Daniell 
 from their first place of sepulture, on the island which 
 continues to bear his name, the headstone which 
 marked the spot (now so appropriately presented to 
 the Historical Society of our city,) was thrown back 
 and covered up in the grave, where it lay unheeded or 
 unsought for. Its final discovery was wholly provi- 
 dential. Mr. Mitchell (I have understood it to have 
 been the father of our respectable barrister, Mr. Nel- 
 son Mitchell), in having a deep excavation made on 
 the plantation, came across the relic of 1718, which he 
 thoughtfully and generously presented to Mrs. Parker, 
 of George street — whose maiden name was Lawrence. 
 To her it has proved a treasured gift — and we are 
 made happy by finding what a proper appropriation 
 she has made of it. 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 31 
 
 *'Are all the memories of life 
 
 Buried when life has fled ? 
 Are v/e forbid to keep again 
 
 The birth-days of the dead ? " 
 
 Geougk E. Shfrlev. 
 
 COL. GEORGE LOGAN. 
 
 In fulfillment of my promise, I now proceed to give 
 you a Logan Family Table — a name which preceded 
 that of Daniell in the Province — from its union with 
 which it seems not to have borrowed any of its lustre, 
 having al\\ays stood forth prominently good and pa- 
 triotic from a very early period of the settlement. 
 Indeed, we seem scarcely ever to have been without a 
 George Logan. One of that name is to be found in 
 1698 (the year of Col. Daniell's arrival), as one of the 
 witnesses, along with F, Randolpn, George Dearsley, 
 John Fenning and Jonathan Amory, to the deed re- 
 cording the gift of seventeen acres of land to the 
 English Church, by that lady of eminent piety and 
 liberality, Mrs. Affra Coming, late wife of Capt. John 
 Coming, deceased, at that time called " Land situated 
 on the north side of Ashley river, next to Charles 
 •Town, in Berkley county," now the streets of Went- 
 worth, Coming, Beaufain, Glebe and St. Philip. 
 
 At the period of the formation of the St. George's 
 Society, in honor of the patron of England, on the 
 23d of April, 1733, John Bayley, Esq., was chosen 
 President, and, at night, they had an elegant supper 
 at the house of Robert Raper, Esq., in Raper's Court. 
 On the 21st of July, 1733, there was a call for the 
 first quarterly meeting, to be held at the house of Mr. 
 
32 '/ .^.^' DAYS OF YOEE, OR 
 
 ^y^ 
 
 William Pinckiiey, on East Bay, on Monday, the 23(1 
 inst. His grand-daughter now occupies the same 
 mansion. At that time, Trooper Poinsett's house is 
 mentioned as at the southeast C(>rner of Church and 
 Elliott streets, opposite across the latter, to that of 
 Col. George Logan. His son George it was who mar- 
 ried Martha Daniell. Their son William was married 
 to Mary, the daughter of Mr. Richard Baker, of Ashley 
 river, on the 17th day of January, 1750. Their son 
 George was bom in Charleston, on a Sunday, Febru- 
 ary 3, 1751. Mary, the wife of William Logan, died 
 at Bacon's Bridge, above Dorchester (where he lived 
 and had rice stores), on the 25th oi December, 1751. 
 She Mas buried at her father's plantation, in St. An- 
 drew's Parish. Mr. William Logan married, as his 
 second wife, Margaret, the daughter of Mr. John 
 Crokatt, mercliant in Charleston, on the 21st of June, 
 1757. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. 
 Clarke, of St. Philip's Church. Martha their daughter, 
 was born in Charleston, on the 28th of October, 1758, 
 and died January 5, 1760. Margaret, the second wife 
 of William Logan, died in Cliarleston, Tuesday, the 
 17th of May, 1785, aged 49 years, 1 month and 2 days. 
 She was buried ])y the side of old Mrs. Ramsay's tomb- 
 stone, on the i.ovth of St. Philip's Church. George, 
 tlie son of William aid Maiy Logan, died on Tuesday, 
 the IGth day of July, 1793, at Salem, in New England, 
 at Capt. Edward Allen's, nnd was buried in Mr. Ma- 
 son's family vault, aged 42 years, 5 months a)id 2 
 days, leaving a widow and f(Mir children, viz: William, 
 the future Librarian; Georg(\ the Pliysicinn : Clivis' 
 tian, Muhlnip nnd Houorin. 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 3B 
 
 Mr. Wm. Logan survived his only son, George, nine 
 years, and died in Charleston, June 5th, 1802, aged 75 
 years, 4 months and 17 days. His son George was 
 was married in Leith, Scotland, on Tuesday, the 28th 
 of February, 1775, by the Rev. Wm. Buchan, Minis- 
 of St. James' Chapel, to Honoria, the eldest daughter 
 of Christian Muldrup, his Danish Majesty's Consul for 
 Scotland and North England. William, their son, was 
 born on Thursday, evening, 6 o'clock, January 4th, 
 1776, in Charter Square, Hoxdown, London, and was 
 privately baptized by the Rev. Mr. Crompton of Shore- 
 ditch Church, and registered by the Rev. Mr. Smith, 
 in- St. Philip's Church, Charleston. 
 
 George, their son, was born in Charleston, January 
 4th, 1778, baptized by the Rev. Mr. Smith. 
 
 Honoria, their first daughter, was born September 
 21st, 1779, and died an infant. Christian Muldrup, 
 born in Charleston, June 29th, 1781, baptized by the 
 Rev. Mr. Jenkins ; he died in August, 1856,. and was 
 buried in St. Philip's Church yard. 
 
 Honoria Eliza Muldrup, the second daughter, was born 
 in Charleston, November 8th, 1783, and was baptized 
 by the Rev. Mr. Smith, the future Bishop. 
 
 Mr. William Logan died at the old family house, in 
 Archdale-street, after a short illness, of dropsy on the 
 chest, the 6th of July, 1854, on Thursday morning, at 
 half-past 8 o'clock, aged 78 years, 6 months and 2 days. 
 He had been Librarian of the Charleston Library thirty- 
 nine years. He was educated for the Bar, and had been, 
 in forrfier years, a member of Council, and exhibited, 
 throughout his protracted existence, the virtues of a 
 ^ood citizen and those which beloncr to the domestic and 
 
34 DAYS OF YORE, OR 
 
 other relations of life. He had married, as his first wife, 
 Mary Doughty, daughter of John Webb and his wife 
 Mary Doughty, who were married at Mr. Daniel Can- 
 non's house in Queen-street, next west of the Planter's 
 Hotel, on Tuesday, the 3d of January, 1769. There 
 Mary D. Webb was born, the 10th of July, 1778. She 
 died June 5th, 1818. Her children were William (who 
 intermarried with Miss Mary Ann Young) ; Maitha, 
 the widow of Mr. James Coward ; Honoria, the wife of 
 Mr. William Howe, of Spartanburg ; and George Chris- 
 tian \\ho married Miss Rose Turner. Mr. Wm. Logan's 
 second wife was Miss Martha Cannon Webb, a cousin of 
 his first wife. She died at her residence in Cannons- 
 boro', Sunday night, the 12th of March, 1843, aged 59 
 years and ten months, and was buried in St. Philip's 
 Yard. She left two children, Mary Webb Logan and 
 Edward Charles Logan — the teacher of the Berresford 
 Bounty School in St. Thomas' Parish, where he also 
 preaches as an Episcopalian minister : being a very good 
 and useful man in his generation — the efficient friend 
 of the widow and the fatherless, to whom his well-order- 
 ed home has proved a safe and happy asylum. Emu- 
 lating the virtues of "his forefathers," may he long 
 endure as an ornament to the names of Webb and 
 Logan. 
 
SHADOWS or THE PAST. 35 
 
 '•Ah well do we remember those 
 
 Whose names these records bear : 
 Who round the hearth-stone used to close, 
 
 After the evening prayer — 
 Their happy faces see we yet 
 
 Whilst thrilling memories come ! 
 Again that loving group has met 
 
 Within the walls of home ! " G. P. Morris, 
 
 WEBB TABLE. 
 
 John Webb was born on Satnrday, the 22d of Sep- 
 tember, 1744, old style : Mary Doughty, on the 28th 
 of July, 1749, old style, on Friday. They were mar- 
 ried on Tuesday, the 3d of January, 1769, new style, 
 at the ages of twenty-five and twenty. This union took 
 place at the house of Mr. Daniel Cannon, in Queen 
 street, next west of the Planters' Hotel, now known as 
 Mrs. McMillan's boarding establishment, but in those 
 warm-hearted and romantic times designated as "The 
 Mansion of Friendship," whilst his seat on Goose Creek, 
 about ten miles from Charleston, bore the inviting ap- 
 pellation of "the Happy Retreat." 
 
 Mr. Webb, at that time and long after, resided on 
 the north side of Moore-street (now Horlbeck alley), on 
 the site of Mr. Paul Pritchard's new house, near which 
 the brick kitchen of the "olden time" is yet to be seen, 
 in a habitable state. A letter of August 26th, 1797, 
 affords the following information : "Perhaps you will be 
 surprised when I tell that my father has removed from 
 his favorite house in Moore to one in Wentworth-street 
 it is more retired and nearer his business ; a very pleas- 
 ant situation." The first child of John and Mary 
 
36 DAYS OF YORE, OR 
 
 Webb was born on Thursday, the 12ih of September, 
 1771, new style ; she was called Mary Elizabeth, and 
 died on the 24th of August, 1775. Their son William 
 was born on Friday, the 4th of December, 1772 ; died 
 22d September, 1773, Second son, John, born on 23d 
 of December, 1773 ; died 21st of March, 1779. The 
 fourth child was Sarah Peronneau, born the 8th of Oc- 
 tober, 1775, and died on the 23d of the same month. 
 Fifth was Thomas Doughty, 29th of November, 1776, 
 and died on the 16th of March, 1779, only five days be- 
 fore his brother John, who was then six years of age, 
 he three. The sixth child was Mary Doughty ; she 
 came into existence on the 10th of July, 1777 ; subse- 
 quently became the beloved wife of William Logan (our 
 valuble Librarian of thirty-nine years' duration). She 
 died on the 5th of June, 1818, as shown in a previous 
 table, leaving four children, William, Martha, Honoria 
 and George Christian. The widower intermarried with 
 her first cousin, Martha Cannon Webb, who died at her 
 residence in Cannonsboro' on Sunday night, the 12th 
 of March, 1843, aged 59 years and 10 months leaving 
 a daughter, Mary Webb, and son, Edward Charles Lo- 
 gan. The seventh child was Harriet Pinckney ; she was 
 born on the 22d of March, 1781, and died September 
 7th, 1782. The eighth and last child was Daniel Can- 
 non, who was born on the 11th of July, 1782, and died 
 suddenly, yet not unprepared for the awful summon, in 
 the year 1850. 
 
 Mr. William Logan and Miss Mary Doughty Webb 
 were united in 1798 — he at the age of twenty-two, she 
 twenty. A letter of her's, bearing date November 2d, 
 1805, to her mother-in-law (^frs. Honoria Logai>), then 
 
SHADOWS OE THE PAST. 87 
 
 in WilmingtoD, Delaware, (on which she had to pay 25 
 cents) postage lies now before me. You shall have a 
 part ofits contents : 
 
 "My clear father (Mr. John Webb) is ill indeed. 
 Oh ! you do not know, dear mother, how it distresses 
 your poor child to witness his situation. Mr. L. will 
 take him to Marysville, Goose Creek, as soon as he can 
 be removed. We would all accompany them if it was 
 not for my brother's wedding, which, I suppose, will 
 take place some day this month, although not yet posi- 
 tively fixed upon. Mrs. Foster (the charming young 
 widow, Mrs. Miles Brewton, of the Revolution) and 
 family, have removed up this week, with all her schol- 
 ars, from Sullivan's Isle; therefore, we suppose that 
 we shall soon hear further of the coming event." 
 
 Another epistle, from the same to the same, dated 
 December 8th, 1805, runs thus : 
 
 ''The first and most interesting piece of intelligence 
 that I have for you, my dear mother, is that my dear 
 brother is happily united to his amiable Miss Eliza 
 Ladson, and I was so fortunate as to be able to be pres- 
 ent on this pleasing occasion, which, you may suppose, 
 was no small gratification to me. The bride looked 
 very genteel and pretty ; her style was extremely plain 
 — nothing but a fine India muslin, without work, trim- 
 med with handsome lace around the neck and sleeves, 
 with a very wide footing let in the front and sleeves. 
 She wore a silk cord and tassel around her waist. 
 Her hard-dress was a silk net with two ostrich feathers, 
 which was very becoming. The company were socia- 
 ble and agreeable. But Mr. Logan tells me he has 
 4 
 
38 DAYS OF YORE, OK 
 
 given HoMoria a particular account of the wedding, so 
 that I refer you to his letter. 
 
 '' We have at last prevailed on my aunt (Miss Mar- 
 tha Cannon) to give us an evening party next week, 
 and Aunt Thomas Doughty also gives one ; and then- 
 we are to try our best, poor things ; I don't know how 
 we are to make out. How I wish our dear mother 
 and the rest of the family were here to join our little 
 compa^iy. Your nice present of sweetmeats and nuts 
 have come in a most acceptable time. Many thanks to 
 you for them. I do not hear of anj other parties in 
 agitation. Uncle William Doughty will not give one 
 on account of the death of his grandchild, and my val- 
 ued friend, Becky Gail lard, has again been visited by 
 the hand of affliction in the loss of her dear little boy 
 in his fourth year, and has conie to lown to get the 
 advice of the physician, her own health having failed. 
 Even I ventured to dance at the wedding ; having no 
 other brother to be married, how could I avoid it? I 
 send you some of my new ratifia to drink with the 
 cake, as my good man intends sending his piece, lie 
 and Cousin Martha Webb are both so sleepy that they 
 are hurrying me to finish. The children (William and 
 Martha) thank grandmother for the nuts. Our broth- 
 er C. M. Logan's wife (Sarah Chanlcr) looks well, and 
 is in fine spirits." 
 
 In 1806 she writes : 
 
 " We see by the paper that Major Snipes is dead ; 
 it is really astonishing how that family is dropping oif. 
 (He was the parent of Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Cochran, and 
 the two Mrs. Fishburns, noble ladies all in after life.) 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 39 
 
 Sally Capers is at last mtrried to Dr. Jersey; also, 
 Miss Dawson to Dr. George Hall." 
 
 He was the brother of Mrs. Ingraham; they were 
 the parents of Dr. John Dawson Hall, who Avas first 
 united to Septima Thayer, and left as his widow, Mary, 
 a daughter of Col. John Bryan and Eliza C. Legar^.) 
 '' We dined at Goose Creek, last week, wdth Mrs. Ma- 
 zyck. Jane Smith is with her aunt. Poor girl, she 
 
 is really in bad health, and I suspect that is what pre- 
 vents her wedding taking place."' She became the 
 wife of her first cousin (Mr. Thomas Stock) that Spring 
 (1806), went to Pennsylvania with her aunt, Mrs. 
 Thompson, and the Misses Elizabeth and Polly Ann 
 Smith. The sufferer ended her youthful days at Ger- 
 mantown, seven miles from Philadelphia. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Stock were the grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Young, who gave the name to the bridge that formerly 
 crossed the creek where Water-street now stands. 
 
 We will return to the old gentleman, Mr. Webb, who 
 had lost his wife Mary Doughty, on the 23d of Octo- 
 ber, 1782 — aged 33 years, 2 months and 24 days. 
 When the future Mrs. Logan was only five years old, 
 she passed into the family of her grandfather Daniel 
 Cannon, and under the especial care of that best of wo- 
 men, Miss Martha Cannon. On the 30th of March, 
 1786, Mr. Webb took as his second partner in life 
 Elizabeth Legar^. Their son John was born January 
 29th, 1787, and died July 3d, 1787. Their daughter 
 Sarah Peronneau was born October 24th, 1778. She 
 intermarried with her cousin Joseph Legar^, and died 
 in 1830. ' Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, the mother, died Sep- 
 tember 28th, 1789. Mr. John Webb, the above "pater 
 
10 DAYS OF TORE, OR 
 
 familia,' died suddenly on his v^nj from Columbia to 
 Charleston, on Monday, the 28th of December, 1807, 
 and his lifeless body carried home to his family by the 
 man-servant travellins; with his master. 
 
 Mr. Webb had attained to the age of 63 years and 2 
 months. The days of his life were not few, his thin 
 hair was now waxing gray, and many a bitter grief had 
 fallen to his lot; yet how overwhelming to his relatives 
 and wide circle of friends was this crushing calamity I 
 Yet it is not for us to question, but adore, the workings 
 of Providence, and to go forth, convinced that He who 
 does all things well, is too wise to err, and too good to 
 be unkind. Rudely were the confiding hearts of his 
 children and others torn asunder and ravished with 
 wild and aching grief, by this afflictive stroke, yet they 
 bowed in humble submission beneath the rod. 
 
 The Ancient Lady. 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 41 
 
 Thursday Morning, February 21, 1861. 
 
 The obituary column of to-day's Courier informs his 
 numerous friends that the venerable and esteemed Dr. 
 George Logan has passed into the spirit-land. 
 
 We can add nothing to the warm and touching trib- 
 ute. Dr. Logan was beloved for his many virtues, and 
 among the excellencies that beautified his character 
 none shone with brighter lustre than integrity and ten- 
 derness. His calm passage across the dark river was 
 in fine keeping with the smooth and even course of his 
 life. 
 
 MEDICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 
 
 At the regular meeting of this Society, held on March 
 1st, 1861, the following preamble and resolutions were 
 offered : A few months since, this Society was assem- 
 bled to render the last tribute of respect and affection 
 to one of its most esteemed and useful members. A- 
 gain, death has entered our circle, and stricken down a 
 venerable father of the profession — the next senior 
 member of our Society — Dr. George Logan — who de- 
 parted this life in the City of Ne\v Orleans, on Wednes- 
 day, the 13th ultimo, in the 84th year of his age. 
 
 Dr. Logan was a native of this City, and passed near- 
 ly his whole life here. After completing his academic 
 course, he commenced the study of medicine in the of- 
 fice of Dj*. Tucker Harris, one of the founders of the 
 Medical Society ; and after u thorough probationary 
 course, ho received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, 
 
42 DAYS OF YORE, OR 
 
 and Avas graduated at the University of Pennsylvania 
 in the spring of 1801. 
 
 Soon after he returned to his native city and com- 
 menced the practice of his profession, and obtained a 
 respectable share of the patronage and confidence of 
 his fellow-citizens. He was elected a member of the 
 Medical Society on April 1st, 1803. During the war 
 of 1812 he received the commission of Post Surgeon in 
 the Navy of the United States, and was stationed in 
 this city, receiving wounded and sick seamen in a pri- 
 vate hospital provided for that purpose. The duties of 
 this position he discharged with that humane devotion 
 and skill which was peculiar to his character and feel- 
 ings. He continued to hold the commission in the Na- 
 vy until the year 1829, when he resigned. 
 
 For several years he was elected by the City Council 
 as Physician to several of the city Institutions, and for 
 a period of forty-four years consecutively, he was the 
 kind, benevolent, and esteemed Physician of the Orphan 
 House. His unprecedented success as a practitioner 
 of medicine in that iitstitution is well remembered in 
 this community. The blandness of his manner, the 
 parental, affectionate intercourse with his patients, and 
 more particularly with the inmates of the institu- 
 tion, were peculiar and striking to observers, and is 
 most eloquently and touchingly sketched by the hon- 
 ored and venerable Chairman of the institution, whose 
 constant official connection with our departed friend 
 for many years, is a faithful eulogy of his worth : 
 
 "From much and long intercourse with him, I learn- 
 ed to appreciate the mild forbearance, benevolence of 
 his temper, the purity and high moral motives of his 
 
SHADOWS OF THE PAST. 43 
 
 every action,and the elevated Christian principles which 
 pervaded and adorned his whole character. His ten- 
 derness and condescending kindness to the little inmates 
 of the Orphan House, as their phjsician,have often ex- 
 cited my admiration and taught me a lesson of humility, 
 while his judicious, successful professional management 
 of disease commanded my respect. At the time of his 
 resignation from the institution, in consequence of in- 
 increasing infirmities of age, he left but one feeling 
 amid its inmates, old and young, and that sentimen't 
 was of universal regret at parting with their friend and 
 benefactor." 
 
 Amongst his private patients and students he man- 
 ifested the same benevolent, affectionate intercourse, in- 
 spiring a sentiment of admiration and filial regard to- 
 wards the good and Christian phhscian. He has 
 finished his work, and like the Patriarch of old, ''he 
 fell asleep at the setting of the sun," and was transla- 
 ted to the ''Spirit Land." Be it therefore. 
 
 Resolved, That the Medical Society of South Carolina have learn- 
 ed with deep regret of the death of the late Dr. Gkorge Logan, one 
 of the oldest members of this Society. 
 
 Resolved, That the Medical Society will wear the usual badge of 
 mourning for (heir venerable brother. 
 
 Resolved, That these proceedings be recorded on the minutes of 
 the Society, and a copy signed by the officers, and sent to the fam- 
 ily of the deceased. 
 
 On motion, the preamble and resolutions were un- 
 animously adopted and ordered to be published in the 
 daily papers. 
 
 D. J. CAIN, M. D., 
 
 President M. S. 
 F. LeJau Parkek, M. D., Secretary. 
 
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