SOUTH-CAROLIN. FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN 1670, ΤΟ THE YEAR 1808. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. I. BY DAVID RAMSAY, M.. D. "The Muse of history has been so much indeve with Mars, that she has se Henry. CHARLESTON: PUBLISHED BY DAVID LONGWORTH, FOR THE AUT 1809. FOR LIR NEW-Y! District of South-Carolina, to wit: E remembered that on the seventeenth day of March, anno Domini one th Beight hundrer and pife, and-in fire thirty-third year of the independence of th d States of America, Doctor David Ramsay of the said district, has deposited in the he title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to "The history of South-Carolina from its first settlement in 1670 to the year 1808, ₺ ̧ amsay, M. D.. "The Muse of history has been so much in love with Mars, that she has seldom co ith Minerva. Henry." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States entitled " an act for uragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the a d proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and also to an a ed" an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of lear curing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such ring the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts ning, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." THOMAS HALL, Clerk of the district of South C MEM AOBK AFTER TWO REVOLUTIONS, IN LESS THAN ONE CENTURY, HAVING ACQUIRED LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENC MADE A PRUDENT USE OF THESE INESTIMABLE BLESSINGS, BY ESTABLISHING, ON THE BASIS OF REASON AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN, A SOLID, EFFICIENT, AND WELL BALANCED GOVERN WHOSE OBJECT IS PUBLIC GOOD, WHOSE END IS PUBLIC HAPPINESS; JUSTICE CHEAPLY AND CONVENIENTLY ADMINISTE FROM THEIR EXAMPLE, TO LOVE THEIR COUNTRY AND CHERISH ITS INTERE THE FOLLOWING HISTORY IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTH PREFACE, CHAP. I. II. III. IV. Civil history of South-Carolina. Population, Proprietary government from its comm Royal government from 1720 to 1776, V. Sect. 1. Contests with spaniards, VI. 2. Contests with indians, 3. Military operations against pirates, The Civil and Military history of South-Carolin arms, 2. Of the extinction of royal authori of the royalists, 3. Of the formation of a regular co tion, 4. Of the attack of the fort on Sul |