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HISTORY

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The Muse of History has been so much in love with Mars, that she has seldom conversed
with Minerva."-Henry.

COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY

W. J. DUFFIE,

NEWBERRY, S. C.

PRINTED BY WALKER, EVANS & CO. CHARLESTON

1858

LIBRARY

OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR

UNIVERSITY.

44369

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THE YOUTH OF CAROLINA, ·

WHOSE ANCESTORS,

COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS NATIONS OF THE OLD WORLD,

HAVE COALESCED INTO ONE IN THE NEW,

AND WHO, AFTER TWO REVOLUTIONS, IN LESS THAN ONE CENTURY,

HAVING ACQUIRED LIBERTY AND

INDEPENDENCE,

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 GOVERNMENT,

WHOSE OBJECT IS PUBLIC GOOD,

WHOSE END IS PUBLIC HAPPINESS,

BY WHICH INDUSTRY HAS BEEN ENCOURAGED, AGRICULTURE EXTENDED,

LITERATURE CHERISHED, RELIGION PROTECTED, AND

JUSTICE CHEAPLY AND CONVENIENTLY ADMINISTERED

TO A RAPIDLY INCREASING POPULATION.

IN HOPES THAT THE DESCENDANTS OF SUCH SIRES WILL LEARN,

FROM THEIR EXAMPLE

TO LOVE THEIR COUNTRY AND CHERISH ITS INTERESTS,

THE FOLLOWING HISTORY IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

BY

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

CHAP.

CIVIL HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

I. Population.....

II. Proprietary Government from its Commencement in 1670, till its Aboli-

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tion in 1719...

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III.

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The Revolution in 1719 from Proprietary to Royal Government.
Royal Government from 1720 to 1776...

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VII. SEC. 1. Of Introductory Events and Taking of Arms...

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Of the Extinction of Royal Authority and of the Royalists....141
Of the Formation of a Regular Constitution..

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Of the Attack of the Fort on Sullivan's Island by Sir Peter
Parker and Sir Henry Clinton, and the Invasion of the

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