tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39727413897892838332024-03-08T02:46:17.614-08:00History of Charleston South CarolinaTUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-35317727300684418872010-09-11T10:17:00.000-07:002010-09-11T10:22:57.957-07:001698 erection of St philip's the glebe house History of CharlestonSt. Philip's was said to be "large and stately" and to<br />have a neat palisade around it in Charleston. It shows the good feeling<br />between the sects that Mrs. Blake (sometimes, as the wife<br />of a Landgrave and Proprietor, called " Lady Blake "),<br />who was the daughter of Landgrave Axtell, should have<br />contributed liberally to the adornment and completion of<br />St. Philip's, although herself a Baptist. It was endowed<br />by the piety of that true daughter of the Church, Mr<br />Affra Coming, who in 1698 " for love and duty<br />" bestowed<br />upon it seventeen acres of land just outside the walls.<br />This land in Charleston , now covered by the "Middle Western" part of<br />the city, has, as Glebe land, been of great value. Glebe<br />Street and Coming Street in Charleston keep the memory of the gift and<br />the donor. A large old-fashioned brick house on the east<br />side of the former street was, until a comparatively recent<br />period, the Rectory of St. Philip's, and was always known<br />as the " Glebe House of the old town of Charleston."TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-25176255853136294852010-09-11T10:06:00.000-07:002010-09-11T10:12:07.326-07:00The building of Charleston in the early 1700sIn Charleston the work of building went on. It seems<br />extraordinary that the colony should have been founded<br />for fourteen years before any attempt was made to erect<br />a church in Charleston. The uncertainty of occupation of Albemarle<br />Point was probably the cause of this delay, or perhaps the<br />small number of churchmen among the original Charleston settlers.<br />Old Governor Sayle had indeed selected and laid out a<br />graveyard, adjoining the old town o Charleston , of eighty acres (surely<br />a liberal provision), in which we may presume that he<br />himself was interred, but not until 1682 was St. Philip's<br />begun.<br />It was placed where St. Michael's now stands, at the<br />corner of Broad and Meeting streets just opposite the half<br />moon and drawbridge, and was built of the black cypress<br />which Mr. Maurice Mathews, correspondent of Lord<br />Shaftesbury, had strongly commended ten years before.<br />" The black cypress is wonderful large and tall and<br />soother, of a delicate grain, and smells. It will hereafter<br />be a good commodity to ye prying planter who looks<br />abroad." Its value as a building material was now<br />known. The foundation was of brick, and this mode of<br />building, namely a cypress house on a brick foundation,<br />was long esteemed and continued in the colony. For lime<br />they burnt the old Indian heaps of oyster shells, which<br />Sandford had described as piled thick along the river<br />banks near the coast of Charleston , where are many still to be seen.<br />This lime makes the strongest possible mortar. Walls<br />and whole buildings were often made of a concrete,<br />called "<br />tappy," or "<br />pise," — composed of these shells<br />mixed with the lime which becomes hard as stone. The<br />only building now standing in Charleston known to have<br />been erected in the seventeenth century, the old Powder<br />Magazine in Cumberland Street, which was attached to the<br />small fort at Carteret Bastion at the northwest corner of<br />the old wall, is built of this "<br />tappy."TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-11321761903972046422010-09-11T09:04:00.000-07:002010-09-11T09:13:27.607-07:00History of Charleston south carolina indian trading between 1679 to 1700Most of the chief planters in those early days<br />of Charleston were merchants as well ; the Indian trade in Charleston was long the<br />chief source of wealth. "Charles Town- Charleston trades for 1000<br />miles into the continent," one old writer says. The Proprietors<br />tried to restrict the fur trade in Charleston to within one hundred<br />miles of the town, reserving all beyond to themselves;<br />but although they appointed Indian agents to enforce<br />the laAV, it was continually eluded. In troubled times<br />some of these agents in Charleston became persons of great importance.<br />Besides the furs, they had for exports, as has been already<br />said, the products of the forest, lumber of all sorts, tar,<br />pitch, and turpentine. To these, in defiance of the objections<br />of the Proprietors of Charleston , there was added salt-beef and<br />bacon. What was a man whose estate numbered thousands<br />of acres to do but to graze it ? The cattle throve<br />and multiplied enormously in a climate where food was<br />plentiful all the year, and a bracken bush could keep the<br />cow in the severest weather. Wolves prevented the<br />increase of sheep as worthless dogs do now, but most<br />planters protected a small flock, to supply the family with<br />mutton and with wool for the ever whirling wheels.<br />Swine could take care of themselves; they fattened on the<br />acorns of the oak groves, and soon became an important<br />article of export, while as yet crops were small and<br />inadequate.<br />These sources of prosperity had so increased the wellbeing<br />of the little community in Charleston that when Thomas Ashe,<br />clerk of the ship Richmond, came out in 1680 with the first<br />Huguenot colony in Charleston , he declared in the " View of Carolina '<br />which he published on his return to England, that there<br />was no longer any suffering or want of food to be apprehended<br />; that the settlers in Charleston were well established, had all<br />sorts of European grains and fruits and "<br />twenty sorts of pulse not known in England, all of them good for food."<br />It would be interesting to learn what they were. Most<br />families in Charleston kept an Indian, who for a mere trifle would supply<br />a household of twenty people with an ample quantity<br />of game, venison, turkeys, ducks, etc. This custom lasted<br />down to the Revolution in Charleston , and in some cases still later.TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-78849025882053384502010-09-11T08:54:00.000-07:002010-09-11T09:00:55.323-07:00History of Charleston south carolina the Barbadians and other west indies settlersThe Barbadians and other West Indian Islands were arriving in Charleston in 1679.<br />Thomas Drayton, William and Arthur Middleton, and Robert<br />Daniel, all names of note in Carolina, came to Charleston in 1679.<br />Moore, Ladson, Grimball, Cantey, Boone, Thomas Smith,<br />Schenking, and Izard appear in Charleston soon after. All of these took<br />up lands in Charleston ; many of the original grants still remain, and<br />the Council Journals show the extent, as " Lands granted<br />on Goose Creek to Edward Middleton, Gent., one of the<br />honourable persons of this Province." This land became<br />afterward the beautiful plantation"<br />Crowfield," long considered<br />the handsomest landscape garden in the Province of Charleston.<br />Another grant of a thousand acres in Charleston to the same person<br />was the " Oaks," the stately avenue of which still remains.<br />Mr. Thomas Amy is to have twelve thousand acres<br />(a barony)<br />" In consideration of his great services<br />"<br />(in encouraging<br />emigration), and John Gibbs, Esq., kinsman of<br />the Duke of Albemarle, is to " have every attention paid to<br />him, and three thousand acres rent free." This last is a<br />very rare order; the quit-rent, which made much trouble,<br />was generally to be paid. But although the chief residences<br />of these gentlemen were on their plantations in Charleston , they<br />were likewise important citizens; in fact the country for a<br />radius of twenty miles around was but a greater Charleston.TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-27969930420788554982010-09-11T08:26:00.000-07:002010-09-11T08:41:10.573-07:00The Huguenot emigrants 1680 History of Charleston the french Church<pre>The Huguenot emigrants, who only arrived in Charleston 1680 to<br />1686, began their "French Church" in Charleston about 1687 in the<br />upper part of Charlestons Church Street on land conveyed by Ralph<br />Izard and Mary his wife (a Miss Middleton) for that pur-<br />pose. Isaac Mazyck, one of Charlestons earliest and wealthiest<br />emigrants of their race, gave generously to Charleston. At the other end of Church Street were the<br />Baptists, on land in Charleston given by William Elliott, and the Quak-<br />ers had a " Friends' Meeting House ' outside the walls,<br />near to the present King Street in Charleston.<br /><br />Thus in ten years from the founding of Charleston or<br />CharlesTown there was no lack of places of worship; it is remarkable<br />that although no one of the original buildings in Charleston remains<br />churches still stand upon each of these sites, belong-<br />ing to the same organizations and denominations. The<br />" Friends' is the only exception to this. The building<br />was destroyed by fire, and there being no Quakers now in<br />Charleston it was never rebuilt ; but the lot is kept sacred,<br />and is still owned by the society.<br /><br />So far the people of all these various denominations<br />were, with the exception of a few Dutch, from Nova-Belgia,<br />descendants of Great Britain, subjects of the King ; but now<br />from 1680 to 1688 came the French Huguenots, strangers<br />and aliens, into this English community. </pre>TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-88542398903655947472010-09-09T19:26:00.000-07:002010-09-09T19:32:36.291-07:00History of Charleston South Carolina Sir Henry seige 1780<pre>Charleston had not seen the last of Sir Henry.<br />He came back to charleston with an army in February, 1780,<br />and advancing this time by way of John's and James Islands,<br />crossed the Ashley River above the city of charleston and laid<br />siege to it from the rear on the main land. About the same time,<br />the fleet, mindful of its former drubbing, ran past Fort Moultrie,<br />under a heavy fire, without attempting to engage it, and, in <br />conjunction<br />with batteries erected on James Island, threatened the city of<br />charleston<br />from the south and west. A shot from one of these batteries, that<br />stood near<br />the conspicu- ous point called the " Hundred Pines," left a mark<br />in Charleston<br />which may still be seen. At the intersection of Broad and Meeting<br />streets there was then placed a statue of William Pitt, raised by<br />the<br />grateful colonists in recognition of that statesman's fearless<br /> espousal<br />of their cause in the British Parliament, in resisting the Stamp<br />Act<br />and other oppressive measures. A cannon shot from James Island,<br /> unmindful<br />of the distinguished statesman at home, and of the fact that he<br /> was then<br />upholding his government manfully in the pending struggle, struck<br />the statue.<br />carrying away its arm, and otherwise mutilating it. It now stands<br />in Washington Square, hard by its former location, with its beauty<br />still sadly marred by what was a home bullet if not a ** home <br />thrust."<br />General Lincoln, who commanded the American forces, should<br />not have attempted to stand a siege the city of Charleston,<br />but should have saved his little army — sadly needed elsewhere<br />while yet there was time. He was in a cul-de-sac, without hope<br />of relief, was largely outnumbered, and his capitulation was only<br />a question of time. </pre>TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-4273746946941492402010-09-09T19:11:00.000-07:002010-09-09T19:24:05.536-07:00History of Charleston 1677 - 1783<div style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;"><pre><span style="font-size:100%;">It is old as cities go in America,<br />its settlement in its present location<br />dating back to 1677, but it was not<br /> incorporated under the name of Charleston<br />until 1783. Previously to that it had been called<br />Charles Town,<br />named in honor of the very virtuous king of Great<br />Britain, Charles IL, who, by<br />charter<br />in 1663, ''was graciously pleased to grant " to certain "<br />Lords Proprietors " a vast region, larger than his own "<br />tight little island,"<br />comprising both the Carolinas and a great deal more<br /> besides, of whose real extent<br />either he or they knew very little. The trifling<br />circumstance that the land was not<br />his to give was of small consequence. Charles was<br /> " hard up," if it be proper to<br />apply that expression to royalty, and there, as<br />elsewhere in America, it was<br />expected<br />of the colonists to quiet both the question of<br />title and the real owners at<br />the same time, if need be. The names or titles<br />of these Lords Proprietors of Charleston</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> are<br />preserved in the two Carolinas in the names of<br />counties,south Carolina; the towns<br />Charleston and counties of Beaufort in both States;<br />Albemarle Sound and the counties of Carteret,<br /> Craven and Granville,<br />in North Carolina, and others their names<br />remain, but their authority in<br />Charleston south carolina was of short duration,<br /> the government of the Province<br />of Carolina having been transferred to the Crown<br /> in 1719 — so far as it concerned<br />Charleston and South Carolina. </span></pre></div>TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-42032746862019900632010-09-07T14:25:00.000-07:002010-09-07T19:29:32.434-07:00History of Charleston the years from 1679 to 1689In the years from 1679 to 1689 colonists were continually<br />arriving. The accession of James II. quickened<br />the emigration from England. Five hundred dissenters,<br />led by Morton and Axtell, who were made Landgraves for<br />their services, came out in a single month. Mr. Benjamin<br />Blake was an important person in this connection.<br />The Barbadians continued to come, and gentlemen from<br />the other West Indian Islands and from England also.<br />Thomas Drayton, William and Arthur Middleton, and Robert<br />Daniel, all names of note in Carolina, came in 1679.<br />Moore, Ladson, Grimball, Cantey, Boone, Thomas Smith,<br />Schenking, and Izard appear soon after. All of these took<br />up lands; many of the original grants still remain, and<br />the Council Journals show the extent, as " Lands granted<br />on Goose Creek to Edward Middleton, Gent., one of the<br />honourable persons of this Province." This land became<br />afterward the beautiful plantation<br />"<br />Crowfield," long considered<br />the handsomest landscape garden in the Province.<br />Another grant of a thousand acres to the same person<br />was the " Oaks," the stately avenue of which still remains.<br />Mr. Thomas Amy is to have twelve thousand acres<br />(a barony)<br />" In consideration of his great services<br />"<br />(in encouraging<br />emigration), and John Gibbs, Esq., kinsman of<br />the Duke of Albemarle, is to " have every attention paid to<br />him, and three thousand acres rent free." This last is a<br />very rare order; the quit-rent, which made much trouble,<br />was generally to be paid. But although the chief residences<br />of these gentlemen were on their plantations, they<br />were likewise important citizens; in fact the country for a<br />radius of twenty miles around was but a greater Charles<br />Town. Most of the chief planters in those early days<br />were merchants as well ; the Indian trade was long the<br />chief source of wealth. "Charles Town trades for 1000<br />miles into the continent," one old writer says. The Proprietors<br />tried to restrict the fur trade to within one hundred<br />miles of the town, reserving all beyond to themselves.In troubled times<br />some of these agents became persons of great importance.<br />Besides the furs, they had for exports, as has been already<br />said, the products of the forest, lumber of all sorts, tar,<br />pitch, and turpentine. To these, in defiance of the objections<br />of the Proprietors, there was added salt-beef and<br />bacon. What was a man whose estate numbered thousands<br />of acres to do but to graze it ? The cattle throve<br />and multiplied enormously in a climate where food was<br />plentiful all the year, and a bracken bush could keep the<br />cow in the severest weather. Wolves prevented the<br />increase of sheep as worthless dogs do now, but most<br />planters protected a small flock, to supply the family with<br />mutton and with wool for the ever whirling wheels.<br />Swine could take care of themselves; they fattened on the<br />acorns of the oak groves, and soon became an important<br />article of export, while as yet crops were small and<br />inadequate.<br />CBFNHCP2Y55GTUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-3373934687039516602010-09-07T13:57:00.000-07:002010-09-07T14:04:34.352-07:00The founding of the city of Charleston SC The HuguenotGovernor West was a grave and sober-minded<br />man, and can but have been amused at the magnificent<br />directions which Lord Ashley sent for the building of<br />the chief town of a province which had at that time only<br />twelve hundred inhabitants. It should, His Lordship said,<br />have at least sixscore squares each of three hundred feet<br />and " it is necessary that you lay out the great Port Town<br />into regular streets, for be the buildings never soe meane<br />and thin at first, yet as the town increases in riches and<br />people, the voyde spaces will be filled up and the buildings<br />will grow more beautyfull. Your great street cannot be<br />less than one hundred or six score broad, your lesser streets<br />none under 60, your alleys 8 or ten feet. APallisado round<br />the Towne with a small ditch is a sufficient Fortification<br />against the Indians. There is a necessity that you leave<br />a Common round the Towne soe that noe Enclosure may<br />come nearer than the 3rd part of a mile to the Pallisado,"<br />etc.<br />For the carrying out of these directions West had the<br />assistance of his committee of Council. Surveyor-general<br />Culpepper had already drawn a plan and Stephen Bull<br />(afterward surveyor-general) took an active part.<br />Stephen Bull was, next to West and Woodward, the most<br />important of all the emigrants who came with Governor<br />Sayle. He came bringing many servants, and at once took<br />up a large body of land on Ashley River and named it<br />Ashley Hall." He was Lord Ashley's deputy, a member of Council, master of ordnance, and held a dozen other<br />important offices. Of most consequence to the colony<br />was the fact that as an explorer among the Indians he became<br />so friendly with them that they chose him for their<br />Cassique, and he thus was enabled to make an advantageous<br />treaty with them in 1696. A small one-storv<br />brick house built by him at Ashley Hall is still standing,<br />the oldest on the river. The estate remained in the<br />possession of the family for over two hundred years, and<br />in all those years there was hardly a time in which one of<br />the name did not go out to take part in the government<br />of South Carolina.<br />The committee does not seem to have attempted to execute<br />Lord Ashley's plan in full. Everything, however,<br />is comparative, and the wide streets of that day are the<br />narrow ones of this. Not even the most devoted Charlestonian<br />would now call Tradd, Elliott, and Church streets<br />" broad," but Mr. Thomas Ashe, clerk of the ship Richmond,<br />writing in 1682 says,<br />" The town is regularly laid out into broad and capacious streets"!<br />It really was a narrow parallelogram about four squares<br />long by three wide. The first street fronted on the Cooper<br />River, extending on the south from a creek (Vander<br />Horst's), which ran where Water Street is now, to another<br />on the north over which the City Market now stands.<br />On the west the present Meeting Street was bounded<br />by a wall in which wTas a half moon, with a gate and drawbridge<br />giving access to the country without. The wall<br />also extended along the three sides of water front, and had<br />bastions and small forts at the corners. Of course all<br />this was not constructed at once, but it was as described<br />in a very few years. From the river front projected<br />wharves, and soon " sixteen merchant vessels sometimes<br />rode at once in the harbour." There was a place reserved,<br />Ashe says, for a church and a Town Hall and a parade<br />ground for the militia. The streets running north and<br />south were Bay Street, Church, and Meeting; east and west<br />were Tradd, so named in honour of the first male white<br />child born in the town, Elliott, Broad, and Dock, now<br />Queen. The early maps show these only extending from<br />the Bay to Meeting Street, but in 1700 they are said to<br />reach from river to river. Some persons lived outside of<br />the walls on little farms, and the Council ordered that the<br />peninsula should be cleared of all trees and bushes that<br />might conceal a lurking enemy. There was a court of<br />guard, and watch was kept, both there and upon Sullivan's<br />Island, for "Topsayle Vessels" and other suspicious<br />craft.TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-75389086707004820222010-09-07T13:48:00.000-07:002010-09-07T13:53:25.381-07:00History of Charleston sc -1671 Lord Ashley letter to Sir JohnIn September of 1671 Lord Ashley wrote to<br />Sir John, "Above all things let me recommend to you the<br />making of a Port Town upon the River Ashley," etc.<br />Sir John was evidently of the same mind as his old<br />predecessor, and took the first steps by negotiating with<br />the persons who had taken up the land between the two<br />rivers. Accordingly in February, 1672, Mr. Henry<br />Hughes and " John Coming and Affra his wife<br />"<br />appeared<br />before the Grand Council and surrendered their land,<br />" nere a place upon Ashley River known as Oyster Point<br />to be imployed in and towards enlarging of a Towne and<br />Common of Pasture there intended to be erected."<br />" Mr. John Coming and Affra his wife<br />"<br />are perhaps the<br />most interesting people of that early time, because it is<br />impossible not to suspect a romance concerning them.<br />For why should " Mistress Affra Harleston of Mollyns,<br />daughter of John Harleston Gent., of a family long seated<br />at South Ockenden Essex, and having estates in Ireland,"<br />come out to America as servant to Mr. Owens, but for a<br />sentimental reason? Her father's house, as described in<br />the inventory, contained "seller, parlour, kitchen, larder,<br />great chamber, painted chamber, nurserie, butterie, gallerie<br />to the garretts," etc. Why, having everything thus<br />handsome about her, did she leave it all, if it were not to<br />marry John Coming, first mate of the Carolina, and<br />afterward captain of the good ships Edisto and Blessing?<br />Coming was a hardy Devonshire sailor of the<br />race of Drake and Raleigh and Kingsley's heroes. The<br />family tradition says, that having lost a ship some time<br />before he had been accused of cowardice, whereupon he<br />had with his own hands built and rigged a longboat, in<br />which he had crossed the Atlantic. He must have been<br />a man of means, for on first arrival he settled a place on<br />Ashley River and afterward one on the Cooper. His<br />name lives in " Comings Point," the southern cape of<br />Charleston Harbour, charted by him in 1671, and in the<br />fine plantation" Coming-tee," now in possession of his<br />collateral descendants, the Balls.<br />This may have been the first runaway match in South<br />Carolina.TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-76277169489795317772010-09-07T12:29:00.000-07:002010-09-07T12:31:00.849-07:00Charleston sc history Letter to Lord Ashley 1671<span style="font-weight: bold;">It was during Sir John's term of office that the question</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">of removing the first town was mooted, and Mr. Dalton,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">secretary to the " Grand Council," wrote the following</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">letter to Lord Ashley, who had proposed a new " Towne</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">of Trade" in January, 1671.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">" We cannot reasonably believe that the world is now</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">asleep, or that the Spaniard has forgot his sullenness,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">therefore as it has been the practice of the most skilful</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">settlers, soe it will become us, to erect townes of safety as</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">well as of Trade, to which purpose there is a place —</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">between Ashley and Wando rivers, about six hundred</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">acres left vacant for a towne and Fort, by the direction of</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">the old Governor Coll. Sayle, for that it commands both</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">the Rivers. It is not a mile over between River and</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">river, with a bold landing free from any marsh, soe as</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">many shipps as can may ride before the Towne at once,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">and as many shipps as can come into the River under the</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">protection of the fort, if one should be there.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">" It is as it were a Key to open and shut this settlement</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">into safety or danger ; Charles Towne [their first town]</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">indeed can very well defend itself, and that's all ; but</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">that like an iron gate shutts up all the Townes that are or</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">may be in these rivers ; besides it has a full view of the</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">sea, being but a league or a few miles from the mouth of</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">the river and noe shipp can come upon the Coast but</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">may be seen from thence and may receive the benefit of a</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pilott from that Towne."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">" The settlements being thick about it, it cannot be</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">surprised [he probably means by Indians] it is likewise</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">the most convenient for building and launching of shipps</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">as large as can come into this harbour. It must of necessity</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">be very healthy, being free from any noxious vapors,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">and all the summer long being refreshed with continual</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">cool breathings from the sea, which up in the country men</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">are not soe fully sensible of."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">No better description of the site of Charleston and of</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">its harbour could be written to-day. Its inhabitants are</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">still "all the summer long refreshed with cool breathings</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">from the sea" ; and for its strength, the fleets of France</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">and Spain, of England, and of the United States, have all</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">tried to force the iron gate, —and failed.</span>TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-10560987883088484052010-09-07T12:25:00.000-07:002010-09-07T13:47:11.021-07:00Governor Sir John Yeamans charleston sc historyYeamans was the son of an alderman of Bristol who<br />had suffered death for his fidelity to the crown. He<br />himself had warmly supported the royal cause in Barbadoes,<br />already a thriving colony. For so doing and<br />for prospective services in colonization he, Sir Peter<br />Colleton, and some other gentlemen of like principles, had<br />been made baronets ; — the old people used to refer to<br />them as "only-badian Baronets." He had. provoked the<br />colonists by not accompanying them on their voyage and<br />they vainly protested against his appointment now. In<br />many respects he made a bad Governor, oppressing the<br />people by his exactions, and offending the Proprietors by<br />demands for buildings and fortifications, which although<br />needed they had no mind to give.<br />Still, he had the advantage of understanding the needs<br />and resources of a new colony, putting the place into a<br />tolerable state of defence, and pointing out the agriculture<br />suited to the climate. He also showed the resources<br />of the forests, cutting and sending to Lord Ashley twelve<br />great logs of cedarwood, as the first-fruits of his new<br />possession. From that time the demand for cedar was as<br />constant and eager as was that of Solomon upon Hiram,<br />King of Tyre.<br />A still more important service was, that by his advice<br /><br />and influence many rich planters from Barbadoes and<br />other West Indian Islands came to the Province, bringing<br />their negroes with them. They settled themselves chiefly<br />on a small affluent of the Cooper, called, from the fancied<br />resemblance of its winding course to the curving neck of<br />the goose,<br />" Goose-creek. ' Thence, they and their friends<br />on the Ashley and Cooper were known as the " Goose creek<br />men."<br />They differed from the "<br />plain people<br />" — mostly dissenters<br />—who had come out with Sayle, in being generally<br />of a higher class, wealthy, and members of the Church of<br />England. Thus began — and not from the fanciful nobility<br />— that untitled class of landed gentry which, perfectly<br />well understood and accepted during the colonial<br />period, survived the Revolution and formed a distinct and<br />influential element of Charleston society down to 1865.<br />Long after Yeamans had been removed this movement<br />continued, and gentlemen of wealth and position arrived<br />from England and the Islands to the great benefit of the<br />Province.TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-69630347612351718102010-09-07T12:18:00.000-07:002010-09-07T12:23:44.127-07:00Charleston Sc early charter and slaves brought from barbados in the 1600sThis charter was for a long time as dear to the people<br />of Carolina as is Magna Carta to the English. In<br />addition Lord Ashley (not yet Lord Shaftesbury), calling<br />to his aid the great philosopher John Locke, prepared<br />the " Fundamental Constitution," which enlarged<br />and added to the statutes of His Majesty. Among<br />other things it arranged for the proposed "-nobility," "in<br />order to avoid a too numerous democracy." This nobility<br />was little more than a plutocracy, depending upon the<br />amount of land owned by a man, which might be bought<br />by him, without regard to birth or breeding, or service<br />to the State. The titles passed by purchase as well as by<br />descent.<br />As land was held at a penny an acre, it did not require<br />a large fortune to become a " baron " with twelve<br />thousand acres, a cassique with twenty-four thousand,<br />or even a landgrave (these were the titles chosen) with<br />forty-eight thousand. The estates were called "<br />baronies,"and there were many which long kept the name, as the<br />" Wadboo," the "Broughton," the "Colleton," the " Fairlawn<br />Baron. but no one was addressed as "baron"or "cassique," and the landgraves, who were generallygiven the title to qualify them as governors (there weresome exceptions), simply prefixed the title to their surnames.<br />No man was landgrave of Edisto or of Accabee,<br />but Landgrave Morton or Landgrave Smith. Neither<br />did any" lord of the manor "exercise manorial rights over<br />white leetmen or negro slaves. Furnished with this constitution<br />and with some more practical" Temporary Laws," the colony began its career. A contemporaneous, facsimile copy of this constitution<br />(commonly called " Locke's ") is among the treasuresof the Charleston Library, and may be seen by the<br />curious.<br />Governor Sayle had brought with him only one hundred<br />and sixty persons, bat the number of inhabitants<br />was rapidly increased by subsequent immigration.<br />Especially was this the case when Governor Sir John<br />Yeamans came from Barbadoes, bringing with him negroes<br />accustomed to the agriculture of the islands and<br />to labour under tropical suns. By so doing he decided<br />the institutions and conditions of Carolina for all future<br />time.TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-51439868620529301122010-09-07T12:11:00.000-07:002010-09-07T12:16:25.131-07:00Charleston sc The Proprietors code of lawFor the government of their colony the Proprietors<br />had prepared a singular code of laws. By their charter<br />from the King, Avhich granted them all the territory<br />now comprised in the states of North and South Carolina<br />and Georgia, with an indefinite extension westward " to<br />the South Seas," they were enjoined to establish the<br />Church of England, and permitted to grant liberty of<br />conscience. They might make iaws, but only with the<br />consent of the "<br />greater part' of the people (a most<br />unusual provision for those days) ; they were to establish<br />a nobility, but not to give the nobles English titles;<br />and place and people were ever to remain " of His<br />Majesty's allegiance."<br />The Province was to be created a County Palatine,<br />and the Proprietors, the oldest of whom, for the time<br />being, was to be the Palatine, were authorized to build<br />forts, castles, towns, etc., to appoint governors and<br />officers, to make laws, levy taxes and customs, establish<br />the Church of England, wage war, pursue their enemies,<br />put down rebellion, tumult, and sedition. All these<br />powers they were "to have, use and enjoy in as ample<br />a manner as any Bishop of Durham in our kingdom of<br />England ever heretofore held, used, or enjoyed."<br />A "<br />County Palatine '<br />is a frontier province where,<br />for the prompt action needful when enemies are close<br />at hand, the King delegates the supreme power to a<br />"<br />Palatine," who can exercise for the time all regal functions.<br />Such had been the English counties of Chester,<br />Lancashire, and Durham, in the days when the Welsh<br />threatened the west country, and the Cathedral of Durham<br />was " half Church of God, half tower against the<br />Scot." Of the three, in the reign of Charles II., Durham<br />alone kept its ancient privilege ; and so the powers of<br />that feudal potentate, the Lord Bishop, were cited as the<br />model for those of the Proprietors of Carolina.TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-82935460895341405162010-09-07T12:02:00.000-07:002010-09-07T12:05:22.267-07:00Charleston sc territory claimed by englandThe territory which he gave had not always been<br />claimed by England; indeed, its very name "Carolina"<br />had been given a hundred years before, by a luckless band<br />of French Huguenots sent by the great Admiral Coligny<br />to find a refuge for "men of the religion' in the New<br />World. They, led by the Sieur Jean Ribault, had landed<br />at the " fair entrance ' to which they gave the name of<br />Port Royal. Delighted with the beauty and fertility of<br />the country, they claimed and named it for their king,<br />Charles IX. of France ; built a fort and raised the<br />French flag. But misfortune overtaking them, they<br />abandoned the place, only to be done to death by the<br />Spaniards at St. Augustine,—dying for their faith and<br />scorning to abjure.<br />In the reign of Charles II. a ruined fort, a broken<br />column carved with the fleur-de-lys, and the names " Carolina<br />" and " Port Royal" alone remained to tell the tale.<br />The country had, for nearly a century, "lain like a<br />derelict' to be taken by the first comer, so England<br />stepped in and claimed it for her own. There were<br />many difficulties and delays, but the Proprietors sent<br />exploring expeditions, on one of which a bold captain,<br />Robert Sandford, coasting along from the Cape Fear to<br />Port Royal, landed and " took seizin by turtle and twigge'<br />of the territory in the name of the King and realm of<br />England.TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-61864291554293223952010-09-07T11:51:00.000-07:002010-09-07T12:02:10.526-07:00History of Charleston SC -The Lords Proprietors of the Province of CarolinaIN the year of our Lord 1679 the Lords Proprietors of<br />the Province of Carolina on the Continent of North<br />America ordered the Governor of their said province to<br />remove his " Towne of Trade" (a small settlement on the<br />west bank of the Ashley River) to the peninsula opposite,<br />tying between what we call the Ashley and the Cooper<br />rivers, but which were known to the Indians as the Kiawah<br />and the Wando.<br />The Lords Proprietors were certain nobles and gentlemen<br />to whom his Most Sacred Majesty King Charles II.<br />had, in gratitude for services rendered to his father and<br />himself, given all that territory<br />" situate between the southernmost<br />parts of Virginia, and the river San Mathias,"<br />the northern boundary of the Spanish dominions.<br />These gentlemen were : Lord Clarendon, the great historian<br />; the Duke of Albemarle, who, as General Monk,<br />had brought back the King from exile to "<br />enjoy his own<br />again"; the sagacious statesman, Sir Anthony Ashley<br />Cooper, Lord Ashley (afterward Earl of Shaftesbury) ;<br />Lord Craven, the preux chevalier of the age, who, like a<br />knight of old, had vowed life and fortune to the service<br />of the beautiful Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia—<br />and of Hearts ; Lord Berkeley ; Sir George Carteret ; Sir<br />John Colleton; and Sir William Berkeley, —all gallant<br />and loyal cavaliers.<br /><br />All these had done and suffered much in the service of<br />the to secure and settle a province was an easy way to pay<br />a debt of gratitude. Moreover, the King expressly stated<br />in the charter, or patent, which he granted them, that he<br />did so, finding that they<br />" were incited by a laudable and<br />pious design of propagating the Christian religion and the<br />enlargement of the English empire and dominion," —<br />matters which the Merry Monarch was suspected of not<br />having deeply at heart.two Charleses, and to allow them, at their own expense.TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972741389789283833.post-90467942032141543362010-09-07T08:15:00.000-07:002010-09-07T08:29:11.389-07:00Welcome to the history of Charlesto South Carolina<span style="font-weight: bold;">Welcome to our Blog the history of Charleston South Carolina.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">We are excited about the oportunity to share the wonderful history of the old town of charleston.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">most of the information here is derived from the public domain-feel free to use it as needed.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">List get started on this journey of the History of Charleston South Carolina..</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tuffy </span>TUFFYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02848011665467229086noreply@blogger.com0