We will hold our next Southern Campaigns Roundtable in Charleston, SC at the beautiful Old Exchange Building “OXB” (http://www.oldexchange.com) in the historic district on Saturday, June 26th. Our hosts are Mike Coker and Doug MacIntyre. This is a public invited event so send this email on to your fiends and colleagues. We will have plenty of space in the upstairs ballroom. Plan on joining us to start promptly at 10:00 am and we should wrap-up by 4:00 pm – we’ll stop at noon for a “Dutch Treat” lunch. Remember our Round Table is a participatory sport; you are invited to bring your research interest, questions, and show and tell for no-more than a 10 minute presentation. Each attendee will pay the normal OXB entrance fee of $8.00.

Doug MacIntyre is working on interpretative signage for a new Revolutionary War park on Sullivan’s Island at Breach Inlet. He is anxious to show us his research and get help and suggestions from our fellows.

All interested will meet on the Isle of Palms (historic Long Island) at the Boathouse at Breach Inlet, located at 101 Palm Blvd. (http://www.boathouserestaurants.com), on the deck overlooking the Inlet from Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Charles Cornwallis’ prospective and get the feel of the site about 6:00 pm on Friday evening. Sounds like a plan to me!

For more information, please contact:

Mike Coker

michaeldcoker@comcast.net

Doug MacIntyre

dougmac@mindspring.com

Mobile 843-860-9173

Home 843-577-1098

Charles B. Baxley

cbbaxley@truvista.net

Event Logistics:

OXB Parking: There are some metered parking spaces around the OXB which you may use. Also, there is a public parking garage about two blocks away from the OXB.

Hotels: Here are some relatively inexpensive, recognizable brand hotels to consider for the SCAR Roundtable weekend. These are not on the downtown Charleston (expensive) peninsula, but all are located about 20 minutes from the Old Exchange Building. Amounts quoted are AAA rates for check in on June 26 and check out on June 27. Folks may be able to find better rates online. All currently have availability, but some have only a few rooms left.

· Comfort Suites West of the Ashley, 2080 Savannah Hwy., Charleston, off US17 at the end of I-526. New hotel in West Ashley with all suites/breakfast/perks/24 hr indoor pool, in a busy location – request a room in the quiet area overlooking the parking lot. $125. 843-769-9850.

· Hampton Inn West Ashley, 678 Citadel Haven Dr., Charleston, off US17 at the end of I-526. Breakfast/perks/outdoor pool. $141. 843-573-1200.

· Holiday Inn Express Mt. Pleasant, 350 Johnnie Dodds Blvd., off US17 just across the Cooper River bridge from downtown. New hotel with breakfast/perks/outdoor pool. $144. 843-375-2600.

· Sheraton North Charleston, 4770 Goer Dr, off I-26 exit 213b Montague Ave. Restaurant with room service/shuttle to downtown Visitors Center/indoor & outdoor pools. $189. 843-747-1900.

Those interested in staying in downtown Charleston or seeing more options may find this site helpful: http://www.sciway.net/hotels/charleston.html.

Annual Carolina Day Festivities: Roundtable attendees who can stay longer may enjoy the annual Carolina Day festivities. Carolina Day will be celebrated in Charleston on Monday afternoon, June 28 on the 234th anniversary of the Battle of Sullivan’s Island. Activities will include a service at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, dedication of memorials, a reception, a parade/walk from Washington Park to White Point Garden, and speeches at White Point Garden on the battery.

“Faith of Our Fathers”

The formal rededication of the grave of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, “One of the Founders of the Republic” is planned for Carolina Day, Monday, June 28th. Bishop FitzSimons Allison, XII Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina will lead the service and dedication. The Order of Morning Prayer according to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer will be held at St. Michael’s Church at 1:00 pm followed by the Charles Cotesworth Pinckney memorial dedication. After the dedication, a reception will be held in the Parish Hall just before the parade line up in Washington Park at 3:00 pm. Bishop Allison will also be the featured speaker at the Carolina Day ceremony in White Point Garden. A reception after the celebrations will reconvene at the Parish Hall. All SCAR Roundtable members along with all SAR members and families are most cordially invited to attend.

A few years ago, at St. Michael’s Church it was determined that the tombstones in the Pinckney-Rutledge plot were in disarray and the grave of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney needed attention and restoration. Our consultant, Dr. Robert Russell of the College of Charleston’s Preservation Program recommended that we reposition several stones that had been haphazardly attached to the wall when the sacristy was added. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney’s grave is a frequent stop for visitors and tour guides to the Churchyard because of his prominence as a founding father. His memorial inside the church on the south isle is a testimony to his patriotic and civic leadership. The committee decided to place the same memorial at his grave site on a new stone, matching those of his relations. In addition, a new sign citing his accomplishments will be placed above on the panel box. The cost was underwritten by many of the patriotic societies and his descendants. The William Moultrie Chapter Sons of the American Revolution made a significant contribution to this effort. His descendants are numerous and actively serve God and his Church at St. Michaels in a variety of lay ministries, foreign missions and leadership positions.

But how is Charles Cotesworth Pinckney relevant today as a Christian role model from those centuries ago? Pinckney’s 1825 memorial says, “He combined the virtues of the patriot and the piety of the Christian”. On closer investigation we find that Pinckney believed in tolerance of all Christian faiths and actively campaigned to outlaw dueling.

He was the First President of the Charleston Bible Society founded in 1810. Modeled on the British and Foreign Bible Society, the organizing goal of the society was and is today to have a wide distribution, circulation and study of Holy Scripture. The founding clergy represented perhaps the first major ecumenical effort in Charleston. They included, the Reverends Isaac S. Keith, Pastor of the Circular Congregational Church, William Percy, who established St. Paul’s, the third Episcopal church in Charleston, Richard Furman, the fiery Baptist minister who later founded Furman University, and Simon Felix Gallagher, long-time pastor of St. Mary’s Church. (Gallagher was considered a brilliant wit and a friendly drinking companion who actions helped cause a schism in the local Catholic Church that existed until the arrival of John England who became the first Catholic Bishop of Charleston.) Over the past two hundred years, the society has had a fascinating history including massive distribution of Bibles to soldiers of the Confederate Army, the Spanish American War, merchant seamen, orphanages, churches, jails, immigrants, homeless shelters, foreign mission teams, the blind and military personnel. As the Charleston Bible Society celebrates its 200th Anniversary this year, Pinckney’s Christian legacy lives on, making a difference in the lives of many. Still collecting and distributing Bibles, the Society’s watch words are “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and light unto my path” Psalms 119:105. For more information on the Charleston Bible Society, please visit www.charlestonbiblesociety.org. May he Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory.

Vic Brandt, Past President SCSSAR and Churchyard Committee Chairman.

LAWRENCE ALLEN HEAVRIN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY a two volume book is now available for purchase online. Tom Johnson, PHD, Librarian Emeritus University of South Carolina, Columbia has written the following review.

LAWRENCE ALLEN HEAVRIN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY is an impressive model of how to go about setting down the record of one’s life. Larry Heavrin’s massive two-volume work documents the varied experience of an American physician who largely grew up and was educated in Illinois. His military service in the U.S. Navy took him from Great Lakes to Charleston, SC where he also wound up going to medical school. In pursuit of his career as a family doctor he
ranged far and wide, from North Carolina to Alaska, finally settling in
Spartanburg, South Carolina. In addition to the valuable family history obtained in volume one are vivid accounts of his life and work in the several small towns and cities where he practiced. Of special interest are the accounts of his Charleston and Alaskan sojourns, as well as the stories and vignettes of various patients, colleagues and friends he met in the course of his long career. Both volumes are enlivened by the inclusion of numerous photographs. They also contain valuable finding aids, which make them useful and accessible to a wide reading public.
I will paste the two links for the two volumes of my book. When you click on the red preview band it will give you the option to view it on the full screen. When that is done it is possible to read the pages that are displayed. Volume II will include narratives and pictures from the time I moved to Spartanburg through 2008.
Here is the link for volume I. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/788488/1e730ecc8403c398f16b167eec9e84a8

This one is for volume II http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/787113/86dbefee4317b361f3f71fb0ff38c531
After you have looked at the preview of the book please look at the bottom of the page and send me a comment to let me know that you have received this announcement.

View my book at Blurb:

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Thank you,
Larry Heavrin

The letters were found in the Lincolnshire Archive Office and as you can imagine probably had been viewed by a limited number of people. They have since been transcribed and give a fantastic window into life at Medway Plantation in Goose Creek, South Carolina.

The BBC has a story about the Battle records being made public. The hundred years war took place in a portion of this period as well as the battle of Agincourt – GREAT resource! Glad to see it’s being made freely accessible to the public.

I’m reposting the Declaration of Independence here in celebration of the events of 1776! Also, you might enjoy this reading of the declaration you can find at monticello.org podcasts done by a portrayer of Thomas Jefferson (Bill Barker). (It may also be interesting to hear the rough draft of the declaration.)

Transcription of the Declaration of Independence, plus links to the Declaration at the National Archives.

This document, writted originally by Thomas Jefferson in June of 1776 documents the greivances that the colonists had against King George and asserts our right to be an independent state.

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:

Column 1

Georgia:

Button Gwinnett

Lyman Hall

George Walton

Column 2

North Carolina:

William Hooper

Joseph Hewes

John Penn

South Carolina:

Edward Rutledge

Thomas Heyward, Jr.

Thomas Lynch, Jr.

Arthur Middleton

Column 3

Massachusetts:

John Hancock

Maryland:

Samuel Chase

William Paca

Thomas Stone

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:

George Wythe

Richard Henry Lee

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Nelson, Jr.

Francis Lightfoot Lee

Carter Braxton

Column 4

Pennsylvania:

Robert Morris

Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Franklin

John Morton

George Clymer

James Smith

George Taylor

James Wilson

George Ross

Delaware:

Caesar Rodney

George Read

Thomas McKean

Column 5

New York:

William Floyd

Philip Livingston

Francis Lewis

Lewis Morris

New Jersey:

Richard Stockton

John Witherspoon

Francis Hopkinson

John Hart

Abraham Clark

Column 6

New Hampshire:

Josiah Bartlett

William Whipple

Massachusetts:

Samuel Adams

John Adams

Robert Treat Paine

Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:

Stephen Hopkins

William Ellery

Connecticut:

Roger Sherman

Samuel Huntington

William Williams

Oliver Wolcott

New Hampshire:

Matthew Thornton

Thanks to the National Archives for the continued preservation of this document as well as the above transcription. Images of an engraving used to print copies of the Declaration of Independance, as well as images of an actual copy are available at The National Archives High resolution images are available as well as previews. (See their Charters of Freedom Page.)

Lancaster County was formed in 1798 from the old Camden District. Many of the early settlers here were from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. That area was named for the region in England of the same name. This was the same Lancaster with the symbol of the red rose that had opposed the House of York in England in the War of the Roses.

Prior to the European settlement in the 1750′s this area was settled by the Catawba Indians. The Indian paths that crossed through this area were important routes for the early settlers and in some cases current roads follow their trail. The Rocky River Road followed one such path and today SC Highway 522 follows it fairly closely.

Lancaster County SCGenweb site

Lancaster Historical Society

Lancaster County Courthouse
P.O. Box 1809
County Courthouse
Lancaster, SC 29721

Census

1790 Federal Census Index and Transcription

1800 Federal Census Index and Transcription

1800 Federal Census Transcription

1800 Federal Census Images

1810 Federal Census Index

1830 Federal Census Index

1840 Federal Census Index

1850 Federal Census Index

1850 Federal Census

Cemeteries

USGS listing of cemeteries in Lancaster County

Query Forums

Lancaster County, SC Forum for Queries

Lancaster County, SC at genforum

Cities and towns of Lancaster County:

Abney
Heath Springs
Kershaw
Lancaster (County Seat)
Pleasant Hill
Spring Mills
Stoneboro
Taxahaw
Van Wyck
White Bluff

Abasia – inability to walk or stand
Abdominal Angina – sudden severe recurring stomach pain in the elderly. Could mean diverticulitis
Ablepsy – Blindness
Abortus Fever – Brucellosis
Affrighted – Frightened to death – likely stress induced stroke or heart attack
Ague – Intermittent fever – commonly associated with Malaria

American Plague – Yellow Fever
Anthracosis – Lung disease from inhalation of coal dust
Apoplexy – paralysis from stroke
Ataxia – inability to coordinate movement
Bad blood – syphillis
brain fever – meningitis
Camp diarrhea – Thyphoid fever
Canine Madness – rabies
Carcinoma – cancer
catalepsy – seizures/trances
dropsy – congestive heart failure (swelling from fluid buildup)
Edema – swelling of the tissues
Falling sickness – epilepsy
French pox – venereal disease
Galloping consumption – pulmonary tuberculosis
Gout – painful inflammation – brought on by buildup of uric acid in the tissue
hydrophobia – rabies
ischaema – lack of sufficient blood supply to an organ
Lung fever – pnuemonia
Malignant sore throat – diphtheria
Morbilli – measles
Mormal – gangrene
Necrosis – death of tissue
Nephrosis – Kidney degeneration
Palsy – paralysis with lack of muscle control
Pertussis – whooping cough
podagra – gout
pox – siphillis
Puerperal Exhaustion – death due to childbirth
quinsy – tonsilitis
rheumatism – pain in joints
rubeola – german measles
sciatica – rhuematism in the hips
scirrhus – cancerous tumors
scotomy – dizziness, nausea – dimness of sight

………..

septicemia – blood poisoning

Old Shandon has a fairly active neighborhood association which helps to promote and teach about the history of the neighborhood. In addition to the National Historic Distric designation they have also gained a local histori neighborhood designation. This was the first planned suburban community of Columbia, SC. The land was originally rural farm and forestland and had been owned by Robert Start an early 1800′s mayor of Columbia and Revolutionary War veteran.

More information can be found at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and OldShandon.org.

Historic Brattonsville hosts living history Saturdays from March through November, the theme varies by week. But costumed interpreters portray life from the 18th and 19th centuries highlighting certain aspects of day to day living. In the Christmas season candlelight tours are offered.

The Revolutionary War battle of Huck’s defeat took place at Brattonsville and more information on that battle is available there as well.

They also have an exhibit on remedies of the early 1800s which looks at medical practices of that period.

Did I mention 8 miles of hiking/walking/horseback riding/bicycle trails? Historic Brattonsville is near McConnels in York County, South Carolina.