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3 days ago · John J. Navin offers a new account of the first half century of settlement in the colony of South Carolina, which he characterizes as The Grim Years. By the mid-18th century South Carolina would become the wealthiest British colony in mainland North America, but in recent years scholars long familiar with its distinctive plantation system have ...
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4 days ago · Settled by the English in 1670, South Carolina had a wealthy, aristocratic, and influential colonial society based on a plantation agriculture that relied on a labour force of Black slaves. By 1730 people of African ancestry had come to represent some two-thirds of the colony’s total population.
5 days ago · Bio by William Beekman Henderson # 46854530. Thomas and Mary had the following children: 1. FRANCIS LEE b: 16 JAN 1734 in BRIDGETOWN, ST. MICHAEL'S PARISH IN BARBADOS. 2. MARY LEE b: 7 JAN 1738 in CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON CO., SC. 3. SUSANNAH LEE b: 20 OCT 1740 in CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON CO., SC. c: 23 OCT 1740 in ST.
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- May 1, 1715
2 days ago · South Carolina was named in honor of King Charles I of England, who first formed the English colony, with Carolus being Latin for "Charles". In 1712 the Province of South Carolina was formed. One of the original Thirteen Colonies, South Carolina became a royal colony in 1719.
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4 days ago · Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, [9] and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area. [b] The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of ...
4 days ago · Start at the best visitor center in the state for learning how to explore the American Revolution in the South, visit the gravesites and museums dedicated to Sumter and Marion, walk the ground of the final pitched battle of the war, and visit a recently revealed earthen fort built by the British.
5 days ago · The National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor is an organization of women not less than sixteen (16) years of age who can trace direct lineal descent from a Commissioned Officer of any one or more of the earlier American Wars between the years 1607 through 1865 or from a Colonial Governor, during the period 1607-1775.
