Charleston, the place and the people, by St Julien Ravenel With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey . cial fish ponds,which were the fashion of the day, could be distinguished;but the whole place was grown up in oak and cedar, withhere and there a ragged box tree or garden plant to tellof what had been. Here the Honourable John and his wife, Susannah Snell,spent their lives, dying within a few months of eachother and being buried at the parish church of St. JohnsBerkeley (commonly called Biggin Church), the site andglebe for which had been given by the family a few yearsbefore. To this gentlem
Charleston, the place and the people, by St Julien Ravenel With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey . cial fish ponds,which were the fashion of the day, could be distinguished;but the whole place was grown up in oak and cedar, withhere and there a ragged box tree or garden plant to tellof what had been. Here the Honourable John and his wife, Susannah Snell,spent their lives, dying within a few months of eachother and being buried at the parish church of St. JohnsBerkeley (commonly called Biggin Church), the site andglebe for which had been given by the family a few yearsbefore. To this gentleman succeeded his son, who inheritedthe title from his grandfather and became the thirdSir John. Both of these styled themselves of Fair-lawn Barony, in the parish of St. Johns Berkeley, inthe province of South Carolina. But Fairlawn wasonly one of their many estates and they were amongthe wealthiest men of the colony; yet, although natu-rally of much social importance, they do not appear tohave taken any prominent part in public affairs, furtherthan that both were members of his Majestys THE KING AGAINST THE LOBDS 91 Probably all but two or three of these men were riceplanters. Rice had by this time become the chief productof the Province. From little patches planted experiment-ally by Landgrave Smith, Dr. Woodward, and others(the former in his garden upon the creek which is nowWater Street), about twenty-five years before, it grew by1720 upon every seated river, and formed the chiefwealth of the Province. Over seventeen thousand barrelswere exported in 1724. Indigo came later, and cottonlater still, but rice reigned in the Parishes, and itsplanters were the dominant class of Charleston, sociallyand politically, down to 1865. It should not be forgotten, however, that the planterswere likewise citizens, and that they formed a class andnot a caste. Their ranks were continually recruited fromthose of the merchants, for like their brethren at home the Seigneurs of the sea
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