Charleston, the place and the people, by St Julien Ravenel With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey . andthey vainly protested against his appointment now. Inmany respects he made a bad Governor, oppressing thepeople by his exactions, and offending the Proprietors bydemands for buildings and fortifications, which althoughneeded they had no mind to give. Still, he had the advantage of understanding the needsand resources of a new colony, putting the place into atolerable state of defence, and pointing out the agricul-ture suited to the climate. He also showed the resourcesof the forests, cuttin
Charleston, the place and the people, by St Julien Ravenel With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey . andthey vainly protested against his appointment now. Inmany respects he made a bad Governor, oppressing thepeople by his exactions, and offending the Proprietors bydemands for buildings and fortifications, which althoughneeded they had no mind to give. Still, he had the advantage of understanding the needsand resources of a new colony, putting the place into atolerable state of defence, and pointing out the agricul-ture suited to the climate. He also showed the resourcesof the forests, cutting and sending to Lord Ashley twelvegreat logs of cedarwood, as the first-fruits of his newpossession. From that time the demand for cedar was asconstant and eager as was that of Solomon upon Hiram,King of Tyre. A still more important service was, that by his advice 8 CHARLESTON and influence many rich planters from Barbadoes andother West Indian Islands came to the Province, bringingtheir negroes with them. They settled themselves chieflyon a small affluent of the Cooper, called, from the fancied. Along Goose Creek resemblance of its winding course to the curving neck ofthe goose, Goose-creek. Thence, they and their friendson the Ashley and Cooper were known as the Goose-creek men. They differed from the plain people — mostly dis-senters — who had come out with Sayle, in being generally THE LORDS PROPRIETORS 9 of a higher class, wealthy, and members of the Church ofEngland. Thus began — and not from the fanciful no-bility — that untitled class of landed gentry which, per-fectly well understood and accepted during the colonialperiod, survived the Revolution and formed a distinct andinfluential element of Charleston society down to 1865. Long after Yeamans had been removed this movementcontinued, and gentlemen of wealth and position arrivedfrom England and the Islands to the great benefit of theProvince. It was during Sir Johns term of office that the questionof removing
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