Charleston, the place and the people, by St Julien Ravenel With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey . e silent body of country gentle-men who sit but. dont speak in the House of was the same class in the little colony of the names most frequently mentioned at that time arefirst, undoubtedly, Trott and Rhett who overtop all others;Robert Johnson, the displaced Governor, and James Moore,who succeeded him provisionally. He had led the secondexpedition against the Tuscaroras, and was, says Ramsay,a man excellently qualified for being a public leader ina perilous adventure
Charleston, the place and the people, by St Julien Ravenel With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey . e silent body of country gentle-men who sit but. dont speak in the House of was the same class in the little colony of the names most frequently mentioned at that time arefirst, undoubtedly, Trott and Rhett who overtop all others;Robert Johnson, the displaced Governor, and James Moore,who succeeded him provisionally. He had led the secondexpedition against the Tuscaroras, and was, says Ramsay,a man excellently qualified for being a public leader ina perilous adventure. Arthur Middleton, as President 88 CHARLESTON of the Assembly, had led the attack on the was the second of the name in Carolina settled atCrowfield on Goose Creek. Besides these there were William Bull, son of Stephen,who built the second house of Ashley Hall, and was begin-ning a career which was to be of great distinction. RalphIzard, Colonel Broughton of Mulberry, GovernorGibbes, Mr. Berresford, all Goose Creek men—the lastremembered by his bequest of over six thousand pounds. YVvw. VMrv\. b*~~i*s Drayton Hall as a school fund, called the Berresford Bounty. TheDraytons and Bakers were on Ashley River at DraytonHall, Magnolia, and Archdale. Fenwicke, Waring,Logan, Harleston, Skrine, Parris, Kinloch, and OthnielBeale are names constantl}r occurring in councils and com-missions. Some Huguenots begin to appear in the sameway: De la Conseilliere, Le Noble, St. Julien, and Ser-rurier. Colonel John Barnwell was, next to Rhett, the THE KING AGAINST THE LORDS 89 best soldier of the colony, and with Boone, Yonge, andLloyd, represented it in England. The second Landgrave,Thomas Smith, had succeeded his father, but the son ofthe Proprietor, Joseph Blake, was still a minor, hisestate admirably administered by his mother, Madam orLady Blake ; the first of those managing matrons ofCarolina who did so much for the country, of whom wehave any knowledge. Their chief seat was
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