An American history . MARTHA WASHINGTON WHEN AYOUNG WOMAN A type of Southern aristocracy. ^ Thus Charleston, South Carolina, was written in colonial times. Thisadvertisement may have some of the defects of modern booming, but un-doubtedly had a basis in fact. It was prepared by John Peter Purry of Neuf-chatel in 1731. MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 141 Colonel William Fitzhugh of Virginia. His house was de-scribed as a very good dwelling house with many roomsin it, four of the best of them hung and nine of them plenti-fully furnished with all things necessary and convenient andall houses for
An American history . MARTHA WASHINGTON WHEN AYOUNG WOMAN A type of Southern aristocracy. ^ Thus Charleston, South Carolina, was written in colonial times. Thisadvertisement may have some of the defects of modern booming, but un-doubtedly had a basis in fact. It was prepared by John Peter Purry of Neuf-chatel in 1731. MIDDLE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 141 Colonel William Fitzhugh of Virginia. His house was de-scribed as a very good dwelling house with many roomsin it, four of the best of them hung and nine of them plenti-fully furnished with all things necessary and convenient andall houses for use furnished with brick chimneys, four goodcellars, a Dairy, Dovecot, Stable, Barn, Henhouse, Kitchenand all other conveniences. What is meant by rooms being. PRINGLE HOUSE, CHARLESTON, about 1760. hung in a letter from Sir WiHiam Pepperell (whogot his title for service at Louisburg) to a merchant in WilHam sent over the plan of a room he was furnishing andwrote, Geet mock Tapestry or painted Canvass laydin Oyls for ye same and send me. Especially fine rooms werehung with tapestry, ornamental leather, or pictured wallpaper. Of the city of New York John Oldmixon wrote that there are now about iioo houses, and near 7000 inhabitantsin it. The houses are well built, the meanest of them said 142 AMERICAN HISTORY to be worth one hundred pounds, which cannot be said ofany city in England. The great Church here was built in theyear 1695 and is a very handsome edifice. 214. The Slave Trade. Almost all these rich Americansof the middle of the eighteenth century were interested inslavery or the slave trade. Georgia, indeed, had attempted fora time to get on without slavery, but soon fell into hne with the other colonies.
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