JOURNAL OF TH 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 
 S -OCT., 1776
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 JOURNAL 
 
 OF THE 
 
 General Assembly 
 
 OF 
 
 SOUTH CAROLINA 
 
 September 17, 1776-October 20, 1776 
 
 Edited by 
 
 A. S. SALLEY, JR. 
 Secretary of the Historical Commission of South Carolina 
 
 Printed for 
 
 THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA 
 
 By The State Company, Columbia, S. C. 
 
 1909
 
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 South Carolina 
 
 Tuesday the I7th Day of September 1776 
 
 The General Assembly being adjourned to the First Day of Octo- 
 ber next But His Excellency the President and Commander in Chief 
 having thought fit to call the same by the following Proclamation 
 viz: 
 
 By His Excellency John Rutledge Esquire President 
 and Commander in Chief of South Carolina 
 
 A Proclamation 
 
 Whereas it appears to me necessary for the Public Service to call 
 the General Assembly and Legislative Council before the Time to 
 which they stand adjourned I have therefore thought fit to issue this 
 Proclamation requiring them and they are hereby required to meet 
 at Charles-Town on Tuesday the Seventeenth Day of September 
 next then and there to sit for the Dispatch of divers weighty and 
 important affairs 
 
 Given under my Hand and the Seal 
 of South-Carolina at Charles-Town 
 this 1 2th Day of August Anno Domo- 
 ni 1776. 
 
 John Rutledge 
 
 By His Excellency's Command 
 John Huger Secretary 
 
 Thirty-eight Members met on this Day But they not being a Suffi- 
 cient Number to proceed upon Business. 
 
 M r Speaker adjourned the Meeting of the House till To-morrow 
 Morning Nine of the Clock 
 
 Wednesday the i8th Day of September 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 M r . Speaker having issued Writs dated the I st . Day of August for 
 electing Members of this House to fill the Seats that had been 
 vacated by Acceptance of Places and otherwise the following 
 Returns were now made of the Election 
 
 Of Alexander Moultrie, Josiah Smith Junior, George Abbot 
 Hall, John Ernest Poyas, Peter Timothy, John Webb, Thomas Jones, 
 Arthur Middleton, Edward Rutledge, Nicholas Eveleigh, and Joshua 
 Ward Esquires, for the Parishes of St Philip and St Michael 
 Charles Town. 
 
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 Of Richard Park Stobo Esquire for the Parish of St Andrew. 
 
 Of George Livingston Esquire for the Parish of St Paul. 
 
 Of Keating Simons Esquire for the Parish of St James Goose- 
 Creek. 
 
 Of Daniel Ravenell Esquire for the Parish of St John in Berkley 
 County 
 
 Of John Matthews and John Waring Esquires for the Parish of 
 St George-Dorchester. 
 
 Of Joshua Toomer and Levi Durand Esquires for the Parish of 
 Christ-Church. 
 
 Of Colonel Willam Moultrie for the Parish of St Helena. 
 
 Of the Reverend Robert Smith Thomas Screven and Hopson 
 Pinckney Esquires for the Parish of St Thomas & St Dennis. 
 
 Of Levi Durand Esquire for the Parish of St James Santee. 
 
 Of John Withers Esquire for the Parish of Prince George 
 Winyah. 
 
 Of Thomas Sumpter and William Richardson Esquires for the 
 District to the Eastward of the Wateree River. 
 
 The following Gentlemen then took the Oath prescribed by the 
 Constitution and their Seats as Members of the House viz: Joshua 
 Ward, George Livingston, John Earnest Poyas, John Withers, 
 Thomas Jones, Nicholas Eveleigh, Josiah Smith Junior, Arnoldus 
 Vanderhorst, Elias Ball Junior, Benjamin Waring, William Bris- 
 bane, Ralph Izard, George King, George Robinson John Collins 
 George Abbot Hall John Webb and John Matthews Esquires. 
 
 Levi Durand Esquire returned duly elected in Two Parishes 
 Christ Church and St James Santee made his Election for the 
 former then took the Oath prescribed by the Constitution and his 
 Seat as a Member. 
 
 M r Speaker Acquainted the House that he had received a Letter 
 from Peter Timothy requesting Leave to resign the Place of Clerk 
 to this House which Letter M r Speaker read to the House in the 
 words following, 
 
 Honourable Sir, 
 
 As I engaged, and took an active Part, in the present struggle 
 of America to preserve its Rights, from Principle, and even without 
 a distant View to advance my private Interest ; so I accepted the 
 unsolicited and unexpected Honour conferred upon me, by the 
 unanimous Voice of the present General Assembly, in their appoint- 
 ment of me for their Clerk, as a public acknowledgement that my 
 former Conduct in the Station of Secretary to the several Congresses
 
 had at least been irreproachable and I have endeavoured to dis- 
 charge the last Duty to which I was appointed with equal Fidelity 
 so far as my circumscribed abilities would allow. 
 
 But having- since received the most honourable Testimony from 
 my Fellow-Citizens, also, of their approbation of my Conduct as a 
 member by re-electing me one of the Representatives of this metrop- 
 olis, notwithstanding my having been appointed to a Place of Emolu- 
 ment; and as it may be impossible for me to discharge with Pro- 
 priety and Satisfaction the Duties both of a Member and Clerk, I 
 think it incumbent on me to give a Preference to the last Election, 
 and obey the summons I have seen affixed to the Church-Door. 
 
 .1 do therefore beg Leave to request that my Resignation of the 
 Place of Clerk to the General Assembly may be accepted, and that 
 your Honour will do me the Favour to deliver my most grateful 
 Thanks to the House as well for the favourable Opinion they have 
 been pleased to entertain of me as for the Indulgences they have 
 shewn to my Imperfections ; I have the Honour to be Sir with great 
 Respect 
 
 Your most obedient & most Humble Serv*. 
 
 Peter Timothy 
 Charles-Town 
 1 7th September 1776 
 
 Whereupon it was moved and 
 
 Ordered That M r Timothy be sent for and acquainted by the 
 Speaker That the House had Experience of his Integrity and Ability, 
 so they did not incline to accept of his Resignation but desired and 
 expected that he would continue to act as their Clerk at least during 
 the present Session as the Time would be but short. 
 
 M r . Timothy attending, and being informed accordingly He 
 declared his Obligation to the House for the favourable Opinion they 
 were pleased to have of him and that in Compliance with the Expec- 
 tation of the House, whose Commands he was always ready to obey, 
 he would continue to execute, to the best of his Power, the Duty of 
 Clerk; provided it was not expected, that his Continuance in that 
 Office should prevent his qualifying and taking his seat as a member 
 
 Which the House acquiescing in ; M r Timothy took his Place as 
 Clerk, and afterwards qualifyed as a member 
 
 On Motion 
 
 Resolved That the Admission of the present Clerk of this House 
 to act in that Capacity and at the same to sit as a member shall not 
 be drawn into Precedent.
 
 Ordered That Colonel Horry and M r . William Skirving do wait 
 on the President and acquaint His Excellency that the House is met. 
 
 Ordered That all the Committees who were appointed during the 
 last sitting of the General Assembly and have not yet reported be 
 revived. 
 
 Colonel Horry reported That M r Skirving and himself had 
 attended the President with the message they had in Charge And 
 that His Excellency was pleased to say the House should hear from 
 him. 
 
 A Petition of William Scott Junior was presented to the House 
 and read in the words following vizt. 
 
 That the Petitioner together with Jonathan Scott Clement Lam- 
 prier Hugh Rutledge Levi Durand and Joshua Toomer Esquires 
 were Candidates at the Election lately held' in the Parish of Christ- 
 Church for the choosing of Two members to sit in the General 
 Assembly in the Room of His Excellency the President and Captain 
 Lamprier 
 
 That at the Close of the Poll at the said Election and examining 
 the Votes there appeared to be Thirty Votes for Joshua Toomer 
 Twenty Seven Votes Part whereof were for William Scott and Part 
 for William Scott Junior and Twenty-five Votes for Levi Durand 
 and thereupon the Petitioner (who was at the Election) and Joshua 
 Toomer were declared duly elected and complimented thereupon by 
 several of the Electors. 
 
 That after such Declaration a Scrutiny was demanded and the 
 Votes severally again looked over and some of them which were 
 given in for the Petitioner appearing without the Word Junior 
 thereto the Church Wardens were thereupon pleased to declare Levi 
 Durand Esquire with Joshua Toomer Esquire duly elected and have 
 returned the said Gentlemen accordingly 
 
 That the Petitioner conceives himself injured by such Return as 
 he presumes he was duly elected by having more Votes than Levi 
 Durand Esquire although the word Junior was omitted in some of 
 them there being no other Person of his name who had offered him- 
 self as a Candidate or any of his name in this Country to his knowl- 
 edge but his Uncle William Scott Esquire who is already a member 
 of this Honourable House And as the Electors who voted for the 
 Petitioner are ready to testify that although they left out the word 
 Junior they meant to vote for him Your Petitioner therefore humbly 
 prays this Honourable House to take his Case into Consideration 
 and grant him such Relief therein as may appear Just
 
 Ordered That the said Petition be referred to a Committee on 
 Priviledges and Elections 
 
 Ordered That the following Gentlemen be a Committee on Privi- 
 ledges and Elections (viz) Colonel Pinckney M r Justice Matthews 
 Reverend M r Tennent Captain Vanderhorst M r De Saussure Hon- 
 ourable M r Edwards Colonel Horry M r Young and M r Williamson 
 
 The House being informed That the Honourable Thomas Bee 
 and the Honourable David Oliphant Esquires had been appointed to 
 Places of Emolument whereby their Seats in the Legislative Council 
 were vacated, Therefore 
 
 Resolved That this House will To-morrow morning proceed to 
 ballot for Two members of the Legislative Council in the Room of 
 the Honourable M r Bee and the Honourable M r . Oliphant 
 
 M r Speaker informed the House that he had received a Letter 
 addressed to them which he had not opened, 
 
 And the said Letter being received, opened and read was from 
 Joseph Turpin Commander of the armed Brigantine Comet belong- 
 ing to this State dated Charles Town i6th September. 1776. 
 
 Ordered That the said Letter do lie on the Table for the Perusal 
 of the members 
 
 A Memorial of Richard Pearis was presented to the House and 
 read in the words following 
 
 That the memorialist sometime past was released from Confine- 
 ment took the Test Oath also the Oath of Fidelity as appear by a 
 Certificate signed by His Excellency recommending him to all good 
 People. 
 
 That the memorialist set out on his Journey towards Home but to 
 his great Surprize found himself ruined by means of Colonel Thomas 
 and his Party who burnt and destroyed his Houses, Mills, Grain and 
 Furniture, his negroes and stocks of Cattle sold and the spoil dis- 
 tributed amongst him and his men whose Cruelty extended so far 
 as to strip M rs . Pearis and Family leaving them with only Part of 
 their Apparel and then to shift for themselves. 
 
 That the memorialist having furnished himself with vouchers and 
 testimonial Proofs respecting his Grievance. Therefore most humbly 
 prays that Order might be made for restoring his negroes and stocks 
 of Cattle and with Regard to all other Damage the memorialist sub- 
 mits to your serious Consideration praying such Relief in the Prem- 
 ises as you, in your wisdom shall deem meet 
 
 Ordered That the said memorial be referred to the following 
 Committee (viz) Colonel Gervais, M r Robinson, M r Collins
 
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 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of 
 the Clock. 
 
 Thursday the iQth Day of September. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of yesterdays proceedings, 
 
 Henry William Harrington & George Hicks Esquires were 
 returned duly elected members of this House for the Parish of Saint 
 David. 
 
 M r Pegues, M r Stobo, M r Hicks, M r Attorney General M r . Philip 
 Smith and M r . Sally took the Oath prescribed by the Constitution 
 and their Seats as members of the House 
 
 The House according to their Resolve of Yesterday proceeded to 
 ballot for Two members of the Legislative Council in the Room of 
 the Honble M r Bee and the Honourable M r . Oliphant, the former 
 having been elected a Judge and the latter appointed Director-Gen- 
 eral of the Hospitals 
 
 And the Ballots being cast up, 
 
 M r Speaker reported That Thomas Fuller and Daniel Horry 
 Esquires were duly elected by majority of Votes. 
 
 The Honourable Rawlins Lowndes Esquire attending took the 
 Oath prescribed by the Constitution and his Seat as a member of 
 this House declining to take the Seat to which he had been elected 
 in the Legislative Council 
 
 Resolved That this House will immediately proceed to the Elec- 
 tion of another member of the Legislative Council in the Room of 
 the Honourable M r . Lowndes 
 
 The House proceed to ballot accordingly 
 
 And the* Ballots being Reckoned 
 
 M r Speaker reported That John Parker Esquire was duly elected 
 a member of the Legislative Council in the Room of the Honourable 
 M r ,, Lowndes 
 
 Ordered That a Copy of the minutes of the foregoing Elections 
 be made out, signed by the Speaker, and delivered to the Gentlemen 
 elected. 
 
 Message from the President by the Master in Chancery 
 
 M r Speaker 
 
 His Excellency the President desires the attendance of this 
 House in the Council Chamber immediately. 
 
 And the messenger withdrew 
 
 M r Speaker with the House waited upon His Excellency accord- 
 ingly.
 
 And being returned, M r Speaker reported That this House having 
 waited upon the President in the Council Chamber His Excellency 
 had been pleased to make a speech of which he had obtained a Copy 
 in the following words. 
 
 Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council 
 
 M r . Speaker and Gentlemen of the General Assembly. 
 
 I think it my Duty to pay this Tribute of applause to those brave 
 Troops who in repelling the formidable British Armament which 
 attacked them on Sullivants Island vainly flattering themselves with 
 an assurance of easy conquest displayed a Firmness and Intrepidity, 
 that would have reflected Honour on Roman Veterans, and I most 
 heartily congratulate you on their heroic Behaviour. 
 
 It is an auspicious Presage of what may be expected frqm the 
 Valour of our other Troops, when Theirs shall be the Post of Dan- 
 ger, as it demonstrates that men animated by an ardent Zeal for the 
 Sacred Liberties of their Country, and trusting in the Divine sup- 
 port, are capable of the most glorious Atchievements. 
 
 The Cherokee Indians having committed such barbarous acts of 
 Hostility as threatened Desolation to the Frontier Settlements at a 
 Time when the Enemy lay in view of this Town, and an attack on it 
 was daily expected, a considerable Force was immediately sent into 
 that Nation to obtain Satisfaction for their cruel Outrages by acting 
 with the greatest Vigour Our people have behaved with much 
 Spirit It has pleased God to grant very signal Success to their 
 Operations, and I hope by His Blessing on our Arms and those of 
 North Carolina and Virginia, from whom I have Promises of aid, 
 an End may soon be put to this War. 
 
 Since your last meeting the Continental Congress have declared 
 .the United Colonies Free and Independent States absolved from 
 Allegience to the British Crown and the Political Connexion between 
 them and Great Britain totally dissolved an Event which necessity 
 had rendered not only Justifiable but unavoidable This Declaration 
 and Several Resolves of that Honourable Body received during your 
 Recess shall be laid before you I doubt not you will take such 
 measures as may be necessary in Consequence of them. 
 
 A well regulated Militia being essential to the Preservation of our 
 Freedom I am persuaded you will think with me that your Time 
 cannot be better employed than in framing a Law for making such 
 Improvements in the militia as may produce the most beneficial Con- 
 sequences.
 
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 It is not improbable that at the Season appointed for the meeting 
 of the next Assembly the Business of Legislation must yield to that 
 of a different nature and it behoves us to employ this Time of the 
 Enemy's Absence in making the best Preparations for Defence and 
 enacting such Laws as the present Exigencies demand I have 
 therefore thought it for the Public Service to call you together now 
 that you may deliberate on those matters which tend to the Interest 
 and Security of the State 
 
 I shall propose what in the Course of your Session appear so to 
 me and be happy in receiving your Advice on and concurring with 
 you in any that may effect those important Objects. 
 
 John Rutledge 
 September I9th. 1776 
 
 Message from the President by the Master in Chancery, 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen of the General Assembly, 
 
 I send you the Resolves of Congress which I promised to lay 
 before you also a Letter from the Delegates of this State relative to 
 the East-India Tea in the Cellars under the Exchange 
 
 And I recommend it to you to consider whether it will not be 
 expedient to dispose of this Tea, and apply the money arising from 
 the sale of it towards defraying the Public Expences 
 
 John Rutledge 
 September iQth. 1776 
 
 The Papers accompanying the foregoing Message were 
 
 Letter from the Delegates of this State in the Continental Congress 
 dated Philadelphia pth July 1776, inclosing. 
 
 Resolves of Congress of 26th December 1775, I7th February I4th 
 March 23d and 25th March 6th April, Order of the Continental 
 Board of Treasury of 7th May Resolves of Congress of i8th igth. 
 24th and 26th June the Declaration of Independence 4th July and 
 Resolves of Congress of 4th and 5th July 1776 Also 
 
 Another Letter from the Delegates dated Philadelphia 25th July 
 inclosing 
 
 A Letter from the Honourable John Hancock President of Con- 
 gress to His Excellency the President of this State dated Philadel- 
 phia 24th July 1776 inclosing Resolves of Congress of that Date 
 Also 
 
 Another Resolve of Congress 24th July 1776 
 
 Ordered That the Speech this Day delivered to both Houses by 
 His Excellency the President, and also His Excellency's Message of 
 this Date be referred to the following Committee, (viz) the Hon-
 
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 curable M r Lowndes, Colonel Pinckney, M r . Attorney General, the 
 Reverend M r Tennent, the Honourable M r Edwards, M r . Neufville, 
 Colonel Motte, M r . Philip Smith, and Captain Roger Smith 
 
 M r . Pegues informed the House that the small-Pox having broke 
 out among the Drivers or Passengers in some Waggons from Phil- 
 adelphia in the Service of M r John Mitchell of Meldrum arrived 
 in the Frontiers of this State some Committees had thought it neces- 
 sary to take measures for preventing that Infection being brought or 
 spread in this Country but were desirous of being indemnified in 
 what they had done and to be authorized by the General Assembly 
 to pursue any further measures that might be necessary. 
 
 Ordered That the information laid before this House by M r 
 Pegues be referred to the following Committee (viz) M r Loocock 
 Major Hicks M r . Josiah Smith Junior M r . Withers and M r Young 
 And that they do report thereon as soon as may be 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow-morning nine of 
 the Clock. 
 
 Friday the 2oth Day of September. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterday's Proceedings. 
 
 John Waring, Keating Simons, Charles Cantey, and John Cald- 
 well of St Matthews Parish Esquires took the Oath prescribed by 
 the Constitution and their Seats, as members of this House for the 
 Parishes they respectively were elected to represent 
 
 M r . Young reported from the Committee, to whom was referred 
 the Information given to the House Yesterday by M r Pegues re- 
 specting a number of waggons laden with Woolens and other Mer- 
 chandise said to be the Property of M r . John Mitchell now on their 
 way from Philadelphia to this State some of the Drivers or Passen- 
 gers of which having the Infection of the small-Pox And he read 
 the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's 
 Table where the same was read and is as followeth 
 
 That it is the Opinion of your Committee that the District Com- 
 mittee of St David's Parish be authorized and impowered to take 
 every necessary Precaution and use every means in their Power to 
 prevent the Infection spreading by causing the Persons and Mer- 
 chandize so infected to be carried to some distant Place from the 
 Settlements and place a proper Guard thereon till such Time as they 
 shall be fully satisfied that no Infection remains or to pursue any 
 other mode that they shall think most proper.
 
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 That the Goods during such Detention shall be and remain at the 
 Risk of the Owner or Owners thereof That the Expence accruing 
 thereon be advanced by the Public And that the Chairman of the 
 said District Committee be impowered to draw upon the Treasury 
 for the same to be refunded by M r . Mitchell 
 
 Your Committee are further of Opinion That the said District 
 Committee should be indemnified for any necessary step already and 
 hereafter to be taken by them to prevent the said Infection from 
 spreading in this State 
 
 Resolved That the said Report be taken into Consideration im- 
 mediately 
 
 And the same being taken into Consideration accordingly was 
 amended and agreed to by the House and is as followeth 
 
 That it is the opiniftn of the Committee that the District Committee 
 of St. Davids Parish be authorized and required to take every neces- 
 sary Precaution and use every means in their Power to prevent the 
 Infection spreading by causing the Persons and merchandize so 
 infected to be carried to some distant Place from the Settlements 
 and place a proper Guard thereon till such Time as they are satisfied 
 no Infection remains or to pursue any other mode that they shall 
 think most proper 
 
 That the Goods during such Detention shall be and remain at the 
 Risk of the Owner or Owners thereof That the Expences accruing 
 thereon be advanced by the Public And that the Chairman of the 
 said District Committee be impowered to draw on the Treasury for 
 the same to be refunded by M r . Mitchell if the General Assembly 
 shall hereafter think proper 
 
 Your Committee are further of Opinion that the said District 
 Committee should be indemnified for any necessary stepts already 
 and hereafter to be taken by them in order to prevent the said In- 
 fection from spreading in this State 
 
 Ordered That a Message be sent to the President with a Copy of 
 the foregoing Report 
 
 The Honourable M r Lowndes reported from the Committee to 
 whom the President's speech delivered to both Houses Yesterday an 
 address in answer to the said Speech And he read the address in his 
 Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the 
 same was read and is as followeth 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 We the Representatives of the State of South Carolina convened 
 and met in General Assembly beg Leave most heartily to join your
 
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 Excellency with our Tribute of applause to those brave Troops who 
 lately signalized themselves by their Firmness and Intrepidity in 
 repelling the formidable British Armament which attacked them on 
 Sullivant's Island and thereby disappointing the vain and flattering 
 Expectations of our cruel and unnatural Foes a Tribute we deemed 
 justly due from an injured Country for such heroic Behaviour and as 
 a greatful Testimony of the early and auspicious Presage of the 
 future Valour and Heroism of men animated by the noblest of all 
 Incentives an ardent Zeal for the sacred Liberties of their Country 
 and a Confidence in Divine Justice 
 
 We are happy to find the barbarous and ungrateful attempts of 
 the Cherokee Indians on our Frontier Settlements are checked by 
 the spirit and activity of our Countrymen in those Parts and from 
 their past Success as well as the Zeal and Activity of our Friends of 
 North Carolina and Virginia hope a speedy End will soon be put 
 to the Outrages of those destestable Savages 
 
 It is with the most unspeakable Pleasure we embrace this oppor- 
 tunity of expressing our Joy and Satisfaction in the Declaration of 
 the Continental Congress declaring the United Colonies Free and 
 Independent States absolved from allegiance to the British Crown 
 and totally dissolving all political union between them and Great 
 Britain an Event unsought for and now produced by unavoidable 
 necessity and which every Friend to Justice and Humanity must not 
 only hold justifiable as the natural Effects of unmeritted Persecution 
 but equally rejoice in, as the only effectual Security against Injuries 
 and oppressions and the most promising source of future Liberty and 
 Safety. 
 
 The Declaration of Independency and the Resolves of the Hon- 
 ourable the Continental Congress now laid before us shall be the 
 principal objects of our attention in our Deliberations for the Public 
 Good 
 
 We are fully persuaded how essential it is to the Freedom and 
 Support of a free State to have a well-regulated Militia and more 
 especially to this State in the present Circumstance of Affairs in 
 America we shall therefore think it our Duty while the Business 
 of Legislation is not interrupted by the Din of Arms to employ every 
 moment necessary to effect a Purpose so essential and so beneficial 
 in making the best Preparations for Defence and Enacting such 
 Laws as are necessary for the Safety and Security of the State 
 
 Resolved That the said Address be taken into immediate Consid- 
 eration
 
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 The first and Second Clauses thereof being read were amended 
 and agreed to by the House 
 
 Upon reading the third Clause it was moved to amend the same 
 by striking out the words unspeakable Pleasure 
 
 A Debate ensuing 
 
 And the Question being put, 
 
 It passed in the Negative. 
 
 The third fourth and fifth Clauses being then read and amended 
 were agreed to And the said Address as agreed to is in the words 
 following 
 
 To His Excellency John Rutledge President and 
 Commander in Chief of the State of South Caro- 
 lina 
 
 The Address of the General Assembly of 
 
 the said State 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 We the the Representatives of the State of South Caro- 
 lina met in General Assembly beg Leave most heartily to join your 
 Excellency with our Tribute of Applause to those brave Troops who 
 lately signalized themselves by their Firmness and Intrepidity in re- 
 pelling the formidable British Armament which attacked them on 
 Sullivant's Island and thereby disappointing the vain and flattering 
 Expectations of our cruel and unnatural Foes a Tribute we deemed 
 justly due from an injured Country for such heroic Behaviour and 
 as a greatful Testimony of the early and auspicious Presage of the 
 future Valour and Heroism of men animated by the noblest of all 
 Incentives an ardent Zeal for the Sacred Liberties of their Country 
 and a Confidence in Divine Justice. 
 
 We are happy to find the barbarous and ungrateful Attempts of 
 the Cherokee Indians instigated by our British Enemies on our 
 Frontier settlements are checked by the spirit and activity of our 
 brave Countrymen in those Parts and from their past Success as 
 well as the Zeal and Activity of our Friends of North Carolina and 
 Virginia hope a speedy End will be put to the Outrages of those 
 destable Savages 
 
 It is with unspeakable Pleasure we embrace this Opportunity of 
 expressing our Satisfaction in the Declaration of the Continental 
 Congress constituting the United Colonies Free and Independent 
 States absolved from Allegiance to the British Crown and totally 
 dissolving all political Union between them and Great Britain an 
 Event unsought for and now produced by unavoidable necessity and
 
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 which every Friend to Justice and Humanity must not only hold 
 justifiable as the natural Effect of unmerited Persecution but equally 
 rejoice in as the only effectual Security against Injuries and Oppres- 
 sions and the most promising scource of future Liberty and Safety 
 
 The Declaration of Independency and Resolves of the Honourable 
 the Continental Congress now laid before us shall be the principal 
 object of our attention in our Deliberations for the Public Good 
 
 We are fully persuaded that it is essential to the Liberties and 
 Support of a free State to have a well-regulated militia and more 
 especially to this State in the present Circumstance of affairs in 
 America we shall therefore think it our Duty while the Business of 
 Legislation is not interrupted by the Din of Arms to employ every 
 opportunity to effect a Purpose so beneficial in making the best Pre- 
 parations for Defence and in framing such Laws as are necessary 
 for the Safety and Security of the State 
 
 Ordered That the Address be ingrossed 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Gervais and M r . Ralph Izard do wait on 
 the President and acquaint him the House have an address to pre- 
 sent to His Excellency and desire to know when he will please to be 
 attended for that Purpose. 
 
 Colonel Pinckney reported from the Committee on Privileges and 
 Elections to whom was referred the Petition of William Scott Junior 
 of Charles Town merchant the matter as it appeared to them touch- 
 ing the Election for the Parish of Christ-Church with their Opinion 
 thereupon And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards de- 
 livered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read and is as 
 followeth 
 
 That they have considered the sajd Petition and have examined 
 witnesses concerning the Truth of the allegations therein contained 
 and find That at the Election for Two Members for the Parish of 
 Christ-Church at the Close of the Ballot there appeared to be Thirty 
 Votes for Joshua Toomer Twenty Votes for Levi Durand Twelve 
 for William Scott and Fifteen for William Scott Junior That the 
 Petitioner William Scott Junior was the only candidate of the name 
 of William Scott That it did not appear to your Committee that there 
 was any other Person of that name in the Country but William Scott 
 Esquire already a member of this House and Uncle to the Petitioner 
 And that even by the Admission of M r Durand the sitting member 
 it appeared that the Votes which were given for William Scott were 
 meant and intended for the Petitioner William Scott junior
 
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 Your Committee further report that on its being suggested by M r 
 Durancl the sitting member that several Persons who had Voted at 
 the said Election had not the Qualifications required by Law they 
 examined the List of the Electors and found that only one Person had 
 ballotted who was not duly qualified whereby a majority of Votes 
 still appeared to be for the Petitioner 
 
 Your Committee therefore are of Opinion that William Scott the 
 Petitioner should have been returned duly elected and not M r . 
 Durand the sitting member and recommend it to the House that the 
 returning Officer be ordered to strike out the name of Levi Durand 
 on the Return of the Writ of Election and insert the name .of Wil- 
 liam Scott Junior in its stead. 
 
 Resolved That the said Report be taken into Consideration imme- 
 diately 
 
 And the same being taken into Consideration accordingly, 
 
 Resolved That this House do agree with the Report of the Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Ordered That Jonathan Scott the returning officer do attend this 
 House immediately to amend the Return for the Parish of Christ- 
 Church by rasing out the name of Levi Durand Esquire and insert- 
 ing the name of William Scott Junior Esquire instead thereof, 
 
 Ordered That the Several Papers which accompanied the Presi- 
 dent's message of Yesterday be now read 
 
 And they were read accordingly And are as follow 
 Letter from the Delegates of this State in 
 the Continental Congress to His Excel- 
 lency the President 
 
 Philadelphia gth July. 1776 
 Sir 
 
 Inclosed are the Resolutions of Congress respecting our 
 Provincial Forces We wish they may be agreeable to your Excellency 
 to our Assembly and to the officers of our Army if they are not there 
 is nothing compulsory in them Congress would not strictly comply 
 with the Request we were ordered to make on this subject lest they 
 should establish a Precedent which might be injurious to the General 
 Interest of America; We have therefore been obliged to vary our 
 application and to adopt such Resolutions as seemed most conforma- 
 ble to the Intentions of our Congress and most likely to give Satis- 
 faction to the Officers of our Army. 
 
 Inclosed also are some other occasional Resolutions of Congress 
 and a very important Declaration which the King of Great-Britain
 
 has at last reduced us to the necessity of making, all the Colonies 
 were united upon this great Subject except New- York whose Dele- 
 gates were restrained by an Instruction given several months ago, 
 their Convention is to meet in a few days when it is expected that 
 Instruction will be immediately withdrawn and the Declaration 
 unanimously agreed to by the Thirteen United States of America. 
 
 We have procured an Order from Congress for Three Hundred 
 Thousand Dollars for the Payment and Disbursements of our 
 Troops which will be forwarded to you as soon as possible : Congress 
 have also given Directions to the Commanding officer in Virginia 
 about a Fortnight ago to send forward Five Thousand Pounds of 
 Gun Powder to our Colony. 
 
 Every Day now is likely to produce something important We 
 have heard of Clinton's Arrival off Charles Town Bar and most 
 anxiously wait to know the Event General Howe's Army from 
 Halifax said to contain 10,000 men are arrived at Sandy Hook a 
 Part of them are landed upon Staten Island it is said he is waiting to 
 be joined by 20,000 more who are coming from England in the 
 Fleet under Lord Howe when it is expected that New-York will 
 become the scene of action The Army under General Washington 
 are in high spirits and the militia have taken the Field with an 
 alacrity that does them Honour; From these Circumstances we still 
 hope for a Providential Interposition and that the Virtuous Efforts 
 of America will be crowned with deserved Success With the great- 
 est Respect we are 
 
 Your Excellency's 
 
 P S the Express is most obedient Servants 
 
 to be paid for every Thomas Lynch 
 
 Day that he is Detained Edward Rutledge 
 
 in Carolina Arthur Middleton 
 
 Thomas Hey ward junior 
 Thomas Lynch Junior 
 His Excellency John Rutledge Esquire 
 
 In Congress December 26th. 1775 
 
 Resolved That it be recommended to the several assemblies Con- 
 ventions Councils or Committees of Safety of the respective Colonies 
 to ascertain by the most impartial and effectual means in their Power 
 the number of Inhabitants in each respective Colony taking Care 
 that the Lists be authenticated by the Oaths of the several Persons 
 who shall be intrusted with this Service and that the said Assemblies 
 Conventions Councils or Committees of Safety do respectively lay 
 
 2 H. c.
 
 i8 
 
 before this Congress a Return of the number of Inhabitants of their 
 respective Colonies as soon as the same shall be procured 
 Extract from the minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary 
 Copy 
 
 In Congress February I7th. 1776 
 
 ist Resolved That a standing Committee of Five be appointed for 
 superintending the Treasury 
 
 5th Article That it shall be the Business of this Committee to 
 obtain from the different Assemblies and Conventions of the United 
 Colonies Accounts of the number of Inhabitants in each Colony ac- 
 cording to a Resolution of Congress on that Subject 
 Extract from the Minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary 
 Copy 
 At a Treasury-Board held at the Treasury Office 
 
 in Philadelphia the 7th Day of May Anno Domini 1776 
 
 Present 
 James Duane Chairman ") 
 
 Thomas Willing V Esquires Superintendants 
 
 Elbridge Gerry J 
 
 John Gibson Auditor General 
 William Webb Assistant 
 
 Ordered That Letters be written pursuant to the Resolution of 
 Congress of the Seventeenth day of February to the different Assem- 
 blies and Conventions of the United Colonies requesting them to fur- 
 nish Accounts of the number of the Inhabitants in each Colony 
 respectively according to Resolution of Congress on that Subject 
 And that a Copy of the last mentioned Resolution be forwarded to 
 each of them 
 
 Extract from the Minutes of the Treasury Board 
 John Gibson Auditor General 
 In Congress March 14 th 1776. 
 
 Resolved That it be recommended to the several Assemblies Con- 
 ventions and Councils or Committees of Safety of the United Colo- 
 nies immediately to Cause all Persons to be disarmed within their 
 respective Colonies who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of 
 America or who have not associated and shall refuse to associate to 
 defend by Arms these United Colonies against the hostile attempts 
 of the British Fleets and Armies ; And to apply the Arms taken from 
 such Persons in each respective Colony in the first Place to the Arm-
 
 ing the Continental Troops raised in said Colony, in the next to the 
 Arming such Troops as are raised by such Colony for its own De- 
 fence and the Residue to be applied to the Arming the associators; 
 That such Arms when taken be appraised by indifferent Persons and 
 such as are applied to the Arming Continental Troops, be paid for 
 by the Congress and the Residue by the respective Assemblies, Con- 
 ventions or Councils or Committees of Safety 
 
 Extract from the minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary 
 
 In Congress March 23 1776 
 
 Whereas the Petitions of these United Colonies to the King for the 
 Redress of great and manifest Grievances have not only been re- 
 jected but treated with Scorn and Contempt and the Opposition to 
 Designs evidently formed to reduce them to a state of servile sub- 
 jection and their necessary Defence against hostile Forces actually 
 employed to subdue them declared Rebellion And Whereas an un- 
 just War hath been commenced against them which the Command- 
 ers of the British Fleets and Armies have prosecuted and still con- 
 tinue to prosecute with the utmost Vigour and in a Cruel Manner 
 wasting spoiling and destroying the Country burning Houses and 
 defenceless Towns and exposing the helpless Inhabitants to every 
 misery from the Inclemency of the Winter and not only urging 
 Savages to invade the Country but instigating negroes to murder 
 their masters And Whereas the Parliament of Great-Britain hath 
 lately passed an Act affirming these Colonies to be in open Rebellion 
 forbidding all Trade and Commerce with the Inhabitants thereof 
 untill they shall accept Pardons and submit to dispotic Rule declar- 
 ing their Property wherever found upon the Water liable to Seizure 
 and Confiscation and enacting that what had been done there by 
 Virtue of the Royal Authority were just and lawful Acts and shall 
 be so deemed From all which it is manifest that the iniquitous 
 Scheme concerted to deprive them of the Liberty they have a Right 
 to by the Laws of Nature and the English Constitution will be per- 
 tinaciously pursued ; It being therefore necessary to provide for their 
 Defence and Security and justifiable to make Reprisals upon their 
 Enemies and otherwise to annoy them according to the Laws and 
 Usages of Nations, the Congress trusting, that such of their Friends 
 in Great-Britain of whom it is confessed there are many, intitled to 
 applause and Gratitude for their Patriotism and Benevolence and in 
 whose Favour a Discrimination of Property cannot be made) as shall
 
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 suffer by Captures will impute it to the Authors of our common 
 Calamities Do Declare and Resolve as followeth. (to wit) 
 
 Resolved That the Inhabitants of these Colonies be permitted to 
 fit out armed Vessells to cruize on the Enemies of these United Col- 
 onies. 
 
 Resolved That all ships and other Vessells their Tackle apparel 
 and Furniture and all Goods Wares and Merchandizes belonging to 
 any Inhabitant or Inhabitants of Great-Britain taken on the High 
 Seas or between high and low-water mark by any armed Vessel 
 fitted out by any private Person or Persons to whom Commissions 
 shall be granted and being libelled and prosecuted in any Court 
 erected for the Trial of Maritime Affairs in any armed Vessel fitted 
 out by any private Person or Persons to whom Commissions shall be 
 granted and being libelled and prosecuted in any Court erected for 
 the Trial of Maritime Affairs in any of these Colonies shall be 
 deemed and adjudged to be lawful Prize and after deducting and 
 paying the Wages the Seamen and Mariners on board of such Cap- 
 tures as are Merchants Ships and Vessels shall be intitled to ac- 
 cording to the Terms of their Contracts until the Time of Adjuca- 
 tion shall be condemned to and for the Use of the Owner or Owners 
 and the officers marines and mariners of such armed Vessel accord- 
 ing to such Rules and Proportions as they shall agree on Provided 
 always That this Resolution shall not extend or be construed to 
 extend to any Vessel bringing Settlers Arms Ammunition or War- 
 like Stores to and for the Use of these Colonies or any of the In- 
 habitants thereof who are Friends to the American Cause or to such 
 Warlike Stores or to the effects of such Settlers. 
 
 Resolved That all Ships or Vessels with their Tackle Apparel and 
 Furniture Goods Wares and merchandizes belonging to any In- 
 habitants of Great-Britain as aforesaid which shall be taken by any 
 of the Vessels of W r ar of these united Colonies shall be deemed for- 
 feited One Third after deducting and paying the wages of seamen 
 and marines as aforesaid to the officers and men on board and Two 
 Thirds to the use of the United Colonies. 
 
 Resolved That all ships or vessels with their Tackle apparel and 
 Furniture Goods wares and merchandizes belonging to any Inhabit- 
 ants of Great-Britain as aforesaid which shall be taken by any 
 Vessel of War fitted out by and at the Expence of any of the United 
 Colonies shall be deemed forfeited and divided after deducting and 
 paying the Wages of Seamen and mariners as aforesaid in such
 
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 manner and Proportions as the assembly or Convention of such 
 Colony shall direct. 
 
 Resolved That all Vessels their Tackle apparel and Furniture and 
 Cargoes belonging to Inhabitants of Great-Britain as aforesaid and 
 all Vessels which may be employed in carrying Supplies to the Min- 
 isterial Armies which shall happen to be taken near the shores of 
 these Colonies by the People of the Country or Detachments from 
 the Army shall be deemed lawful Prize and the Court of Admiralty 
 within the said Colony is required on Condemnation thereof to ad- 
 judge that all Charges and Expences which may attend the Capture 
 and Trial be first paid out of the monies arising from the Sales of 
 the Prize and the Remainder equally divided among all those who 
 shall have been actually engaged and employed in taking the said 
 Prize Provided That where any Detachments of the Army shall have 
 been employed as aforesaid their Part of the Prize-money shall be 
 distributed among them in Proportion to the Pay of the Officers and 
 Soldiers so employed 
 
 Extract from the Minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary 
 
 In Congress March 25, 1776 
 
 Resolved That the Convention or Council of Safety of South Car- 
 olina be permitted to raise and embody Two other Battalions and 
 that they be on the Pay and at the Expence of the Continent as 
 soon as they shall be armed fit for Service and accordingly mus- 
 tered 
 
 Extract from the minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary 
 
 In Congress April 6 1776 
 
 Resolved That any Goods Wares and merchandize except Staves 
 and empty Casks other than shaken or knocked down Casks for 
 melasses may be exported from The Thirteen United Colonies by 
 the Inhabitants thereof and by the people of all such Countries 
 as are not subject to the King of Great-Britain to any Parts of 
 the World which are not under the Dominion of the said King 
 Provided That no Vessel be permitted to export any greater Num- 
 ber of Shaken or knocked down Melasses Casks than the same Ves- 
 sel is capable of carrying when they shall be filled with Melasses 
 
 Resolved That any Goods Wares and Merchandize except such as 
 are of the Growth Production or Manufacture of or brought from 
 any Country under the Dominion of the King of Great-Britain and 
 except East-India Tea may be imported from any Parts of the
 
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 World to the Thirteen United Colonies by the Inhabitants thereof 
 and by the People of all such Countries as are not subject to the 
 said King liable however to all such Duties and Impositions as now 
 are or may hereafter be laid by any of the said colonies. 
 
 Resolved That nothing herein contained shall be understood to 
 prevent such future commercial Regulations as shall be thought 
 just and necessary by these United Colonies or their respective Leg- 
 islature. 
 
 Resolved That no Slaves be imported into any of the Thirteen 
 United Colonies. 
 
 Resolved That it be recommended to Assemblies and Conventions 
 in the several Colonies to appoint proper Officers at convenient 
 Places in their respective Colonies to take Bonds in adequate Penal- 
 ties for observing the Regulations made by the Congress or assem- 
 blies or Conventions concerning Trade and for securing the Obser- 
 vation of such Parts of the Association as are not inconsistent there- 
 with and that the Obligator shall within Eighteen Months after the 
 Departure of the Vessel produce to such Officers a Certificate under 
 the Hands and Seals of Three or more reputable merchants residing 
 at the Port or Place where the Cargo shall be delivered that the 
 same was there unladed and take manifests upon Oath of the Car- 
 goes exported and imported and keep fair Accounts and Entries 
 thereof give Bills of Health when desired, grant Registers shewing 
 the Property of the Vessels cleared out and sign Certificates that the 
 Requisites for qualifying Vessels to trade have been complied with 
 and that the Fees of the said officers be stated by the respective As- 
 semblies or Conventions Provided always That no Prosecution upon 
 any of the said Bonds shall be Commenced but within Three years 
 after the Date thereof. 
 
 Resolved That all Goods Wares and Merchandize except such as 
 are made Prize of which shall be imported directly or indirectly from 
 Great Britain and Ireland into any of these United Colonies contrary 
 to the Regulations established by Congress shall be forfeited and dis- 
 posed of agreeable to such Rules as shall be made by the several 
 Assemblies or Conventions and shall be liable to prosecution and 
 Condemnation in any Court erected or to be erected for the Deter- 
 mination of Maritime Affairs in the Colony where the Seizure shall 
 be made 
 
 Extracts from the Minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary
 
 23 
 
 In Congress April n. 1776 
 
 Resolved That it be recommended to the several Assemblies Con- 
 ventions and Committees or Concils of Safety of the United Colonies 
 to use their best Endeavours in communicating to Foreign Nations 
 the Resolutions of Congress relative to Trade 
 
 By Order of Congress 
 
 John Hancock President 
 
 In Congress June 18. 1776 
 
 Whereas the Congress on the fourth Day of November last Re- 
 solved that for the Defence of South Carolina there be kept up in 
 that Colony at the Continental Expence Three Battalions of Foot 
 each Battalion to consist of the same Number of Men and Officers 
 be upon the same Pay and under the same Regulations as the Con- 
 tinental Army And on the 25th Day of March last Resolved That 
 the Convention or Committee of Safety of South Carolina be per- 
 mitted to raise and embody Two other Battalions and they be on the 
 Pay and at the Expence of the Continent as soon as they shall be 
 armed fit for Service and accordingly mustered And Whereas the 
 Provincial Congress or Convention of South Carolina on the 22 d 
 Day of February last ordered That their Council of Safety return the 
 Thanks of that Colony to trie Continental Congress for their atten- 
 tion to its Security that they state the peculiar Circumstances and 
 the heavy Expences which have been and will be incurred by that 
 Colony in the measures necessary for their Defence and that they 
 request the Continental Congress to allow that Colony so much 
 money as the Expences of Three Battalions upon the Continental 
 Establishment would amount to for One Year and to give Con- 
 tinental Rank to the Officers of the Three Regiments raised in June 
 and of the Regiment of Artillery raised in November from the Dates 
 of their respective Commissions or at least from the first Day of 
 November when they resolved to allow that Colony Three Battalions. 
 And whereas the Delegates of that Colony in Congress have repre- 
 sented the peculiar Circumstances and heavy Expences of that 
 Colony and that the Troops in it were inlisted for Three Years upon 
 a different Establishment of Pay and under different Articles of 
 War so as to render it inconvenient to place them in all Respects 
 upon the Continental Establishment, Therefore 
 
 Resolved That the Battalion of Artillery and the Two other Bat- 
 talions of Foot raised in South Carolina and kept up in that Colony 
 for the Defence of the same be considered as Continental Forces and
 
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 allowed the same Pay Rations and Disbursments as other Forces 
 on the Continental Establishment. 
 
 That the Two Battalions under the Command of the Colonels 
 Gadsden & Moultrie be allowed all the advantages of the Continen- 
 tal Establishment from the fourth Day of November last and the 
 Regiment of Artillery from the Time when the same was ordered 
 to be raised by the Provincial Congress or Convention of South 
 Carolina. 
 
 That the Two Battalions of Rifle-men raised in and for the De- 
 fence of the said Colony be considered as Continental Troops from 
 the 25th Day of March last and be intitled to all the Advantages of 
 the same 
 
 That all the above mentioned Troops be liable to the Articles for 
 the Government of the Forces in the said Colony 
 
 That the said Forces be continued on the Continental Establish- 
 ment until the Expiration of their Inlistment unless they shall be 
 sooner disbanded by Congress 
 
 That not more than One Third of the effective men of the above 
 mentioned Forces be ordered out the said Colony without the express 
 Order of Congress or the Consent of the President of that Colony 
 
 Extracts* from the minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary 
 
 In Congress June 19 th 1776 
 
 Whereas it is indispensably necessary for the Good of the Ser- 
 vice that the Soldiers of the United Colonies should be well provided 
 with Blankets & Cloathing Therefore 
 
 Resolved That it be recommended to the Assemblies and Conven- 
 tions of the United Colonies forthwith to cause a suit of Cloaths of 
 which the Waistcoat and Breeches may be of Dear-Leather if to be 
 had on reasonable Terms a Blanket, Felt Hat two Shirts two pair of 
 Hose and Two Pair of Shoes to be Manufactured or otherwise pro- 
 cured at reasonable Rates in their respective Colonies for each Sol- 
 dier of the American Army inlisted therein for the present Cam- 
 paign and that the same be baled invoiced and stored in suitable 
 Places to be delivered to the Order of Congress or the Commander 
 in Chief of the American Army 
 
 That sufficient Sums of Money be granted to the Assemblies 
 and Conventions aforesaid on applying for the same to enable them 
 to discharge the Demands arising from the Purchase of the articles 
 aforesaid
 
 25 
 
 That the Commander in Chief of the American Army be im- 
 powered to draw on the said Assemblies and Conventions for such 
 Articles of Cloathing aforesaid as he shall from Time to Time judge 
 necessary and that the Cost thereof be deducted from the Pay of the 
 soldiers who shall receive the same by the proper Officer for ex- 
 amining and discharging the accounts and Pay-Rolls of the Respect- 
 ive Regiments 
 
 June 24 
 
 Resolved That all Persons abiding within any of the United Colo- 
 nies and deriving Protection from the Laws of the same owe Alle- 
 giance to the said Laws and are Members of such Colony And that 
 all Persons passing through visiting or making a temporary stay in 
 any of the said Colonies being intitled to the Protection of the Laws 
 during the Time of such Passage Visitation or temporary Stay owe 
 during the same Time Allegiance thereto. 
 
 That all Persons Members of, or owing allegiance to any of the 
 United Colonies as before described who shall levy War against any 
 of the said Colonies within the same or be adherent to the King of 
 Great-Britain or others the Enemies of the said Colonies or any of 
 them within the same giving to him or them Aid and Comfort are 
 guilty of Treason against such Colony. 
 
 That it be recommended to the Legislatures of the several United 
 Colonies to pass Laws for punishing in such manner as to them shall 
 seem fit such Persons before described as shall be proveable attainted 
 of open Deed by v People of their Condition of any of the Treasons 
 before described 
 
 That it be recommended to the Legislatures of the several United 
 Colonies to pass Laws for punishing in such Manner as they shall 
 think fit Persons who shall counterfeit or aid or abet in counterfeit- 
 ing the Continental Bills of Credit or who shall pass any such Bill 
 in Payment knowing the same to be counterfeit. 
 
 June 26 
 
 Resolved That a Bounty of Ten Dollars be given to every non 
 commissioned Officer and Soldier who shall inlist to serve for the 
 Term of Three Years 
 
 Extract from the Minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary
 
 26 
 
 In Congress July 4 1776 
 
 A Declaration 
 
 By the Representatives of the United States of America in Gen- 
 eral Congress assembled. 
 
 When in the Course of Human Events it becomes necessary for 
 one People t6 dissolve the political Bands which have connected 
 them with another and to assume among the Powers of the Earth 
 the Seperate and equal Station to which the Laws of nature and 
 of natures God intitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of 
 mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel 
 them to the Seperation. 
 
 We hold these Truths to be self evident that all men are created 
 equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien- 
 able Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of 
 Happiness That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted 
 among men deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the 
 Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes distruct- 
 ive of these Ends it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it 
 and to institute new Government laying its Foundation on such 
 Principles and organizing its Powers in such Form as to them shall 
 seem most likely to effect their safety and Happiness. Prudence 
 indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be 
 changed for light and transient Causes and accordingly all Expe- 
 rience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while 
 Evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the the 
 Forms to which they are accustomed But when a long Train of 
 Abuses and Usurpations pursuing invariably the same Object evinces 
 a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism it is their Right, 
 it is their Duty to throw off such Government and to provide new 
 Guards for their future Security; The History of the present King 
 of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries, and Usurpations, 
 all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny 
 over these States ; To prove this let Facts be submitted to a candid 
 World, 
 
 He has refused his assent to Laws the most wholesome and neces- 
 sary for the Public Good ; 
 
 He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and 
 pressing Importance unless suspended in their Operation till his 
 assent should be obtained and when so suspended he has utterly neg- 
 lected to attend to them
 
 27 
 
 He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large 
 Districts of People unless those People would relinquish the Right 
 of Representation in the Legislature a Right inestimable to them and 
 formidable to Tyrants only 
 
 He has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual un- 
 comfortable and distant from the Depository of their Public Records 
 for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his 
 measures 
 
 He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly for opposing 
 with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People 
 
 He has refused for a long Time after such Disolutions to cause 
 others to be elected whereby the Legislative Powers incapable of 
 annihilation have returned to the People at large for their Exercise 
 the State remaining in the mean Time exposed to all the Dangers of 
 Invasion from without and convulsions within 
 
 He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for 
 that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners 
 refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and 
 raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands 
 
 He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his 
 assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers 
 
 He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the Tenure 
 of their Offices and the amount and Payment of their Salaries 
 
 He has erected a multitude of new Officers and sent hither Swarms 
 of Officers to harrass our People and eat out their Substance 
 
 He has kept among us in Time of Peace Standing Armies without 
 the Consent of our Legislatures 
 
 He has effected to render the military independent of and superior 
 to the Civil Power 
 
 He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign 
 to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our Laws giving his 
 assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation 
 
 For quartering large Bodies of armed Troops among us 
 
 For protecting them by a mock Trial from Punishment for any 
 Murders which they shall commit on the Inhabitants of these States 
 
 For cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World 
 
 For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent 
 
 For depriving us in many Cases of the Benefits of Trial by Jury 
 
 For Transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended 
 Offences
 
 28 
 
 For abolishing the free system of English Laws in a neighbouring 
 Province establishing therein an arbitrary Government and enlarg- 
 ing its Boundaries so as to render it at once an Example and fit 
 Instrument for introducing the same absolute Rule into these Colo- 
 nies 
 
 For taking away our Charters abolishing our most valuable Laws 
 and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments 
 
 For suspending our own Legislatures and declaring themselves 
 invested with Power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever 
 
 He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his 
 Protection and waging War against us 
 
 He has plundered our Seas ravaged our Coasts burnt our Towns 
 and destroyed the Lives of our People 
 
 He is at this Time transporting large Armies of Foreign mer- 
 cenaries to complete the Works of Death Desolation and Tyranny 
 already begun with Circumstances of Cruelty and Perfidy scarcely 
 paralleled in the most barbarous Ages and totally unworthy the 
 Head of a civilized nation 
 
 He has constrained our Fellow-Citizens taken Captive on the High 
 Seas to bear Arms against their Country to become the Executioners 
 of their Friends and Brethren or to fall themselves by their Hands 
 
 He has excited Domestic Insurrections amongst us and has en- 
 deavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers the merciless 
 Indian Savages whose known Rule of warfare is an undistinguished 
 Destruction of all Ages Sexes and Conditions 
 
 In every stage of these Oppressions we have petitioned for Redress 
 in the most humble Terms Our repeated Petitions have been an- 
 swered only by repeated Injury A Prince whose Character is thus 
 marked by every act which may define a Tyrant is unfit to be the 
 Ruler of a free People 
 
 Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren 
 We have warned them from Time to Time of attempts by their 
 Legislature to extend an unwarrantable Jurisdiction over us We 
 have reminded them of the Circumstances of our Emigration and 
 settlement here We have appealed to their native Justice and mag- 
 nanimity and we have conjured them by the Ties of our common 
 Kindred to disavow these usurpations which would inevitably inter- 
 rupt our Connections and Correspondence They too have been deaf 
 to the Voice of Justice and Consanguinity \Ve must therefore 
 acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our Seperation and hold
 
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 them as we do the Rest of mankind Enemies in War, in Peace 
 Friends 
 
 We therefore the Representatives of the United States of America 
 in General Congress assembled appealing to the Supreme Judge of 
 the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions Do in the name and 
 by the authority of the Good People of the Colonies solemnly publish 
 and Declare that these United Colonies are and of Right ought to be 
 Free and Independent States that they are absolved from all alle- 
 giance to the British Crown and that all political Connection be- 
 tween them and the state of Great-Britain is and ought to be totally 
 dissolved and that as Free and Independent States they have full 
 Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish 
 Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent 
 States may of Right do And for the Support of this Declaration with 
 a firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence we mutually 
 pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honour. 
 Signed by Order and in Behalf of the Congress 
 
 John Hancock President 
 attest 
 Charles Thomson Secretary 
 
 In Congress July 4 1776 
 
 Ordered That the Declaration be authenticated and printed That 
 the Committee who brought in the Declaration be ordered to correct 
 the Press 
 
 That Copies of the Declaration be sent to the several assemblies 
 Conventions and Councils of Safety and to the several Commanding 
 officers of the Continental Troops That it be proclaimed in each of 
 the United States and at the Head of the Army 
 
 Julys 
 
 Resolved That a Chaplain be appointed to each Regiment in the 
 Continental Army and that their allowance be increased to Thirty- 
 three Dollars and one Third of a Dollar a month 
 
 Extracts from the minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary 
 
 Letter from the Delegates of this State in the Continental 
 Congress to His Excellency the President dated Philadelphia 
 25 July 1776 
 Sir 
 
 Immediately upon the Receipt of your Letter we applied to 
 Congress for Permission to order the East India Tea now in your 
 Stores to be sold and to direct the Produce thereof to be carried into
 
 3 
 
 the Colony Treasury to be appropriated in such manner as your 
 Assembly should judge right In Consequence of this Application a 
 Debate of some Length ensued in which the House indicated a 
 strong Inclination to lay their Hands upon the Profits which should 
 arise from the Sale either for the Use of the Continent at large or 
 to be carried into a Fund to reimburse those Colonies whose Prop- 
 erty should be seized in England There appeared neither Reason nor 
 Justice in these measures and we endeavored to obviate the Objec- 
 tions which were made to the Application and to answer the argu- 
 ments which had been advanced against it 
 
 We observed That this Property should be looked upon as be- 
 longing to the King of Great-Britain and not to the East-India Com- 
 pany as the latter had been divested of it both by the Seizure which 
 the Custom-House officers had made of it and by the indemnification 
 of the Parliament that the Congress had therefore no more Right 
 to apply this Tea to the use of the Continent at large than they had 
 to dispose of the Cannon in our Forts or the Crown Lands within 
 the Limits of the Colony But that if it was the East-India Com- 
 pany's Property they had occasioned such an Expence to the State 
 of Carolina as to justify them fully in the seizures That it would 
 be repugnent to the Principles of Justice to insist that this Tea 
 should be sold for the Benefit of those whose Property had been or 
 might be seized in England in Exclusion of those whose Property 
 had been seized in America and that it would be impracticable to 
 bring every species of Loss into one common account 
 
 That the Seizure of Property had been a common misfortune of 
 which as well as of public Expences we have had our full Propor- 
 tion and that therefore it would be injurious to our -state not to be 
 permitted to make use of the advantage in this Instance which the 
 Possession of the Tea had given It was confessed that we had a 
 Right to sell it if we chose and apply the Profits as we pleased But 
 as we had asked the opinion of the House upon the Subject we 
 should now be governed by the Disposition which they should think 
 proper to make and that they should take Time to consider of it 
 The Delegates being by this Time fully convinced that there were 
 many in the House who wished to dispose of it in a manner inju- 
 rious to the Interest and Right of our State agreed to withdraw the 
 motion for which they obtained the Leave of Congress and we now 
 with one voice advise you to recommend to your assembly imme- 
 diately to sell the same and apply the Profits thereof to Colonial 
 Purposes, Indeed we were not a little surpized at your requesting us
 
 to lay the same before Congress and we hope that you will determine 
 for yourselves in future in all Cases where the Concern is of a 
 Provincial and not of a Continental nature we are with Regard 
 
 Your Excellency's 
 
 most obed* hum 1 Serv ts 
 Thomas Lynch 
 Edward Rutledge 
 Arthur Middleton 
 Thomas Heyward Junior 
 Thomas Lynch Junior 
 Philadelphia July 24 th . 1776 
 Sir 
 
 The Congress being of Opinion that the Service of the United 
 States will be promoted by taking into Pay a number of Troops in 
 the State of South-Carolina who are to act either as Infantry or 
 Light Horse as Occasion may require have come to the inclosed 
 Resolves which I do my self the Honour of transmitting in Obedience 
 to their Commands 
 
 In Consideration that these Troops will go thro' more than ordi- 
 nary Duty and be put to greater Expence than others the Congress 
 have augmented their Pay in Proportion 
 
 I have delivered blank Commissions to the Delegates of your 
 State with most hearty and sincere wishes for your Health and Hap- 
 piness and the Prosperity of the State over which you preside I have 
 the Honour to be with great Respect 
 
 Your most obed. & very hum 1 Serv 1 . 
 
 John Hancock President 
 The Hon ble . John Rutledge Esq r 
 
 Governor of South Carolina 
 In Congress July 24, 1776 
 
 Resolved That the Regiment of Rangers now in the Pay of the 
 State of South Carolina be placed upon Continental Establishment 
 and that it consist of a Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, a Major, 
 Ten Captains, Twenty Lieutenants a Surgeon a Pay master Twenty 
 Sergeants and Five Hundred Privates 
 
 That the Pay of the Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant be the same 
 as a Colonel of Foot a Major that of a Lieutenant Colonel a Captain 
 that of a Major and the Lieutants that of a Captain and Sergeants 
 that of Ensigns of Foot of the Continental Forces That the Sur- 
 geon be allowed Thirty Three and one Third Dollars per month the 
 Paymaster Twenty six and Two Thirds and the Privates Twelve
 
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 and an Half Dollars per Month to provide themselves with Horses 
 Guns and Provisions for themselves and Horses 
 
 That the said Rangers be liable to act on Horseback or Foot as 
 Occasion may require 
 
 That the like number of Rangers be raised in the State of Georgia 
 and put upon Continental Establishment 
 
 That these be intitled to the same Pay and subject to the same 
 Duties as the Carolina Rangers 
 
 That the Rangers raised in the State of South Carolina be subject 
 to the Articles formed by the Convention of that State for the Gov- 
 ernment of the Forces raised therein 
 
 By Order of Congress 
 
 John Hancock President 
 
 In Congress July 24 1776 
 
 Resolved That all the Resolutions of this Congress passed on the 
 23d Day of April last relating to Ships and other Vessels their 
 Tackle Apparel and Furniture and all Goods Wares and Merchan- 
 dize belonging to any Inhabitant or Inhabitants of Great-Britain 
 taken on the High Seas or between high and low water mark be 
 extended to all ships and other Vessels their Tackle Apparel and 
 Furniture and all Goods Ware and Merchandize belonging to any 
 subject or Subjects of the said King except the Inhabitants of the 
 Bermudas and Providence or Bahama Islands 
 
 By Order of Congress 
 
 John Hancock President 
 
 The House thereupon came to the following Resolutions to wit 
 
 Resolved That this House do acquiesce in the Resolves of the 
 Continental Congress of the i8th of June and 24th of July. 1776 
 relating to the putting the Two Regiments of Infantry the Regiment 
 of Rangers the Regiment of Artillery and the Two Regiments of 
 Riflemen in the service of this State on the Continental Establish- 
 ment 
 
 Resolved That this House will Defray the Expence between the 
 Continental Bounty Cloathing and Pay and the Bounty Cloathing 
 and Pay allowed to those Regiments respectively by the Acts of this 
 State 
 
 Ordered That a Copy of the above Resolves be sent to the Legis- 
 lative Council for their Concurrence and to the President for his 
 assent 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Pinckney and M r . Thomas Middleton 
 Junior do attend the Legislative Council with the said Message
 
 33 
 
 Ordered That an Ordinance be brought in for making the Pro- 
 visions aforesaid and for settling the manner of ordering General 
 Courts-martial And that Colonel Pinckney Colonel Motte and Cap- 
 tain Scott do prepare and bring in the same 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in an Ordinance for ap- 
 pointing Commissioners to sell the Tea now in the Cellars under the 
 Exchange and to Lodge the money arising from such Sale in the 
 Treasury of the State And that Colonel Pir^ckney M r . Attorney Gen- 
 eral and M r . Ward do prepare and bring in the same 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill pursuant to the 
 Resolution and Recommendation of the Continental Congress of 
 the 1 4th of March 1776 for disarming all Persons notoriously dis- 
 affected to the Cause of America or who have not associated and 
 shall refuse to associate to defend by Arms these United Colonies 
 against the hostile attempts of the British Fleets and Armies and to 
 dispose of such arms And that M r . Ward M r Stobo and M r Ralph 
 Izard do prepare and bring in the same 
 
 Resolved That a Committee be appointed to revise the present 
 Militia Law and to bring in a Bill for the better Regulation of the 
 Militia 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Gervais Major Hicks Colonel Pinckney M r 
 Attorney-General Captain Vanderhorst Captain Roger Smith Cap- 
 tain Forgartie Captain Stone Captain Benjamin Waring Captain 
 Withers Captain William Skirving Captain Eveleigh Captain Leger 
 Captain De Saussure Honourable M r . Justice Mathews M r . Philip 
 Smith and M r Cantey be a committee for the above Purposes 
 
 Colonel Gervais reported That M r . Izard and himself had waited 
 on the President and delivered the message they had in Charge And 
 that His Excellency was pleased to say he would receive this House 
 to present their Address in the Council-Chamber To-morrow morn- 
 ing ten of the Clock 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of 
 the Clock 
 
 Saturday the 2ist Day of September. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterday's proceedings 
 
 Colonel Garden M r . William Moore M r . John Williams and M r 
 Anthony White took the Oath prescribed by the Constitution and 
 their seats as members of this House 
 
 A Petition of Edward Fenwicke Esquire was presented to the 
 House and read in the words following 
 
 3 H. c.
 
 34 
 
 That John Stuart Esquire late of this State by Letter dated the 23d 
 Day of December 1775 did direct his attorney Robert Balingall to 
 remove Twenty of such negroes from his Plantation at Maple-Cane 
 to plant on your Petitioners Lands at Ashepoo as he the said M r 
 Balingall should judge best and did also direct M r Charles Shaw by 
 a Letter of the same Date to put your Petitioner in Possession of 
 Ten more Negroes from the Plantation on Lady's Island That the 
 said M r Stuart by a Letter at the same Time to your Petitioner ac- 
 quainting him therewith and that he intended them as a Part of the 
 Portion he meant to give your Petitioner with his Daughter That 
 these Letters lay a considerable Time in the Post-office at Georgia 
 and never came to Hand till some Time in may last previous to 
 which the then Colonial Congress had appointed certain Committees 
 to possess themselves of all the said M r Stuart's Estate who had ac- 
 cordingly done it and removed Mess rs Balingall and Shaw from the 
 'Possession thereof so that they have been hitherto unable to comply 
 with M r Stuarts Orders. Your Petitioner therefore humbly hopes 
 that your Honourable House will be pleased to take his case into your 
 Consideration and issue your Order to those Committees command- 
 ing them to permit the said M r . Balingall to put your Petitioner in 
 Possession of Twenty negroes from the Maple-Cane Plantation and 
 M r . Shaw to deliver to your Petitioner Ten Negroes from the 
 Plantation on Lady's Island. 
 
 Your Petitioner further shews unto your Honourable House that 
 the several attachments have been sued against the said M r . Stuart's 
 Estate and many of his negroes seized and sold by the sheriff of 
 Charles Town District in consequence thereof, That your Peti- 
 tioner is advised that the Crops of the said M r Stuart are legally as 
 much liable to be attached and sold as any other Part of his Estate 
 and as they are of a perishable nature your Petitioner therefore also 
 prays that your Honourable House would be pleased to issue further 
 orders to the respective committees commanding them to restore 
 the said crops to your Petitioner in order that they in the first 
 Instance may be sold for Payment of the Debts already sued for 
 
 Oidered That the said Petition be referred to the Consideration of 
 a Committee And that they do examine the matter thereof and report 
 the same as it shall appear to them to the House 
 
 And it is referred to the Honourable M r . Lowndes M r . Cantey and 
 Captain Trapier
 
 35 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative Coun- 
 cil 
 
 M r . Speaker 
 
 The President is now in the Council Chamber ready to receive 
 the House with their Address 
 
 And then the messenger withdrew 
 
 Ordered That M r Speaker do sign the ingrossed Address to be 
 presented to the President 
 
 Then M r Speaker with the House attended His Excellency in the 
 Council Chamber 
 
 And being returned 
 
 M r Speaker reported That he with the House having attended the 
 President in the Council Chamber with their address in answer to 
 his speech His Excellency had been pleased to reply in the following 
 words 
 
 M r . Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 This most honourable Reward cannot fail to make the deepest 
 Impression upon generous minds it will increase the laudable Am- 
 bition of those on whom it is conferred and excite others to emulate 
 that Fame which they have acquired 
 
 May the happiest consequences be derived to the United States 
 from the Independence of America who could not obtain even Peace 
 Liberty and safety by any other means 
 
 Your Disposition and assurances afford a confident Expectation 
 That this Session will be usefully employed 
 
 John Rutledge 
 
 21 September. 1776 
 
 Ordered That His Excellency's Speech delivered to both Houses 
 the address of this House in answer thereto and His Excellency's 
 Reply be forthwith printed and made Public 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency, 
 
 This House being informed That a number of waggons laden 
 with woolens and other merchandize the Property of John Mitchell of 
 Meldrum in the Parish of St David are now on their way from Phil- 
 adelphia to this State having the Infection of the small-Pox among 
 some of the Drivers or Passengers request that your Excellency will 
 be pleased to give immediate Directions to the District Committee of 
 the said Parish to take every necessary Precaution and use every 
 means in their Power to prevent the Infection from spreading by 
 causing all Persons and merchandize infected therewith to be carried
 
 36 
 
 to some distant Place from the Settlements and to place a proper 
 Guard thereon till such Time as they shall be fully satisfied that no 
 Infection remains or to pursue any other mode that they shall think 
 most proper. 
 
 That your Excellency may see the necessity for pursuing the above 
 measures we herewith send you a copy of the Report as agreed to by 
 the House in Consequence of the foregoing Information. 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r . Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r Pegues and Major Hicks do carry the message 
 to the President 
 
 Message from the President by the Qerk of the Legislative Coun- 
 cil. 
 
 M r . Speaker and Gentlemen, 
 
 On considering Captain Lamprieres Letter herewith sent and 
 other Representations respecting the Ship Prosper it was thought 
 expedient at the Time of the late Invasion to apply her Guns to the 
 uset>f some of the Batteries and put her out of the way of Danger. 
 
 In my Opinion it will be most for the Public Advantage to sell 
 her or employ her in Trade, but I think my self not authorized to do 
 so you will therefore Judge in what manner it will be best to dispose 
 of her 
 
 The appointing Commissioners to superintend the naval affairs 
 of this State would I hope place them upon a better Footing than 
 the present I therefore recommend it as a matter worthy of your 
 attention 
 
 John Rutledge 
 
 21 September. 1776 
 
 Read Captain Lamprieres Letter which accompanied the message 
 dated the 28th May last which Letter is preserved among the 
 Papers of the present Sessions 
 
 upon motion 
 
 Resolved 
 
 That a Committee be appointed to examine the Public Treasury 
 accounts and report to the House an exact and circumstantial account 
 of the State of the Treasury what sums have been issued and for 
 what particular services arranging under distinct Heads the particu- 
 lar Services for which the monies have been expended 
 
 Ordered That M r . Neufville the Honourable M r . Edwards M r . 
 Josiah Smith Junior Captain Roger Smith M r . Corbett M r . Jones and 
 M r . Webb be a Committee for the above Purpose
 
 37 
 
 Colonel Pinckney presented to the House according to Order an 
 Ordinance for appointing commissioners for selling certain East 
 India Teas imported into this State from Great Britain and for ap- 
 plying the monies arising therefrom to the use of the said State And 
 the same was received and read the First Time 
 
 Resolved That the Ordinance be read a a Second Time 
 
 And the same being read accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r . Justice Matthewes and M r . 
 Middleton do carry the same to the Legislative Council 
 
 The House being informed That Captain Joseph Turpin Com- 
 mander of the armed Brigantine Comet belonging to this State is 
 absent and gone to Georgia without Leave 
 
 Ordered That Captain Turpins Letter of the i6th Instant ad- 
 dressed to this House laid before them on the i/th Instant and then 
 ordered to lie on the Table be now read 
 
 And the same being read accordingly is as followeth 
 
 Honourable Gentlemen 
 
 Having had the Honour to serve in your navy with some Repu- 
 tation think it my Duty to acquaint you before I quit that Service 
 with my Reasons for so doing 
 
 The Navy of England have ever been invincible from no other 
 Cause than the great Encouragement they give their Officers and 
 People and the wise and honourable Footing they are set on. 
 
 All Prizes taken from their Enemies are divided into Eighths in 
 the following manner. 
 
 Three Eights to the Captain 
 
 One to the Lieutenants master and Officers of Marines, if a 
 Captain 
 
 One to the warranted Officers 
 
 One to the Petty Officers 
 
 And Two to the men before fhe mast 
 
 One of these Two Eighths George the Second gave to the Seamen 
 in the year Forty, as an Encouragement 
 
 All Ships of War either King's Ships or Privateers taken from 
 the Enemy or destroyed the King allows Ten Pounds for each man 
 and Ten Pounds for each Gun the Enemy, had on Board 
 
 Captains of the Navy serving under an Admiral gives up one of 
 his Three Eighths to that Officer no other Deductions are made 
 whatever
 
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 As to Rank all Post-Captains rank with Colonels of Horse or 
 Foot in the Land Service Commanders who have not taken Post 
 with Majors and the Lieutenants of the Fleet with Captains of the 
 Army 
 
 To conclude I humbly offer this Plan for your Perusal and on 
 those Terms shall be ready and proud of the Honour to serve you 
 And am Honouarable Gentlemen 
 
 Your most obedient & 
 
 most humble Servant 
 
 Joseph Turpin 
 Charles Town South Carolina 
 
 1 6th September, 1776 
 
 Resolved That this House will on Monday next ballot for another 
 Commander of the Brigantine Comet 
 
 upon motion 
 
 Resolved That llie armed Ship Prosper belonging to this State 
 be sold and that the monies to arise from such sale be deposited in 
 the Public Treasury 
 
 Ordered That a Copy of the above Resolve be sent to the Legis- 
 lative Council for their Concurrence 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Justice Matthews and M r . 
 Middleton do carry the Resolve to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That a message be sent to the President requesting that 
 His Excellency will be pleased to give directions for the sale of the 
 ship Prosper her apparel and Furniture 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May please your Excellency 
 
 This House having resolved That the armed ship Prosper be- 
 longing to this State with her apparel and Furniture be sold and the 
 money arising by such Sale lodged in the Treasury request that your 
 Excellency will be pleased to give Directions accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r . Edwards and M r Chiffelle do 
 wait on His Excellency with the said message 
 
 M r . Pegues reported That Major Hicks and himself had delivered 
 the Message they had in Charge to the President 
 
 M r Dupont reported from the Commissioners appointed by an 
 Ordinance passed the pth of April last to take a State of the Treas- 
 ury and to settle the accounts of the late Powder-Receiver And he
 
 39 
 
 read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the 
 Clerk's Table where the same was read 
 
 Upon a Doubt expressed by the said Commissioners in Respect 
 to settling with the late Powder-Receiver 
 
 Ordered That the Report be re-committed and that the Commis- 
 sioners be authorized to select and accept from the late Powder- 
 Receiver such Bonds as they shall approve of for the Balance of 
 Monies due from him to the Public of this State and to procure 
 from the Obligors in such Bonds in lieu thereof Bonds payable to 
 the present Commissioners of the Treasury for the use of the State 
 And that they do report their Proceedings thereon additional to the 
 Report re-committed to 1 this House 
 
 The Honourable M r Edwards reported That M r . Middleton and 
 himself had delivered the Message they had in Charge to the Presi- 
 dent 
 
 Resolved That the Commissioners of the Treasury be authorized 
 and required to receive Payment of the Bonds payable to the King 
 and notes payable to the late Joint Public Treasurers mentioned in 
 the foregoing Report or in Lieu thereof to take new Bonds payable 
 to the said Commissioners for the use of this State 
 
 Ordered That the Commissioners of the Treasury be immediately 
 served with a Copy of the above Resolve 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for appointing 
 Commissioners to superintend and direct the Naval Affairs of this 
 State And that the Honourable M r Edwards Captain Roger Smith 
 M r . Corbett M r . Neufville and M r . Ward be a Committee to prepare 
 and bring in the same 
 
 And the House adjourned till Monday morning nine of the Clock 
 
 Monday the 23d Day of September. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of last Saturdays Proceedings 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Gervais M r Loocock the Revdrend M r . 
 Tennent M r . Moore M r . John Williams M r . Robinson Major Hicks 
 M r . Pegues M r . John Caldwell of St. Matthews / M r . Cantey and 
 M r . Harrington be a Committee to consider and report to the House 
 proper Places of Election and the Names of Persons proper to 
 receive Votes and make Returns in the different Districts where 
 there are no Churches or Church- Wardens And that the said Com- 
 mittee do sit upon that Business without Loss of Time
 
 40 
 
 The Honourable M r Matthews reported That M r Middleton and 
 himself had delivered the Ordinance and also the Message they had 
 in charge to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That the Order of the Day to ballot for another Com- 
 mander of the Brigantine Comet be discharged 
 
 Ordered That a Committee be appointed to receive the Names of 
 Persons desirous or proper to be appointed to the Command of the 
 Brigantine Comet that they do sit forthwith for that Purpose and 
 give Public notice thereof 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r . Edwards M r Corbett M r Hall 
 M r . Chiffelle and M r . Ward be a Committee for the above Purpose 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Garden M r . Harrington Captain Singleton 
 Captain White and Captain Maham be added to the Committee for 
 revising the present militia Law and to bring in a Bill for the better 
 Regulation of the Militia 
 
 Message from the Legislative Council by their Clerk 
 
 M r Speaker 
 
 The Legislative Council have read twice the Ordinance for 
 appointing Commissioners for selling certain East India Teas 
 imported from Great-Britain into this State and for applying the 
 monies arising therefrom to the use of the said State 
 
 And then the messenger withdrew 
 
 Resolved That the said Ordinance be now read a Third Time 
 
 And the same being read accordingly 
 
 Resolved That the Ordinance do pass 
 
 Ordered That M r . Ward and Captain M c Queen do carry the Ordi- 
 nance to the Legislative Council 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 Colonel Powell having represented the necessity of a Stockade- 
 Fort at the Cheraw-Hill I gave him Directions some Time ago (by 
 advice of the Privy Council) to have one built there But on receiv- 
 ing from him the Petitions and Estimate herewith laid before you 
 some of which Petitions prayed that it might be built at that Place 
 and others at Long-Bluff And being informed by several Inhabi- 
 tants of St Davids Parish that a Fort at either of those Places was 
 altogether unnecessary I thought it proper (the Time of your meet- 
 ing being then not very distant) to suspend the matter till I could
 
 41 
 
 have your Opinion respecting it And I now refer this Subject to your 
 consideration 
 
 John Rutledge 
 23d Septem. 1776 
 
 And then the messenger withdrew 
 
 Read the Petitions referred to in the message which with the 
 Estimate are preserved among the other Papers of the present Ses- 
 sions 
 
 Ordered that the message with the Papers accompanying the same 
 be referred to a Committee 
 
 And they are referred to M r . Harrington Major Hicks M r . Pegues 
 Captain Withers Captain White M r . Young and Cap*. Trapier 
 
 Ordered Captain Tucker have Leave of absence from the Service 
 of this House 
 
 I "])on Motion 
 
 Resolved That M r Speaker be desired to write to the Delegates of 
 this State in the Continental Congress that they will cause this House 
 to be furnished with a complete Copy of the Journals of the Pro- 
 ceedings of the said Congress for the use of this State 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of 
 the Clock 
 
 Tuesday the 24th Day of September. 1776 
 
 The House met according to Adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterdays Proceeding 
 
 M r . Joseph Palmer Captain Samuel Wise and M r Daniel Rave- 
 nell took the Oath prescribed by the Constitution and their Seats 
 as members of this House 
 
 M r . Jonathan Scott the returning Officer of the Election for the 
 Parish of Christ Church attended according to order and being called 
 in amended the Return by rasing the Xaine of Levi Durand Esquire 
 and inserting instead thereof the name of William Scott Junior 
 Esquire 
 
 The Honourable M r Lowndes reported from the Committee to 
 whom the Petition of Edward Fenwick Esquire was referred and he 
 read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the 
 Clerks Table where the same was read and is as followeth 
 
 That in September last as M r . Fenwicke informed your Com- 
 mittee he received a Letter from M r . Stuart informing him that he 
 had sent for an Inventory of his Slaves in order to enable him the 
 better to judge what Part he would allot to M r . Fenwick in Part of 
 his Lady's Portion which Letter is mislaid
 
 42 
 
 That M r . Fenwick produced a Letter dated 23d December from 
 M r Stuart directed to M r . Balingall wherein he tells M r . Balingall 
 that if it is agreeable to him he leaves it to him to move Twenty of 
 his Hands from Maple-Cane to M r . Fenwick's Plantation at Ashe- 
 poo And that he M r . Stuart proposed also to give Orders to M r . 
 Charles Shaw to remove Ten more from Lady's Island so as to be 
 at M r Fenwick's in February following 
 
 That M r Fenwick informed the Committee that M r Shaw did in 
 Consequence receive such Directions from M r Stuart concerning the 
 Ten Negroes to be removed from Lady's Island That M r Shaw is 
 now in Town and although he has not the Letter to produce he is 
 willing to make Oath to the Purport of it as above M r Shaw appear- 
 ing before the Committee confirmed this Article 
 
 That M r . Fenwick informed the Committee that he also had 
 received a Letter from M r . Stuart acquainting him that he had wrote 
 Letters to M r . Balingall and Shaw to the above Purpose That the 
 Letter was detained in the Post Office at Georgia a considerable 
 Time and taken up (opened) by M r . Rose who brought it to M r . 
 Fenwick in May last That M r . Fenwick in Consequence went up to 
 M r . Balingall who acknowledged the Receipt of M r . Stuart's Letter 
 but informed M r . Fenwick that the Effects of M r . Stuart were taken 
 out of his Hands by Order of the Congress otherwise he would have 
 complied with M r . Stuart's Directions Shaw also declared to M r . 
 Fenwick that he would have delivered up the Ten Negroes men- 
 tioned in his Letter had M r . Stuart's Effects remained in his Cus- 
 tody. 
 
 That M r . Fenwick has no Bill of Sale or other Instrument of 
 writing transferring the said Slaves to him but is assured from the 
 Letter received from M r . Stuart first referred to that it was M r . 
 Stuart's Intention to have given him those Slaves as Part of his 
 wife's Portion and that the Orders given to M r . Balingall he con- 
 siders as an Evidence of such his Intention 
 
 That M r . Fenwick informed the Committee that there are now 
 brought to Charles Town seized on attachment Ten of the Slaves 
 belonging to M r . Stuart from Maple Cane besides a considerable 
 number already sold That the Crop now on the Ground must be 
 lost for want of Negroes to harvest the Crop That if the Crop of 
 the last year lying on Hand together with the Indico made the pres- 
 ent year were put into his Hands he could by the Proceeds thereof 
 pay of the attachments on which the negroes were seized and redeem 
 the negroes now in the Custody of the Sheriff which would afford
 
 43 
 
 them the means of saving some Part of the Crop on the Ground 
 which must now inevitably be lost 
 
 That he will give Security to apply the Effects put into his Hands 
 solely to the Payment of the Just Debts of M r . Stuart and account 
 with any Person the House will appoint for the Residue of the 
 Sales 
 
 That on the above State of Facts which M r . Fenwick is ready to 
 attest upon Oath the Committee are of opinion That it appears to 
 have been the Intention of M r . Stuart to have given to M r . Fenwick 
 his Son-in-Law Thirty negroes in Part of his wife's Portion But 
 inasmuch as there is no Deed or regular Transfer for that Purpose 
 from M r Stuart obligatory upon him the Committee are of opinion 
 that the Presumption arising from the Letters wrote by M r Stuart is 
 not sufficient in Law to vest the Property of the said Slaves abso- 
 lutely in M r . Fenwick : But as it is clear and evident by the Directions 
 given to Balingall and Shaw that M r . Stuart intended at least to give 
 to M r . Fenwick the Temporary use and service of Thirty Slaves to 
 work on his Plantation at Ashepoo and that those Persons would 
 have put M r . Fenwick into the quiet Possession of them if they had 
 not been prevented by the Orders of the Congress which dispos- 
 sessed them of the Powers over M r Stuart's Effects the Committee 
 recommend That M r . Fenwick may now take the Liberty of avail- 
 ing himself of the Temporary use of the said Slaves and that M r . 
 Balingall and M r Shaw may be permitted to deliver over to him 
 the said Negroes or such Part thereof as are in their Power agree- 
 able to M r . Stuart's Directions M r . Fenwick holding himself answer- 
 able for the said Negroes and obliged to deliver them whenever 
 thereunto required by the Resolution of this House 
 
 That the Committee are of Opinion it would be detrimental and 
 grievous to sell the negroes of M r Stuart for the Payment of his 
 Debts while there is a sufficient Value in perishable Commodity for 
 that Purpose on Hand the more especially as this present Crop on 
 the Ground would thereby be totally lost The Committee therefore 
 further recommend That M r . Fenwick be permitted to take in his 
 Pos=sion the Rice and Indico belonging to M r . Stuart dispose of 
 the same and apply the Proceeds to the Payment of the just and legal 
 Debts of M r Stuart holding the Residue if any there is in his Hands 
 subject to the Disposal of this House and that M r . Fenwick lodge in 
 the Hands of the Commissioners of the Treasury a faithful and exact 
 account attested on Oath of such Sale and Payments
 
 44 
 
 Ordered That the said Report be taken into Consideration To- 
 morrow 
 
 William Scott Junior Esquire took the Oath prescribed by the 
 Constitution and his Seat as a member for the Parish of Christ 
 Church 
 
 A Petition of William Hort Esquire was presented to the House 
 and read the words following 
 
 That a Part of the Land on which the Troops lately encamped at 
 Haddrels Point is the Property of your Petitioner That they had 
 while there totally destroyed a Field of Corn and other Provisions a 
 large Garden with a great number of Choice Fruit Trees and burnt 
 and destroyed all his Fences and otherwise injured him Your Peti- 
 tioner humbly hopes that you will take his Case into Consideration 
 and grant him such Relief as to you in your wisdom shall seem 
 meet 
 
 Ordered That the Petition be referred to the Consideration of a 
 Committee 
 
 And it is referred to M r . Capers Captain Vanderhorst M r . Benja- 
 min Elliott M r . John Boone and M r . William Scott Junior 
 
 M r . Corbett reported from the Commissioners appointed by the 
 late Congress to purchase materials for and superintend the making 
 of Gun Powder And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards 
 delivered it in at the Clerks Table where same was read and is as 
 followeth 
 
 That they did employ William Bartey a man skilled in the art of 
 making Gun-powder That they have allowed him Twenty Shillings 
 Currency per Pound for all the Gun-powder that he produced out 
 of the materials with which the Commissioners furnished him with 
 charging him with those materials That they have worked up into 
 Gunpowder all the nitre they have received or could produce which 
 is as follows 
 
 2oott from M r John Neufville paid for by the Treasury 
 
 \ from M r Daniel DeSaussure paid for by the Treasury 
 
 ) 
 
 34 8/ 2 tt 
 
 100 ^ The Commissioners bought in Charles-Town and paid 
 30 J for 
 
 In all 47&y 2 tt of nitre
 
 45 
 
 From which they have made and delivered to the Gun-powder Re- 
 ceiver and Officers of the Army (per Receipts for the same) six 
 Hundred and Twenty-five Pounds weight of Gun-powder 
 
 That the Commissioners have also received a Cask of Brimstone 
 from M r . Neufville and two Casks from M r . DeSaussure paid for 
 by the Commissioners of the Treasury and two Thousand nine Hun- 
 dred and Five Pounds of Brimstone which the Commissioners for 
 Gun-powder boyght and have paid for in Charles Town out of 
 which they have used only seventy Pounds, M r Bartey having Brim- 
 stone of his own which he furnished in the making of Gun-powder 
 Part of the Brimstone is lodged in the Public Magazine by Order 
 of the late Council of Safety the Rest M r . Calvert is ordered to put 
 into the arsenal ; The Expences attending this Business are charged 
 in an account delivered herewith on which there is a Balance due to 
 the Commissioners of One Hundred and Eighteen Pounds Thirteen 
 Shillings and Four Pence Currency 
 
 The Account referred to being likewise read 
 
 Ordered That the Commissioners of the Treasury do pay to M r . 
 Thomas Corbett and the Reverend M r . William Tennent Commis- 
 sioners for purchasing materials for and to superintend the making 
 of Gun Powder a Balance of One Hundred and Eighteen Pounds 
 Thirteen Shillings and Four Pence which appears to be due to them 
 on that account 
 
 M r Loocock reported from the Committee to consider of and 
 report proper Places of Election and proper Persons to receive the 
 votes of Electors and make Returns thereof in such Districts where 
 they are not already appointed And he read the Report in his Place 
 and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerks Table where the same 
 was read and is as followeth. 
 
 That the Election for the District between Savannah River and 
 the North Fork of Edisto should be held at Kelly's old Cowpen 
 and the Commissioners be George Robinson John Collins John Sally 
 Esquires Mess rs . Henry Peoples and William Robinson or any one or 
 more of them 
 
 That the Committee find the Places already fixed in every Parish 
 and District within this State except the above and also Church 
 W T ardens or Commissioners accommodated to each Place of Election 
 And 
 
 That the Committee apprehending all or most of the Commission- 
 ers for the Spartan or upper District may be absent at the Time of
 
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 the ncxc Election recommend That Lieutenant Colonel Wofford and 
 M r . John Nuccols may be added to the same 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration immediately 
 
 And the same being taken into Consideration accordingly 
 
 Resolved That this House do agree with the Report of the Com- 
 mittee 
 
 Upon Motion 
 
 Resolved That in all such Districts throughout this State where 
 Commissioners are appointed to attend and receive Votes for elect- 
 ing members of the General Assembly and to make Returns of such 
 Elections any One or more of the said Commissioners shall be 
 sufficient for those Purposes 
 
 Ordered That the Resolves of this House of the nth of April last 
 on the above subject together with the foregoing be forthwith 
 printed and sent to the several Districts 
 
 Captain M c Queen reported That M r . Ward and himself had 
 delivered the Ordinance they had in Charge to the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from the House an 
 Ordinance for appointing Commissioners for selling certain East- 
 India Teas imported from Great-Britain into this State and for 
 applying the monies arising therefrom to the use of the said State 
 and read a Third Time in the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be ingrossed 
 
 M r . Ward presented to the House according to Order an Ordi- 
 nance for disarming Persons notoriously disaffected to the Cause of 
 America or who shall not associate and shall refuse to associate to 
 defend by Arms the United States of America and the State of South 
 Carolina in particular against the hostile attempts of the British 
 Fleets and Armies And the same was received and read the First 
 Time 
 
 Resolved That the Ordinance be read a second Time To-morrow 
 
 A Copy of the Presentments of the Grand Jurors at a Court of 
 Oyer and Terminer Assize and General Delivery begun and holden 
 at Ninety-six for the District of Ninety-six on Thursday the 3Oth 
 of May 1776 was presented to the House and read with the Orders 
 of the Court thereupon directing the following to be laid before the 
 Legislature viz 
 
 First The want of Places of Public Worship and Free Schools 
 
 Second The want of a proper Vagrant Law
 
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 Third That writs are issuable from and returnable to Charles 
 Town only and that the Records are not kept in the different Dis- 
 tricts 
 
 Fourth The want of Provision for many poor and indigent 
 Persons and recommend that the Committee in the different Dis- 
 tricts where there are no Parishes be impowered to assess for that 
 Purpose 
 
 Fifth The want of Public Roads through the Province in Gen- 
 eral and the bad Repair in which several are kept and particularly 
 the want of a Road to lead from the upper Parts of Savannah River 
 Rocky River and Little River heading the South Fork of Edisto 
 and Salcatchee Rivers to Hort's Ferry on Edisto River and from 
 thence to Slann's Bridge 
 
 Ordered That the said Presentments do lie on the Table for the 
 Perusal of the Members 
 
 Ordered That M r Bacot and M r . Theodore Gaillard jun r be added 
 to the Committee appointed on the 2ist Instant to examine the Public 
 Treasury Accounts and report it to the House an exact and circum- 
 stantial Account of the State of the Treasury what Sums have been 
 issued and for what particular services arranging under distinct 
 Heads the particular services for which the monies have been 
 expended 
 
 Resolved That the House will proceed to the Choice of a Captain 
 and Commander of the Brigantine Comet To-morrow morning Ten 
 of the Clock 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Pinckney and the Honourable M r . Justice 
 Matthews do wait on the Legislative Council to request their atten- 
 dance in this House Tomorrow morning Ten of the Clock to join in 
 balloting for a Captain and Commander of the Brigantine Comet 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning Nine of 
 the Clock. 
 
 Wednesday the 25th of September. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterdays Proceedings 
 
 Jacob Richman Henry Patrick and Benjamin Screven Esquires 
 took the Oath prescribed by the constitution and their Seats as 
 members 
 
 Ordered That M r . Richman, M r . Singleton, M r . Moore, M r . Wil- 
 liams, M r . Caldwell, M r . Harrington, M r . Robinson Colonel Gervais 
 and M r . Ward be a Committee to revise the List of Magistrates and 
 report the Names of Persons proper to be added thereto
 
 48 
 
 The Order of the Day being read to take into Consideration the 
 Report of the Committee to whom the Petition of Edward Fenwick 
 Esquire was referred 
 
 And the Petition of Edward Fenwick Esquire being also read 
 
 A Petition of John Berwick Esquire was presented to the House 
 and read in the words following 
 
 That on or about the night of the i6th of July last while your 
 Petitioner was called from the Care of his private Concerns and 
 bearing Arms in Charles Town in Defence of this State against 
 the cruel Invaders of its just Rights and Priviledges an armed Vessel 
 supposed to be that commanded by Captain Osborn commissioned by 
 the Province of East Florida to cruize against the United States 
 of America landed his men and carried off by violence Eight of 
 his most valuable Slaves compelling the Overseers Wife to conduct 
 them to those Houses where the best of his negroes were known 
 to reside to the great Injury of the Estate of your Petitioner said 
 Slaves together with a Loss sustained in his Crop being in the 
 Opinion of your Petitioner to the value of Seven Thousand Pounds 
 Currency at a moderate Computation 
 
 Your Petitioner also begs' Leave to represent to the House that he 
 is well informed that John Moultrie Esquire Lieutenant Governor 
 of East-Florida from whence the said piratical cruizer .was com- 
 missioned and John Stuart Esquire late Superintendent of Indian 
 Affairs are possessed of certain Estates or other Property within this 
 State and the said John Moultrie and John Stuart Esquires having 
 taken an active Part with our Enemies against these United States 
 
 Your Petitioner therefore encouraged by some recent Precedents 
 in which Individuals have been permitted to make Reprisals and 
 to indemnify themselves for their Losses by seizing upon the Prop- 
 erty of the Enemy within this State prays that the House would 
 take the Premises into Consideration and enable your Petitioner to 
 attach and convert to his own use so much of the Property or Effects 
 of the said John Moultrie or John Stuart Esquires or any other 
 known Enemy of this State and of the Liberties of America in- 
 general found within this State as shall fully indemnify him for his 
 great Losses or that the House would be pleased to grant your 
 Petitioner such other mode of Redress as to their wisdom may seem 
 more fit and proper 
 
 Ordered That the Petition be referred to a Committee 
 
 And it is referred to the Honourable M r . Lowndes Captain Joiner 
 M r Benjamin Elliott M r . DeSaussure M r Stobo and M r . Young
 
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 Ordered That the Order of the Day be discharged 
 
 Ordered That the Consideration of the Report on M r Fenwick's 
 Petition be postponed till the Committee appointed to consider M r 
 Berwick's Petition shall have reported thereupon 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 I send you some other Petitions which have been lately pre- 
 sented to me relative to a Fort at the Cheraw-Hill 
 
 John Rutledge 
 25th September. 1776 
 
 Read the Petitions referred to which are preserved among the 
 other Papers of the Session 
 
 Ordered That the Petitioners be referred to the same Committee 
 to whom the Presidents Message of the 23d Instant and other Peti- 
 tions upon the same Subject were referred 
 
 It appearing to the House that Thomas Farr junior Esquire Clerk 
 to the late Commons House of assembly had in Pursuance of an 
 Order of the Council of Safety dated 24th of October last removed 
 the Journals Books and other Papers belonging to the said House 
 to Dorchester and there delivered them to the Commissioners 
 appointed for that Purpose and taken their Receipt for the same 
 which Receipt was produced to the House 
 
 Ordered That M r Farr be discharged from any further Charge 
 of the said Journals Books and Papers and that the same be taken 
 into the Care of the Clerk of this House 
 
 A Member presented to the House a Certificate of an Election 
 for the District of Saxe-Gotha And he read the Certificate in his 
 Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the 
 same was read and is as follows 
 South Carolina 
 Saxe-Gotha District 
 
 In Pursuance of a Letter from the Honourable William Henry 
 Drayton informing the Committee for this District that a writ of 
 Election was issued and sent up for a Member in the House of 
 General Assembly (though the said writ never came to Hand) the 
 Electors of Saxe-Gotha District were duly summoned to meet at 
 Congarees on Friday the I3th Instagt for the Purpose of electing 
 a member for the said District and the said Election having been 
 held it appeared that the Honourable William Henry Drayton was 
 duly and unanimously elected to represent the said District in the 
 
 4 H. c.
 
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 present General Assembly which Proceedings are hereby certified 
 and returned by us the Commissioners for the District Signed the 
 22d Day of September. 1776 
 
 William Arther 
 Jacob Friday 
 Ralph Humphreys 
 
 To the Speaker of the General House 
 of Assembly for South Carolina 
 
 After some Debate 
 
 A Motion was made That M r Drayton be called in to qualify 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 The House divided 
 
 The Yeas went forth 
 
 Teller for the Yeas M r Attorney General 32 
 
 Teller for the Noes Honourable M r . Lowndes 52 
 
 So it passed in the negative 
 
 Hopson Pinckney Esquire took the Oath prescribed by the Con- 
 stitution and his Seat in the House as a member for the Parish of 
 St Thomas and St Dennis 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative Council 
 
 M r . Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 Colonel Williamson lately desired my Instructions with respect 
 to telling the men engaged in the Expedition against the Cherokees 
 that such of those Indians as should be taken Prisoners would 
 become slaves and the Property of the Captors which notion I find 
 prevailed in his Camp 1 insomuch that an Indian woman who had 
 been taken Prisoner was sold as a slave I send you an Extract of 
 my Letter in answer to His on this Subject And agreeable to my 
 Promise to him recommend the giving suitable Encouragement to 
 those who shall distinguish themselves in the war against the Chero- 
 kees which I doubt not you will I wish to be enabled to assure 
 Colonel Williamson soon with Certainty what they may expect 
 
 John Rutledge 
 25th September. 1776 
 
 Read the Paper referred to entitled Extract of a Letter 3d Sep- 
 tember in answer to Colonel Williamsons of August 25th 
 
 Ordered That the Message and Extract accompanying the same 
 be referred to a Committee 
 
 And it is referred to the Honourable M r . Lowndes the Honourable 
 M r . Edwards Colonel Gervais Colonel Pinckney M r Neufville M r . 
 Cantey and M r . Waring
 
 Colonel Pinckney reported That the Honourable M r . Justice 
 Matthews and himself had according to order waited upon the Leg- 
 islative Council to desire their attendance in this House in Order 
 to join in balloting for a Captain and Commander of the Brigantine 
 Comet 
 
 The Members of the Honourable the Legislative Council being 
 introduced into this House accordingly 
 
 The Members of both Houses proceeded to ballot 
 
 And the Ballots being reckoned 
 
 M r . Speaker reported That James Dogharty Esquire was duly 
 elected Captain and Commander of the Brigantine Comet 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r . Edwards and Captain Joiner 
 do wait on the President to acquaint him that this House and the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council have jointly by Ballot duly 
 elected James Dogharty Esquire Captain and Commander of the 
 armed Brigantine Comet belonging to this State and to request that 
 His Excellency will be pleased to cause him to be sent for Express 
 and to commissionate him accordingly 
 
 A Memorial of the Vestry of Saint Philip's Charles Town was 
 presented to the House and read in the following words 
 
 That many Difficulties occurred which rendered it altogether 
 impossible for memorialists to make a just and equitable assessment 
 for a Poor-Tax on the Inhabitants of Charles-Town according to 
 the Directions of the act of Assembly but more particularly the 
 Removal from Town for several months past of great numbers of 
 those Inhabitants who were liable by Law to be taxed for that Pur- 
 pose and though some of them have lately returned it is nevertheless 
 now out of the Power of memorialists to make an assessment because 
 the Time limitted by Law for doing it is expired. 
 
 That Memorialists were obliged some Time since to borrow a 
 large Sum of money (exclusive of what hath been already lent by 
 your Honourable House) in order to defray the Expence of sup- 
 porting the Poor of this Town and transient Poor from the differ- 
 ent Parts of the Country and also from our Sister States who are 
 daily applying for an Increase of their monthly allowance because 
 of the exhorbitant Prices that are demanded for all the necessaries of 
 Life 
 
 Memorialists therefore pray that your Honourable House will 
 take the Case into your most serious Consideration and accordingly 
 make Provision for the subsistence of said Poor until a Tax can 
 be legally assessed or Memorialists will be reduced to the unavoid-
 
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 able necessity of yielding up their Trust and leaving the Poor alto- 
 gether to the Care of Heaven or begging their daily Bread from 
 Door to Door 
 
 Ordered That the memorial be referred to a Committee 
 
 And it is referred to M r Hall M r . John Berwick M r Verree 
 M r Brown M r Toomer M r Josiah Smith Junior and M r Eveleigh 
 
 Upon Motion 
 
 Resolved That M r Speaker do forthwith issue writs for electing 
 members of the present General Assembly for the following Par- 
 ishes and Districts where Vacancies have happened, (viz.) 
 
 One Member for the Parishes of St Philip and St Michael 
 Charles-Town in the Room of Cato Ash Esquire deceased. 
 
 One Member for the Parish of St Andrew in the Room of the 
 Honourable Thomas Fuller elected into the Legislative Council. 
 
 One Member for the Parish of St James Goose-Creek in the 
 Room of the Honourable John Parker elected into the Legislative 
 Council. 
 
 Two Members for the Parish of St James Santee in the Room of 
 the Honourable Daniel Horry elected into the Legislative Council 
 and of Levi Durand Esquire who having been returned for Christ- 
 Church and also for St James Santee had made his Election for 
 the former 
 
 One Member for the Parish of St Helena in the Room of the 
 Honourable William Moultrie elected into the Legislative Council 
 And 
 
 One Member for the District of Saxe-Gotha in the Room of the 
 Honourable William Henry Drayton elected Chief Justice of this 
 State 
 
 Ordered That the Election Days for filling up the said Vacancies 
 be Monday and Tuesday the seventh and eighth Days of October 
 next and that the writs be made returnable the ninth Day of the same 
 Month 
 
 It being suggested to the House that the Writ which had been 
 issued in August last for the Election of a Member for the Parish 
 of St Bartholomew had been founded on a mistake 
 
 Ordered That the said Writ and all the proceedings had thereon 
 be quashed. 
 
 The Order of the Day being read for reading a Second Time 
 and Ordinance for disarming Persons notoriously disaffected to the 
 Cause of America or who shall not associate and shall refuse to asso- 
 ciate to defend by arms the United States of America and the State
 
 53 
 
 of South-Carolina in particular against the hostile attempts of the 
 British Fleets and Armies 
 
 Ordered That the said Order be discharged and that the second 
 Reading of the Ordinance be postponed 
 
 The Honourable M r . Edwards reported That Captain Joiner and 
 himself had delivered the message they had in Charge to the Presi- 
 dent And that His Excellency was pleased to say the Request of the 
 House should be complied with 
 
 And then House adjourned till To-morrow Morning Ten of the 
 Clock 
 
 Thursday the 26th Day of September. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterdays proceedings 
 
 Joseph Howe Francis Adams Thomas Janes John Janes and 
 Lachlan Macintosh Esquires took the Oath prescribed by the Con- 
 stitution and their Seats as Members of the House 
 
 The Honourable M r Lowndes reported from the Committee to 
 whom the Petition of John Berwick Esquire was referred And he 
 read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the 
 Clerks Table where the same was read and is as followeth. 
 
 That inasmuch as there are several of the Inhabitants of this State 
 who have received the like Injuries with M r Berwick by the Depre- 
 dations of the Enemy and many more may probably have the same 
 cause of complaint during the present struggle with Great Britain 
 Your Committee are of Opinion that it will be most eligible and 
 equitable to fix one General Rule of Retribution that may compre- 
 hend equally all the sufferers that the same Measure of Justice may 
 be extended to all That partial and particular Remedies to Individ- 
 uals before a general account can be obtained and stated would 
 probably exclude may sufferers from the means of satisfaction and 
 occasion murmurings and Complaints 
 
 That as the Grievance complained of must necessarily be felt 
 throughout the Continent it is presumable the Honourable the Con- 
 tinental Congress may make some Order thereupon respecting the 
 measures to be taken by the different States respectively which will 
 establish a uniformity of Proceedings among them 
 
 Your Committee to avoid any Embezzlement or Deminution of the 
 Estates of any Persons absent from this State who are known to 
 hold Principles inimical to the Liberties of America recommend that 
 this House take proper steps to secure such Estates from being
 
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 alienated embezzled or diminished to serve as a Fund hereafter if 
 the House think proper to make Compensation in equal Degree to 
 all Persons who have or shall sustain Losses by the British Forces 
 And that Leave be given to bring in a Bill for those Purposes 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration imme- 
 diately 
 
 And the said Report being read a Second Time was agreed to by 
 the House 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the Purposes 
 mentioned in the last clause of the said Report And that Colonel 
 Pinckney M r . Attorney General MX Loocock M r . John Berwick and 
 M r . Ward do prepare and bring in the same 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative Coun- 
 cil 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 With the advice and Consent of the Privy Council I appointed 
 John Colcock Esquire Secretary and John Calvert and Benjamin 
 Lord messengers to that Board and Thomas Farr Esq r . Paymaster 
 of the Militia I therefore desire that you will provide such allow- 
 ances or salaries for them as may be reasonable and adequate to their 
 respective services 
 
 John Rutledge 
 26th Sept r . 1776 
 
 Ordered That the Message be referred to the following Committee 
 viz M r . Attorney-General M r . Ward M r . M c Oueen Colonel Garden 
 and M r . Ralph Izard 
 
 Then the House proceeded to take into Consideration the Report 
 of the Committee to whom M r . Fenwick's Petition had been referred 
 
 The First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth and Seventh Para- 
 graphs being read were agreed to by the House 
 
 The Eighth Paragraph being read and a Debate arising thereon 
 
 A Motion was made that the House disagree to the recommenda- 
 tory Clause 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 Resolved in the affirmative 
 
 And then the last Clause of the Report was read and after sev- 
 eral Amendments made thereto agreed to by the House And the 
 Report is as followeth 
 
 That in September last as M r . Fen wick informed the Committee 
 he received a Letter from M r Stuart informing him that he had 
 scr.t for an Inventory of his slaves in order to enable him to judge
 
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 what Part he would allot to M r Fenwick in Part of his Lady's Por- 
 tion which Letter is mislaid 
 
 That M r Fenwick produced a Letter dated 23d December from 
 M r Stuart directed to M r Ballingal wherein he tells M r . Ballingall 
 that if it is agreeable to him he leaves it to him to move Twenty 
 of his Hands from Maple Cane to M r . Fenwick's Plantation at 
 Ashepoo And that he M r Stuart proposed also to give Orders to 
 M r . Charles Shaw to remove Ten more from Lady's Island so as to 
 be at M r . Fenwick's in February following 
 
 That M r . Fenwick informed the Committee that he also had 
 received a Letter from M r Stuart acquainting him that he had wrote 
 Letters to M r Balingall and M r Shaw to the above Purpose That 
 the Letter was detained in the Post Office at Georgia a considerable 
 Time and taken up (opened) by M r . Rose who brought it to M r . 
 Fenwick in May last That M r . Fenwick in Consequence went up to 
 M r Balingall who acknowledged the Receipt of M r Stuart's Letter 
 but informed M r Fenwick that the Effects of M r Stuart were taken 
 out of his Hands by Order of the Congress otherwise he would have 
 complied with M r . Stuarts Direction Shaw also declared to M r Fen- 
 wick that he would have delivered up the Ten Negroes mentioned in 
 his Letter had M r Stuart's Effects remained in his Custody 
 
 That M r . Fenwick had no Bill of Sale or other Instrument of 
 writing transferring the said Slaves to him but is assured from the 
 Letter received from M r Stuart first referred to that it was M r 
 Stuart's Intention to have given him those those slaves as Part of 
 his Wife's Portion and the Orders given to M r . Balingall he con- 
 siders as an Evidence of such his Intention 
 
 That M r . Fenwick informed the Committee that there are now 
 brought to Charles Town seized on attachment Ten of the Slaves 
 belonging to M r Stuart from Maple Cane besides a considerable 
 number already sold That the Crop now on the Ground must be 
 lost for want of negroes to harvest it That if the Crop of the last 
 year lying on Hand together with the Indico made the present year 
 were put into his Hands he could by the Proceeds thereof pay off 
 the attachments on which the negroes were seized and redeem the 
 negroes now in the Custody of the sheriff which would afford them 
 the means of saving some Part of the Crop on the Ground which 
 must otherwise inevitably be lost 
 
 That he will give security to apply the Effects put into his Hands 
 solely to the Payment of the Just Debts of M r Stuart and account
 
 with any Person the House will appoint for die Residue of the 
 sales 
 
 That on the above State of Facts which M r Fenwick is ready to 
 attest upon Oath the Committee are of Opinion that it appears to 
 have been the Intention of M r Stuart to have given to M r Fenwick 
 his Son-in-law thirty negroes in Part of his Wife's Portion But 
 inasmuch as there is no Deed or regular Transfer for that Purpose 
 from M r Stuart obligatory upon him the Committee are of Opinion 
 that the Presumption arising from the Letters wrote by M r Stuart 
 is not sufficient in Law to vest the Property of the said slaves abso- 
 lutely in M r Fenwick. But as it is clear and evident by the Direc- 
 tions given to Balingall and Shaw that M r Stuart intended at least 
 to give to M r Fenwick the temporary use and service of Thirty 
 slaves to work on his Plantation at Ashepoo and that those Persons 
 would have put M r . Fenwick into the quiet Possession of them if 
 they had not been prevented by the Orders of the Congress which 
 dispossessed them of the Power over M r Stuart's Effects 
 
 That the Committee are of Opinion it would be detrimental and 
 grievous to sell the Negroes of M r Stuart for the Payment of his 
 Debts while there is a sufficient value in perishable commodities for 
 that Purpose on Hand the more especially as the present Crop on 
 the Ground would thereby be totally lost Thee Committee therefore 
 recommend That the parochial Committees who are in Possession of 
 the Rice and Indico belonging to M r Stuart be directed to dispose 
 of the same and apply the Proceeds to the Payment of the just and 
 legal Debts of M r Stuart holding the Residue if any there is in their 
 Hands subject to the Disposal of this House And that they lodge 
 in the Hands of the Commissioners of the Treasury a faithful and 
 exact account of such sale and Payments 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in an Ordinance for provid- 
 ing Juries for Beaufort District at the next November Court 
 
 M r Attorney General presented to the House according to Order 
 an Ordinance for providing Juries for Beaufort District at the next 
 November Courts And the same was received and read the First 
 Time 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be read a Second Time 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Pinckney and M r Ralph Izard together 
 with some member of the Legislative Council examine and compare 
 the ingrossed Ordinance for appointing Commissioners for selling 
 certain East-India-Teas imported from Great-Britain into this State
 
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 and for applying the monies arising therefrom to the use of the said 
 State 
 
 An Ordinance for providing Juries for Beaufort District at the 
 next N'ovember Courts was read a Second Time 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r . Justice Matthews and Colonel 
 Garden do carry the Ordinance to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Pinckney and M r . Attorney General be 
 added to the Committee appointed to bring in a Bill for appointing 
 Commissioners to superintend the naval affairs of this State 
 
 Colonel Pinckney reported That M r . Izard and himself with two 
 members of the Honourable the Legislative Council had examined 
 and compared the ingrossed Ordinance they had in Charge and 
 that they found it exact 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Edwards and M r Ralph Izard 
 do wait upon the President with the ingrossed Ordinance in order 
 to have the Seal affixed and to desire to know when His Excellency 
 will be pleased to be attended by the House to present the said 
 Ordinance for his assent 
 
 M r . Harrington reported from the Committee to whom the Presi- 
 dent's Message of the 23 d Instant and Papers relative to erecting a 
 Fort at Cheraw-Hill were referred And he read the Report in his 
 Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the 
 same was read and is as followeth 
 
 That they having examined the Petition for and against building 
 a stockade Fort at the Cheraws are of Opinion That a Fort in that 
 secure part of the Country is intirely useless 
 
 And are further of Opinion That the keeping of Guard of Three 
 Hundred Men in June and July last and of Fifty men in August 
 and the present Month at the said Place was a measure not only 
 unnecessary and expensive to the state but detrimental and destruct- 
 ive to the Crops of many of the Poor Inhabitants They therefore 
 recommend That the said Guard of Fifty men JDC immediately dis- 
 charged 
 
 And whereas a Quantity of Gun-Powder and Lead was by Order 
 of Congress lodged in the Hands of the Committee for St David's 
 Parish for the use of the Militia Part of which Powder and Lead 
 has been drawn out of their Hands by Orders of the Commanding 
 Officer : your Committee therefore recommend That Orders be given 
 to the said Commanding Officer to return the said Powder and Lead 
 to the aforesaid Committee
 
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 Ordered That the Report be taken into Consideration To-morrow. 
 
 The Honourable M r Edwards reported That M r Izard and himself 
 had according to Order waited on the President with the in- 
 grossed Ordinance and Message they had in Charge And that His 
 Excellency was pleased to say The House should hear from him. 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow Morning Eleven 
 of the Clock. 
 
 Friday the 27th Day of September 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment, 
 
 Read the Journals of Yesterday's Proceedings, 
 
 The House being informed by a member that a Cargo of Salt 
 had arrived in this Harbour yesterday, and that the Time limitted 
 for the Purchase of that Article by certain Commissioners had 
 expired the Day before 
 
 Resolved That Mess rs . John Dawson, Edward Lightwood, John 
 Poaug, Joseph Atkinson, William Ancrnm, James Fisher, and Al- 
 exander Chisolme be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners 
 to purchase the salt now in this Harbour on board the sloop Mar- 
 garet And that they have authority to allow such a liberal Price for 
 the same as may encourage the further Importation thereof and to 
 draw upon the Public Treasury for the amount of the said Purchase. 
 
 Ordered That Colonel M c lntosh M r Howe M r Moore M r . Robin- 
 son Captain Townsend Captain Leger and M r Young be a Commit- 
 tee to consider and report to the House the most equitable way of 
 disposing and distributing of salt amongst the Inhabitants of this 
 State 
 
 Resolved That if any Salt-Works shall hereafter be set up or 
 established on any Part of the Sea-Coast of this State at the Ex- 
 pence and Risk of Individuals and the same shall be destroyed or 
 damaged by any Enemy of this State This House will indemnify the 
 sufferer or sufferers One Half of his or their Loss or Damage so 
 sustained provided Jie or they shall not have sold any Salt made at 
 such Works for more than Twenty-five shillings per Bushel. 
 
 Ordered That the foregoing Resolution be printed and made 
 public 
 
 A Petition of John Vauchier of the Town of Purrysburg was pre- 
 sented to the House and read in the following Words. 
 
 That for the Term of Twelve Years and upwards the Petitioner 
 hath kept at his own Expence a Ferry with proper Boats and Hands 
 for the Purpose of conveying and transporting Passengers with
 
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 their Horses and Carriages from Purrysburg aforesaid to Abercorn 
 and the Town of Savannah in Georgia That as far as the same hath 
 been in the Power of the Petitioner he hath used every Dispatch and 
 given every necessary attendance that could be expected from a man 
 in his slender Circumstances and for the same received certain Rates 
 of Ferriage as have been paid and given for a number of years That 
 from the great advantage that would arise by a quick Communica- 
 tion between the Two States of South Carolina and Georgia the 
 Petitioner is emboldened to state the same to the Honourable House 
 And therefore humbly prays that the House will be pleased to take 
 the same into Consideration and by some necessary Law to be passed 
 for that Purpose to vest the said Ferry in the Petitioner and his 
 assigns for a Term of years, so that the same be considered as a 
 public Ferry from Purrysburg as aforesaid to Abercorn or Savannah 
 as may be most convenient to Travellers and that he by Law be 
 intitled to receive such Rates of Ferriage as may be regulated by 
 the House so that the same be equivelent to the Expence he may be 
 at And further that the House will be pleased to take his case fully 
 into Consideration and grant him such Relief as the same may 
 require. 
 
 Read also a Certificate with thirteen names subscribed thereto 
 annexed to the Petition that a Public Ferry from the Town of 
 Purrysburg would be of great service to South Carolina and Geor- 
 gia And a Letter dated the I7th Instant subscribed by thirty-five 
 Inhabitants of the Parish of St Peter and addressed to Philotheos 
 Chiffelle against M r . Yauchier's Petition. 
 
 Ordered That the said Petition and Letter be referred to the fol- 
 lowing Committee (viz) Major Cattell M r Brisbane M r . M c Pherson 
 Colonel Garden and Colonel M c lntosh 
 
 The Honourable M r Lowndes reported from the Committee to 
 whom the Presidents Message of the 25th Instant was referred And 
 he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it at the 
 Clerk's Table where the same was read and is as followeth. 
 
 That subjecting Prisoners of War to a state of Slavery inde- 
 pendent of any Consideration of the Illegality of such a measure 
 would involve this State in many Difficulties obstruct and impede a 
 future Peace give the Indians a Precedent that may be fatal to those 
 of our own People who may unfortunately fall into their Hands and 
 prevent a mutual Exchange of Prisoners an object cf too much Con- 
 sequence to be put out of our Power.
 
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 That in the Opinion of the Committee it is not adviseable or 
 proper to give any Encouragement to the Forces now acting against 
 the Cherokee Indians to expect that the Property of such Indians as 
 may be taken Prisoners should be vested in the Captors and be made 
 Slaves but on the Contrary that public Declarations should be made 
 to prevent any such Expectations. 
 
 Your Committee as an Encouragement to those who shall distin- 
 guish themselves in the War against the Cherokees recommend the 
 following Rewards 
 
 For every Indian Man killed and Certificate thereof given by the 
 Commanding Officer and the scalp produced as an Evidence thereof 
 in Charles Town by the Forces in the Pay of this State One Hun- 
 dred Pounds Currency 
 
 For every Indian Alan Prisoner One hundred and Twenty-five 
 Pounds 
 
 For every other Prisoner One Hundred and Pounds 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration imme- 
 diately 
 
 The First and Second Clauses of the Report being read were 
 severally agreed to by the House 
 
 The Third Clause being read and a Debate arising thereon 
 
 A Motion was made that the Reward for Indian Men's Scalps 
 should be seventy-five Pounds 
 
 A the Question being put 
 
 The House divided 
 
 Teller for the Yeas Colonel Pinckney 48 
 
 Teller for the Nays Major Cattell 29 
 
 So it was Resolved in the Affirmative 
 
 A Motion was made that the Reward for taken Indian Men Prison- 
 ers should be One Hundred Pounds. 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 Resolved in the Affirmative 
 
 A Motion was then made That the Reward for every other Pris- 
 oner should be One Hundred Pounds 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 It passed in the negative 
 
 A Motion was made That the said Reward should be Ninety- 
 Pounds 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 That also passed in the Negative
 
 6i 
 
 A Motion was then made that the said Reward should be Eighty 
 Pounds 
 
 And the Question .being put 
 
 Resolved in the Affirmative. 
 
 And the Report as amended and agreed to is as followeth. 
 
 That subjecting Prisoners of War to a state of Slavery independ- 
 ent of any Considerations of the Illegality of such a Measure would 
 involve this State in many Difficulties obstruct and impede a future 
 Peace give the Indians a Precedent that may be fatal to those of 
 our People who may unfortuately fall into their Hands and prevent 
 a mutual Exchange of Prisoners an Object of too much Consequence 
 to be put out of our Power 
 
 That in the Opinion of your Committee it is not adviseable or 
 proper to give any Encouragement to the Forces now acting against 
 the Cherokee Indians to expect that that the Property of such In- 
 dians as may be taken Prisoners should be vested in the Captors and 
 be made Slaves But on the Contrary that Public Declarations 
 should be made to prevent such Expectations 
 
 Your Committee as an Encouragement to those who shall distin- 
 guish themselves in the War against the Cherokees recommend the 
 following Rewards (to wit.) 
 
 For every Indian Man killed upon Certificate thereupon given by 
 the commanding officer and the Scalp produced as an Evidence 
 thereof in Charles-Town by the Forces in the Pay of this State 
 Seventy-five Pounds Currency. 
 
 For every Indian Man Prisoner One Hundred Pounds like Money 
 
 For every other Prisoner Eighty Pounds like Money. 
 
 Ordered That a Message be sent to the President with a Copy of 
 the above Report as agreed to by the House 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency, 
 
 This House having referred your Excellency's Message of the 
 25th Instant recommending that suitable Encouragement should be 
 given to those shall distinguish themselves in the War against the 
 Cherokees to the Consideration of a Committee who reported thereon 
 do herewith se.nd your Excellency a Copy of the said Report as 
 agreed to by the House. 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Pinckney and Colonel Gervais do wait on 
 his Excellency with the said Message
 
 62 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative Coun- 
 cil 
 
 M r Speaker 
 
 His Excellency the President is now in the Council Chamber 
 ready to receive this House with the Ordinance they have to pre- 
 sent, 
 
 And then the Messenger withdrew 
 
 The House accordingly attended the President in the Council- 
 Chamber 
 
 And being returned 
 
 M r Speaker reported That this House having attended the Presi- 
 dent in the Council-Chamber His Excellency had been pleased to 
 give his Assent to, 
 
 An Ordinance for appointing Commissioners for selling certain 
 East-Indi Teas imported from Great-Britain into this State and for 
 applying the Monies arising therefrom to the Use of the said State 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House an 
 Ordinance for providing Juries for Beaufort District at next Novem- 
 ber Courts Read twice in the Legislative Council 
 
 Resolved That the Ordinance be read a Third Time 
 
 And the same being read accordingly 
 
 Resolved That the Ordinance do pass 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Justice Matthews and Colonel 
 Garden do carry the Ordinance to the Legislative Council for their 
 Concurrence 
 
 M r Hall reported from the Committee to whom the memorial of 
 the Vestry of St Philip's Parish was referred And he read the 
 Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's 
 Table where the same was read and is as followeth, 
 
 That by inquiring they find the annual Expence of maintaining the 
 Poor of Charles Town to be about Fourteen Thousand Pounds Cur- 
 rency That the Vestry of St Philip's Parish who have that Trust 
 reposed in them have been under the necessity of borrowing the 
 Sum of Six Thousand Pounds towards supporting the said Poor of 
 Charles-Town exclusive of what this House have already lent them 
 both which Sums are expended and many accounts now unpaid 
 
 That it is at present impracticable to assess the Inhabitants of 
 Charles-Town for a Poor Tax the Time limitted by Law being ex- 
 pired and the Removal of so many of them from Town would if it 
 were practicable make the Tax so heavy upon those who had Virtue
 
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 enough to remain in Town during the Time of Trial and Danger 
 as to render the Burthen intolerable and by no means equitable 
 
 Your Committee therefore recommend That this House do lend 
 theA r estry of St Philip's a sum not exceeting Fourteen Thousand 
 Pounds Currency whereby they may be enabled to pay off the Debt 
 they have contracted and to support the Poor until a Just and equita- 
 ble Tax may be levied by Order of this House. 
 
 Ordered That the Report be taken into Consideration To-mor- 
 row. 
 
 Ordered That the Order of the Day for considering the Report 
 on the Message and Papers relative to a Fort at Cheravv Hill be 
 discharged And that the Consideration of the said Report be post- 
 poned. 
 
 Ordered That M r . Joseph Howe, M r Caldwell M r Williams and 
 M r Robinson be added to the Committee on the Militia Law. 
 
 The Honourable M r Edwards presented to the House according to 
 Order a Bill for establishing a Board of Commissioners to super- 
 intend and direct the Naval Affairs of the State of South Carolina 
 And the same was received and read the First Time 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be read a Second Time 
 
 M r . Attorney General reported from the Committee to whom was 
 referred the Presidents message respecting the Salaries of the Secre- 
 tary and Messengers of the Privy Council and a Paymaster to the 
 Militia And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards deliv- 
 ered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read in the words 
 following 
 
 That they are of Opinion the following Salaries or allowances to 
 the said Persons in manner herein after mentioned are reasonable 
 and adequate to the respective services of such Persons (that is to 
 say) 
 
 To the secretary of the Privy Council Two Thousand Pounds 
 Currency to be allowed him annually by the State for the services 
 of that Office. 
 
 To the Two Messengers of the Privy Council the sum of Three 
 Hundred and Fifty Pounds Currency each to be allowed annually 
 by the State, And 
 
 To the Paymaster of the Militia the Sum or allowance of Three 
 Pounds and Ten Shillings and Two Rations for each Day dur- 
 ing the Continuance of that Office. 
 
 Ordered That the Report be taken into Consideration To-morrow 
 
 It being moved and seconded That a Message be sent to the Presi-
 
 dent requesting that His Excellency would lay before this House 
 such Letters and Papers as he may have received relative to burning 
 the Houses and seizing and selling the Goods of Richard Pearis, 
 
 Ordered That a Message be prepared to be sent to his Excellency 
 accordingly 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning Half 
 
 past Ten of the Clock. 
 
 . 
 
 Saturday the 28th Day of September. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterday's Proceeding 
 
 Ralph Humphries, Thomas Taylor and William Strother Esquires 
 took the Oath required by the Constitution and their seats as Mem- 
 bers of the House 
 
 Colonel Pinckney reported that Coloner Gervais and himself had 
 delivered the Message they had in Charge to the President 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House request That your Excellency will be pleased to lay 
 before them such Letters and Papers as your Excellency may have 
 received relative to burning the Houses and seizing and selling the 
 Property of Richard Pearis 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Pinckney and M r DeSaussure do attend 
 His Excellency with the said Message 
 
 Ordered That the Second Reading of the Bill for establishing a 
 Board of Commissioners to superintend and direct the naval affairs 
 of the State of South Carolina be postponed till Thursday next 
 
 The House then proceeded on the Order of the Day to take into 
 Consideration the Report of the Committee to whom the President's 
 message of the 23d Instant and Papers accompanying the same rela- 
 tive to a Fort at Cheraw-Hill were referred 
 
 And the First Clause of the Report being read was agreed to by 
 the House 
 
 A Motion was made and seconded That the further Consideration 
 of the Report be postponed And that a message be sent to the Presi- 
 dent requesting that His Excellency will be pleased to lay before 
 this House the Reasons for ordering and keeping a Guard of Three 
 Hundred Men at the Cheraws in June and July last and of Fifty 
 men in August and the present Month at the same Place.
 
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 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency, 
 
 It appearing to this House from the Report of a Committee 
 That, a Guard of Three Hundred men had been kept at the Cheraws 
 in June and July last and of Fifty Men in August and the present 
 Month This House requests That your Excellency will be pleased to 
 lay before them the Reasons for ordering and keeping up the said 
 Guards. 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Pinckney and Colonel Gervais do carry the 
 said Message to the President 
 
 A Motion being made That a Person now about to depart this 
 State for Philadelphia be authorized to purchase a proper Vessel 
 there and load the same with Flour Ship Bread Iron and Steel upon 
 account of this State 
 
 A Debate ensued 
 
 And the Question being put whether Flour should be one of the 
 Articles to be so imported 
 
 It passed in the Negative 
 
 Ordered That M r Loocock M r . Corbett and M r . Hall be a Com- 
 mittee to consider and report the Quantity and different Articles 
 necessary to be imported from Philadelphia under the Direction of 
 the Delegates of this State in the Continental Congress. 
 
 It being suggested to the House that the Property of Colonel 
 Christopher Gadsden at the North End of Charles-Town had been 
 much injured by the salt works erecting thereon and by the Stores 
 upon the Wharf having been turned into Barracks for Soldiers, 
 Therefore 
 
 Resolved That the Commissioners for erecting salt works in 
 Charles-Town be forthwith directed to desist from erecting such 
 works and to cause the Banks there to be immediately put into as 
 good Condition as they were when taken Possession of for the Pub- 
 lic Service And that a message be sent to the President requesting 
 that His Excellency will be pleased to give Directions that the Stores 
 upon the said Wharf and which have been turned into Barracks be 
 forthwith evacuated and restored to their former State. 
 
 Ordered That the Consideration of the Reports on the memorial 
 of the Vestry of St Philips Parish and the Presidents message re- 
 specting Salaries for the Officers of the Privy Council be postponed. 
 
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 Ordered That the Resolve of Yesterday appointing commission- 
 ers to purchase a Cargo of Salt brough in the Sloop Margaret be 
 amended by inserting the words "receive and store" after the word 
 "Purchase" in the beginning thereof and the words "and "Charges" 
 at the End 
 
 And then the House adjourned till Monday morning Ten of the 
 Clock 
 
 Monday the 3Oth Day of September. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of last Saturday's Proceedings 
 
 Michael Leitner Esquire took the oath prescribed by the Constitu- 
 tion and his Seat as a member > 
 
 Colonel Pinckney reported That Colonel Gervais and himself had 
 waited upon the President and delivered the message they had in 
 Charge 
 
 M r Loocock reported from the Committee to consider and report 
 the Quantities and different Articles necessary to be imported from 
 Philadelphia under the Direction of the Delegates of this State And 
 he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the 
 Clerk's Table where the same was read in the following words 
 
 That it is their Opinion application should be made to our Dele- 
 gates at Philadelphia to endeavour to procure Two Frigates on the 
 Continental Establishment to be stationed at this Port particularly 
 during the winter when they can be of little service to the northward 
 which with our own armed vessels may in a great measure secure 
 our Trade by obliging the Enemy to keep so many Cruizers as will 
 soone tire 'them out 
 
 That if our Delagates think proper to make this application your 
 Committee would recommend that the said Frigates take in as Bal- 
 last One Hundred Tons of Bar Iron besides the following Articles 
 
 But if the Frigates cannot be spared to this State then your Com- 
 mittee recommend that a staunch Brigantine of about One Hundred 
 and Fifty Tons be procured to mount Twelve to Sixteen Carriage 
 Guns be properly manned and to bring as many supernumerary 
 seamen as can possibly be procured in which the said articles may be 
 shiped viz 
 
 Thirty Tons of small flatt Bar Iron for Waggon Tire 
 
 Ten Tons broad thick flatt ditto for Axes 
 
 Six Tons small square Iron 
 
 Four Tons thick square Ditto for machine or Mill Work,
 
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 Forty Faggots square Steel 
 
 Two Faggots German flatt Ditto 
 
 Ten Tons Plough-shear moulds half with a thick Land Side and 
 Half for shovel Ploughs 
 
 One Grace Mill Saw Files ^ 
 
 Four Groce Whip and Cross-cut Saw Ditto 
 
 Six Groce Hand Saw Ditto 
 
 Twelve Dozen Philadelphia made Club Axes 
 
 One Hundred and Fifty Barrels of well baked Ship Bread 
 (Amounting to about nine Thousand and Five Hundred Pounds- 
 Currency exclusive of the Brigantine) 
 
 If Cotton or Wool Cards can be procured a Groce of each 
 
 If Broad Hoes to be had reasonable Twelve Groce 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into immediate Consideration 
 
 And the same being taken into Consideration accordingly 
 
 The First and Second Clauses were read to the House and sever- 
 ally amended and agreed to 
 
 While the House was in Debate upon the Third Clause of the 
 Report 
 
 A Motion was made and seconded That the sense of the House 
 should be taken whether the Members of the late Congress who had 
 been appointed to the Places of Emolument before the Constitution 
 was established have a Right to sit and vote in the present General 
 Assembly without being re-elected 
 
 And the sense of the House (without a Question thereon) was 
 That such members had an undoubted Right 
 
 The House then proceed in the Consideration of the Third Clause 
 of the Report and the same being read after several amendments 
 made thereto was agreed to And the Report as amended and agreed 
 to is as followeth 
 
 That it is their Opinion application should be made to our Dele- 
 gates at Philadelphia to endeavour to procure Two or more Frigates . 
 on the Continental Establishment to be stationed at this Port 
 particularly during the Winter when they can be of little service to 
 the northward which with our armed Vessels may in a great measure 
 secure our Trade and protect our Coasts. 
 
 That if our Delegates succeed in this Application your Committee 
 would recommend That the sa^d Frigate take in as Ballast One Hun- 
 dred Tons of Bar Iron besides the articles under-mentioned 
 
 But if the Frigates cannot be obtained or if they should not be 
 allowed to bring those articles then your Committee recommend that
 
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 proper small Vessels be procured to bring the said articles of a light 
 Draught of water armed with Carriage or Swivel Guns properly 
 manned and with as many Supernumerary Seamen as can be pro- 
 cured or that the Delegates do take such other steps as they shall 
 think expedient to procure the said Articles to be sent to this State 
 as soon as possible And that M r . Archibald Gambell be recommended 
 to the Delegates as a proper Person to assist them and that he be 
 desired to follow their Directions in procuring the said Articles and 
 forwarding the Vessel or Vessels in which the same are to be brought 
 viz. 
 
 Sixty Tons of small flat Bar Iron for Waggon Tire 
 
 Twenty Tons broad flat thick Ditto for axes 
 
 Twelve Tons small square Iron 
 
 Eight Tons thick square Ditto fit for machine or mill work. 
 
 Eighty Faggots square Steel 
 
 Four Faggots German flatt Steel 
 
 Twenty Tons Plough-Shear moulds half with a thick Land side 
 and half for shovel Ploughs 
 
 Twenty-four Dozen Philadelphia made Club axes 
 
 As many mill Saw Cross Cut and Whip Saw and Hand Saw Files 
 and as many W'ool and Cotton Cards as can be procured 
 
 Three Hundred Barrels of well baked ship Bread And 
 
 Five Hundred Reams of printing Paper 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 According to your desire I send herewith Extracts of such Parts 
 of Colonel Williamson's Thomas's and Neel's Letters to me as relate 
 to burning the House and seizing and selling the Property of Richard 
 Pearis which are all the Papers I have received on that subject except 
 a Petition from him complaining of those Acts and praying for 
 Redress 
 
 John Rutledge 
 3Oth September. 1776 
 
 Read the Extracts refened to in the message from Colonel 
 Williamson's Letter dated 28th July 1776 from Colonel Thomas's 
 dated August 25th and from Colonel Neel's dated August 27th 
 
 Ordered That the said Message and Extracts be referred to the 
 Committee upon M r Pearis's Petition And that M r Joseph Howe, M r . 
 Jeans, M r . Williams, and M r . Adams be added to the said Com- 
 mittee.
 
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 The Honourable M r . Justice Matthews reported that Colonel 
 Garden and himself had delivered the Ordinance they had in Charge 
 to the Legislative Council. 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House an 
 Ordinance for providing Juries for Beaufort District at the next 
 November Courts read a Third Time in the said House 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be ingrossed 
 
 It being suggested to the House that upon a supposition that the 
 seat of the Honourable Thomas Heyward became vacant in Conse- 
 quence of his being absent from this State as a Delegate at the Con- 
 tinental Congress a new Representative for Charles Town was elected 
 in his Room and that such Proceeding was irregular and invalid, 
 
 It was therefore moved and seconded that the House do Resolve 
 that M r Heyward has a Right to take his seat notwithstanding the 
 said Election 
 
 And it was Resolved accordingly 
 
 It was then Debated whether the member who had been elected in 
 the Room of M r Heyward had a Right to continue sitting as a mem- 
 ber of the House 
 
 And after sometime spent in Debate 
 
 Ordered That the further Discussion of this subject be postponed 
 till To-morrow morning 
 
 M r . Speaker laid before the House a Letter which he had received 
 from George Gabriel Powell Esquire and the same being read is as 
 follows 
 
 Sir 
 
 I understand there are Charges of an extraordinary nature 
 against me laid before your Honourable House I humbly request 
 therefore that I may be heard in my Defence by a Committee before 
 any Resolution is taken thereupon trusting that I shall be able so to 
 acquit myself as to stand fair in the Opinion of my Country which 
 is above all Things desirable to 
 
 Honourable Sir 
 
 Your most obedient 
 
 Humble Servant 
 
 G. G. Powell 
 Charles-Town 
 3Oth September. 1776 
 
 Ordered That the Consideration of the said Letter be postponed 
 
 Upon Motion 
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 Resolved Thall all members absent from the service of this House 
 who reside within Fifty miles of Charles Town and are able to attend 
 be sent for at their own Expence 
 
 Ordered That the Clerk do write Letters to such members accord- 
 ingly 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of the 
 Clock. 
 
 Tuesday the ist Day of October. 1776 
 
 The House met according to Adjournment 
 
 Read the Journals of yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 Major Cattell reported from the Committee to whom the Petition 
 of John Vauchier was referred And he read the Report in his Place 
 and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same 
 was read and is as followeth 
 
 That they have considered the Petition of said Vauchier and it 
 appears to your Committee that a quick Communication between the 
 Two States of Georgia and South-Carolina will be of great Utility 
 to both Countries And as a Ferry fixed at Purrysburg from thence 
 to Savannah and Abercorn in Georgia may be one means to procure 
 Dispatch to Travellers are of Opinion that a public Ferry should be 
 established at Purrysburg from thence to Savannah and Abercorn 
 in Georgia. 
 
 And as M r Vauchier has been at some Expence in purchasing 
 Boats to accommodate Travellers recommend that the Ferry be 
 vested in him and his assigns for a Term not exceeding seven years 
 
 And they further recommend That a Law may be brought in for 
 those Purposes 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration immediately 
 
 And the said Report being read a Second Time was agreed to by 
 the House. 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill accordingly 
 
 Ordered That M r DeSaussure M r . Williamson Colonel Garden 
 Major Huger and M r . Josiah Smith Junior be a Committee to con- 
 sider and report the best way of procuring and keeping a Guard upon 
 Bloody Point. 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House having appointed a Committee to consider and 
 report what Articles were necessary to be imported from Phila- 
 delphia for the Use of this State the said Committee accordingly 
 reported a Copy of which Report as amended and agreed to by the
 
 House we take Leave to send you herewith and to request that your 
 Excellency will transmit the same and write to the Delegates for this 
 State to cause the several Articles and the Vessels therein men- 
 tioned to be procured and sent hither as soon as may be and to apply 
 to the Congress to advance the money that may be necessary upon 
 the Occasion for which proper Credit will be given by this State in 
 the Pay of the Troops money advanced to the Indian Commissioners 
 and otherwise in the General Cause of the United Colonies 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r . Williamson and Doctor Haig do carry the mes- 
 sage to the President 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative Council 
 
 M r . Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 On the jth of May I was informed by a Letter from the Com- 
 mittee of Secrecy War and Intelligence in North Carolina of their 
 having received advice that the Enemy who then lay in Cape-Fear 
 River had planned a Descent at the mouth of Little-River near the 
 Borders of this Colony in order to attempt a Passage into the Back 
 Country of that by the Lake of Waccamaw Having Occasion to 
 confer with the Honourable Colonel Powell on this Subject He 
 urged very strongly the absolute necessity of building a stockade 
 Forf and keeping a Garison at the Cheraw-Hill as a security against 
 Incursions of the Disaffected about Cross-Creek and for preventing 
 or suppressing Insurrections which they might occasion amongst our 
 own People near the North-Carolina Line Events which might be 
 feared especially if the intended junction between the British Forces 
 and the Malcontents in that Province had taken Place I thought 
 so much attention and Respect due to the Represention of a Gentle- 
 man in his Station who was well acquainted with that Part of the 
 Country and had the Command of a large Regiment there as to lay 
 it before the Council for their advice which I did He attended them 
 and on considering what he offered on this Head they were unan- 
 imously of Opinion that it was necessary to erect such a Fort and 
 keep such a Garison in Consequence of which I gave orders for that 
 Purpose 
 
 John Rutledge 
 30th Septem r . 1776 
 
 A Petition of Philip Will was presented to the House and read 
 in the following words 1 
 
 1 The petition was not copied, and there is still a blank space in the journal 
 where it was intended to be entered.
 
 72 
 
 Ordered That the Petition be referred to the same Committee to 
 whom the Presidents Message of the 26th past respecting the sala- 
 ries to the Secretary and Messengers to the Privy Council and Pay 
 Master to the Militia was referred and that Colonel M c lntosh Major 
 Cattell and Major Huger be added to the said Committee 
 
 Then the House proceeded to take into Consideration the Report 
 of the Committee to whom the Memorial of the Vestry of the Parish 
 of St Philip was referred 
 
 And the said Report being read was agreed to by the House 
 
 Ordered That the Commissioners of the Treasury do advance upon 
 Loan to the Vestry of St Philip's Parish a Sum not exceeding Four- 
 teen Thousand Pounds Currency to enable them to pay off the Debt 
 they have contracted and to support the Poor until a Just and 
 equitable Tax may be levied by Law 
 
 Resolved That this House will ballot for Commissioners to super- 
 intend and direct the Naval Affairs of the State of South Carolina 
 
 And the House having proceeded to ballot accordingly 
 
 It appeared That Edward Blake Thomas Savage, Josiah Smith 
 junior Thomas Corbett Roger Smith George Abbot Hall and the 
 Honourable Thomas Shubrick Esquires had the Majority of Votes 
 
 A Bill for establishing a Board of Commissioners to superintend 
 and direct the naval affairs of the State of South Carolina was read 
 a Second Time 
 
 -And the names of the Commissioners being inserted and several 
 amendments made to the Bill 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That Doctor Haig and M r Hopson Pinckney do carry the 
 Bill to the Legislative Council 
 
 Colonel Pinckney presented to the House according to Order "An 
 Ordinance for ascertaining the manner of issuing Orders for holding 
 General Courts-martial for the trying hearing and determining of 
 Crimes and Offences committed by any Persons belonging to the 
 South Carolina Regiments on the Continental Establishment against 
 the Rules and Articles for their Government" And the same was 
 received and Ordered to be read the First Time To-morrow 
 
 Ordered That the Commissioners appointed to purchase the salt 
 lately imported in the sloop Margaret do sell to Francis Adams 
 Thomas Jeans and Joseph Howe Esquires members for the District 
 called the new Acquisition Fifty Bushels of the said Salt to be sent 
 into 'the said District and sold and distributed to the Inhabitants
 
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 thereof at such Prices and in such Proportions as the said Commis- 
 sioners shall direct 
 
 Ordered That Doctor Haig and M r Hopson Pinckney dc> with 
 some Member of the Legislative Council examine and compare the 
 ingrossed Ordinance for providing Juries for Beaufort District at the 
 next November Courts. 
 
 Ordered That M r . William Moore and M r . John James have 
 Leave of absence from the Service of this House 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow Nine of the Clock. 
 
 Wednesday the 2d Day of October. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 M r Williamson reported That Doctor Haig and himself had 
 delivered the Message they had in Charge to the President 
 
 M r . Young reported from the Committee to consider and report 
 the most equitable way of distributing salt amongst the Inhabitants 
 of this State And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards 
 delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read in the 
 following words 
 
 That it is the Opinion of the Committee That every Person apply- 
 ing for salt shall produce to the Commissioners for the sale thereof 
 a Certificate from any Two of the members of the District Commit- 
 tee in which such Person is resident certifying the number of Persons 
 in Family And that every Family consisting of six Persons shall be 
 allowed one Bushel on paying for the same and so in Proportion if a 
 greater or less number 
 
 That the several Committees be directed to grant such Certificates 
 at the Times of their stated meeting and that no Person be intitled to 
 more than one Certificate 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into immediate Consideration. 
 
 And the Report being taken into Consideration accordingly and 
 amended was agreed to and is as followeth. 
 
 That it is the Opinion of the Committee that every Person applying 
 for salt shall produce to the Commissioners for the sale thereof a 
 Certificate from any Two members of the District Committee in 
 which such Person is resident certifying the Number of white Per- 
 sons in Family that every Family consisting of six, such Persons 
 shall be allowed One. Half Bushel on paying for the same and so in 
 Proportion if a greater Number.
 
 74 
 
 That the several District Committees or any Two members of such 
 Committees be directed to grant such Certificates upon Application 
 and that no Person be intitled to more than One Certificate But 
 Persons who continue inimical to this State shall not be intitled to 
 any such Certificate 
 
 Ordered That the above Resolutions respecting the Sale and Dis- 
 tribution of salt be forthwith printed and Copies thereof delivered to 
 the Members of this House v 
 
 An Ordinance for- ascertaining the manner of issuing orders for 
 holding General Courts-martial for the trying hearing and determin- 
 ing of Crimes and Offences committed by any Persons belonging to 
 the South Carolina Regiments on the Continental Establishment 
 against the Articles for their Government" was read the First Time 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be read a Second Time 
 
 And the same being read accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That Doctor Haig and M r Pinckney do carry the Ordin- 
 ance to the Legislative Council 
 
 Colonel Pinckney gave notice that he should at the Third Reading 
 of the Ordinance move for Leave to bring in a Clause to be added 
 thereto which he read to the House for Information 
 
 Doctor Haig reported That M r Pinckney and himself had delivered 
 the Bill and the Ordinance they had in Charge to the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill authorizing the 
 President and Commander in Chief to call upon the Committees in 
 the several Parishes and Districts throughout this State for such a 
 Number of Slaves as shall be thought necessary to assist at the 
 Public Works and Fortifications and to impower the said Commit- 
 tees to fix and determine the Number to be sent by the Inhabitants 
 of their respective Districts 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Lowndes the Honourable M r 
 Edwards and Colonel Pinckney be a Committee to prepare and bring 
 in such a Bill 
 
 Doctor Haig reported That M r Pinckney and himself with a Mem- 
 ber of the Legislative Council had examined the ingrossed Ordinance 
 for providing Juries for Beaufort District at the next November 
 Courts and they found the same truly ingrossed. 
 
 Oidered That Captain Joiner and M r Howe, do attend the Presi- 
 dent with the said Ordinance in order to have the Seal affixed to the
 
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 same and to know when His Excellency will be pleased to receive 
 this House to present the Ordinance for his assent 
 
 The House then proceeded to consider whether the Member who 
 was elected in the Room of the Honourable M r Heyward has a Right 
 to continue his seat in this House and also whether the other Mem- 
 bers for Charles-Town who were elected on the pth and loth Days 
 of September last upon a mistaken supposition of Vacancies ought to 
 continue in their Seats 
 
 After sometime spent in Debate 
 
 A Motion was made That Charles-Town having chosen too great 
 a number of Members on the 9th and loth Days of September last 
 founded upon a mistake the said Election should be declared void 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 Resolved in the affirmative 
 
 Resolved That the Elections on the said Qth and loth Days of Sep- 
 tember last for the Parishes of St James Santee and Prince George 
 Winyah being likewise founded on mistakes are also declared null 
 and void 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the. Legislative Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 Lieutenant Dogharty declines accepting the Command of the 
 Brigantine Comet 
 
 John Rutledge 
 2d October 1776 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House an 
 Ordinance for ascertaining the manner of issuing orders for holding 
 General Courts-martial for the Trying hearing and determining of 
 Crimes and offences committed by any Persons belonging to the 
 South Carolina Regiments on the Continental Establishment against 
 the Articles for their Government Read twice in the said Council 
 
 Ordered That the Report of the Committee to whom the Presi- 
 dent's message and other Papers relative to the building of a Fort at 
 Cheraw Hill were referred be recommitted That the President's 
 Message of yesterday upon the same Subject and Colonel Powell's 
 Letter be referred to the same Committee and that Major Huger 
 Major Simons M r . Cantey and Captain Roger Smith be added to the 
 said Committee 
 
 Ordered That Major Simons M r DeSaussure Captain Harleston 
 and M r Thomas Waring be added to the Committee on the State of 
 the Treasury in the Room of Josiah Smith Junior Thomas Jones, 
 and John Webb Esquires whose Seats have been declared vacant
 
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 Ordered That the Honourable M r Heyward and Captain Savage 
 be added to the Committee to bring in a Bill to secure the Estates of 
 Persons absent from this State who are known to be inimical to the 
 Liberties of America from being alienated embezzled or diminished 
 to serve as a Fund hereafter to make compensation in equal Degree 
 to all Persons who have or shall sustain Losses by the British 
 Forces" in the Room of M r Attorney General and Joshua Ward 
 Esquire whose Seats also have been declared vacant 
 
 The House then proceeded to take into Consideration the Report 
 of the Committee to whom the President's Message respecting the 
 salaries or allowances to the Secretary and Messengers of the Privy 
 Council and a Paymaster to the Militia was referred 
 
 And the First Clause of the Report being read was amended and 
 agreed to by the House 
 
 Upon reading the Second Clause 
 
 A Motion was made That the Messengers be allowed a Salary of 
 Five Hundred Pounds a year each 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 It was Resolved in the Affirmative 
 
 And the said Clause being amended accordingly was agreed to 
 
 Upon reading the Third Clause a debate arose 
 
 After sometime spent thereon 
 
 Ordered That the further Consideration of the said Clause be post- 
 poned till To-morrow 
 
 And the said Report so far as amended and agreed to is as fol- 
 loweth 
 
 That the Committee are of opinion the following salaries or allow- 
 ances to the Persons and in the manner herein after mentioned are 
 reasonable and adequate to the respective Services of such Persons, 
 (that is to say.) 
 
 To the Secretary of the Privy Council Fourteen Hundred Pounds 
 Currency to be allowed him annually by the state for the services of 
 that office 
 
 To the Two Messengers of the Privy Council the Sum of Five 
 Hundred Pounds each to be allowed annually by the State 
 
 Captain Joiner reported That M r Howe and himself had waited 
 upon the President with the Ordinance and Message they had in 
 Charge and that His Excellency was pleased to say "the House 
 should hear from him" 
 
 Colonel Gervais reported from the Committee to whom the Memo- 
 rial of Richard Pearis was referred And he read the Report in his
 
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 Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the 
 same was read in the following words 
 
 That the injuries complajned of by the memorialist would be 
 matter more proper for the Inquiry of the Courts below than for the 
 Consideration of this House in the Ordinary Course of affairs But 
 inasmuch as Prosecutions against the Parties complained of and their 
 attendance to answer might at this Juncture prove detrimental to the 
 Public Service Your Committee recommend that Colonel Thomas be 
 required immediately to transmit and lay before this or the next 
 House a true state of the Case And also that he will immediately 
 lodge in the Public Treasury such Money Bonds or other Securities 
 as he may have taken for the sale of M r . Pearis's Goods And that 
 the sum of Seven Hundred Pounds be advanced by this House to 
 the Memorialist upon the Security of such Money Bonds &c to serve 
 for his Occasions until the matter can be more fully considered 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration To-morrow 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow Morning nine of 
 the Clock 
 
 Thursday the 3d Day of October. 1776 
 
 The House met according to Adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterday's proceedings 
 
 Joshua Toomer Esquire took the Oath prescribed by the Constitu- 
 tion and his seat as a Member of this House 
 
 The House according to the Order of Yesterday resumed the Con- 
 sideration of the Third Clause- of the Report of the Committee on 
 the allowances to the Secretary and Messengers of the Privy Council 
 and a Paymaster to the militia 
 
 After sometime spent in Debate 
 
 Ordered That it be referred to the Committee appointed to bring 
 in a new Militia Law to prepare and insert a Clause therein ascertain- 
 ing the Duties and stating the Pay of a Paymaster General of the 
 Militia. 
 
 It being suggested to the House that the Place appointed on the 
 nth Day of April last for the Election of Members of the General 
 Assembly for the District called the New Acquisition is inconvenient 
 and improper 
 
 Resolved That the next Election for the New Acquisition shall be 
 held at the House of M r John Carnachan in the said District and 
 not or near Colonel Thomas Neel's 
 
 On Motion,
 
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 Resolved That Expresses be forthwith sent by the Clerk of this 
 House into the several Parishes and Districts throughout this State 
 to acquaint the Church-Wardens and other Persons appointed to 
 manage Elections of the Times and Places where the said Elections 
 are to be held and to deliver to them printed Instructions for man- 
 aging the said Elections as well as blank notices to be filled up and 
 posted and other necessary Papers 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House A 
 Bill for establishing a Board of Commissioners to superintend and 
 direct the naval affairs of the state of South Carolina" Read a 
 second Time in the said Council 
 
 On Motion 
 
 Resolved That the Commissioners for the Sale of Salt be impow- 
 ered to sell Salt to the Owner of each Waggon and Horses that bring 
 Provisions from North-Carolina in the same Proportion as they are 
 directed to do to the Inhabitants of this State upon Affidavit of the 
 number of white Persons in their respective Families 
 
 M r Harrington gave notice that he should on or about the ijth 
 Instant move for an adjournment of this House 
 
 The Honourable M r Lowndes presented to the House according to 
 Order An Ordinance to direct the manner of procuring Negroes to 
 be employed in the public Service And the same was received and 
 read the First Time. 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be read a Second Time 
 
 And the same being read accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That M r Ladson and M r MacPherson do carry the Ordin- 
 ance to the Legislative Council 
 
 An Ordinance for ascertaining the manner of issuing orders for 
 holding General Courts-Martial for trying hearing and determining 
 of Crimes and offences committed by any Persons belonging to the 
 South Carolina Regiments on the Continental Establishment against 
 the Rules and Articles for their Government" was read a Third time 
 
 Colonel Pinckney moved for Leave to bring in a Clause which he 
 had prepared to be added to the ordinance 
 
 And the same being presented to the House was received and read 
 Three several Times and agreed to. 
 
 Resolved That the same be added to and made a Part of the 
 Ordinance 
 
 And the same being added accordingly 
 
 Resolved That the Ordinance do pass
 
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 Ordered That Captain Scott and Captain Joiner do carry the 
 Ordinance to the Legislative Council for their Concurrence 
 
 A Petition of John Thompson and Richard Thompson was pre- 
 sented to the House and read 
 
 Ordered That the Petition be referred to a Committee 
 
 And it is referred to Major Cattell M r . Charles Elliott and Colonel 
 Gervais 
 
 Ordered That Jacob Richman Esquire have Leave of absence 
 from the Service of this "House on account of the Illness of his 
 Family 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of the 
 Clock 
 
 Friday the 4th Day of October 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journals of yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 Ordered That the attendance of such members of this House as 
 are Church- Wardens in any of the Parishes where Elections are to be 
 held on Monday and Tuesday next be dispensed with on those Days 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House request that your Excellency will be pleased to give 
 Directions that the stores upon Colonel Gadsden's Wharf be forth- 
 with evacuated and put into as good a Condition as they were when 
 taken Possession of for the Public service 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r John Berwick and M r . Elias Horry Junior do 
 attend His Excellency with the said Message 
 
 M r Berwick reported That M r Horry and himself had delivered 
 the Message they had in Charge to the President 
 
 The House proceeded to a Third Reading of a Bill for establish- 
 ing a Board of Commissioners to superintend and direct the naval 
 affairs of the State of South Carolina 
 
 But it appearing upon Reading the First Clause of the Bill that 
 the Honourable the Legislative Council had struck out the name of 
 one of the Commissioners who had been ballotted for by this House 
 and inserted the name of another Gentleman in Stead, 
 
 Resolved That this House will immediately proceed to ballot for 
 another Commissioner 
 
 The House proceeded to ballot accordingly
 
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 And the Ballots being reckoned 
 
 M r . Speaker reported That George Smith Esquire had the Majority 
 of Votes 
 
 Ordered That the name inserted in the Bill by the Legislative 
 Council be struck out and that the Name of George Smith Esquire 
 be inserted instead thereof 
 
 Which being done accordingly 
 
 The Bill for establishing a Board of Commissioners to superintend 
 and direct the naval affairs of the State of South Carolina was read 
 a Third Time 
 
 Resolved That the Bill to do pass and that the Title be "an Act" 
 
 Ordered That M r Thomas Waring and M r Keating Simons do 
 carry the Bill to the Legislative Council for their Concurrence 
 
 M r . Waring reported that M r Simons and himself had delivered 
 the Bill they had in Charge to the Legislative Council 
 
 M r . DeSaussure reported from the Committee to consider and 
 report the best way of procuring and keeping a Guard upon Bloody 
 Point And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered 
 it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read in the words fol- 
 lowing 
 
 That it appears to the Committee absolutely necessary that a Guard 
 should be kept for the Protection of the Southern Parts of this State 
 And 
 
 Recommend That a Detachment of One Hundred Men One Cap- 
 tain and Four subalterns be sent from either of the Regiments of 
 Regulars to do Duty at the different Places now guarded by the 
 Militia of Colonel Bulls Regiment Or otherwise by raising an inde- 
 pendent Company of the like Number of men and officers for that 
 service 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration immediately 
 
 And the First Clause of the Report being read was agreed to by 
 the House 
 
 Upon reading the Second Clause 
 
 On Motion 
 
 Resolved That a Message be sent to the President requesting that 
 His Excellency would procure and order to be laid before the House 
 a state of the Army now in this State where situate and upon what 
 services And that the further Proceeding in the Report be postponed 
 till such state shall have been laid before the House 
 
 The further Proceeding in the Report was postponed accordingly
 
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 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 We request that your Excellency will be pleased to procure and 
 order to be laid before this House a state of the army now in this 
 State where) situate and upon what services 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the the same 
 
 Ordered That Captain Harlston and M r White do attend the 
 President with the Message 
 
 Captain Scott reported That Captain Joiner and himself had deliv- 
 ered the ordinance they had in Charge to^the Legislative Council 
 
 M r Ladson reported That M r Macpherson and himself had deliv- 
 ered the ordinance they had in charge to the Legislative Council 
 
 M r Harrington reported from the Committee to whom the Second 
 Clause in the Report on the President's Message of the 23d Ultimo 
 and the Papers accompanying the same respecting the building a 
 Stockade Fort at Cheraw Hill was re-committed and His Excel- 
 lency's Message of the ist Instant and Colonel's Powell's Letter of 
 the 3oth of September was committed And he read the Report in his 
 Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the 
 same was read and agreed to by the House 
 
 The Third Clause of the said Report being then read and amended 
 was also agreed to by the House 
 
 And the Report as amended and agreed to is as followeth That, 
 They having examined the Petitions for and against building a stock- 
 ade Fort at Cheraw-Hill are of Opinion That a Fort in that secure 
 Part of the Country is enterely useless 
 
 That they have heard Colonel Powell on the subject of keeping a 
 Garison at the Cheraws and on full Consideration of the Matter are 
 of opinion that a Garrison in that Part of the Country is unnecessary 
 
 And whereas a Quantity of Gun-Powder and Lead was by order 
 of Congress lodged in the Hands of the Committee of St David's 
 for the use of the Militia part of which Powder and Lead has been 
 drawn out of their Hands by orders of the Commanding Officer the 
 Committee do therefore recommend that orders be given to the said 
 Commanding officer to return such Part of the said Powder and Lead 
 as remains unused to the aforesaid Committee 
 
 Colonel Pinckney presented to the House according to Order a 
 Bill establishing a proper Oath of Qualification to be taken by the 
 members of the General Assembly and for other Purposes therein 
 mentioned And the same was received and read the First Time 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be read a Second Time 
 
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 82 
 
 Major Cattell reported from the Committee to whom was referred 
 the Petition of John and Richard Thompson And he read the Report 
 in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where 
 the same was read in the words following 
 
 That the Committee on Examination into the allegations set forth 
 in the Petition found the Petitioners had been confined Two years 
 and seven months for the non-payment of Fines set upon them by 
 the Courts of Justice And on inquiring into the Effects of John 
 Thompson whose Fine is One Thousand Pounds Sterling he has sent 
 a List of his Property annexed to this Report And he declares he is 
 ready to make oath that h^is a true state of his Estate The other 
 Petitioner whose Fine is one Hundred Pounds Sterling appears to 
 the Commee not to have any Property whatever; In Consideration 
 of the long and close Imprisonment of the Petitioners and the 111 
 state of Health of John Thompson the Committee has been induced 
 to recommend that a Resolution of this House be sent to the Hon- 
 ourable the Legislative Council for their Concurrence and to His 
 Excellency the President for his assent to remit the Fines laid on the 
 said Thompsons on the express Condition that they shall quit the 
 State in Three Months after their Releasment. 
 
 Read also a Paper annexed intitled a particular account of the 
 Property of John Thompson now in his Possession. 
 
 Ordered That the Report be taken into Consideration To-morrow. 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House an 
 Ordinance to direct the manner of procuring Negroes to be employed 
 in the Public Service Read twice in the said Council, also, 
 
 An Ordinance for ascertaining the manner of issuing Orders for 
 holding General-Courts- Martial for the trying hearing and determin- 
 ing of Crimes and offences committed by any Persons belonging to 
 the South Carolina Regiments upon the Continental Establishment 
 against the Rules and Articles made for their Government And for 
 the Encouragement of Persons to enter into the service of this State 
 
 And the following Message to wit 
 
 In the Legislative Council 
 
 the 4th Day of October 1776 
 
 M r . Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 Upon reading a Third Time an Ordinance for ascertaining the 
 manner of issuing orders for holding General Courts Martial for 
 the trying hearing and determining of Crimes and Offences com- 
 mitted by any Persons belonging to the South Carolina Regiments on 
 the Continental Establishment against the Rules and Articles made
 
 83 
 
 for their Government This House is of opinion that the following 
 amendment is necessary to be made to the first enacting Clause of the 
 said Ordinance (viz.) 
 
 Between the word "State" and the word "be" the words "not under 
 the Rank cf a Colonel in the said service" be inserted To which we 
 desire the Concurrence of your House and have returned you the 
 ordinance to make the amendment accordingly 
 
 By Order of the House 
 
 Thomas Shubrick President. 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance to direct the manner of procuring 
 negroes to be employed in the Public Service be read a Third Time 
 To-morrow 
 
 Message to the Legislative Council 
 
 Honourable Gentlemen 
 
 This House concur with your Honours in the amendment pro- 
 posed to the ordinance mentioned in your message of this Date and 
 desire you will insert the words "not under the Rank of a Colonel 
 in the said service" between the word "State" and the word "be" 
 for which Purpose the Ordinance is herewith returned 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r Hopson Pinckney and M r . John Cordes do carry 
 the message to the Legislative Council 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of 
 the Clock. 
 
 . 
 
 Saturday the 5th Day of October. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 Resolved That the Inhabitants in the several Parishes and Districts 
 throughout this State do at the Time of the Election of Members of 
 the General assembly also ballot for and elect Committees in their 
 different Parishes and Districts equal to the numbers heretofore 
 appointed for the Purposes mentioned in the Eleventh Article of the 
 Continental Association (to wit) attentively to observe the Conduct 
 of all Persons touching the said association and also for the Pur- 
 poses resolved on by the Congress of this State held in January 1775, 
 respecting the giving Permission to bring suits at Law and for such 
 other Purposes as the Committees are authorized by Resolutions of 
 Congress or are or shall be authorized by Laws of this State That 
 the Committees or anv Three or more of the members of such Com-
 
 8 4 
 
 mittees respectively except the Committees for Charles Town not 
 less than Eleven of whom can do Business have authority to put the 
 said Laws and Resolutions in Execution and to grant Liberty for 
 commencing Suits And that the Church Wardens and other man- 
 agers of Elections of members of the General Assembly do also 
 manage the Election of the said Committees respectively And that 
 the Clerk of this House do forthwith give them notice of this Re- 
 solve. 
 
 The Report of the Committee to whom the Petition of John and 
 Richard Thompson was referred was read and agreed to by the 
 House without any Amendment 
 
 Resolved That the Fines imposed upon John and Richard Thomp- 
 son confined in Charles-Town Jail be remitted on the express Con- 
 dition that they quit the State within Three months 
 
 Ordered That the said Resolution be sent to the Legislative Council 
 for their Concurrence and to the President for his assent 
 
 The House then proceeded according to the order of the Day to 
 the Third Reading of "an Ordinance to direct the manner of pro- 
 curing negroes to be employed in the Public Service" 
 
 The First and Second Sections being severally read amended and 
 agreed to 
 
 upon reading the Third Section 
 
 A Motion was made and the Question put whether the words 
 "or to make such other just and equitable arrangement or Regulation 
 in the Premises as may best suit the particular Circumstances of the 
 People or most effectually promote the Public Good" 'between the 
 word "Time," and the word "Provided" should remain a Part of the 
 section 
 
 And it was Resolved in the affirmative 
 
 The other Clauses of the Ordinance being severally read amended 
 and agreed to 
 
 Resolved That the Ordinance do pass 
 
 Ordered That the Ordiance be sent to the Legislative Council for 
 their Concurrence 
 
 Ordered That Captain M c Queen and M r Ladson do carry the same 
 to the Legislative Council 
 
 The Report of the Committee to whom the memorial of Richard 
 Pearis was referred being read 
 
 Resolved That this House do agree with the Report of the Com- 
 mittee 
 
 And then the House adjourned till Monday Morning nine of the 
 Clock.
 
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 Monday the 7th Day of October. 1776 
 
 The House met according to Adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Saturday's Proceedings 
 
 George Pawley Esquire took the Oath prescribed by the Constitu- 
 tion and his seat as a Member 
 
 Resolved That the Speaker of this House do issue an Order upon 
 the Treasury for the Sum to be advanced to Richard Pearis as recom- 
 mended in the Report agreed to last Saturday 
 
 M r Neufville presented to the House a Memorial of divers Inhab- 
 itants of Charles Town And the said memorial was received and 
 read in the following words 
 
 That your memorialists have for many months last past from a 
 Zeal for the Interest of their Country and for the Preservation of this 
 Town in particular constantly done every kind of military Duty 
 therein That they have greatly injured their Fortunes by neglect.ing 
 their private Concerns by being obliged to attend to such Duty both 
 Night and Day in guarding the Town and the several Batteries about 
 the same That they apprehend such Duty may now be well done 
 by a Watch Company established under proper Regulations and that 
 the Expence incident thereto will be but little short of what is paid 
 to the several Companies now doing Duty 
 
 That your memorialists are always ready and willing to step forth 
 in Defence of their Country when invaded or otherwise required 
 thereto 
 
 Your memorialists therefore humbly pray that this Honourable 
 House will be pleased to take the Premises into Consideration and 
 direct (if thought expedient) that one or more Watch Companies 
 be immediately raised for guarding the Town and the several Bat- 
 teries and Out-posts in and about the same 
 
 And your memorialists as in Duty bound will ever pray 
 
 Which memorial was subscribed by Two Hundred and ninety 
 seven names 
 
 Ordered That the memorial be referred to a Committee 
 
 And it is referred to the Honourable M r Heyward M r Neufville 
 M r Anthony Toomer Captain Roger Smith and Captain Leger 
 
 The House then proceeded to read a Second Time a Bill establish- 
 ing a proper Oath of Qualification to be taken by the members of 
 the General Assembly and for other Purposes therein mentioned 
 
 The First Section of the Bill being read and amended was 
 agreed to
 
 86 
 
 Upon reading the Second Section 
 
 A Motion was made for an amendment thereto 
 
 A Debate ensuing 
 
 The Question was put 
 
 And it passed in the negative 
 
 Then the said Section being read through was also agreed to. 
 
 The Third Section being read was amended and likewise 
 agreed to. 
 
 A Member then moved for Leave to bring in four additional 
 Clauses to the Bill 
 
 And the same being presented to the House were received severally 
 read twice amended and agreed to 
 
 Ordered That the said Clauses be added to and made Parts of the 
 Bill 
 
 The Bill being read through a second Time 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That M r William Scott and M r . Simon Berwick do carry 
 the Bill to the Legislative Council 
 
 A Member gave notice that he should To-morrow move the House 
 for Leave to bring in a Bill of General Amnesty 
 
 The Honourable M r Heyward moved for Leave to bring in a Bill 
 to amend an Act entitled an Act to impower the Court of Admiralty 
 to have Jurisdiction in all cases of Capture of Ships and other 
 Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great-Britain Ireland and British West- 
 Indies Nova Scotia and East and West Florida to Establish the Trial 
 by Jury therein and for other Purposes therein mentioned passed the 
 nth Day of April 1776 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given accordingly 
 
 M r . Corbett reported from the Committee to examine the Receipts 
 of the Paymasters of the several Regiments in the Service of this 
 State and to compare them with the Pay Bills which are or ought to 
 be lodged in the Treasury and to order the Balance if any to be paid 
 into the Treasury And he read the Report in his Place and after- 
 wards delivered it in at the clerk's Table where the same was read 
 
 Ordered That the said Report be re-committed And that the Com- 
 mittee have it in charge to inquire and Report to the House how the 
 money paid to the Colonels over and above their Pay by the Pay- 
 masters and by order of the President and Council of Safety and by 
 the Public Treasurers has been disposed of And that the said Com- 
 mittee have Power to send for Persons Papers and Records
 
 8? 
 
 M r Howe having suggested to the House that there is some Prop- 
 erty of Joseph Robinson (commonly called Major Robinson) an 
 Enemy to the American States in the Possession of a Committee 
 
 Ordered That the matter suggested by M r Howe be referred to the 
 Committee appointed to bring in a Bill for establishing a Reprisal 
 Fund And that M r Howe be added to the said Committee 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of the 
 Clock v 
 
 Tuesday the 8th Day of October 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 It being suggested to the House that there was no Pilot or Pilot 
 Boat for the Bar and Harbour of Beaufort nor any Fund from which 
 they could be supplied and maintained 
 
 Ordered That M r DeSaussure Captain Joiner Colonel Garden 
 Captain Savage and Major Simons be a Committee to consider and. 
 report proper ways and means of procuring maintaining and regu- 
 lating a Pilot Boat to attend the Bar and Harbour of the Port of 
 Beaufort 
 
 M r Scott reported That M r Berwick and himself had delivered the 
 Bill they had in Charge to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That the Order of yesterday for Leave to bring in a Bill 
 to amend an act passed the nth of April last intitled an Act to 
 impower the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in all cases of 
 Capture of the ships and other Vessels of the Inhabitants of Great- 
 Britain Ireland the British West Indies Nova Scotia and East and 
 West Florida to establish the Trial by Jury therein and for other 
 Purposes therein mentioned be discharged 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal the said 
 Act and for the like and other Purposes And that Colonel Pinckney 
 and the Honourable M r Heyward do prepare and bring in the same 
 
 M r Ladson reported That M r M c Queen and himself had delivered 
 the Ordinance they had in charge to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r . Heyward and M r Young do 
 with a member of the Legislative Council examine and compare the 
 ingrossed Bill for establishing a Board of Commissioners to superin- 
 tend and direct the naval affairs of the State of South Carolina 
 
 The Honourable M r Heyward reported That M r Young and him- 
 self had compared and examined the ingrossed Bill and that they 
 found it right
 
 88 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Edwards and M r Capers do 
 wait on the President with the Bill that the seal may be affixed 
 thereto and to desire to know when His Excellency will please to 
 receive this House to present the same for his assent 
 
 Colonel Pinckney according to Order presented to the House a Bill 
 to impower the Court of admiralty to have Jurisdiction in all cases 
 of capture of the Ships and other Vessels of the Inhabitants and sub- 
 jects of Great-Britain to establish the Trial by Jury in the said court 
 in cases of capture and for other Purposes therein mentioned And 
 the same was received and read the First Time 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be read a Second Time 
 
 The Honourable M r Edwards reported that M r Capers and himself 
 had attended the President with the Message they had in Charge 
 and that His Excellency was pleased to say he would receive the 
 House in Half an Hour in the Council-Chamber 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House an 
 .Ordinance for ascertaining the manner of issuing orders for holding 
 General Courts martial for the trying hearing and determining of 
 crimes and offences committed by any Persons belonging to the 
 South-Carolina Regiments on the Continental Establishment against 
 the Rules and Articles for their Government Read a Third Time 
 in the said Council , 
 
 Ordered That the ingrossing of the said ordinance be postponed 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House an 
 Ordinance to direct the manner of procuring negroes to be employed 
 in the Public service Read a Third Time in the said Council 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be ingrossed 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill of General Am- 
 nesty for all offenses and misdemeanours against the Laws of this 
 State antecedent to the fifth Day of August last the Day on which 
 the Declaration of the Independency of the States of America was 
 made in this State with an Exception of State Prisoners and others 
 which it might be injurious to the welfare of the State to include in 
 such General Amnesty And that the Reverend M r Tennent Colonel 
 Pinckney the Honourable M r Edwards M r . Cannon and M r Young 
 do prepare and bring in the same 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker 
 
 His Excellency the President is now in the Council Chamber 
 ready to receive this House with any Bills or Ordinances they may 
 have to present 
 
 And then the Messenger withdrew
 
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 M r Speaker with the House accordingly attended His Excellency 
 in the Council Chamber 
 
 And being returned 
 
 M r Speaker reported That this House having attended the Presi- 
 dent in the Council Chamber he had presented to His Excellency 
 
 An Ordinance for providing Juries for Beaufort District at the 
 next November Courts 
 
 And also, 
 
 An Act for establishing a Board of Commissioners to superintend 
 and direct the naval affairs of South Carolina 
 
 To both which His Excellency had been pleased to give his Assent 
 
 Ordered That Hopson Pinckney Esquire be Cashier to this House 
 
 A Petition of Henry Drew was presented to the House received 
 and read also 
 
 A Petition of Robert Pearis 
 
 Ordered That both Petitions be referred to a Committee And 
 they are referred to the Reverend M r Tennent and Colonel Gervais 
 
 M r Pinckney reported That M r Cordes and himself had delivered 
 the ordinance and message they had in Charge to the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow Morning Ten of 
 the Clock under a Fine of Twenty Shillings on every member who 
 shall neglect to attend precisely at that Hour to be paid immediately 
 
 Wednesday the Qth Day of October 1776 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 Read the Journal of yesterday's Proceedings 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 I herewith lay before you a Letter from Brigadier General 
 Howe it being his Desire that the Sentiments contained in it should 
 be conveyed to you some of the matters which he recommends are 
 anticipated by steps already taken to the same Effect I am perswadecl 
 however that you will pay due attention to the Rest and doubt not 
 that the executive Power will have sanction and support of the 
 Legislature for the Execution of every measure necessary for the 
 Security and Defence of the State 
 
 John Rutledge 
 8th October 1776
 
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 The Letter referred to in the message being read is as follows 
 
 Sir 
 
 The Command of the military Department in this State devolv- 
 ing upon me I feel it my Duty to lay before your Excellency and by 
 your means before the Honourable Council and Assembly my senti- 
 ments respecting the situation of this Country and the measures 
 which appear to me necessary to place it in a proper state of 
 Defence I am happy to find that the works at Fort Moultrie and 
 those requisite for establishing in case of accident a secure Retreat 
 to the Garison are progressing so rapidly when the Fort is finished 
 I have no doubt of its being able to repel any attack made upon it in 
 Front but without a considerable number of works to secure it from 
 being assailed in Reverse it would not in my opinion be long main- 
 tained against any formidable attempt in that Quarter The methods 
 best calculated to preserve it would be to erect proper works on the 
 Point of Sullivant's Island next to Long-Island where it is probable 
 the Enemy would attempt to Land and by a chain of Redoubts or other 
 works from thence to the Fort be prepared to dispute the Ground 
 with them Inch by Inch should they effect a Landing; I at present 
 imagine it may be necessary to throw up some Defence where Colonel 
 Moultrie kept his Quarter Guard but the transient view I had of 
 the Island leaves me unprepared to speak with precision either as to 
 the number or Form of the works or the particular spots on which 
 they ought to be erected it is sufficient however that a variety of 
 them are wanted that a great many Hands are requisite to carry them 
 on the number need not be ascertained as the more there are employed 
 the sooner we shall finish and that the necessity for erecting such 
 works is absolute and immediate The Post at Haddrel's ought 
 directly to be put in a much more respectable state then it is at 
 present that station would be important even if it had no Connexion 
 with Sullivant's how much more so must it appear when we consider 
 that should the Enemy possess it our soldiers on Sullivant's could 
 neither retreat or be supported indeed circumstances that make it 
 important multiply upon me as I write I shall however suppress 
 the Expression of them as I presume the consideration I have men- 
 tioned is alone sufficient to induce the attention of your Legislature 
 
 The Walls of Fort Johnson require to be well cased with Palmetto 
 Logs without which I conceive a smart cannonade would so shock 
 the Foundation that it would not support the superstructure but was 
 there no Danger of this it ought not to remain as it is as the Frag- 
 ments of Brick which would be shattered off bv the shot would
 
 inevitably destroy a great Number of our men and this both Policy 
 and Humanity call upon us to prevent I confess myself not pleased 
 with the lower Battery and if we have Time after we have got over 
 those matters more immediately wanted I should wish for an alter- 
 ation 
 
 I come next to an Object very near my Heart I mean the the 
 Preservation of this Capital the spirited conduct of it's Inhabitants 
 in Opposition to the Incroachments of Tyranny even at a Time when 
 their Property was likely to fall a sacrifice to their laudable Zeal 
 demonstrates that they nobly prefer public Good to private Consider- 
 ations hoVever interesting and gives them a just Claim to assistance 
 from their neighbours though the common cause was not concerned 
 in their safety But sir when we contemplate the situation of this 
 Town fixed at the confluence of several Rivers which open a Passage 
 into the very Bosom of your Country commanding almost your whole 
 inland navigation and if possessed by the Enemy all your exterior 
 Traffic with Houses sufficient to barrack comfortably a great Body 
 of Troops and an Harbour extensive enough to admit almost any 
 number of ships surrounded almost by water which the Enemy would 
 command and approachable only by a narrow neck of Land which 
 they would fortify it would be perhaps the most secure and noble 
 Place of arms for them imaginable from which they could with the 
 same Body of Troops execute the Purposes' of Disposition on three 
 different States and the Possession give their arms an Eclat the 
 Influence of which might be dreadfully diffusive it would bring 
 upon our Backs every Tribe of Indians and call to their Banners an 
 Host of domestic Insurgents all these Circumstances must make it a 
 capital Object to them and combine to prove that the Loss of this 
 Town may be reckoned among the deepest wounds the cause of 
 Freedom could receive in this Department Public Good therefore 
 and private Interest unite to induce us immediately to put it into a 
 proper state of Defence to hesitate one moment might possibly be to 
 lose the opportunity which Providence has lent us and all Idea of 
 Expence however great should be lost in the Importance of the 
 object One step towards obtaining this desirable End would be to 
 prevent if possible the approach of ships to the Tow r n and this I con- 
 ceive may probably be effected by throwing obstructions across the 
 channel opposite to Fort Moultrie at those Places which would 
 expose them most to the Fire of the Fort. I am made happy at being 
 informed this work is begun and trust such Hands are employed as 
 will execute it properly. I must however take the Liberty to say that
 
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 when I consider the amazing Impetus with which ships under full 
 sail come in contact with any Body that obstructs their motion that 
 I doubt whether any single work can be made substantial enough to 
 be effectual the method I should recommend would be to have one 
 work within another the second so near the first that it should take 
 up the vessel if she surmounted the first Difficulty beiore she had 
 Time to regain her way. 
 
 The next Thing Sir, is to put the Town in such a state of Defence 
 that the Enemy in case they get up with their ships may meet with 
 the most obstinate opposition, it gives me concern to think that it is 
 far from being in this State at present several of the Batteries having 
 capital Errors require to be pulled down and rebuilt and it will I 
 am persuaded be found necessary to erect others at different Places 
 the extempore works thrown up about the Town are by no means to 
 be depended upon they were executed in a Hurry and under the ex- 
 pectation of an immediate attack they ought to be altered in many 
 Places and at all to be made more effectual. As the Interest of the 
 Inhabitants and Good of the Common Cause will I doubt not dispose 
 the People of this Country to defend their Capital to the last Extrem- 
 ity and as the working of a number of Traverses across the streets 
 are not only necessary to the obstinate Defence of it but will prevent 
 the great Execution which might otherwise happen from an Enfilade 
 the materials for building these works should directly be provided 
 they would at present perhaps incommode the Passage of the Inhab- 
 itants so need not be immediately erected but the necessary apparatus 
 should be deposited at convenient Places to be ready occasionally 
 I have much to regret the exceedingly weak state of the Back Part 
 of your Town assailable at many Places at none prepared to repel 
 an attack it requires our immediate attention nor am I less anxious 
 about the neck that leads out of Town the officer we may have to deal 
 with this winter is an officer of Enterprize and Resources with Judg- 
 ment to discern and a Disposition to take all advantages he cannot 
 but observe should the neck remain as it is how easy it would be for 
 an inferior Army to shut in a superior and it admits not of a Doubt 
 but he will if he can avail himself of it to prevent this, many works 
 are requisite and the sooner they are undertaken the better. 
 
 I shall now Sir proceed to some Circumstances of Defence of a 
 more general Tendency among these the building of some Row- 
 Gallies appear to me as very consequential I think it far from being 
 improbable that they may be so constructed as to be formidable to 
 men of war in their Progress over your Bar and it is certain they
 
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 must be so should the ships ever get up and lay before the Town 
 they will prevent all Tenders or other small armed vessels from 
 marauding those Inhabitants who live upon the River make it diffi- 
 cult if not impossible for the Enemy to transport their Troops by 
 water into the country a circumstance essentially important to the 
 very Being of this State they will convey your Troops to Georgia 
 with safety and Expedition should that State require your Aid and 
 facilitate the arrival of theirs should your Exigencies make it neces- 
 sary in short the advantages of them are so manifold that I earnestly 
 hope they may claim your attention. 
 
 As this State and some neighbouring ones are unhappily unequal 
 in therrfselves to any formidable Invasion they must depend intirely 
 upon that assistance they can mutually yield to each other Every 
 Thing therefore which can retard the march of Troops should be 
 removed and every measure fallen upon which can contribute to bring 
 them up with the utmost Expedition If North Carolina and Georgia 
 would join your State in establishing magazines of Provisions at 
 proper Places between your countries it would certainly prevent a 
 great deal of Delay but this I am afraid will be a work of Time. 
 
 I beg leave Sir to urge the absolute necessity of keeping a great 
 Number of waggons always in the Public Service Experience has 
 taught me how difficult it is to procure them when suddenly wanted 
 and the Time is probably at Hand when the least Delay may be 
 attended with very fatal Consequences. 
 
 The great Delay I have met with in marching men at the Ferries 
 of every State and at none more particularly than in this induces me 
 to wish that in future they may be better provided with Boats few 
 if any of them have more than on Flat and that generally not a good 
 one so that it will take a whole Day to get over a Battalion and it's 
 Baggage I leave you sir to Judge what may be the Event of this 
 when the Fate of a country may depend upon a single Hour The 
 Roads at all Times an object of Public notice become of peculiar 
 Importance at this crisis as upon the Goodness of them an Expedi- 
 tious march in a great measure depends I would urge as a circum- 
 stance exceedingly necessary the collecting and keeping for Public 
 use a great number of canoes and other rowing Boats as in a Country 
 so cut to Pieces with water Courses and penetrable at such a 
 variety of Places it is very uncertain where you may have Occasion 
 to Convey your Troops or from whence to bring them a Provision 
 of this kind therefore seems to be an act of necessity certain I am 
 that in the late military operations of this Country the want of them
 
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 was severely felt by the General and the service greatly injured by it 
 
 The short Time I have been in this Country renders it impossible 
 for me to be so well acquainted with the Geography of it as I wish 
 or as I hope soon to be I therefore cannot undertake to point out 
 every Place where it might be necessary to erect works or take other 
 methods to prevent or render difficult the Enemy's Access I am 
 happy however in the Consideration that you Sir and many members 
 of your Legislature from the perfect knowledge of this Country are 
 adequate to this and in the firm Persuasion that it will be properly 
 attended to 
 
 The building of Barracks at those Places where in case of an In- 
 vasion we should be obliged to station Troops particularly at Had- 
 drel's is a matter that ought by no means to be neglected the Incon- 
 veniences which the soldiers suffered for want of them and the ill 
 Effect it had upon their Health even in the Summer Season makes it 
 evident That they cannot endure a winter campaign without them, I 
 am loth to mention a Provision which I am fearful it will be difficult 
 to make I mean of Cloaths and Blankets for the men but I should be 
 wanting in attention to them not to express a wish that every method 
 may be fallen upon to procure them I know not whether the Islands 
 along your Sea-Board have any Live Stock upon them but if they 
 have and are suffered to remain there I cannot but consider them as 
 the absolute Property of the Enemy I therefore think it my Duty in 
 the most earnest manner to urge that they be immediately removed 
 indeed I think the Proprietors of these Islands ought not to be suf- 
 fered to occupy them at all, at present that the Enemy may have no 
 Temptation to make or receive no benefit by making a Lodgment on 
 them. 
 
 There are other matters which strike me as necessary to the 
 Defence of this Country and from further Observation many more 
 may occur to me but as I presume Government in the Recess of 
 assembly will be furnished with Powers to provide for Contingencies 
 I have no Occasion to trouble you with them now 
 
 I enter into the next Object of my Consideration with exceeding 
 Diffidence and Anxiety lest I should be thought to have exceeded the 
 Bounds of Propriety by touching upon it at all if Sir unfortunately 
 for me that should be the case will your Legislature do me the Justice 
 to impute it to the Zeal I have for the Service of this State and kindly 
 admit the Cause to execute the Effect The Number of regular 
 Troops allotted to this Country are not enough for it's Defence 
 though all the Battalions were full this Sir militates strongly in
 
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 Favour of a well regulated militia and I am happy to hear it is the 
 subject of your present Deliberations but as a military system exclu- 
 sive of militia has been established in Virginia which Experience has 
 shewn to be a very good one I presume just to hint it to you I mean 
 the Establishment of minute Battalions in order to this their State 
 was divided into Districts and each District furnished a Battalion 
 of minute men Persons of the greatest Consequence and Influence 
 were appointed as officers who inlisted the men from the Body of the 
 militia these men besides attending a number of private musters were 
 at stated Periods obliged to embody in Battalions for a specified num- 
 ber of Days and go through all the Discipline and maneavres of a 
 Camp during this Time they were paid and provisioned by the Public 
 and ware at all Times liable to be called into the service I had 
 the Honour to command a great number of them the last win- 
 ter and it is but Justice to them to say that they deserved to be 
 ranked among the best of our Troops The men of these Battalions 
 being inlisted upon the express condition of turning out occasionally 
 are always in Expectation of and will be always prepared for it they 
 are generally better armed and will probably be better disciplined 
 than militia and may either make it unnecessary to call out the Latter 
 at all or make a stand against the Enemy while they are collecting 
 but whether such Establishment may suit the Policy of this Country 
 the wisdom of your Legislature will determine. 
 
 Permit me Sir again in the most earnest manner to urge the abso- 
 lute necessity of immediately taking measures to place us in the best 
 state of Defence possible our private Interest and our Fidelity to the 
 Common Cause exact it of us to lose the opportunity we now have is 
 to neglect the first and betray the latter Happy should I have been 
 had not the necessity of service deprived you of the Commander in 
 Chief of the Southern Department at this critical Juncture from 
 whose indefatigable attention to his Duty and from whose spirit and 
 abilities in the Execution of it you could not but have derived every 
 possible Benefit 
 
 I Sir have nothing to offer you but an assurance of the most 
 unwearied attention to the Duties of my station the utmost Exertion 
 of such abilities as I have and that I shall by my most strenuous 
 Efforts in the service of your Country demonstrate the Zeal and
 
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 attachment I feel for the Glorious Cause of Freedom to which I 
 have devoted myself 
 
 I have the Honour to be with the greatest Respect Sir 
 Your Excellency's most obedient 
 
 and very humble servant 
 
 Charles Town ^ Robert Howe 
 
 6th October 1776 j 
 
 Another Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legisla- 
 tive Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 I send you several Resolves of the Continental Congress and an 
 Extract of a Letter which I lately received from M r Edward Rut- 
 ledge 
 
 As the men hereafter inlisted into the six Battalions to be fur- 
 nished from this State should I apprehend be engaged till the End 
 of the war and the Bounty allowed by Congress is considerably 
 increased your late Resolution is now inadequate It will therefore 
 be necessary that you should determine what allowance or Encour- 
 agement shall be given by this State to the men who may be inlisted 
 here agreeable to those Resolves 
 
 John Rutledge 
 9th October 1776 
 
 The Extract of a Letter from the Honourable M r . Edward Rut- 
 ledge dated Philadelphia 25th September 1776 being read is as 
 followeth 
 
 The Congress are resolved to raise Eighty eight Battallions to con- 
 tinue during the war we mean to re-inlist all those who are now 
 engaged if they will serve It is not intended by the Resolutions that 
 you should raise six Battalions over and above what you now have 
 but that they should be re-inlisted to serve during the war 
 
 The Resolves of the Continental Congress of the I4th i6th i8th 
 and 1 9th of September 1776 being read are as follows 
 
 In Congress September. 14 1776 
 
 Whereas the Delegates of South Carolina have represented that 
 by an arrangement made in Congress on the i8th Day of June last 
 the Regiment of Artillery and Two Regiments of Rifle men raised 
 in that Province will obtain Precedency over a Regiment of Rangers 
 though the latter was raised before either of the former which may 
 be attended with Consequences extremely prejudicial to the service, 
 Therefore
 
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 Resolved That the said Regiment of Rangers commanded by 
 Colonel William Thomson do still keep the same Station it had in 
 the Provincial Arrangement and be intitled to Rank in the same way 
 as other Regiments in the Continental service 
 
 Extract from the minutes 
 
 Charles Thomson Secretary 
 In Congress September i6 th , 1776 
 
 Resolved That Eighty-eight Battalions be inlisted as soon as pos- 
 sible to serve during the present war and that each State furnish 
 their respective Quotas in the following Proportions viz 
 
 New-Hampshire 3 Battalions 
 
 Massachusetts Bay 15 Ditto 
 
 Rhode Island 2 Ditto 
 
 Connecticut 8 Ditto 
 
 New- York 4 Ditto 
 
 New-Jersey 4 Ditto 
 
 Pennsylvania 12 Ditto 
 
 Delaware I Ditto 
 
 Maryland 8 Ditto 
 
 Virginia 15 Ditto 
 
 North Carolina 9 Ditto 
 
 South Carolina 6 Ditto 
 
 Georgia I Ditto 
 
 That Twenty Dollars be given as a Bounty to each non-commis- 
 sioned officer and private Soldier who shall inlist to serve during 
 the present war unless sooner discharged by Congress 
 
 That Congress make Provison for granting Lands in the following 
 Proportions to the officers and soldiers who "shall so engage in the 
 service and continue therein to the close of the war or until dis- 
 charged by Congress and to the Representatives of such officers and 
 soldiers as shall be slain by the Enemy such Lands to be provided 
 by the United States and whatever Expence shall be necessary to 
 procure such Land the said Expence shall be paid and borne by the 
 States in the same Proportion as the other Expences of the war viz 
 
 To a Colonel 500 Acres 
 
 a Lieutenant Colonel 450 Ditto 
 
 a Major 400 Ditto 
 
 a Captain 300 Ditto 
 
 a Lieutenant 200 Ditto 
 
 an Ensign 1 50 Ditto 
 
 Each non-commissioner officer and soldier 100 Acres 
 
 7 H. c.
 
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 That the appointment of all officers and filling vacancies (except 
 General officers) be left to the Governments of the several States 
 and that every State provide Arms Cloathing and every necessary 
 for it's Quota of Troops according to the foregoing Estimate the 
 Expence of the Cloathing to be deducted from the Pay of the Troops 
 as usual 
 
 That all officers be commissioned by Congress 
 
 That it be recommended to the several States that they take the 
 most speedy and effectual measures for inlisting their several Quota's 
 That the money to be given for Bounties be paid by the Paymaster 
 in the Department where the soldier shall inlist 
 
 That each Soldier receive Pay and Subsistence from the Time of 
 their Inlistment 
 
 September 18 1776 
 
 That if Rations be received by the officers or Privates in the Con- 
 tinental Army in money they be paid at the Rate of Eight nineteenth 
 Parts of a Dollar per Ration 
 
 That the Bounty and Grants of Land offered by Congress by a 
 Resolution of the i6th Instant as an Encouragement to the officers 
 and Soldiers to engage to serve in the Army of the United States 
 during the war shall extend to all who are or shall be inlisted for 
 that Term the Bounty of Ten Dollars which any of the Soldiers 
 have received from the Continent on account of a former Inlistment 
 to be reckoned in Part Payment of the Twenty Dollars offered by 
 said Resolution 
 
 That no Officer in the Continental Army is allowed to hold more 
 than one Commission or to receive Pay but in on Capacity, 
 September 19 1776 
 
 That the Adjutants in the Continental Army be allowed the Pay 
 and Rations of Captains and have the Rank of First Lieutenants 
 
 In Order to prevent the officers and Soldiers who shall be intitled 
 to the Lands hereafter to be granted by the Resolution of Congress 
 of the i6th from disposing of the same during the war 
 
 Resolved That this Congress will not grant Lands to any Person 
 or Persons claiming under the assignment of any officer or soldier 
 By Order of the Congress 
 John Hancock President 
 
 Ordered That the messages from the President of yesterday and 
 this Day's Dates and the several Papers accompanying the same be 
 referred to a Committee
 
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 And they are referred to the Honourable M r . Lowndes the Hon- 
 ourable M r Edwards the Honourable M r . Justice Bee M r . Attorney 
 General Coloney Pinckney M r . John Waring Major Simons Colonel 
 M c lntosh M r . Williamson and Captain Savage 
 
 The following Gentlemen were returned duly elected members of 
 the present General Assembly viz 
 
 Alexander Moultrie Esquire for Charles Town in the Room of 
 Cato Ash Esquire deceased 
 
 The Honourable Thomas Bee Esquire for the Parish of St An- 
 drew in the Room of the Honourable Thomas Fuller Esq 
 
 William Parker Esquire for St James Goose Creek in the Room 
 of the Honourable John Parker 
 
 Ordered" That the said new elected members have immediate 
 notice by the Messenger to attend this House 
 
 A Letter from Edward Blake Esquire addressed to the House was 
 laid before them and read in the following words 
 October 9th. 1776 
 
 Gentlemen 
 
 The Commissioners of the Navy Board on Inquiry find that a 
 Captain is wanted for the Brigantine Comet They beg Leave to 
 recommend Captain Stephen Seymour and Captain Edward Allen as 
 fit Persons for the Legislature to make Choice of 
 
 Edward Blake, First Commissioner 
 
 Resolved That this House will proceed to ballot jointly with the 
 Honourable the Legislative Council for a Captain of the Brigantine 
 Comet 
 
 Ordered That the attendance of the members of the Legislative 
 Council in this House be desired to join in balloting for a Captain of 
 the Brigantine Comet 
 
 The Honourable M r Bee and M r Attorney-General attending 
 according to order and being called in took the Oath prescribed by 
 the Constitution and their seats as members 
 
 John Bull Esquire also took the Oath prescribed by the Consti- 
 tution and his Seat as a member for Prince William's Parish 
 
 Ordered that M r Ralph Izard and M r Thomas Waring do examine 
 and compare with some Member of the Legislative Council an 
 ingrossed Ordinance to direct the manner of procuring negroes to 
 be employed in the Public Service 
 
 M r . Izard reported That M r Waring and himself had as ordered 
 examined and compared the ordinance and that they found it truly 
 ingrossed
 
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 Ordered That M r Waring and M r Izard do attend the President 
 with the Ordinance in order to have the seal affixed thereto and to 
 desire to know when His Excellency will please to receive this House 
 to present the same for his assent 
 
 M r . Waring reported That M r Izard and himself had delivered 
 the message they had in Charge to the President and that His Excel- 
 lency was pleased to say he would receive this House in Ten Minutes 
 in the Council-Chamber 
 
 Resolved That the Commissioners appointed by this House on 
 the 27th September last to purchase a Cargo of Salt arrived here 
 in the Sloop Margaret be and they are hereby authorized and 
 required in like manner to purchase all other Salt that shall be 
 imported here to the first Day of December next and to sell and 
 distribute the Salt to be so purchased in the same manner and in 
 such Proportions as is directed by order of this House of the 2d 
 Instant 
 
 Resolved That the Commissioners of St David's Parish do take 
 into Custody the salt now in M r John Mitchell's store at Cheraw-Hill 
 paying for the same at the Rate of Fifty shillings currency per 
 Bushel And that they sell and distribute the said salt to and amongst 
 such of the Inhabitants of this State who have not lately received 
 a Dividend of the salt in Charles Town or at Winyah as shall apply 
 for the same in the Proportion of One Half Bushel to six white 
 Persons in a Family 
 
 A Petition of Elizabeth Black Widow was presented to the House 
 and read in the following words 
 
 That the Petitioner's late Husband Robert Black was l,ate a soldier 
 in the Second Regiment in the service of this State and was in the 
 gallant defence of Fort Moultrie on Sullivant's Island on the 28th 
 Day of June last grievously and mortally wounded and died on the 
 nth Day of July next after 
 
 That the Petitioner besides a Daughter married hath one Daugh- 
 ter fifteen years old another twelve years a son of a very sickly Habit 
 of Body about eight years a Daughter about six and another son 
 about four years old 
 
 That she hath no Friends or Relations in this State from whom 
 she can expect the least assistance for the support of her self and 
 this Family and that she is in very poor and indigent Circumstances 
 
 That the Petitioner having lately made application to His Excel- 
 lency the President and the Honourable the Privy Council His Excel- 
 lency was pleased with the advice of that Board to order Fifty
 
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 Pounds to be paid her and that she should be intitled to receive the 
 Pay of her Husband until the sitting of this House 
 
 That the Petitioner is very desirous of returning from this State 
 into which herself and children have been very sickly to her native 
 State Friends and Relations in Pensylvania but is unable to bear the 
 Expence of such a Journey 
 
 The Petitioner therefore humbly prays that this Honourable House 
 will take the Premises into Consideration and grant her such Relief 
 as to them in their wisdom shall seem meet 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker 
 
 His Excellency the President is now in the Council Chamber 
 ready to receive this House with the Ordinance they have to present 
 
 And then the Messenger withdrew 
 
 M r Speaker with the House accordingly attended the President 
 in the Council Chamber 
 
 And being returned 
 
 M r Speaker reported That the House having attended the Presi- 
 dent in the Council Chamber he had presented to His Excellency 
 
 An Ordinance to direct the manner of procuring Negroes to be 
 employed in the Public Service 
 
 To which His Excellency had been pleased to give his assent 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House a 
 Bill establishing a proper Oath of Qualification to be taken by the 
 Members of the General Assembly to direct the method of choosing 
 Parochial and District Committees for authorizing the returning 
 officers of St Davids Parish to hold their Elections one Day at the 
 Church and one Day at the Court House and for other Purposes 
 therein mentioned Read a Second Time in the said Council 
 
 The said Bill being read a Third Time 
 
 Resolved That the Bill do pass. 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be sent to the Legislative Council for their 
 Concurrence 
 
 Ordered That Captain Harlston and Major Simons do carry the 
 Bill to the Legislative Council 
 
 A Bill to impower the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in 
 all cases of the Capture of the Ships and other Vessels of the Inhabi- 
 tants and Subjects of Great-Britain to establish the Trial by Jury
 
 102 
 
 in the said Court in Cases of Capture and for other Purposes therein 
 mentioned was read a Second Time 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That Major Simons and Captain Harlston do carry the 
 Bill to the Legislative Council 
 
 Colonel Gervais reported from the Committee to whom was 
 referred the Petition of Henry Drew And he read the Report in his 
 Place and afterwards delivered it in at "the Clerk's Table where the 
 same was read in the words following 
 
 They they repaired to the Jail and examined the Petitioner who 
 they find is a Prisoner of war belonging to the 4Oth Regiment of 
 Foot of His Brittannic Majesty and therefore your Committee are of 
 Opinion that his application would come more properly before 
 General Howe Commander in Chief for the Time being of the 
 Continental Troops here 
 
 The Report being read a Second Time 
 
 Resolved That this House do agree with the Report of the Com- 
 mittee 
 
 The Reverend M r . Tennent reported from the Committee to whom 
 the Petition of Robert Pearis was referred And he read the Report 
 in his Place and afterwards delivered in it at the Clerk's Table where 
 the same was read and is as follows 
 
 That they went to the common Jail in Charles-Town and made 
 the best Inquiry they could into the Case of the said Robert Pearis 
 They found him confined as the Petition sets forth in an upper 
 apartment prepared for common Criminals the windows of the 
 room without Sashes or Glass to keep out the weather although so 
 constructed as easily to admit of Glass They found that the Roof 
 of the Jail was so defective as continually to leak when it rains not 
 only to the Injury of the apartment in Question but of every other 
 in the Jail to the manifest Danger of the Health of the unhappy 
 Creatures confined there as well as to the great Damage of the 
 Building 
 
 They also report that they conversed with M r Pearis on the Cause 
 of his confinement and found him although disposed to take an Oath 
 of Neutrality yet determined against every kind of opposition to the 
 Arms of His Britannic Majesty considering himself a Subject of 
 Great-Britain notwithstanding the Declaration of Independency 
 
 They can therefore only recommend that M r Pearis be admitted 
 to come down into the lower Apartments of the Jail and to walk in 
 the Garden in the Day Time upon his Parole that he will take no
 
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 Advantage of this Indulgence But that in Case of actual Invasion 
 he with other Prisoners should be confined more strictly 
 
 Your Committee was afflicted to find that not only M r Pearis 
 but some Prisoners of war although sick were shut up with com- 
 mon Criminals and confined to the same Provisions with them 
 And although it was not expressly committed to them and only fell 
 under their observation in the Course of their Inquiry into M r 
 Pearis's Grievances yet common Compassion for the miserable and 
 a Regard for the Honour of this State induce them to recommend 
 it to the House to appoint a committee to examine into the State 
 of the Jail and the Treatment of the Prisoners of war and injoin it 
 upon them to report thereon as speedily as possible 
 
 The Report being read a Second Time 
 
 Resolved That this House do agree with the Report of the Com- 
 mittee 
 
 Ordered That the Reverend M r Tennent Colonel Gervais and Cap- 
 tain Scott be a committee to examine and report to this House the 
 state of the Jail and the Treatment of the Prisoners of war 
 
 M r DeSaussure reported from the Committee to consider the best 
 means of providing maintaining and regulating a Pilot-Boat and 
 Pilot for Beaufort And he read the Report in his Place and after- 
 wards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read 
 in the words following 
 
 That no less than Five Commissioners be appointed whose Power 
 shall be to superintend the Pilotage for said Port to cause a Pilot- 
 Boat to be built and for the Payment of which this House do grant 
 them a sum not exceeding Three Thousand Pounds Currency to be 
 paid to the their order by the Treasurers 
 
 That this House do also grant to said Commissioners the sum of 
 One Thousand Pounds currency per annum for a Salary to a Pilot 
 As also the sum of Two Hundred Pounds Currency per Annum 
 for keeping in Repair said Boat which sums the Commissioners 
 shall draw on the Treasury in Half yearly Payments 
 
 Ordered That the Report be taken into Consideration To-morrow 
 
 Ordered That during the Recess of the House the late and the 
 present Clerks do together open the Packages containing the Jour- 
 nals Books & other Papers belonging to this House and make out a 
 catalogue or schedule thereof to remain in the Hands of the present 
 Clerk with the Custody of the said Journals Books and other Papers 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning Eleven 
 of the Clock
 
 104 
 
 Thursday the loth Day of October. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 The Members of the Honourable the Legislative Council having 
 been desired to attend in this House to join in balloting for a captain 
 and commander of the Brigantine Comet 
 
 Their Honours attended accordingly 
 
 The Members of both Houses then proceeded in the balloting 
 
 And the Ballots being reckoned 
 
 M r Speaker reported That Captain Edward Allen was by a 
 Majority of votes duly elected Captain and Commander of the 
 Brigantine Comet 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House having jointly with the Legislative Council by Ballot 
 duly elected Captain Edward Allen to be Captain and Commander 
 of the Brigantine Comet armed in the service of this State request 
 that your Excellency will commissionate him accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker 
 do sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r Skirving and M r Ladson do attend the Presi- 
 dent with the Message 
 
 Petitions from John Gray John Morgridge and Stephen Prosser 
 Prisoners in Charles-Town Jail were presented to the House and 
 read 
 
 Ordered That the said Petitions be referred to the Committee 
 appointed yesterday to examine and report the state of the Jail and 
 the Treatment of the Prisoners of War 
 
 Colonel Pinckney presented to the House according to Order a 
 Bill for the better Regulation of the Militia of this State and for 
 repealing all the militia Laws and Resolves of the late Provincial 
 Congresses respecting the militia heretofore made And the same 
 was received and read the First Time 
 
 Ordered 'That the Bill be read a Second Time 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House having resolved That a Fort and Guard at the Che- 
 raws are unnecessary request that your Excellency will be pleased 
 to give orders to discontinue the building of the said Fort and for 
 the discharge of the Guard now there and that such Part of the 
 Powder and Lead which the colonel of the Regiment of that Dis-
 
 trict had received for the use of such Guard as remains unused be 
 delivered to the care and custody of the committee for St Davids 
 Parish 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker 
 do sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r Skirving and M r Ladson do carry the message 
 to the President 
 
 The House then proceeded on the Order of the Day to consider 
 the Report of the Committee appointed to consider and report the 
 best means of providing maintaining and regulating a Pilot-Boat and 
 Pilot to attend the Bar and Harbour of Beaufort 
 
 And the said Report being read and debated on was agreed to by 
 the House 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in a Bill for the Purposes 
 therein mentioned 
 
 Resolved That the Bill for the better Regulation of the Militia 
 of this State and for repealing all the militia Laws and Resolves 
 of the late Provincial Congresses respecting the militia heretofore 
 made be read a second Time on Saturday next And that all the 
 Members of this House who can attend be summoned 
 
 Message from the Legislative Council by the Clerk of that House 
 In the Legislative Council 
 
 the loth Day of October 1776 
 M r ? Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 Upon reading a Third Time "a Bill establishing a proper Oath 
 of Qualification to be taken by the members of the General Assembly 
 directing the method of choosing Parochial Committees for author- 
 izing the returning officers of the Parish of St David to hold their 
 Elections one Day at the Church and one Day at the Court House 
 and for other Purposes therein mentioned" 
 
 This House propose the following amendment may be made to 
 the latter End of the clause of the said Bill which discharges the 
 members of the General Assembly from taking the State Oath viz 
 "But instead thereof tlie members of the General Assembly respec- 
 tively at the Time of their taking the Oath of Qualification as afore- 
 said shall before the same Justice of the Peace take the following 
 Oath or affirmation riz I, A B do swear or affirm that I will to the 
 utmost of my Pozver support maintain and defend the Constitution 
 of South Carolina as established by Congress on the 26th Day of 
 March 1776 until the Legislative Authority of this State shall de- 
 termine otherwise"
 
 This House likewise propose the following clause should be made 
 Part of the said Bill, "And be it further Enacted by the Authority 
 aforesaid That all church wardens or other Persons who shall here- 
 after manage Elections for members to represent the several Parishes 
 and Districts respectively within this State shall and they are hereby 
 authorized and impowered before they receive the vote from any 
 Elector who they may suspect and believe hath not taken the Oath 
 of Fidelity to this State administer the same to all and every such 
 Elector or Electors and in Case of their Refusal to take the said Oath 
 he or they shall not be permitted to give his or their vote" to 
 which we desire the concurrence of your House 
 
 Resolved That this House do concur with the Honourable the 
 Legislative Council in the amendments proposed in the foregoing 
 message 
 
 Message to the Legislative Council 
 
 Honourable Gentlemen 
 
 This House concur with your Honours in the amendments pro- 
 posed to be made to the Bill mentioned in your message of this Date 
 and desire your Honours W 7 ill amend the Bill accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r Elias Horry Junior and M r Benjamin Waring 
 do carry the Message to the Legislative Council 
 
 Message to the Legislative Council 
 
 Honourable Gentlemen 
 
 We herewith send to your Honours Copy of a Resolve of this 
 House to remit certain Fines imposed on John Thompson and 
 Richard Thompson to which we desire your Honours Concurrence 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker 
 do sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r Benjamin Waring and M r Elias Horry Junior 
 do carry the Message to the Legislative Council 
 
 And then House adjourned till To-morrow morning Ten of the 
 Clock. 
 
 Friday the nth Day of October 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 M r Skirving reported That M r Ladson and himself had waited 
 on the President with the Message they had in Charge And that 
 His Excellency was pleased to say he would issue the orders re-
 
 quested in the one and commissionate Captain Allen as desired in 
 the other, 
 
 Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House That no Person in 
 this State indebted to any Persons subjects to the King of Great- 
 Britain (the Inhabitants of Bermuda's and the Bahama Islands 
 excepted) or any attorney within this State for any such subjects 
 (except as aforesaid) ought to remit or pay directly or indirectly 
 to any such subjects (except as before excepted) or for their use 
 any sum of money or merchandize whatever until it shall be other- 
 wise directed by Law except attorneys for Persons usually Residents 
 in this State now in Great-Britain and intending to return as soon 
 as possible to this State and the Parents and Guardians of youth 
 now residing ''and educating in Great-Britain or in any other Part 
 of Europe which last mentioned attorneys Parents and Guardians 
 may be at Liberty to remit for the use of their Constituents Children 
 and Wards such sums as they shall think necessary and expedient 
 for their support or Education and maintenance 
 
 Resolved also That it is the Opinion of this House that all absen- 
 tees holding Estates in this State should use every means in their 
 Power forthwith to return to this State 
 
 Ordered That a Copy of the above Resolves be sent to the Legis- 
 lative Council for their concurrence and to the President for his 
 assent 
 
 Message to the Legislative Council 
 
 Honourable Gentlemen 
 
 We herewith send a Copy of Resolves entered into by this House 
 to which we desire your Honours concurrence 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker 
 do sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r . Middleton and M r . M c Queen do carry the Mes- 
 sage to the Legislative Council 
 
 M r . DeSaussure presented to the House according to Order an 
 Ordinance for allowing and keeping in Repair a Pilot Boat to attend 
 the Bar and Harbour of Beaufort and for settling and regulating 
 the Pilotage of the said Harbour And the same was received and 
 read the First Time 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be read a Second Time 
 
 And the same being read accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That M r Benjamin Waring and M r . Thomas Waring do 
 carry the same to the Legislative. Council
 
 io8 
 
 Resolved That the Commissioners for purchasing and delivering 
 salt shall for One Month after this Date deliver Salt to Persons 
 applying for it (without Certificates from Committees) upon such 
 Persons making Oath of the Number .of Families they apply for 
 and that they will distribute the salt in the allotted Proportions 
 amongst such Persons 
 
 Ordered That the Petition of Elizabeth Black presented to this 
 House on Wednesday last be referred to a Committee 
 
 And it is referred to the Reverend M r Tennent Major Cattell 
 and M r Ralph Izard 
 
 Resolved That the Commissioners of the Treasury as a further 
 Encouragement to the Commander and Marines belonging to the 
 vessel called the Revenge do pay and advance to the said Commander 
 and Men out of the amount of the Sales of the Cargo taken from 
 on board the Transport Brigantine called the Glasgow-Packett One 
 Sixth of the neat Amount of Sales of the said Cargo 
 
 Ordered That a Copy of the above Resolve be sent to the Legis- 
 lative Council for their Concurrence and to the President for his 
 assent 
 
 Message to the Legislative Council 
 
 Honourable Gentlemen 
 
 We herewith send Copy of a Resolution this Day entered into by 
 this House to which we desire your Honours Concurrence 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker 
 do sign the same 
 
 Ordered That Captain Roger Smith and M r . Chiffelle do carry the 
 same to the Legislative Council 
 
 The Honourable M r . Heyward reported from the Committee to 
 whom the memorial of divers Inhabitants of Charles Town was 
 referred And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards de- 
 livered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read and is as 
 followe*th 
 
 That it is their Opinion Leave should be given to bring in a Bill 
 for establishing and keeping Three Watch Companies in Charles 
 Town 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration immediately 
 
 And the same being accordingly taken into consideration and 
 agreed to by the House 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in such a Bill and that the 
 Honourable M r Heyward do prepare and bring in the same
 
 The Honourable M r Heyward according to order presented to the 
 House a Bill for establishing and keeping Three Watch Companies 
 in Charles-Town and the same was received and read the First 
 Time 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be read a Second Time To-morrow 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House a 
 Bill to impower the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in all 
 Cases of Capture of the ships and other vessels of the Inhabitants 
 and Subjects of Great-Britain to establish the Trial by Jury in the 
 said Court in Cases of Capture and for the other Purposes therein 
 mentioned Read a Second Time in the said Council, also 
 
 A Bill for establishing a proper Oath of Qualification to be taken 
 by the members of the General Assembly directing the method of 
 choosing Parochial and District Committees for authorizing the 
 returning Officers for the Parish of St David to hold their Elec- 
 tions one Day at the Church and one Day at the Court House and 
 for the Purposes therein mentioned Read a Third Time in that 
 House 
 
 Ordered That the Title of the Bill be "an Act" and that the Act be 
 ingrossed 
 
 The Reverend M r Tennent presented to the House according to 
 Order a Bill of Free and General Pardon And the same was 
 received and read the First Time 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be read a Second Time 
 
 Ordered That the Clerk of this House do cause all the Acts and 
 Ordinances passed by the Legislature of this State to be printed as 
 soon as may be after their passing for the use of the members of 
 both Houses 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of 
 the Clock 
 
 Saturday the I2th Day of October 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 M r Capers reported from the Committee to whom the Petition 
 of William Hort Esquire was referred And he read the Report in 
 his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where 
 the same was read and is as followeth 
 
 That they have considered the Petition of M r Hort and are of 
 opinion the Prayer of the Petition ought to be granted But inasmuch 
 as there are many Inhabitants of this State in the same Situation
 
 IIO 
 
 with M r Hort your Committee recommend that this House enter 
 into a Resolve desiring all Persons that have received Damages in 
 the like Case to make them known within six months in order that 
 Provision may be made for the same And that notice be given in 
 the Gazette for that Purpose 
 
 Ordered That the Consideration of the Report be postponed in 
 order to proceed upon the Order of Day 
 
 The Order of the Day being read 
 
 Ordered That the Messengers do go out and summon all the 
 absent members to give their immediate attendance 
 
 A Motion was then made that the Order of the Day for reading 
 a Second Time a Bill for the better Regulation of the Militia of 
 this State and for repealing all the Militia Laws and Resolves of the 
 late Provincial Congresses respecting the Militia heretofore made" 
 be postponed 
 
 A Debate ensued 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 The House divided 
 
 Teller for the yeas Colonel Pinckney 46 
 
 Teller for the noes the Honourable M r Lowndes 42 
 
 So That it was Resolved in the affirmative 
 
 Daniel Heyward Junior Esquire took the Oath prescribed by the 
 Constitution and his Seat as a member of this House 
 
 Message from the Legislative Council by their Clerk 
 
 M r . Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 Upon reading your Message to this House of yesterday with 
 the Resolution which accompanied it for remitting the Fine imposed 
 upon Richard Thompson and John Thompson we are at a Loss to 
 know what those Fines were and for what Cause they were imposed 
 and therefore we shall be glad to be informed of the Particulars of 
 those mens Cases if your House is possessed of any Information 
 leading thereto 
 
 In the Legislative Council 
 
 1 2th Day of October 1776 
 
 By Order of the House 
 Thomas Shubrick Speaker 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Justice Mathews do examine 
 and compare with some member of the Legislative Council an in- 
 grossed Bill for establishing an Oath of Qualification to be taken 
 by the members of the General Assembly directing the method of 
 choosing Parochial and District Committees for authorizing the re-
 
 Ill 
 
 turning officers for the Parish of St David to hold their Elections 
 one Day at the Church and one Day at the Court House and for 
 other Purposes therein mentioned 
 
 The Honourable M r Justice Mathews reported that the Bill had 
 been examined and compared according to order and that the same 
 was truly ingrossed 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Justice Mathews and M r Daniel 
 Heyward Junior do wait on the President with the Bill to desire that 
 the Seal may be affixed thereto and to know whert his Excellency 
 will please to receive this House to present the same 
 
 The Honourable M r Justice Mathews reported that M r Heyward 
 and himself had waited on the President with the Bill and message 
 they had in Charge And that His Excellency was pleased to say he 
 would receive this House presently in the Council Chamber 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Lowndes Colonel Gadsden the 
 Honourable M r Justice Bee the Honourable M r . Justice Mathews 
 the Honourable M r Heyward Colonel Pinckney Captain Trapier M r . 
 Attorney-General and the Honourable M r Edwards be a Committee 
 to revise the Constitution or Form of Government and to report to 
 the House such alterations or additions as may be expedient to make 
 thereto 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in an Ordinance for open- 
 ing and improving the Inland Navigation in this State And that the 
 Honourable M r Justice Bee do prepare and bring in the same 
 
 An Ordinance for allowing and keeping in Repair a Pilot Boat 
 to attend the Bar and Harbour of Beaufort and for regulating the 
 Pilotage of the said Harbour" was read a Third Time 
 
 Resolved That the Ordinance do pass 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be sent to the Legislative Council 
 for their Concurrence 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Gadsden and M r . Osborn do carry the Ordi- 
 nance to the Legislative Council 
 
 Colonel Gadsden reported That M r . Osborn and himself had de- 
 livered the Ordinance they had in Charge to the Legislative Council 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker 
 
 His Excellency the President is now in the Council-Chamber 
 ready to receive this House with the Bill they have to present 
 
 And then the Messenger withdrew
 
 112 
 
 M r Speaker with the House accordingly attended the President 
 in the Council Chamber 
 
 And being returned . 
 
 M r Speaker reported That this House having attended the Presi- 
 dent in the Council Chamber he had presented 
 
 An Act for establishing a proper Oath of Qualification to be taken 
 by the members of the General Assembly directing the method of 
 choosing Parochial and District Committees for authorizing the re- 
 turning officers" for the Parish of St David to hold their Elections 
 one Day at the Church and one Day at the Court House and for other 
 Purposes therein mentioned 
 
 To which His Excellency had been pleased to give his assent 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House 
 an Ordinance for allowing and keeping in Repair a Pilot Boat to 
 attend the Bar and Harbour of Beaufort and for regulating the 
 Pilotage of the said Harbour" Read a Third Time in that House 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be ingrossed 
 
 Message to the Legislative Council 
 
 Honourable Gentlemen 
 
 In answer to your message just now received we herewith send 
 you a Petition and a Report of a Committee thereon as agreed to 
 by this House which will inform you the Particulars of the cases 
 of Richard and John Thompson and of the Grounds of the Resolu- 
 tion of this House with respect to those Persons 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker 
 do sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r Pinckney and M r Thomas Waring do carry the 
 message to the Legislative Council 
 
 The House then proceeded on a Second Reading of a Bill for 
 establishing and keeping Three Watch Companies 
 
 And having made some Progress therein 
 
 Ordered That the further proceeding in the said Bill be adjourned 
 till Monday next 
 
 Ordered That George Robinson George Pawley and Francis 
 Adams Esquires have Leave of Absence from the Service of this 
 House to attend the approaching Elections in their respective Dis- 
 tricts 
 
 Resolved That all necessary Repairs to the Public Buildings be 
 forthwith made and this House will provide for the Expence thereof 
 
 And then the House adjourned till Monday Morning Ten of the 
 Clock.
 
 Monday the I4th day of October 1776. 
 
 The House met according to Adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of Saturdays Proceedings 
 
 M r . Neufville reported from the Committee to examine the Public 
 Treasury accounts and to report to the House an exact and circum- 
 stantial Account of the state of the Treasury what sums have been 
 issued and for what particular Service arranging under distinct 
 Heads the particular Services for which the monies have been 
 expended, And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards 
 delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read and 
 is as followeth 
 
 That the Commissioners of said Treasury have paid the following 
 Sums on the accounts and to the several Persons under mentioned 
 
 viz 
 
 The First and Second Regiments 351256. 
 
 The 3d Regiment of Rangers 
 
 The 4th Regiment of Artillery 
 
 The 5th & 6th Regiments of Riflemen 
 
 Rice 
 
 Flour 
 
 Indian affairs exclusive of 100 tt of Gun 
 
 Powder 
 
 North Carolina for the Prisoners Dunn 
 
 and Boote 
 
 Vestry of St Philip's Parish 
 
 Brigantine William . . .' 
 
 Schooner Islington & her Cargo 
 
 Cargo per the Brigantine Notre Dame 
 
 and Disbursments for the vessel 
 
 Fire Masters for Charles Town 
 
 Edward & John Blake '. . . . 
 
 Voyage per the Rebecca from George Town 
 
 Colonel Richardson's Expedition 
 
 Naval Department 
 
 Artillery Company at Port Royal 
 
 Contingencies t 
 
 Fortifications 
 
 John Scott son of Jonathan 
 
 Joseph Darrell 
 
 139322. 
 
 60936. 
 
 92029 . 
 
 27782. 
 
 3754- 
 
 18. 
 
 8. 
 18. 
 
 7- 
 13- 
 
 2. 
 
 105. 
 
 6500. 
 
 2687. 
 
 192379. 
 
 IOI544. 
 
 12256. 
 
 303765- 
 53200. 
 
 4- 
 
 ii. 
 
 8. 
 
 i . 
 
 18. 
 
 5- 
 4- 
 
 12865.. 9-- 9 
 
 2172. 
 
 7-- 
 
 8 
 
 io,ooo. 
 
 . . . 
 
 
 1167. 
 
 . IO. 
 
 6 
 
 21865. 
 
 .17.. 
 
 5 
 
 29656. 
 
 . IO. . 
 
 6 
 
 3000. 
 
 S H. C.
 
 Georgia 4653 . . i . . 4 
 
 Nitre Works 2810. .15. .10 
 
 William Bartey's account 350. . 
 
 3160. .15. .10 
 
 Continental Congress.... 6115.. 17.. 
 And for payment of ) 
 
 Continental Troops . . J ' 
 
 38090. .17. . . 
 
 Works on Sullivants Island 39052. . 1 1 . . 10 
 
 Commissary General 130000 
 
 Salaries to the Clergy 5825 . . 18. . 9 
 
 Cargo per Schooner Peggy at George 
 
 Town I2737 ' " ' ' 
 
 Commissioners for Buying Rifles 5719 
 
 Contingent Fund for His Excellency. ) 
 
 the President j 2760 
 
 Artillery Company at George Town and ) 
 
 for the Fort there | 7362. .14.- 6 
 
 Militia 209991 . . 4 . . 3 
 
 Peter Lepoole and John Burnley for Rice ") 
 
 shiped on the Brigantine Liberty Philip I 5227.. 13.. 4 
 
 Conway master J 
 
 Robert Cochran 951 . . 10. . 6 
 
 Voyage for the schooner Little Thomas ) 
 
 - . S> -|- y A 
 
 Captain Nelmes to Bermuda j 
 
 Paul Pritchard .*. . 1000 
 
 Virginia 65 
 
 Commissioners for laying Obstructions 
 
 on the Bar ^5646. . 12. . 6 
 
 Commissioners for Purchasing Salt Bal- ) 
 
 ance of this account j 
 
 Commissioners for Importing Cloaths 
 
 for the Troops 439&O ..17.. 9 
 
 Fortifications on James-Island 6307.. 14.. i 
 
 Commission's of Fort Lyttleton Port 
 
 Royal ; ... 2373.. 7.. 5 
 
 Stockade Fort and keeping a Garison at 
 
 Cheraws 7647 . . 19 . . 6 
 
 Captain Barrel! 's Company at Lyttleton's 
 
 Bastian 2329 ..15.. 3
 
 "5 
 
 For the Care of John Stuart's Estate and 
 
 M rs Stuart's allowance j 
 
 Premiums for making Hemp 550. .12. . 8 
 
 Premiums for making Linen and Thread. . 180. . . . 
 
 For the use of the Hospital 8389 . . 5 . 6 
 
 Naval Department at George Town 5722. . 6. . 
 
 Philip Will Barrack master and Post Rider 3108. . I . . 3 
 
 Captain John Copithorn 355. . 15. . 
 
 Edward Darrell Commissary to the naval 
 
 Department 3000 
 
 Tacitus Gaillard Quarter Master General. . 200. . . . 
 Paid John ^cott the Balance on a Cargo 
 
 per Schooner Polly [ 
 
 Cargo per the Constitution and Purchase 
 
 r^u -JIT- 1 O202. .14.. 
 
 of the said Vessel \ 
 
 Indico per the sloop Swift Captain Morgan 16862. . 12. . 4 
 
 Baron Matzenback 85 .. . . 
 
 Colonel Williamsons Expedition against ) 
 
 .. T .. ,20039. 
 
 the Indians j 
 
 Bounty on Flour the Balance after de- ) 
 
 ducting the Duty received on Flour . . . . j 
 
 Commissioners for carrying on Salt Works 337. . 4. . 9 
 
 Commissioners for the works at Dorchester 3046. . 2. . 2 
 
 General Lee 487.. 10.. 
 
 Expedition to Savannah 1617. . . . 
 
 Cargo per Schooner Polly John Besnard 
 
 master 11643.. 
 
 i7. .10 
 
 Balance remaining in the Treasury 3d \ 
 October 1776 6000 of which is V . .380.. 537. . 2..IO 
 ordered not to be issued . . \ 
 
 2,450104. . o. . 8 
 
 The Commissioners of the Treasury have received the following 
 sums viz 
 
 of Edward Oats on Account of Ogna- ) 
 
 brugs sold by him j ' 
 
 of Henry Peronneau and Benjamin Dart [ 
 
 late Treasurers. . , \ o o
 
 n6 
 
 
 
 Borrowed of Gabriel Manigault 15,500.. .. 
 
 For Sugars per the ship Port Henderson. . 46,217. . 18. . 2 
 
 of James Leakie on account J 556. . - . 
 
 of George Abbot Hall from the Custom 
 
 House 2606 . . 2 . . 6 
 
 Fines and Forfeitures to the State 581 . . 6. . 8 
 
 Payments on the Bonds and notes deliv- ) 
 
 ered up by Mess rs . Peronneau & Dart V 8893. .18. . 7 
 
 late Treasurers ) 
 
 Transient Duties 15.. 2.. 3 
 
 Grant of the I4th June 1775 1,000000. . . . 
 
 Grant of I5th November 1775 in Part. . . . 118365. . . . 
 from the Continental Congress 288,000 
 
 T\^II c 468,000. 
 
 Dollars J 
 
 Grant of 6th March 1776 750. .000. 
 
 2,450,104. . o. . 8 
 
 Ordered That it be referred to the Committee on the State of the 
 Treasury to consider and report to the House proper ways and 
 means of supplying the Treasury in the Recess of the House with 
 such monies as may be immediately wanted for the Public Service 
 and how the monies issued that have been counterfeited may best be 
 called in and the counterfeiting of money in future prevented 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Justice Bee and the Honourable 
 M r Heyward be added to the said Committee 
 
 The Reverend M r Tennent reported from the Committee to whom 
 the Petition of Elizabeth Black was referred And he read the Report 
 in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where 
 the same was read in the following words 
 
 That it is their Opinion that the Prayer of the Petition should be 
 granted And the Sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Pounds be given 
 the Petitioner to enable her to transport herself and Family to the 
 State of Pensylvania or to any other northern State in which the 
 Petitioner shall think the Health of her Family may be established 
 
 Resolved that the Report be taken into Consideration immediately 
 
 And the said Report being taken into Consideration accordingly 
 was amended and agreed to and is as followeth 
 
 That it is their Opinion That the Prayer of the Petition should 
 be granted And that the sum of Four Hundred Pounds Currency be 
 given to the Petitioner to enable her to transport her self to the
 
 state of Pensylvania or to any other northern State in which she the 
 Petitioner shall think the Health of her Family may be established in 
 full and in Lieu of all Claims which she might have against the Pub- 
 lic of this State 
 
 The Honourable M r Lowndes reported from the Committee to 
 whom it was referred to revise the Constitution or Form of Govern- 
 ment and to report to the House such alterations or additions as may 
 be expedient to make thereto And he read the Report in his Place and 
 afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was 
 read in the words following 
 
 That inasmuch as the Constitution or Form of Government agreed 
 to and resolved upon on the 26th Day of March last was calculated 
 for and suited~to the then situation of Public affairs and looking for- 
 ward to an accommodation of Differences with Great-Britain (an 
 Event then desired) was Tempory only And whereas the American 
 States are now constituted Independent States and the Political 
 Connexion heretofore subsisting between them and Great-Britain is 
 dissolved And it therefore becomes necessary in order to perfect and 
 perpetuate the said Constitution or Form of Government that some 
 Amendments and Alterations should be made thereto your Com- 
 mittee therefore humbly recommend the following 
 
 1. That instead of Province or Colony the Stile hereafter be the 
 State of South Carolina 
 
 2. That the second Resolution of the said Constitution which 
 requires that the Legislative Council be elected out of the Body of 
 the Representatives of the People be altered and hereafter that the 
 Legislative Council be elected either out of the Body of Represen- 
 tatives or from the People at large . 
 
 3 That the fourth Resolution be altered so that no vacancies here- 
 after happening in the General Assembly by the Election of any 
 member into the Legislative Council be filled up by a new election 
 
 4 Fifth That the number of the Privy Council be increased to nine 
 members including the Vice President four to be chosen by each 
 House either out of the Houses respectively or from the People at 
 large the Quorum to consist of Five 
 
 5 Tenth That this Resolution shall not be construed to vacate the 
 Seat of any member who is or may be a Delegate from this State to 
 the Continental Congress (as such) 
 
 6 Eleventh That when the House can possess itself of proper 
 information so as to estimate the particular and comparative 
 Strength and Property of the different Parts of this State that then
 
 the House do proceed to a Reduction of the present Representation 
 in the most equal and just Proportion Regard being always had to 
 the number of white Inhabitants and Property of the People 
 
 7 Thirteenth That the President and Commander in Chief or any 
 future President or Commander in Chief to be elected President at 
 any of the stated Elections hereafter shall not be eligible to serve in 
 the said Office after the Expiration of the Term of their first Elec- 
 tion for and during the full End and Term of six years 
 
 8 Fourteenth That in Case of the Sickness or Absence from 
 Charles-Town of the President and Commander in Chief the Vice- 
 President being impowered thereto by the President shall act in his 
 stead during such sickness or absence agreeable to a Law passed 
 6th April 1776 
 
 9 Sixteenth That a Chancellor be appointed to preside in the 
 Court of Chancery and this Clause giving Power to the Vice-Presi- 
 dent and Privy Council to exercise the Powers of a Court of Chan- 
 cery be annulled. 
 
 10 That the House do also appoint or direct that proper Persons 
 be impowered in the several Districts in this State to prove wills 
 grant administrations and do such other matters as are incident to a 
 Court of Ordinary that the People of this State may avoid the great 
 Expence and Trouble of coming to Charles-Town on every such 
 Occasion 
 
 11 That a Court of Appeals be also established in this State and 
 Judges appointed to consist of Seven Persons to have Cognizance 
 in all matters of Error That they be elected and Commissioned in 
 the same manner the other Judges are directed to be and liable to be 
 removed as prescribed in the twentieth Clause 
 
 12 Twenty-second That the Collector and the Controller of the 
 Country-Duties be ballotted for and appointed in the same manner 
 as the other officers are directed to be by the twenty second Reserve 
 
 13 Twenty-eight That all Resolutions of the Continental Congress 
 shall be of full Force until altered by them 
 
 14 Thirty-third That the Oath enjoined to be taken by all Persons 
 appointed to any Place of Trust be amended by leaving out the 
 words ''until an accommodation of the Differences between Great- 
 Britain and America shall take Place 
 
 Your Committee further recommend That in order to avoid as 
 much as possible unhappy Differences and Jealousies amongst the 
 Inhabitants of this State with Regard to religious Principals that
 
 no ministers of the Gospel or Priest of any religious Persuasion be 
 permitted or allowed to be a member of either House 
 
 Ordered That the Report be taken into consideration To-morrow 
 
 It being moved and seconded That inasmuch as the fourth Clause 
 of an Act intitled "an Act for appointing a Public Treasurer and 
 other Public officers passed the 2Oth Day of September 1721 incapaci- 
 tating members of the Council or Cornmons House of Assembly from 
 being Public Treasurer Controller or Powder-Receiver is of Force 
 therefore the House do resolve that the Seats of the present Treas- 
 urers who are members of this House are vacant 
 
 After some Debate thereon 
 
 Ordered That this matter be referred to the Committee of Privi- 
 leges and Elections 
 
 M r . Attorney General reported from the Committee to whom the 
 President's messages of the 8th and Qth Instant and the extracts of 
 a Letter and Resolves of the Continental Congress accompanying the 
 same were referred And he read the Report in his Place and after- 
 wards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read 
 and is as followeth 
 
 That in order to comply with the Recommendation of the Con- 
 tinental Congress to take the most speedy and effectual measures for 
 inlisting our Quota of Troops they are of opinion That a Bounty 
 of Ten Dollars over and above the Continental Bounty be given to 
 such non-commissioned officer and private Soldier who shall inlist 
 to serve during the present war in any of the South-Carolina Regi- 
 ments on the Continental Establishment And 
 
 That in Lieu of the Bounty formerly given to officers for Recruits 
 each recruiting officer be allowed besides his Pay Two dollars per 
 Day for each Day he shall be actually on that service 
 
 Your Committee likewise recommend That the Two Regiments 
 of Riflemen as soon as their present Time of inlistment is expired 
 shall be put upon the same Establishment with Regard to Pay 
 Bounty and Cloathing as the Two Regiments of Infantry 
 
 Ordered That the Report be taken into Consideration To-morrow 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Gervais M r . Williams Captain Singleton 
 Captain Patrick Captain Harrington Major Cattell and the Honoura- 
 ble M r Justice Mathews be added to the Committee on the Presi- 
 dents message accompanied by Brigadier General Howe's Letter 
 
 The House then proceeded in the Second Reading of a Bill for 
 establishing keeping and maintaining Three Watch Companies in 
 Charles-Town
 
 I2O 
 
 Upon Reading the Sixth Section a motion was made to strike 
 out these words at the End thereof, (viz) "and when the militia of 
 this State are called out and do actual Duty that then the officers 
 and private men of the said watch Companies respectively shall be 
 allowed such Rations as are provided for the officers and private* 
 men of the said militia" 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 It passed in the negative 
 
 The Bill being read the Second Time 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That Major Simons and M r . Thomas Middleton Junior 
 do carry the Bill to the Legislative Council 
 
 M r . Pinckney reported That M r Waring and himself had delivered 
 the message they had in charge to the Legislative Council 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning Ten of 
 the Clock 
 
 Tuesday the I5th Day of October 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 William Tucker Esquire was returned as duly elected a Represen- 
 tative of the District of Saxe-Gotha 
 
 M r Tucker attending at the Door was called in and took the Oath 
 prescribed by the Constitution and his Seat as a Member 
 
 The House being moved That the Order made on the I2th Instant 
 for postponing the Second Reading of a Bill for the better Regula- 
 tion of the militia of this State and for repealing all the militia Laws 
 and Resolves of the Provincial Congresses respecting the militia 
 heretofore made "be discharged 
 
 Ordered That the said Order be discharged 
 
 Ordered That the Order of the Day to take into Consideration the 
 Report of the Committee to whom it was referred to revise the Con- 
 stitution or Form of Government and to report to the House such 
 alterations or additions as may be expedient to make thereto be post- 
 poned till To-morrow 
 
 The House then proceeded upon the other Order*of the Day to 
 take into Consideration the Report of the Committee to whom the 
 President's message of the 8th and 9th Instant with the Papers 
 accompanying the same were referred 
 
 And the Report being taken into Consideration accordingly was 
 amended and agreed to by the House and is in the words following
 
 121 
 
 That in order to comply with the Recommendation of the Con- 
 tinental Congress to take the most speedy and effectual measures for 
 inlisting our Quota of Troops they are of Opinion That a Bounty be 
 given to such non-commissioned officer and private soldier who shall 
 inlist to serve during the present war in any of the South-Carolina 
 Regiments on the Continental Establishment. And, 
 
 That in Lieu of the Bounty formerly given to officers for Recruits 
 each recruiting officer be allowed besides their pay Two Dollars per 
 Day for each Day he shall be actually on that service 
 
 Your Committee likewise recommend That the Fifth Regiment of 
 this State shall immediately or as soon as may be put upon the same 
 Establishment with Regard to arms Pay Bounty and Cloathing as the 
 Two Regiments of Infantry are And that the Sixth Regiment shall 
 likewise be put upon the same Establishment in the like respects as 
 soon as the Field-Officers of the last mentioned Regiment shall agree 
 thereto 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 Your message of the nth of April having been notified to the 
 Crown officers therein described none of them chose to leave the 
 Province except M r Savage and M r Simpson The Council therefore 
 did not think it adviseable that they should be permitted to go and at 
 the Time of the late Invasion judged it expedient to confine all those 
 Persons They are now restrained to their respective Houses I de- 
 sire your advice in what manner they should be disposed of in future 
 
 I think it proper to acquaint you that mess". James Brisbane John 
 Champneys Henry Mickie John Tunno and James Carsan being 
 deemed Persons whose going at large might endanger the safety of 
 - the Colony or the Liberties of America were by advice of the Council 
 ordered to be and now are confined some in George Town and others 
 in the Cheraws Jail 
 
 John Rutledge 
 1 5th October. 1776 
 
 Ordered That the Message be taken into Consideration To-morrow 
 
 A Bill of free and general Pardon and Amnesty was read a 
 Second Time 
 
 And the Question being put whether the Bill should be sent to 
 the Legislative Council 
 
 It passed in the negative 
 
 Resolved That the Bill be rejected
 
 122 
 
 Resolved That this House will make Provision to defray the Ex- 
 pence of a way to a tempory Landing Place at Low- Water upon 
 M r . William Gibbes's wharf 
 
 Message to the Legislative Council 
 Honourable Gentlemen 
 
 On the nth Instant we sent you for your Concurrence therein a 
 Resolution "That the Commissioners of the Treasury as a further 
 Encouragement to the Commander and marines belonging to the 
 Vessel called the Revenge do pay and advance to the said Com- 
 mander and men out of the amount of the sales of the Cargo taken 
 from on board the transport Brigantine called the Glasgow Packet 
 One Sixth of the neat amount of sales of the said Cargo" And we 
 now desire to know if your Honours have concurred accordingly and 
 if you have, that you will please to order the same to be sent to His 
 Excellency for his assent 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same. 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Edwards and M r DeSaussure 
 do carry the message to the Legislative Council 
 
 M r . Harrington reported from 1 the Committee to revise the List 
 of magistrates and to report the names of Persons proper to be 
 added thereto and he read the Report in his Place and afterwards 
 delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read and is 
 as followeth 
 
 That they recommend the following names to be added to the List 
 of magistrates 
 
 For Charles-Town District 
 Paul Townsend Thomas Farr 
 
 John Colcock William Nisbett 
 
 Richard Mercer Charles Gaillard 
 
 William Holmes Joseph Atkinson, and 
 
 John Ward of St Bartholomew's Parish 
 For George-Town District 
 Benjamin Young 
 
 For Cheraw's District 
 
 Philip Pledger Robert Lide 
 
 Samuel Wise Benjamin Jackson 
 
 William Thomas Alexander M c lntosh 
 
 Thomas Powe Ely Kershaw 
 
 Abel Kolb Daniel Dubose
 
 123 
 
 For Camden District 
 
 Robert Goodwin Isham Moore 
 
 Joseph Kirkland John Wylly 
 
 Abijah Rambert John Cook 
 
 John Howe John Gabriel Guignard 
 Alexander Love 
 
 For Beaufort District 
 Richard Wayne 
 
 For Ninety-Six District 
 
 Nicholas Eveleigh James Moore 
 
 Nathaniel Spragins William Norris 
 
 Russel Wilson Thomas Leach 
 
 Benjamin Bell Francis Cinquefield 
 
 Richard King Thomas Green 
 
 Samuel Ficklin William Moore 
 
 William Houseal Michael Dickert 
 
 For Orangeburg District 
 
 William Robinson . Briton Williams 
 
 George Pellis Isaac Bush 
 
 George King Jarrad Nielson 
 
 Charles Heatley John Caldwell 
 Jacob Christopher Zahn 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into consideration imme- 
 diately 
 
 And the Report being taken into Consideration accordingly 
 
 Resolved That this House do agree with the Report of the Com- 
 mittee 
 
 Ordered That Commissioners of the Treasury do pay to Elizabeth 
 Black or her order the sum of Four Hundred Pounds Currency for 
 the Purpose mentioned in the Report of the committee to whom the 
 Petition of the said Elizabeth Black was referred 
 
 Resolved That if any slaves employed in the Public service shall 
 be killed maimed or disabled in such service this House will make 
 Provision to endemnify the owner of such Slave 
 
 Resolved also That all such Slaves as shall be taken sick whilst 
 employed in the Public Service shall be forthwith returned to their 
 Owners if they require it or conveyed to a proper Hospital and 
 there supplyed with necessary sustenance medicines and attendance 
 until they shall be able to return to work or be sent to their respective 
 Owners
 
 124 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 Having applied to Brigadier-General Howe for such Returns of 
 the Continental Battalions lately in the Pay and service of this State 
 as you -desire by your message of the 4th Instant He has furnished 
 me with those of the ist 2d 4th and 5th which I herewith lay before 
 you He has received no Returns of the 3 d and 6th but says the former 
 is on Command the latter is with Colonel Williamson on the Expe- 
 dition against the Cherokee Indians 
 
 Captain Trapier's Artillery Company consists of forty two 
 matrosses I have no late Return of Captain Harden's at Beaufort 
 but think he has about Eighty 
 
 John Rutledge 
 
 1 5th October. 1776 
 
 Captain Roger Smith reported from the Commissioners to whom 
 was re-committed the Report on the State of the late Treasury and 
 Settlement with the then Treasurers and Powder-Receiver And he 
 read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the 
 Clerk's Table where the same was read and is as followeth 
 
 That by the Books of the late Joint Public Treasurers they find 
 the following Balances in Favour of the Public to the 3Oth Day of 
 April 1776 
 ist On Account of the General 
 
 o 
 
 Duty Fund. 
 
 2d. Fund for a Pest House. . . 33,383. . 17. ... 
 
 3d. Fund for building an Ex- 
 change 45,892.. 16. . 6 
 
 4th Repairs of Fort I 
 
 Johnson 1324. . 12. . 5 
 
 5th Fortification 
 
 Fund 26,718. .18.. 3 
 
 6th Tax on negroes 
 
 imported 115,626. . 4. . 4 
 
 7th Transient Duty . 4132 . . 2 . . 1 1 
 
 8th New additional 
 
 3937--i7-.il 
 
 Duty on Flour &c 
 
 234,986. . 18. i 
 
 oth Balance of Tax ^ 
 
 j. 19.510.. 6. 
 
 collected in 1768 a surplus
 
 loth Received of John "^ 
 
 Ernest Poyas arrears of V 224. 2. 2 
 
 Taxes J 
 
 -19,734.. 8. .4 
 nth Profit on the in- "j 
 
 creased value of Gold and v i?49- o. . 3. 
 
 Silver j 
 
 1 2th .... Received of the 
 
 Powder Receiver 11,658. .14. 4 
 
 1 3th Received Rents \ 
 
 of the Cellars under the v 2042.. 18. . 8 
 
 Exchange. ) 
 
 I4th Fines and For- 
 feitures iio8..i7-. i 
 
 1 5th Received of the 
 
 Commissary General .54 . . 1 5 . . 6 
 
 1 6th Received of Wil- ] 
 
 Ham Harvey Esquire Re- 
 
 , * } 1901. .12. . 8 
 
 ceiver of Country Duties 
 
 at Beaufort 
 
 18515.. 18. 6 
 
 1 7th Balance of Or- ] 
 
 ders issued in 17515 for 
 
 T^ r r TT- <. > \ 192.. 10.. 
 
 Defence of His Majesty s 
 
 Rights 
 
 Ditto issued in 1757 "^ 
 
 forHowarths I 3892. .10.. 
 
 Regiment ) 
 
 Ditto 1757 for 
 
 Fortifications.... 370. . ..' . 
 
 Ditto 1760 for ") 
 
 Lyttletons Expo- V 218.. 15.. 
 
 tion J 
 
 Ditto issued in 1760 for Mid- 
 
 dleton's Regiment 2290. . 
 
 Ditto 1762 for Cher- 
 okee Trade 565 
 
 Ditto 1767 & 1768 for 
 
 the Exchange &c 27,322. . 10. . 
 
 Ditto 1770 for Court 
 
 House and Jails 34,728. . 15. .
 
 126 
 
 New lawful Bills issued in 
 
 1770 14,547.. 1 1.. 3 
 
 Of Tax Certificates from the ^ 
 
 year 1758 to 1769 both in- V 75>94O. . 
 
 elusive J 
 
 160,067 . . 1 1 . . 3 
 
 433,304. .16.. 2 
 
 The following Balances in Favour of the Joint Public Treasurers 
 to the 30th April 1776 
 ist On Account of the Fund for ^ 
 
 building the Court Houses v 37146. .14. n 
 
 and Jails J 
 
 2 d advanced to pay the 
 
 Watch Company 19264. . 19. . I 56411 . . 14.. 
 
 3d .... Deficiency of the Gen- ^ 
 
 1 r~ ,- \ 5118. . 7. .10 
 
 eral Tax collected in 1769 J 
 
 4th .... Ditto of General Tax "1 
 
 collected in 1771 J 
 
 7447- -13- -2 
 5th .... Bounty on Silk man- 
 ufactory 3000. . 
 
 6th Commissioners of the 
 
 Markets 553 2. . 7 
 
 7th .... Bounty on Flax, 
 
 Linen & Thread 201 . . 7 . . 
 
 8th Balance due from the \ 
 
 Estate of Jacob Motte V 59,474.. 19.. 5 
 
 Esquire J 
 
 9th .... Advanced the Vestry \ 
 
 and Church Wardens of V 1500 
 
 . St Michael's Parish J 
 
 loth Advanced the Vestry ^j 
 
 and Church Wardens of > 4000 
 
 St Philips Parish J 
 
 nth .... Bounty on Hemp.. . 46099. . 9. . 6
 
 127 
 
 1 2th .... Amount of monies "j 
 
 advanced from the ist 
 
 January 1769 to this Day 
 
 per accounts 
 
 1 3th .... Paid by order of the ^j 
 
 Commissioners for issuing v 2298. .15. .10 
 
 the lawful Bills in 1770. . J 
 1 4th .... Paid the Judges and 
 
 attorney General 66954 ..15.. 3 
 
 248,811 o. .4 
 I5th Allowed for ex- "I 
 
 'changing^ 40,000 of new 
 
 lawful Bills issued in 1752 j 
 
 & 1761 for the old J 
 
 1 6th . . Burnt of the lawful 
 
 Bills in 1748 . . .7604. .10. . 
 
 7854.. io 
 1 7th .... Five orders burnt 
 
 and destroyed which were 
 
 issued in 1742 for the as- ' 
 
 sistance of Georgia 
 
 320,549.. 1 7. 6 
 Balance in favour of the Public 112754.. 18. 8 
 
 433,304.. 16. 2 
 
 By which there appears a Balance in Favour of the Public of One 
 Hundred and Twelve Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-four 
 Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Eight Pence Currency (exclusive 
 of Thirty Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-two Pounds Twelve 
 Shillings and Pour Pence Currency paid the Judges and attorney- 
 General which has been disallowed by the House) which Balance 
 your Commissioners have received in the following manner 
 
 533 Old lawful Bills of 20. . . . 10660. . 
 
 10 17507.. io.. 
 
 5.,.. 7231 5--- 
 
 2110% 2.... 4220. .10. . 
 
 6igi l /2 2O/ .. 6191.. io.. 
 
 4062^4 io/ .. 2031.. 7.. 6 
 
 5529 7/6-. 2073.. 7.. 6
 
 128 
 
 1204 ........... 6/3-. 376.. 5--- 
 
 258554 ........... 5/ 646.. 6.. 3 
 
 2039 ........... 2/6.. 254. .17.. 6 
 
 - 51, 192. .18. .9 
 
 new lawful Bills of 20. ... 615. . 
 
 ........... io.... 502. .10. . 
 
 i7# ........... 5-... 88. .15..- 
 
 307/ 8 ........... 2 ---- 6I..I5..- 
 
 61 ........... 2o/ . . 61 . . 
 
 77 ........ : 6/3.. 24.. i.. 3 1353 
 
 52,546.. ..- 
 
 Which sum of Fifty-two Thousand Five Hundred and Forty Six 
 Pounds has been since when this State was attacked by the British 
 Forces burnt by order of His Excellency the President the same 
 being so torn and obliterated as to be wholly unpassable and it 
 being also difficult to remove it then out of Town with the other 
 Public money 
 
 3 new lawful Bills of 20 60.. .. 
 
 4 io 40.. .. 
 
 2 2 4.. .. 
 
 104. . . . 
 
 107^4 Tax Certificates of 50 5387 . . . . 
 
 5 Ditto Lyttletons Expedition of 50. . 250.. .. 
 12^4 Ditto. . . .Ditto 25.. 306.. 5.. 
 
 556.. 5-- 
 
 io Middletons Regiment 20 200. . . . 
 
 3 Ditto Howarth's Regiment.... 20.. 60.. .. 
 
 4^4 Ditto. . . .Ditto io. . 47.. io.. 107. .10. . 
 
 209% Ditto Exchange 20. .4185.. .. 
 
 189^4 Ditto. . . .Court Houses io. . 1893. .15.. 
 
 7 Ditto Indian Trade 10. . 70.. .. 
 
 Certificates issued by the General Assembly Con- ^ 
 
 V 18864.. 12.. 
 
 gress Bills and Bank Notes, 
 
 12 Bonds payable to the King. .. 11693. . 12. . io 83,914. . 12. .
 
 I2Q 
 
 ?8 Notes payable to Henry Peronneau f 
 
 ' . > 17146.. 13. 10 22840..6..8 
 and Benjamin Dart Esquires. ... ( 
 
 112,754. .18.8 
 
 All which your Commissioners have paid into the Hands of the 
 Commissioners of the Treasury and taken their Receipt for the 
 same 
 
 Your Commissioners have also examined the accounts of the 
 Powder-Receiver and find that the Powder which ought to have 
 been in the magazine on the 8th Day of January 1776 amounts to 
 Thirteen Thousand Five Hundred and Thirty-seven Pounds weight 
 after deducting One Thousand One Hundred Pounds weight said 
 to be taken out of the magazine at Hobcaw by Persons unknown 
 charging the said Powder at Ten shillings per Pound weight 
 
 amounts to 6768 . .10. . 
 
 Deduct One Quarters Salary to the 
 Deputy Powder Receiver and 
 
 watch men which became due pre- 
 vious to an order of the House to 
 discontinue the same. . 
 
 190.. 
 
 Paid Carpenter mending the Door of the ) 
 
 . [ 10. .7. .6 
 
 magazine ^ 
 
 Blacksmith mending the Lock I . . 10. . 201 . . 17. . 6 
 
 6566.. 12.. 6 
 
 Balance due to the Public by the Powder-Receiver being Six 
 Thousand Five Hundred and Sixty-six Pounds Twelve Shillings 
 and six Pence Currency which Sum and Balance your Commission- 
 ers have paid, into the Public Treasury in the following manner viz 
 By Thomas Savage and Edward Blakes Bond 
 
 dated October loth 1776 on Interest for. .'. . 
 By Samuel Prioleau junior and Samuel Prio- 
 
 22OO 
 
 lean's Bond of same Date for .............. 
 
 By Samuel Prioleau and Samuel Prioleau junioi 
 
 v I2OO 
 
 Bond of same date for 
 
 9 H. c.
 
 1 3 o 
 
 By John Gaborial and Timothy Crosbys Bond 
 
 of same Date for 
 
 By Cash paid 276. .12. . 6 
 
 6566.. 12. 6 
 
 For which amount your Committee have the Commissioners of "the 
 Treasury's Receipt herewith to produce 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning Ten of 
 the Clock 
 
 % 
 
 Wednesday the i6th Day of October. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House That the Commis- 
 sioners of the navy do forthwith furnish and supply Colonel Gads- 
 den with all the assistance of vessels and Hands in their power to 
 Procure to carry on the Public Work he is now about And that a 
 copy of this Resolution be served on the said Commissioners 
 
 M r Neufville reported from the Committee to consider and report 
 to the House proper ways and means of supplying the Treasury in 
 the Recess of the House with such monies as may be immediately 
 wanted for the Public service and how the monies issued that have 
 been counterfeited may best be called in and the counterfeiting of the 
 same prevented And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards 
 delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read and is 
 as followeth 
 
 That One Hundred and Thirty Thousand Pounds be emitted in 
 Bills of One to Ten Dollars which with the Emissions of Congress 
 will make an even sum of Two millions And to authorize and im- 
 power the Commissioners of the Treasury when they shall be so 
 ordered to do by the President with the advice of the Privy Council 
 to obtain on Loan from any Persons disposed to lend the same such 
 sums as the Exigencies of the State may require and to pay Interest 
 at the Rate of six per centum per annum 
 
 That it be recommended to all magistrates to be vigilant and 
 attentive in apprehending and conveying to Jail every Person who 
 shall counterfeit or utter knowing them to be counterfeit the Certifi- 
 cates issued by the late Houses of Assembly or the Continental or 
 Colonial Currency which hath been already or shall be hereafter
 
 issued And that the Law be duly executed for punishing of this 
 Offence 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration imme- 
 diately 
 
 And the Report bding taken into Consideration accordingly was 
 amended and agreed to in the following words 
 
 That it is their Opinion and they therefore recommend That One 
 Hundred and Thirty Thousand Pounds be emitted in Bills of One 
 to Ten Dollars which with the Emissions of Congress will make an 
 even Sum of Two millions And that the Commissioners of the 
 Treasury be authorized and impowered when they shall be so or- 
 dered to do by the President with the advice of the Privy Council to 
 obtain on Loan from any Persons or Bodies corporate disposed to 
 lend the same such sums as the Exigencies of the State may require 
 not exceeding the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Cur- 
 rency and to pay Interest for the same at the Rate of Six per Centum 
 per Annum 
 
 That a Message be sent to the President to desire that he will 
 issue his Proclamation ordering and requiring all magistrates to be 
 vigilant and attentive in causing to be apprehended and sent to Jail 
 for due Trial every Person who shall be accused of counterfeiting or 
 uttering knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates issued by 
 the la{e Houses of assembly or the Continental or Colonial Currency 
 which hath been already or shall be hereafter issued 
 
 The Honourable M r Edwards reported That M r DeSaussure and 
 himself had attended the Legislative Council with the message they 
 had in charge 
 
 Message from the Legislative Council by their Clerk 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 In answer to your message of yesterdays Date desiring to be 
 informed if this House had agreed to the Resolution of your House 
 of the nth Instant "That the Commissioners of the Treasury as a 
 further Encouragement to the Commander and the marines belong- 
 ing to the Vessel called the Revenge do pay and advance to the said 
 Commander and men out of the amount of the sales of the Cargo 
 taken on board the Transport Brigantine called the Glasgow Packett 
 One sixth of the nett amount of sales of said Cargo" we acquaint 
 you that this House upon considering the said Resolution thought 
 proper to reject the same
 
 132 
 
 In the Legislative Council 
 
 the 1 6th Day of October 1776 
 By Order of the House 
 Thomas Shubrick Speaker 
 
 The House proceeded upon the Order of the Day to take into Con- 
 sideration the Report of the Committee to whom it was referred to 
 revise the Constitution and report what alterations or amendments 
 may be necessary to make thereto 
 
 And the First Paragraph of the Report being read was agreed to 
 by the House 
 
 The Second Paragraph of the Report being read was disagreed 
 to and ordered to be struck out 
 
 Upon reading the Third Paragraph a Debate arose 
 
 And a motion being made That the number of members of the 
 Legislative Council be increased to Twenty-one 
 
 The Question was put 
 
 And it passed in the negative 
 
 Another motion was made That the number of members of the 
 Legislative Council be increased to seventeen 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 It also passed in the negative 
 
 A Motion was then made That the Paragraph be altered by strik- 
 ing out the word "4th" and inserting in its stead the word "<?<i" and 
 also by striking out the words "so that no vacancies hereafter hap- 
 pening in the General Assembly by the Election of any member into 
 the Legislative Council be filled up by a new Election" and inserting 
 instead thereof the words ''and that each Parish and District through- 
 out the State shall elect One member of the Legislative Council" 
 
 And the Question being put 
 
 Resolved in the Affirmative 
 
 An Adjournment of the House being then moved for and seconded 
 
 The Question was put 
 
 And it was Resolved in the affirmative 
 
 Ordered That the further Consideration of the Report on the 
 Constitution be resumed To-morrow 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of 
 the Clock
 
 133 
 
 Thursday the I7th Day of October 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 The House proceeded to a Third Reading of a Bill for maintain- 
 ing and keeping Three Watch Companies in Charles-Town 
 
 It appearing that the Legislative Council had made several Altera- 
 tions and inserted several Amendments in this Bill and it being a 
 money Bill 
 
 Ordered That the Clerk of this House do rase all such altera- 
 tions and amendments as appear to have been made by the Legisla- 
 tive Council and restore the Bill to the same State in which it was 
 sent from this House 
 
 Which being done accordingly 
 
 The Honourable M r . Heyward moved the House for L eave to 
 bring in some additional Clauses to the Bill And the same being 
 received were severally read Three Times agreed to by the House 
 and ordered to be made Parts of the Bill 
 
 And the Bill being read a Third Time 
 
 Resolved That the Bill do pass and that the Title be "an Act" 
 
 Ordered That M r . Joshua Toomer and M r Legare do carry the 
 Bill to the Legislative Council for their Concurrence 
 
 M r Toomer reported that M r Legare and himself had delivered 
 the Bill they had in charge to the Legislative Council 
 
 The House then resumed according to the Order of the Day the 
 Consideration of the Report of the Committee to whom it was 
 referred to revise the Constitution and report what Alterations or 
 amendments may be necessary to make thereto 
 
 And the Fourth Paragraph of the said Report being read was 
 unanimously agreed to by the House 
 
 The Fifth Paragraph being read was also agreed to 
 
 Upon reading the Sixth Paragraph 
 
 A Debate arose 
 
 And a motion being made and the Question put that the said 
 Paragraph be amended by inserting the word "taxable" between 
 "and" and "Property" 
 
 Resolved in the Affirmative 
 
 The said Paragraph being read throughout as amended 
 
 A Motion was made and the Question put That the House do 
 agree to the Paragraph as it now stands 
 
 Whereupon the House divided 
 
 And the nays went forth
 
 134 
 
 Teller for the noes Colonel Gadsden 30 
 
 Teller for the years Honourable M r Bee 30 
 
 So M r Speaker decided by voting with the yeas 
 
 The Seventh Paragraph being read was unanimously agreed to 
 
 The Eighth Paragraph being read was also agreed to by the 
 House 
 
 Upon reading the First Clause of the ninth Paragraph for appoint- 
 ing a chancellor 
 
 A Debate arose 
 
 And the Question being put to agree with that Clause 
 
 Resolved in the affirmative 
 
 The Second and Third Clauses of the said Paragraph being read 
 were severally agreed to 
 
 The Tenth Eleventh and Twelfth Paragraphs were then read and 
 severally unanimously agreed to by the House 
 
 Upon reading the Thirteenth and last Paragraph 
 
 A Debate ensued 
 
 After sometime spent therein 
 
 The Question being put on a motion to agree with that Part of 
 the Report 
 
 It passed in the negative 
 
 Ordered That the Preamble to the Report be taken into Consider- 
 ation To-morrow morning 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 I send you a Letter which I received from Colonel Moultrie 
 with a List of men in the Second Regiment who have been disabled 
 in the service of this State and doubt not that you will make suit- 
 able Provision for them 
 
 John Rutledge 
 1 7th October. 1776 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 In the month of April I was informed by Lieutenant Colonel 
 Sumpter that imaging M r . Richbourg a Lieutenant in Captain Rich- 
 ardson's Company had been promoted to the command of it when 
 he resigned his Commission (as M r Richardson assured them he 
 would be) he sent Richbourg on the recruiting service who soon 
 raised a considerable number of men with which he was about to
 
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 join the Regiment when he was told (which Colonel Sumpter did 
 not know till a short Time before) that M r Blessingham had been 
 appointed captain instead of Richardson 
 
 Having laid this matter before the Council they were of opinion 
 that the number of companies in the Regiment being fixed by Con- 
 gress could not be increased but by the Legislative Authority It 
 was evident however that discharging these men would have been 
 injurious to the country They were therefore formed into an Inde- 
 pendent Company as the only Expedient for keeping them together 
 but have hitherto done Duty with the sixth Regiment 
 
 It would save considerable Expence to the Public and appears to 
 me expedient to add this Company to that Regiment and the Two 
 independent Companies of Artillery at Beaufort and George-Town 
 to the Forth Regiment I therefore recommend this Subject to your 
 Consideration 
 
 John Rutledge 
 1 7th October. 1776 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House a 
 Bill for maintaining and keeping Three Watch Companies in 
 Charles-Town read a Third Time in that House 
 
 Ordered That the Bill be ingrossed 
 
 And then the House adjourned till-To-morrow morning nine of 
 the Cock 
 
 Friday the i8th Day of October. 1776 
 
 The House met according to adjournment 
 
 Read the Journal of yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 Ordered That Captain Trapier and M r . Keating Simons do with 
 some member of the Legislative Council examine and compare with 
 the originals an ingrossed ordinance for allowing and keeping in 
 Repair a Pilot Boat to attend the Bar and Harbour of Beaufort and 
 for settling and regulating the Pilotage of the said Harbour And 
 an ingrossed act for establishing and keeping Three Watch Com- 
 panies in Charles-Town 
 
 Captain Trapier reported That the Ordinance and Act they had in 
 Charge had been examined and compared according to order and 
 were found truly ingrossed 
 
 Ordered That Captain Trapier and M r . Simons do wait on the 
 President to desire that the seal may be affixed to the said Ordin- 
 ance and Act and to know when His Excellency will please to 
 receive this House to present the same for his assent
 
 i 3 6 
 
 The House then proceeded on the order of the Day to consider 
 the Preamble to the Report of the Committee that were appointed to 
 revise the constitution and report such alterations or amendments 
 as might be necessary to make thereto 
 
 And the said Preamble being read was agreed to by the House 
 
 And the Report as amended by the House and agreed to is as 
 followeth 
 
 That inasmuch as the Constitution or Form of Government agreed 
 to and resolved upon on the 26th Day of March last was calculated 
 for and suited to then Situation of Public affairs and looking for- 
 ward to an Accommodation of Differences with Great-Britain (an 
 event then desired) was Temporary only And whereas the Ameri- 
 can States are now constituted Independent States and the political 
 connexion heretofore subsisting between them and Great-Britain 
 dissolved and it therefore becomes necessary in order to render 
 more perfect and to perpetuate the said Constitution and Form of 
 Government that some Amendments should be made thereto your 
 Committee therefore humbly recommend the following 
 
 I That instead of Province or Colony the Stile hereafter be the 
 State of South-Carolina 
 
 II That the Second Article of the Constitution be altered And 
 that each Parish and District throughout this State shall elect One 
 member of the Legislative Council 
 
 III That the number of the. Privy Council mentioned in the Fifth 
 Article of the Constitution be increased to nine members including 
 the Vice President Four to be chosen by each House either out of 
 the Houses respectively or from the People at large The Quorum 
 to consist of Five 
 
 IV That the Tenth Article of the Constitution shall not be con- 
 strued to vacate the seat of any member who is or may be a Delegate 
 from, this State to the Continental Congress as such 
 
 V That when the House can possess itself of proper Information 
 so as to estimate the particular and comparative strength and tax- 
 able Property of the Different Parts of the State that then the 
 House do proceed to a Reduction of the present Representation in 
 the most equal and just Proportion Regard being always had to the 
 number of white Inhabitants and taxable Property of the People 
 
 VI. That no future President or Commander in Chief that shall 
 serve for Two years shall be eligible to serve in the said Office after 
 the Expiration of the said Term until the full End and Term of 
 six years
 
 VII. That in Case of the sickness or absence from Charles-Town 
 of the President and Commander in Chief the Vice-President being 
 impowered thereto by the President shall act in his stead during 
 such Sickness or absence agreeable to the Law passed the 6th of 
 April last 
 
 VIII. That a Chancellor be appointed to preside in the Court of 
 Chancery And that the Sixteenth Article of the Constitution giving 
 Power to the Vice President and Privy Council to exercise the 
 Powers of a Court of Chancery be annulled That the House do also 
 appoint or direct that proper Persons be impowered in the several 
 Districts in this State to prove wills grant administrations and do 
 such other matters as are incident to a Court of Ordinary that the 
 People of this State may avoid the great Expence and Trouble of 
 coming to Charles Town on every such Occasion That a Court of 
 Appeals be also established in this State and Judges appointed to 
 consist of not less than Five Persons to have cognizance in all mat- 
 ters of Error That they be elected and commissioned in the same 
 manner the other Judges are directed to be and liable to be removed 
 as in the Twentieth Clause 
 
 IX. That the Collectors and Controllers of Country Duties be 
 ballotted for and appointed in the same manner as the other Officers 
 are directed to be by the Twenty Second Article of the Constitution 
 
 X. That all Resolutions of the Continental Congress shall be of 
 full Force until altered by them 
 
 XI. That the Oath enjoined to be taken by all Persons appointed 
 to any Place of Trust be amended by leaving out the words "until 
 an Accommodation of the Differences "between Great-Britain and 
 America shall take place" 
 
 Ordered That the said Report as agreed to by the House be forth- 
 with printed 
 
 The House being moved fpr Leave to bring in a Bill to comprise 
 all the Alterations and Amendments recommended in the said 
 Report 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in such a Bill And that the 
 same Committee who made the Report do prepare and bring in the 
 same 
 
 Ordered That the President's two messages of Yesterday be 
 referred to a Committee 
 
 And they are referred to the Honourable M r Heyward Major 
 Huger and Major Simons
 
 138 
 
 A Bill to impower the Court of Admiralty to have Jurisdiction in 
 all Cases of Capture of the ships and other Vessels of the Inhab- 
 itants and Subjects of Great-Britain to establish the Trial by Jury 
 jn the said Court in Cases of Capture and for the other Purposes 
 therein mentioned" was read a Third Time 
 
 Resolved That the Bill do pass and that the Title be "an Act" 
 
 Ordered That M r Verree and M r . Macpherson do carry the Bill 
 to the Legislative Council for their Concurrence 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker and Gentlemen 
 
 I send you a Letter just received by Express from Colonel 
 Williamson and congratulate you most heartily upon the success of 
 our Arms and those of North-Carolina against the Cherokee Indians 
 
 If Time will admit your considering what steps should be taken 
 for the Defence and Security of the Back Settlements against Indian 
 Incursions I shall be glad of your Advice on that Subject if not I 
 will (with your approbation) give Orders for such as shall appear 
 most effectual for that Purpose 
 
 John Rutledge 
 1 8th October. 1776 
 
 Read the Letter referred to in the above message [which was 
 immediately after the Reading thereof returned to His Excellency 
 the President and therefore could not be entered in this Place] 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker 
 
 His Excellency the President is now in the Council-Chamber 
 ready to receive this House with the Bill and Ordinance they have 
 to present 
 
 And then the Messenger withdrew 
 
 M r Speaker with the House accordingly attended the President 
 in the Council Chamber 
 
 And being returned 
 
 M r Speaker reported That this House having attended the Presi- 
 dent in the Council Chamber he had presented to His Excellency 
 
 An Ordinance for allowing and keeping in Repair a Pilot-Boat 
 to attend the Bar and Harbour of Beaufort and for settling and 
 regulating the Pilotage of the said Harbour And also 
 
 An Act for establishing and keeping Three Watch Companies in 
 Charles Town
 
 139 
 
 To both of which he had been pleased to give his assent 
 
 A Petition of Thomas Lamar was presented to the House and 
 read in the words following 
 
 That the Petitioner has undertaken to act in the capacity of Post 
 Rider from the Upper Parts of Savannah River near Augusta to 
 Charles-Town since the 28th of June last That he has been down 
 seven Times since and always brought Dispatches from the Com- 
 missioner of Indian Affairs and other Gentlemen to the President 
 on Public Service. 
 
 That the Petitioner has waited in Charles-Town for His Excel- 
 lency's Answers by which means he has been detained for some 
 Days at a great Expence and has never received any Consideration 
 for such Services 
 
 That the Petitioner is willing to engage for a moderate Compen- 
 sation to continue to ride twice in every month and to carry all 
 Dispatches on the service of the State 
 
 The Petitioner prays for an allowance for his past Services or a 
 fixed sum by the year as to the Honourable House shall seem 
 meet &c 
 
 Ordered That the Petition be referred to a Committee 
 
 And it is referred to the Honourable M r . Edwards Colonel Ger- 
 vais and M r . Gibbes 
 
 A Petition of Quintin Pooler was presented to the House and read. 
 
 Ordered That the Petition do lie on the Table 
 
 The Honourable M r Hey ward reported from the Committee to 
 whom were referred the Presidents Two Messages of yesterday's 
 Date And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered 
 it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read and is as fol- 
 loweth 
 
 That it is their Opinion Captain Richbourg's Independent Com- 
 pany should be added to the Sixth Regiment And that the Artillery 
 Company at George-Town be augmented to One Hundred men and 
 added together with the Artillery Company af Beaufort to the 
 Fourth Regiment 
 
 That the Third and Fourth Regiments be augmented to Six Hun- 
 dred men each and that a Colonel be appointed to each of the said 
 Regiments 
 
 That Serjeant John Young of Captain M c Donald's Company who 
 lost his right Leg in the Engagement on Sullivant's Island the 28th 
 of June be allowed ninety Pounds per Annum to be paid Quarterly
 
 140 
 
 That George Mason of Captain Francis Huger's Company who 
 lost his Leg in the said Engagement be allowed Eighty Pounds per 
 annum to be paid Quarterly 
 
 That James Sims of Captain Harleston's Company who lost his 
 right Leg in the service of this State be allowed Fifty Pounds per 
 annum to be paid Quarterly 
 
 That Robert Wade of Captain Motte's Company who was 
 wounded in his right arm by a shell in the aforesaid Engagement 
 which has rendered it intirely useless be allowed Fifty Pounds per 
 annum to be paid Quarterly 
 
 That Thomas Smith of Captain John Blakes Company who lost 
 the two middle Fingers of his right Hand in the aforesaid Engage- 
 ment be allowed Twenty Pounds per annum to be paid Quarterly 
 
 And that there be immediately advanced to each of the said Per- 
 sons the first Quarterley Payment of his annuity 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration imme- 
 diately 
 
 And the same being taken into Consideration accordingly 
 
 Resolved That this House do agree with the Report of the Com- 
 mittee 
 
 Ordered That Major Simons M r . Cannon and M r Toomer be a 
 Committee to receive the names of Candidates for the Command of 
 the Three Watch Companies to be raised for Charles-Town That 
 they do sit this afternckm And that they give Public notice thereof 
 
 Upon Motion 
 
 Resolved That a message be sent to His Excellency the President 
 to desire that he will write to our Delegates at the Continental Con- 
 gress and state to them our particular Circumstances and the great 
 difficulty we have in recruiting our Quota of men within the State 
 
 That in order to comply with the Recommendation of the Conti- 
 nental Congress to take the most speedy and effectual means to 
 recruit our Quota of men we had voted Ten Dollars additional 
 Bounty over and' above the Continental Bounty to every Recruit 
 who should inlist in either of our Regiments on the Continental 
 Establishment to serve during the war besides Cloathing to the 
 value of Twenty-five Pounds Currency annually But that we had 
 received accounts from Captain Adam M c Donald one of our recruit- 
 ing officers that he had been absolutely forbid to recruit in the States 
 of Virginia and North-Carolina by the supreme authority in those 
 States That such Prohibition will entirely disable us from completing 
 our Regiments to the full Establishment will be prejudicial to this
 
 141 
 
 State in particular and the Continent in general as it will incapac- 
 itate us from affording that assistance to our sister States that we 
 desire to give and lay us under the necessity of requiring of them 
 greater assistance should we be again attacked than we should other- 
 wise have Occasion for And that our Delegates do use such means 
 as to them shall seem proper to get the said Prohibition withdrawn 
 
 Colonel Pinckney moved the House for Leave to bring in an 
 Ordinance for appointing Commissioners to stamp and sign One 
 Hundred and Thirty Thousand Pounds Currency in Dollars and 
 for impowering the President and Commander in Chief for the Time 
 being with the advice of the Privy Council to borrow on Loan any 
 sum or sums not exceeding Five Hundred Thousand Pounds cur- 
 rency at the Rate of Six Pounds per Centum per Annum 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in such a Bill 
 
 And then the House adjourned until Five of the Clock in the 
 afternoon 
 
 5 O'Clock P. M 
 
 The House met according to Adjournment 
 
 Major Simons reported from the Committee to receive the names 
 of Candidates for Captains of the Three Watch Companies And he 
 read the List of Candidates in his Place and afterwards delivered it 
 in at the clerk's Table where the same was read 
 
 Ordered That the said List be affixed to the wainscot for the 
 Perusal of the members 
 
 A Message being sent to the Legislative Council to desire the 
 attendance of its members in the General assembly in order to ballot 
 jointly with the members of this House for the Captains of the Three 
 Watch Companies 
 
 Their Honours attended accordingly 
 
 The Members of both Houses then proceeded to ballot for the 
 said Three Captains 
 
 And the Ballots being reckoned 
 
 M r Speaker reported that John M c Call Junior and John Brewton 
 Esquires having the votes of a majority of the Members present 
 were duly elected captains of Two of the said Companies 
 
 The Members of both Houses then proceeded to vote for a Cap- 
 tain of the Third Watch Company 
 
 And the Ballots being cast up 
 
 M r Speaker reported That John. Lining Esquire was duly elected 
 Captain of the Third Watch Company
 
 142 
 
 The Honourable M r Edwards reported from the Committee to 
 whom the Petition of Thomas Lamar was referred And he read the 
 Report in his Place and afterwards delivered it in at the Clerk's 
 Table where the same was read and is as followeth 
 
 That in the Opinion of the Committee it will be very beneficial to 
 the Public Service at this Juncture to encourage a Post Rider from 
 the upper Parts of Savannah-River as by that means Intelligence 
 will be frequently received of the Disposition of the Creek Nation 
 and Dispatches for Ninety-Six and Colonel Williamson may be 
 regularly conveyed from Colonel Hammond's where the Petitioner 
 will carry them from Charles-Town The Committee recommend that 
 upon his engaging to go twice in every month from this Day to the 
 28th June 1777 he shall be allowed Three Hundred Pounds Cur- 
 rency for his services 
 
 Ordered That the Report be taken into Consideration To-morrow 
 
 Colonel Pinckney according to Order presented to the House an 
 Ordinance for appointing Commissioners to stamp and sign One 
 Hundred and Thirty Thousand Pounds Currency in Dollars and 
 for impowering the President and Commander in Chief for the 
 Time being with the advice of the Privy Council to borrow on Loan 
 any Sum or Sums not exceeding Five Hundred Thousand Pounds 
 Currency at the Rate of Six Pounds like money per Centum per 
 annum And the same was received and read the First Time 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be read a Second Time 
 
 And the same being read accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be sent to the Legislative Council 
 
 Ordered That Captain Roger Smith and Colonel Pinckney do 
 carry the Ordinance to the Legislative Council 
 
 Major Cattell reported from the Committee to whom the Peti- 
 tion of Philip Will was referred And he read the Report in his 
 Place and afterwards delivered it in at Clerk's Table where the same 
 was read and is as followeth 
 
 That the Committee are of Opinion that the Barrack-Master of 
 Charles-Town should be allowed by this State the Sum of Six 
 Hundred Pounds for the services of that officer or appointment from 
 the 5th Day of March last until the present Time and also in future 
 the annual sum of One Thousand Pounds to be paid him yearly 
 from such Time as this House shall allow the same in Recompence 
 for the future Services of that Office and all such Deputies as he 
 shall employ in the same
 
 H3 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into immediate Consideration 
 
 And the same being taken into Consideration accordingly was 
 amended and agreed to in the words following 
 
 That the Committee are of Opinion that the Barrack-Master of 
 Charles-Town should be allowed by this State at the Rate of One 
 Thousand Pounds Currency per Annum from the 5th Day of March 
 last to be paid him in equal moieties half yearly 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House 
 an Ordinance for appointing* Commissioners to stamp and sign One 
 Hundred and Thirty Thousand Pounds Currency in Dollars and for 
 impowering the President and Commander in Chief for the Time 
 being with the Advice of the Privy Council to borrow on Loan any 
 sum or sums not exceeding Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Cur- 
 rency at the Rate of Six Pounds like money per centum per annum 
 Read Twice in that House 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be read a Third Time 
 
 And the same being read accordingly 
 
 Resolved That the Ordinance do pass 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be sent to the Legislative Council for 
 their Concurrence and that Colonel Pinckney and M r Ralph Izard 
 do carry the same 
 
 Resolved That the Commissioners of the Treasury do advance and 
 pay to the Commissioners for the High-Roads on Charles-Town 
 neck or any of them the arrears due for repairing the said Roads 
 amounting to Three Hundred and Fifty Pounds to be hereafter 
 assessed upon the Inhabitants of Charles-Town 
 
 The House then took under Consideration the President's mes- 
 sage of the 1 5th Instant relative to the Crown Officers and certain 
 Persons confined in George Town and Cheraws Jails 
 
 And came to the following Resolution upon the first Parts thereof 
 (to wit) 
 
 That such of the Crown Officers as choose to depart the State 
 may be conveyed to Europe or the West Indies at the Public Ex- 
 pence And that such others of them as decline going shall be 
 allowed such Liberty as the President and Privy Council may think 
 not inconsistent with the safety of the State 
 
 Ordered That the Consideration of the Latter Part of the said 
 Message be postponed till To-morrow 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow morning nine of 
 the Clock.
 
 144 
 
 Saturday the iQth Day of October 1776 
 
 The House met according to Adjournment 
 
 Read the Journals of Yesterday's Proceedings 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House have resolved to make Provision for defraying the 
 Expence of repairing the Public Buildings and desire that your 
 Excellency will give Orders that they may be repaired accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrosaed and that M r . Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House being informed that Captain Adam M c Donald had 
 been absolutely forbid to recruit in the States of Virginia and Xorth 
 Carolina by the Supreme Authority in those States we request that 
 your Excellency will be pleased to write to our Delegates at the 
 Continental Congress and state to them our particular circumstances 
 and the great Difficulty we have in recruiting our Quota of men 
 within this State That in order to comply with the Recommenda- 
 tion of the Continental Congress to take the most speedy and 
 effectual means to recruit our Quota of men we had voted Ten Dol- 
 lars additional Bounty over and above the Continental Bounty to 
 every Recruit who should inlist in either of our Regiments on the 
 Continental Establishment to serve during the war besides Cloathing 
 to the value of Twenty five Pounds Currency annually But that we 
 had received Accounts from Captain Adam M c Donald one of our 
 recruiting officers that he had been absolutely forbid to recruit in the 
 States of Virginia and North Carolina by the supreme Authority 
 in those States That such Prohibition will intirely disable us from 
 completing our Regiments to the full Establishment will be preju- 
 dicial to this State* in particular and the Continent in General as it 
 will incapacitate us from affording that assistance to our Sister 
 States that we desire to give and lay us under the necessity of 
 requiring of them greater assistance should we be again attacked 
 than we should otherwise have occasion for And that our Delegates 
 do use such means as to them shall seem proper to get the said 
 Prohibition withdrawn 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker 
 do sign the same
 
 145 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House being informed That the Trade of this Place is 
 subject to many Inconveniences by the Delay attending Vessels 
 being obliged to call at Fort Johnson and Fort Moultrie both in 
 going out and coming in request your Excellency will give Orders 
 that in future Vessels coming in may only be obliged to call at Fort 
 Moultrie and going out at Fort Johnson and may be allowed to pass 
 by some proper signal from the Fort they first pass 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That M r Ladson and M r Young do attend the President 
 with the three foregoing messages 
 
 The Clerk of the Legislative Council brought from that House 
 an Ordinance for appointing Commissioners to stamp and sign One 
 Hundred & Thirty Thousand Pounds Currency in Dollars and for 
 impowering the President and Commander in Chief for the Time 
 being with the Advice of the Privy Council to borrow on Loan any 
 Sum or Sums not exceeding Five Hundred Thousand Pounds Cur- 
 rency at the Rate of Six Pounds like money per Centum per An- 
 num Read a Third Time in that House 
 
 Ordered That the Ordinance be ingrossed 
 
 Ordered That the Honourable M r Heyward and M r Ladson do 
 with a Member of the Legislative Council examine dnd compare the 
 Ordinance with the original Draught 
 
 The Honourable M r Heyward reported that M r . Ladson and him- 
 self with a member of the Legislative Council had examined and 
 compared the Ordinance and that they found the same truly 
 ingrossed 
 
 Ordered that M r Ladson and M r Young do attend the President 
 with the said ingrossed Ordinance in order to have the Seal affixed 
 thereto and to desire to know when His Excellency will receive this 
 House to present the same for his assent 
 
 M r Ladson reported That M r Young and himself having attended 
 the President with the Ordinance and the Three several messages 
 they had in Charge His Excellency was pleased to say he would 
 acquaint the House when he should be ready to receive them to 
 present the Ordinance and that he would issue the necessary Orders 
 requested in the several messages 
 
 Resolved That a Reward of Five Hundred Pounds Currency be 
 offered to Informers for every Person they shall inform against for 
 
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 146 
 
 counterfeiting or uttering knowing them to be counterfeit the Cer- 
 tificates issued by the late Houses of Assembly or the Continental 
 or Colonial Currency which already. hath been or hereafter shall be 
 issued to be paid upon Conviction of such Offenders And that this 
 House will provide for the Payment of such Rewards 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House request that your Excellency will be pleased to 
 issue your Proclamation ordering and requiring all magistrates to 
 be vigilant and attentive in causing to be apprehended and conveyed 
 to Jail for due Trial every Person who shall be accused of coun- 
 terfeiting or uttering knowing them to be counterfeit the Certificates 
 issued by the late Houses of Assembly or the Continental or colonial 
 currency which hath been already or shall be hereafter issued And 
 promising a Reward of Five Hundred Pounds to Informers against 
 such Offenders for every Person they shall inform against upon 
 Conviction of the offender for the Payment of which Reward this 
 House will provide 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Message from the President by the Clerk of the Legislative 
 Council 
 
 M r Speaker 
 
 His Excellency the President is now in the Council Chamber 
 ready to receive this House with the Ordinance they have to present 
 
 And then the messenger withdrew 
 
 M r Speaker with the House accordingly attended the President 
 in the Council Chamber 
 
 And being returned 
 
 M r Speaker reported That this House having attended the Presi- 
 dent in the Council Chamber he had presented to His Excellency 
 
 An Ordinance for appointing commissioners to stampt and sign 
 One Hundred and Thirty Thousand Pounds Currency in Dollars 
 and for impowering the President and commander in Chief for the 
 Time being with the advice of the Privy Council to borrow on Loan 
 any sum or sums not exceeding Five Hundred Thousand Pounds 
 Currency at the Rate of six Pounds like money per centum per 
 annum 
 
 To which His Excellency has been pleased to give his Assent 
 
 Col Pinckney reported from the Committee to whom the Presi- 
 dent's message of the 8th Instant with Brigadier General Howe's
 
 Letter were referred And he read the Report in his Place and after- 
 wards delivered it in at the Clerk's Table where the same was read 
 and is as followeth 
 
 That in the Opinion of the Committee the State is obliged to 
 General Howe for his attention to its Defence and that although 
 it has not been in their Power to examine every particular Place 
 where it may be necessary to erect Fortifications yet they think it 
 evident that some other works on Sullivant's Island and Haddrel's 
 Point are absolutely necessary The Committee likewise think that 
 the Casing the Brick Work at Fort Johnson with Palmetas is proper 
 They also warmly recommend the speedy procuring arming and 
 manning some Row-Gallies as a measure of very great Importance 
 In a Country so extensive as Ours it is impossible for the Committee 
 to point out every Part where it may be necessary to erect works of 
 Defence And they are of opinion the Public Service will be best 
 promoted by giving the Executive Power the sanction and support 
 of this House for the Execution of every measure necessary for the 
 Security and Defence of this State and that the House do come to a 
 Resolution for that Purpose 
 
 The Committee likewise recommend the procuring of some wag- 
 gons and beg Leave to mention that Major Simons has offered his 
 services in getting some from Philadelphia which he will deliver 
 here at the original cost 
 
 The Committee are also of opinion that the Cattle and stock should 
 be removed from Bull's Island Caper's Island Kayawah Island the 
 Hunting-Islands Dawfuskee Island and South Island 
 
 The Committee likewise recommend That six Battalions of 
 minute-men of Five Hundred Rank and File each should be raised 
 for the Defence of this State and that each Battalion should be 
 divided into Ten Companies and officered by a Lieutenant-Colonel 
 Major Ten Captains Ten Lieutenants Ten Ensigns an adjutant and 
 a Quarter master 
 
 The Committee cannot conclude their Report without desiring that 
 it may be recommended to the President to use every means in his 
 Power to procure us a Quantity of ammunition and a number of 
 good muskets with Bayonets and Iron Ramrods large Cannon some 
 light Field Pieces and a few mortars and Hawitzes with shells 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into immediate Consideration 
 
 The Report was taken into Consideration accordingly 
 
 And the first Paragraph thereof being read was agreed to by the 
 House
 
 148 
 
 The second Paragraph being read was after some Debate ordered 
 to be struck out. 
 
 The Third Paragraph being read and amended 
 
 A Debate ensued 
 
 And the Question being put that the House do agree thereto as 
 amended 
 
 Resolved in the affirmative 
 
 The fourth Paragraph being read was amended and agreed to 
 
 The Fifth Paragraph being read was also agreed to by the House 
 
 A Motion was then made and seconded that another Paragraph 
 be added to the said Report 
 
 Which being agreed to 
 
 The following was accordingly added viz 
 
 The Committee recommend That His Excellency be desired to give 
 Directions to the Attorney General to prosecute all such Commis- 
 sioners of the High-Roads and keepers of Public Ferries in this 
 State as neglect their Duty 
 
 And the Paragraph being agreed to 
 
 The Report as amended and agreed to by the House is as fol- 
 loweth 
 
 That in the Opinion of the Committee the State is obliged to 
 General Howe for his attention to its Defence and that although it 
 has not been in their Power to examine every particular Place where 
 it may be necessary to erect Fortifications yet they think it evident 
 that some other works on Sullivant's Island and Haddrels Point 
 are absolutely necessary The Committee likewise think that the 
 Casing the Brick Work at Fort Johnson is proper 
 
 They -also warmly recommend the speedy procuring arming and 
 manning some Row-Gallies as a measure of very great Importance 
 In a country so extensive as ours it is impossible for the Committee 
 to point every Part where it may be necessary to erect works of 
 Defence And they are of Opinion the Public service will be best 
 promoted by giving the Executive Power the Sanction and Suport 
 of this House for the Execution of every measure necessary for the 
 security and Defence of the State and that the House do come to a 
 Resolution to that Purpose 
 
 The Committee are of opinion That the Cattle and stock should 
 be removed from Bull's Island Caper's's Island Kayawah Island 
 the Hunting Islands Dawfuskee Island Pinckney's Island Carlton 
 Island South Island Cole's Island Folly Island and Murphy's 
 Island
 
 149 
 
 The Committee likewise recommend That Leave be given to bring 
 in a Bill for establishing six Battalions of minute men of Five 
 Hundred Rank and File each to be raised for the Defence of this 
 State and that each Battalion should be divided into Ten Com- 
 panies and officered by a Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel Major Ten Cap- 
 tains Ten Lieutenants Ten Ensigns an adjutant and a Quarter 
 master 
 
 The Committee cannot conclude their Report without desiring 
 that it may be recommended to the President to use every means in 
 his Power to procure us % a Quantity of Ammunition and a number 
 of muskets with Bayonets and Iron Ramrods large cannon some 
 light Field Peices and a few mortars and Hawitzers with shells 
 
 The Committee recommend That His Excellency be desired to 
 give Directions to the Attorney-General to prosecute all such Com- 
 missioners of the High-Roads and keepers of Public Ferries in this 
 State as neglect their Duty 
 
 Ordered That a message be prepared to be sent with a copy of 
 the foregoing Report to the President also in Answer to His 
 Excellency's message of the i8th Instant with Colonel William- 
 son's Letter and also to acquaint His Excellency of the Election of 
 the Captains for the Three Watch Companies in Charles-Town 
 
 The following message was accordingly prepared viz 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 In Answer to your Excellency's Message of the i8th Instant 
 accompanied with a Letter from Brigadier General Howe to your 
 Excellency and also to your Excellency's message of the i8th Instant 
 with Colonel Williamson's Letter we acquaint your Excellency that 
 the House referred the former message and Letter to the considera- 
 tion of a committee a copy of whose Report thereupon as agreed to 
 by the House we herewith send you And as to the Letter the House 
 have not now Time to consider what steps should be taken for the 
 Security and Defence of the Back Settlers against Indian Incursions 
 therefore desire That your Excellency will with the advice of the 
 Privy Council give Orders for such as shall appear most effectual 
 for that Purpose and that your Excellency may remain assured of the 
 sanction and support of this House in every measure necessary for 
 the Security and Defence of the State 
 
 We also think it proper to acquaint your Excellency that the Leg- 
 islative Council and this House jointly have voted John M c Call John 
 Brewton and John Lining Esquires proper Persons to be commis- 
 sioned as captains of the Watch Companies in Charles Town and
 
 request that your Excellency will give Commissions .accordingly 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Resolved Unanimously That the Thanks of this House be returned 
 to Colonel Andrew Williamson and the officers and men under his 
 Command employed in the late Expedition against the Cherokee 
 Indians for their spirited Conduct and Service to the State upon that 
 Expedition And that M r Speaker do forward the same 
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 Your Excellency's messages of the I7th Instant having been 
 referred to a Committee they made a Report thereon to which the 
 House agreed a copy of which Report we herewith send your Ex- 
 cellency 
 
 Ordered That the message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Pinckney and Captain Roger Smith do 
 carry the said message and the two preceeding ones to the President 
 
 The House then proceeded according to the Order of the Day to 
 consider the latter Part of the President's message of the I5th 
 Instant 
 
 And the same having been considered accordingly 
 
 Resolved That such of the several Persons mentioned in the Pres- 
 idents message of the I5th Instant to be in the Jails at George Town 
 and the Cheraws and also such of those confined in Charles Town 
 Jail on suspicion of being inimical to this Country as shall take the 
 Oath of Fidelity to this State shall be forthwith discharged That 
 such of them as choose to go off the State may be sent off at the 
 Expence of the Public And that such others of them as decline going 
 shall be allowed such Liberty as the President and Privy Council 
 may think not inconsistent with the safety of the State 
 
 Ordered That a Copy of the above Resolve and also of the Resolve 
 of this House of yesterdays relative to the late Crown Officers be 
 sent to the President 
 
 Upon Motion 
 
 Ordered That a message be prepared to be sent to the President 
 desiring that His Excellency will recall all the Militia Commissions 
 given by the late Governors and grant new ones to the officers hold- 
 ing such preserving to them the Rank according to the Dates of such 
 old Commissions
 
 Message to the President 
 
 May it please your Excellency 
 
 This House having taken into Consideration your Excellency's 
 message of the I5th Instant with Respect to the crown officers and 
 other Persons therein mentioned to be confined came to several Reso- 
 lutions thereupon copies whereof we herewith send your Excellency 
 
 And it being represented to us that several of the Militia Officers 
 have no other Commissions than those granted by the late Governors 
 under which it will be highly improper for them to act We therefore 
 desire your Excellency will recall the old and grant new Commis- 
 sions to such officers preserving to them their Rank according to the 
 Dates of the old Commissions 
 
 Ordered That the Message be ingrossed and that M r Speaker do 
 sign the same 
 
 Ordered That Colonel Garden and M r John Berwick do carry the 
 message to the President 
 
 Colonel Pinckney reported That Captain Smith and himself had 
 delivered the Three messages they had in Charge to the President 
 
 The Reverend M r Tennent reported from the Committee to ex- 
 amine into the State of the Jail and the Treatment of the Prisoners 
 of war And he read the Report in his Place and afterwards delivered 
 it at the Clerk's Table where the same was read and is as followeth 
 
 That they had attended at the Jail and made what Inquiry they 
 could They found that the Roof of the Jail is so deficient that the 
 Inhabitants of it are thereby much exposed They also found that 
 through want of proper Apartments and other Inconviences the Pris- 
 oners of War are exposed to a Treatment which if continued will not 
 be reputable to this state. They therefore beg Leave to recommend 
 that Leave be given to bring in an Ordinance to establish a Board of 
 Commissioners to consist of Five members to superintend the repair- 
 ing and keeping in Repair the Jail in Charles Town as also to super- 
 intend from Time to Time and examine into the Treatment of Pris- 
 oners and to order such Things with Respect to the Premises as may 
 be reasonable and reputable to the Justice and Humanity of this 
 State 
 
 Resolved That the Report be taken into Consideration immediately 
 
 And the same being considered accordingly and agreed to by the 
 House 
 
 Ordered That Leave be given to bring in an Ordinance for the 
 Purposes recommended in the Report
 
 152 
 
 I 
 
 Colonel Garden reported That M r . Berwick and himself had deliv- 
 ered the message they had in Charge to the President 
 
 It appearing to the House that the late Commander and mariners 
 of the Armed Vessel called the Revenge had received no more than 
 Two Sixth Parts of the nett Amount of Sales of the Cargo taken by 
 them on board the Transport Brigantine Glasgow Packet and that 
 the other Four Sixth Parts had been paid into the Treasury as the 
 share of the State 
 
 Resolved That the Commissioners of the Treasury do advance and 
 pay to Captain Pickering late Commander and the mariners late 
 belonging to the said armed Vessel One Sixth Part of the Four 
 Sixths of the net amount of the said Sales so paid into the Treasury 
 as a further Encouragement for their Gallant Behaviour in the 
 taking the said Brigantine Glasgow Packet. 
 
 Resolved That the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds be allowed and 
 paid out of the Public Treasury to Thomas Farr Esquire Paymaster 
 to the militia for his past services in that office and as acting Com- 
 missary and for auditing the militia accounts from the First Day of 
 November last And that this House will make proper and adequate 
 Provision for his future services 
 
 M r John Vinyard one of the Messengers having laid before the 
 House an Account amounting to Fifty-two Pounds Currency which 
 he had been obliged to advance to special messengers sent by Order 
 of the House to members who had refused to pay the same 
 
 Ordered That the Commissioners of the Treasury do pay to and 
 reimburse M r . John Vinyard one of the Messengers of this House 
 the Sum of Fifty-two Pounds Currency by him advanced for carry- 
 ing Letters to members by order of the House 
 
 Upon Motion 
 
 Resolved That this House will make such Provision for the sur- 
 geons of the several Continental Regiments raised by this State as 
 to make their Pay including the Continental Pay amount to Three 
 Pounds currency per Day And that a Surgeons mate be allowed to 
 the Third Regiment (of Rangers) who shall have the same Pay as 
 the Surgeon's mates in the Regiments of Infantry are allowed 
 
 Upon Motion 
 
 Resolved That a daily Pay of One Pound Currency be allowed and 
 paid to the Person acting as Gunner Barrack Master and Store- 
 keeper in Fort Lyttleton at Beaufort for those several Services 
 
 The House then took into Consideration the Report of the Com- 
 mittee to whom the Petition of Thomas Lamar was read 
 
 And the said Report was agreed to by the House
 
 153 
 
 Ordered That (as there may be some matters which the President 
 ought to be acquainted with and which may have been omitted to 
 be communicated to him) the Clerk of this House do attend His 
 Excellency with the Journals thereof whenever the same may be 
 required 
 
 Ordered That the Clerk of this House do supply Brigadier-Gen- 
 eral Howe with copies of such Orders and Resolutions of this 
 House as respect the Military Department and as he shall require 
 
 And then the House adjourned till To-morrow Evening six of 
 the Clock 
 
 Sunday Evening Six o'Clock 
 
 October 2oth 1776 
 M r . Speaker adjourned the meeting of the House till To-morrow 1 
 
 journal ends here. Although it calls for a session of the House Mon- 
 day, October 21, 1776, it is hardly likely that the House did anything more 
 than meet and adjourn sine die, as the Constitution adopted by the Provincial 
 Congress March 26, 1776, provided "That this Congress, being a full and free 
 representation of the People of this colony, shall henceforth be deemed and 
 called the General Assembly of South Carolina, and as such shall continue 
 until the twenty first day of October next, and no longer."
 
 154 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 [This list of members of the General Assembly during the ses- 
 sion covered by this journal does not form a part of the manuscript 
 journal, but has been compiled by the Editor from the list of mem- 
 bers which he compiled and published in the journal of the session 
 held March 26, 1776- April u, 1776; the changes that occurred 
 during that session, during the recess following and during this 
 session being noted.] 
 
 St. Philip's and St. Michael's Parishes (Charles Town). 
 
 Cato Ash, 1 Peter Leger, 
 
 Peter Bacot, Arthur Midclleton, 
 
 John Berwick, Alexander Moultrie, 3 
 
 Peter Bocquet, John Netifville, 
 
 James Brown, Robert William Powell, 
 
 Daniel Cannon, John Ernest Poyas, 2 
 
 Thomas Corbett, Edward Rutledge, 
 
 John Edwards, Thomas Savage, 
 
 Nicholas Eveleigh, 2 Josiah Smith, Jr., 2 
 
 Christopher Gadsden, Roger Smith, 
 
 Alexander Gillon, Peter Timothy, 2 
 
 George Abbott Hall, Anthony Toomer, 
 
 Thomas Heyward, Jr., Paul Townsend, 
 
 William Johnson Joseph Verree, 
 
 Thomas Jones, 2 Joshua Ward, 2 
 
 Michael Kalteisen, Edward Weyman, 
 John Webb. 2 
 
 ^Died September 18, 1776. 
 
 2 The Constitution provided that if a member of the General Assembly "shall 
 accept any place of emolument, or any Commission (except in the militia) 
 he shall vacate his seat, and there shall thereupon be a new election, but he 
 shall not be disqualified from serving upon being re-elected." Henry Laurens 
 having been elected Vice-President, Charles Pinckney and Henry Middleton 
 members of the Legislative Council, Alexander Moullrie Attorney 
 General, Peter Timothy Clerk of the House, George Abbott Hall 
 and having been appointed Collector of the Port and 
 
 respectively by the Provincial Congress, Michael Kalteisen having been 
 elected Commissary of Military Stores for the regular forces of South .Caro- 
 lina by the Provincial Congress, February 18, 1776, and Thomas Heyward, 
 Jr., Arthur Middleton and Edward Rutledge being then delegates to the
 
 155 
 Girist Church Parish. 
 
 Gabriel Capers, Arnoldus Vander Horst, 
 
 John Bbone, Joshua Toomer, 
 
 Isaac Legare Levi Durand, 4 
 
 William Scott, Jr. 
 
 St. John's Parish, Berkeley. 
 
 Job Marion, Maurice Simons, 
 
 Elias Ball, Jr., James Cordes, Jr., 
 
 John Cordes, Daniel Ravenel. 8 
 
 St. Thomas and St. Denis's Parish. 
 
 James Akin, Isaac Harleston, 
 
 Thomas Screven, 6 Joseph Fogartie, 
 
 Hopson Pinckney, 6 Rev. Robert Smith. 
 
 Continental Congress, writs to fill their seats were issued b> the Speaker 
 August ist under the instructions given him April loth. The election was 
 held Monday and Tuesday, September gth and loth. Edward Rutledge, 
 Arthur Middletpn, Alexander Moultrie, Peter Timothy and George Abbott 
 Hall were reflected and Nicholas Eveleigh, Josiah Smith, Jr., John Ernest 
 Poyas, John Webb, Thomas Jones and Joshua Ward were elected to the 
 
 seats of Laurens, Pinckney, Middleton, Heyward, Kalteisen and . On 
 
 the 3Oth of September it was decided that members of the Provincial Con- 
 gress who had been appointed to places of emolument before the adoption of 
 the Constitution had not been made ineligible to hold their seats thereby, 
 and on the 2nd of October it was decided that the members of the Continen- 
 tal Congress had not vacated their seats and that "Charles-Town, having 
 chosen too great a number of Members on the Qth and loth Days of September 
 last founded upon a mistake the said Election should be declared void." 
 Moultrie. Timothy. Eveleigh, Smith, Poyas, Webb, Jones and Ward vacated 
 their seats accordingly. 
 
 'Moultrie having been unseated October 2nd was elected at the election held 
 October 7th and 8th to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Cato Ash. 
 
 *Toomer and Durand were declared elected at the election held September 
 9th and loth to fill the seats of John Rutledge elected President March 26, 
 1776, and Clement Lempriere elected commander of the ship Prosper, April 
 10, 1776. Durand's seat was contested by William Scott, Jr., who, on Sep- 
 tember 20th, was declared elected, and Durand vacated accordingly.
 
 156 
 
 St. Stephen's Parish. 
 
 John Gaillard, Charles Cantey, 
 
 Philip Porcher, Hezekiah Maham, 
 
 Peter Sinkler, Joseph Palmer. 
 
 St. James's Parish, Santee. 
 
 Daniel Horry, 7 Capers Boone, 
 
 Thomas Horry, Jacob Motte, 
 
 Paul Douxsaint, Thomas Lynch, Jr. 
 
 St. James's Parish, Goose Creek. 
 
 John Parker, 8 Thomas Middleton (1753-1797), 
 
 William Parker, 9 John Izard, 
 
 Benjamin Smith, Keating Simons, 10 
 
 John Wright. 
 
 St. George's Parish, Dorchester. 
 
 John Waring, 11 Richard Waring, 
 
 Benjamin Waring, John Mathewes, 12 
 
 Thomas Waring, Richard W'alter. 
 
 "Elected September gth and loth to fill a vacancy that existed at the time of 
 the adoption of the Constitution. 
 
 "Elected September gth and roth to supply the places of John Huger, elected 
 Secretary of State March 27, 1776, William Parker, elected a Commissioner 
 of the Treasury, April 9, 1776, and Thomas Shubrick, elected a member of 
 the Legislative Council, March 26, 1776. 
 
 'Elected a member of the Legislative Council September 19, 1776, to succeed 
 David Oliphant appointed Director-General of the Hospital. 
 
 'Elected a member of the Legislative Council September 19, 1776, to succeed 
 Rawlins Lowndes, who had declined the election. 
 
 "Elected October 8th and 9th to succeed John Parker elected to the Legis- 
 lative Council September 19, 1776. 
 
 "Elected September 9th and loth to succeed Benjamin Singellton, deceased.
 
 157 
 St. Andrew's Parish. 
 
 Thomas Fuller, 13 , Benjamin Stone, 
 
 William Scott, Isaac Rivers, 
 
 William Cattell, Richard Park Stobo, 14 
 
 Thomas Bee. 1B 
 
 St. John's Parish, Colleton. 
 
 Chas. Cotesworth Pinckney,Ralph Izard, 
 William Gibbes, Thomas Tucker, 
 
 Thomas Evance, Benjamin Jenkins. 
 
 St. Paul's Parish. 
 
 Benjamin Elliott, Robert Ladson, 
 
 Charles Elliott, John McQueen, 
 
 George Haig, George Livingston. 19 
 
 St. Bartholomew's Parish. 
 
 James Parsons (Speaker}, James Skirving, Jr., 
 Rawlins Lowndes, William Skirving, 
 
 Thomas Osborn, Philip Smith. 
 
 "Elected September 9th and loth to succeed David Oliphant elected to the 
 Legislative Council March 26, 1776. 
 
 "Reflected to fill the vacancy caused by his election to an associate judge- 
 ship March 27, 1776. 
 
 "Elected a member of the Legislative Council September 19, 1776, to suc- 
 ceed Thomas Bee elected associate judge March 27, 1776. 
 
 "Elected September 9th and roth to succeed Thomas Bee elected to the 
 Legislative Council March 26, 1776. 
 
 "Elected October 8th and 9th to succeed Thomas Fuller elected to the 
 Legislative Council September 19, 1776. 
 
 "Elected September 9th and loth to succeed Thomas Ferguson elected to 
 the Legislative Council March 26, 1776.
 
 158 
 
 Prince William's Parish. 
 
 John Bull, \Yilliam Harden, 
 
 \Yilliam Bull, Jr., Isaac McPherson, 
 
 Benjamin Garden, Isaac Motte. 
 
 St. Peter's Parish. 
 
 William Brisbane, Thomas Middleton (175. -1785), 
 Philotheos Chiffelle, William Williamson, 
 Gideon Dupont, . 1T 
 
 St. Helena's Parish. 
 
 John Barnwell, John Joyner, 
 
 Daniel deSaussure, William Moultrie, 18 
 
 Daniel Heyward, Jr., Thomas Rutledge. 
 
 Prince George's Parish, Winyah. 
 
 Joseph Allston, Thomas Lynch, 
 
 Elias Horry, Jr., Paul Trapier, Jr., 
 
 Benjamin Huger, Benjamin Young, 
 
 John Withers. 19 
 
 Prince Frederick's Parish. 
 
 Theodore Gaillard, Jr., Thomas Port, 
 John James, Sr., Benjamin Screven, 
 
 Archibald McDonald, Anthony White. 
 
 "Vacancy caused by the election of Stephen Bull to the Legislative Council 
 March 26, 1776. 
 
 "Moultrie was elected to the Legislative Council March 27, 1776, to succeed 
 Henry Laurens elected Vice-President, but did not qualify at once. A writ 
 was issued August ist to fill the vacancy and at the election held September 
 gth and roth he was reflected, but instead of taking his seat he qualified as a 
 member of the Legislative Council. 
 
 tt A writ having been issued August ist for the election of a successor to 
 Thomas Lynch, a member of the Continental Congress, John Withers was 
 elected to the seat at the election held September Qth and loth, but the General 
 Assembly decided on the 2nd of October that the members of the Continental 
 Congress (Arthur Middleton, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., 
 Thomas Lynch and Thomas Lynch, Jr.) had not vacated their seats and 
 Withers's election was declared null and void.
 
 159 
 St. David's Parish. 
 
 H. W. Harrington, 2( 
 George Hicks, 21 
 Alexander Mclntosh, 
 
 George Pawley, 
 Claudius Pegues, 
 Samuel Wise. 
 
 St. Matthew's Parish. 
 
 Simon Berwick, 
 John Caldwell, 
 Henry Felder, 
 
 William Fludd, 
 
 George King, 
 
 Rev. Paul Turquand. 
 
 Saxe-Gotha District. 
 
 William Arthur, 
 Benjamin Farar, 
 Ralph Humphries, 
 
 Henry Patrick, 
 Jacob Richman, 
 William Tucker. 22 
 
 Ninety Six District. 
 
 Patrick Calhoun, Lachlan Mclntosh, 23 
 
 John Lewis Gervais, Richard A. Rapley, 
 
 Rev. John Harris, Andrew Williamson, 
 
 James Mayson, 
 William Moore, 
 
 "Harrington having been elected Sheriff of Cheraws District March 29, 
 1776, vacated his seat, but was returned at the election held September gth 
 and loth. 
 
 "Elected September gth and roth to take the place of George Gabriel Powell 
 elected to the Legislative Council March 26, 1776. 
 
 "William Henry Drayton having been elected Chief-Justice March 27, 1776, 
 a writ was issued to fill his seat from Saxe-Gotha, but the writ arriving after 
 the days set for the election a special election was held September i3th and 
 he was returned, but the General Assembly on the 25th of September declared 
 him not entitled to the seat. A new writ was issued and at the election held 
 October 7th and 8th William Tucker was elected. 
 
 "Elected to fill a vacancy existing at the adoption of the Constitution. 
 
 "Vacancies caused by the election of LeRoy Hammond to the Legislative 
 Council March 26, 1776, and the death of Francis Salvador, killed in action 
 August i, 1776.
 
 i6o 
 District between the North Fork of Edisto and Savannah Rivers. 
 
 Andrew Gumming, George Robison, 
 
 John Collins, John Salley, 
 
 James Jones, James Wilson. 
 
 Lower District between Saluda and Broad Rivers. 
 
 Jonas Beard, John Prince, 
 
 William Henderson, John Thomas, 
 
 Michael Leitner, William Wofford. 
 
 Upper District between Saluda and Broad Rivers. 
 
 Capt. John Caldwell, John Lindsey, 
 
 John Caldwell, of Enoree, John Rogers, 
 Jonathan Downs, James Williams, 
 
 John Williams. 
 
 District between Broad and Catawba Rivers. 
 
 William Barrow, John Nixon, 
 
 William Howell, William Strother, 
 
 Henry Hunter, Thomas Taylor, 
 
 William Lang, John Turner, 
 
 William Lee, John Winn. 
 
 District Eastward of Wateree River. 
 
 James Bradley, Richard Richardson, 
 
 Joseph Kershaw, William Richardson, 25 
 
 Aaron Loocock, Matthew Singleton, 
 
 William Massey, Thomas Sumter, 25 
 
 Robert Patton, Rev. William Tennent. 
 
 "Lt. Col. Sumter and Capt. Richardson, having been elected to offices in the 
 6th and 5th Regiments (regulars) by the Provincial Congress, writs were 
 issued for filling their seats and they were returned at the election held Sep- 
 tember Qth and loth, but the General Assembly on the 3Oth declared that no 
 vacancies had been created in such cases.
 
 Thomas Neel, 
 Ezekiel Polk, 
 Samuel Watson, 
 Alexander Love, 
 William Byers, 
 John Howe, 
 Robert McAfee, 
 
 161 
 
 The New Acquisition. 
 
 Joseph Howe, 
 James Carson, 
 Robert Dickey, 
 Francis Adams, 
 William McColloch, 
 Francis Ross, 
 Thomas Janes, 
 John Janes. 26 
 
 'Elected in the place of Joseph Woods, who died February 14, 1776. 
 
 11 H. C.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abercorn, Ga., 59(2), 70(2), 
 
 Absentees, 70, 107. 
 
 Act for establishing an oath of quali- 
 fication, 109, 112. 
 
 Act for establishing a board of com- 
 missioners to superintend the naval 
 affairs of South Carolina, 89. 
 
 Act for appointing a Public Treas- 
 urer, 119. 
 
 Act for establishing three watch com- 
 panies in Charles Town, 133, 135, 
 138. 
 
 Adams, Francis, 53, 68, 72, 112, 161. 
 
 Admiralty, Court of, 86, 87, 88, 101- 
 102, 109, 138. 
 
 Akin, James, 155. 
 
 Allen, Edward, 99, 104(2), 107. 
 
 Allston, Joseph, 158. 
 
 America, 4, 13, 15, 16, 17(2), 18, 30, 
 33, 35, 46, 48, 52, 76, 88, 118, 121, 
 137- 
 
 Ammunition, 20, 147, 149. 
 
 Amnesty, 86, 88, 109, 121. 
 
 Ancrum, William, 58. 
 
 Arming troops, 18, 19, 98. 
 
 Arms, 20, 114, 121. 
 
 Arsenal (in Charles Town), 45. 
 
 Arthur, William, 50, 159. 
 
 Ash, Cato, 52, 99, 154, 155. 
 
 Ashepoo River, 34, 42, 55, 56. 
 
 Atkinson, Joseph, 58, 122. 
 
 Attorney General, 8, 127, 148, 149, 154. 
 (See Alexander Moultrie). 
 
 Augusta, 139. 
 
 Axes, 66, 67, 68. 
 
 Bacot, Peter, 47, 154. 
 
 Bahama Islands, 32, 107. 
 
 Ball, Elias, Jr., 4, 155. 
 
 Ballingall, Robert, 34(4), 42(5), 
 55(5), 56. 
 
 Bank notes. 128. 
 
 Barnwell, John, 158. 
 
 Barracks, 65, 94. 
 
 Barracksmaster, 115, 142, 143. 
 
 Barrow, William, 160. 
 
 Barley, William, 44, 45, 114. 
 
 Bayonets, 147, 149. 
 
 Beard, Jonas, 160. 
 
 Beaufort, 87(2), 103, 105, 107, in, 
 112, 125, 135, 138, 152; artillery 
 company at, 124, 135, 139. 
 
 Beaufort District, 56(2), 57, 62, 69, 
 73, 74, 76, 89, 123. 
 
 Bee, Thomas, 7(2), 8, 99(3), 111(2), 
 116, 134, 157(3). 
 
 Bell, Benjamin, 123. 
 
 Bermuda, 32, 107, 114. 
 
 Berwick, John, 52, 54, 79(2), 151, 
 152; petition of, 48, 49, 53-54, 154- 
 
 Berwick, Simon, 86, 159. 
 
 Besnard, John, 115. 
 
 Bill authorizing the President to 
 draft slaves for the public works, 
 74- 
 
 Bill establishing an oath of qualifica- 
 tion, 81, 85, 101, 105-106, 109, iio- 
 iii. (See Acts.) 
 
 Bill for appointing commissioners to 
 superintend the naval affairs of 
 South Carolina, 39, 57, 63, 64, 72, 
 78, 79-80, 87. (See Acts.) 
 
 Bill for better regulation of the mili- 
 tia, 33, 104, 105, HO, 120. 
 
 Bill for disarming the disaffected, 33. 
 (See Ordinance on same subject.) 
 
 Bill establishing a reprisal fund, 87. 
 
 Bill of general amnesty, 86, 88, 121. 
 
 Bill to amend the Act as to the juris- 
 diction of the Court of Admiralty, 
 86, 87, 88, 101-102, 138. 
 
 Bill to compensate persons sustaining 
 losses from the British, 54. 
 
 Bill to secure the estates of persons 
 absent from the State who are 
 known to be inimical to the liber- 
 ties of America, 76.
 
 164 
 
 Bill to establish three watch com- 
 panies in Charles Town, 108, 109, 
 112, 119-120, 133, 135. 
 
 Bill to amend the constitution of 
 March 26, 1776, 137. 
 
 Black, Mrs. Elizabeth, 100, 108, 116- 
 117, 123(2). 
 
 Black, Robert, 100. 
 
 Blake, Edward, 72, 99(2), 113, 129. 
 
 Blake John, of Charles Town, 113. 
 
 Blake, John, captain in 2nd Regi- 
 ment, company of, 140. 
 
 Blankets, 94. 
 
 Blessingham, Capt., 135. 
 
 Bloody Point, 70, 80. 
 
 Board of Treasury (Continental), 
 10, 18. 
 
 Bocquet, Peter, 154. 
 
 Boone, Capers, 156. 
 
 Boone, John, 44, 155. 
 
 Boote. Benjamin Booth, 113. 
 
 Bounties. 25, 96, 97, 98(2), 115(3), 
 119. 121(2), 126(3), 131, 140, 144. 
 
 Bradley, James, 160. 
 
 Brewton, John, 141, 149. 
 
 Brimstone, 45. 
 
 Brisbane, James, 121, 
 
 Brisbane, William. 4, 59, 158. 
 
 British Armament, defeat of at Sulli- 
 van's Island, 9, 13, 14. 
 
 British West Indies, 86, 87. 
 
 Broad River, upper, or Spartan, elec- 
 tion district between Saluda River 
 and, 45-6, 160; lower election dis- 
 trict between Saluda River and, 
 160; election district between 
 Catawba River and, 160. 
 
 Brown. James, 52, 154. 
 
 Bull, John, 99, 158. 
 
 Bull, Stephen, 158; regiment of, 80. 
 
 Bull, William, Jr., 158. 
 
 Bull's Island, 147, 148. 
 
 Burnley, John, 114. 
 
 Bush, Isaac, 123. 
 
 Byers, William. 161. 
 
 Caldwell, John, of St. Matthew's 
 Parish, n, 39, 47, 63, 123, 159. 
 
 Caldwell, Capt. John, 160. 
 
 Caldwell, John, of Enoree, 160. 
 
 Calhoun, Patrick, 159. 
 
 Calvert, John, 45, 54. 
 
 Camden District, 123. 
 
 Cannon, Daniel, 88, 140, 154. 
 
 Cannons, 147, 149. 
 
 Cantey, Charles, 11, 33, 34, 39, 50, 75, 
 
 156- 
 
 Cape Fear River, 71. 
 Capers, Gabriel, 44, 88(2), 109, 155. 
 Capers's Island, 147, 148. 
 Carlton Island, 148. 
 Carnachan, John, 77. 
 Carsan, James, 121. 
 Carson, James, 161. 
 Cashier, 89. 
 Casks, 21. 
 Catawba River, election district 
 
 between Broad River and, 160. 
 Cattell, William. 59, 60, 70, 72, 79, 82, 
 
 108, 119, 142, 157. 
 Cencus, 17, 18. 
 Champneys, John, 121. 
 Chancellor, 118, 137. 
 Charles Town (Charleston after 
 
 1783), 3(3), 5, 7- 15. 38, 42, 44, 45. 
 
 47, 51(2), 52, 55, 60, 61, 62(3), 
 
 65(2), 69(2), 70, 75(2), 84(2), 85, 
 
 96, 99. 100, 102, 108(2), 113, 
 Il8(2), 119, 133. 135(2), 137(2), 
 138, 139(2), 140, 142(2), 143(2), 
 
 149(2), 154, 155; Clinton's arrival 
 
 off bar of, 17; harbor of, 91; 
 
 obstructions to bar of, 114. 
 Charles Town District, 34, 48, 122; 
 
 jail of, 102, 103, 104, 121, 150, 
 
 151(2), 
 
 Charles Town Neck, 143. 
 Cheraw Hill, 40, 57, 63, 64, 71, 75, 
 
 81(3), ioo. 
 
 Cheraws. 57, 04, 65, 81, 104, 114, 121. 
 Cheraws District, 159; jail of, 143, 
 
 150. 
 Cherokee Indians, 9, 13, 14, 50(2), 
 
 60(2), 115, 124. 138, 150; trade 
 
 with, 125. 
 
 Chief-Justice, 52, 159. 
 Chiffelle, Philotheos, 38, 40, 59, 108, 
 
 158. 
 Chisolm, Alexander, 58.
 
 Christ Church Parish, 4(2), 6, 15(2), 
 
 16, 41, 44, 52, 155. 
 Cinquefield, Francis, 123. 
 Clergy, 114, 119. 
 Clerk, 4, 5, 49, 103, 154. 
 Clinton, Sir Henry, 17. 
 Clothing for troops, 24-25, 32, 94, 98, 
 
 114, 119, 121, 140, 144. 
 Cochran, Robert, 114. 
 Colcock, John, 54, 122. 
 Cole's Island, 148. 
 
 Collector of Country Duties, 118, 137. 
 Collector of the Port (Charles 
 
 Town), 154. 
 
 Collins, John, 4, 7, 45, 160. 
 Comet (brigantine), 7, 37, 38, 40, 
 
 47(2), 5i(3), 75, 99(2), 104(3). 
 Commissary General, 114, 125. 
 Commissary of Military Stores for 
 
 the Regulars, 154. 
 Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 71, 
 
 139- 
 Commissioners of the Navy Board, 
 
 39, 57, 63, 64, 72, 78, 79-80, 87, 89, 
 
 99, 130. 
 
 Commissioners for laying obstruc- 
 tions on the bar of Charles Town 
 
 Harbor, 114. 
 
 Commissioners to purchase salt, 58. 
 
 66, 72-73. 73, ioo, 108, 114, 115. 
 Commissioners for importing clothes 
 
 for the troops, 114. 
 Commissioners to Superintend the 
 
 Pilotage at Beaufort, 103. 
 Commissioners of Fort Lyttelton, 
 
 114. 
 
 Commissioners of the Markets, 126. 
 Commissioners to sign paper money, 
 
 141, 142. 
 Commissioners for high-roads, 143, 
 
 148. 
 Committees of General Assembly, 7. 
 
 lo-ii, 11(2), 15. 44, 45, 48(2), 50. 
 
 52, 57(2), 58, 59, 76, 85. 87, 89, 99. 
 
 103, in, 119, 137, 139; of parishes 
 
 or districts, 11(2), 12, 56. 57, 73. 
 
 74. 81, 83-84. 87, loo. 101, 105, 108, 
 
 109, iio-iii, 112. 
 
 Commons House of Assembly, 49, 
 
 130, 131; Clerk of the, 103; cur- 
 rency issued by, 130, 131, 146(2). 
 
 Congarees, 49. 
 
 Connecticut. 97. 
 
 Constitution (vessel), 115. 
 
 Constitution of March 26, 1776, 105, 
 in, 153, 154, 155, 156, 159; revision 
 of the, 117-119. 120. 132, 133, 134, 
 136-137- 
 
 Continental Association, 83. 
 
 Continental Congress, 9, 10, 13, 14, 
 15, 18(2), 33, 41, 65, 69, 71, 83, 
 96(4), 97(2), 98(2), 114, 116, 117, 
 118, 119, I2i. 136, 137, 140(2), 144, 
 155(2). 158(2) ; letters from South 
 Carolina's delegates to the, 10(2), 
 16-17, 29-31, 96; letters from presi- 
 dent of the, 10, 31 ; resolutions of 
 the, 10, 17-18, 18, 18-19, 19-21, 21, 
 21-22, 23. 23-24, 31-32. 32. 97(2), 08; 
 debate in respecting East India tea, 
 29-31 ; currency of the, 128, 130, 
 
 131, 146(2), 
 
 Continental Establishment, troops of 
 South Carolina on the, 21, 23-24. 
 31-32. 71, 72. 74. 75, 78, 82(2), 88, 
 
 96, 98, 113, 114, 119, 121, 124. I4O, 
 
 144; surgeons of the South Caro- 
 lina regiments on the. 152; frig- 
 ates on the, 66. 67, 71. 
 
 Contingent fund for the President, 
 114. 
 
 Controller of Country Duties, 118. 
 H9, 137- 
 
 Comvay, Philip, 1 14. 
 
 Cook. John, 123. 
 
 Copithorn, John, 115. 
 
 Corbett, Thomas, 36. 39. 40, 44, 45, 
 65, 72, 86, 154. 
 
 Cordes, James. Jr., 155. 
 
 Cordes, John, 83, 89, 155. 
 
 Corporations, 131. 
 
 Cotton cards, 67, 68. 
 
 Council Chamber, 8, 9, 35, 62, 88(2), 
 89(2), ico, 101(2), 111(2), 112(2), 
 138(3). 146(2). 
 
 Council of Safety, 21, 23(2), 45, 49.
 
 i66 
 
 Counterfeiting, 25, 116, 130(2), 131, 
 
 145-146, 146. 
 
 Country duties, 118, 125. 
 Court of Appeals, 118, 137. 
 Court of Chancery, 118, 137. 
 Court of Ordinary, 118, 137. 
 Court Houses, 125, 126, 128. 
 Courts, 46, 56, 57, 62, 69, 73, 74, 76, 
 
 77, 82, 86, 87, 89, 101-102, 109, 
 
 118(3). 
 Courts-martial, 33, 72, 75, 78, 79, 81, 
 
 82, 82-83, 137- 
 Creek Indians, 142. 
 Crosby, Timothy, 130. 
 Cross Creek, N. C, 71. 
 Crown officers, 121, 143(2), 150, 151. 
 Gumming, Andrew, 160. 
 Custom House, 116. 
 Darrell, Edward, 115. 
 Darrell, Joseph, 113; company of, 114. 
 Dart, Benjamin, 115, 116, 129. 
 Dawfuskee Island, 147, 148. 
 Dawson, John, 58. 
 deSaussure, Daniel, 7, 33, 44, 45, 48, 
 
 64, 70, 75, 80, 87, 103, 107, 122, 
 
 131, 158. 
 Declaration of Independence, 9, 13, 
 
 14, 15, 16-17, 26-29, 35, 88, 102. 
 Defence, Gen. Howe's letter in regard 
 
 to, 90-96, 146-149; back country's, 
 
 149. 
 
 Delaware, 97. 
 Dickert, Michael, 123. 
 Dickey, Robert, 161. 
 Director-General, of the Hospital, 8. 
 
 156. 
 Disarming the disaffected, 18-19, 33, 
 
 46, 52-53- 
 
 Dogharty, James, 51(2), 75. 
 Dorchester, 49, 115. 
 Douxsaint, Paul, 156. 
 Downs, Jonathan, 160. 
 Drayton, William Henry, 49(2), 50, 
 
 52, 159- 
 
 Drew, Henry, 89, 102. 
 DuBose, Daniel, 122. 
 Duane, James, 18. 
 Dunn, John, 113. 
 Dupont, Gideon, 38, 158. 
 
 Durand, Levi, 4(3), 6(4), 15(2), 
 16(4), 41, 52, 155(4). 
 
 Duties, 22, 124, 137. 
 
 East Florida, 48(2), 86, 87. 
 
 East India Company, 30. 
 
 East India Tea, 10, 21, 29-31, 33, 37, 
 40, 46, 56-57, 57, 58, 62. 
 
 Edisto River, 47 ; south fork of the, 
 47 ; election district between the 
 Savannah River and the north fork 
 of the, 45, 160. 
 
 Education, 46, 107. 
 
 Edwards, John, 7, 11, 36, 38, 39(2), 
 40. 50, 51, 53, 57, 58, 63, 74, 88(3), 
 99, in, 122, 131, 139, 142, 154. 
 
 Elections, 3, 8(2), 47, 49, 52, 69, 72, 
 75. 79- 79-8o, 83-84, 99, 104, 112, 
 117, 118(3), U2, 137, Mi, 149, 155; 
 contested, 6-7, 15-16, 41 ; places of, 
 45, 46, 77, 105, 109, in, 112; manag- 
 ers of, 45, 46, 78, 84. 
 
 Elliott, Benjamin, 44, 48, 157. 
 
 Elliott, Charles, 79, 157. 
 
 England, 17, 30(2), 37. 
 
 Europe, 107, 143. 
 
 Evance, Thomas, 157. 
 
 Eveleigh, Nicholas, 3, 4, 33, 52, 123, 
 154, 155(2). 
 
 Exchange (Charles Town), the, 33, 
 124, 125(2), 128. 
 
 Export restrictions, 21. 
 
 Farar, Benjamin, 159. 
 
 Farr, Thomas, 122. 
 
 Farr, Thomas, Jr., 49(2), 54, 152. 
 
 Felder, Henry, 159. 
 
 Fenwick, Edward, petition of, 33-34, 
 41-44, 48, 49, 54-56. 
 
 Ferguson, Thomas, 157. 
 
 Ferries, 58, 59, 70, 93, 148, 149. 
 
 Ficklin, Samuel, 123. 
 
 Field pieces, 147, 149. 
 
 Fifth Regiment, 121, 160. 
 
 Files, 67, 68. 
 
 Fines and forfeitures, 116, 125. 
 
 Firemasters, 113. 
 
 Fisher, James, 58. 
 
 Flax, 126. 
 
 Florida (See East Florida and West 
 Florida). 

 
 i6 7 
 
 Flour, 65(2), 113, 115, 124. 
 
 Fludd, William, 159. 
 
 Fogartie, Joseph, 33, 155. 
 
 Folly Island, 148. 
 
 Fort Johnson, go, 124, 145(2), 147, 
 
 148. 
 
 Fort Lyttelton, 114, 152. 
 Fort Moultrie, 9, 13, 14, 90, 91, 100, 
 
 145(2). 
 Fortifications, 74, 113, 114, 124, 125, 
 
 147, 148. 
 
 Fourth Regiment, 135, 139(2). 
 Free Schools, 46. 
 Friday, Jacob, 50. 
 Fuller, Thomas, 8, 52, 99, 157(2). 
 Gaborial, John, 130. 
 Gadsden, Christopher, 24, 65, 79, 
 
 111(3), 130, 134, 154- 
 Gaillard, Charles, 122. 
 Gaillard, John, 156. 
 Gaillard, Tacitus, 115. 
 Gaillard, Theodore, Jr., 47, 158. 
 Gallies, 147, 148. 
 Gambell, Archibald, 68. 
 Garden, Benjamin, 33, 40, 54, 57, 59, 
 
 62, 69, 70, 87, 151, 152, 158. 
 Gazette (in Charles Town), no. 
 George II., 37. 
 George Town, 113, 114, 115, 121; 
 
 artillery company at, 114, 124, 135, 
 
 139- 
 George Town District, 122; jail of, 
 
 143, ISO. 
 Georgia, 32, 34, 37, 42, 55, 59(4), 
 
 70(3),- 93(2), 97, ri4, 127. 
 Gerry. Elbridge, 18. 
 Gervais, John Lewis, 7, 15, 33(2), 39, 
 
 47, 50, 61, 64, 65, 66, 76, 79, 89, 
 
 102, 103, 119, 139, 159. 
 Gibbes, William, 139, 157. 
 Gibbes's Wharf, William, 122. 
 Gibson, John, 18(2). 
 Gillon, Alexander/ 154. 
 Glasgozv Packet (transport brigan- 
 
 tine), 108, 122, 131, 152(2). 
 Gold, 125. 
 
 Goodwyn, Robert, 123. 
 Gray, John, 104. 
 Great Britain, 9, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20(3), 
 
 21(3), 22, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 37, 40, 
 
 46, 56, 62, 86, 87, 88, 102, 107(3), 
 
 109, 117(2), 118, 136(2), 137, 138. 
 Green, Thomas, 123. 
 Guignard, John Gabriel, 123. 
 Haddrell's Point, 44, 90, 94, 147, 148. 
 Haig, George, 71, 72, 73(2}, 74(3), 
 
 157- 
 
 Halifax, N. S., 17. 
 Hall, George Abbott, 3, 4, 40, 52, 62, 
 
 65, 72, 116, 154(2), 155- 
 Hammond, LeRoy, 142, 159. 
 Hancock, John, 10, 23, 29, 31, 32(2), 
 
 98. 
 
 Harden, William, 158; artillery com- 
 pany of, 124 (See also Beaufort). 
 Harleston, Isaac, 75, 81, 101, 102, 
 
 155 ; company of, 140. 
 Harrington, Henry William, 8, 39, 
 
 40, 41, 47, 57, 78, 81, 119, 122, 
 
 159(2). 
 
 Harris, Rev. John, 159. 
 Harvey, William, 125. 
 Heatly, Charles, 123. 
 Hemp, 115, 126. 
 Henderson, William, 160. 
 Hey ward, Daniel, Jr., no, 111(2), 
 
 158. 
 Hey ward, Thomas, Jr., 17, 31, 69(3), 
 
 75, 76, 85, 86, 87(3), 108(2), 109, 
 
 in, 116, 133, 137, 139, 145(2), 
 
 154(2), 155, 158. 
 Hicks, George, 8(2), n, 33, 36, 38, 
 
 39, 41, 159. 
 
 Highways, 143, 148, 149. 
 Hobcaw, 129. 
 Hoes, 67. 
 
 Holmes, William, 122. 
 Horry, Daniel, 6(2), 7, 8, 52, 156.- 
 Horry, Elias, Jr., 79(2), 106(2), 158. 
 Horry, Thomas, 156. 
 Hort, William, 44, 109, 109-110. 
 Hort's Ferry, 47. 
 Hospital, 115; Director General of 
 
 the, 156. 
 
 Houseal, William, 123. 
 Howarth, Probart, regiment of, 125, 
 
 128. 
 Howe, Lord, 17.
 
 i68 
 
 Howe, John, 123, 161. 
 
 Howe, Joseph, 53, 58, 63, 68, 73, 74, 
 
 76, 87(3), 161. 
 Howe, Gen. Robert, 102, 124, 133; 
 
 letter of to President Rutledge, 
 
 89, 90-96, 119, 146-149, 149. 
 Howe, Sir William, 17. 
 Howell, William, 160. 
 Howitzers, 147, 149. 
 Huger, Benjamin, 70, 72, 75, 137, 158. 
 Huger, Francis, company of, 140. 
 Huger, John, 3, 156. 
 Humphries, Ralph, 50, 64, 159. 
 Hunter, Henry, 160. 
 Hunting Islands, 147, 148. 
 Independence, Continental Congress 
 
 declares, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16-17, 117, 
 
 136- 
 
 Independent companies, 135, 139. 
 Indian Affairs, Superintendent of, 
 
 48; Commissioners of, 71, 139. 
 Indian trade, 128. 
 Indians, 9, 13, 14, 50, 59, 60, 61, 91, 
 
 H3, US, 138, 149- 
 Indigo, 42, 43, 55, 56, 115. 
 Internal improvements, in. 
 Ireland, 22, 86, 87. 
 Iron, 65, 66, 67(2), 68. 
 Islington (schooner), 113. 
 Izard, John, 156. 
 Izard, Ralph, 4, 15, 33(2), 54, 56, 
 
 57(2), 58, 99(2), 100(2), 108, 143, 
 
 157- 
 
 Jackson, Benjamin, 122. 
 Jail, Charles Town, 102, 103, 104; 
 
 Cheraws, 121. 
 Jails, 125, 126. 
 James, John, Sr., 73, 158. 
 James Island, 114. 
 Janes, John, 53, 161. 
 Janes, Thomas, 161. 
 Jenkins, Benjamin, 157. 
 Johnson, William, 154. 
 Jones, James, 160. 
 Jones, Thomas, 3, 4, 36, 53, 68, 72. 
 
 75, 154. 155(2). 
 Joyner, John, 48, 51, 53, 74, 76, 79, 
 
 81, 87, 158. 
 Judges, 118, 127, 137, 157. 
 
 Juries, 46, 56, 57, 62, 69, 73, 74, 76, 
 86, 87, 88, 89. 
 
 Kalteisen, Michael, 154(2), 155. 
 
 Kelly's Old Cowpen, 45. 
 
 Kershaw, Ely, 122. 
 
 Kershaw, Joseph, 160. 
 
 Kiawah Island, 147, 148. 
 
 King, George, 4, 123, 159. 
 
 King, Richard, 123. 
 
 Kirkland, Joseph, 123. 
 
 Kolb, Abel, 122. 
 
 Ladson, Robert, 78, 81, 84, 87, 104, 
 105, 106, 145(4), 157- 
 
 Lady's Island, 34, 42(2), 55. 
 
 Lamar, Thomas, 139, 142, 152. 
 
 Lang, William, 160. 
 
 Laurens, Henry, 154, 155, 158. 
 
 Leach, Thomas, 123. 
 
 Lead, 57, 81, 104. 
 
 Leckie, James, 116. 
 
 Lee, Gen. Charles, 115. 
 
 Lee, William, 160. 
 
 Legare, Isaac, 133(2), 155. 
 
 Leger, Peter, 33, 58, 85, 154. 
 
 Legislative Council, 3, 7, 8(3), 37, 
 38(2), 40(5), 46(2). 47, 49, 50, 
 51(2), 52(4), 54, 57(2), 62(2), 68, 
 69, 7i, 72, 73- 74(4), 75(2), 78(3), 
 79, 80, 81(2), 82(2), 82-83, 83(2), 
 84(3). 86(2), 88(3), 89(2), 96, 
 99(2), 101(4), 102(2), 104, 105, 
 106(4), 107(5), 108(2), 109, 
 110(2), 111(4), 112(3), 117(2), 
 120(3), 121(2), 122(2). 124, 
 131(2), 132, 133(4), U5(2), 136, 
 138(3). 141, 142(2), 143(2), 
 145(3). 149, 154, 156(4), 157(5), 
 158(3). 159(2) ; messages from, 
 105-106, 110, 131-132. 
 
 Leitner, Michael, 66, 160. 
 
 Lempriere, Clement, 6(2), 36(2), 155. 
 
 Lepoole, Peter, n4 
 
 Liberty (brigantine), 114. 
 
 Lide, Robert, 122. 
 
 Lightwood, Edward, 58. 
 
 Lindsey, John, 160. 
 
 Linen, 115, 126. 
 
 Lining, John, 141. 149.
 
 169 
 
 Little River (George Town District), 
 
 7i. 
 Little River (Ninety Six District), 
 
 47- 
 
 Little Thomas (schooner), 114. 
 
 Livingston, George, 4(2), 157. 
 
 Loans, 130, 131, 141, 142, 143, 145, 
 146. 
 
 Long Bluff, 40. 
 
 Long Island (Isle of Palms), 90. 
 
 Loocock, Aaron, 11, 39, 45, 54, 65, 66, 
 160. 
 
 Lord, Benjamin, 54. 
 
 Love, Alexander, 123, 161. 
 
 Lowndes, Rawlins, 8(2), II, 12, 34, 
 41, 48. 50(2), 53, 59, 74, 78, 99, 
 no, in, 117, 156, 157. 
 
 Lynch, Thomas, 17, 31, 158(3). 
 
 Lynch, Thomas, Jr., 17, 31, 156, 158. 
 
 Lyttelton, Governor W. H., expedi- 
 tion of, 125, 128. 
 
 Lyttelton's Bastion, 114. 
 
 Magazines (powder), 129. 
 
 Magistrates, 47. 122-123, 131, 146. 
 
 Maham, Hezekiah, 40, 156. 
 
 Manigault, Gabriel, 116. 
 
 Manufactures, 126. 
 
 Maple Cane, 34(2), 42, 55(2). 
 
 Margaret (sloop), 58, 66, 72, 100. 
 
 Marion, Job, 155. 
 
 Maryland, 97. 
 
 Mason, George, 140. 
 
 Massachusetts, 97. 
 
 Massey, William, 160. 
 
 Master in Chancery, 8, 9. 
 
 Mathewes, John, 4(2), 7, 33, 37, 38, 
 40, 47, 51, 57, 62, 69, no, 111(4), 
 119. 156. 
 
 Matzenback, Baron, 115. 
 
 Mayson, James, 159. 
 
 McAfee, Robert, 161. 
 
 McCall, John, Jr., 141, 149. 
 
 McColloch, William. 161. 
 
 McDonald, Adam, 140, 144(2) ; com- 
 pany of, 139. 
 
 McDonald, Archibald, 158. 
 
 Mclntosh, Alexander, 58, 59, 72, 99. 
 122, 159. 
 
 Mclntosh, Lachlan, 53. 159. 
 
 McPherson, Isaac, 59, 78, 81, 138, 158. 
 McQueen, John, 40, 46, 54, 84, 87, 
 
 107, 157- 
 
 Meldrum, 11, 35. 
 
 Mercer, Richard, 122. 
 
 Messages from the President, 8, 
 10(2), 16, 35(2), 36, 40-41, 49, 50, 
 54, 57, 59, 62, 65, 66, 68, 71, 72, 
 75, 76, 88, 89, 96, 98, 101, in, 
 119(2), 120, 121, 124, 134, I34-U5, 
 138(2), 139, 143, 146, 146-147, 149- 
 
 Michie, Henry, 121. 
 
 Middleton, Arthur, 3, 17. 31, 32, 
 154(2), 155, 158. 
 
 Middleton, Henry, 154, 155. 
 
 Middleton, Thomas (1719-1766), reg- 
 iment of, 125, 128. 
 
 Middleton, Thomas (i75.-i78s), 37, 
 38, 39, 40, 107, 158. 
 
 Middleton, Thomas (1753-1797), 120, 
 156. 
 
 Militia, 9, 13. 15, 33, 4<>, 57, 63, 77, 
 80, 86, 95, 104, 105, 1 10, 114, 120(2), 
 150, 151. 154; paymaster of the, 54, 
 63, 72, 76, 77, 152; paymaster-gen- 
 eral of the, 77; commissary of the, 
 152. 
 
 Mill materials, 67, 68. 
 
 Ministers, 114, 119. 
 
 Minute men, 95, 147, 149. 
 
 Mitchell, John, 11(2), 12(2), 35, 100. 
 
 Money issues, 126, 127, 128, 130, 141, 
 142, 145, 146(2). 
 
 Moore, Isham, 123. 
 
 Moore, James, 123. 
 
 Moore, William, 33, 39. 47, 58, 73, 
 123, 159- 
 
 Morgan, Capt., 115. 
 
 Morgridge, John, 104. 
 
 Mortars, 147, '149. 
 
 Motte, Charles, company of, 140. 
 
 Motte, Isaac, n, 33, 158. 
 
 Motte, Jacob (1700-1770), 126. 
 
 Motte, Jacob (1729-1780), 156. 
 
 Moultrie, Alexander, 3, 8 (Attorney 
 General), n, 33(2), 50, 54(2), 57, 
 63. 76, 99(3), i". "9- 154(2), 
 155(3). 
 
 Moultrie, John. 48(3).
 
 Moultrie, William, 4, 24, 52, 90, 134, 
 158(2). 
 
 Murphy's Island, 148. 
 
 Muskets, 147, 149. 
 
 Naval Affairs of South Carolina, 36. 
 37, 39, H3, US, 130; Bill for 
 appointing commissioners to super- 
 intend and direct, 39, 57, 63, 64, 
 72, 78, 79-80, 87, 89, 99; commis- 
 sary of, 115. 
 
 Neel, Thomas, 68(2), 77, 161. 
 
 Negroes, 19, 34, 42(2), 43, 48, 55(2), 
 56(2;, 78, 81, 82, 83, 84, 99, 101, 124. 
 
 Nelmes. Capt., 114. 
 
 Neufville, John, u, 36, 39, 44, 45, 
 50, 85(2), 113, 130, 154. 
 
 Neutrality, 102. 
 
 New Acquisition, 72, 77(2), 161. 
 
 New Hampshire, 97. 
 
 New Jersey, 97. 
 
 New Providence, 32. 
 
 New York, 17(2), 97. 
 
 Nielson, Jarad, 123. 
 
 Ninety Six, 46, 142. 
 
 Ninety Six, election district of, 159 
 
 Ninety Six District, 46, 123. 
 
 Nisbett, William, 122. 
 
 Nitre works, 114. 
 
 Nixon, John, 160. 
 
 Norris, William, 123. 
 
 North Carolina, 9, 13, 14, 71(2), 78, 
 93, 97, H3, 138, 140, 144(2). 
 
 Notre Dame (brigantine), 113. 
 
 Nova Scotia, 86, 87. 
 
 Nuckols, John, 46. 
 
 Oath of fidelity, 106, 150. 
 
 Oath of qualification, 81, 85, 101, 
 105-106, 109, iio-iii, 112, 137. 
 
 Oats, Edward, 115. 
 
 Oliphant, David, 7(2), 8, 156, 157. 
 
 Orangeburgh District. 123. 
 
 Ordinance for appointing commis- 
 soners to sell East India tea, 33, 
 40(2), 46, 56-57, 57, 58, 62. 
 
 Ordinance for disarming disaffected 
 persons, 46, 52-53- 
 
 Ordinance for providing juries for 
 Beaufort District, 56, 57, 62, 69, 73, 
 74, 76, 89. 
 
 Ordinance providing for courts-mar- 
 tial, 33. 72, 74, 75, 78, 79, 81, 82, 
 82-83. 89. 
 
 Ordinance to direct the manner of 
 procuring negroes for the public 
 service, 78, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 
 99, loo, 101. 
 
 Ordinance for allowing and keeping 
 in repair a pilot boat at Beaufort, 
 107, in, 112, 135, 138. 
 
 Ordinance for opening and improv- 
 ing inland navigation, in. 
 
 Ordinance for appointing Commis- 
 sioners to stamp money, 141, 142, 
 143, 145, 146. 
 
 Ordinance to establish a commission 
 to repair the Jail in Charles Town, 
 151- 
 
 Osborn, Capt., 48. 
 
 Osborn. Thomas, 111(2), 157. 
 
 Osnabrigs. 115. 
 
 Palmer, Joseph, 41, 156. 
 
 Paper, 68. 
 
 Parker, John. 8, 52. 99, 156(2). 
 
 Parker, William, 99, 156(2). 
 
 Parliament of Great Britain, 19, 30. 
 
 Parsons, James, 157. 
 
 Patrick, Henry, 47, 119, 159. 
 
 Patton, Robert, 160. 
 
 Pawley, George, 85, 112, 159. 
 
 Pearis, Richard, 7, 64(2), 68. 76-77, 
 84, 85. 
 
 Pearis, Mrs. Richard, 7. 
 
 Pearis, Robert, 89, 102(4), 103(2). 
 
 Peggy (schooner), 114. 
 
 Pegues. Claudius, 8, 11(3), 36, 38, 39, 
 4i. 159- 
 
 Pellis, George, 123. 
 
 Pennsylvania. 97. 101, 116, 117. 
 
 Pensions, 139, 140. 
 
 Peoples, Henry, 45. 
 
 Peronneau, Henry, 115, 116, 129. 
 
 Pest House, 124. 
 
 Petitions, 6-7. 48. 
 
 Philadelphia, 10(3), 11(2). 16, 18, 
 29, 3i, 35, 65(2), 66(2), 67(2), 68, 
 70. 96. 147. 
 
 Pickering, Capt.. 152.
 
 Pilots, pilotage, and pilot boats, 
 87(2), 103, 105, 107, in, 112, 135* 
 138. 
 
 Pinckney, Charles (1732-1782), 154, 
 
 155- 
 Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 7, n, 
 
 15, 32, 33(3), 37, 47, 50, 51- 54, 56, 
 57(2), 60, 61, 64(2), 65, 66, 72, 
 74(2), 78, 81, 87, 88(2), 99, 104, 
 no, in, 141, 142(2), 143, 146, 150, 
 
 151, 157- 
 Pinckney, Hopson, 4, 50, 72, 73, 
 
 74(3), 83, 89(2), 112, 120, 155. 
 Pinckney's Island, 148. 
 Pledger, Philip, 122. 
 Plows. 67, 68. 
 Poaug, John, 58. 
 Polk, Ezekiel, 161. 
 Polly (schooner), 115(2). 
 Pooler, Quintin, 139. 
 Poor-tax, 51-52, 62-63, 72- 
 Population, 17, 18. 
 Porcher. Philip, 156. 
 Port, Thomas, 158. 
 Port Henderson (ship), 116. 
 Port Royal, 114; artillery company 
 
 at, 113. 
 
 Post riders, 115, 139, 142. 
 Powder, 17, 44(2), 45, 57. 81, 104, 
 
 113, 129; commissioners for, 45(2). 
 Powder Receiver, 38, 39(2), 45. 119, 
 
 124(2), 125, 129(2) ; Deputy, 129. 
 Powe, Thomas, 122. 
 Powell, George Gabriel, 40, 69, 71, 
 
 75, 81(2). 159. 
 
 Powell, Robert William, 154. 
 Poyas, John Ernest, 3, 4, 125, 154, 
 
 155(2). 
 President of South Carolina, 24, 31, 
 
 33, 57, 58, 74, 82, 84, 88(2), 89(3), 
 
 100(3), 101(4), 104. 105, 106, 107, 
 
 IIl(2), 112(3), H8, 122, 128. 130, 
 
 131(2), 135, 136. 137(2), 138(5), 
 139(2), 141, 142, 143(2), 145(3), 
 146(2), 147, 148, 149(3), 150(5), 
 
 151, 152, 153, 155; addresses to, 
 12-15, 33, 35(2), 51, 53, 62; letters 
 of delegates to the Continental 
 Congress to, 16-17, 29-31 ; messages 
 
 of, 8, 10(2), 16, 35(2), 36, 40-41, 
 49- 50, 54, 57, 59. 62, 65, 66, 68, 71, 
 72, 75, 76, 88, 89, 96, 98, 101, in, 
 119(2), 120, 121, 124, 134, 134-135, 
 138(2), 139, 143, 146, 146-147, 149; 
 messages to, 12, 35-36, 38, 61, 62, 
 63-64. 64(2), 65, 70-71, 73, 79, 80, 
 81, 104, 104-5, 140, 144(2), 145, 
 146, 149-150, 150, 151 ; proclamations 
 of, 3, 131, 146; speeches of, 9-10, 
 10. 35- 
 
 Prince, John. 160. 
 
 Prince Frederick's Parish, 158. 
 
 Prince George's Parish, Winyah, 4, 
 75, 158. 
 
 Prince William's Parish, 99, 158. 
 
 Printing Acts, 109. 
 
 Prioleau, Samuel, 129(2). 
 
 Prioleau. Samuel, Jr., 129(2). 
 
 Prisoners of war, 59, 60, 61, 102, 
 103(2), 104, 151. 
 
 Pritchard. Paul, 114. 
 
 Privateering, 20. 
 
 Privileges and Elections, Committee 
 on, 7, 15- , 
 
 Privy Council, 40, 54, 65, 100, 117, 
 118, 121(2), 130, 131, 135, 136, 137, 
 141, 143(2), 145, 146, 149, 150; 
 secretary of the, 54, 63, 72, 76(2), 
 77; messengers of, 54, 63, 72, 76(2), 
 77- 
 
 Proclamations, 3, 131, 146. (See 
 President.) 
 
 Prosper (ship), 36, 38(3), 155- 
 
 Prosser, Stephen, 104. 
 
 Provincial Congress, 23, 42, 44, 55, 
 56- 57, 67, 81, 83, 104, 105(2), no, 
 120, 130, 131, 135, 153, 154(2), 155, 
 1 60; secretary of the, 4. 
 
 Public Buildings, 112, 144. 
 
 Public works, 74, 115, 130. 
 
 Purrysburgh, 58, 59(3), 70(2). 
 
 Quartermaster-general, 115. 
 
 Rambert, Abijah, 123. 
 
 Ramrods, 147, 149. 
 
 Rangers. 96, 97. 
 
 Rapley, Richard A., 159. 
 
 Rations, 120. 
 
 Ravenel, Daniel, 4, 41, 155.
 
 172 
 
 Rebecca (vessel), 113. 
 
 Records, 47, 49, 103. 
 
 Religion, 118-119. 
 
 Representation in the General 
 Assembly, 117. 
 
 Reprisal fund, 87, 131. 
 
 Resolutions, 122. 
 
 Revenge (vessel), 108, 122, 131, 152. 
 
 Reward, 145, 146. 
 
 Rhode Island, 97. 
 
 Rice, 43, 56, 113, 114. 
 
 Richardson, Richard, 160; expedition 
 of, 113. 
 
 Richardson, Richard, Jr., 134(2), 135. 
 
 Richardson, William, 4, 160(2). 
 
 Richbourg, Capt., 134(2), 139. 
 
 Richman, Jacob, 47(2), 79, 159. 
 
 Riflemen, the two regiments of, 119. 
 
 Rifles, 114. 
 
 Rivers, Isaac, 157. 
 
 Roads, 47. 
 
 Robinson, Joseph, 87. 
 
 Robison, George, 4, 39, 45, 47, 58, 
 63, 112, 160. 
 
 Robison, William, 45, 123. 
 
 Rocky River, 47. 
 
 Rogers, John, 160. 
 
 Rose, Mr., 42, 55. 
 
 Ross, Francis, 161. 
 
 Rutledge, Edward, 3, 17, 31, 96, 
 154(2), 155, 158. 
 
 Rutledge, Hugh, 6. 
 
 Rutledge, John, 155; president and 
 commander-in-chief, 6, 31, 33; 
 addresses to, 12-15; letters from 
 the delegates to the Continental 
 Congress to, 16-17, 29-31 ; messages 
 of, 8, 10(2), 16; messages to, 12; 
 proclamations of, 3 ; speeches of, 
 9-10, 10. (See President.) 
 
 Rutledge, Thomas, 158. 
 
 Salkehatchie River, 47. 
 
 Salley, John, 8, 45, 160. 
 
 Salt, 58(3), 73, 74, 78, 100, 108; com- 
 missioners to purchase, 58, 66, 
 72-73, 73- loo. 108, 114. 
 
 Salt-works, 58, 65(2), 115. 
 
 Saluda River, upper, or Spartan, 
 election district between Broad 
 
 River and, 45-6, 160; lower elec- 
 tion district between Broad River 
 
 and, 160. 
 
 Salvador. Francis, 159. 
 Sandy Hook, 17. 
 Savage, Edward, 121. 
 Savage, Thomas, 72, 76, 87, 99, 129, 
 
 154- 
 
 Savannah, 59(2), 70(2), 115. 
 
 Savannah River, 47, 139, 142; elec- 
 tion district between the north fork 
 of Edisto River and the, 45, 160. 
 
 Saws, 67, 68. 
 
 Saxe-Gotha, election district of, 49, 
 52, 120. 159(2) ; certificate of an 
 election in, 49-50. 
 
 Schools, 46. 
 
 Scott, John, 113, 115. 
 
 Scott, Jonathan, 6, 16, 41, 113. 
 
 Scott, William, 6, 15, 33, 79, 81, 86, 
 
 103- 157- 
 
 Scott, William, Jr., 44(2), 155(2) ; 
 petition of contesting the seat of 
 Levi Durand, 6-7, 15-16, 41. 
 
 Screven, Benjamin, 47, 158. 
 
 Screven, Thomas, 4, 155. 
 
 Second Regiment, 100, 134. 
 
 Secretary of State, 3, 156. 
 
 Secretary of the Provincial Con- 
 gress, 4. 
 
 Seymour, Stephen, 99. 
 
 Shaw, Charles, 34(3), 42(6), 55(3), 
 56. 
 
 Sheriff, 159. 
 
 Ship-bread, 65, 67, 68. 
 
 Shubrick, Thomas, 72, 83, no, 132, 
 156. 
 
 Silk, 126. 
 
 Silver, 125. 
 
 Simons, Keating, 4, II, 80(2), 
 135(2), 156- 
 
 Simons, Maurice, 75(2). 87, 99, 101, 
 102, 120. 137, 140, 141, 147, 155. 
 
 Simpson, James, 121. 
 
 Sims, James, 140. 
 
 Singellton, Benjamin, 156. 
 
 Singleton, Matthew, 40, 47, 119, 160. 
 
 Sinkler, Peter, 156. 
 
 Sixth Regiment, 121, 135, 139, 160.
 
 Skirving, William, 6(2), 33, 104, 105, 
 
 1 06, 157- 
 
 Slann's Bridge, 47. 
 Slaves. 22, 41, 42, 48, 50, 55(2), 56, 
 
 59, 60, 61, 74, 123. 
 Small-pox, 11(2), 12, 35-36. 
 Smith, Benjamin, 156. 
 Smith, George, 80(2). 
 Smith, Josiah. Jr., 3, 4, II, 36, 52, 70, 
 
 72, 75, 154, 155(2). 
 Smith, Philip, 8, n, 33, 157. 
 Smith, Rev. Robert. 4. 155. 
 Smith, Roger, 11. 33, 36, 39, 72, 75, 85, 
 
 108, 124, 142, 150, 151, 154. 
 Smith, Thomas, 140. 
 South Island, 147, 148. 
 Spartan election district, 45. ( 
 Speaker, 157. 
 Spragins, Nathaniel, 123. 
 St. Andrew's Parish, 4, 52, 99, 157. 
 St. Bartholomew's Parish, 52, 122, 
 
 157- 
 St. David's Parish, 8, n, 35. 40, 57, 
 
 100, loi. 105(2), 109. in, 112, 159. 
 St. George's Parish, Dorchester, 4, 
 
 156. 
 
 St. Helena's Parish, 4, 52, 158. 
 St. James's Parish, Goose Creek. 4. 
 
 52, 99, 156. 
 St. James's Parish, Santee, 4(2), 
 
 52(2), 75, 156. 
 
 St. John's Parish, Berkeley, 4. 155. 
 St. John's Parish, Colleton, 157. 
 St. Matthew's Parish, 39, 159. 
 St. Michael's Parish, 3, 52, 126, 154. 
 St. Paul's Parish, 4, 157. 
 St. Peter's Parish, 59, 158. 
 St. Philip's Parish, 3, 51, 52, 62, 63, 
 
 65, 72(2), 113, 126, 154. 
 St. Stephen's Parish, 156. 
 St. Thomas and St. Denis's Parish, 
 
 4- 50, 155- 
 
 Staten Island, N. Y., 17. 
 Staves, 21. 
 Steel, 67, 68. 
 
 Stobo, Richard Park, 4. 8, 33. 48, 157. 
 Stone. Benjamin, 33, 157. 
 Strother, William. 64, 160. 
 Stuart, John, 34(5), 41, 42(11), 
 
 48(3) ,54, 55(n),56(8), 115. 
 Stuart, Mrs. John, 115. 
 Sugar, 116. 
 Sullivan's Island, 9. 13, 14, 90(3), IOO, 
 
 114, 139, 147, 148. 
 
 Sumter, Thomas, 4, 134, 135, 160(2). 
 Swift (sloop), 115. 
 Taxes, 126(2), 128, 136. 
 Taylor, Thomas, 64, 160. 
 Tea, 10, 21, 29-31, 33, 37, 46, 56, 
 
 58, 62. 
 Tennent, Rev. William, 7, n, 39, 45, 
 
 88, 89, 102, 103, 108, 109, 116, 151, 
 
 160. 
 
 Third Regiment, 139, 152. 
 Thomas, John, 7, 77, 160; letter of to 
 
 President Rutledge, 68(2). 
 Thomas, William, 122. 
 Thompson, John, 79, 82, 84(2), 106, 
 
 no, 112. 
 Thompson, Richard, 79, 82, 84(2), 
 
 106, 1 10, 112. 
 Thomson, Charles, 18(2), 21(2), 22, 
 
 24, 25, 29(2). 97. 
 Thomson, William, 97. 
 Thread, 115, 126. 
 Timothy. Peter, 3, 4, 5(2), 154(2), 
 
 155(2) ; resignation of Clerkship 
 
 of General Assembly by, 4-5. 
 Toomer, Anthony, 85, 140, 154. 
 Toomer, Joshua, 4, 6(4), 15, 52, 77, 
 
 133(2), 155(2). 
 Townsend, Paul, 58, 122, 154. 
 Trade, 20, 21, 22, 23, 66, 67, 128, 145. 
 Trapier, Paul, Jr., 34, 41, in, 135(3), 
 
 158; artillery company of, 124. 
 
 (See also George Town). 
 Treason, 25. 
 Treasury, 36, 38(2), 47, 58, 75. 77, 
 
 85, 86(2), 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 
 
 124-130, 130, 152; commissioners to 
 
 take a state of, 38-39, 124-130; 
 
 commissioners of the, 39, 43, 45(2), 
 
 56, 72, 108, 113. 115, 122, 123, 129, 
 
 130, 131(2), 143, 152(2). 156. 
 Tucker, Thomas, 41, 157. 
 Tucker, William, 120(2), 159(2). 
 Tunno, John, 121. 
 Turner, John, 160.
 
 174 
 
 Turpin, Joseph, 7, 37 ; letter of, 37-38. 
 
 Turquand, Rev. Paul, 159. 
 
 United States, 17, 31, 35, 46, 48(2), 
 52; Treasury of, 18; Auditor Gen- 
 eral of, 1 8. 
 
 Vander Horst, Arnoldus, 4, 7, 33, 
 
 44, 155- 
 
 Vauchier, John, petition of, 58-59, 70. 
 Verree, Joseph, 52, 138, 154. 
 Vice President, 117, 118(2), 136, 
 
 137(2), 154, 158. 
 Vinyard, John, 152(2). 
 Virginia, 9, 13, 14, 17. 97, 114, 140, 
 
 144(2). 
 
 Waccamaw Lake, 71. 
 Wade, Robert, 140. 
 Wagon tires, 66. 
 Wagons, 147. 
 Walter, Richard, 156. 
 Ward, John, 122. 
 Ward, Joshua, 3, 4, 33(2), 39, 40(2), 
 
 46(2), 47, 54(2) , 76, 154, 155(2). 
 Waring, Benjamin, 4, 33, 50, 106(2), 
 
 107, 156. 
 
 Waring, John, 4, rr, 99, 156. 
 Waring, Richard, 156. 
 Waring, Thomas, 75, 80(2), 99(2), 
 
 100(2), 107, 112, 120, 156. 
 Washington, Gen. George, 17. 
 Watch companies, 85, 108, 109, 112, 
 
 119-120, 126, 133, 135(2), 138, 140, 
 
 141(4), 149(2). 
 Wateree River, 4; election district 
 
 eastward of, 160. 
 Watson, Samuel, 161. 
 Wayne, Richard, 123. 
 
 Webb, John, 3, 4, 36. 75, 154, 155(2). 
 
 Webb, William, 18. 
 
 West Florida, 86, 87. 
 
 West Indies, 86, 87, 143. 
 
 Weyman, Edward, 154. 
 
 White, Anthony, 33, 40, 41, 81, 158. 
 
 Will, Philip, 71-72, 115, 142. 
 
 William (brigantine), 113. 
 
 Williams. Britton, 123. 
 
 Williams, James, 160. 
 
 Williams, John, 33, 39, 47, 63, 68, 
 
 119, 160. 
 Williamson, Andrew, 50(3), 142, 159; 
 
 letter of to President Rutledge, 
 
 68(2), 149(2) ; expedition of, 115, 
 
 124, 136, 150. 
 Williamson, William, 7, 70, 71, 73, 
 
 99, 158. 
 
 Willing, Thomas, 18. 
 Wilson. James, 160. 
 Wilson, Russel, 123. 
 Winn, John, 160. 
 Winyah Bay, 100. 
 Wise, Samuel, 41, 122, 159. 
 Withers, John, 4(2). ir, 33. 41, 
 
 158(3). 
 
 Wofford, Benjamin, 46. 
 Wofford, William, 160. 
 Woods, Joseph, 161. 
 Wool cards, 67, 68. 
 Wright, John, 156. 
 Wylly, John, 123. 
 Young, Benjamin, 7, 11(2), 41, 48, 
 
 58, 73, 87(2), 88, 122, 145(3), 158. 
 Young, John, 139. 
 Zahn, Jacob Christopher, 123.
 
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