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THE HISTORY OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

UNDER THE PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT,
1670–1719.
BY
EDWARD McCRADY,
Vice-President of the Historical Society of South Carolina,
Member of the Bar of Charleston, S.C.

Crown 8vo. Cloth. Price, $3.50, net.

The Introductory Chapter contains a valuable commentary on the different
books, most of them out of print, which have been written on South Carolina;
then follow chapters on the early attempts at colonization, notably the disastrous
failure at Cape Fear and the more successful effort at Port Royal; on
the administrations of one Governor after another, Sir John Yeamans, William
Sayles, Joseph West, Sir John again, Joseph West again (and by the way,
still again some years later), and so on; on the war with Spain, involving an
expedition into Florida and a counter attempt to take Charleston by a naval
attack from Havana; on the steadily increasing political troubles and dissatisfaction
with the Lords Proprietors; on the Indian wars, and the depredations
of pirates; on the systematic and successful attempt to clear their
coasts of the pirates, with a vivid account of the naval battle in which Col.
Rhett in the Henry captured the notorious Stede Bonnet of the Royal James,
known along the coast of every colony from Jamaica to Newfoundland;
Bonnet's trial before a Judge almost as notorious as himself forms the topic
of another noteworthy chapter; an account of the Colony's efforts to get
rid of Judge Trott, after the pirate was disposed of, follows, and the volume
closes with the political struggles which ended in turning over the Colony to
the Crown, thus ending the Proprietary Government which had proved so
capricious and inefficient.

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