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acres Adjoining Æneid ASHBY BALL banks beautiful BENJAMIN HUGER Bishop SMITH boat Bossis Brick Yard British built called Chapel Childsbury Church Cooper River crop cultivation DANIEL Daniel's Island daughters Day on Cooper Dean Hall death deep descended ditches EDWARD HARLESTON eldest Fair Lawn father feet field Fishbrook former French Quarter Creek gentleman Goose Creek Governor ground Hagan Harry Hill HENRY HENRY LAURENS Hill HUGER Huguenot JOHN HARLESTON lady Landgrave last number late LATHAM LAURENS living LOGAN Lord Cornwallis mansion married Middleburg miles MYRICK NATHANIEL negroes neighborhood original Parish passed plantation planters POYAS present proprietor Prioleau purchased Quinby residence Rice Hope Richmond seen Silk Hope sion Sir JOHN COLLETON sold soon South Mulberry South-Carolina spot swamp THOMAS ASHBY THOMAS BROUGHTON THOMAS SHUBRICK THOMAS SMITH tract trees TRESCOTT VANDERDUSSEN walls Western Branch whilst widow WRAGG writer
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Page 76 - Happy the age, and harmlesse were the dayes, (For then true love and amity was found) When every village did a May-pole raise, And Whitson-ales and May-games did abound: And all the lusty yonkers in a rout, With merry lasses daunc'd the rod about, Then friendship to their banquets bid the guests, And poore men far'd the better for their feasts.
Page 16 - MORTIMER'S anger Cooled down. Mr. MORTIMER did not live long after his residence in Saint Paul. On January 8th, 1843, he was attacked with hemorrhage, resulting from an injury received a short time before, and died at the age of 43 years. He left a widow and five children — two sons and three daughters. His oldest daughter is now Mrs. JR PATTEN, an estimable lady of Minneapolis. His second daughter, FANNY, married AARON FOSTER, an old settler of Saint Paul. Both are now dead. His voungest daughter,...