An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, vol 1

An Historical Account of the Rise
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Title: An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The
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Author: Alexander Hewatt
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AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF
THE COLONIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA.
In Two Volumes.
VOL. I.
By ALEXANDER HEWATT

PREFACE.
The author of the following performance presents it to the public, not
from any great value he puts upon it, but from an anxious desire of
contributing towards a more complete and general acquaintance with
the real state of our colonies in America. Provincial affairs have only of
late years been made the objects of public notice and attention. There
are yet many, both in Great Britain and America, who are unacquainted
with the state of some of these settlements, and with their usefulness

and importance to a commercial nation. The southern provinces in
particular have been hitherto neglected, insomuch that no writer has
savoured the world with any tolerable account of them. Therefore it is
hoped, that a performance which brings those important, though
obscure, colonies into public view, and tends to throw some light upon
their situation, will meet with a favourable reception.
As many of the inhabitants of the eastern world will find themselves
little interested in the trifling transactions and events here related, such
readers will easily discover in what latitude the author wrote, and for
whose use his work was principally intended. They will also soon
perceive, that this history, like that of Dr. DOUGLAS respecting a
northern settlement in America, is only a rough draught, and far from
being a finished piece; and the author will frankly and candidly
acknowledge it. The case with respect to him is this, to which he must
beg the reader's attention. Having been several years a resident at
Charlestown in South Carolina, he was at some pains to pick up such
original papers and detached manuscripts as he could find, containing
accounts of the past transactions of that colony. This he did at first for
the sake of private amusement; but after having collected a
considerable number of those papers, he resolved to devote such hours
as could be spared from more serious and important business, to
arrange them, and form a kind of historical account of the rise and
progress of that settlement. For the illustration of particular periods, he
confesses that he was sometimes obliged to have recourse to very
confused materials, and to make use of such glimmering lights as
occurred; indeed his means of information, in the peculiar
circumstances in which he stood, were often not so good as he could
have desired, and even from these he was excluded before he had
finished the collection necessary to complete his plan. Besides, while
he was employed in arranging these materials, being in a town agitated
with popular tumults, military parade, and frequent alarms, his situation
was very unfavourable for calm study and recollection.
While the reader attends to these things, and at the same time considers
that the author has entered on a new field, where, like the wilderness he
describes, there were few beaten tracks, and no certain guides, he will
form several excuses for the errors and imperfections of this history.
Many long speeches, petitions, addresses, _&c._ he might no doubt

have abridged; but as