ty, and butting and bounding as by a Plot thereof hereanto annexed is represented, together with all the feedings, pastures, woods, underwoods, ways, waters, casements, profits, commodities and appurtenances whatsoever to the said Seventeen Acres of Land, or to any part or parcel thereof belonging or in anywise appertaining, To have and to hold the aforesaid Seventeen Acres of Land, together with all and singular other the Premises hereby given, granted, and demised with their and every of their rights, members and appurtenances unto the said Samuel Marshall for and during the term and time he shall continue Minister of Charles-Town, as aforesaid, and after unto his successors Ministers of Charles-Town for ever, to be allowed of, nominated and appointed as by the before recited Act is Provided. He and they paying to the true and Absolute Lords and Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, the Quit-rents due, reserved and owing to them for the same. Witness my hand and seal at Charles-Town, this tenth day of December, Anno Dom. 1698.

"AFFRA COMING.

"Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us, F. Randolph, Geo. Dearsley, Geo. Logan, Jonathan Amory, John Fenning."

The Rev. Mr. Marshall died in 1699, of a malignant disease, which swept off many of the principal inhabitants of Charles-Town. This disease was, probably, the Yellow-Fever, which raged at the same time in Philadelphia. In a Letter from the Governor and Council to the Lords Proprietors, dated " CharlesTown in South-Carolina, Jan. 17, 1699-1700," they state that, they had nothing to communicate, but that "a most infectious, pestilential and mortal distemper (the same which hath always been in one or more of his Majesty's American Plantations, for eight or nine years last past) which from Barbados or Providence was brought in among us into Charles-Town, about

the 28th or 29th of Aug. last past; and the decay of trade, and mutations of your Lordships public officers occasioned thereby. This distemper, from the time of its beginning aforesaid, to the first day of November, killed in Charles-Town, at least 160 persons: Among whom were Mr. Ely,* Receiver-General, Mr. Amory, Receiver for the Public Treasury; Edward Rawlins, Marshall; Edmund Bohun,† Chief Justice. Amongst a great many other good and capital Merchants, and House-keepers in Charles-Town, the Rev. Mr. Marshall, our Minister, was taken away by the said distemper. Besides those that have died of this distemper in Charles-Town, 10 or 11 have died in the country, all which got the distemper, and were infected in Charles-Town, went home to their families and died; and what is notable, not one of all their families was infected by them."‡ This afflictive dispensation of Providence, is likewise mentioned in a letter from Isaac Norris, dated Nov. 18, 1699, O. S. It states that," 150 persons had died in Charles-Town, in a few days;" that "the survivors fled into the country,' and that "the town was thinned to a very few people."

The Governor and Council likewise addressed a letter to "The Right Hon. and Right Rev. Father in Gód, Henry [Compton] Lord Bishop of London, " dated Jan. 17, 1699-70, of which the following is an extract: "That fatherlike care which your Lordship

* John Ely, appointed Rec. Gen. July 26, 1698.

+ Ed. Bohun, appointed Chief Justice, May 20, 1698.

This is conclusive evidence, that it was neither imported nor infectious; that its origin was local, and that it was incommunicable by personal contact. This is the most particular account we have seen of the disease of 1699. It was, probably, the same with the Yellow-Fever of the present day. It appears, likewise, that it had existed in several of the American Provinces, in preceding years. Another interesting fact is obtained from these letters, that, before our extensive swamps were cleared of their timber, and their surface exposed to the direct rays of the sun, persons could reside in the country in the summer and autumn without danger; and when unusual sickness prevailed in the town, the country was resorted to as a place of health. Neither can now be done with impunity.

Rush's Works, iii. 204. Ramsay's So. Ça. ii. 82.

hath taken to fill all the Churches in his Majesty's Plantations in America, with pious, learned and orthodox Ministers, as well as your Lordship's application to us of that care, in a more especial manner, by sending to us so eminently good a man, as our late Minister, the Rev. Mr. Marshall, deceased, encourages us to address your Lordship for such another. He, by his regular, sober and devout life, gave no advantage to the enemies of our Church to speak ill of its Ministers: By his sound doctrine, the weak sons of our Church, he confirmed: By his easy, and as it were natural use of the ceremonies of our Church, took away all occasions of scandal at them: By his prudent and obliging way of living, and manner of practice, he had gained the esteem of all persons. For these reasons it is that we address your Lordship for such another. The same encouragement and provision as was made for Mr. Marshall, is settled by Act of Parliament upon his successor, a Minister of the Church of England; which is as followeth, viz: £150 yearly out of the Public Treasury; a good brick house and plantation ;* two negro slaves, and a stock of cattle, besides a considerable benefit which, by the encouragement of the government, will accrue, by Christenings, Marriages and Burials."+

Mr. Marshall was succeeded by the Rev. Edward Marston, A. M. He arrived in Charles-Town in 1700, and continued in this cure until 1705, when he was removed from office by the Board of Lay Commissioners, appointed by the Act of Nov. 4, 1704. The year before he came to Carolina, he published, in London, a Sermon on Simony, from Prov. xx. 25.

A Provincial Library was established in CharlesTown, by the munificence of the Lords Proprietors ;

The Parsonage was built on the Glebe given by Mrs. Coming, and was at some distance beyond the fortifications of the town. Its site is on St. Philip'sstreet, near Beaufain-street. See Map prefixed to Dr. Ramsay's So. Ca.ii.

Mrs. Martha Amory, 30th Oct. 1699, a few days before her death, bequeathed £10 to the successor of Mr. Marshall,

the Rev. Dr. Bray, the Bishop of London's Commissary in Maryland; and several of the inhabitants. The General Assembly passed the following Act for its preservation, Nov. 16, 1700:

"An Act for securing the Provincial Library at Charles-Town in Carolina.

"Whereas at the promotion of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Bray, and the encouragement and bounty of the Right Hon. the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors of this Province, and the aforesaid Dr. Bray and the Inhabitants of this Province, a Library hath been sent over to Charles-Town for the use of this Province, and it is justly feared, that the Books belonging to the same will quickly be embezzled, damaged or lost, excepting a law be passed for the effectual preservation of the same," &c. The Library was placed under the care of the Incumbent of the Church of England, in Charles-Town, for the time being, and in case of his death, or removal, the Church Wardens were to take charge of the Books, &c.

When, or how this Library was broken up, is unknown, but nothing of it now remains.*.

*The hurricane which occurred this year, is described by Dr. Ramsay from Hewatt. The following letter from Governor Moore, and the Council, dated Oct. 1st 1700, adds some other particulars :

"On Saturday, 7th Sept. last, died the Hon. Proprietor Joseph Blake, our late Governor. On Tuesday, 3d Sept. last, we had a great storm of wind and rain, which hath done a great deal of damage to the Planters as well as trade. Most of the vessels in the harbour were driven ashore or sunk, and five wrecked. A Scotch frigate, called the Rising Sun, mounted with 60 guns, about 220 men belonging to her, which from Caledonia [Darien] when it was surrendered to the Spaniards, went to Jamaica, and from Jamaica bound to Europe, in the Gulf lost all her masts, came and lay before our Bar of Ashley river, designing to lighten so as that she might come into our harbour to refit, was in the same storm at anchor, broke all to pieces, and 97 men, with the commander, Capt. James Gibson, then aboard her, all lost.(a) Another of the Scotch vessels, about 400 tons, from Jamaica, bound to Europe, disabled in the Gulf, put into our harbour, and is here sold to be broke up. The storm hath carried away all the timber piles which we set before our fort to break off the force of the waves from it, and hath so undermined one corner of it, that it is sunk and broken away from the rest of the wall. Your Lordship's Colony (God be thanked) is generally healthy."

(a) Ramsay's So. Ca. ii, 315, 591 ; and Hewatt's So. Ca. i. 142, state that, “ Archibald Stobo, a Presbyterian Clergyman, Lient. Graham, and several more belonging to the ship, being on shore, escaped the disaster."

It was computed that, in 1700, there were in the Province about 5500 persons, beside Indians and Negroes. But there was only one Clergyman of the Church of England settled out of CharlesTown. The Rev. William Corbin officiated among the settlements on Goose-Creek. The rapid increase of population in the American Colonies, soon required more Clergymen and Schoolmasters, than Colonial means could either provide or maintain. Fortunately, the want of religious instruction in the Colonies, excited the solicitude of many pious and eminent persons in England. They reflected that, as they enjoyed the word and the ordinances of God in the pure spirit of the gospel, it was their duty, as christians, to supply their destitute brethren in the Colonies, with the same means of salvation, and to provide for the instruction of the Indians in the doctrines of the Redeemer. Among the most zealous of these was the Most Rev. Thomas Tennison, D. D. Archbishop of Canterbury. Through his influence and exertions, and at the instance of The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, a Society was established for the religious instruction of the poor and needy in Christ, and for giving a christian education to the children of the Colonists.* It was Incorporated by WILLIAM III, on the 16th June, 1701, by the name of THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS, and was especially charged with the religious instruction of the British Colonies in America, and

"This truly was an action suitable to Archbishop Tennison's public spirit and honest zeal for the Protestant Religion, and exceedingly becoming his high station and authority in the Church. The American Colonies sure, can never without the greatest veneration and gratitude remember him, when they shall many ages hereafter, feel the happy effects of having the Christian Religion planted among them, and reflect, how hearty and forward Archbishop Tennison appeared, to obtain that Charter which gave life and authority to so glorious an undertaking: Nay, that his zeal and spirit did not rest here; he continued to promote and guide by his wise counsels, the affairs of the Society; he paid them an annual bounty of fifty pounds during his life, and at his death bequeathed them a thousand pounds towards the maintenance of the first Bishop that should be settled in America." Humphrey's Acc. of So. for Prop. Gos. in Foreign Parts, 13.