Lowndes, William Jones

Overburdened by his public and private duties, Lowndes experienced declining health, and he resigned as provost marshal in June 1754.

One of the ten original parishes established by the Church Act of 1706, St. Bartholomew’s Parish, located in modern Colleton…

DeSaussure and many of his fellow lowcountrymen feared that upcountry growth would overwhelm their interests, especially the protections given to both plantation and slave holdings. Regarding the increasingly egalitarian rhetoric of upcountry leaders and their yeomen constituents with “dread,” he warned of the “ultimate effects of a degrading, calumnating democracy.”

At the outbreak of war in 1775, Pinckney became a captain in the First South Carolina Continental regiment and was later promoted to major.

The Compromise of 1808 settled the issue of representation of the upcountry and helped to unify the state. Ironically, what began as a movement to protect backcountry interests reached fruition only when economic changes in the upcountry meant that upcountry and lowcountry planters found much on which to agree.

On June 14, 1751, the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly passed an act dividing the city of Charleston into…

St. Philip’s was one of the ten original parishes created by the Church Act of 1706. The parish consisted of…

During his career Calhoun evolved from “War Hawk” nationalist to independent nullifier to strategist for a unified regional (southern) defense of slavery.