FOOTNOTES:

[541] In writing this chapter I have been much assisted by Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., Secretary of the Historical Commission of South Carolina.

[542] Drayton, Memoirs of American Revolution, I, 269-71. Collections of South Carolina Historical Society, II, 50.

[543] Collections of South Carolina Historical Society, II, 43, 44, 57, 59, 62, 63. Drayton, Memoirs of American Revolution, I, 304-06.

[544] Journals of South Carolina Provincial Congress, November 9, 10, 12, 1775.

[545] Collections of South Carolina Historical Society, III, Journals of South Carolina Council of Safety, December 16, 1775.

[546] Force, American Archives, 4th, IV, 1307-08. Journals of Continental Congress, January 16, January 19, 1776.

[547] Gibbes, Documentary History of the American Revolution, 1764-1776, 258.

[548] Journals of South Carolina Provincial Congress, February 15, February 22, March 5, 14, 25, 26, 1776.

[549] Constitution of South Carolina of 1776.