[815] Brinley, ii. no. 3,989; Haven, “Ante-Revolutionary Bibliog.” (Thomas’ Hist. of Printing, ii. 559). Cf. Bancroft’s United States, original ed. iv. ch. 15. Cf. also John H. Logan’s History of the Upper Country of South Carolina, from the earliest periods to the close of the War of Independence, Charleston, 1859, vol. i. It largely concerns the Cherokee country.
[816] A MS. copy of De Brahm appears (no. 1,313) in a sale catalogue of Bangs, Brother & Co., New York, 1854.
[817] Cf. Emanuel Bowen, in his Complete System of Geography, ii. 1747 (London), who gives a New and accurate map of the Provinces of North and South Carolina, Georgia, etc., showing the coast from the Chesapeake to St. Augustine.
[818] See post, ch. vi.
[819] The latest writer on the theme, Doyle, in his English in America, thinks Hewatt “may probably be trusted in matters of notoriety.” Grahame (iii. 78) says: “Hewit is a most perplexing writer. A phrase of continual recurrence with him is ‘about this time,’—the meaning of which he leaves to the conjecture of readers and the laborious investigation of scholars, as he scarcely ever particularizes a date.” Again he adds (ii. p. 110): “While he abstains from the difficult task of relating the history of North Carolina, he selects the most interesting features of its annals, and transfers them to the history of the southern province. His errors, though hardly honest, were probably not the fruit of deliberate misrepresentation.” Cf. Sprague’s Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, iii. p. 251.
[820] That portion about South Carolina, ending with the revolution of 1719, is printed in Carroll, ii. 273.
[821] These volumes are described in the Sparks Catalogue, pp. 214-215, and are now in Harvard College library.
[822] Grahame (ii. 167) says of Chalmers that “he seems to relax his usual attention to accuracy, when he considers his topics insignificant; and from this defect, as well as from the peculiarities of his style, it is sometimes difficult to discover his meaning or reconcile his apparent inconsistency in different passages.”
[823] Cf. Belknap Papers (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll.), ii. 218, 219.
[824] Harvard College library.