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[828] He was born in 1735, and was a Pennsylvanian, whom commercial aims brought to Edmonton, in North Carolina, where he practised medicine, and as a representative of the district sat in Congress. He had removed, however, to New York when he published his history. He died in 1819. Cf. Scharf and Westcott’s Hist. of Philadelphia, ii. 1146.
[829] North Amer. Rev., xii. 37. In 1829 Judge A. D. Murphy sought, unsuccessfully, to induce the legislature to aid him in publishing a history of North Carolina in six or eight volumes. North Amer. Review, xxiv. p. 468.
[830] Orig. ed., i. p. 135.
[831] Cf. N. Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Oct., 1870.
[832] J. D. B. DeBow’s Political Annals of South Carolina, prepared for the Southern Quarterly Review, was printed separately as a pamphlet, at Charleston, in 1845. A writer in this same Review (Jan., 1852) deplores the apathy of the Southern people and the indifference of Southern writers to the study of their local history. In the series of the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Mr. B. J. Ramage has published an essay on “Local government and free schools in South Carolina.”