Subject: 12 December 1758 Petition of James Hunter
Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:33:50 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 01:33:26 -0400
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Tuesday the 12th Day of December 1758.
"... The Petition of James Hunter, Executor of the last Will and Testament of
Joseph Murray, late of Craven County, Planter, deceased, was read, Setting
forth, That An Act of the General Assembly was made the 8th Day of March in the
fourteenth Year of His present Majesty's Reign for settling a Ferry on Santee
River in the Way leading from Charles Town to Williamsburgh, and for vesting the
said Ferry in the said Joseph Murray, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns
for the Term of Seven Years.
That the Land on both Sides of the River where the said Ferry is settled and
where Passengers are transported over the short Ferry belongs to the said James
Murray in Consideration whereof (as the Petitioner conceives) the said Ferry was
first vested in the said Joseph Murray, deceased, and by subsequent Laws hath
been continued solely in the said Murray and his Executors ever since, until the
Year 1756, when An Act was made establishing a Ferry from the Plantation of
Theodore Gaillard on the South Side of Santee River to Murray's Landing on the
North Side of the River, and vesting the Same in the said Theodore Gaillard, his
Executors, Administrators and Assigns for the Term therein mentioned.
The Petitioner further Sheweth that the said Theodore Gaillard since the making
of the last mentioned Act assumes a Right to transport Passengers over the short
Ferry and keeps a Ferry Boat for that purpose at the Landing belonging to the
said James Murray on the South Side of the River to the manifest Injury of the
said James Murray; altho' the Petitioner humbly conceives it was no wise the
Intention of the General Assembly when they made the said Act, that the said
Gaillard should keep a Ferry at any Place other than his own Plantation,
mentioned in the said Act.
That Murray's Ferry has been always well and duly attended, where Passengers
have never been delayed when the River was passable, and no Application would
have been made by the Inhabitants of Williamsburgh Township for Gaillard's
Ferry, but for the Convenience of passing the River when the Same was too high
to pass at Murray's Ferry; And therefore praying a Law to pass for vesting the
said Ferry in the Petitioner, Executor of the said Joseph Murray, deceased, for
the Use and Benefit of the said James Murray during such Term, at such Rates and
under such Regulations as shall be thought fit.
Ordered that the said Petition be referred to the Consideration of a Committee,
and that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same, as it shall
appear to them, to the House.
And It is referred to Mr. Cantey, Mr. Horry, Mr. Moultrie, Mr. Broughton, Mr.
Lynch, Mr. Mazyck, Collonel Richardson, Mr. Rattray...."
Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the SC Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5
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Subject: The Indian Books
Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:41:22 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:41:07 -0400
From: "Steven J. Coker"
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Publications available from the South Carolina Department of Archives & History.
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Edited by William L. McDowell, Jr.
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