There appears to be little research done so far on the families and 
community of harbor and sea pilots in the Charleston area. I have found 
that a number of such families came down from Smithville - now named 
Southport - before the War between the States to take up the trade  But 
there surely were others before thwm. The census of 1850 and later for 
Charleston give some of the names. But there must be BURIED information 
yet to be uncovered about the colonial pilots and later dayes. I am 
interested to hear from any one who had an ancestor who was a pilot. My 
ancestor Samuel Chapman was one as were the McDonalds - Trouts - and 
others. Ed Taylor of Pittsburgh

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