Subject: Historical Writings of Henry Augustus Middleton Smith From: Steve Coker Date: November 11, 1998 THE HISTORICAL WRITINGS OF HENRY AUGUSTUS MIDDLETON SMITH Pub. 1988. Reprinted from the South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, with an introduction and indexes by Alexander Moore 888 pp., 34 maps, intro., indexes ISBN 0-87152-423-6 LC 87-26623 $75.00, the set [1998 catalogue price] Henry Augustus Middleton Smith was a federal judge, attorney, scholar, landowner, and successful planter who fostered historical studies of South Carolina through his own writings and through his position as vice president of the South Carolina Historical Society for twenty years. His studies of the towns, plantations, baronies, and river communities of the early colonial period are considered to be path-breaking in methodology and historical perception. Working from land records (colonial grants, inventories, memorials, wills, warrants, and plats), Smith traced ownership of land, constructed genealogies of the planter families, and devised an unusual series of large maps to illustrate his articles. "Using the skills of a lawyer, historian, and cartographer, Smith brought order to the mass of Carolina land records and drew from them a history of early South Carolina that is unmatched in usefulness and objectivity." Supplied with an introduction and new indexes, these three volumes provide a degree of access to Smith's writings that has not previously existed. Volume I THE BARONIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. (xx), 199 pp., 14 maps, intro, index ISBN 0-87152-424-4 LC 87-26623 $25.00 [1998 catalogue price] The term "baronies" refers to large tracts of land in Lowcountry South Carolina that were single, undivided grants during the era of the Lords Proprietors. This volume traces the granting of these tracts, the division of the land into plantations, and the descent of ownership of the plantations, along with genealogies of families. The baronies include Ashley, Fairlawn, Cypress, Wadboo, Seewee, Winyah, Boone's, Oketee, Hobcaw, Malling, Raphoe, Ashepoo, Landgrave Ketelby's, and Quenby and the Eastern Branch of the Cooper River. Volume II CITIES AND TOWNS OF EARLY SOUTH CAROLINA. by Henry Augustus Middleton Smith (xx), 249 pp., 17 maps, intro, index ISBN 0-87152-425-2 LC 87-26623 $25.00 [1998 catalogue price] Some of the towns established during the Proprietary era exist today, others can be found only in historical records such as Smith's writings. The towns in this volume are Dorchester, Charleston, Georgetown, Beaufort, French James Town, Willtown or New London, Purrysburgh, Radnor, Edmundsbury, Jacksonborough, Forgotten Towns in Lower South Carolina (Ashley Ferry Town, St. Andrews Town, and Bermuda Town), Childsbury, Old Charles Town and Vicinity (Accabee and Wappoo), and St. Andrews Parish. This volume is of special interest to genealogists, as names of early settlers are tied to specific town lots, and the volume contains numerous additions and corrections gleaned from annotated sets of the SCH(&G)M. Volume III RIVERS AND REGIONS OF EARLY SOUTH CAROLINA. by Henry Augustus Middleton Smith (xx), 380 pp., 3 maps, intro, index ISBN 0-87152-426-0 LC 87-26623 $25.00 [1998 catalogue price] Volume III is the longest in the series and the most ambitious of all Smith's work. In the major articles on Charleston and Charleston Neck, Seats and Settlements of the Ashley River, the Upper Ashley and Its Families, and Goose Creek, and the shorter ones on the Orange Quarter and the First French Settlers, Hog Island, and Shute's Folly, he achieves a synthesis of historical information about the growth and change of the rivers and regional communities during a period of history when the settlers fixed the model of plantation culture on Lowcountry South Carolina. There is also significant genealogical material in this volume. _________________ The Reprint Company, Publishers 611 Perrin Drive, Spartanburg, South Carolina 29307 Post Office Box 5401, Spartanburg, South Carolina 29304 Telephone: 864-579-4433 Add $3.50 for postage and handling of the first Book. Add $1.25 for postage and handling of each additional book. 5% South Carolina sales tax. Payment by check, money order, VISA or Mastercard accepted. No C.O.D. orders. Shipments made by U.S. Postal Service 4th Class Book Rate. Allow 2 to 3 weeks for order processing and shipment. 30 day money back guarantee. Catalogue available upon request. Wholesale discount terms available. For more information contact the publisher. ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |