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Author: David Ramsay
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Chiefly letters from Charleston, South Carolina re the political climate, family matters, payment of debts, and writing his book, "History of South Carolina: from its first settlement in 1670 to the year 1808." Includes letters, 1782 Sept 10, re prospect of evacuation of Charleston, expedition into Florida, delay in dispatches from Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, Congress and the public debt, continental convention recommended by New York for "strengthening the hands of Congress;" 1782 Nov 22, to Capt. Nathaniel Pendleton, returning his manuscript "which has been of great service to me," and requesting perusal of his future writing, "I brought away no letter from Nathaniel Greene...I took minutes...;" 1784 July 4?, to David Van Horne, New York, re the payment of a debt and authorizing Captain White to settle the remainder; 1786 April 13, New York, to Elias Boudinot, Elizabeth Town, New Jersey, requesting information on the Revolution "which are not attainable by reading;" 1788 June 19, to Jedidiah Morse, New York, answering Morse's proposal to united in publishing maps, his plan to destroy British exclusiveness in our literature, and to encourage our own, and enclosing a writing of his own; 1790 July 12, to Col. A.W. White, near New York, re William Price's orders "to arrest you if you refused to accept his proposals of joining him in a third of the debt...He said that if Miss [Margaret] Ellis could afford so much of her fortune as she must have done to warrant your judgment in your favor she would be able to advance something more to save you from going to jail;" 1793 April 26, to Alexander Shein[?] Simple[?] at William Young's, Philadelphia, acknowledging the receipt of a box of Mr. [Thomas] Reese's (1742-1796) printed sermons; 1794 July 10, to John Kean, cashier of the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, introducing his nephew, Dr. John Ramsay, progress on construction of the Santee Canal, difficulty in financing the canal, and election of militia officers; 1795 March 13, re sale of some lot and payment of debts of the Ellis family; 1808 Oct 29, re writing his "History of South Carolina;" political conditions; and conditions in Charleston - "Of 30 summers I have spent in Charleston none was so healthy as the present--no yellow fever nor fevers of any kind in any number...vaccination increases..."; 1809 May 17, to Dr. James McBride, St. Stephens, expressing thanks for the receipt of material "incorporated in my work," desire to honor Thomas Walter; 1809 Dec 2, to Rev. Moses Waddell, Abbeville, South Carolina, introducing Mr. Ash, a youth who wishes to attend Waddell's school; 1810 Jan 5, to Andrew Pickens, Jr., Abbeville District, referring to an earlier letter and informing him that he agrees with the medication recommended for Mrs. Pickens by Dr. Irvine; 1810 Oct 4, to William W. Woodward, Philadelphia, plans for establishing a press and sale of "the memoirs;" 1811 July 26, to Thomas Pinckney, Francis Kinloch, Daniel E. Huger, and Ralph Izard, re Andrew Ellicott - "The celebrated mathematician and astronomer is now an unknown and unnoticed stranger on Sullivan's Island" waiting passage to Savannah to establish the boundary between Georgia and North Carolina, 1811 Nov 4, to William W. Woodward, Philadelphia, plans for establishing a press and sale of "the memoirs;" 1812 Nov 18, photo static copy of statement re John Watson [Tadwell Watson], ex-plaining he had established a nursery garden in Charleston, where he cultivated unusual plants that would thrive in that climate. Though the Revolution hindered his work, the garden once again flourished after the war, until finally the cutting of a street through the area damaged the project; 1815 Apr 4, to Morris Miller, Savannah, discussing his complaint against Bailey and Grant who had been farming his plantation for four years without paying or offering any payment or security. He instructs - "Either get the money or a considerable part of it or get the land back;" 1815 May 9, James E.B. Finley, to Jedidiah Morse, Boston, re death of Ramsey from a shot by a "maniac."