Identifier: charlestonplacep00rav (find matches)
Title: Charleston, the place and the people, by St. Julien Ravenel. With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ravenel, Harriott Horry, 1832-1912
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Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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row, that she should read so vain and worldly a work asthe Turkish Spy on the Sabbath Day ; and that onlyher good was sought by the ghostly monitor. Mrs.Latham took courage, remained, and became truly piousunder the influence of the most puritanic ghost on record.It is hardly necessary to remind the reader that theSmiths were the head of the Puritan party in the Province.The many fires which have devastated Charleston havedestroyed most of the houses which belonged to the notedmen of that time; but some few remain. Miles Brewton,a wealthy merchant, had married Miss Izard and built onKing Street the handsome home now known as the Pringlehouse, already mentioned. Many historic associationsnow gather around it. On Meeting Street Mrs. Brewtonssister, Mrs. Daniel Blake of Newington, owned the housenow occupied by William E. Huger, Esq., which was alsoto become famous. Just opposite to it was the houseof Governor Bull, which looks curiously like the half of GOVERNOR LORD CHARLES MONTAGU 171
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The William Huger House, Meeting Street Ashley Hall. It was probably only one of his residences,for he is frequently mentioned as living1 on Broad Street.Judge Pringles brick house in Tradd Street has beenalready mentioned as one of the first built after the great 172 CHARLESTON fire of 1740; Mr. John Rutledge had the house (now muchaltered) in Broad Street, opposite Orange, now owned byR. G. Rhett, Esq.; and in Church Street, just north of theBaptist Church, is that in which Jacob Motte and his wifeRebecca, sister of Miles Brewton, then lived. At the cor-ner of Tradd and Friend streets lived Mr. George Roupell,the postmaster, and at the other end of the square wasJohn Stuart, the Indian agent, married to Miss Fenwicke,and at that time a most highly esteemed and admired per-son. Both of these stood for the King in the comingstruggle, and the square used to be shown to childrensixty years ago as Tory row. Mrs. Pinckneys eldest son came home about this time,having gone through Westminst

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