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Charles Stea<liHan,.who rose to Admiral in tlic Tnitpd States 

 Navy and died a few years ago. 



Amongst other men who rose to distinction in State and 

 Parish ;it various times were Major Percy, ('ol. J. Bond, 

 Ton, (jen. ^'anderhorst, Col. Thomas IMnckney, Jr.. Col. 

 Samuel Paln;er, Col. Coffee, Rev. C. C. Pinckney and Mr. 

 Warren DiiPre, Professor in Woft'ord College, and there 

 may have been others whose names have escaped me. 



We oven had an enemy from the British camp here, for 

 after the Revolutionary AVar there settled in this part of the 

 country a Hessian by name of Schneider, and worked on 

 llie river among the other planters, amassing quite a little 

 foi-tune, and now lies buried in the woods, near \Vanibaw 

 l)lan1ation. 



It is meet that I mention some of our doctors, the earliest 

 of whom we have any knowledge was Dr. Samuel (Jordes, 

 who practiced here from about 1813 to the '5()s, and served 

 his people not only in a professional way but in the Leg- 

 islature arid on various boards of the Parish. He volun- 

 teered and served, too, in the War of 1812 as surgeon. He 

 vv'as a genial, wholesoul man, much given to ])lain speaking 

 and was charitable to the last degree. The friend and 

 Father Confessor of both rich and poor, many were the 

 anecdotes and sayings of his told. He was a ])lanter, too; 

 but it was said that busy with his practice he never made 

 iiiucli of a crop except once — a large crop of corn — which 

 s(. surprised and delighted him that he dubbed his planta 

 tion "Egypt," where, as he said, his brethren could come 

 and get jjrovender. Dr. John S. Palmer was at one time his 

 young assistant, and afterwards i)racticed in the ui)i)er part 

 of the Parish. His successor was Dr. Smith, and after him. 

 Dr. W. T. W. Baker and Dr. S. D. Doar. 



To show that the Parish was invaded during the Revo- 

 lutionary War by the British, Botta said in his history 

 ••That Clinton occupied all the country between the Santee 

 and Cooper Rivers, and sent a force to scour same in order 

 to dis])erse a band of patriots operating there." 



Dr. Dalclio speaks of Cornwallis, whose headquarters were 

 at one time on Wambaw i)lantation, of Theodore Gaillard 



