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But let us pass ou to other matters, which ought to be 

 brought to your attention. The records and traditions show 

 that all the old settlers lived the year round upon their 

 plantations, it was even said that persons came up from 

 Charleston and elsewhere in .mid-summer to enjoy the cool 

 and delights of the country ou these same places that are 

 now considered so baneful to health — as late as 1794, when 

 Summer places were established as much for society as for 

 health. 



From this time, those that did not go to Charleston or the 

 up-country went to the coast and pineland from May to 

 November. 



In this Parish there were such settlements on Cedar 

 Island, Murphy's Island and other points on the coast, and 

 at the end of the "Seven-Mile Road" there was a collec- 

 tion of several families. The Episcopal parsonage also stood 

 on this road, and the overseers of the river plantations went 

 to houses along the river road. 



The people of the upper part of Parish lived at ''Ger- 

 man's pineland," what is now "Honey Hill," the Palmers 

 and others, n few miles above on sam;e road. Of later day 

 McClellanville absorbed the whole, except its rival, Honey 

 Hill. 



The first church of the Parish was, of course, the Hu- 

 guenot Church, which in after years was merged into the 

 Church of England, and this, after the Revolutionary War, 

 into the Episcopal, which has come down to our day. 



The first building was erected of wood, before 1700. at 

 Jamestown, a settlement on the Santee River, the second 

 on Echaw Creek, a little loAver down the river, also of 

 wood, in 1714; the third, of brick, on the same spot in 1748, 

 and in 17GS the i)resput church, near Wambaw Creek, of 

 brick, was finished. The Rev Fenner Warren, and his illus- 

 ti'ious son. Col. Samuel Warren, and one of the Horrys lie 

 in the churchyard of Echaw; Jonah Collins and one of the 

 Rutledges in that of Wambaw, and in each of them others 

 of "the rude forefatliers of the Hamlet sleep." All of these 

 churches are in ruins except the last, Avhere services are 

 still held. In 1S90 our little chapel at McClellanville was 

 erected. 



