50 REMINISCENCES OF 



Philip Porcher, brother of Peter of Peru. His wife 

 was Mary Mazyck. They had eight children : first, 

 Mary, who died unmarried in 1834; second, Mari- 

 anne, wife of Thomas Broughton of Mulberry ; 

 third, Philip, who married Catharine Cordes ; fourth, 

 Peter, who married Charlotte Ravenel, and after her 

 death Marion Johnston of Oakfield ; fifth, Eliza- 

 beth, wife of William Mazyck, late of Charleston ; 

 sixth, Harriet, wife of Major Samuel Pbrcher; 

 seventh, George, ,who married Marianne Gignilliat 

 (nee Palmer) ; and eighth, Isaac, who married Mary, 

 dauehter of Plowden Weston, and after her death 

 Mary, daughter of O'Neal Gough Stevens, and 

 after her death Charlotte, daughter of Rene Rav- 

 enel of Pooshee. Mrs. Mazyck and Mrs. Porcher 

 both died in 1843 5 ^^y ^^^^ lived with their hus- 

 bands upwards of fifty-four years. 



28. Dover, the next place, was formerly the resi- 

 dence of Robert Cahusac. It then became the 

 property of Charles or Samuel Peyre, and after his 

 death, of John Peyre, by whom it was sold to Philip 

 Porcher. It was for several years the home of Isaac 

 Porcher, and by him sold to Mrs. Charlotte Cordes. 



29. East of Dover was Harleston's, so called from 

 the name of the owner. 



30. Yaughan, the next plantation, became, under 

 the English law of primogeniture, the property of 

 John Cordes. He generously surrendered it to his 

 younger brother, Thomas Cordes, who lived and 



