CRAVEN COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. loi 



Ramsay's South Carolina, as the commander of a 

 company of Charleston militia in the war against 

 the Yemassees in 1715. Though never holding a 

 commission higher than that of a colonel, yet, from 

 being a very long time the senior colonel in the 

 province, he was, by courtesy, invested with the 

 title and dignity of a brigadier. His daughter mar- 

 ried Mr. John Palmer, the father of the author of 

 the article just referred to, and with him the name 

 became extinct in South Carolina. 



The French emigrants to this province appear to 

 have been governed by a principle of common-sense 

 which reflects infinite credit on their character. 

 They regarded Carolina as their home. Having 

 placed themselves under the protection of the Brit- 

 ish crown, they resolved to conduct themselves like 

 faithful subjects. Hence no attempt was made to 

 perpetuate the remembrance of a distinct nation- 

 ality. Their children were not encouraged to speak 

 French ; and the great charity which they founded 

 bears the name, not of a sect, nor of a foreign na- 

 tion, but the catholic name of that colony which 

 they had adopted as their native land.' Still, how- 

 ever, in their domestic life traces of their origin 

 may be discovered. The pillau is a common dish 

 upon their tables, and I believe that in every 

 Huguenot house on Santee that cake which the 



' The South Carolina Society ; which arose from the Two-Bit Club, A. 

 D. 1737. 



