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tion of the inhabitants. In 1712 a Free School was 

 established in that city, for " instructing the youth 

 of the province in Grammar, and other arts and sci- 

 ences, and useful learning, and also in the Christian 

 Religion. " J In this seminary the Greek and La- 

 tin languages were taught, by a succession of able 

 instructors, and some good classical scholars were 

 formed. Besides the free school, several private 

 Academies were also formed a few years af- 

 terwards, and had a useful influence. All the 

 teachers in these seminaries were, for a consider- 

 able time after their establishment, either from 

 Europe or from the Northern Colonies. The first 

 printer appears to have settled in Charleston be- 

 tween the years 1720 and 1730. The first news- 

 paper in the Colony was printed in 1730. 



The first native of South-Carolina who received 

 a literary degree was Mr. Josiah Smith, who 

 was born in Charleston, in the year 1704, gradu- 

 ated at Cambridge, in Massachusetts, in 1725, and 

 afterwards became a learned and respectable mi- 

 nister of the Presbyterian Church/ The next in- 

 stance of a native of South-Carolina receiving aca- 

 demic honours, was that of Mr. William Bull, 

 who received the degree of Doctor of Medicine, at 

 Leyden, in 1735/ He was followed by Mr. John 

 Moultrie, who received the same degree from 



j In this seminary there were two instructors; a Principal, -with a sa- 

 lary of £. 400 sterling per annum ; and an Usher, with a salary of £. 209, 

 both paid from the public treasury. These were liberal salaries consider- 

 ing the time and the situation of the colonists. 



k Mr. Smith published a volume of Sermons in 1752, and several oc- 

 casional discourses before and after. He also maintained a learned dispu- 

 tation, in 1739, with the Rev. Mr. Fisher, on the right of private judg- 

 ment. He closed an useful and honourable life in 1781, in the city of 

 Philadelphia, whither he had been induced to fly during the Revolu- 

 tionary- war. 



/ The name of Dr. Bull was mentioned in a former chapter. On oc- 

 casion of his receiving a medical degree at Leyden, he wrote and de- 

 fended an inaugural dissertation. Be Colica Pkionum. He was afterwards 

 Lieutenant-Governor of South -Carolina. 



