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a portion of the inhabitants. In 1712 a free 

 school was established in that city, for " instruct- 

 ing the youth of the province in grammar, and 

 other arts and sciences, and useful learning, and 

 also in the Christian religion *." In this seminary 

 the Greek and Latin languages were taught by 

 a succession of able instructors, and some good 

 classical scholars were formed. Beside the free 

 school, several private academies were also form- 

 ed a iew years afterward, and had a useful in- 

 fluence. All the teachers in these seminaries were 

 for a considerable time after their establishment 

 either from Europe or from the northern colo- 

 nies. The first printer appears to have settled in 

 Charleston between the years 1720 and 1730, 

 and the first newspaper in the colony was printed 

 in 1730. 



Mr, Josiah Smith, who was born in Charleston 

 in the year 1704, graduated at Cambridge, in 

 Massachusetts, in 1725, and afterward became a 

 learned and respectable minister of the presby- 

 terian church, was the hrst native of South Caro- 

 lina Avho received a Mterary degree f. The next 

 instance of a native of South Carolina receiving 

 academic honours was that of Mr. William Bull, 



* In this s,emiiiary there were two instructors : a principal, with 

 a salary of 400/. sterling ■per annum; and an usher, with a salary 

 of 200/. ; both paid from the public treasury. These were liberal 

 salaries considering the time, and the situation of the colonists. 



f Mr. Smith published a volume of Ser7no7is in 1752, and se- 

 veral occasional discourses before and after. He also maintained 

 a learned disputation, h\ 1739, with the rev. Mr. Fisher, on the 

 right of private judgment. He closed a useful and honourable 

 life in 1781, in the city of Philadelphia, whither he had been 

 induced to flee during the revolutionary war. 



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