230 N-ations lately become Literary. [Ch, XXVI. 



But notwithstanding the literary taste, conver- 

 sation, and writings, of these individuals, the insti- 

 tutions formed for the diffusion of knowledge were 

 iom in number, and by no means of respectable 

 character. For the first thirty years of the eigh- 

 teenth century the free school before mentioned 

 was the only grammar school in South Carolina. 

 For'' the next forty years there were only three in 

 the province, and all these were in Charleston or 

 its vicinity. In 1749 an association was formed 

 in Charleston, for the establishment of a public 

 library; but it was not till toward the close of 

 the century that this institution grew to any high 

 degree of respectability; so that until the revolu- 

 tionary war it was customary for the more wealthy 

 either to employ private tutors of respectable cha- 

 racter in their families, or to send their sons to 

 foreign universities. In one or the other of these 

 Ways a lar^e portion of the best scholars and 

 most eminent public characters in the state were 

 formed. 



till his death, in 1749. Beside several smaller works, he pub- 

 lished The Doctrines of Glorious Grace unfolded, defended, and 

 practicallxf improved, quarto, Boston, 1744. The rev. Alexander 

 Garden \va£ a different person from the physician and naturalist 

 of the same name. He wrote several publications on theological 

 subjects. The rev. Henry Haywood arrived in Charleston, from 

 England in 1739; from which time till his death, in 1755, he was 

 minister to the Socinian baptists in that city. He translated into 

 English Dr. Whitby's Treatise on Original Sin ; and had pre- 

 pared for the press a large volume in defence of the Apostolical 

 Constitutions. He published a defence of Dr. Whitby, against 

 Dr. Gill, and also a Catechism. The rev. Eichard Clarke, from 

 England, Avas an elegant classical scholar. He published several 

 pieces on the Prophecies, and on Universal Redemption. He was 

 for some time rector of St. Philip's church in Charleston, 



