Narrative of Reminiscences in Williamsburg County

Date: Sep 1822 to Mar 1845
Location: Williamsburg, South Carolina, United States

Contents 1 Narrative of Reminiscences in Williamsburg County 2 Citations 3 Online Access 4 Book's Table of Contents

Narrative of Reminiscences in Williamsburg County

• Description: Primarily research compiled of Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
• Full Citation: McGill, Samuel D. Narrative of Reminiscences in Williamsburg County. Columbia, SC: The Bryan Printing Co, 1897.
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Citations

• Citation Example: McGill, Samuel D. [[Space:Narrative_of_Reminiscences_in_Williamsburg_County|''Narrative of Reminiscences in Williamsburg County'']]. Columbia, SC: The Bryan Printing Co, 1897.

Online Access

• https://www.carolana.com/SC/Counties/Narrative_of_Reminiscences_in_Williamsburg_County_McGill_1897.pdf
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• Notes: https://scgenweb.org/williamsburg/mcgil.html

Book's Table of Contents

Dedication --- 1

Apologies --- 3

Letter to the Kind Reader --- 7

Chapter I. The Big Storm in 1822 - Its casualities, &c., --- 9

Chapter II. The Long Gown and Priviledged Period of a Boy's Life; Description of an Old Time Wedding in 1826, --- 11

Chapter III. Old Time Schools; Discipline of the Teachers, 12 O'Clock Games; Amusements, &c., Sunday and Sacraments, --- 19

Chapter IV. Indiantown Academy in 1832; Latin Lessons; Nullification Excitement; Public Dinners; Fisticuff Fights; Wagon Trip to Charleston, in 1833; Plow Boys, &c., --- 59

Chapter V. 1834; Bethany Academy, N. C.; Scenes, Adventures, &c., --- 84

Chapter VI. 1835; Edgehill Academy, S. C.; Scenes, Incidents, &c., --- 97

Chapter VII. 1836; Yorkville Academy, S. C.; Scenes, Incidents, &c., --- 103

Chapter VIII. 1836; A Lonely Trip to Yorkville in October; Trials on the Road, --- 113

Chapter IX. 1837; Florida War Excitement; Mt. Zion Academy, S. C., --- 124

Chpater X. 1838; At Home; School Master; Singing Schools; A Grammar School; Quilitings, Plays, Dances, &c., --- 130

Chapter XI. 1839-40; A Medical Student, South Carolina Medical College; Scenes on the Street; Theatres, &c., The Green Room --- 145

Chapter XII. 1841; A Doctor, and His Cases and Doings, at Black Mingo and Johnsonville; His Charges, &c., --- 160

Chapter XIV. A Permanent School Master, 1847; List of Scholars; Anecdotes and Special Notices of Them; Recreation; Mrs. McGill's Heroism in Drowning Water, --- 185

Chapter XV. 1861; War Items as Recorded in Diary; A Captain and List of Officers and Prviates --- 204

Chapter XVI. 1881; Public Schools; Public Expenditures; Lists of Teachers and Amounts Paid, --- 226

Chapter XVII. Kingstree as of Yore, --- 240

Chapter XVIII. Again, or a Regression --- 251

Chapter XIX. Historical Sketches, Actual and Traditional; Lost Names; The McGill Families; A Dance in Kingstree, 1805; Marriage of Samuel McGill and Mary Ann Saunders; The Groom and Bride's Horseback Trip to Brunswick, Ga.; $500 in Cash, and two African Slaves and their Children; In 1819, Gavin James dies and bequeaths his property to his niece, Mrs. Mary Ann McGill; The negroes, Carolina and Lucy, and their children, Cain Scott and Gus McGothy, claimants; in 1848, Carolina, then an old man, lives with his young master, gives an account of his Revolutionary record with his old master, and how he got Lucy for his wife; Conclusion: Recent visit to the Indiantown Presbyterian grave yard, and reflections theron; The Author's Jerusalem as his native home, --- 275

Appendix, 1805, --- 289

Tributes to His Wife --- 300