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In 1735, the ship Samuel had a very arduous voyage from Europe, arriving in Charles Town with a shipload of Swisss of which several on board jad contracted smallpox and some of these died. After landing in Charles Town, a child who may have been on board became quite ill with the disease and the Council journals show that it was necessary to quarantine everyone who had had contact with this child. The Council journal gives a very vivid account of steps taken to prevent the spread of the disease further as follows: "The Hon. Lt. Governor, Thomas Broughton, Esq., being informed that several of the Swiss died of the Small Pox on the ship and there was a child on shore who was then full of it which child died on the same day after noon and that several of the Swiss were gone into the place where the child lay. His Honor directed some of the Justices of the Peace and the Constable Sheriff to immediately go towards the said Place and keeping at a Moderate Distance from the same hinder the peoples within the house where the child lay from coming out and any person without from going in." "And a lone uninhabited house about three miles from Charles Town was immediately put in order to receive the persons who were in the afflicted house or such who might take the small pox to which place they were conducted this Day and a watch set over the House to Prevent any communication with the same." A few years later a village, the site of which was the intersection of two Indian trails, was laid out in the southwest corner of this township. Colonel Thomas Broughton, Lt. Governor of South Carolina, renamed the township Orange and called the village Orangeburgh in honor of the IV Prince of Orange, who had married Ann, the daughter of George II, King of England. In March of 1731 the Trustees of the free school at Childsbury Ferry presented a petition to the Council relative to the legacies left the school. To be a trustee one must have subscribed at least £100 to the school. At that time the trustees were Hon. Thomas Broughton, The Lieutenant Governor; Rev. Mr. Thomas Hasell, Anthony Bonneau, John Harleston, Nathaniel Broughton, Thomas Cordes, and Francis Lejau, Esq. Besides possessing a considerable degree of architectural interest, Mulberry Plantation illustrates well a number of important facets of 18th-century American history. It was constructed in 1714 by Thomas Broughton, later a Royal Governor of South Carolina. Located on the frontier, the house was built over a cellar fort, with firing slits in the foundation walls. During the Yamassee War, 1715-16, Mulberry Plantation was a fortified stronghold to which a number of neighboring colonists fled for protection. A commission was sent out to Charles Craven, a man of great knowledge, courage and integrity, by his brother, investing him with the government of the colony. His council was composed of Thomas Broughton, Ralph Izard, Charles Hart, Samuel Eveleigh, and Arthur Middleton, _&c._; all men of considerable property, and experience in provincial affairs. Sir Nathaniel Johnson of Kibblesworth, County Durham, was Governor of the Leeward Islands in 1686 and of South Carolina in 1702-1709. He established the parish system in South Carolina and was active in defending the colony against the Spanish and French. A daughter, Ann, married Governor Thomas Broughton and has many descendants in SC. We hear that on Tuesday last [March 4, 1746] Thomas Broughton, Esq., was married to the relict of Mr. Charles Izard [Mary], an agreeable young lady of great merit and fortune... |
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