Subject: Edisto Island Road Petition 28 April 1758
Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 23:34:21 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 02:36:52 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
Organization: gamecock@yours.com
To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Friday the 28th of April 1758.

"...Read the Petition of Severall Inhabitants of Edisto Island Setting Forth as
Viz.

That Whereas Edisto Island hath been Settled upwards of Seventy Years and never
had a Road Off to the Main, for which Road we understand there is a Petition now
laid before the [House], we are humbly of Opinion that in all that Period those
Gentlemen could not have Pick'd out a more unreasonable time than the present, a
time when we are Involved in a war, & Loaded with heavy Taxes, & our produce
Sells for Little or Nothing, besides its well known that things have taken a
Different Turn from what they were some years ago in this Province. When we went
upon Rice, there was some Small Space of Time between hoeing & Harvest, but now
it is Otherwise for as the Winter is too Cold for the Slaves to work in mud in
Water, & as the Hotter Weather is the only time for us to follow our Indico
works, in Order to Get Money, to Support our famillys, & pay our Taxes. So If we
are deprived of that, Inevitable Ruin must follow; besides the difficulty of the
Understaking is so great, that we despair of ever Seeing it Accomplished, there
being several Miles of Casway to be Made thro very Low Lands, and also a bridge
to be made over a Navigable Creek, & no Timber near, Besides the Main Creek
where they propose to have the Ferry, & If ever Such An Undertaking shou'd take
place, which we hope will not, Because Its of no Service but of Great Detriment
to us, so Leaving it to the Wisdom of this honourable House who we hope will do
us Justice & your Petitioners Shall ever Pray.

Ordered that the Petition be referred to the Consideration of the Committee to
whom the Petition of the Inhabitants of Edisto Island was referred; and that
they do Examine the matter thereof & report the same with their Opinion
thereupon to the House...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

==== SCROOTS Mailing List ====
NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, commercial ads, personal messages, profanity, or off-topic messages is not acceptable and will be grounds for expulsion from this mailing list forum.
*****
Have you read the Frequently Asked Questions yet?
http://www.wp.com/Coker/faq.html
*****
Address comments & suggestions to:
Steven J. Coker
carolina@yours.com