Subject: Thomas Mellichamp 27 April 1758
Resent-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 23:08:18 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 02:10:47 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
Organization: gamecock@yours.com
To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Thursday the 27th of April 1758.

"... A Petition of Thomas Mellichamp was presented to the house and read Setting
forth as Viz.

That your Petitioner in the Latter End of August Last did make a discovery in
the Making of Indico of a very fine Quality of which he produced Several
Samples. That being Sensible it woud be for the Benefit of his Majestys Subjects
in this Province to have that Discovery made Public, did proceed to Charles Town
in order to make an Offer thereof to the Assembly but finding there was then
none, was advised to Communicate for a Gratitude to be rais'd by Subscription
payable in January Last. That he did then Communicate his Method to his
Subscribers; That Severall have by them Directions in divers parts of the
Country produced the Same Quantity Intirely to their Sattisfaction. That Some of
the Subscribers have paid him, Some will Pay, some will pay half, and Some will
not pay any, alledging 'tis a hardship that Some shoud pay for the Good of the
whole. In this unsettled State is at present that Defeicency.

That your Petitioner by many Experiments tryed this winter, has made an
Infallible Discovery of making Indico of the very finest and purest Quality the
Herb is Capable of producing, and a Certain plain & Simple Method wherein no
maker may fail. That by this Discovery if the Maker has by any means got any
Impure Quality in his Indico, he has a Method Laid down how to Seperate them.

Your Honours petitioner Conceiving this discovery to be of Importance to his
King and Country makes the Offer thereof to Your Honours upon Such a Gratuity as
you in your Great Wisdom Shall think adequate.

Your Petitioner Humbly hopes your honours will take it into Consideration as he
Apprehends there will be great Difficulty in Collecting the Subscriptions. And
he as in Duty Bound will Ever pray.

Ordered That the Petition be referred to the Consideration of a Committee & that
they do Examine the Matter thereof & report the same with their Oppinion
thereupon to the House.

And it is referred to Mr. Middleton, Mr. Stobo, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Ralph Izard,
Mr. Drayton, Mr. Glover, Mr. Rattray, Mr. Bull, Mr. Crawford, Mr. McQueen, Mr.
Elliott, Mr. Manigault...."

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

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