Subject: Edisto Island Petition
Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:58:41 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 00:00:51 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
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To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

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

Thursday the 9th of February 1758.

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

That your Petitioners are Inhabitants on an Island without the Convenciency of a
Communication to any part of the Main by a bridge or Ferry. For want of which
they are Subjected to many and Greater hard ships and Discouragements than any
of his Majesty's Subjects in this Province. When our Necessary Affairs or
Publick Concerns calls any of us of this Island, or we are Summoned to Attend
his Majestys Courts in Charles Town, we cannot Perform the Same but at Greater
Loss of time and Expence than others. And as we are Situated on the Sea Coast
with Bold rivers Surrounding this Island, we Conceive in the Dangerous times of
War, we are Greatly Exposed to the Attempt[s] of an Enemy and Can Expect no
releif or Succour from the Main for want of Some Communication Settled by Law.
And as your Petitioners have been Informed a Law has Lately Passed to Open a
road through St. Pauls Parish to Boones Island, We therefore Humbly Pray that a
Law may Pass to Establish a Ferry from the Said Boones Island to Hooping Island
and that a road may be made from thence into the Public road on Edisto Island.
And your Petitioners as in duty Bound Shall Ever Pray.

Ordered that the said Petition be referred to the Consideration of a Committee.
And that they do Examine the matter thereof, & report the same with their
Opinion thereupon to the House.

And it is referred to Mr. Stobo, Mr. Freer, Mr. Ralph Izard, Mr. Blake, Mr.
Middleton...."

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