Have a safe and fun time at camp. I will scan through some more tonight and cross post. Have to get my daughter to her friend's house.
HUGS!
A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....04-21,22,23-06....T.G.I.F. at the Finest
Posted by LadyX to snugs; dixie sass; visualops On News/Activism 04/23/2006 3:57:42 PM EDT · 275 of 283
Actually, I am indebted to King George of the 1600's, snugs.
My forebear through my maternal grandfather, was Thomas Smith, who went to Charles Town in The Colonies, and was rewarded by the King with a number of *landgraves* - each one 42,000 acres of Carolina land. [It was not divided into North and South Carolina until 1729, and he later became a governor of the vast territory, from 1693-1694.]
He was a very successful shipping merchant, planter, the town surgeon and mayor of Charles Town. As was common at that time, when his wife died giving birth, he married quickly to provide a mother to the child and his older ones.
His choice was the widow of the Dutchman who created Medway Plantation west of town. Most of the bricks used in building Charles Town came from there.
With a large family and his shipping business, they lived opposite that in his house right across the street from the river.
In the Spring Plantation Tour of 1968, my sister Anne and I did the all day, 3-county circuit of famous plantations, and Medway was the last stop.
Not being snobbish, and a tad irreverent, we took photos of one another by "Papa Tom's" gravesite..:)) At the time, I lived just 6 miles from it, but it is open to the public only once a year.