Mary Musgrove Warns Butler Of Tory Treachery On Night Visit
Mary Musgrove awakens Butler and Robinson with a hushed warning about a planned Tory ambush at dawn. She pleads to ride the Dogwood Spring and left fork warning, fearing for the Continental officers' safety and hoping John Ramsay would understand.
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Watty
Robinson
Mr. Butler
Wat Adair
Dick Rowley
Congaree
Cross
Butler
Mary
Musgrove
Adair
Allen Musgrove
Ennoree
Mary Musgrove
Camden
General Washington
Congress
Washington
John Romaay
John Ramsay
General Sumpter
Peggy
Mildred
Cornwallis
Gates
Michael
Lynch
Arthur Butler
Hugh Habershaw
Mike
Major Butler
Dogwood
Mike Lynch
Scratch
Liberty
John
Mr. Galbraith Robinson
Walter
Devil
Ghost Testimony and Murder in a 19th Century Trial
A sensational case from Bodleian deposits recounts Anne Walker murdered by a farmer after a ghost described the crime. The body was found, and both culprits were hanged amid juror ghostly testimony claims. A later Highland murder tale hinged on a Gaelic speaking ghost, whose language saved two men at Edinburgh court.
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Bodleian Library
Anne Walker
Scott
Braemar
Hill of
Christie
Court of Justiciary
Edinburgh
Lochaber
London Daily Standard
Fighting the Spaniards and the Carolina settlement
The Yorkville Enquirer narrative outlines Carolina under the 1680s proprietors, English and Scotch arrivals, and the Port Royal and Charles Town settlements. It recounts Cardross and Blake migrations, Morton governance, legislated acts, a Spanish attack from St Augustine, muster of defense funds, Colleton’s abrupt halt to a doomed raid, and the arrival of Huguenots before the colony’s growth amid internal fault lines.
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Europe
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Ashley River
Joseph West
George Monk
Ashley
Tower
Clarendon
John Locke
Holland
Charles the Second
James
James the Second
Charles
Huddleston
America
South Carolina
Joseph Blake
Lord Cardross
Scotland
Blake
Somersetshire
Joseph Morton
Carolna
Cardross
Carolina
Port Royal
Stuart
William Dunlop
Charles Town
Grand Council
Morton
Thomas Cooper
Robert Quarry
John Godfrey
Paul Grimball
Stephen Bull
Joseph Morton, Jr
John Farr
Will Dunlop
St. Augustine
Antonio and
Wina
Edisto
James Colleton
Barbadoes
Colleton
Spain
France
Nantz
Craven County
Santee
Gambling on Atlantic Liners Sparks Ship Company Critique
A reader reports on professional gamblers aboard Atlantic liners, claiming ship companies enable the vice. He cites seven named gang members on a White Star voyage, including a youthful woman, with losses totaling £160 in one sitting and £600 from another passenger, urging carriers to refuse passage to curb the racket.
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United States
Blackleg
America
Canada
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