Author: Daniel

  • Buy our Books about Colonial South Carolina History!

    We have received several requests for information as to where our books can be purchased.  Thank you for your interest.  Please buy a lot of our books.  The Proprietary Records of South Carolina can be bought from: The History Press, www.history.press.net The Huguenot Society of South Carolina, www.huguenotsociety.org Barnes and Noble in Mount Pleasant, SC The…

  • Boyd Symposium, Danson House, Bexley-heath, near London

    The recent Boyd Symposium, held at Danson House in Bexleyheath near London, England, was a wonderful success. Danson House was built in the late 18th century by John Boyd, grandson of Jean Boyd whose 1686 letter from Charles Towne, with a map and botanical drawings, was published in 2006.  Sponsored by the Bexley Heritage Trust,…

  • Researching Colonial Records in England

    Cheves is off to London to visit the Queen – well, perhaps she won’t really visit the Queen, perhaps she will just give papers at a meeting of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland and at the Boyd Symposium at Danson House in England. She and fellow historian Dee Ressinger will join other…

  • Our New Website

    Welcome to our new redesigned website courtesy of Daniel Bates who designs websites for McClellanville businesses at MCVL.net.  Cheves and I are not great on the Internet and are not bloggers. We use our computers more as typewriters! But this site is easy to use and manage and we only have to add an occasional “note”…