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  Annotations on - Experience, Labours, and Sufferings of Rev. James Jenkins, of the South Carolina Conference. Printed for the Author. 1842.

  John Benjamin Burroughs

  The Rev. James Jenkins was born in the Britton’s Neck section of the old Georgetown Judicial District in 1764. This article contains selected entries of his journal which recount some of his experiences during the American Revolutionary War in the area that is now Horry, Georgetown, Williamsburg, Marion, Dillon and Florence Counties in South Carolina. He and his older brothers were part of the famed Gen. Francis Marion’s Brigade, which thwarted the British Southern Strategy in South Carolina. By keeping the revolution alive in South Carolina, the work of Marion’s Brigade contributed greatly to the ultimate result of the British evacuating South Carolina only to be trapped in Yorktown, Virginia where they surrendered. Annotations have been added to help clarify his descriptions.

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  Annotations on - A New Voyage to Georgia. By a Young Gentleman. (1734)

  John Benjamin Burroughs

  An account of a “young gentleman” from London, England describing his travels in the colonies of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. These annotated excerpts focus on his time in South Carolina, particularly in the region of the Waccamaw River, and give us an early description of the area that is now Horry (oh-ree) County, South Carolina from the viewpoint of an Englishman in 1734.

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  Col. Francis Nash's Revolutionary War Encampment on Little River Neck, Horry County, South Carolina

  John Benjamin Burroughs

  This article gives details about the encampment of Revolutionary War troops, commanded by Col. Francis Nash, on Little River Neck in December 1776. It contains excerpts from the account of Hugh McDonald. Little River Neck is private property located in the northeastern corner of Horry County, South Carolina.

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  Excerpts from - The Diary of Rev. George Whitefield, 1740

  John Benjamin Burroughs

  In 1740, Rev. George Whitefield (1714-1770), probably the most famous religious figure of the eighteenth century, passed through what is now Horry County, S.C. Whitefield was an English Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. The spiritual revival he ignited, the Great Awakening, became one of the most formative events in American history. This article contains two entries from his diary, written as he travelled along the coastline in the vicinity of present-day Myrtle Beach. One is a humorous account of his encounter with New Year’s Day revelers and the other an account of the unspoiled beauty of the ocean's strand. His oratory skills were so great that the renown 18th century British actor, David Garrick, said, "I would give a hundred guineas, if I could say 'Oh' like Mr. Whitefield."

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  Annotations on - An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862, By William Wyndham Malet

  John Benjamin Burroughs

  The Rev. William Wyndham Malet visited South Carolina in the summer of 1862. He left his vicarage at Ardeley, Hertfordshire, England, to come to South Carolina to tell his sister, Mrs. Plowden C. J. Weston (formerly Emily Frances Esdaile), of a death in their family. While in South Carolina he spent the summer in Conwayboro (Conway) at Snow Hill, the war time refuge of Plowden C. J. Weston (Lt. Gov. of S.C. 1862-1864). Weston had evacuated his home, Hagley Plantation, on the lower Waccamaw River and moved his wife and approximately forty of his slaves upriver to Snow Hill in order to avoid Union forces who were looting the homes along the lower Waccamaw River. In the following annotated extracted passages the Englishman describes his arrival at Conwayboro, South Carolina and gives some details about plantation life during the Confederate War period.

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  Annotations on Selected Entries – The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury [1771-1816]

  John Benjamin Burroughs

  English-born Francis Asbury (1745-1816), famed bishop of the American Methodist movement, visited the area that is now known as Horry County, South Carolina several times during the period 1785 to 1815. Asbury spread Methodism in America as part of the Second Great Awakening. In his journal and letters he left us several interesting accounts of the area and its residents. Annotations have been added in order to clarify his remarks.

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  Annotations on - Travels in the Confederation [1783-1784], Journal of Johann David Schoepf

  John Benjamin Burroughs

  Johann David Schoepf was born in 1752 in the German principality of Bayreuth. Educated as a physician and natural scientist, he arrived at New York in 1777 as chief surgeon of the Ansbach troops in the service of George III. Returning to Europe in 1784, Schoepf died in 1800 while serving as president of the United Medical Colleges of Ansbach and Bayreuth. In these selected passages, Schoepf describes his travel along the north-eastern coastline of South Carolina, through what is now Horry County, and along the beach of Long Bay, now known as Myrtle Beach. He gives a description of an indigo plantation located just above what is now called Singleton Swash and describes both the flora and fauna along his route. Annotations have been added to help clarify his entries.

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  Excerpts from - The Diary of George Washington, 1791

  John Benjamin Burroughs

  In 1791 President George Washington travelled through the southern states in an effort to unify into one country the newly independent American states. This article contains two diary entries recording his visit through the All Saints Parish section of what is now Horry County, South Carolina on April 27 and 28, 1791. Three local residences are mentioned: Mr. Cochran’s, Mr. Vareen’s and Mr. Pawley’s.

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  In Search of Uauenee (or the Great Bluff)

  John Benjamin Burroughs

  This article challenges the opinion of some that the "Great Bluff", mentioned in the Indian Trade Commissioners Journal, 1716-1718, and the site of a early Indian Trading House, was located on the Yauhannah Bluff in Georgetown County. It makes an argument that the "Great Bluff" was actually the bluff on Bull Creek in present-day Horry County and that the Indian Trading House was located there. Excerpts of the Indian Trade Commissioners Journal from 1716-1718 are provided.