Louis Manigault (1828-1899) was a member of a prominent and influential family of rice planters from South Carolina and Georgia. In 1833, his father, Charles Manigault (1795-1874), purchased Gowrie and East Hermitage plantations located on Argyle Island in the Savannah River, several miles upstream from the port of Savannah. Louis managed these properties for his father from the 1850s through the Civil War and Reconstruction.\n\nThe Manigault Plantation Journal, compiled by Louis Manigault between 1856 and 1879, includes information on plantation life, slaves and slavery, rice cultivation, market conditions, accounts, and other topics. Notes and memoranda kept by Charles Manigault regarding the plantations during the 1830s and 1840s were pasted into the journal.
A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony,
A new look at a 425-year-old map has yielded a tantalizing clue about the fate of the Lost Colony, the settlers who disappeared from North Carolina's Roanoke Island in the late 16th century.
First Colony Foundation
British Museum in London
the "Virginea Pars" map of Virginia and North Carolina
they moved westward up the Albemarle Sound to the confluence of the Chowan and Roanoke rivers,
James Horn, vice president of research and historical interpretation at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and author of a 2010 book about the Lost Colony.
their clear intention, marked on the map
in what is modern-day Bertie County in northeastern North Carolina – hides what appears to be a fort. Another symbol, appearing to be the very faint image of a different kind of fort, is drawn on top of the patch.
the fort symbol could indicate where the settlers went.
"First Colony Foundation researchers believe that it could mark, literally and symbolically, `the way to Jamestown.'
When he came back, the colony was gone.
"CROATOAN"
White made the map and other drawings when he traveled to Roanoke Island in 1585 on an expedition commanded by Sir Ralph Lane. In 1587, a second colony of 116 English settlers landed on Roanoke Island, led by White.
what happened to the 95 or so settlers,
Brent Lane, a member of the board of the First Colony Foundation, asked a seemingly obvious question: What's under those two patches?
But the other covered the possible fort symbol, which is visible only when the map is viewed in a light box.
"If this was such an accurate map and it was so critical to their mission, why in the world did it have patches on it? This important document was being shown to investors and royalty to document the success of this mission. And it had patches on it like a hand-me-down."
The land where archaeologists would need to dig eventually is privately owned, and some of it could be under a golf course and residential community. So excavating won't begin anytime soon.
"The search for the colonists didn't start this decade; it didn't start this century. It started as soon as they were found to be absent from Roanoke Island ... I would say every generation in the last 400 years has taken this search on."
The Ozarks Genealogical Society, Inc. (OGS) owns over 8000 books and hundreds of microfilm, microfiche, manuscripts and periodicals. Half of the collection is housed at the OGS library at 534 West Catalpa, Springfield, and the other half is located at the Springfield-Greene County Library Center, 4653 South Campbell, Springfield.
The collection emphasizes the southwest area of Missouri and the areas east of Missouri where our ancestors originated. Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia are strongly emphasized. New England, the Middle Atlantic states and the Midwest are prominent in the collection.
Our library books are now included in the online catalog of the Consortium of Ozarks Libraries website. The books housed at the OGS Library are listed under the Ozarks Genealogical Society. The books at the Library Center are listed in the Springfield-Greene County Library collection. Remember to search both listings!
This is the web site of the Grand Strand Genealogy Club, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We meet on the second Saturday of the month at 10 AM at Chapin Memorial Library, 14th Ave North and Kings Highway.
The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.
Reviewed in the Dec/Jan 2010 issue of Internet Genealogy by Diane L. Richard
The Digital Library on American Slavery offers data on race and slavery extracted from eighteenth and nineteenth-century documents and processed over a period of eighteen years. The Digital Library contains detailed information on about 150,000 individuals, including slaves, free people of color, and whites. These data have been painstakingly extracted from 2,975 legislative petitions and 14,512 county court petitions, and from a wide range of related documents, including wills, inventories, deeds, bills of sale, depositions, court proceedings, amended petitions, among others. Buried in these documents are the names and other data on roughly 80,000 individual slaves, 8,000 free people of color, and 62,000 whites, both slave owners and non-slave owners
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