Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Colonial Development: An Address Delivered by Gen'l Edw; McCrady Before the South Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America, April 26, 1897
Upon the overthrow of the Proprietary and other establishments of the Royal Government the first Governor sent out was the eccentric, but liberal, Sir Francis Nicholson. Before his connection with the province he had made a contribution to the Provincial Library in 1712, and he now brought with him instructions for the encouragement of schools. Dr Ramsay unfortunately made a statement that there was no grammar school in South Carolina prior to 1730, except the free school in Charleston; that from 1730 till 1776 there were no more than four or five, and all in or near Charleston. This state ment of Dr Ramsay was and has been seized upon as the basis of the gravest charges of ignorance on the part of the colonists of South Carolina. Prof Mc Master, in the first volume of his history of the United States, published in 1883.
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