The name Gibbes, found on the most fantastic of the tablets in Goose Creek church, belongs to an old and well-known Cavalier family of Kent, England, who removed to At Dorchester we are near the head wa- Barbadoes at the time of the king's imters of the Ashley. Crossing to the eastward, prisonment, and thence came to Carolina. we find Goose Creek, a branch of the Coop- The name appears on the old paper money, er, for these two Charleston rivers, in all among the governors of the province, and their course, are not far apart. Goose Creek, in the company of patriots who were sent seventeen miles from Charleston, is a classic as prisoners to St. Augustine, Florida, durregion, in spite of its name. It was once ing the Revolutionary war. At a later date the most wealthy and most thickly settled one of this family was noted for his wit, neighborhood in the province, and the fa- and many of his odd sayings and doings vorite residence of distinguished families, have come down to this day, among them who owned plantations also in other locali- the following: "After the Revolution Mr ties, but chose this for their home. The lit- Gibbes found himself, like most others, in tle stream which flows through the lovely narrow circumstances, and cpened a countland curves as a goose's neck curves-ating-house as broker and auctioneer. A gang least so they said-and they seem to have of negroes was sent to him for sale, and

"Honest Ralph," a name called "Rafe" about the same time an English trader call-in Carolina, was a member of the Izard fam

ed with an invoice of wigs to inquire if ily, who resided at the "Elms," an old planthere was any chance of selling them. He tation in Goose Creek Parish. He obtained had been deceived by some wag in England, his title from Landgrave Smith, the influwho had told him that wigs (Whigs) were ential Dissenter, who angrily writes it in a all the rage now in America. Mr. Gibbes, letter to England, dated June 3, 1703, the however, promptly undertook to dispose of subject being some obnoxious legislation the wigs, and immediately advertised to which grew out of an attempt to make all sell the negroes on a certain day, each hav- the members of the Assembly conform to ing on a new and fashionable wig.' Accord- the worship of the Church of England. It ingly on the day of sale a great company could hardly have been the first Rafe, howassembled, and the negroes were put upon ever, who groaned out the reply; more probthe stand, each with a powdered wig over ably it was a descendant-the Rafe whose his black wool, the wigs to be paid for at a marble tablet now adorns the walls of Goose guinea each, let the negroes sell for what Creek church, and whose quaint old hatchthey would. The novelty and humor of the ment, said to be the only hatchment in this idea aroused the audience, the bids were country, is still to be seen there. This hatchlively, and the negroes, with their powder- ment was borne before the body into the ed head-gear of long queues and great rolls church at the time of the funeral, and reof curls, were all well sold." mained there, hanging upon the wall, according to the English custom, after the body was committed to the ground. The Izards, one of the wealthiest families of colonial times, came to Carolina in 1694. The Rafe of Revolutionary fame was dele

It was at Goose Creek church that the rector, after the capture of Charleston by the British and the extension of their lines through the neighborhood, read one Sunday morning, in conformity with the English

gate to Congress in 1781, and upon the formation of the United States government served as Senator from South Carolina for six years. His wife, Mistress Izard, was the beautiful Miss Alice De Lancey, of Westchester County, New York. There is in the old Manigault mansion in Charleston a large painting, by Copley, representing Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard, life-size, seated at a table, the lady holding a sketch she has just made. This fine work was executed in Rome in 1774, and is considered one of the best of Copley's works. Mr. Izard agreed to pay one

thousand dollars

for it, but, owing to the embarrassments of | of the Campbells, a British officer, called by the Revolution, he was unable to comply his companions "Mad Archy," on account with the terms of the agreement, and after the painting was finished it was rolled up and put away in Copley's garret in London, where it remained until 1825 (fifty years), when it was paid for and brought to America by Mr. Izard's grandson, the late Mr. Charles Manigault, of Charleston. There is also a smaller portrait of Mistress Izard, which is very beautiful.

of the violence of his temper, made a great sensation once at Goose Creek during the time when the British were occupying Charleston. He drove up one morning to the door of the church, and called to the rector, who happened to be within, "Come out, worthy Sir." The rector appeared at the door, and saw the soldier, who had by his side a young lady, well known and beauWhen Lafayette revisited this country tiful, of good family and position. "Marry in 1824, Henry Izard, Esq., then residing at us immediately," said Mad Archy. But the the Elms, built especially for his reception good rector hesitated. "Did the lady's a lodge called "Lafayette Hall," attached friends give consent?" "That makes no to the main body of the house-an apart- difference," said Mad Archy; and drawing ment which still bears the name. Lafay-out his pistols, he swore that the rector ette's visit was the occasion of great festivi- should marry them instantly, or lose his life ties in South Carolina; it was on her shores that he first landed, nearly fifty years before, when he came on his generous errand to assist the struggling colonists; it was by a South Carolina gentleman, Major Huger, that he was received there and sent by carriage to Charleston, where arrangements were made for his journey northward. It was this Major Huger's son who afterward released him from the prison at Olmütz, and when Lafayette revisited Carolina the two had the pleasure of a long interview.

Lord William Campbell, brother of the Duke of Argyle, the last of the royal governors of the province, married Miss Sarah Izard, a member of this family. Another

on the spot. The poor minister, knowing well the violence of his temper, went through the service then and there, and the twain, made one, drove away. The young lady had no idea, it seems, of marrying Mad Archy, but was terrified into silence. They went to England, but even eager rumor does not say that they were unhappy together, in spite of the summary wooing and wedding.

In old Goose Creek church-yard lie many of the descendants of Landgrave Thomas Smith. This gentleman, one of Locke's Carolina nobility, was born in 1648, in the city of Exeter, Devonshire, England, and came to this country in 1671 with his lovely

YEAMANS HALL, GOOSE CREEK.

young wife, a German baroness, whose por- fifty-seven in New Charles-town. His old trait is said to have been so beautiful that town-house, at the corner of East Bay and it was cut out of its frame and carried away Longitude Lane, now, at the present writby a British officer during the Revolution; ing, being torn down at last, was an elethe empty frame still hangs on the walls gant mansion in its day, with walls and of the old Smith mansion, Yeamans Hall, ceilings stuccoed in large panels. He reGoose Creek. With the landgrave came a sided, however, most of the year at Goose brother, who went to Boston; from him were Creek, where he built on his Back River descended Isaac Smith, called "the Deacon," plantation the first brick house in Carolina, and the father of the wife of John Adams, still standing. He afterward removed to President of the Yeamans Hall, a mansion built by Sir John United States. Yeamans prior to 1680; the exact date is Upon his arrival not known. This old house, which has rein Carolina Thom- mained in the possession of the landgrave's as Smith received descendants ever since, was surrounded by lots forty-one and an earth-work, and had port-holes in its

walls as a defense against the Indians; in the cellar was a deep well for supplying the garrison with water in case of a siege, and a subterraneous passage, whose entrance can still be seen, led out under the garden to the creek, where boats were kept securely concealed. Within, the halls were painted in landscapes, little gilded cherubs spread their wings over the arches, the guest chamber was hung with Gobelin tapestry, the floors tessellated, and the apartments adorned

with statues. There is in this old mansion a secret chamber, a small space between two walls, with a sliding panel leading into it; it was used as a hiding-place for valuables in times of danger, and during the Revolution the family silver was safely se

William Carle of Craven~

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governo of the Provind of

creted there. The little cham- Carolina:

ber held a living occupant once, a boy named Paul, who secreted himself there for three weeks, only coming out at night, the mistress of the household supposing, meanwhile, that he had been carried off by Indians. The little hiding-place, which is still known as Paul's Hole, was called into service again during the late war, when it safely concealed the family valuables while a party of soldiers ransacked the house in vain from garret to cellar. Old Yeamans Hall has its ghost story, as so old and dignified a mansion should have, of course. A lovely ancestral old lady, dressed in black silk, and with a white muslin handkerchief pinned across her breast, arose from her grave and appeared before a governess, who sat in her room at Yeamans Hall reading a novel on the Sabbath-day. Probably the ancestral old lady considered the education | office galled him; he found himself unable, of her granddaughter endangered. The means she used were efficacious, for we are assured that the governess immediately became pious. The story relates with care that the novel was called The Turkish Spy. There is a comfort in knowing just what it

was.

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LANDGRAVE SMITH'S COMMISSION AS GOVERNOR.

In 1691 Thomas Smith was made a landgrave, or, in the language of the old document, "Thomas Smith, a person of singular merit, very serviceable by his great prudence and industry," was constituted a landgrave of Carolina, together with four baronies of twelve thousand acres each, the said title and the four baronies to descend forever to his legal heirs. Three years later he was appointed to the highest office in the gift of the lords proprietors, that of Governor of the province. He was at that time a man highly esteemed by all, possessing clear, strong judgment and energy of character, and removed above all petty ambitions by his position and wealth. But, as often happens in such cases, the duties of

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in the perplexing and diverse quarrels of
the colonists, to come out instantly for the
right, or what he at least considered the
right, and finally he frankly wrote to the
lords proprietors and told them that they
must send over one of their own number
with full powers for emergencies, but as for
himself, he could not and would not hold
the office longer. This "clear-headed, stern,
faith-abiding Puritan" died almost immedi-
ately afterward, and was buried on his Back
River plantation by the side of his wife, the
beautiful Baroness Barbary. The old stone,
broken in twain, still marks the grave; it
bears the following inscription:

Here Lyet. ye Body of ye Right Honorable
THOMAS SMITH, Esquire,

one of y Landgraves of Carolina,
who departed this life ye 16th November, 1694,
Governor of ye Province,

in ye 46th year of his Age.

To Landgrave Smith we owe, it is said, the law by which names of jurors are drawn indiscriminately from a box. He also planted