1737 – Religion

John Wesley

John Wesley left Charlestown for England, ending his ministry in Georgia.

1825 – Fire

A fire destroyed parts of King Street with damages estimated to be at least $80,000. Authorities determined it was the work of arsonists. Over the next several weeks, more fires were set nightly. With the Denmark Vesey slave conspiracy still fresh in resident’s mind, it was thought the arsonists were slaves.

1830

The Charleston Courier reported:

The public are respectfully informed that the Rail Road Company has purchased from Mr. E.L. Miller his locomotive steam engine and that it will hereafter be constantly employed in the transportation of passengers. The time of leaving the station in Line Street will be 8 o’clock, at 10 a.m. at 1 and half past three o’ clock p.m.. Great punctuality will be observed in the time of starting.

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1854 – Slavery

Robert Smalls, a slave harbor pilot married hotel maid Hannah Jones.

1860

South Carolina legislature published The Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union, also known as the South Carolina Declaration of Secession. Written mainly by Christopher Gustav Memminger, it explained the reasons for South Carolina’s secession from the Union. Memminger later served as first Secretary of Treasury for the Confederate Government.

FOR full text of the “Declaration”, CLICK HERE. 

Christopher G. Memminger