John Peyre Thomas essay and speeches, 1938.

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John Peyre Thomas essay and speeches, 1938.

Three notebooks containing typescript writings by John Peyre Thomas, Jr. which include an essay on botanist Thomas Walter, a speech about Nicholas Trott, and a speech concerning South Carolina political history (1800-1860), which consists mainly of notes taken from David Duncan Wallace's History of South Carolina.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7337706

South Carolina Historical Society

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Trott, Nicholas, 1663-1740

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Epithet: senior; Governor of the Bahama Islands British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x00032a Chief Justice of South Carolina and member of the South Carolina Commons House of Assembly. Trott came to Charleston in 1699 as attorney-general for part of the province. From the description of Report and letters regarding the invasion of South Carolina, 1706. (The South Carolina Historical Society). Wor...

Thomas, John Peyre, b. 1857.

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Columbia, South Carolina attorney. From the description of John Peyre Thomas essay and speeches, 1938. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32140128 ...

Walter, Thomas, 1740?-1788

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Thomas Walter (ca. 1740-1788) was an early figure in American botany. Born in Hampshire, England, he immigrated to South Carolina in the 1760s and acquired a plantation on the Santee River in South Carolina, where he prepared his Flora Caroliniana, published in 1788. This publication used the Linnaeus' system of classification. He also had a herbarium which contained all of the specimens described in his book. From the description of Flora Caroliniana, secundum systema vegetabilium p...