John Blount Miller papers, 1796-1851.

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John Blount Miller papers, 1796-1851.

Volume, 1796-1800, 1824, Acts Resolutions and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, 1796-1800, with a separate subject index; volume, 1824, Andrew Fuller's The backslider : The Christian doctrine of rewards : and The discipline of the primitive churches. Scrapbook, 1851, Sumter, S.C., newspaper clippings re Southern rights, secession, and other political subjects, taken from the Courier, Charleston; the Mercury, Charleston; the Southern Standard, Charleston; the Tri-Weekly Southern Patriot, Greenville; and the Black River Watchman, Sumter, S.C.; Also including undated index to a pamphlet series entitled "Politics." Blount family history materials include a volume, 1835-1851, titled The Records of the Blount Family &c" [on microfilm R.238], giving an account of descendants of James Blount, a native of Wales, and later a resident of Virginia and North Carolina, with names of persons who supplied information.

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S.C. Statute 1811(5)639 specified that every board of commissioners of free schools was to make a yearly return to the legislature. Governor Middleton recommended the passage of this act as a response to the systematic lack of education in the state. The first appropriation made possible 124 elementary schools for the state. As the system progressed, the term "free school" became embarrassingly exchangeable with pauper schools, because the 1811 act carried within it a written directive that an a...

Blunt family.

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Fuller, Andrew, 1754-1815

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Clergyman. From the description of Andrew Fuller letter, 1810. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450363 ...

Miller, John Blount, 1782-1851.

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Planter and lawyer of Sumter, S.C.; merchant of Savannah, Ga.; born in Charleston S.C.; studied law in Camden, S.C., and Charleston, S.C.; member of the Nullification Convention of S.C., 1851; officer during War of 1812. From the description of John Blount Miller papers, 1796-1851. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 41069931 County official serving as Commissioner of Equity in area formerly known as Sumter District, S.C., an area under jurisdiction of counti...