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Updates on the events, exhibits, archives and staff of the South Carolina Historical Society.

March, 1767: Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson Gives Birth to a Future President

Elizabeth Hutchinson was born in Ireland as was her husband, Andrew Jackson, Sr. They married around 1761 and emigrated to …

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February, 1870: First African American elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court

February 1, 1870 Jonathan Jasper Wright was born in Pennsylvania on February 11, 1840. The son of a runaway slave, he …

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January, 1760: A Smallpox Epidemic Sweeps the Lowcountry

Smallpox, a highly contagious disease, was a constant threat to colonists in South Carolina. Most of the epidemics that ravaged …

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December, 1718: The Pirate Stede Bonnet is Hung in Charleston

December 10, 1718 Stede Bonnet was born in Barbados in 1688.  His father was a planter but both parents died shortly …

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