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- Abercromby, James
- absentee landownership: agents for landowners; criticism of; definition; in Georgia; in Ireland; and slave revolts; in the West Indies
- absentee landownership in South Carolina; and agency; agents and attorneys; acquisition of absentee-owned property; conceptions of; legal framework; and plantation management; retaining assets; return on investment; seasonal practice; and slavery; taxation; tenants
- Act to Regulate the Recovery and Payment of Debts (1787)
- Aix-la-Chapelle, Treaty of (1748)
- American Intercourse Bill (1783)
- American Prohibitory Act (1775)
- Ancrum, George
- Ancrum, William
- Anson, George
- Ansonborough
- anti-federalists
- Articles of Confederation
- Atkin, Edmund
- Austin, George
- Baker Jr., William
- Baker, Sir William
- Ball, Elias
- Barbados
- Barnard, Sir John
- Beckford, William
- Belmont Plantation
- Belvoir Plantation
- Beswicke, John; background; death; Indian trade; indigo trade; Little London estate; marriage; partnerships; relocation to London; store in Charles Town; success of; taxes
- Beswicke (nee Hill), Mary
- Bird, Savage & Bird
- Board of Trade
- Boone, Charles
- Boone, Thomas
- Boston Tea Party
- bounties; hemp; indigo; naval stores
- Bourdieu & Chollet
- Bourdieu, James
- Bowles, William
- Brailsford & Morris
- Brailsford, Samuel
- Brailsford, William
- Bridgen & Waller
- Bridgen, Edward
- Bristol
- Broughton Island Plantation
- Brown, John
- Bryan, Jonathan
- Bull, William
- Burke, Aedanus
- Burn, John
- Burnard, Trevor
- Burrell, Peter
- Bushnell, Benjamin
- Camden
- Camden Mead Plantation
- Campbell, Duncan
- Campbell, Lord William
- Cape Finisterre
- Carne & Wilson
- Carne, Samuel
- Page 250 →Champion, Richard
- Charles Town (Charleston); and absentees; anti-British sentiment; auctions; becomes a city; British share of foreign shipping; buildings; civil government; coastal shipping; commercial equilibrium; fire (1740); incorporation; overstocking of goods; population; postwar trade; property ownership; recapture by British forces (1780); rents; riots; St Michael’s Church; St Philip’s Church; site of; Stamp Act (1765), reactions to; stores; tea party (1773); trading in Charles Town; unsuitable merchandise; wharves. See also merchants, Charles Town
- Charleywood Plantation
- Child, Josiah, New Discourse on Trade
- Chollet, Samuel
- citizenship
- Clark & Milligan
- Clark, John
- Clinton, Sir Henry
- Coclanis, Peter
- Coercive Acts [Intolerable Acts] (1774)
- coffeehouses: Carolina Coffee House; Garraway’s Coffee House
- Colleton family
- Colleton, James Edward
- Colleton, James Nassau
- Colleton, John
- Colleton, Margaret; absentee landownership; confiscation of land
- colonial agents; and absenteeism; background; co-ordination of lobbying; Crokatt, James as; duties; Fury, Peregrine as; Garth, Charles as
- Colonial Debt Recovery Act (1732)
- Columbia
- Confiscation Acts (1782)
- Connecticut
- Continental Congress
- Corbett, Thomas
- Cornwallis, Lord
- cotton
- Cowes
- Crokatt, Charles
- Crokatt, Daniel
- Crokatt, Elizabeth
- Crokatt, James; advertisements; agent for South Carolina; agricultural innovation; background; civic duties in Charles Town; credit; death; debtors; evidence to Parliament; and Henry Laurens; Indian trade; indigo; lobbying and petitioning; London premises; Luxborough Hall; marriage; partnerships; philanthropy; potash lobbying; property in South Carolina; relocation to London; retirement; salt lobbying; silk lobbying; slave trade; slavery; and the Stamp Act; store in Charles Town; success of; taxes
- Crokatt, John
- Crokatt, (nee Gaillard), Esther
- Crowfield Plantation
- Crugar, Henry
- Cumine, Alexander
- Dartmouth, Earl of
- Davis & Strachan
- Decker, Sir Matthew, Essay on the Causes of the Decline of the Foreign Trade
- deerskins
- DeSaussure, Daniel
- Dinwiddie, Robert
- Drayton, John
- Dupont Jr., Gideon
- duties; rice; slave trade; tobacco; Townshend duties
- Page 251 →East India Company
- Edelson, Max
- Edwards Jr., John
- Egmont, Earl of
- Elton, Abraham
- Falmouth
- federalists
- Fisher, Brice
- FitzSimons, Thomas
- Florida
- Fox, Charles James
- France
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Free British Fishery Society
- Freeman, Jr., William
- Freeman, Sr., William
- French West Indies
- Friendly Society
- Fury, Peregrine
- Gadsden, Christopher
- Garden, Alexander
- Garth, Charles; appointment as colonial agent; background; hemp, lobbying on; indigo, lobbying on; Mutiny Act (1765); rice, lobbying on; Stamp Act (1765); Townshend duties
- Gee, Joshua; The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Considered
- Gentleman’s Magazine
- Georgetown
- Georgia; absenteeism; absentees, legal treatment of; citizenship; civil government; debt claims; indigo; population; in Revolutionary War; rice; trade
- Germain, Lord George
- Gillon, Alexander
- Glasgow
- Glen, James; description of South Carolina; on James Crokatt; land ownership
- Godin, Benjamin
- Godin, David
- Godin, Stephen
- Gosport
- Graham & Simpson
- Graham, Clark & Co
- Graham, John
- Graham, Johnson & Co
- Granville, Earl of
- Gray, Henry
- Greenwood & Higginson; consignment of tea to Charles Town (1773); debts and compensation
- Greenwood Jr. William
- Greenwood, William; background; death; evidence to Parliament; property ownership; Stamp Act (1765); wartime lobbying
- Grenville, George
- Grenville, William
- Grubb & Watson
- Grubb, Richard
- Guadeloupe
- Guerard, Benjamin
- Guinand, Henry
- Guinand, Joseph
- Habersham, James
- Haggatt Hall Plantation
- Hall, Timothy
- hemp
- Hemp Act (1764)
- Higginson, William
- Hillsborough, Lord
- Hope & Hope
- Hopton, John
- indigo; bounties; cultivation; exports from South Carolina; exports from South Carolina and Georgia; lobbying; London’s trade dominance; perceptions of Carolina dye; sharp practices; trade in
- Indigo Bounty Act (1748)
- Inglis, George
- Izard, Ralph; background; on consignment of tea to Charles Town (1773); view of London Carolina traders
- Page 252 →Jacksonborough
- Jamaica
- Jay Treaty (1794)
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Johnson, Samuel
- Kettleby, Abel
- King, Isaac; background; debts; property in South Carolina; relocation to Bristol
- Kinloch, James
- Knox, William
- Lancaster
- Laurens, Henry; on absenteeism; background; on debt; on fraud; imprisonment; and James Crokatt; plantations; on postwar trade; slave trade; vice-admiralty courts; view of London Carolina merchants
- Laurens, James
- Lee, William
- Lindo, Moses
- Linwood, Nicholas
- Liverpool
- Lloyd, John
- lobbying and petitioning; and advocacy; against coercive legislation; defense lobbying; development of; emergence of a Carolina lobby in London; hemp; importance of, to South Carolina; indigo lobbying; London lobbying and Charles Town commerce; London lobbying in the early 1740s; loyalists; petitioning; and philanthropy; and political changes; potash lobbying; on pre-war debts; for reasons of commercial expediency; rice lobbying; against Royal Navy impressment; salt lobbying; silk lobbying; strong leadership; wartime lobbying
- London Chronicle
- London, City of; composition and organization of London’s Carolina trade; emergence of a Carolina lobby in London; insurance companies; lobbying in the early 1740s; London’s Carolina trade, concentration of; maps; population; River Thames; Royal Exchange; slave trade; Thatched House Tavern; trade dominance; wards
- Lord, Andrew
- Lords Proprietors of Carolina
- Loyalist Claims Commission
- loyalists; attempts to recover debts; Confiscation Acts (1782); land ownership; lobbying British government; penalties; public opinion in Britain; South Carolina’s policy towards
- Lynch, Thomas
- Madeira
- Manning & Vaughan
- Manning, William
- Mansell, Walter
- Marine Anti-Britannic Society
- Marshall, Peter
- Martin, John
- Martinique
- Mathews, John
- McNair, Charles
- Mepkin Plantation
- Mepshew Plantation
- mercantilism
- merchants, Carolina merchants in London; accused of being cabal; assessing debts in the 1790s; boycotts of; Charles Town merchants’ views of; and Coercive Acts (1774); Committee of South Carolina Page 253 →Merchants and Traders; concentration within City of London; counting houses; defense lobbying; emergence of a Carolina lobby in London; estates in Britain; extension of credit; indigo lobbying; investment strategy; investments/property ownership in Britain; loans to British government; London’s Carolina trade, composition and organization of; petitioning; philanthropy; politics; postwar visits to South Carolina; and the postwar Carolina trade; potash lobbying; pre-war debts; pro-American sympathizers; recovering debts; regarded as politically hostile to American colonies; relocation to London; reluctance to intervene in political disputes; resentment by Charles Town trading partners; rice lobbying; silk lobbying; slave trade, avoidance of; Stamp Act (1765); strong leadership for lobbying; supposed fraudulent practices; taxes; and Townshend Duties; transatlantic partnerships; and vice-admiralty courts; wartime lobbying; wealth
- merchants, Charles Town; apprenticeships; British arrivals after 1783; civic responsibilities; debts; mistrust of London counterparts; partnerships; relocating to Britain; Scottish ethnicity; transatlantic partnerships; visits to Britain from 1783; wealth
- merchants, Dutch, in Charles Town
- merchants, French, perceptions in South Carolina
- merchants, London: Committee of London Merchants trading to North America; London’s Carolina trade, composition and organization of; London’s Carolina trade, concentration of; partnerships; philanthropy; and the postwar Carolina trade; prewar debt claims; pre-war trade, echoes of; pro-American sympathizers; trade directories
- merchants, Virginia merchants in London; lobbying and petitioning
- merchants, West Indies merchants in London; lobbying and petitioning
- Meredith, William
- Michie, James
- Middleton, Henry
- Middleton, Liston & Hope
- Middleton, William
- Molleson, William
- Morris, Thomas
- Mortimer’s Directory
- Mount Alexander Plantation
- Mutiny Act (1765)
- Myrtle Grove Plantation
- Nash, R. C.
- national interest; and trade
- Native Americans: agents for; threat from; trade with; Yamassee War
- naval stores; bounties; exports from South Carolina; sharp practices
- Navigation Acts
- Neufville, Edward
- New England
- New Hope Plantation
- New York
- Newfoundland
- Nicholson, Joseph; debts and compensation
- Page 254 →Nickleson & King
- Nickleson, John; background; death; property in Britain; relocation to London; as ship’s captain
- Nickleson, Sarah
- Nickleson, Shubricks & Co; government contracts; store in Charles Town
- Nicolson, Francis
- North Carolina
- North, Lord
- Nugent, Robert
- Nutt, John; background; character of; consignment of tea to Charles Town (1773); and credit; debts; evidence to Parliament; indigo trade; loans to British government; lobbying; relationship to James Crokatt; reputation; shunned by other merchants
- Ogilvie & Forbes
- Ogilvie & Ward
- Ogilvie, Charles; background; debts; house in Savannah; indigo trade; lobbying; plantations in Georgia; political affiliations; property in Britain; property in South Carolina; relocation to London; slave trade; wartime trade
- Ogilvie, George
- Ogilvie, James
- Ogilvie, John Alexander
- Ogilvie, (nee Michie), Mary
- Oliver, Richard
- Orders in Council: July 1783; May 1783
- Oswald, Richard
- paper currency
- Paris, Treaty of (1783); Article IV; Article V
- Pennsylvania
- petitioning. See lobbying and petitioning
- philanthropy
- Pinckney, Charles
- Pine Barren Act (1785)
- Pitt the Elder, William
- Pitt the Younger, William
- plantations: confiscations; return on investment; slave labor. See also absentee landownership in South Carolina
- Poole
- Portsmouth
- Portugal
- Postlethwaite, Malachy, Universal Directory of Trade
- Potash Act (1751)
- potash lobbying
- Powell & Hopton
- Powell, Robert
- Poyas, James
- Price, Jacob
- Pringle, Andrew
- Pringle, Joseph
- Pringle Jr., Robert
- Pringle, Robert; and apprenticeship; and defense lobbying; and impressment of men into the Royal Navy
- Public Advertiser
- Quebec
- Quenby Plantation
- Quincy Jr., Josiah
- Ramsay, David; History of South Carolina
- Raper, Robert
- Revenue Act (1767)
- Revolutionary War; American prisoners; British recapture of Charles Town (1780); Camden, Battle of; confiscation of land; loans to British government; Saratoga, Battle of
- Rhode Island
- rice: cultivation; European market; exports from South Carolina; Page 255 →import duty; lobbying
- Rice Act (1730)
- Rice Act (1764)
- Richfield Plantation
- Rockingham, Marquess of
- Rolleston, Christopher
- Royal Navy, impressment of sailors into
- St Andrew’s Society
- St Augustine
- St Eustatius
- St Kitts
- salt
- Savage, Benjamin
- Savannah
- Sawbridge, John
- Saxby, Henry, The British Customs
- Sheffield, Earl of
- Shelburne, Lord
- ships: Ann; Bedford; British share of foreign shipping; Cape Coast; captains; Charlestown Packet; Financier; Lightening; London; Lord North; Loyal Jane; Minerva; ownership of; Pelham; Rose, HMS; Speedwell; supercargos; Susannah; Tartar, HMS; Washington
- Shoolbred, John
- Shubrick II, Richard; background; death; lobbying; partnerships; property in Britain; property in South Carolina; relocation to London; as ship’s captain; success of; taxes
- Shubrick III, Richard; background; debts; property in South Carolina
- Shubrick, Thomas
- silk
- Silk Act (1750)
- Simmons, Ebenezer
- slave trade; avoidance of; British ports; duties on; extent of; mortality rate; profitability; resumption of (1783)
- slavery; and absenteeism; Indian; Stono Rebellion
- Smith, Adam
- Smith, Benjamin
- Smith, George
- Smith Jr., Josiah
- Smith, Roger
- Smith, William Loughton
- Smiths, DeSaussure & Darrell
- Smyth, Robert
- Sons of Liberty
- South Carolina: climate; Crown colony; description of; disaffection from Britain; economy; foundation of; indigo exports; and loyalists; population; postwar debt crisis; postwar land sales; resumption of Anglo-Carolinian trade; value to Britain
- South Carolina Assembly; Committee of Correspondence
- South Carolina Gazette
- South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal
- South Carolina Gazette and General Advertiser
- South Carolina Provincial Congress
- South Carolina Royal Council
- South Carolina Society
- South Carolina Weekly Gazette
- South Sea Company
- Spain: rice exports to; threat of; war with
- Stamp Act (1765); London merchant lobbying; reaction in Charles Town
- Page 256 →Stead, Benjamin
- Stephenson, Joseph
- Stone, William
- Stono Rebellion
- Sugar Act (1764)
- Tarleton, John
- Taylor, Peter
- tobacco
- Tobler, Johannes
- Townshend duties; and nonimportation movement
- trade: in Charles Town; credit and finance; illegal
- trade; and imperial crises; Indian trade; insurance; London’s Carolina trade, composition and organization of; London’s Carolina trade, concentration of; London’s dominance; and the ‘national interest’; non-importation movement; pre-war trade, echoes of; with Quebec; resumption of Anglo-Carolinian trade; resumption of trade with United States; transatlantic partnerships; volume between Britain and South Carolina; with West Indies. See also indigo; naval stores; rice
- Trinity House
- Tunno, Adam
- Tunno, John
- Udney, George
- United States: commercial policy; Constitution; economy; overseas trade; pre-war debts; pre-war debts, assessment of; rights of foreigners to own land; Supreme Court; trade with Britain
- Vaughan, Benjamin
- vice-admiralty courts
- Virginia; merchant lobbying; tobacco trade; trade with Indians
- Walnut Hill Plantation
- Warren, Sir Peter
- Watboo Plantation
- Watkinson, John
- Watson, Alexander
- Weir, Robert
- West Indies
- Whitehaven
- Wilkes, John
- Woodrup, William
- Wragg, Joseph
- Wragg, Samuel; death; partnerships; property in South Carolina
- Wragg, William
- Wright, James
- Yamassee War
- Yonge, Francis; View of the Trade of South Carolina