Excerpt from The History of Freemasonry in South Carolina: From Its Origin in the Year 1736 to the Present Time; Written at the Request of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of South Carolina The subject of the history of Freemasonry, in each distinctive jurisdiction, has, for some years past, been considered as of great importance by several of the American Grand Lodges, and some of them had already carried the design into effect before the present work was commenced. The Grand Lodges of Ohio, Iowa, Texas, California, New Hampshire and Florida, have accomplished the task by a republication, in full, of their proceedings from the time of their organization. Brother Robert Morris has published a history of Masonry in Kentucky on a different plan, and, while giving a resumé of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of that State, has incorporated with it interesting details of Masonic events in other jurisdictions. From Connecticut we have an admirable work, from the pen of Brother E. G. Storer, under the title of "Records of Freemasonry in Connecticut," in the arrangement of which he has pursued a design, in some respects, like the one adopted in the present work. The subject of the history of Freemasonry in South Carolina was first brought, in 1857. by the Grand Secretary, to the attention of the Grand Lodge. Up to that period we knew nothing of what had occurred in "the olden time" of Masonry in this State, except what was furnished in the brief and incorrect narrative of Dr. Dalcho, appended to the edition of the Ahiman Rezon which was published in the year 1822. On the republication of the Ahiman Rezon, in 1852, I brought the narrative up to that date, but I did not feel myself warranted in being much more minute in details than my predecessor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.