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During the summer vacations of the sophomore and junior
years I spent two months at my grandfather's, Mr Nathl
Heyward, in company with my two cousins Barnwell
and Joseph Heyward. It was the dwelling which is still stand-
ing on the Bay at the corner of Society St, and now belonging to
the estate of Mr Henry A. Middleton. Mr Heyward had lived
there since shortly after his marriage and he had seen all of
his sons and daughters and some of his grandsons marry and
go to other homes which he had provided for them, so that at the
end of his life when he was over eighty, he had to depend upon
two young men, his grandsons, and a third who was there only
for a short time, for some cheerful company in his own home.

His family had been in South Carolina for several
generations, and his father who lived altogether in the country
was a very large landowner, his property being on the Combahee
river and in the neighborhood of Grahamville. He had married
three times and my grandfather was one of the children by the
2d wife, Elizabeth Gignillat. The property he inherited at his
father's death consisted of an inland rice plantation near Gra-
hamville and a small place called Savannah, flowing
partly from reserves and partly from the river, near the Comba-
hee. He lived in the country with his father during his boyhood
but one of his elder brothers, William, having married in the
Shubrick family of Charleston, people of wealth then and refine-
ment, he occasionally staid with him. In mentioning this in
after life he stated that it had been his first opportunity of as-
sociating with polished people, for his father's home was plain
and unpretentious, and many subjects were there discussed
and remarks made by the female members of the family which
in course of time he discovered were very improper for these believ-
ing themselves to be ladies.

When he reached manhood shortly after the revolution he went
to Europe for about eighteen months, spending most of the time
in Dijon, France. When in Paris he went to Versailles on the
morning of a Sunday, and saw Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
followed by some courtiers cross the grand entryway of the pal-
ace and enter the chapel for their devotions. When in England
he mentioned having seen the spendthrift duke of Buckingham
who ruined his family, in company with the then Prince of Wales
afterwards George IV.

Upon returning and taking possession of his property with
about seventy negroes, he realized that his inheritance was in-
deed small. He nevertheless went immediately to work and
planted the little Grahamville place. The crop was a promising
one until midsummer when a heavy rain occurred which
overflowed his fields covering the rice plant and it being impossible to run the water
off immediately, his prospects for the year were entirely ruined.
This disaster did not discourage him but he determined