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abandon altogether his inland place, and he moved in the
fall with his negroes to the Combahee river, where one or more
of his brothers were already planting the tide lands of that re-
gion. He then utilized his negroes in some way and for several
years superintended for one of his brothers.

Having formed a taste for city life during his boyhood and in
consequence of his European tour, he would occasionally visit
Charleston, and there he became the accepted suitor of Miss
Harriet Manigault, one of the heiresses of the day. She was
a grandaughter of Gabriel Manigault the rich old mer-
chant, and her inheritance amounted to $40.000.

This sum of money was of vast importance to him and was at
the foundation of his future success. He invested it judiciously
in lands and recently imported Africans, buying out several
of his neighbors, especially certain members of the Gibbes family,
who were an inert and thriftless set, whose minds were more
occupied with the capons they were having fattened for
their next Sunday dinners, than with the attention which their
planting interests demanded of them.

Mr Heyward was already doing well at the end of the century
and whenever there was a war in Europe, breadstuffs always
went up, and rice went along too. In 1805, the year of the
battle of Austerlitz, rice sold for splendid prices and his
crop was a large one. During the next twenty years his successes
continued and he finished by becoming the largest rice planter
in the State and one of the largest slaveowners in the South.
At his death in 1851 he owned and planted 3000 acres in rice
on the Combahee river - not all first class however - over
2300 slaves, and his income on a certain year which is not
remembered, had been about $120.000. This amount in the
hands of his factors in April 1851, the time of his death, pro-
ceeds of sale of crops, was $80.000.

An appraisement of his property at that time gave the fol-
lowing result
Lands
Slaves
City property
Bank stock and other investments.

The slave trade was allowed to continue at the South until
1808, and, as the latter year approached the price of able bodied
men rose from $300 to $400. Whenever Mr Heyward went to the
slave mart to purchase, he made his selections, probably buying
an equal number of the two sexes. and the first thing to do after-
wards was to name them all. Greek and Roman history as well