set forth in
Lossing's _Field Book of the American Revolution_, Vol. II, p. 484,
received in settlement of his claim against the United States as heir
of George Galphin, $200,000.

[5] For date of fall of Savannah, Dec. 29, 1778, Sir Archibald
Campbell in Appleton's _Cyclopedia of American Biography_, Vol. I, p.
511, and for troubles at Silver Bluff, South Carolina, see Rippon's
_Annual Baptist Register_, 1790-1793, p. 477, and compare with pp.
473-480 and 332-337. For conditions necessitating the exile of Silver
Bluff Church, see letter of Wm. H. Drayton, written from Hammond's
place near Augusta, Georgia, August 30, 1775, to the Council of Safety
in Gibbes' _Documentary History of the American Revolution_ (South
Carolina), Vol. I, p. 162, and for distance from Silver Bluff see
letter of Rev. Wm. Tennett, p. 236, and compare with note in Lossing's
_Field Book of the American Revolution_, Vol. II, 484. See also Rev.
Tennett's letter of September 7, 1775, for movement of men at Silver
Bluff and surrounding country. Gibbes' _Documentary History of the
American Revolution_ (South Carolina), Vol. I, pp. 245-246.

[6] Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_, 1791, p. 336, compare with
1790-1793, pp. 476-477.

[7] See Rippon's _Annual Baptist Register_ for 1793, pp. 540-541.
Compare with 1790-1793, pp. 544-545.

[8] Lossing's _Field Book_, p. 484; Steven's _Georgia_, Vol. II, pp.
255-256, etc., as above in note 3.

[9] Gibbes' _Documentary History American Revolution_, Vol. I, pp.
235-236; Furman's _History Charleston Baptist Association_, p. 77, and
compare letters of George and John Galphin in _State Papers, Indian
Affairs_, Vol. I, pp. 15, 35, 36, and G. No. 2, p. 32.

[10] Ramsey's _History of South Carolina_, Vol. I, p. 158.

[11] Steven's _History of Georgia_, Vol. II, pp. 255-256; article on
Henry Lee, Appleton's _American Cyclopedia_, Vol. X, p. 487.

[12] But who was "Elder Palmer," the man who planted the first of this
series of churches? David George states that he was a powerful
preacher, and that he was pastor of a church some distance from Silver
Bluff. We are satisfied that the church alluded to was not in South
Carolina, nor in Georgia, nor were the members of the church in
question, nor its pastor, of African descent. It is our opinion that
"Elder Palmer" was no less a distinguished person than Wait Palmer,
the founder of the First Baptist Church of Stonington, Connecticut. It
was possible that he should