"This book, printed in black & white, contains the information we have about 12 generations of descendants of Thomas Pinckney (1666 - 1704), who sailed from England to settle in Carolina in 1692"--Back cover.

Isaac DuBose (ca.1665-ca.1718), a Huguenot, immigrated from France to South Carolina, and married Suzanne Couillandeau II about 1688. They were naturalized in 1689. Descendants lived throughout the United States.

Joachim Gaillard (b.1625) married Esther Paparel in 1664, and they immigrated from France to South Carolina about 1687. Descendants lived in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

"It is not known where the early Palmers came from, who they were, or when they arrived in South Carolina. . . . They were more likely English who came to South Carolina via Barbados or from New England. . . . It is assumed that the first Palmer was Joseph, the same Joseph Palmer who held land in Berkeley County near Lambert Saunders by 1698 and who helped the latter settle the estate of John Harris, Lambert's brother-in-law, in 1694. It is likewise...

A collection of letters written by or to Mrs. William Mason Smith of Charleston, South Carolina, during the years 1860-1868. She was born on September 6, 1824 as Eliza Carolina Middleton Huger. Her parents were Daniel Elliott Huger and Isabella Johannes Middleton. William Mason Smith was born September 8, 1818. On February 10, 1842, Eliza married William Mason Smith. They had seven children. William Mason Smith died in 1851. Three of their sons...

"Lists over 22 thousand descendants of 81 of the approximately 400 Huguenots who immigrated to the Carolinas in the years near 1685, when the Edict of Nantes was revoked in France"--Preface.