Building Charleston: Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World

List of Illustrations

Figures i.1. Street plan of Charleston 3 3.1. “Memorandum and Sketches: Elevation of a House,” by Charles Pinckney 75 3.2. A plat with houses bordering King Street and “adjoining the allee” 91 3.3. Charleston town lots sold between 1757 and 1773 95 4.1. Location of plantations owned by Charleston tradespeople 119 5.1. Banner of the Fellowship Society 144 6.1. St. Philip’s Church, Charleston, June 1753 160 Tables 1.1. Number of tradespeople arriving in Charleston, by decade, 1670–1739 30 2.1. Skilled whites arriving in Charleston, 1670–1790 43 2.2. Recorded instances of patronage of Charleston service and manufacturing enterprises, 1710–1800 44 2.3. British manufactures sent from London and outports to Carolina, 1735–1765 49 3.1. Occupations of land conveyancers in Charleston, 1756–1773 93 4.1. Requests placed by Charleston artisans in newspapers for slave and free white labor 102 4.2. Percentage of Charleston artisan probate records mentioning slaves 103 4.3. Suggested and actual use of plantations owned by Charleston tradesmen, and of all plantations 117 6.1. Expenditures on fortifications in Charleston, 1755–1764 163 6.2. Occupations of Charleston committeemen, 1742–1779 171 Illustrations x illustrations A.1. Population growth in selected British and British American towns 203 A.2. Origins and political roles of members of 1769 “Committee of Thirty-Six,” in response to the Massachusetts Circular Letter 204 A.3. Charleston households by occupation or status of household head, 1790 205 A.4. Size of artisan workshops in Charleston, 1790 206 A.5. Distribution of commercial premises in Charleston’s major thoroughfares, 1790 206 A.6. Internal composition of the trading communities of three Atlantic Seaboard cities, 1790–1796 207 ...