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[Pamphlets on California biography, v.5, £2 no.1] 5:1 X FILMED AND PROCESSED BY LIBRARY PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, CA 94720 JoBNo. 86 11/5 0 DATE 3 8(6 REDUCTION RATIO | 8 po RIS a“ Sa — = ——— i — 0 les " ise = ws i22 I — fez was wo [flee | ei izs fis ee fiz 22 22 fli 1.6 MICROCOPY RESOLUTION TEST CHART NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS STANDARD REFERENCE MATERIAL 1010a (ANSI and ISO TEST CHART No. 2) RT v NE RA 4 = » BY GEORGE WILLIAM LOGAN, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. : ; ¢ A'lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so general that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the # men. We seem to have lived in hh persons of our forefathers,—it is the lab and the reward of vanity to extend the term of ‘this ideal longevity. Our ji agination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Na x confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individ we step forward, beyond death, with such hopes as Religion and<«Philosd suggest,—and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our bi It, by asse ourselves to the Authors of our existente. Our calmer judgment will rat to moderate than to suppress the pride of our ancient and worthy race. * * “‘ The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason hers if wil respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience: of mankind.” * * * * * » » _ Gp, Autobiography. bo SACRAM] TO: : RECORD BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE. ' 1874. © sem ig CRN RO ad aie L Retake of Preceding Frame CEORGE WILLIAM LOGAN, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. “A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers,—it is the labour and the reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our im- agination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forward, beyond death, with such hopes as Religion and Philosophy will suggest,—and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the Authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of our ancient and worthy race. * * # = » ¢¢ The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.” * * * * * * % __ Ciphers Autobiography. ii eee; bo a pen ESE SACRAMENTO: RECORD BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE, 1874. i Lf 5 iH ¥ Bi ¥ ’ 1 a im ————_ CC — rons EI BRIAN Nw A RECORD GEORGE WILLIAM LOGAN, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ¢“ A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers,—it is the labour and the reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our im- agination is always active to enlarge the narrgw circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forward, beyond death, with such hopes as Religion and Philosophy will suggest,—and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the Authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of our ancient and worthy race. * * * * * ¢ The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.” * * * * * * * _Gibbon’s Autobiography. SACRAMENTO: RECORD BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE, 1874. . Retake of Preceding Frame . 4 * 4 edhe GC 6 6 4 gS Qo 1 ~ Ae 4 J (& 3 (D3 i y ok Ci > 7 3 =r ~ i ’ 1 CEORGE WILLIAM LOGAN, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. ¢“ A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers,—it is the labour and the reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our im- agination is always active to enlarge the narrgw circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forward, devond death, with such hopes as Religion and Philosophy will suggest,—and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the Authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of our ancient and worthy race, * * * * * ¢ The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.” * * * * * * * __ Qipboy’s Autobiography. oman - —" g FoF op we AR ry 0 Sw. CALIFQRWIA SACRAMENTO: RECORD BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE, 1874. 4 —— a as a a rs { 4 gi i £1 i § a £ of & "il No CALIFORNIA” wl > Sprap l, TE ie, i SRT 7 Kp ——— NN Ea —— It is a tradition handed down in the family of the Logans, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the first emigrant, that they are lineally descended from the ancient and once pow- erful Barons, of Restalrig, Scotland, whose wide-spread do- mains were forfeited in the reign of James VI. in consequence of the share which the last Baron was alleged to have had in the Gowrie conspiracy. In the year 1660, Sir Robert Logan, a grandson of the aforesaid last Baron, effected a purchase of a large portion of the Barony of Cumnock, to which he gave the family name. This extensive and valuable property de- scended, as far as I have been able to trace it, through a line of respectable ancestry to Hugh Logan, the distinguished Scottish wit, known as “The Laird of Logan,” who was botn at Logan House, in 1739. “ Restalrig Church” stood upon the flats about a mile from Edinburgh—east—and was the parish church of South Leith; and in 1330 the site of the wharves and adjacent * Links,” or waste lowlands of Leith, was purchased from the Logans of Restalrig, by the authorities of Edinburgh for a Post.* The church above named was founded by James I of Scotland, and it was liberally endowed by the three succeed- * These facts I have gathered from my brother Dr. Thomas M. Logan, who is herein again referred to, and who, during his hurried visit to Edinburgh in 1867, procured several literary productions of the Logans—among them *‘ The Laird of Logan: or, Anecdotes and Tales, illustrative of the Wit and Humor of Scot- land ;’’ “The Scottish Gael,” by James Logan, Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotiand ; also two volumes, being a posthumous publication of the ‘‘ Sermons, Lectures, Sacred Poems and Prayers of the late Rev. John Logan, F. R. 8., one of the ministers of Leith.” Second Edition, 1790. Thus it would appear that the name of Logan has been equally distinguished in the literary as in the martial world. a ANGI sane = IIRC AE RE RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. 4 ing monarchs. It was highly ornamented pan hs tower sod its 1 lor 18 1 rosses a terior finish, with ¢ alls. as well as upon its In ih etoss ’ rod statuary At the time of the reformation its rich > sacre STc < . o al decorations and attractions rendered it 80 odious to hia Bitte that they decreed its utter sting ng : wis 1 j atrous Jlished that nothing of the * 1dolatr so effectually demolishe ro i ;indow and a small part o ‘hee remains but the east win : ; a The grounds were extensive, and in the middle of ids a vault or polygonal mausoleum, form- 4 . "3 Ww erly the burial place of the Logans of Restalng, ne os i i rounding lands or Barony of Logan, belonging, with the surrounding a lar Te Over and upon this vault 18 g to the Earl of Murray. hoy pu anted with yew trees, which, wit tumulus of earth, plantec 9 Ae surrounding tombs, are all carefully omen Te oon 1 i as ¢ 1al place for the English and Scotti tery is still used as a burial p : iy i ee of the Episcopal communion. In 1565 Mary enn of Scots was married in this church by the Dean Jno. Sin- 1 d Darnley. clair to Henry Lord Darnley. The name of * Logan” is said to be “one of those derived ” ‘ c i, from locality, and hence deemed most honorable. 5 Y appease in Scotch hi p ds) ¢“ at the early period of William in Scotch history (or legen the Lion (twelfth century), and throughout. subsequent Zz it i ; Sh important national transactions. it is connected with 1mpor : : {Ba Tytler’s History of Scotland—index, * Logan of Bist The chief was ** Baron of Restalrig,” which Inglis 8 : e : 1 as ¢ South Leith,” and which 18 lands upon the Frith known as ¢ So ] on : . dinburgh. hat name and Port of E mpm ages with most east wall! the graveyard stal no i se was connected by various intermarri shins families of the kingdom of Sas ber with royalty itself, one of them having married a wag thet Robert II., who granted him certain lands ong 5 4 charter addressed : ¢ Militi dilecto fratry aul {Bo el ‘ was first of the Stuarts and reigned from 1370 to 1890) : «In A.D. 1329, when that solemn embassy was gy in compliance with the death-bed request of the fe ie that his heart might be taken to the Holy Sepu Se 0 y Robert and Sir Walter Logan were among the chief assoc RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. d ates of the good Sir James Douglas in that illustrious band which comprised the flower of Scots chivalry. The fatal ter- mination of the enterprise, under the walls of Grenada, where an excess of heroism led them to suspend their journey and to engage in battle with the Sultan of Grenada in aid of Al- phonso, finished, in glory, the career of most of the troop, and in attempting the rescue of the casket of the heart of Bruce and of the bodies of Douglas and Lord Sinclair, the Logans fell in the thickest of the fight (1331). The casket containing the royal heart was rescued and carried back to Scotland.”* Buchannon, the historian (or chronicler), gives a very graphic account (vol. i.) of the achievements and vicissitudes of * The Bruce,” his final success, his death bed and the result of the ex- pedition to Palestine. He associates Sir Robert and Sir Walter Logan with Douglas, as life-long friends of Bruce, partaking of all his trials, his failures and successes against England and Baliol, and mentions Sir Walter Logant (father of him who died in Spain) as having been captured or betrayed to the English and beheaded in London in 1306, on account of his support of Bruce against Baliol. ‘Some centuries since the Scots navy was able to cope with that of England, and in A.D. 1400 Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, Lord Admiral of Scotland, defeated an English fleet in the Frith of Forth.” He is recorded to have ‘married Grillis, a daughter of Lord John Somerville.” “On the return of James I. from his cap- tivity in England, he knighted him a Laird of Restalrig and made him High Sheriff of Edinburgh.” <« After the ruin of the family by James VI. in 1609 (hereafter recorded), many of them emigrated.” Frederick, Baron Logan, “a German #* My quotations are taken from * Grose’s Antiquities of Scotland ;”’ Forsythe’s Beauties and Legends of Scotland;”’ ‘“ The Scotman’s Library ;’’ ¢¢ Somerville’s Memoirs of Somerville ;” ‘¢ Robertson’s History of Scotland ;’’ ¢¢ Buchannon’s His- tory of Scotland, translated from Latin and continued by Aichman ;” Memoirs of James Logan of Philadelphia, by Wilson Armistead, London, 1851.” This note ap- plies to succeeding quotations also. The version of the Legend of this holy expedition, as given by Tytler, is somewhat, but not materially, different from the above quoted older authors. t Vol. i., p. 414. 0 RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. poet, flourished in 1620.” The whole narrative, by the elo- quent Buchannon, of the life of The Bruce,” is interesting, and his translator has succeeded in doing justice to the origi- nal ; —I allude particularly to concluding chapters of first volume. In 1600 the head of the family of Restalrig is mentioned as “opulent,” and as also the owner of what was known as Logan’s house of « Fastcastle,” on the borders of the German ocean, which castle is called by Buchannon * the March, and was taken by the Scots from the English in 141 (Buch., vol. ii., p. 78.) Dr. Robertson's History of Scotland (vol. iii., pp. 1 strongest in 0 bh] 33, 62-3 and foot notes) and History of Scotland, continued by Aich- ol. iii., pp- 257-65), contain full narratives of the ne- man (v farious proceedings instituted VI. of Scotland, and then IL of England, and his pliant tri- bunals, in 1609, upon the pretence that their parent, who had died unsuspected nine years previous, had been an accomplice with the noblemen Gawrie and Ruthven, who had been put to death in 1599 or 1600 for an alleged conspiracy. Robert- son says: * Death itself did not exempt Logan from persecu- his bones were dug up and tried for high treason, and by a sentence equally odious and illegal, his lands were forfeited and his posterity declared infamous.” Buchannon calls the proceedings ** an outrage upon the laws of humanity and the law of the land.” He, previously, has described the Arran,” their mode of getting up “fictitious conspiracies to murder by judicial process and confiscate to their own uses the estates of their victims.” The historian depicts the universal gloom cast over the whole land by the dread of spies and informers. Buckle also (civil, vol. ii., foot note, p. 152), shows the gross ignorance of Scotland in that day (yet the proceedings of the mock trial prove that ability to write) ; and Buckle also s of this cruel against this family by James tion ; tyranny of James and his minior Logan possessed the rare records the previous penury and unthriftines ruler. That he frequently had to pawn his plate, and mainly. subsist upon the bounty of Queen Elizabeth (p. 209, foot RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. note). Another writer, already quoted (Armistead), writ that the sentence of guilty against the dead bones Le L oo thew his forfeited and opulent estates into the hands f Lord (Earl of) Dunbar, and extinguished a large debt wi h $ ne merino owed to the family.” Lord Prdmaring on t oy time President of the Court of Sessions.* The oy ; 2 already quoted agree that the proceedings were onto 249 by the loose sayings of one ¢ Spot.” who was mo fy the Bikey Guinn) 7 put to torture after two months’ 8 prevarications as proved him to have been fata o all trustworthiness. Aichman adds: “The Judges oubted the truth of his tale, an dove fession hung him forthwith, so that A ap noe tion, lose his evidence in support of a hr. Ea previous) on which the credit of the King was whi ar being a desire on the part of the tyrant (now Kin ol re land, also Elizabeth being dead) to justify his ne and false dealings.” “When rulers show a willingnes iy receive accusations and offer a bounty for the en f treason, it 1s seldom long ere they are gratified either b ty destruction of the innocent by false cortinong or by th # : viction of the unwary who are entrapped.” When 44 sl iene of such weak and bad men (as James is admitted to have been), when these consciences upbraid them for their ogury to others, they are very apt the more intensely to hate 8 innocent victims, and to try to cover up one crime by PASSION of another.” ¢ Wet transmit the narrative,” ays Aichman, * as we have received it, only with this cau- tion, that as our information is entirely one sided, and that ih side whose interest it was to blacken the ditsaiens of he sufferers, we may be pardoned for not seeing clearly either *# Buchannon, vol. iii., p. 32. B ’ " I: aan, p. 257. See also Hallem’s Constitutional History, vol. ii., note D. fhe elt er he nor Arnot record the great doubts of the impartial pi the you ni 0 1 dead man’s letters ; nor the fearful tortures under which Sprot od rm to the truth of their charges against L 0 were coveted by the King and Balmerino. B80: Whine SPVSHE sales — — 0 [ CALIFORNIA» SESS al 8 RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. that the escape of the King was so miraculous, of oe py of the offenders (Gowrie and Ruthven) 80 Hanscende A oy majesty would have wished fase be kind, by universal suffrage, have delivere a ao o the assassin who, even at the risk of hissown G e, ily take that of his fellow-man, but by some Fg law, of intellect the cowardly villain, who, to qo be commits, without personal risk, the lowest and vilest , his conduct.” Itisa truth nevergo be lost sigh of in ns oe history of the Stuarts, that it was he iy hr unlimited tyranny on the part of the princes, a bi of conscience on the part of the people iin 8 : Buta) f the troubles, and that civil liberty is the chi 9 gi RE » This tyrant, therefore, urged on i isn inisters, his own well known love of plunder a ody w i a execution, in bad faith, of the fae pti Sone instituted this pretended conspiracy to appropria Es of the noblemen, and caused or consented nine y wards, that the judicial farce should be puitinheh sem for the purpose of justifying his previous fsthon i hs i lent estate of the dead man among his favorites. ye ohn , Gowrie and Ruthven were massacred, and a A the « King of England and Sort” y ed the children of a dead man, and declared the Dies » His corrupt ministers of State and Court a ih, ia mid of the ministers of the gospel SHketonih to and justified the perjured King ; all save a fe wo honest of the clergy, who, A ee ves justi -oceedings, were . hojitienst ih proseatgs others less outspoken, dishe- hale «“ conspiracy,” was brought before fan « Bruce said to James: ‘I might he oe wily oy i di but I cannot trust without evidence ! Then I see y i ,, who could not say he not believe me,’ said James. Bruce, w RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. 9 would, was banished!” * Robertson’s review and argument on this subject is very clear and conclusive. (Vol. iii., Scot- land, p. 164.) Thus the family of Logan of Restalrig were deprived of their angient possessions. Before commencing the record of the American descendants, we will describe THE COAT OF ARMS OF THE LOGANS, as it has been preserved by the family in Charleston, and is to be found in the heraldry books of engrav the older libraries. I take the descri of the arms on a picture of a Family Charleston, made about the year 1855 by my brother Dr. Thomas Muldrup Logan, up to which date the Tree also contains a copious genealogical record of the family. The same picture also presents a drawing of the ruins of Restalri Church and the vault, and one of the old St. Philips Church in Charleston, South Carolina. This picture is one of the few family memorials extant; the old family Bible and family por- traits having been consumed by fire in my dwelling house at Columbia by Sherman’s army in 1865. ers and in some of ption from a drawing Tree of the Logans of DESCRIPTION OF COAT OF ARMS. Escutcheon, or (golden), bearing three lances each, from the dexter, middle chief, and sinister points, crossing at the centre of the fesse (a heart transfixed) and resting on the corre- sponding base points. Crest, a knight's helmet surmounted by a heart transfixed with one lance, supported by the ivy-vine, which caps_the shield. Motto, “Hoc majorum virtus,” in allusion to the gallant conduct of our ancestral knights, who, with a train-band of Scotland’s bravest men, accompanied the good Lord James, of Douglass, in his expedition to Palestine, with the heart of Robert Bruce. * Aichman also cites ‘ Criminal Trials of Scotland ’’ (p. 32). Unfortunately for the children of the dead man, his money and estates were coveted by King and Lords; and their enemies were his enemies also, because of his disregard of all religion—in the language of the day, “a loose man |’ 2 8 RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. that the escape of the King was 80 miraculous, or the guilt of the offenders (Gowrie and Ruthven) so transcendent as his majesty would have wished posterity to believe.” ¢ Man- kind, by universal suffrage, have delivered over to execration the assassin who, even at the risk of his own life, attempts to take that of his fellow-man, but by some strange perversity cowardly villain, who, under cloak of law, ersonal risk, the lowest and vilest of assas- sinations—judicial murder—finds apoligist historians to ex- tenuate his conduct.” ¢Itisa truth never to be lost sight of in reading the history of the Stuarts, that it was the struggle for on the part of the princes, and for freedom of intellect the commits, without p unlimited tyranny of conscience on the part of the people which originated all of the troubles, and that civil liberty is the child of religious This tyrant, therefore, urged on by his rapacious er already whetted Earl of Gowrie, the estates freedom.” ministers, hisown well known love of plund by the execution, in bad faith, of the elder instituted this pretended couspiracy to appropriate used or consented nine years after- inl farce should be performed, as well ious falsehoods, as to dis- of the noblemen, and wards, that the judic for the purpose of justifying his prev tribute the opulent estate of the dead man among his favorites. To this end young Gowrie wards the «King of England and Scotland ”’ children of a dead man, and declared them «ipfamous'!” His corrupt ministers of State and Court and the more timid of the ministers of the gospel alike submitted to and justified the perjured King ; all save a few of the more honest of the clergy, who, refusing to approve or believe in the justice of the proceedings, were banished. Robert Bruce, a clergyman, who, among many others less outspoken, disbe- lieved the whole * conspiracy,” was brought before James. « Bruce said to James: ‘I might lie unto with my mouth, but I cannot rust without evidence!’ Then I see you will not believe me,’ said James. Bruce, who could not say he and Ruthven were massacred, and ten years after plundered the Retake of Preceding Frame RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. "9 would, was banished !*’ on tl % i” banished!” * Robertson's review and argument on this subject is ver : Yi en A1s subject 1s very clear and conclusive. (Vol 0 8 land, p. 164.) ve. (Vol. m., Scot- Thus the fami . ; the tamily of Logan of Restalriec were deny their ancient possessions. g were deprived of the Amerie sessions. Before commencing the record f merican descendants, we will describe 5 do I'HE COAT OF ARMS OF THE LOGANS Sy as 1t has bee ‘eserv : oe > 4 preserved by the family in Charleston. and ; 0 be found 11 aldr Finis oy He the heraldry books of engravers and in some of > older libraries. I tak IW 0s dep S. ake the descripti 1 Th seription from a drawin of the arms on a picture of a Family Tree of tl al Charleston, made about the $55 by Langan Deny 2 It the year 1855 by my brother D as Muldr i , ¢ Ey Pons Muldrup Logan, up to which date the Tree al y "¢ S a. » r 3 1 : : : ; ams a copious genealogical record of the famil 7) : same picture als ‘esents I ATi : ; we also presents a drawing of the ruins of R stalri Sh oe ; ) estalr His Yi the vault, and one of the old St Philips CI : in Charles Lion ; ; a py Sie : ) arleston, South Carolina. This picture is one of ti oe amily memorials extant ; ail TT Sisly hes extant; the old family Bible and family po raits having been consumed 1 Mi ‘consumed by fire i : ii n my dwelling se at Columbia by Sherman’s army in 1865 y pa DESCRIPTION OF COAT OF ARMS Liscuteh 7% I eon, or (golden), bearing three lances eo si iin. be gt ances each, from the i ef, and sinister points, crossing at the cent of the fesse (a hear : , iy 8S art transfixed i the § and re sponding base points. too Crest, a knight’ i ) nia s helmet surmounted by a heart transfixed 1 one lance, supportec wii > ported by TV=Vi i Yih 1 1 y the ivy-vine, which caps the Motto, : jor i a % : Hoc majorum virtus,” in allusion to the gallant ct of our ancestral knights, who, wit} I Scotland’s bravest ii » With 2 trainhand of avest men, accompanied the good Lord James ? of Douglass, in his expediti . Robert Pas pedition to Palestine, with the heart of * Aichman also cites ¢¢ $s a a rr eB the children of ti > os Criminal Trials of Scotland ’’ and their a us ond Jun, is Bupoy and estates were an i A for ies : Co pOYor n : the language of the day, “a loose } 350, because of his disregard of all 23 Lonay 5 ! RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. LOGAN, CLAN-TARTAN. 1 of an inch Colors. A web of Tartan is two ir “ 4 feet two inches wide, so that i : the size of the patterns makes no difference in the scale. Commencing at the edge of the cloth, the depth of the colors is stated throughout a square, on which the scale must Black. be reversed, or gone through Yellow. | again at the commencement. THE AMERICAN RECORD. Vault, of Charleston, South Carolina, is deline- ated in the picture above referred to, being in the graveyard of the old St. Philips Church of Charleston. This church, originally built of cypress, was reconstructed or rebuilt on the site where the present edifice now stands in 1723, and con- The LOGAN tinued to stand until 1835, when it was destroyed by fire. The present edifice, constructed after the fire of 1835 upon beyond the eastern foun- the ruins, was extended eastwardly, dation walls of the former edifice, and the extension embraced or included the Logan vault under its foundation walls, so that the vault is now underneath the chancel of the church. A large marble slab, forming part of the flooring of the present chancel, marks the spot of the old family vault, and that slab will be found to contain the following inscription : «¢ Here lie the remains of the Hon. Robert Daniell, a brave man, who long served King William in his wars, both on land and sea, and afterwards governed this province under the Lords Proprietors. He died May 1st, 1718, aged 72 years. « Here aiso lies the body of Martha Logan, Robert Daniell and afterwards of Colonel George Logan. She died sth day of November, 1743, aged 58 years. This vault also contains the bodies of the above Colonel George Logan of His Majesty’s army. And also the bodies of his son, George Logan, and of his son’s wife Martha, who was the daughter of the above Robert Daniell. « The foregoing record (the slab in the chancel proceeds to state) is taken from the tablets defaced by the fire that consumed the former edifice of this church. They are on the roof of the family vault, in which the above named, together with many of their descendants, were interred, but which is now covered by this chancel of the new structure.” who was first the wife of the above RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. 11 The slab on the chancel with the above inscri g ¢ e 'Ipti plead fiers oy me at the instance and Caen ed Hs an Is 1859. The King William hove ir rince of Orange and King of England in In lieu of the old family vault, so hy : » 80 covered u ara ts sorption iad to he ily yr dAnrch. The of Deyn, close to the eastern end of the oe OE Pons magtier of the writer, her sons William sister, Mrs. hal in Logan, her daughter Honoria, her terred, and in thi os i others of the family, are there in- ot my tokio graveyard lot is a tombstone to the memor Ol » Who died before the fire and lies in the a 0 The sentence of “ Guilty” again o oh vy against the dead bone a age by the corrupt James and his or of on A of the children into the hands of the op- Oh Ab o reduced circumstances induced the sons Trt Cc Soa = Ban to leave the country. They first re ths PR at a place called * Luigan,” in Ireland Logan, grands be Doe afterwards went elsewhere. Taine. ee Sand by one of the Baron’s younger sons, came itie ep ow William Penn, of whom he was an li ry the, foay origi yanks ofiEM He dics iy : y Penn, bears his name, ¢“ Logan Square.” large estate, h Age phia many years after Penn, and left a or A y vig bequeathed funds to the city for a free ony 9 fa hk and known as the ““ Loganian Library.”+ the States. v William Logan, took an active part with $4 e revolution of 1776, and that branch of the Fico : numerous descendants in Pennsylvania. In Porn and oe Oh tal, 402, and foot-note, see notice of Lotti ca 8 Logan, from which it would appear James charge of Penn’s will, and wrote concerning it to #Annals of Philadelphia and Memoirs of Armistead K { tKept up and forming part at this time of a large library i 12 RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. « The Annals of Philadelphia and the Me- moirs of Armistead,” already quoted, speak of him as a well educated gentleman. A brother of this James Logan, «“ Wil- » settled at Bristol, and there practiced medicine suc- lly. Our tradition is that we sprang from the Baron’s en afterwards left Luigan, in Ire- Scotland, and some passing over to As already stated, our old records at the first American settler of our branch was ¢ Col. George Logan, of His Majesty’s army ”’ (see the marble slab recorded on page 10), who embarked from Aberdeen, and arrived in Charleston in the year 1690. Ban- croft states (vol. iii.) that the judicial cruelties of James IL. of England, practised upon the Scots, caused many of them at this time to emigrate to Carolina. * The industrious Scots, zealous alike of liberty and property, were soon at- tracted to Carolina. But Col. Logan was clearly a soldier of William of Orange; indeed, Aickman states that when the Prince landed at Tarboy, he had three regiments of Scots 4 command of his General, Mackay, with him.* Doubt- less Logan was one of them. In 1690 (when Logan came to South Carolina), William and Mary were established on the throne of England. This was just ten years after the first settlement made at ¢ Oyster Point,” the present city of The first settlement of Charleston was iu 1670, » on the west bank of the Ashley, but the site proved sickly, and was abandoned in 1680 for the pres- ent site, then called ¢ Oyster Point.” Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftsbury, was one of the grantees of Charles IL, and the rivers on either side of Charleston take their names from him. If the family tradition is true, that we are descended from ihe Baron of Restalrig (and the old people have told me that the tradition came to them direct from Col. Logan), we can well believe that he was a frien Penn’s widow. liam, cessfu eldest son, whose childr land, some returning to the continent of Europe. are burnt, but it is certain th under Charleston. at «Old Town, et rr oe le eee #Buchannon by Aickman, iv., p. 610. d to the cause of William of RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. 13 Orange, ; ; ge and an enemy of the Stuarts :” here with His Majesty’ tid 8; and coming over lob obi] jesty’s commission of Colonel, h § . y obtained a respectable social positi tonite e soon took a : . eet on. . prominent part ir ; . rt in Charles in command of a tr arleston, for h ot ee bof a troop of horse when Charleston - he was Hi paniards and French in 1706.* anniv is dwellinghouse. « : ; elling-house, called on the house,” is one of the few on the old e map Col. Logan’s 4 ew on the old map of ! ir was made by Edwarc . p of Charleston, whi a Tn Crisp, 1704, a copy of which deni ¥ sa S 1 » p 3 : ; hie a oy S History of South Carolin e nstorian (vol ii., p. 10) says: « ha, and the same di . ays: ‘ Colonel Log: : eton, etc., comprised the Board of L ey Abus lin . C . . . pointed b veel ay Commissioners ap- De ua Anne, 1704, to regulate the cert ? vince, accordi : Slastica of the mother rg deg to the established church : . ie Board cor highl ; vard composed ghly esteemed among the people,” and pose the most self a Dissenter) adds: * Thei ple,” and the historian (him- : eir proceedi a and gave no cause of offense P cedings were temperate IR core. oh ! ense against themselves, but the ’ ’ 9Qe Aa i obnoxious to the Dissenters, who were Hews s at least as tl : > ‘ea - Te ast as the churchmen, and the whole ay gated 1n a very few years.”’+ > matter was In 1716 C on ol Ap vinciol Hous lonel George Logan was « Speaker of the P TC Hy and as such his name heads the list of a | i . 4 atl » I a l¢ SE Sanne: who addressed a bold may ngl teor nal t Ei Pas g and (George IL), complaining of the tyra : 19, he, with ¢ Alexa Be ovember nder Skene and 11: are the si D yi : al William Blakel n warnii ers of a letter to the then Governor John a ) 1 a £ : Son a tended gh m only a few days previously of the sure a 'onsummati ; - Say ou immation of a revolution (December 21 sh the province was ! vlaced under 3? last representati : I under the Crown i presentative of the Lords Proprietors was Jeph oie i osed. - Ram:ay 8 Hist ry » d « . See also Riv Cc .“ = 0 of South Carolina ers S ences, ete. T See Bancroft (vol. iii . . 1L, Pp. 19). See Ri ’Q H 3 ivers’ Sket : istory and Carroll’s Historical Collections of se ’* South Carolina Colonial arolina. See Ba 0 0 this revo ut 10! VO — Si + ncroft § ace unt f ) 1 n ( 1. 111., PP. 229 30). See al 0 Ram 14 RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. s very respectfully Ramsay says that the above letter wa and regarded it as written, but the Governor was indignant an insult. Rivers (narrative and appendix to Sketches of South Caro- lina Colonial History) well styles these transactions ‘ the and consummation of the first revolution of South Ramsay (vol. i., pp- 63, 67-8) says: «« Francis Yonge, a man of considerable abilities, was sent over to treat with the Lords early in 1719, but was badly treated by them.” Colonel Logan and Robert Daniell were old associates, prob- ably, in early life, serving together under the Prince of Orange, on the Continent. They came over to Charleston together, and doubtless William, then crowned in England, granted lands to both of them. Colonel Logan came to the town with his troop in 1706* from large landed possessions he held at and near ¢ Bascon’s Bridge,” where he had a residence, be- sides his city dwelling house. I have no dates extant of the ages of Colonel Logan and his first wife, but his eldest son George was twenty-four in 1719, when he married Miss Martha, daughter of Governor Robert Daniell, who had died the year before, aged 73 years. As Colonel Logan married the widow (probably at about the same time that his son married the daughter) of the deceased Governor, he may have been somewhat the junior of his friend Daniell ; but the marriage with the widow produced no off- , and, as we have no further records of him, he probably his second wife, and at an advanced a life-long friend and progress Carolina.” spring died some time before age, for the tradition is that he was contemporary of Daniell.t mre r————— # Ramsay, Carroll and Rivers dsecribe the invasion of the French and Spaniards in 1706 ; and Bancroft says: «The Colonists fought like brave men, contending for their lives and families, and, unaided by the Proprietaries, South Carolina gloriously defended her territories and repelled the invaders. One of the French ships was 0 soldiers who landed, 300 were killed or taken captured in the harbor, and out of 80 prisoners. The pewly arrived Huguenot emigrants were conspicuous, and fought side by side with the old Colonists.” Of course they were bitter enemies of papal France and Spain. See this historian for graphic accounts of the Huguenots of South Carolina. 1 See Biography of Governor Daniell on succeeding page of this record. RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. 15 he] So Logan left two children, «“ George ”” and "Ho 3 ; es married ‘ Martha Daniell,” he being pH on ourt gi she in her sixteenth year, and wg Oy ‘ Helen Logan ’ married young ‘“Rob- oy De ye e fo of Governor Daniell, but the ¢ Daniell *’ a nS Jatin Hroranaioly I cannot recall nor drm en names of the mothers of George Wi the friend and associate of Colonel George en; ri r Bester in the maternal line, also came to Colonel ion iy nity at or the Lords Proprietors, and bi oe = oy on bo ment of forty-one articles as a new Af or as fons wile Proprietors, but they a Zep ; SO ny (See Rivers, Carroll and the other ud pe 2 ancroft (vol. iii., p. 21) mentions him as Dany ise (i. e., Governor under the Lords) of North Caran 4, and Ramsay places him as successor to Cra South Carolina in 1716. He did not I i in North Carolina, however. Pasta ; In the historical collections, etc., of Carroll, already quoted Je Spe of as * Colonel Robert Daniell, a oe busi wif Su eames i forces of Carolina that in- ade lori 2. He first captured ¢ St. John,” th St. Mary,” and then the «Town ine,” 8 y ey oy fe old Mixon papers * on a ole - arroll, vol. ii., pp. 422-25.) Govern ‘e, : manded the fleet, becoming alarmed din Hh Yasue ingle offing i Augustine, ingloriously en ¢ e expedition, and retre Charleston. Daniell successfully Sissies uh pant ks ® against great odds. Queen Anne, Silo had eenied i rae the year previous, was then at war with Spain a ho gi records (already quoted) go on to say that if Daniell ad been properly sustained by Moore, St. Augustine and Florida would have ¢ then belonged to Great Britain.” "I 16 RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY Jay ws Deen succeeded Blake as Governor of South Ys a, Daniell, Trott and Dearsley were : i ents. This Florida expedition nM ol time when, according to Bancroft, and his suthuriiion o 1 . held the position of Governor in North Carolina Th th erfot’s name was originally spelt ¢ Daniells.” i iting ability and great energy is undoubted. In 1715 * Rol . Daniell, John Baley and Edmund Billinger were a Landgraves.” Ramsay (vol. i., pp- 74, 131, i61) es in command of South Carolina, as acting Governor or Cr while Craven made his expedition auc the Indians i 1716, Craven retiring, Daniell was made Cinveion i _ stead, but becoming obnoxious to the Proprietr Lond ” account of his siding with the Provincials squish Ay il g 4 ernment of the Lords, he was himself displaced in Yr Robert Johnson, the last Proprietary Soveror. Daniell r : tired to his plantation on « Daniel I’s Island,” aid di Ser in May, 1718.* ji ne We have no records extant of Governor Daniell before he came over to America, except that on the tombstone i 4 “ he had long served King William in his wars both o ] $2 and sea.” Evidently he must have been retired by Willian after he had established himself and Mary upon this a Ye sth with honor, for he held a grant of ¢ “im nd,” near arleston, which no 1 ; plantations, and he left large I ba Bancroft’s account of him in North Carolina in 1704 0 fx his political position as that of a high churchman, and 1 : was clearly the position of his friend Colonel Lo os their associates of the House of Orange had passed Bo on William had died in 1701. Queen Anne, for won Doi # In this connection, and refe » and rring to the authoriti 5 ities already quoted (R: Sivinn Canal) I would here make mention of ¢ Robert Yonwe.’ y Roiih i“ i a Yu this date, and conspicuous as an opponent of the Pry he : Aral Ry stated, he was sent over to England, was rudely treated by the a ol Re 7 he tii my children. Dr. Glover’s wife was * Eliza Slaun Youre po rother, Dr. Francis Yonge Glov i : arl ab by g over, bears his name. See particularly RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. 17 had fought in 1702, had died in 1715, and the first of the Georges was in power when the contest with the Proprietors came up in 1717-18. Daniell had now become thoroughly identified with the people of Carolina, and like his friend Colonel Logan, took sides or sympathized with them even while holding the position of Proprietary Governor; so much so (Ramsay says) as to have “ remonstrated”’ against the arbi- trary measures of the Lords, but he died before the consum- mation of this «first revolution.” He left a widow—much younger than himself—with five children, viz: 1st, Martha; 2d, Robert ; 3d, John; 4th, Sally ; and 5th, Anne ;—Martha the eldest being then only 15 years old. Martha married young George Logan, from whom we descend. Robert mar- ried Helen, George's sister. John removed to North Carolina, and we lose all trace of him. Sally married Mr. Blakenay. Anne married Mr. Conway, by whom or whose descendants « Conwayboro’” was settled. And by these intermarriages the Daniell family is connected with the families of the « Parkers,” ¢ Laurences,” Gentts,” ¢ Glens,” « Blakenays,” «“ Conways,” Hugers,” * Chalmers,” ¢ Nowells,” ¢ Kenne- dys” and our own family ; but the name of the Governor, 1 think, is extinct in South Carolina. The marriage of the widow of Governor Daniell with Colonel George Logan pro- duced no issue. The marriage of George Logan, Jr, and young Martha Daniell, July 30, 1719,—he being in his 24th and she in her 16th year—gave birth to the eight following named children, viz: 1st, George ; 2d, Martha ; 3d, Daniell ; 4th, William (our ancestor); 5th, John; 6th, Francis; 7th, Ann; Sth, Robert. Some of the above enumerated eight children died in early life. Others lived to marry and leave descendants. One of them (John or George) settled in Colleton, near the ¢ Round 07” section. He was a large planter and reared a family. Their descendants now live in Louisiana, near Shreveport. Martha married Dr. Lionel Chalmers, of Charleston, and a man of note in his day ; and one of their daughters married Mr. — Nowell, the father of my esteemed friends John and 3 18 RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. Lionel Nowell ; another of their daughters, i. e., a Miss Chal- ers, married Captain James Kennedy and was the mother of my friend, law preceptor and law co-partuer, Lionel Henr Kennedy, an accomplished and refined man. : WiLLiaM, fourth child of the above enumerated family, and My GREAT GRANDFATHER, was born, as already stated, Ja nuary 8th, 1726, and died June 5th, 1802. His futher died in 1764 aged about 70 years. His mother (and the mother of the family enumerated above) lived until the year 1779, aged 77 years. ‘ Wasted, but majestic still ; shrunken, yet wither melancholy nor morose ; never enveloping her house in gloom nor banishing comfort from her board, but happy and cheer- ful to the last. Possessed of a high order of intellect, great energy and noble perseverance, crowned by sound, praetiol piety, and busy in good works, she descended peacefully to the grave. Her name deserves to be associated with havi culture, she having written a Treatise on Gardening, when 70 years of age, which was long the authority of the Provines on that subject. She was held in high esteem by all who knew her.”’* ! WILLIAM, her fourth child — our ancestor — was, in many respects, a remarkable man, and a brief view of his chequered and extended life will establish for him the right to be cou- sidered as a true type of that endurance of dRntictus which alone could have sustained his forefathers during the stirrin times of strife and oppression that were ranguiited in Sn land and England at the period of their unjust outlawry by the Ist James of England, and that continued to prevail during his and the succeeding reigns of the Stuarts and of the Clon, wells—oue phase of tyranny only succeeded by another—nor ceasing even after the final expulsion of the Stuarts, so far as Scotland was concerned, where William took very little pains to conciliate the people. Having no sympathy with them as a nation, he was also fully occupied in regulating the affairs of England and in watching and preparing for the machina- #1 quote this eulogy from ‘The Ancient Lady,” the venerable Mrs. Poyas RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. 19 tions of his Romish and other continental and life-long ene- mies. Doubtless it was the disjointed condition of affairs in his native land that caused the grandfather of William Logan to withdraw from Aberdeen, turn his back forever upon the old land and open a new field and destiny for his posterity in America—then regarded with wistful eyes by the down-trod- den of the Old World. On the 19th of January, 1749, and in the 23d year of his age, William, my grandfather’s father, married Miss Mary Baker, the young daughter of Richard Bohnn Baker, of Ashley River, but she died on Christmas day, 1751, leaving but one issue of the marriage — my grandfather, George Logan, of whom I will speak hereafter. She died at Bacon’s Bridge, at the head of the Ashley River, and not far from the flourishing town of * Dorchester,” which is now a cotton field! William Logan had a country residence at the Bridge, and large stores there for rice and other produce, besides a city residence in Charleston. The young mother was buried at ¢¢ Archdale’ on the Ashley, the residence of her parents, and which is still in possession of the Bakers. Her nephew, Captain Richard B. Baker,” was one of Moultrie’s officers in 1776, and dis- tinguished himself at the battle between Fort Sullivan and the British fleet in that year. The intimacy between the Bakers and the Logans continued even throughout the time of my youth. My holidays at Archdale” are among my brightest recollections, and in after years the old veteran had a Summer residence among the * Myrtles” of Sullivan's Island, where I was always a welcome guest, who used to listen with eager ears to the oft repeated story of the battle of the Fort. The young widower, William Logan, married a second time, about six years after the loss of his wife « Mary,” to the daughter of a thriving merchant of Charleston. John Crock- ett married * Margaret,” but their issue all died in early in- fancy. This lady lived, until the time when my father and his brothers were schoolboys, much esteemed by her husband and all the family. In truth she was an exception to the usual character of stepmothers. William Logan was by profession 20 RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. only a planter and merchant ; but, born of wealthy and intel- ligent parents, his education had not been neglected, and he mingled with the best people of the province, taking an active part in public affairs, while building up for himself an ample estate. He not only engaged largely in merchandise in Charleston, but also acquired (or inherited) plantations and negroes on the northern part of the peninsula called « Charles- ton Neck,” on Ashley River, at Bacon’s Bridge, and also in Colleton county. He possessed extensive warehouses and wharves at the town of « Jacksonboro’,”” on the Edisto River, then the seat of Government, or where the provincial legisla- tures held their sessions, being a region in which there were extensive plantations of rice. When the political agitations that preceded the war of 1776 commenced, he sided promptly with the Whig party, taking an active and prominent part in all of their meetings ; and when hostilities were commenced, he went largely into the Letter of Marque or Privateering business, then esteemed a justifiable, as it was a most efficient mode of naval warfare. He engaged also in all the measures of defense; advancing freely of his means in aid of such measures, and boldly advocating them. He was then about fifty years of age, remained in Charleston during the seige, was present when Lincoln surrendered it, and was one of ““ the obstinate non-jurist rebels” who were arrested by order of Cornwallis, taken away from their families, first being im- prisoned in the city and then shipped oft’ to St. Augustine harbor, where they languished for months and months in hot and filthy prison ships. (See Ramsay and other colonial his-- tories.) At the close of the war he returned to his beloved Charleston, being then about fifty-five years old, impoverished by the capture and the removal to British West India Islands of all of his slaves, the capture and destruction of all his pri- vateers and merchant ships, and his plantations being broken up and burned; his health also seriously impaired by the hardships of imprisonment and the chafings of a mortified spirit. Nor was it many years afterwards that he buried, in a premature grave, my grandfather, his only child—the child RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. 21 of his youthful bride, Mary Baker. He had lavishly bestowed upon this only child every culture that wealth and social position could command, but, as we will see hereafter, he died while yet only in the meridian of life. But this brave old man struggled through it all, and lived to maintain the widow and children of his dead son; to see his eldest and namesake grandson a lawyer at the bar of Charleston and happily married; and his second grandson (my father) with the diploma of the medical school of Philadelphia in his hand. He is said to have possessed and maintained to old age a most indomitable will, and indeed he imbibed this spirit from his own mother,* who was similarly esteemed by all who knew her; and then, the reader of ¢ The Bruce” and his comrades will see that they possessed this spirit also! The tender care bestowed by him upon his son’s widow + was the more praise- worthy — and was, indeed, by herself the more gratefully appreciated — because of the circumstances of the marriage of that son and only child to a foreign lady in Great Britain, at the very eve before the war of 1776. The marriage was a bitter pill to the father, for he had projected for this idol of his life an alliance with the daughter of an ancient fellow- citizen and life-long friend. But his good sense and parental love triumphed, and, after a delay of some eighteen or twenty months, he forgave them, called them over from London (where they had resided since their marriage) and continued to treat them with parental kindness to the end of his life. My old “Uncle Baker,” of Archdale, highly respected his memory, and his namesake, my Uncle William, loved to talk to me of him. ¢ Uncle” Baker was only my father’s cousin, but he was like a father to us, the boys, and we all called him *¢ Uncle.” At the decease of William Logan, his second wife having died before him childless, his whole estate (which was still valuable, being that saved remnant of his property acquired # See the eulogy I have already recorded of her from the venerable ‘‘ Ancient Lady.” 1 See account of this lady (my grandmother) on a succeeding page. 922 RECORD OF THE LOGAN FAMILY. before the war, to which he had added largely by his dili- gent pursuit of business in the latter part of his life) came into the possession of his sou’s family. He does not appear to have ever cared for or held any official positions—Ilay or ec- clesiastical—during any part of his life. He died at his own residence in Charleston, June 5th, 1802, and he lies in the old family vault, now under St. Philip’s Chancel, as already stated, having attained to the age of seventy-five years, four months and seventeen days, in full possession of all his powers of mind and body. He was brave as a lion, impulsive, but quick to forgive, of the very broadest and most liberal religious views ; and he was one of that band of Republicans, who, whether for the ultimate good or ill of the Southern provinces of North America, carried them into “ The Confederation” that rebelled successfully against wrongs, but wrongs ” far less in- tolerable than those inflicted upon the same States since that day by the dominant powers at Washington. “The War of In- dependence ” (so called) of 1776, opened at Charleston upon a prosperous mercantile and agricultural community, enjoying a flourishing and rapidly increasing direct trade with the mother country ; and the future of Carolina had then as bright a vista as history ever presented of any young nation. “The town of Charleston,” at the outlet of the rivers—or friths rather—of the ¢ Ashley ”” and « Cooper,” contained in 1776, within one-sixth of the limits of its present territory, - almost as large a population as that shown by the last census.* It was flourishing because it was one of the connecting links of commerce between the New World and the Old.