Hugh Bryan and the Evangelical Movement in Colonial South Carolina

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s, II, 95, I34, I37, I38, I40, I54, I92, 204, 24I, 3I7; Rowland, Eighteenth Century Beaufort, 362, 376; Unpublished paper on Hugh p. 29, Hartridge Coll.; Jackson, Connection, Ga. Hist. Qtly., LXVIII (i984), i65-I72; Whitefield to Mr. H. B., Aug. 6, I742, in Whitefield, Select Letters, I, 4 I4; Whitefield to Mr. Hugh Dec. i 6, I 745, and to Mr. Jonathan Dec. i6, I745, in John W. Christie, Newly Discovered Letters of George Whitefield, I 745-46,Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, XXXII (I954), 74-75, 75-76. See also Dutton to Doddridge, Jan. 30, I743/4, and Letter to the Negroes Lately Converted. The Diary of Mr. Hugh Bryan, which covers June I 75 I to Aug. I753, reveals the role religion played in Bryan's life in the years just before his death (Living Christianity, 55I 2 I). 44 Bryan's gravestone in the Stoney Creek Cemetery gives the date of death as Dec. 3 I. He was buried on Jan. 2, according to Hutson's Register. His will and estate inventory on file in the South Carolina Dept. of Archs. and Hist. contain the names of some 77 slaves. Heading the list is a young negro man George. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.175 on Sun, 02 Oct 2016 06:01:17 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms