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Keep the “best” and make cuts from some of the less interesting people like the Barnwells for instance.
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Barnwells, his mother's family, just as Rosalind's grandmother is, "she explained; adding," As Cousin Anne left no will, everything she owned went to her brother; and you have all heard about his will.
Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters Mary Finley Leonard
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The family was of the highest pretension, being related to the Rhetts, the Barnwells, the Pickenses, and other famous representatives of the
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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As his paternal fortune was small, and some family connection existed with the Barnwells, he emigrated to Beaufort, and there practiced as a lawyer.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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The Barnwells were apparently a clean family, for they favoured the laundress in their week's stay with seventy-one pieces of clothing, "to be washed and clear starched."
My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914
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Thousands of the acres along the road belonged to the Rhetts, thousands to the Heywards, thousands to the Manigault the Lowndes, the Middletons, the Hugers, the Barnwells, and the Elliots -- all names too well known in the history of our country's sorrows.
Andersonville John McElroy 1887
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Thousands of the acres along the road belonged to the Rhetts, thousands to the Heywards, thousands to the Manigault the Lowndes, the Middletons, the Hugers, the Barnwells, and the Elliots -- all names too well known in the history of our country's sorrows.
Andersonville — Volume 4 John McElroy 1887
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It amounted to very little that (to borrow the language of one of the newspapers of the day) “two fanatical women, forgetful of the obligations of a respected name, and indifferent to the feelings of their most worthy kinsmen, the Barnwells and the Rhetts, should, by the novelty of their course, draw to their meetings idle and curious women.”
The Grimke Sisters Birney, Catherine H. 1885
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The Heywards, the Manigaults, the Lowndes, the Middletons, the Hugers, the Barnwells, the Elliotts, the Rhetts, went annually to Charleston, where there was choice and polished society.
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By another fire there is an actual dance, red-legged soldiers doing right-and-left, and “now-lead-de-lady-ober,” to the music of a violin which is rather artistically played, and which may have guided the steps, in other days, of Barnwells and Hugers.
Army Life in a Black Regiment Higginson, Thomas W 1869
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