Yemassee

The historical background of Simms's The Yemassee is the conflict between the Indians and the English colonists of South Carolina about the year 1715.

Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools 1910

They met with the Yemassee leaders, then they all went to sleep.

April 15th, 2009 madkestrel 2009

In 1711, South Carolina's English colonists enlisted the Pee Dee to fight in the Tuscarora War, and they fought alongside the colonists in the Yemassee War of 1715-1716, after which the defeated Yemassee returned to Spanish Florida.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

In the market for a retirement home last spring, design engineer Douglas Knapman says he looked at 20 communities before deciding on The Settings at Mackay Point in Yemassee, S.C. What tipped the balance wasn't the golf course, swimming pools or fitness center.

Charity Begins at Home Sales 2007

So this song comes to us from Chris Bouchillon, who was a vaudeville and medicine show type singer from Yemassee, South Carolina, who made about fifteen sides or twenty sides on the Brunswick label.

Old Crow Medicine Show Revives Traveling Tradition 2006

As well, the troupe included a little menagerie of Indians of several makes, a Seminole from Florida, a Creek, a Cherokee from Echota, and a Yemassee woman.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

As well, the troupe included a little menagerie of Indians of several makes, a Seminole from Florida, a Creek, a Cherokee from Echota, and a Yemassee woman.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

And in between I could go into little places like Yemassee and other places and talk to people about the registration and voting.

Oral History Interview with Septima Poinsette Clark, July 25, 1976. Interview G-0016. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

"'Tis here the ghost still walks of the old Yemassee."

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

King Philip’s War in New England having begotten better books than any other, it lived in the popular memory more vividly than did the equally bitter and important but unrecorded Tuscarora and Yemassee wars in the Carolinas, for instance.

Chapter 1. The Beginnings of Fiction. Section 2. The Three Matters of American Romance 1921