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One hundred acres were laid out for Francis Ladson, the first Ladson in Carolina, under the terms of a purchase receipt from the Lords Proprietors dated 6 May 1696. No other or more formal grant than the receipt, and the warrant thereupon issued on the same day, appears to have been made, but Francis Ladson evidently took possession and by his will in 1717 left the 100 acres to his 6 children: Francis, Mary (who married Daniel Johnston), Sarah (who married Nathaniel Nichols), Robert, Jacob, and Elizabeth (who married Benjamin Perry). All of the last 5 of these on 27 August 1729 and 28 December 1731 conveyed their interests in the 100 acres to oldest son, Francis, Jr. To this 100 acres, Francis, Jr. added 60 acres of marsh on the river granted to him 21 May 1734, and the 160 acres seems to have passed from Francis, Jr. to his son, Isaac Ladson.
Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina’s Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upriver to Beaufort. Planters and farmers fled before their attackers, allowing virtually all their major possessions, including ten thousand slaves, to fall into Union hands. Rehearsal for Reconstruction, winner of the Allan Nevins Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Charles S. Sydnor Prize, is historian Willie Lee Rose’s chronicle of change in this Sea Island region from its capture in 1861 through Reconstruction. With epic sweep, Rose demonstrates how Port Royal constituted a stage upon which a dress rehearsal for the South’s postwar era was acted out.
Sustainable Timber : Second report of session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
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Within only a few years, global warming has emerged from scientific speculation into an environmental threat of worldwide concern. Yet the scientific community remains uncertain as to the long-term trends and effects of climate change, and this uncertainty has been seized on as justification for inaction by an international community reluctant to bear the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Valuing Climate Change presents concrete, economic evidence of the need for action. Fankhauser assesses the costs of a doubling of GHG emissions to be a significant percentage of gross world product; a figure which he then compares to the costs of reducing emissions. In his comparison, h...