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| The Scottish family of Keith by an old intermarriage with the Cordes, and subsequently with the Trapier, became identified with the Huguenots and this was a one of their principal seats. After the burning of Begin Church, two children, an uncle and an aunt of the Rev. P. Trapier Keith, loitering about the ruins' on their way from school, were crushed by the falling of a portion of the wall. The girl was killed - the boy severely injured so as to bear the marks of his injuries all his life. The place had long been abandoned when it was purchased by Philip Johnston Porcher, Esq., in 1828, who built a house on the tract and made it his residence. On his removal to the city in 1839, he sold it to Solomon Clarke, Esq., and it has not since that time been used as a family residence. |
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