Dawshee

This place, I believe, to have been originally a homestead of the Gignilliats, afterwards of Simeon Theus, Esqr., one of the last of the Monck's Corner merchants. It was then the residence of Thomas Gaillard, the third son of Captain Peter Gaillard of the Rocks. He graduated at the South Carolina College, and I believe was called to the bar in Charleston.. He married Marianne Gendron. daughter of Thomas Palmer of Gravel Hill, St. Stephen's Parish. He was also a land surveyor and an excellent draughtsman.

Mr. Gaillard was not a successful planter. He was fond of literature, and his friends charged him with devoting to books, that time which was demanded by his business. The charge was probably well founded. Success depends upon a combination of qualities and one will succeed who apparently has leisure for any diversion from business, while another will fail who is indefatigable in his attention. Mr.Gaillard sold Dawshee and removed to St. Stephen's Parish, and in  1832 bid adieu to South Carolina and went to live in Alabama. I am sorry to add that he was no more successful in Alabama, than he had been in Carolina. He and his wife both died during the war, and some of their childrern returned to Carolina.

Mr. Gaillard was always interested in political questions took a lively interest in the discussions which preceded the act of Nullification, and sustained ably with his pen, the doctrines and principles of the Union party. After he removed to Alabama, he became an author on a more extensive scale, puhlishing a History of the Christian Church, and a History of the Presbyterian Church. This place now belongs to Charles Sinkler, Esqr.

Upper Beat of St. John's Berkeley By Frederick A. Porcher (32) Dawshee