Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered at the Celebration of the First Centennial Anniversary of the South-Carolina Society, in Charleston, on the Twenty-Eighth Day of March, Anno Domini, 1837

From this time, till the year 1751, the Society stea dily pursued its course of usefulness, and then received a charter of incorporation - becoming, thereby, the oldest charitable corporation in this State.

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