City Directories and History: “Malvern Hall in Longtown was built by Nicholas Peay about the time of the Revolution, when he came from Hanover County, Virginia, to Pine Tree, now Camden. About the same time, Charles Tidwell came down the Indian Trail to Longtown from the area of Bryant Hill. His monument in the Bryant Hill Cemetery, with his birth date of 1690, might well be the earliest gravestone in the county extant today.
Solitude, noted as a “luxurious and imposing structure and the scene of lordly hospitality, many celebrities being entertained there,” was the Longtown home of John Jacob Myers, M.D. Dr. Myers was a surgeon of the regiment that escorted the Marquis de LaFayette from the North Carolina border to Columbia on his visit to the state in 1824. Tradition has it that General LaFayette was entertained at Solitude in Fairfield County en route to Camden and Columbia.”
Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC
“Myers, Mrs. Sarah English (Peay) of “Solitude” plantation. Born Nov. 5, 1805 (S.C.) ; died Mar. 6, 1866. Education: Salem Academy, N.C. (1817-20). Church: Episcopalian. Married June 9, 1825, Dr. John Jacob Myers (Jan. 29? 1800-July 20, 1878). Education: College of S.C. (left in 1820-21); University of Pa., M.D., 1824. Church: Episcopalian. Public Service: State Representative. Other: Member, Mt. Zion Society. Slaves: 103 (Fairfield District).”
The Last Foray, C. Gaston Davidson, SC Press – 1971
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