In a devotional service, they united in thanksgiving to God, that the lines had fallen to them in a pleasant place, and that they were about to have a goodly heritage.
The wards and tithings were then named; each ward consisting of four tithings, and each tithing of ten houses; and a house lot was given to each freeholder.

There being in Derby ward but twenty one houses built; and the other nineteen having no house erected on them, Mr.
Milledge and Mr.Goddard, the two chief carpenters, offered, in the name of themselves and seventeen of their helpers, to take the unbuilt on lots, and give the built ones to those who were less able to help themselves.
The people then partook of a plentiful dinner, which their generous Governor had provided.[1] [Footnote 1: An account of this transaction in the _South Carolina Gazette_, under the date of August 8th, closes with this remark; "Some of the people having privately drunk too freely of rum, are dead; and that liquor, which was always discountenanced there, is now absolutely prohibited."] In the afternoon the grant of a Court of Record was read, and the officers were appointed.

The session of the magistrates was then held, a jury impanneled, and a case tried.
These were necessary regulations for establishing a due regard to order, discipline, and government.

And yet, with all the influence which their honored leader could give to sanction the measures and support the authority, there was much to be done to render the administration effective.

The settlers had no common bond of attachment or accordance; of course, it was very difficult to dispose them to the reciprocal offices of a social state, much more so to the still higher obligations of a civil compact.