6/34 In the next year John Screven of St.Luke's parish planted thirty or forty acres, and sold his yield at from 1s.2d.to 1s. Many other planters on the islands and the adjacent mainland now joined the movement. Some of them encountered failure, among them General Moultrie of Revolutionary fame who planted one hundred and fifty acres in St.John's Berkeley in 1793 and reaped virtually nothing.[5] [Footnote 5: Whitemarsh B.Seabrook, _Memoir on the Origin, Cultivation and Uses of Cotton_ (Charleston, 1844), pp. 19, 20.] The English market came promptly to esteem the long, strong, silky sea-island fiber as the finest of all cottons; and the prices at Liverpool rose before the end of the century to as high as five shillings a pound. |