Case Name: Fayrer Hall Complainant v. William Rhett, and His Wife Defendant
Court: Court of Chancery of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1721-12-14
Citations: 1 Rec. Co. Ch. (S.C.) 275
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Parties: Fayrer Hall Complainant v. William Rhett, and His Wife Defendant
Judges: Present His Excellency The Governour, The Honourable Charles Hart, William Gibbon, Francis Yonge, Benjamin De la Conseillere, Esquires, Members of the honourable The Council Chancellour; William Tunley Gentleman Master in Chancery.
Reporter: Records of the court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1671-1779
Volume: 1
Pages: 275–276

Head Matter:
Present His Excellency The Governour, The Honourable Charles Hart, William Gibbon, Francis Yonge, Benjamin De la Conseillere, Esquires, Members of the honourable The Council Chancellour; William Tunley Gentleman Master in Chancery.
Fayrer Hall Complainant v. William Rhett, and His Wife Defendant
Captain Fayrer Hall fought the pirates in 1718, in command of the Sea Nymph, first under Colonel William Rhett and later under Governor Robert Johnson when Rhett refused to go. His pamphlet, The Importance of the British Plantations in America . . . , printed in London in 1731, gives what is accepted as the earliest and most authentic published account of the introduction of rice culture into South Carolina. (McCrady, S. C. under Proprietary Government, pp. 607, 613; A. S. Salley, “The Introduction of Rice Culture into South Carolina,” No. 6, Bulletins of the Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1919, pp. 10, 11.)

Opinion:
Upon Motion this day, made unto this Court by Mr. Whitaker, being of the Plantiff's Council, it was alledged that the Plantiff since the exhibiting his Bill in this Court against the Defendant finds the same defective, and the said Defendants not yet having answered the said Bill: It was Therefore Prayed that the said Plantiff may be at liberty to amend his said Bill without Costs; Which is Ordered accordingly; The said Plantiff amending The Defendant's copy of the said Bill.
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