Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

The following, taken from the Massachusetts Centinel, of the 20th ult. will serve to show in what esteem Paper Money is held at South Carolina, as the names of the most distinguished patriots appear in the catalogue of its advocates and supporters. The remembrance of the celebrated Moultrie, and the sagacious Rutledge must still live in the breast of every American.

At a meeting of a number of gentlemen concerned in the planting interest, at the State House in Charleston, on the 3d day of August, 1786.

RESOLVED unanimously, As the opinion of this meeting, that it is indispensably necessary the credit of the Paper Medium, issued under the authority of the legislature, should be supported as equal in value to the specie; and we the subscribers do therefore engage and bind ourselves to each other, in the most solemn manner on our honors, and declare, that we will receive the same equal to gold and silver, making no distinction in receiving payment for debts due to us, or for any articles hereafter to be sold by us, and that we will not directly nor indirectly purchase or suffer to be purchased for us, of any person any articles whatever, in which an abatement is offered to be made for the payment of the same in gold or silver. THOMAS HEYWARD, jr. Chairman.
William Moultrie, John Rutledge, Thomas Hutchinson, John Mathews, Alexander Frazer, John Huger, Ralph Izard, Hugh Rutledge, Jacob Read, Thomas Bee, William Skirving, George Haig. Thomas Osborn, James Lynah. John Deas. jun. Edward Lynah, Isaac Huger, William Day. Isaac Dubose, Lewis Fogartie, Alexander Chisholm, John Geyer, Solomon Legare, James Postell, Robert Ladson, James Legare, William Hayne, Charles Ferguson, jun. Blake Ley White John M'Laughlin Thomas Legate Edward Haleton, Peter Belin, William Drayton, John Bowman, Jehu Wilson, and 41 other respectable planters.