Excerpt from History of the New England Society of Charleston, South Carolina for One Hundred Years, 1819-1919: Compiled From Original Sources The New England Society having decided with its usual good judgment that its hundredth anniversary should be marked by the publication of a history of the Society and its century of use fulness, its president, the Reverend William Way, to whom the preparation of the history was intrusted, has requested me, as president of the South Carolina Historical Society, to write a few words by way of introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.