History PhD student, Meggan Farish, is pictured above, holding a copy of the book she co-edited with Professor Roy Talbert (left), entitled The Journal of Peter Horry, South Carolinian: Recording the New Republic, 1812-1814. Peter Horry (1744-1815) was a rice planter and slaveholder in Georgetown, South Carolina. He fought alongside Francis Marion in the American Revolution and later became a state representative and senator. Horry began keeping a journal in 1814, where he chronicled his personal experiences—primarily daily visits with friends and interactions with his slaves—as well as the impact of the War of 1812 on coastal life. Horry continued his journal when he moved to Columbia, the state capital. His home there, later named the Horry-Guidnard House, still stands to this day. Meggan became involved with the project as an undergraduate at Coastal Carolina University and continued in that effort when she worked as an archives processor at the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina from 2010-2011. The Caroliniana holds all of Horry's extant family papers, including the journal. The Journal of Peter Horry was published by USC Press in the fall of 2012.
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