The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2. Ellet Elizabeth Fries

of South Carolina: Moultrie's Memoirs? Lee's Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department, etc.

14

Simms' Life of Marion, p. 239.

15

The dates are taken from the family Bible, recorded in Mrs. Motte's own hand-writing.

16

A celebrated writer informs me that the name is French, and was originally spelled 'Mothè.

17

It was the wife of Thomas Pinckney who dressed his wounds after the battle of Camden, with her own hands, and fainted when the task was over.

18

Moultrie's Memoirs; Ramsay's History of South Carolina; McCall's History of Georgia.