1. J. Thomas Savage, “The Low Country,” in Ronald L. Hurst and Jonathan Prown, Southern Furniture, 1680–1730: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997), pp. 23–25; and Bradford L. Rauschenberg and John Bivins, Jr., The Furniture of Charleston, 1680–1720, 3 vols. (Winston-Salem, N.C.: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 2003), 1: 51–52. As quoted in Savage, “The Low Country,” p. 24. 2. Savage, “The Low Country,” p. 25. For more on Drayton Hall, see Lynne G. Lewis, Preliminary Archaeological Investigation at a Low Country Plantation (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1978). Margaret B. Pritchard, “John Drayton’s Watercolors,” Antiques 163, no. 1 (January 2003): 166–73. 3. Rauschenberg and Bivins, The Furniture of Charleston, 3: 901–2. 4. Ibid., 3: 1286–87; 1: 263–64, fig. CT-34; 1: 257–59, fig. CT-30. A sideboard table by the same carver and cabinetmaker who produced the Ladson example is illustrated in vol. 1, p. 260, fig. CT-31. It has a history of descent in the Matthews and Peronneau families of Charleston. The other chair, which has carved knees and gadrooned molding attached to the rails, is illustrated in Edward Wenham, Collectors Guide to Furniture Designs (English and American) from the Gothic to the Nineteenth Century (New York: Collectors Press, 1928), p. 28. 5. Rauschenberg and Bivins, The Furniture of Charleston, 3: 928–29. All of the figures cited are in Charleston currency. From 1758 to 1762 the exchange rate between England and South Carolina was approximately 7:1. John J. McCusker, How Much is That in Real Money? A Historical Commodity Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 2001), p. 69. 6. In 1754 Burnett submitted a bill for unspecified work totaling £200. The Corinthian entablature noted in Burnett’s bill of July 5, 1757, included ninety feet of egg-and-tongue bed molding valued at five pence per foot (£22.10), ninety feet of “hanover point” molding at five pence per foot (£22.10), ninety feet of a smaller or less intricate “hanover point” molding at three pence per foot (£16.17.6), and ninety feet of beaded molding at two shillings six pence per foot (£11.5). The seventy-two modillions cost thirty-six pounds, or ten shillings each. (Rauschenberg and Bivens, The Furniture of Charleston, 3: 928.) 7. As transcribed in ibid., 3: 928–29. 8. As transcribed in ibid., 3: 929. On January 31, 1774, the South Carolina Gazette reported: “The same Day [January 24] died very suddenly, Mr. Samuel Cardy, the ingenious Architect, who undertook and completed the Building of St. Michael’s Church” (Beatrice St. Julien Ravenel, Architects of Charleston [1945; reprint, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992], p. 32). 9. Jonathan H. Poston, The Buildings of Charleston: A Guide to the City’s Architecture (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press for the Historic Charleston Foundation, 1997), pp. 80–81, 236–64. The Savage House is more commonly referred to as the Branford-Horry House, and the Cooper House is more commonly known as the Thomas Bee House. Bee was an attorney, planter, delegate to the Continental Congress, and judge. He owned the house from 1771 to 1799. The author thanks J. Thomas Savage for these references. 10. Rauschenberg and Bivins, The Furniture of Charleston, 1: 84–88. 11. Ibid., 1: 88–92. 12. Ibid., 1: 92–95. 13. Ibid., 3: 963–65 (Deans); 3: 995–1003 (Elfe); 1: 84–88. 14. Ibid., 1:272–74, fig. CT-40. 15. For more on Hardcastle, see Luke Beckerdite, “Origins of the Rococo Style in New York Furniture and Interior Architecture,” in American Furniture, edited by Luke Beckerdite (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1993), pp. 15–39.