The Illegal Marriage — page 36: what you’re looking at

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28 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. CHAPTER II. OLD DAN MORGAN, Throughout the cotton States where the planta- tions are numerous, and where the houses are scarcely thick enough to be called a village, the name of “settlement” is frequent. This is generally preceded by the name of some large planter, some early settler, or the nearest stream. Kchaconnee Creek—the water of the bounding deer, as it was called in the euphonious Indian dialect—took its rise in the hilly, up-country, and, winding about through pleasant fields and swampy bottoms, finally poured its waters into the Flint. Just where the Echaconnee ran still and deep, through cypress and magnolia swamps, there rose a bit of high land, upon which was Echaconnee, a large and valuable plantation. Kver since the first settlement of the country by the whites, this vast estate had been the property of the Morgans, who, with the Bonds of the county above, had been known as the largest cotton planters in the State of Georgia. For many years, at the time of which we write, this had been owned by Daniel Morgan, the last male heir of this once large and wealthy family. The house which stood near the brow of the hill, and overlooked the tree-tops in the valley for miles and miles, had been built in the earlier colonia] days by a Morgan, who had left England with a large fortune, to become a planter in the New World, He had brought with him a number of GEomicbooks (Elo)