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		+	\|Keywords=Bed; Green; Kitchen garden; Orchard; Edging; Gate/Gateway
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	'''Martha Daniell Logan''' (December 29, 1704–June 28, 1779) was an American-born horticulturalist, educator, and writer in Charleston, South Carolina. She operated a business dealing in seeds and [[nursery]] plants, and wrote an influential gardening advice column.		'''Martha Daniell Logan''' (December 29, 1704–June 28, 1779) was an American-born horticulturalist, educator, and writer in Charleston, South Carolina. She operated a business dealing in seeds and [[nursery]] plants, and wrote an influential gardening advice column.

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 ==Texts==
-*<div id="Gazette"></div> ''South Carolina Gazette'', November 12, 1753 (quoted in Manigault and Webber 1919: 205n9)<ref>Manigault and Webber 1919, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero].</ref> [[#Gazette_cite|back up to History]]
+*<div id="Gazette"></div> ''South Carolina Gazette'', November 12, 1753 (quoted in Manigault and Webber 1919: 205n9)<ref>Manigault and Webber 1919, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero].</ref>
-:“Just imported from London and to be sold by Daniel Logan, at his Mother’s house on the [[Green]], near Trotts point, a parcel of very good seeds, flower roots, and fruit stones of several kinds.”
+:“Just imported from London and to be sold by Daniel Logan, at his Mother’s house on the [[Green]], near Trotts point, a parcel of very good seeds, flower roots, and fruit stones of several kinds.”  [[#Gazette_cite|back up to History]]
 * Logan, Martha Daniell, 1756, “Directions for Managing a [[Kitchen Garden]] every month of the year. Done by a Lady” (quoted in Leighton 1976: 211&ndash;15)<ref>Ann Leighton, ''American Gardens in the Eighteenth-Century: “For Use or For Delight”'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976), [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/8GQVKMVH view on Zotero].</ref>
-:“June . . . Straw or Stable Litter well wetted and laid pretty thick upon the [[Bed]]s where Seeds are sown, in the Heat of the Day, and taken off at Night is a good expedient to forward the Growth.
+:“June. . . Straw or Stable Litter well wetted and laid pretty thick upon the [[Bed]]s where Seeds are sown, in the Heat of the Day, and taken off at Night is a good expedient to forward the Growth.
 :“December. This Month being chiefly for the Management of the [[Orchard]], plant and prune all manner of Fruit Trees and the like, and prepare Ground for transplanting in the Spring.”

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 '''Martha Daniell Logan''' (December 29, 1704&ndash;June 28, 1779) was an American-born horticulturalist, educator, and writer in Charleston, South Carolina. She operated a business dealing in seeds and [[nursery]] plants, and wrote an influential gardening advice column.
 ==History==
 Financial necessity most likely compelled Martha Daniell Logan to pursue commercial opportunities that were unusual for a woman of her social station. Her father, Robert Daniell (1646&ndash;1718), a British merchant engaged in maritime trade with Barbados and Bermuda, had immigrated to the Carolinas in 1679. Granted the status of Landgrave, he became one of the largest landowners in the colony and served in prominent military and political roles, including as deputy governor.<ref>Michael K. Dahlman and Michael K. Dahlman Jr., ''Daniel Island'' (Charleston, Chicago, Portsmouth, and San Francisco: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 31&ndash;35, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DJ8B6SSX view on Zotero]; Walter B. Edgar and N. Louise Bailey, ''Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives'', 5 vols. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1977), 2:180&ndash;82, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G89DVTV3 view on Zotero]; Henry A. M. Smith, “The Baronies of South Carolina,” ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 13 (January 1912): 3&ndash;6, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/XJA97W79, view on Zotero].</ref> Evidently concerned with the education of Martha and her siblings, he made provisions in a will of 1709 for their “schooling, and all other things necessary for [their] education.”<ref>Beaufort County Deed Book 1, part 1, Beaufort County, NC—Land & Deed Records, abstracted by Ysobel Dupree Litchfield and submitted to the State of North Carolina DAR for their annual GRC Reports by the Major Reading Blount Chapter of Washington. File contributed for use in [http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/beaufort/deeds/p101-150.txt USGenWeb Archives] by Janice Tripp Gurganus.</ref> A year after Daniell’s death in May 1718, his widow married the planter Col. George Logan Sr. (1669&ndash;1721), and in July 1719 fourteen-year-old Martha married her stepbrother, George Logan Jr. (1695&ndash;1764).<ref>Martha Daniell Logan is often confused with her mother, Martha Wainwright Daniell Logan. Robert Daniell named the latter (his wife, not his daughter) as his executrix and heir to his plantation and other properties in his will of May 1, 1718. For an abstract of the will, see [http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/o/l/Jeff-Doles/GENE1-0002.html Robert Daniell Descendants]. See also Daniel J. Philippon, “Gender, Genius, and Genre: Women, Science, and Nature Writing in Early America,” in ''Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers'', ed. Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe (Hanover: University Press of New Hampshire, 2001), 16, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DIX3BACP view on Zotero].</ref> They lived on the Wando River, ten miles from Charleston, where both the Daniell and the Logan families owned extensive property. For reasons that remain unclear, Martha Daniell Logan began the first of several moneymaking enterprises a few years after the birth of her eighth child in 1738. On March 20, 1742, she advertised her services as a teacher of reading, writing, and embroidery for “Any Persons desirous to board their Children” with her.<ref>Hennig Cohen, ''The South Carolina Gazette, 1735&ndash;1775'' (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1953), 31, 55, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VQCXT377 view on Zotero]. See also Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, ''Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 154 n.4, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZFR499TP view on Zotero].</ref> She then relocated to the city of Charleston, where on March 6, 1750, she advertised plans to open a boarding school at her house on the [[green]] near Trotts Point.<ref>Ann Manigault and Mabel L. Webber, “Extracts from the ‘Journal of Mrs. Ann Manigault, 1754&ndash;1781 (Continued),’” ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 20 (July 1919): 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero]. Logan may have separated from her husband, who died at Daniel Island, Charleston, in 1764. John Bartram referred to her as a widow in 1760, and his error has been compounded in recent scholarship. See John Bartram, ''The Correspondence of John Bartram 1734&ndash;1777'', ed. Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992), 517&ndash;18, 530, 559, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref>

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	'''Martha Daniell Logan''' (December 29, 1704–June 28, 1779) was an American-born horticulturalist, educator, and writer in Charleston, South Carolina. She operated a business dealing in seeds and [[nursery]] plants, and wrote an influential gardening advice column.		'''Martha Daniell Logan''' (December 29, 1704–June 28, 1779) was an American-born horticulturalist, educator, and writer in Charleston, South Carolina. She operated a business dealing in seeds and [[nursery]] plants, and wrote an influential gardening advice column.

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	'''Martha Daniell Logan''' (December 29, 1704–June 28, 1779) was an American-born horticulturalist, educator, and writer in Charleston, South Carolina. She operated a business dealing in seeds and [[nursery]] plants, and wrote an influential gardening advice column.		'''Martha Daniell Logan''' (December 29, 1704–June 28, 1779) was an American-born horticulturalist, educator, and writer in Charleston, South Carolina. She operated a business dealing in seeds and [[nursery]] plants, and wrote an influential gardening advice column.

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 ==History==
-Financial necessity most likely compelled Martha Daniell Logan to pursue commercial opportunities unusual for a woman of her social station. Her father, Robert Daniell (1646&ndash;1718), a British merchant engaged in maritime trade with Barbados and Bermuda, had immigrated to the Carolinas in 1679. Granted the status of Landgrave, he became one of the largest landowners in the colony and served in prominent military and political roles, including as deputy governor.<ref>Michael K. Dahlman and Michael K. Dahlman Jr., ''Daniel Island'' (Charleston, Chicago, Portsmouth, and San Francisco: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 31&ndash;35, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DJ8B6SSX view on Zotero]; Walter B. Edgar and N. Louise Bailey, ''Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives'', 5 vols. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1977), 2:180&ndash;82, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G89DVTV3 view on Zotero]; Henry A. M. Smith, “The Baronies of South Carolina,” ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 13 (January 1912): 3&ndash;6, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/XJA97W79, view on Zotero].</ref> Evidently concerned with the education of Martha and her siblings, he made provisions in a will of 1709 for their “schooling, and all other things necessary for [their] education.”<ref>Beaufort County Deed Book 1, part 1, Beaufort County, NC—Land & Deed Records, abstracted by Ysobel Dupree Litchfield and submitted to the State of North Carolina DAR for their annual GRC Reports by the Major Reading Blount Chapter of Washington. File contributed for use in [http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/beaufort/deeds/p101-150.txt USGenWeb Archives] by Janice Tripp Gurganus.</ref> A year after Daniell’s death in May 1718, his widow married the planter Col. George Logan Sr. (1669&ndash;1721), and in July 1719 fourteen-year-old Martha married her stepbrother, George Logan Jr. (1695&ndash;1764).<ref>Martha Daniell Logan is often confused with her mother, Martha Wainwright Daniell Logan. Robert Daniell named the latter (his wife, not his daughter) as his executrix and heir to his plantation and other properties in his will of May 1, 1718. For an abstract of the will, see [http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/o/l/Jeff-Doles/GENE1-0002.html Robert Daniell Descendants]. See also Daniel J. Philippon, “Gender, Genius, and Genre: Women, Science, and Nature Writing in Early America,” in ''Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers'', ed. Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe (Hanover: University Press of New Hampshire, 2001), 16, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DIX3BACP view on Zotero].</ref> They lived on the Wando River, ten miles from Charleston, where both the Daniell and the Logan families owned extensive property. For reasons that remain unclear, Martha Daniell Logan began the first of several moneymaking enterprises a few years after the birth of her eighth child in 1738. On March 20, 1742, she advertised her services as a teacher of reading, writing, and embroidery for “Any Persons desirous to board their Children” with her.<ref>Hennig Cohen, ''The South Carolina Gazette, 1735&ndash;1775'' (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1953), 31, 55, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VQCXT377 view on Zotero]. See also Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, ''Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 154 n.4, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZFR499TP view on Zotero].</ref> She then relocated to the city of Charleston, where on March 6, 1750, she advertised plans to open a boarding school at her house on the [[green]] near Trotts Point.<ref>Ann Manigault and Mabel L. Webber, “Extracts from the ‘Journal of Mrs. Ann Manigault, 1754&ndash;1781 (Continued),’” ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 20 (July 1919): 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero]. Logan may have separated from her husband, who died at Daniel Island, Charleston, in 1764. John Bartram referred to her as a widow in 1760, and his error has been compounded in recent scholarship. See John Bartram, ''The Correspondence of John Bartram 1734&ndash;1777'', ed. Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992), 517&ndash;18, 530, 559, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref>
+Financial necessity most likely compelled Martha Daniell Logan to pursue commercial opportunities that were unusual for a woman of her social station. Her father, Robert Daniell (1646&ndash;1718), a British merchant engaged in maritime trade with Barbados and Bermuda, had immigrated to the Carolinas in 1679. Granted the status of Landgrave, he became one of the largest landowners in the colony and served in prominent military and political roles, including as deputy governor.<ref>Michael K. Dahlman and Michael K. Dahlman Jr., ''Daniel Island'' (Charleston, Chicago, Portsmouth, and San Francisco: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 31&ndash;35, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DJ8B6SSX view on Zotero]; Walter B. Edgar and N. Louise Bailey, ''Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives'', 5 vols. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1977), 2:180&ndash;82, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G89DVTV3 view on Zotero]; Henry A. M. Smith, “The Baronies of South Carolina,” ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 13 (January 1912): 3&ndash;6, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/XJA97W79, view on Zotero].</ref> Evidently concerned with the education of Martha and her siblings, he made provisions in a will of 1709 for their “schooling, and all other things necessary for [their] education.”<ref>Beaufort County Deed Book 1, part 1, Beaufort County, NC—Land & Deed Records, abstracted by Ysobel Dupree Litchfield and submitted to the State of North Carolina DAR for their annual GRC Reports by the Major Reading Blount Chapter of Washington. File contributed for use in [http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/beaufort/deeds/p101-150.txt USGenWeb Archives] by Janice Tripp Gurganus.</ref> A year after Daniell’s death in May 1718, his widow married the planter Col. George Logan Sr. (1669&ndash;1721), and in July 1719 fourteen-year-old Martha married her stepbrother, George Logan Jr. (1695&ndash;1764).<ref>Martha Daniell Logan is often confused with her mother, Martha Wainwright Daniell Logan. Robert Daniell named the latter (his wife, not his daughter) as his executrix and heir to his plantation and other properties in his will of May 1, 1718. For an abstract of the will, see [http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/o/l/Jeff-Doles/GENE1-0002.html Robert Daniell Descendants]. See also Daniel J. Philippon, “Gender, Genius, and Genre: Women, Science, and Nature Writing in Early America,” in ''Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers'', ed. Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe (Hanover: University Press of New Hampshire, 2001), 16, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DIX3BACP view on Zotero].</ref> They lived on the Wando River, ten miles from Charleston, where both the Daniell and the Logan families owned extensive property. For reasons that remain unclear, Martha Daniell Logan began the first of several moneymaking enterprises a few years after the birth of her eighth child in 1738. On March 20, 1742, she advertised her services as a teacher of reading, writing, and embroidery for “Any Persons desirous to board their Children” with her.<ref>Hennig Cohen, ''The South Carolina Gazette, 1735&ndash;1775'' (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1953), 31, 55, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VQCXT377 view on Zotero]. See also Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, ''Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 154 n.4, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZFR499TP view on Zotero].</ref> She then relocated to the city of Charleston, where on March 6, 1750, she advertised plans to open a boarding school at her house on the [[green]] near Trotts Point.<ref>Ann Manigault and Mabel L. Webber, “Extracts from the ‘Journal of Mrs. Ann Manigault, 1754&ndash;1781 (Continued),’” ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 20 (July 1919): 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero]. Logan may have separated from her husband, who died at Daniel Island, Charleston, in 1764. John Bartram referred to her as a widow in 1760, and his error has been compounded in recent scholarship. See John Bartram, ''The Correspondence of John Bartram 1734&ndash;1777'', ed. Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992), 517&ndash;18, 530, 559, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref>
 Logan soon shifted her attention from teaching to horticulture. The early Charleston historian David Ramsay described her as “a great florist, and uncommonly fond of a garden,” recalling how, in 1809, she and her friend Sarah Ward Hopton (b. 1715) had “cultivated extensive gardens” in the city.<ref>David Ramsay, ''The History of South-Carolina: From Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808'', 2 vols. (Charleston: David Longworth, 1809), 2:228, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/D9NEJJM8 view on Zotero].</ref> Local artist [[Charles Fraser]] likewise remembered Logan’s garden for its size, noting that it “occupied a large space of ground on the north of Tradd-street” opposite “a vacant lot or [[green]].”<ref>Charles Fraser, ''Reminiscences of Charleston'' (Charleston: J. Russell, 1854), 27&ndash;28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VTRNRRX8 view on Zotero]. See also John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge Shecut, ''Shecut’s Medical and Philosophical essays. . . .The Whole of Which Are Designed as Illustrative of the Domestic Origin of the Yellow Fever of Charleston; And, as Conducing to the Formation of a Medical History of the State of South-Carolina'' (Charleston: A. E. Miller, 1819), 21, 42, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/R6UHSW44 view Zotero].</ref> A notice published in the ''South Carolina Gazette'' in 1751 advertised “the house that Martha Logan lives in, to be let for the summer season; also a large garden separate from the house.”<ref>Loutrel Winslow Briggs, ''Charleston Gardens'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1951), 28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/A3NA59DZ view on Zotero].</ref> Before long, the garden would become too valuable to let, as Logan embarked on a career as a purveyor of botanical goods, selling seeds and plants at her house, initially under her son’s name. In addition to native plants, she dealt in imported specimens. An advertisement published in the ''Gazette'' on November 12, 1753, <span id="Gazette_cite"></span> announced the availability of “a parcel of very good seeds, flower roots, and fruit stones of several kinds” that were “just imported from London” ([[#Gazette|view text]]). Logan’s principal customers were Charleston neighbors, including Ann Manigault, who recorded in her diary on November 25, 1763, that she “went to Mrs. Logan’s to buy roots.”<ref>Manigault and Webber 1919, 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero].</ref>

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 ==History==
-Financial necessity most likely compelled Martha Daniell Logan to pursue commercial opportunities unusual for a woman of her social station. Her father, Robert Daniell (1646&ndash;1718), a British merchant engaged in maritime trade with Barbados and Bermuda, had immigrated to the Carolinas in 1679. Granted the status of Landgrave, he became one of the largest landowners in the colony and served in prominent military and political roles, including as deputy governor.<ref>Michael K. Dahlman and Michael K. Dahlman Jr., ''Daniel Island'' (Charleston, Chicago, Portsmouth, and San Francisco: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 31&ndash;35, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DJ8B6SSX view on Zotero]; Walter B. Edgar and N. Louise Bailey, ''Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives'', 5 vols. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1977), 2:180&ndash;82, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G89DVTV3 view on Zotero]; Henry A. M. Smith, “The Baronies of South Carolina,” ''The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 13 (January 1912): 3&ndash;6, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/XJA97W79, view on Zotero].</ref> Evidently concerned with the education of Martha and her siblings, he made provisions in a will of 1709 for their “schooling, and all other things necessary for [their] education.”<ref>Beaufort County Deed Book 1, part 1, Beaufort County, NC—Land & Deed Records, abstracted by Ysobel Dupree Litchfield and submitted to the State of North Carolina DAR for their annual GRC Reports by the Major Reading Blount Chapter of Washington. File contributed for use in [http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/beaufort/deeds/p101-150.txt USGenWeb Archives] by Janice Tripp Gurganus.</ref> A year after Daniell’s death in May 1718, his widow married the planter Col. George Logan Sr. (1669&ndash;1721), and in July 1719 fourteen-year-old Martha married her stepbrother, George Logan Jr. (1695&ndash;1764).<ref>Martha Daniell Logan is often confused with her mother, Martha Wainwright Daniell Logan. Robert Daniell named the latter (his wife, not his daughter) as his executrix and heir to his plantation and other properties in his will of May 1, 1718. For an abstract of the will, see [http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/o/l/Jeff-Doles/GENE1-0002.html Robert Daniell Descendants]. See also Daniel J. Philippon, “Gender, Genius, and Genre: Women, Science, and Nature Writing in Early America,” in ''Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers'', ed. Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe (Hanover, NH: University Press of New Hampshire, 2001), 16, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DIX3BACP view on Zotero].</ref> They lived on the Wando River, ten miles from Charleston, where both the Daniell and the Logan families owned extensive property. For reasons that remain unclear, Martha Daniell Logan began the first of several moneymaking enterprises a few years after the birth of her eighth child in 1738. On March 20, 1742, she advertised her services as a teacher of reading, writing, and embroidery for “Any Persons desirous to board their Children” with her.<ref>Hennig Cohen, ''The South Carolina Gazette, 1735&ndash;1775'' (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1953), 31, 55, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VQCXT377 view on Zotero]. See also Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, ''Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 154 n.4, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZFR499TP view on Zotero].</ref> She then relocated to the city of Charleston, where on March 6, 1750, she advertised plans to open a boarding school at her house on the [[green]] near Trotts Point.<ref>Ann Manigault and Mabel L. Webber, “Extracts from the ‘Journal of Mrs. Ann Manigault, 1754&ndash;1781 (Continued),’” ''The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 20 (July 1919): 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero]. Logan may have separated from her husband, who died at Daniel Island, Charleston, in 1764. John Bartram referred to her as a widow in 1760, and his error has been compounded in recent scholarship. See John Bartram, ''The Correspondence of John Bartram 1734&ndash;1777'', ed. Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1992), 517&ndash;18, 530, 559, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref>
+Financial necessity most likely compelled Martha Daniell Logan to pursue commercial opportunities unusual for a woman of her social station. Her father, Robert Daniell (1646&ndash;1718), a British merchant engaged in maritime trade with Barbados and Bermuda, had immigrated to the Carolinas in 1679. Granted the status of Landgrave, he became one of the largest landowners in the colony and served in prominent military and political roles, including as deputy governor.<ref>Michael K. Dahlman and Michael K. Dahlman Jr., ''Daniel Island'' (Charleston, Chicago, Portsmouth, and San Francisco: Arcadia Publishing, 2007), 31&ndash;35, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DJ8B6SSX view on Zotero]; Walter B. Edgar and N. Louise Bailey, ''Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives'', 5 vols. (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1977), 2:180&ndash;82, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/G89DVTV3 view on Zotero]; Henry A. M. Smith, “The Baronies of South Carolina,” ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 13 (January 1912): 3&ndash;6, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/XJA97W79, view on Zotero].</ref> Evidently concerned with the education of Martha and her siblings, he made provisions in a will of 1709 for their “schooling, and all other things necessary for [their] education.”<ref>Beaufort County Deed Book 1, part 1, Beaufort County, NC—Land & Deed Records, abstracted by Ysobel Dupree Litchfield and submitted to the State of North Carolina DAR for their annual GRC Reports by the Major Reading Blount Chapter of Washington. File contributed for use in [http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/beaufort/deeds/p101-150.txt USGenWeb Archives] by Janice Tripp Gurganus.</ref> A year after Daniell’s death in May 1718, his widow married the planter Col. George Logan Sr. (1669&ndash;1721), and in July 1719 fourteen-year-old Martha married her stepbrother, George Logan Jr. (1695&ndash;1764).<ref>Martha Daniell Logan is often confused with her mother, Martha Wainwright Daniell Logan. Robert Daniell named the latter (his wife, not his daughter) as his executrix and heir to his plantation and other properties in his will of May 1, 1718. For an abstract of the will, see [http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/o/l/Jeff-Doles/GENE1-0002.html Robert Daniell Descendants]. See also Daniel J. Philippon, “Gender, Genius, and Genre: Women, Science, and Nature Writing in Early America,” in ''Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers'', ed. Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe (Hanover: University Press of New Hampshire, 2001), 16, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/DIX3BACP view on Zotero].</ref> They lived on the Wando River, ten miles from Charleston, where both the Daniell and the Logan families owned extensive property. For reasons that remain unclear, Martha Daniell Logan began the first of several moneymaking enterprises a few years after the birth of her eighth child in 1738. On March 20, 1742, she advertised her services as a teacher of reading, writing, and embroidery for “Any Persons desirous to board their Children” with her.<ref>Hennig Cohen, ''The South Carolina Gazette, 1735&ndash;1775'' (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1953), 31, 55, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VQCXT377 view on Zotero]. See also Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley, ''Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 154 n.4, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/ZFR499TP view on Zotero].</ref> She then relocated to the city of Charleston, where on March 6, 1750, she advertised plans to open a boarding school at her house on the [[green]] near Trotts Point.<ref>Ann Manigault and Mabel L. Webber, “Extracts from the ‘Journal of Mrs. Ann Manigault, 1754&ndash;1781 (Continued),’” ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 20 (July 1919): 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero]. Logan may have separated from her husband, who died at Daniel Island, Charleston, in 1764. John Bartram referred to her as a widow in 1760, and his error has been compounded in recent scholarship. See John Bartram, ''The Correspondence of John Bartram 1734&ndash;1777'', ed. Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992), 517&ndash;18, 530, 559, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref>
-Logan soon shifted her attention from teaching to horticulture. The early Charleston historian David Ramsay described her as “a great florist, and uncommonly fond of a garden,” recalling in 1809 how she and her friend Sarah Ward Hopton (b. 1715) had “cultivated extensive gardens” in the city.<ref>David Ramsay, ''The History of South-Carolina: From Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808'', 2 vols. (Charleston: David Longworth, 1809), 2:228, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/D9NEJJM8 view on Zotero].</ref> Local artist [[Charles Fraser]] likewise remembered Logan’s garden for its size, noting that it “occupied a large space of ground on the north of Tradd-street” opposite “a vacant lot or [[green]].”<ref>Charles Fraser, ''Reminiscences of Charleston'' (Charleston: J. Russell, 1854), 27&ndash;28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VTRNRRX8 view on Zotero]. See also John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge Shecut, ''Shecut’s Medical and Philosophical essays . . .The Whole of Which Are Designed as Illustrative of the Domestic Origin of the Yellow Fever of Charleston; And, as Conducing to the Formation of a Medical History of the State of South-Carolina'' (Charleston: A. E. Miller, 1819), 21, 42, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/R6UHSW44 view Zotero].</ref> A notice published in the ''South Carolina Gazette'' in 1751 advertised “the house that Martha Logan lives in, to be let for the summer season; also a large garden separate from the house.”<ref>Loutrel Winslow Briggs, ''Charleston Gardens'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1951), 28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/A3NA59DZ view on Zotero].</ref> Before long, the garden would become too valuable to let, as Logan embarked on a career as a purveyor of botanical goods, selling seeds and plants at her house, initially under her son’s name. In addition to native plants, she dealt in imported specimens. An advertisement published in the ''Gazette'' on November 12, 1753, <span id="Gazette_cite"></span> announced the availability of “a parcel of very good seeds, flower roots, and fruit stones of several kinds” which were “just imported from London” ([[#Gazette|view text]]). Logan’s principal customers were Charleston neighbors, such as Ann Manigault, who recorded in her diary on November 25, 1763, that she “went to Mrs. Logan’s to buy roots.”<ref>Manigault and Webber 1919, 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero].</ref>
+Logan soon shifted her attention from teaching to horticulture. The early Charleston historian David Ramsay described her as “a great florist, and uncommonly fond of a garden,” recalling how, in 1809, she and her friend Sarah Ward Hopton (b. 1715) had “cultivated extensive gardens” in the city.<ref>David Ramsay, ''The History of South-Carolina: From Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808'', 2 vols. (Charleston: David Longworth, 1809), 2:228, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/D9NEJJM8 view on Zotero].</ref> Local artist [[Charles Fraser]] likewise remembered Logan’s garden for its size, noting that it “occupied a large space of ground on the north of Tradd-street” opposite “a vacant lot or [[green]].”<ref>Charles Fraser, ''Reminiscences of Charleston'' (Charleston: J. Russell, 1854), 27&ndash;28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/VTRNRRX8 view on Zotero]. See also John Linnaeus Edward Whitridge Shecut, ''Shecut’s Medical and Philosophical essays. . . .The Whole of Which Are Designed as Illustrative of the Domestic Origin of the Yellow Fever of Charleston; And, as Conducing to the Formation of a Medical History of the State of South-Carolina'' (Charleston: A. E. Miller, 1819), 21, 42, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/R6UHSW44 view Zotero].</ref> A notice published in the ''South Carolina Gazette'' in 1751 advertised “the house that Martha Logan lives in, to be let for the summer season; also a large garden separate from the house.”<ref>Loutrel Winslow Briggs, ''Charleston Gardens'' (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1951), 28, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/A3NA59DZ view on Zotero].</ref> Before long, the garden would become too valuable to let, as Logan embarked on a career as a purveyor of botanical goods, selling seeds and plants at her house, initially under her son’s name. In addition to native plants, she dealt in imported specimens. An advertisement published in the ''Gazette'' on November 12, 1753, <span id="Gazette_cite"></span> announced the availability of “a parcel of very good seeds, flower roots, and fruit stones of several kinds” that were “just imported from London” ([[#Gazette|view text]]). Logan’s principal customers were Charleston neighbors, including Ann Manigault, who recorded in her diary on November 25, 1763, that she “went to Mrs. Logan’s to buy roots.”<ref>Manigault and Webber 1919, 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero].</ref>
-Logan’s horizons expanded following a chance encounter with the Philadelphia botanist and nurseryman [[John Bartram]], who toured her garden during a visit to Charleston in 1760. For the next three years, Logan and [[John Bartram|Bartram]] eagerly engaged in a mutually beneficial exchange of seeds, plants, and information. “Her garden is her delight & she hath a fine [one],” [[John Bartram|Bartram]] informed his London agent, [[Peter Collinson]], in 1762.<ref>John Bartram to Peter Collinson, May 22, 1761, in Bartram 1992, 517, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref> Logan sent items from her garden to [[John Bartram|Bartram]], as well as rare and unusual specimens he had admired in the gardens of her neighbors, such as [[Alexander Garden]], Mary Wood Wragg (1716&ndash;1767), and Susannah Holmes Bee (1739&ndash;1771).<ref>Bartram 1992, 522, 547&ndash;48, 617, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero]; Martha Daniell Logan, “Letters of Martha Logan to John Bartram, 1760&ndash;1763,” ed. Mary Barbot Prior, ''The South Carolina Historical Magazine'' 59 (1958): 39, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/SE6TPEQS view on Zotero]; Thomas Hallock, ''From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749&ndash;1826'' (Columbia: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 143, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/FPF3J5T9 view on Zotero].</ref> Logan was particularly keen to send [[John Bartram|Bartram]] Carolina plants which “may be New to you” and “be an adision [addition] to yr Collection.”<ref>Bartram 1992, 500, 520, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref> In return, she asked [[John Bartram|Bartram]] to send bulbs and double-flowering plants that her London contacts had failed to procure or took too long to send.<ref>Martha Logan to John Bartram, December 20, 1760, and February 20, 1761, in Bartram 1992, 500, 506, 637, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref>
+Logan’s horizons expanded following a chance encounter with Philadelphia botanist and nurseryman [[John Bartram]], who toured her garden during a visit to Charleston in 1760. For the next three years, Logan and [[John Bartram|Bartram]] eagerly engaged in a mutually beneficial exchange of seeds, plants, and information. “Her garden is her delight & she hath a fine [one],” [[John Bartram|Bartram]] informed his London agent, [[Peter Collinson]], in 1762.<ref>John Bartram to Peter Collinson, May 22, 1761, in Bartram 1992, 517, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref> Logan sent items from her garden to [[John Bartram|Bartram]], as well as rare and unusual specimens he had admired in the gardens of her neighbors, such as [[Alexander Garden]], Mary Wood Wragg (1716&ndash;1767), and Susannah Holmes Bee (1739&ndash;1771).<ref>Bartram 1992, 522, 547&ndash;48, 617, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero]; Martha Daniell Logan, “Letters of Martha Logan to John Bartram, 1760&ndash;1763,” ed. Mary Barbot Prior, ''South Carolina Historical Magazine'' 59 (1958): 39, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/SE6TPEQS view on Zotero]; Thomas Hallock, ''From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749&ndash;1826'' (Columbia: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 143, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/FPF3J5T9 view on Zotero].</ref> Logan was particularly keen to send [[John Bartram|Bartram]] Carolina plants which “may be New to you” and “be an adision [addition] to yr Collection.”<ref>Bartram 1992, 500, 520, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref> In return, she asked [[John Bartram|Bartram]] to send bulbs and double-flowering plants that her London contacts had failed to procure or took too long to send.<ref>Martha Logan to John Bartram, December 20, 1760, and February 20, 1761, in Bartram 1992, 500, 506, 637, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/NZGMIACI view on Zotero].</ref>
-Logan is generally credited with writing the section on [[kitchen garden]] cultivation in John Tobler’s ''South Carolina Almanack'', first advertised in the ''South Carolina Gazette'' on December 6, 1751, as a “Gardners Kalander [''sic''], done by a Lady of this Province, and esteemed a very good one.”<ref>Quoted in Mabel L. Webber, “South Carolina Almanacs to 1800,” ''The South Carolina Genealogical and Historical Magazine'' 15 (1914): 73, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/X783GDC4 view on Zotero].</ref> It was reprinted several times, and appeared posthumously under her name in annual editions of the ''Palladium of Knowledge: or, The Carolina and Georgia Almanac'' (1796&ndash;1804).<ref>Webber 1914, 80&ndash;81, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/X783GDC4 view on Zotero]; see also Manigault and Webber 1919, 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero].</ref> According to David Ramsay, Logan also wrote a treatise on gardening at the age of seventy. In that work, he claimed, she “reduced the knowledge she had acquired by long experience, and observation, to a regular system which . . . to this day regulates the practice of gardens in and around Charleston.”<ref>David Ramsay, ''The History of South-Carolina: From Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808'', 2 vols. (Charleston: David Longworth, 1809), 2:228, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/D9NEJJM8 view on Zotero]; see also Manigault and Webber 1919, 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero]; see also Woodrow Wilson Harris Jr., “The Education of the Southern Urban Adult: Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia, 1790&ndash;1812,” (PhD diss., University of Georgia, 1979), 105, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/P9M7AGMK view on Zotero].</ref>
+Logan is generally credited with writing the section on [[kitchen garden]] cultivation in John Tobler’s ''South Carolina Almanack'', first advertised in the ''South Carolina Gazette'' on December 6, 1751, as a “Gardners Kalander [''sic''], done by a Lady of this Province, and esteemed a very good one.”<ref>Quoted in Mabel L. Webber, “South Carolina Almanacs to 1800,” ''South Carolina Genealogical and Historical Magazine'' 15 (1914): 73, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/X783GDC4 view on Zotero].</ref> It was reprinted several times, and appeared posthumously under her name in annual editions of the ''Palladium of Knowledge: or, The Carolina and Georgia Almanac'' (1796&ndash;1804).<ref>Webber 1914, 80&ndash;81, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/X783GDC4 view on Zotero]; see also Manigault and Webber 1919, 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero].</ref> According to David Ramsay, Logan also wrote a treatise on gardening at the age of seventy. In that work, he claimed, she “reduced the knowledge she had acquired by long experience, and observation, to a regular system which . . . to this day regulates the practice of gardens in and around Charleston.”<ref>David Ramsay, ''The History of South-Carolina: From Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808'', 2 vols. (Charleston: David Longworth, 1809), 2:228, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/D9NEJJM8 view on Zotero]; see also Manigault and Webber 1919, 205n9, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/EKDI4DIN view on Zotero]; see also Woodrow Wilson Harris Jr., “The Education of the Southern Urban Adult: Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia, 1790&ndash;1812,” (PhD diss., University of Georgia, 1979), 105, [https://www.zotero.org/groups/54737/items/itemKey/P9M7AGMK view on Zotero].</ref>
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