accabees

Updated: June 29, 2025

The settlement made by Lord Cardross, near Beaufort, South Carolina, was beset by Spaniards and Indians, who laid it in ashes and slew every person in it but one. She, a child of thirteen, had supposed the young chief of the Accabees to be her father, as he passed in the smoke, and had thrown herself into his arms.

Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner - Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete

The settlement made by Lord Cardross, near Beaufort, South Carolina, was beset by Spaniards and Indians, who laid it in ashes and slew every person in it but one. She, a child of thirteen, had supposed the young chief of the Accabees to be her father, as he passed in the smoke, and had thrown herself into his arms.

Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner - Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 05 : Lights and shadows of the South