At a convention of the People of the State of South Carolina, begun and holden at Columbia, on the Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and thence continued by adjournment to Charleston, and there by divers adjournment to the Twentieth day of December in the same year-

An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America" We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained. That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying amendments of the said Constitution are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States under the name of "The Constitution of the United States of America" is hereby dissolved. Done at Charleston, the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

D. F. Jamison Delegate from Barnwell South Carolina
President of the Convention

On the question being put, "Will the Convention adopt the Ordinance?" it passed in the affirmative. Yeas, 169; nays, none.

Interestingly, the article is signed by 171 men. In the book, "Old and New Columbia", by J. F. Williams, written in 1929, he lists 166 men. So we have 2 men who did not vote, but signed their names. Williams lists the following men who are not on the list of signatures:

H. J. Caughman
James C. Furman
Chesley D. Ervin
Jno. McKee
H. D. Green
Mathew B. Mayes

 

Thomas Chiles Perrin	Francis Hugh Wardlaw	Chesley D. Evans	R. W. Barnwell	L. W. Spratt
Edward Noble	R. G. M. Dunovant	Wm W. Harllee	Joseph Daniel Pope	Williams Middleton
J. H. Wilson	James Parsons Carroll	A. W. Bethea	C. P. Broom	F. D. Richardson
Thos. Thompson	William Gregg	E. W. Goodwin	John M. Shingler	B. H. Rutledge
David Lewis Wardlaw	Andrew J. Hammond	William D. Johnson	Daniel DuPre	Edward McCrady
John Alfred Calhoun	James Tompkins	Alex McLeod	A. Mayzch	Frances J. Porcher
John Izard Middleton	James C. Smyly	John P. Kinard	William Cain	T. L. Gourdin
Benjamin E. Sessions	John Hugh Means	Robert Moorman	P. G. Snowden	John S. Palmer
J. N. Whitner	William Strother Lyles	Joseph Caldwell	George W. Seabrook	John L. Nowell
James L. Orr	Henry Campbell Davis	Simeon Fair	John Jenkins	John S. O'Hare
J. P. Reed	Jno. Buchanan	Thomas Worth Glover	R. T. Davant	John J. Landrum
R. F. Simpson	James C. Furman	Laurence M. Keitt	E. M. Seabrook	B. B. Foster
Benjamin Franklin Mauldin	Col. Perry E. Duncan	Donald Rowe Barton	John J. Wannamaker	Benjamin F. Kilgore
Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr.	W. R. Easly	Wm. Hunter	Elias B. Scott	James H. Carlisle
W. Perroneau Finley	James Harrison	Andrew F. Lewis	Jos. E. Jenkins	Simpson Bobo
J. J. Brabham	W. H. Campbell	Robert A. Thompson	Langdon Cheves	William Curtis
Benj. William Lawton	T. J. Withers	William S. Grisham	George Rhodes	H. D. Green
John McKee	James Chestnut, Jr.	John Maxwell	A. G. Magrath	Mathew P. Mayes
Thomas W. Moore	Joseph Brevard Kershaw	Jno. B. Frampton	Wm. Porcher Miles	Thomas Reese English Sr.
Richard Woods	Thos. W. Beaty	W. Ferguson Hutson	John Townsend	Albertus Chambers Spain
A. Q. Dunovant	Wm. J. Ellis	W. F. de Saussure	Robert N. Gourdin	J. M. Gadberry
John A. Inglis	R. L. Crawford	William Hopkins	H. W. Connor	J. S. Sims
Henry McIver	W. C. Cauthen	James H. Adams	Theodore D. Wayman	Willliam. H. Gist
Stephen Jackson	D. P. Robinson	Maxcy Gregg	Robert Barnwell Rhett	James Jeffries
W. Pinkney Shingler	H. C. Young	John W. Kinsler	C. G. Menninger	Anthony W. Dozier
Peter P. Bonneau	H. W. Garlington	Ephriam M. Clarke	Gabriel Manigault	John W. Pressley
John P. Richardson	John D. Williams	Alex H. Brown	John Julius Pringle Smith	R. C. Logan
John L. Manning	W. D. Watts	E. St P. Bellinger	Isaac W. Hayne	Francis S. Parker
John I. Ingram	Thos. Wier	Merric E. Carn	Jno. H. Honour	Benj. Faneuil Duncan
Edgar W. Charles	H. J. Caughman	E. R. Henderson	Richard DeTreville	Samuel Taylor Atkinson
Julius A. Dargan	John C. Geiger	Peter Stokes	Thos. M. Hanckel	Alex M. Forster
Isaac D. Wilson	Paul Quattlebaum	Daniel Flud	A. W. Burnet	William Blackburn Wilson
John M. Timmons	W. B. Rowell	David C. Appleby	Thos Y. Simons	Robert T. Allison
	A. Baxter Springs	A. I. Barron	Artemus T. Darby	Saml. Rainey

The sheet is signed along the bottom edge: Benj. F. Arthur, Clerk of the Convention.

REF: Williams, J. F. Old and New Columbia
Lesser, Charles H.; Relic of the Lost Cause Rev. 1996. SC Dept. of Archives and History.

Thanks to Blanchard Smith (bdsr@erols.com) for his help in cross checking these names. His wife, Mary Seabrook, is a descendant of M. Seabrook.

Thanks to Anne Lawton Ellis Neely, great granddaughter of Benjamin William Lawton for corrections.

If you know of corrections / additions to the list, please let me know.