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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

David Ramsay (1749–1815)

Ramsay, David. An American physician and historian; born in Lancaster County, PA, April 2, 1749; died at Charleston, May 8, 1815. He devoted his leisure to the study of the Revolutionary struggle, and published: ‘History of the Revolution in South Carolina’ (1785); ‘History of the American Revolution’ (1789); ‘Life of Washington’ (1801); and ‘History of South Carolina’ (1809). His ‘History of the United States’ was published posthumously in 1816, and his ‘Universal History Americanized’ in 1819.