That portion of the colony which did not remain in Charleston, South Carolina found refuge on the banks of Little River, in that district, where they formed a township after the manner of the country which they had left.

Among these settlers was Pierre Moragne, her grandfather, who, having lost his wife on the passage round by Plymouth, returned to Charleston from New Bordeaux, and married Cecille Bayle, a beautiful “compagnon-du-voyage.” As his letters and journals testify, he was from his youth addicted to literary pursuits, and though the wants of a primitive settlement could not have been very favourable to such inclinations, he is remembered and spoken of as a character of great eccentricity, on account of having devoted the latter years of his life to writing.

She experienced at the same time a change of views in regard to the propriety of that branch of literature which she had adopted -romantic fiction- and finally, after a few more efforts, some of which were never published, she resolved to end writing in this form, though it had been her favorite pursuit.

Of this story, Mr. Thompson, the editor of the Augusta Mirror, remarked as follows:—“The ‘Rencontre’ is of that class of literary productions which we prize above all other orders of fiction.

Near the close of the year 1841, the editor of the Augusta Mirror stated:—“We have received the first part of a tale, entitled "The Walsingham Family, or, A Mother’s Ambition", by a favourite lady correspondent.

We are much pleased with it, and judging from past efforts of the same pen, do not hesitate to promise our readers a rich treat.” This was a domestic tale of some length, apparently designed to illustrate the folly and vanity of a worldly and ambitious mother; but although the first six chapters were in the hands of the publisher, and the remainder nearly ready for publication, she withdrew it, notwithstanding the earnest solicitation of the editors into whose possession it had passed.