Alexander Parris The Revolution of 1719 was a bloodless military coup in the Province of South Carolina which resulted in the overthrow of the Lords Proprietors and the installation of Colonel James Moore, Jr. as the colony's de facto ruler, a post he held until 1721.

It foreshadowed events 56 years later when — in September 1775 — royal governor Lord William Campbell was compelled to flee South Carolina due to growing civil unrest on the eve of the American Revolution.

[2] Upon receiving the letters from Yonge, Johnson decided not to share them with the Commons House of Assembly due to their inflammatory contents and, instead, dissolved the body, calling for new elections on November 26.

[3] Leading community members expressed concern at the city's defensive works which, due to neglect owing at least in part to the detached disinterest of the proprietors, were in a dilapidated state.

[2] During the militia muster called for the third week of that month, officers and soldiers began associating into an informal organization intent on usurping power from the proprietors.

At the speech, Assemblyman Arthur Middleton publicly declared the assembly recognized only the authority of Johnson as a governor of George I and had decided that the Grand Council was an illegal body.

[2] Concerned that a military review planned for December 21 in Charleston would be used by the rebel faction to move against his government, Governor Johnson ordered militia Col. Alexander Parris to direct the parade's cancellation.

[2] Johnson withdrew and the militia set out to Granville Bastion, the fortification on the southeast corner of the military works at Oyster Point and the traditional site for the inauguration of Carolinian governors.