<P> While tensions mounted between the Crown and the Carolinas, some key southern Pastors became a target of King George: "...this church (Bullock Creek) was noted as one of the "Four Bees" in King George's bonnet due to its pastor, Rev. Joseph Alexander, preaching open rebellion to the British Crown in June 1780 . Bullock Creek Presbyterian Church was a place noted for being a Whig party stronghold . Under a ground swell of such Calvin Protestant leadership, South Carolina moved from a back seat to the front in the war against tyranny . Patriots went on to regain control of Charleston and South Carolina with untrained militiamen by trapping Colonel Banastre "No Quarter" Tarleton's troops along a river . </P> <P> In 1787, John Rutledge, Charles Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Pierce Butler went to Philadelphia where the Constitutional Convention was being held and constructed what served as a detailed outline for the U.S. Constitution . The federal Constitution was ratified by the state in 1787 . The new state constitution was ratified in 1790 without the support of the Upcountry . </P> <P> During the Revolution, the Scots Irish in the back country in most states were noted as strong patriots . One exception was the Waxhaw settlement on the lower Catawba River along the North Carolina - South Carolina boundary, where Loyalism was strong . The area had two main settlement periods of Scotch Irish . During the 1750s--1760s, second - and third - generation Scotch Irish Americans moved from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina . This particular group had large families, and as a group they produced goods for themselves and for others . They generally were patriots . </P> <P> In addition to these, The Earl of Donegal arrived in Charleston on December 22, 1767, from Belfast, bringing approximately fifty families over who received land grants under the Bounty Act . Most of these families settled in the upstate . A portion of these eventually migrated into Georgia and on into Alabama . </P>

Who founded the south carolina colony and why