Maidee, His mention of Seibels is in connection with the decline in the village of Granby: "The town being at the head of navigation on the Congaree, with a ferry on the road leading to the up country, and broad, fertile river swamp lands extending many miles below, was a place of considerable business and some of its merchants made fortunes and lived in good style. Their families were well educated and formed a circle of refined society that was at once moral and elevated. Among them were the Bells, Hanes, Arthurs, Fridays, Seibelses, and others whose representatives go to make up the present population of Columbia and vicinity. But when the State Capitol, the South Carolina College and the sessions of the Supreme Court were established at Columbia Granby began to decline. It had always been unhealthy, the superior capital and enterprise of the merchants in Columbia in time drew trade from the place, and after the removal of the county seat to Lexington it became a deserted village; so that, in 1822 but two or three stores remained, those of Muller and Senn and Pou and Seibels (Lewis Pou and Henry Seibels)."