Henry Middleton was a planter,public official from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature,during the American Revolution he attended the First Continental Congress and served as that body's president for four days in 1774 after the passage of the Continental Association,which he signed. He left the Second Continental Congress before it declared independence. Back in South Carolina,he served as president of the provincial congress and senator in the newly created state government. After his capture by the British in 1780,he accepted defeat and returned to the status of a British subject until the end of the war.
Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina,the county seat of Charleston County,and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor,an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley,Cooper,and Wando rivers. Charleston had a population of 150,227 at the 2020 census. The population of the Charleston metropolitan area,comprising Berkeley,Charleston,and Dorchester counties,was estimated to be 849,417 in 2023. It ranks as the third-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the state,and the 71st-most populous in the United States.
Christopher Gadsden was an American politician who was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement during the American Revolution. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress,a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War,Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina,a merchant,and the designer of the Gadsden flag. He is a signatory to the Continental Association.
The Province of South Carolina,originally known as Clarendon Province,was a province of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies of the British Empire. The monarch of Great Britain was represented by the Governor of South Carolina,until the colonies declared independence on July 4,1776.
The Province of Carolina was a province of the Kingdom of England (1663–1707) and later the Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until the Carolinas were partitioned into North and South on January 24,1712.
Captain William Sayle was a prominent British landholder who was Governor of Bermuda in 1643 and again in 1658. As an Independent in religion and politics,and an adherent of Oliver Cromwell,he was dissatisfied with life in Bermuda,and so founded the company of the Eleutheran Adventurers who became the first settlers of the Bahamas between 1646 and 1648. He later became the first governor of colonial South Carolina from 1670 to 1671.
Cassiques (junior) and landgraves (senior) were intended to be a fresh new system of titles of specifically American lesser nobility,created for hereditary representatives in a proposed upper house of a bicameral Carolina assembly.
Abraham Wood (1610–1682),sometimes referred to as "General" or "Colonel" Wood,was an English fur trader,militia officer,politician and explorer of 17th century colonial Virginia. Wood helped build and maintained Fort Henry at the falls of the Appomattox in present-day Petersburg. He also served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and as a member of the Virginia Governor's Council.
Edward Lee Spence is a pioneer in underwater archaeology who studies shipwrecks and sunken treasure. He is also a published editor and author of non-fiction reference books;a magazine editor,and magazine publisher;and a published photographer. Spence was twelve years old when he found his first five shipwrecks.
St. Philip's Church is an historic church at 142 Church Street in Charleston,South Carolina. Its National Historic Landmark description states:"Built in 1836,this stuccoed brick church features an imposing tower designed in the Wren-Gibbs tradition. Three Tuscan pedimented porticoes contribute to this design to make a building of the highest quality and sophistication." On November 7,1973,it was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark.
Gustavus Hamilton,1st Viscount BoynePC (Ire) (1642–1723) was an Irish soldier and politician. In his youth,he fought in his cousin Sir George Hamilton's regiment for the French in the Franco-Dutch War. About 1678 he obtained a commission in the Irish Army. James II appointed him to the Irish Privy Council in 1685.
Magnolia Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Charleston,South Carolina. The first board for the cemetery was assembled in 1849 with Edward C. Jones as the architect. It was dedicated in 1850;Charles Fraser delivered the dedication address. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District in 1978.
The Snow Campaign was one of the first major military operations of the American Revolutionary War in the southern colonies. An army of up to 3,000 Patriot militia under Colonel Richard Richardson marched against Loyalist recruiting centers in South Carolina,flushing them out and frustrating attempts by the Loyalists to organize. The Patriot expedition became known as the Snow Campaign due to heavy snowfall in the later stages of the campaign.
Thomas Polk was a planter,military officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1781,and a politician who served in the North Carolina House of Commons,North Carolina Provincial Congress,and Council of State. Polk commanded the 4th North Carolina Regiment in the Battle of Brandywine. In 1786,Polk was elected by the North Carolina General Assembly to the Congress of the Confederation,but did not attend any of its sessions. Polk was a great-uncle of the 11th President of the United States,James K. Polk.
Thomas Broughton was a colonial-era official in South Carolina,serving a variety of positions,including acting governor from May 5,1735,through November 22,1737.
Richard Tookerman was born on 16 May 1691 in Devon,Cornwall,England. He was the son of Josias Tookerman,a clergyman,and younger brother of Josias Tookerman II,a clergyman sent by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) to Jamaica. He married Katherine Grant,widow of John Grant of Charleston,South Carolina by 1717. As a pirate,smuggler,and trader active in the Caribbean and the Carolinas,he became best known for involvement with pirates Stede Bonnet and Bartholomew Roberts.
Richard Richardson (1704–1780) was an American planter and military officer from Clarendon County,South Carolina who served as a brigadier general in the American Revolutionary War.
James Henry Ladson was an American politician,wealthy plantation owner from Charles Town and officer of the American Revolution. He served as the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1792 to 1794,and was a member of the South Carolina state Senate from 1800 to 1804.
Robert Wright (1666 –12 October 1739) was the son of Sir Robert Wright,Chief Justice of the King's Bench (1687–1689) who died in Newgate Prison following the Glorious Revolution. In the same year Robert was called to the bar at Middle Temple and became a judge. Robert took the role of Judge of the Common Pleas in the North East of England and married widowed land-heiress Alicea Pitt (née Johnson) (d.1723),daughter of John Johnson of Sedgefield and settled in Sedgefield before returning to London following the Hanoverian succession in 1715. Meanwhile,he fathered seven children with his mistress Isabella (1675 –21 November 1752) in Bloomsbury,before sailing for colonial Charles Town to become Chief Justice of the colony of Carolina,and subsequently South Carolina,and a plantation owner. He died there in 1739. His son Sir James Wright went on to become a colonial governor of Georgia.
