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Personal data Arthur Middleton 

• He was born on October 29, 1681 in The Oaks Plantation, St. James Goose Creek, South Carolina.Sources 1, 4, 5
• He died on September 7, 1737 in The Oaks Plantation, St. James Goose Creek, South Carolina, he was 55 years old.Sources 1, 2
• A child of Edward Middleton and Sarah Dew

Household of Arthur Middleton

(1) He is married to Sarah Amory.

They got married on October 29, 1706, he was 25 years old.Source 6

Child(ren):

1. William Middleton  1710-1785 
2. Henry Middleton  1717-1784 
3. Thomas Middleton  1719-1766 
4. ??  

(2) He is married to Sarah Wilkinson.

They got married on August 3, 1723 at St. Andrew's Parish, Ashley River, South Carolina, he was 41 years old.

Notes about Arthur Middleton

Arthur, president of the council of North Carolina, was born probably at "The Oaks." on Goose Creek, Berkeley district, South Carolina, in 1681; son of Edward and Sarah (Fewell) Middleton [p.366] an d nephew of Arthur Middleton. Edward and Arthur Middleton were natives of Twickenham, England, who went to the Barbadoes and thence, in 1678, to Berkeley County, South Carolina, where they became influential in public affairs. Arthur Middleton was sent to England to be educated, and in 1704 was a member of the commons house and was instrumental in extending the offices of the Church of England to the colony. In April, 1710, he was appointed a commissioner to found and erect a free school for the use of the inhabitants of South Carolina. He was appointed naval officer at Charleston in 1781, and was correspondent of the Hon. Abel Kettelby, the naval agent in England in 1712. He was a member of the provincial council, 1711-17, and was sent to Virginia in 1715 to procure men to aid in the war with the Yamassee Indians, and when the Virginians returned home he was sent to England to petition the crown for aid. He was active in 1719 in a movement to transfer the government of the colony from the lords-proprietors to the crown direct, and in 1719 was elected president of the convention which succeeded in overthrowing the proprietary government. He was president of the council under Sir Francis Nicholson, 1721-25, and in 1725 when the governor sailed for England, succeeded to his duties as president of the council, and was addressed as president or commander-in-chief. While acting- governor, 1725-29, he dealt with the Spaniards and Indians who harassed the colonists during the boundary controversy between Florida and South Carolina, and in retaliation President Middleton ordered Col. William Palmer with a body of British soldiers to enter Florida and destroy the property of the Spaniards. The French from Louisiana, aided by the Indians, were also encroaching upon the colony from the West, and Middleton, to counteract the influence of the French, sent agents to gain the influence of the Indians. Middleton was an extreme royalist, and so unpopular with the house of assembly that that body in 1729 succeeded in obtaining the appointment of Robert Johnson as governor; but Middleton held the office until Johnson's arrival from England in 1731, when he was elected a member of the executive council and served as its president until his death. He was elected a trustee of the free school in Dorchester district in 1734. He died in South Carolina, Sept. 6, 1737.
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