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Personal data Edward Rutledge 

Source 1
  • He was born on November 23, 1749 in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.
  • He died on January 23, 1800 in Charleston, South Carolina, he was 50 years old.
  • He is buried January 1800 in Saint Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.
  • A child of John Rutledge and Sarah Boone Hext

Household of Edward Rutledge

(1) He is married to Henrietta Middleton.

They got married on March 1, 1774 at Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, he was 24 years old.Source 2


Child(ren):

  3. Edward Rutledge  1778-1780
  4. Sarah Rutledge  1782-1873


(2) He is married to Mary Shubrick.

They got married on October 28, 1792 at Charleston, South Carolina, he was 42 years old.


Notes about Edward Rutledge

Signer of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina, he was the youngest signer at age 26. His wife’s brother, Arthur Middleton, also signed the Declaration of Independence. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he studied law with his older brother, John. Both boys were then sent to England to continue their legal studies, and Edward returned home in 1773 to set up a law practice in Charleston, SC. The next year he married Henrietta Middleton, a member of a prominent South Carolina family; they would have three children. Early on, Edward made his name as a patriot, by his legal work defending a printer who had defied British laws. Because of his beliefs in the patriot cause, he was elected to both the First and Second Continental Congress, from 1774 to 1776. When the trial vote for independence was taken on July 1, 1776, South Carolina initially rejected independence. Edward then worked to convince the other South Carolina delegates to support independence, with the result that when the actual vote came, South Carolina voted for independence. After the signing, Edward returned home to South Carolina to help defend his state. In the spring of 1780, the British captured him during the siege of Charleston, and he served a year as a prisoner of war in Florida. Since the entire Rutledge family supported independence, the British also imprisoned his mother, Sarah Hext Rutledge, in Charleston. After the Revolutionary War, he served in the state legislature, and from 1798 to 1800, he was Governor of South Carolina. His wife, Henrietta, died in 1792, and later that year he married Mary Shubrick Everleigh. When former President George Washington died on December 14, 1799, the news of his death so upset Governor Rutledge that he suffered a stroke soon after hearing of Washington’s death, and died at the age of fifty.
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Edward Rutledge

Edward Thomas Rutledge
????-1725
Elizabeth Graem
1670-1750
Hugh Hext
1698-1732
Sarah Boone
1705-1743
John Rutledge
1713-1750

Edward Rutledge
1749-1800

(1) 1774

Henrietta Middleton
1750-1792

Henry Middleton Rutledge
1775-1844
Jackson Middleton Rutledge
1777-1830
Edward Rutledge
1778-1780
Sarah Rutledge
1782-1873
(2) 1792

Mary Shubrick
1754-1837


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    Birthday November 23, 1749

    • The temperature on November 23, 1749 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1749: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
      • January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
      • January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
      • May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
      • June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

    Day of marriage October 28, 1792

    • The temperature on October 28, 1792 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1792: Source: Wikipedia
      • April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
      • May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
      • June 4 » Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
      • August 10 » French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
      • September 11 » The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house where they are stored.
      • December 11 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.

    Day of death January 23, 1800

    • The temperature on January 23, 1800 was about -3 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
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      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • In the year 1800: Source: Wikipedia
      • April 2 » The Treaty of Constantinople establishes the Septinsular Republic, the first autonomous Greek state since the Fall of the Byzantine Empire.
      • April 20 » The Septinsular Republic is established.
      • April 24 » The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
      • June 14 » The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy.
      • June 15 » The Provisional Army of the United States is dissolved.
      • October 17 » War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
    

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