(1) Il est marié à Francis Motte.
Ils se sont mariés le 19 octobre 1797 à Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, il avait 46 ans.
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(2) Il est marié à Elizabeth Motte.
Ils se sont mariés le 22 juillet 1779, il avait 28 ans.
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He was minister to the court of St. James' in England when his wife, Elizabeth Motte, died in 1794.
He was left in school in England when his parents returned to South Carolina in 1758. Late in 1774 he returned to South Carolina and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar. Upon organization of the First South Carolina Regiment, he was chosen a captain. He was steadily concerned with military affairs and engagements during the whole period of the Revolution and was severely wounded at the Battle of Camden, Aug. 8, 1780, and captured. Later he was sent North to Philadelphia and was there exchanged. On Feb. 20, 1787, he was elected governor, served one term of two years. He was president of the State Convention of 1788, which ratified the Federal Constitution. In 1789 he Declined Washington's offer of appointment as US district judge for South Carolina In 1791 Washington offered him the appointment of minister to Great Britain and the nomination was confirmed in Jan. 1792. In April 1795, he was appointed special Commissioner to Spain to negotiate a treaty concerning boundaries between the US and Spanish territory, and navigation of the Mississippi which was finally settled Oct. 27, 1795. He returned to South Carolina in Sept. 1796 and was the Federal candidate for the vice presidency in 1796 but was betrayed by his own party when some of its electors voted for Jefferson of the Democratic party. He was elected to Congress in 1797 and served through that critical period until Mar. 3, 1801.
He was constantly in public service in state and national affairs; was commissioned major general in command of the district from North Carolina to Mississippi in the War of 1812; served in the Indian war with the Creeks and negotiated the treaty which concluded peace.
He was a scientific planter; had a number of plantations, and wrote a number of agricultural articles.
Among his estates were Fairfield, Fannymead Plantation on Toxaway, Pendleton County; Eldorado , Auckland, Cedar Island and others.
RIN: MH:N183
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