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Persoonlijke gegevens William Henry Mouzon 

• Hij is geboren op 18 mei 1741.
• Hij is overleden op 25 augustus 1807 in Mouzon Plantation, South Carolina, hij was toen 66 jaar oud.
• Een kind van William Henry Mouzon en Ann Cordes Videau

Gezin van William Henry Mouzon

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Kind(eren):

1. Sameul Ruffin Mouzon  1775-1842 
2. ??  
3. ??  
4. ??  
5. Ann Mouzon  1769-1859
6. Peter Mouzon  1772-1843
7. ??  
8. Susannah Videau Mouzon  1779-1817
9. Edward Mouzon  1788-1788
10. James Mouzon  1791-1791

Notities over William Henry Mouzon

William Henry Mouzon II, holds a prominent place in early South Carolina history. He was educated in France and spoke the language fluently. He became a surveyor and civil engineer of the first rank and made the first map of North and South Carolina which was published in London, and then in Paris. He made this map with the aid of Ephraim Mitchell. Captain Henry Mouzon II was a leading spirit and one of the ablest exponents of the American Idea and hated the English. Henry Mouzon had a warm friendship with Banastre Tarleton from thier boyhood days at school; yet so callous had Tarleton grown from a sense of duty to his King that he consented to burn the Mouzon Plantation House, which he did on August 7,1780 . Captain Henry Mouzon served with General Francis Marion (The Swamp Fox ) and was wounded September 28,1780 at Dollard's Inn and spent the rest of the war recuperating. In 1798, William Henry Mouzon II and his eldest son Peter were appointed Commissioners of Roads on the north side of the Black River. They were responsible for cleaning and repairing the roads leading from Mouzon's Landing, Iocated at Pudding Swamp on the Black River, to all the communities north of the Black River. Henry built a bridge at Mouzon's Landing and was authorized to charge a toll for seven years starting from 1805.
(W.W. Boddie, History of Williamsburg.)

Susannah Taylor and William Henry Mouzon II were married by Reverend Spencer of Black Mingo. Henry was the owner of the Mouzon Plantation, run by all members of the family. Henry died leaving no will . The monument on Henry's grave was erected by by the Kingstree Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution.

More About William Henry Mouzon II:
Burial: Mouzon Cemetery, South Carolina
Ethnicity/Relig.: Presbyterian
Occupation: Planter, Soldier, Civil Engineer
Residence: Mouzon Plantation, South Carolina
RIN: MH:N669

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