Zij is getrouwd met Jacob Motte.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 11 juni 1758, zij was toen 20 jaar oud.Bron 2
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Rebecca Brewton Motte, sister of Miles Brewton and grandmother of Dr. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was born June 15, 1737. In 1758 she became the wife of Jacob Motte. During the Revolutionary war she was living, with her three daughters and Mrs. John Brewton, at Mount Joseph, a plantation bequeathed to her by Miles Brewton, on the Congaree river in St. Matthew's parish, Orangeburg district. During the Revolutionary War a British garrison had made their camp at The Motte Mansion in Fort Motte, South Carolina. Colonel "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, father of General Robert E. Lee, and General Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, reluctantly informed Mrs. Rebecca Brewton Motte of a daring plan of shooting blazing arrows on the wooden shingled roof of her mansion and burning it to the ground to drive the British out. Without remonstrance, Rebecca Brewton turning to the closet and brought out a quiver of fire arrows which had been given, many years before, by the captain of an East India-man to her brother, Miles Brewton, she asked that they be used, saying that the loss of her property was nothing compared with the advancement of the American cause. Discharged from a rifle, the first two did not ignite, but the third did. As an artillery piece commanded the roof, the British commandant, Lieutenant McPherson, surrendered immediately. American troops rushed in, extinguished the fire, and saved the house. British and Americans then dined together as guests of Mrs. Motte. After the war, she assumed all her husband's debts, his large estate being encumbered beyond its value by debts incurred when he gave security for friends. Purchasing on credit a tract of rice land on the Santee river, by her energy and economy, she paid all the debts and accumulated a large property. Two of her daughters, Elizabeth in 1779, and after her death, Frances, widow of John Middleton, married Thomas Pinckney, soldier, diploma and governor of South Carolina. Rebecca Motte died January 10, 1815.
RIN: MH:N867
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