The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia

PUBLICATIONS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Yol. VIII. MARCH, 1921. No. 1. THE DRAYTONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND PHILADELPHIA* CONTRIBUTED BY MRS. EMILY HEYWARD DRAYTON TAYLOR. THOMAS DRAYTON, f a descendant of the Draytons of North¬ amptonshire % in England, was among the gentlemen ad¬ venturers of the British Island of Barbadoes as early as 1671. According to the early American chronicles of the family he was one of the little group of colonists who accompanied Sir John Yeamans § from Barbadoes to South Carolina, ♦ This compilation is, in part, the result of the investigations of the late William Drayton., Eisq., of Philadelphia. An article on this family, by Prank Willing Leach, Esq., appeared in the series, “ OLD PHILADELPHIA FAMILIES,” in the North American, Philadelphia, December 15, 1912. + The statement is made in old family documents that, “ he was the son of John Drayton, 4th, of Atherstone, Northamptonshire, afterwards of London.” J Governor John Drayton, in the Biographical Sketch of his father which prefaces his “ Memoirs of the American Revolution,” says : “ William Henry Drayton was born in South Carolina, at Drayton Hall on Ashley River, in September, 1742. He was the eldest son of John Drayton, whose father, Thomas Drayton, was a descendant of the Drayton family of Northampton¬ shire in England.” § An ancient Drayton chart contains this note “ It is .supposed that he came to South Carolina (from the British Island of Barbadoes, to which he or his parents had gone from England) with a small colony in the year 1672, in the reign of Charles II, with Sir John Yeamans, and with this colony were intro¬ duced the first negro slaves into South Carolina. He settled on the south side of the Ashley River, and the estate from the trees was called Magnolia.” The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 2 in 1671. These chronicles further state that he settled on the south side of the Ashley River where his estate, from its trees, was called Magnolia, and eventually became one of the most picturesque plantations of the Colony and State. It is now known that ‘‘ Magnolia ’ ’ belonged to a later Thomas Drayton. i The length of Thomas Drayton’s stay in the Carolinas is but problematical. The first land warrant of record to him, is for two hundred acres under date of 18 May, 1678.* A grant of that acreage on Newtown Creek was issued to him 2 November, following. It is, however, by no means certain that Thomas Drayton, the elder, was ever an actual settler on the Ashley, or, had ever entertained serious intentions of removal from St. Michael’s Parish, Barbadoes, where, in 1679, his name appears in that vicinity as “ the owner of lands, servants and slaves.” | Indeed, it is a fair conjecture and one in which the later students of the family history seem¬ ingly agree, that the grant of 1678, was not his but that of his son’s of the same name, or, if his, was taken from the son, and that he remained a resident of St. Michael’s until his death in 1702, leaving a will, proved 9 November, of that year. His marriage has not been ascertained, nor the names of his children save that of his son Thomas, who may justly be considered the founder of the American family of his sur¬ name. Child of Thomas Drayton: 2. i. THOMAS,2 b. circa 1645; d. before 10 November, 1700; m. Elizabeth Carpenter. 2. THOMAS 2 DRAYTON (Thomas1), second of the name, was born circa 1645, doubtless in England, and accompanied his father to Barbadoes. It was probably he, and not the father, who was of Sir John Yeamans’s company of 1671, and he who secured the warrants and grant of 1678, either directly to himself, or, by right of his father. No question can there be that he it was, who, as Thomas Drayton, junr., had per* Sailly’s Warrants for South Carolina Lands, 1672-1079, p. 159, •J* Hotten’s Lists of Emigrants to America, 1600-1700, p. 453. The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 3 mission to leave the Isle of Barbadoes for Carolina in the ship Mary, Nicholas Lockwood, commander, April 25, 1679.* Of his life in South Carolina no detailed information is yet available. The soil and climate of his new environment were not unlike that of his former one, and he was thus able to adapt himself to the avocation of the gentleman planter of that period and place with little or no difficulty. The archives of South Carolina show him to have been living as late as 12 May, 1699, when, with wife Elizabeth he conveyed to Stephen Fox three hundred acres of land on Stone River; t Thomas Drayton, Jr., being one of the witnesses to the trans¬ action. This was one of the closing acts of his career and he died sometime before 10 November, 1700, on which date letters of administration cum testamento,$ on the estate of Thomas Drayton, were granted to Thomas Drayton, Jr., Stephen Fox being security on the bond.§ According to the family chronicles his wife was Elizabeth Carpenter. She was probably the Elizabeth Drayton, whose burial is of record, on St. Phillip’s Parish || Register, as oc¬ curring 12 May, 1722. The number and order of his children is uncertain. He is, however, believed to have had the follow¬ ing children, place of birth not known : 3. i. MICHAEL, from whom the Barbadoes family sprang. 4. ii. THOMAS, b. circa 1670-5; d. 1716/7 ; m. Ann Fox. 5. iii. JOHN, of South Carolina, of whom information is indefinite. 4. THOMAS 8 DRAYTON (Thomas* Thomas1), born, possibly on the Island of Barbadoes, circa 1670-5; died at Magnolia, South Carolina in 1716, leaving a will dated 12 June, 1714, which was proved 5 June, 1717. Information concerning this third Thomas Drayton, second of the South Carolina family, is almost as meagre as that of the earlier generations of his name. Doubtless he accom- , * Hotten’s List of Emigi'ants to America under Lists to leave the Isle of Barbadoes, p. 363. *j- South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, xii, p. 149. £ The will is, unfortunately, neither on file, nor of record in the ProbateCourt at Charleston, or elsewhere, m> far as had been learned. § South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, xii. p. 149. || St. Philip’s, Charleston, The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 4 panied his father to Carolina on the good ship Mary , in 1679, and, upon his father’s decease, in 1700, became possessed of the plantation on the Ashley and there spent the remainder of his days, adding perhaps to its acreage, certainly to the cultivation of its natural beauties. Under date 3d month 7th, 1698, Honore Michawe granted to Thomas Drayton, Jr., one hundred acres of land at the north branch of Stone River, . . bounded west upon the lands of Stephen Pox, and, on 16 August, 1703, Thomas Drayton conveyed a tract of one hundred and fifty-four acres on Pon Pon, his wife Ann being a party thereto. These would seem to be his only land transactions of record. He married, in South Carolina, circa 1698, Ann * probably daughter of Stephen Fox, who survived him many years, dying 1 July, 1742. Her will of 2 March, 1741, was proved 30 August, 1742. Stephen Pox, his father in law, had, like his father, been a citizen of Barbadoes and had left there, under permit of 29 March, 1679, for Carolina, where he too continued to reside until his death, in 1706. By his will Stephen Pox devised the Magnolia plantation of four hundred and two acres to Thomas Drayton, under whose will it passed to his son, Thomas Drayton. The latter added to the prop¬ erty an adjoining tract of two hundred and sixty acres which had been conveyed, 26 March, 1729, to his mother, Ann. Drayton, apparently one-half for herself and one-half for her son, Stephen Pox Drayton, both of whom devised their in¬ terest to Thomas Drayton, who died in 1760. . — Children, born in South Carolina, order uncertain : 6. i. THOMAS,4 b. circa 1700; d. 11 Nov., 1760; m. (1) Elizabeth Bull; (2) Lady Mary Mackensie. ii. MARY, d. 2 Mar., 1749; m. 21 Dec., 1721, Richard Puller. Issue: 1. Ann Booth Fuller, b. 25 Jan., 1723; d. 27 Mar., 1748; m. * The statement is made in one family chronicle that Thomas Drayton, son -of Thomas and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Drayton married, in England, at the age of twenty-four, Ann Daniel, widow, aged twenty-eight. It is quite possible that Ann Daniel, widow, and Ann Fox wore one and the same. There is still another statement that hts wife’s maiden name was Booth, and this appears to have been based upon the fact that the daughter of Mrs. Ann Drayton's only daughter was Ann Booth Puller. Against all this is the opening -clause of the Drayton monument, q. v. The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 5 10 Dec., 1743, John Rosa and had issue.* 2. Thomas Fuller, bapt. 25 Aug., 1727 ; married and had issue.f 3. Richard Fuller, bapt. 6 Sept., 1730; died same day. iii. STEPHEN h’ox, d. s. p. before his mother, but mentioned in her will. 7. iv. JOHN, d. 31 May, 1779; m. (1) Sarah Cattel; (2) Charlotte Bull; (3) Margaret Glenn; (4) Rebecca Perry. 6. THOMAS1 DRAYTON (Thomas,3 Thomas,2 Thomas,1) was bom, probably about 1700, at the Drayton plantation on the Ashley. He early rose to prominence in the Colony, being named for His Majesty’s Council in 1730; and, under ap¬ pointment of 7 June, 1734, J and re-appointment of 26 March, 1737, was one of His Majesty’s Justices of South Carolina, In 1740 he was commissioner to sign bills of credit ; § was a member of the Commons House of Assembly 1745-1747,|| and may have filled other positions of trust and distinction. The exact date of his death is slightly uncertain. One authority gives it as of 11 November, 1761, and another 1& November, 1760. The latter, from the records of St. Andrews, refers doubtless to his burial and is correct. The former, incorrectly taken as to year from family papers, is, it is fair to conclude, that of his death. Among certain old family documents is the following epitaph in the handwriting of William Drayton, his eldest son, the copy apparently of an inscription for, or from, a churchyard monument : * 1. William John Ross, h. 17 Mar.., 1748. •j- 1. Thomas Fuller. 2. William Fuller. 2. Mary Ross. 3. Benjamin Fuller. 4. Chris¬ topher Fuller. J Mouth Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, xii. pp. 186, 188. § Statutes of Mouth Carolina, iii, p. 548. || Ibid., p. 598; Smith’s Mouth Carolina as a Royal Province, 1719-177(5» pp. 316-7, 409. || St. Andrew’s parish, established hy Act of Assembly as early as 1706, on the south side of Ashley river, was once one of the wealthiest and most thickly settled in South Carolina. The old church, which gave name to the parish, still stands about six miles from Drayton Hiall and some eighteen from Charleston. 6 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. The Remains Of Stephen Fox who died in 1706 Of Thomas Drayton who died in 1716 And ANN his wife And several of their children particularly THOMAS DRAYTON their eldest Son who died in 1760 lie deposited here All of this Parish by WILLIAM DRAYTON eldest son of the latter who collecting their ashes together with those of his honored Mother Elizabeth Daughter of WILLIAM BULL Esq. Erected This MONUMENT of their Virtues and of His Filial Regard In the year 1768. Reader think not this a Vanity unnecessary It reminds you that they have lived And that you must die Reflect in Time He married, first, 26 December, 1730, Elizabeth, grand¬ daughter of Colonel Stephen Bull * of Ashley Hall and daughter of William Bull,f governor of South Carolina, * Stephen Bull, progenitor of the eminent Bull family of South Carolina, was one of the leaders of the expedition which sailed from England on the frigate, Carolina in 1669. Obtaining large grants of land on the Ashley river and St. Helena, he settled the Ashley Hall plantation in 1671, which re¬ mained iln his family more than two hundred years. In October of 1671 he assisted In selecting the site for the city of Charleston a service which his son, William Bull, rendered to Savannah, sdxty-two years later. One of the five original deputies to the Provincial parliament, Stephen Bull was Coun¬ cillor of the Grand Council (under Locke’s Constitution) as Lord Ashley’s deputy, 1669-72, as Commoner 1672-74, as Lord Cornbury’s deputy 1674-82 and as deputy for the other proprietors!, 1684-90, 1694-99. He was also Master of the ordnance, Captain and engineer of the forts at Charleston, 1672-75 ,* Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Provincial forces 1687-93 ; Justice of the Peace and of the Courts, 1683 ; Surveyor-general 1684 and Register of the Province, 1696. A great explorer among the Indians, he was, in 1671, chosen Oassique of the Etfcewans, and, in 1696, was appointed by Governor Archdale to make a treaty with the Indians of the North Carolina coast. He died about 1706 and is buried at Ashley. South Carolina His¬ torical and Genealogical Magazine, vol. 1, pp. 76-7. •j* Hon. William Bull, father-in-law of Thomas Drayton, was born at Ashley Hall, in April, 1683, and died at his Sheldon plantation, 21 Miarch, 1755. He married Mary, daughter of Richard Quintayne, Esq., of Berkeley County, S. C, by his wife Elizabeth Edward, she died 19 March, 1738/9. He was a member of the Commons House of Assembly, of South Carolina, 1706-1719 ; — — The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 7 1737-43. By this marriage Judge Drayton considerably aug¬ mented his material possessions, receiving under Governor Bull’s will various lots in the Barony of Radnor, part of which formed the Sheldon plantation of the latter, then in Granville, now in Beaufort County.* Mrs. Drayton, bom at Ashley Hall, 9 March, 1712/3, died at Magnolia, 6 March, 1751, was the mother of ten children, five of whom died in infancy. Mr. Drayton married, secondly, 4 August, 1757, Lady Mary, second daughter of Archibald Mackenzie, Bari of Cromartie, and widow of Captain Clarke. An invitation to this wedding, addressed to Charles Pinckney, is in the possession of one of the present-day Draytons of Philadelphia. With the quaint grace of yester-years it reads : — Mr. Drayton Augt. 3d, 1757 his wedding tomorrow with Lady Mary McKensie, Daught. of Ld. & Ldy Cromartie. To ■Charles Pinckney Esqr. Eichmond Building. There is also this personal note to Pinckney : Dear Sir: I believe Ld. & Lady Cromartie will wait on you, and Mrs. P. this morning. They were prevented yesterday by the rain. Time draws near for Execution. I hope you’ll be present to see my Exit, from this, to a better State. I am, Yours very Obediently, Thos. Drayton. Please to send the Stockings. Wednesday morn I wish ’twere Thursday. — This union lasted little longer than three years, when, Mrs. Drayton, again a widow, married Hon. Henry Middleton f of ■served as Captain in the Tuscaroras and Yemasee Wars;, was Colonel of (Berkeley County Provincial troops ; commissioner of Indians affairs in 1721 ; member of Provincial Council 1721-1737 ; was president of Council 1737-1738, lieutenant-governor 1738-175i5, and, as such governed the Pro¬ vince from 1737 until 1744, with ability, tact and courage. He was ap¬ pointed .to assist General Oglethorpe in the settlement of Georgia and, wLth him, marked out the town of Savannah, 9 Feb., 1733. His son, William Hull, was also lieutenant-governor of South Carolina. Ibid, 77-80. — * Ibid, vol. xi, p. 41-21. * f Henry Middleton (1717-1784), president of the Continental Congress of 1774, and of the Provincial Congresses of South Carolina, 1775i-1770. He was also a member of the Council of Safety of South Carolina and by his position, wealth and powerful family connection did much to turn the trend of thought in that State to the support of the American cause. His eldest son, Arthur Middleton (1742-1787), was a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biogrcvphy, vol. iv, p. 316. — 8 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia . South Carolina. Sometime after his death, 13 June, 1784,. she married John Ainsley, Esq.t She died at sea, 21 Nov¬ ember, 1788.* Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Bull) Drayton, bom at Magnolia, recorded on St. Andrew’s Register: THOMAS, s b. 3 Oct., 1731; d. 10 Nov., 1731. WILLIAM, b. 21 Mar., 1732; d. 18 May, 1790; m. (1) Mary Motte; (2) Mary Gates. iii. MARY, b. 21 Dec., 1734; d. 6 Feby., 1806; m. (1) 19 Feby., 1753, Hon. Edward Fenwick f of Charleston, b. 21 Jan., 1720 j d. July, 1775; m. (2) 18 Feby., 1776, John Williams Gerard de Brahm, surveyor-general of South Carolina. Issue by first marriage: 1. Thomas « Fenwick. 2. Edward Fenwick, Jr., d. s. p. ; m. dau. of John Stewart. 3. Martha Fenwick, b. 1760; d. Feby., 1821; m. 1 Oct., 1778, Captain Thomas Gadsden. 4. Selina Fenwick, d. s. p. 5. Harriet Fenwick, m. Josiah L. Tatnall. 6. Charlotte Fenwick b. 21 July, 1766; d. 4 April, 1819; m. (1) Major Pierce; (2) 25 July, 1792, Dieut. Edward Jackson $ of Middletown, Conn, andl Savannah, Georgia, b. 18 Dec., 1763 ; d. 31 Oct., 1837. 7. George Fenwick. 8. Sarah Matilda Fenwick, m. (1) 6 Feby., 1777, M’Cartan Campbell; (2) Dr. Jones. 9. John B. Fen¬ wick, b. 13 Jan., 1773; d. i84_, General U. S. A. iv. STEPHEN, b. 21 April, 1736; d. 23 Nov., 1810; § m. (1) Ann Betts ; (2) 31 Jan., i 769, Elizabeth, daughter of John Waring. i. 8. ii. , Appointed a member of the Council of Safety of Georgia, 29 Dec., 1775; delegate from the Council of Safety of Georgia to the Council of Safety of South Carolina; commissioned deputy Quartermaster-General, Southern Department, Con¬ tinental Army, 17 Nov., 1778; member of the Georgia State Society of the Cincinnati; Justice of the peace and courts under appointment of 21 Mar., 1785. Issue: 1. Edward Percival 6 Drayton, 2. Henry Augustus Drayton. v. THOMAS, b. 21 Jan., 1737 ; d. 19 Oct., 1739. vi. ELIZABETH, b. May, 1739; d. 9 Nov., 1740. vii. CHARLES, b. 31 Aug., 1741 ; d. 11 Nov., 1741. viii. HENRIETTA CHARLOTTE, b. 28 July, 1743. ix. JOHN, b. 28 Aug., 1745. x. HENRY, b. 15 Sept., 1748; d. May, 1749. Child of second marriage. THOMAS, b. 17 Oct., 1759; d. 2 May, 1801; of “Crowsfield, South Carolina. * Burke’s Peerage, tit. “ Cromartie ” for these marriages except Middleton.. + Son of Hon. John Fenwick by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert xi. Gibbes, governor of South Carolina, 1710-1711. J Lieut. Edward Jackson by his wife Charlotte Fenwick was the father of Hon. Ebenezer Jackson (1796-1874) of Middletown, Conn. § Stepnen Drayton was commissioned ensign in the 44th Regiment of Foot [Provincials], 6 June, 1757 and promoted to a lieutenancy, 15 Sept., 1758, under Colonel James Abercrombie “ British Officers serving in America,” in New England Historical and Genealogical Register , vol. 48, p. 299. — The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 9 7. JOHN4 DRAYTON (Thomas? Thomas,2 Thomas1), bom at Magnolia, circa 1713 ; died at his plantation, called Straw¬ berry, 31 May, 1779. Like his brother he rose to promin¬ ence in early manhood, was collector for the parish of St. Andrew’s, James Island excepted, in 1738; occupied a seat on the bench of South Carolina in 1753 and subsequently, and, from 1754 until the beginning of the Revolution, was a member of the Privy Council. He was withal the richest man in the Province. At his decease his fortune aggregated 100,000 pounds sterling, besides many rice and other planta¬ tions, including Magnolia, and over five hundred slaves. He acquired Magnolia by purchase of 4 June 1774, from his nephew, William Drayton, then chief- justice of Bast Florida. “ Owing a tract of land adjoining Magnolia,” writes his grandson Governor John Drayton, in 1817, “ advantage¬ ously situated on the borders of Ashley River, he early in life (1740) erected there a mansion and other offices and buildings of brick which he named Drayton Hall, and there all his children were bom.’’ Drayton Hall,* half a mile dis¬ tant from Magnolia, is the only colonial mansion in that section of South Carolina to survive the ravages of the Civil War and is still a place of pilgrimage for those who love the charm and tradition of earlier years. In the Revolution, dur¬ ing portions of 1780 and 1781, Lord Cornwallis occupied Drayton Hall, appointed receivers for the estate and doled out daily rations to such of the family and dependants as had remained at home. Judge Drayton married four times and had issue by each marriage: (1) Sarah, daughter of William Cattel; (2) 14 November, 1741, Charlotte Bull, bom 15 August, 1719, daughter of Governor William Bull, and sister of his brother, Thomas Drayton’s wife. His third marriage was to Mar¬ garet, daughter of Governor James Glenn, and his fourth, in March, 1775, was to Rebecca, daughter of Benjamin Perry. Children of John and Sarah (Cattel) Drayton: * “ UP THE ASHLEY AND COOPER,” published In Harper’s Monthly, December, 1875, TOI. Ill, p. 4, et seq. 10 The Draytom of South Carolina and Philadelphia. i. ii. STEPHEN FOX,5 b. 13 Nov., 1737 ; d. 9 Sept., 1740. WILLIAM, b. 24 Dec., 1738; d. 1740. Children of John and Charlotte (Bull) Drayton: 9. iii. 10. iv. WILLIAM HENRY,5 b. Sept., 1742; d. 3 Sept., 1779; m. Dorothy Golightly. CHARLES, M. D., b. 22 Dec., 1743 ; d. 1820 ; m. Hester Middleton. Children of John and Margaret (Glenn) Drayton: v. 11. vi. GLENN,5 bapt. 25 Mar., 1752; d. in June, 1796; m. Eliza, daughter of Samuel Elliott, -was lieutenant, and later captain in First Regiment, South Carolina Line, under com¬ mission of 9 Aug., 1776; member of Assembly 1782, 1784. Issue: 1. Glen s Drayton, b. 1786; d. s. p. in Sept., 1814; lieutenant in U. S. Navy, served on the ship Vixen, was captured by the British and died not long afterward. 2. Margaret Drayton, d. s. p. 3. Eliza Drayton, m. in 1806, John Laurens North. THOMAS, b. 5 Oct., 1758; d. 23 May, 1825; m. Mary Wilson. Children of John and Rebecca (Perry) Drayton : vii. JOHN,5 d. s. p. 25 Oct., 1791. Perry. Issue : Edward « Perry, who married viii. ANNA, m. twice and had issue by both marriages. ix. SUSANNA, b. 1777 ; m. 10 Mar., 1795, Thomas Bowles. - 8. WILLIAM5 DRAYTON (Hon. Thomas,4 Thomas,3 Thomas,2' Thomas1), was born at Magnolia, 21 March, 1732, and died at Charleston, in his native state, 18 May, 1790. The eldest son of his parents he became the head of the elder branch of the family and the progenitor of the Philadelphia Draytons. Having had a four-year course at the Inner Temple, London, he returned home in 1754, established himself in the practice of the law and later attained distinction on the bench of South Carolina and of Florida. Meanwhile, he was appointed aidede-camp to Governor Lyttleton and took part in the unfort¬ unate expedition against the Cherokee Indians in 1759.* In 1763 he was appointed chief justice of the Province of East-Florida, which he held until the beginning of hostilities between Great Britain and her Colonies. At this time fric¬ tion arose between the chief justice and certain Crown offi¬ cials, and the former was suspended from office.! Mr. Dray¬ ton was charged with being friendly to the Revolutionary party in the American Colonies % and his appeal to the Eng¬ lish ministry for re-instatement to office was unsuccessful. He retired from East-Florida and after remaining some time * McCrady’a South Carolina, vol. 11, p. 335. -j- Fairbanks’ History of Florida, pp. 219, 222-3. J Forbes’ Sketches of Florida, p. 22. : The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 11 in England * went to South Carolina, where he bore a con¬ spicuous part in the struggle for American Independence. After the war he was chairman of the Committee of the South Carolina Society of Agriculture in 1785 judge of the Ad¬ miralty Court of South Carolina, and was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of that State from March until October, 1789. Upon the organization of the Federal Government he was appointed by President Washington, 18 November, 1789, first Judge of the United States Court for the District of South Carolina.ÿ This last position he filled but six months, for death claimed him, 18 May, 1790. At the time of his decease he was Grand Master of the Fraternity of South Carolina Ancient York Masons.§ He was regarded by his contemporaries as “ a gentleman of unusual talents and great The College of New Jersey, now professional knowledge/ ’ Princeton University, conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1786. Under his father’s will Judge Drayton inherited the Mag¬ nolia plantation, to which he subsequently added a tract of *" The course of these reflections was about this time (November, 1775), interrupted by repeated attacks and a persecution on account of my supposed political principles by the Governor and Councils ot East Florida ; in conse¬ quence of which I was twice suspended from my office and obliged to leave I carried my whole family to England.” the Province. The last time Journal of Judge Drayton. f “ In March 1778 my Father quitted St. Augustine, with my mother in a dying condition,, my three older sisters, myself not quite five years old and a we younger Brother in his third year. After a tempestuous passage landed at Ramsgate the beginning of May. My dear Mother lingered about a fortnight after our arrival and expired May 19. S'he was buried at Rams¬ gate. The eldest son Jacob and her youngest son, William did not accompany their parents to England. The former was taken from Dr. Duche’s where he had been placed at School in Philadelphia and carried to Carolina. The latter was left in St. Augustine, being a sickly infant to whom a sea voyage, at that inclement season, would, in all probability, have proved fatal, at least so thought Dir. Turnbull an old and faithful friend of my Father’s. His Wife an amiable woman and tenderly attached to my Mother took charge of her youngest child, and acted towards him with maternal kindness. My eldest brother, a youth of scarcely fifteen entered into the American army, at that early age, and continued a soldier during the whole of the Revolution¬ ary War, exposed to all its hardships, which he endured with manly fortitude. My eldest Directly my Mother’s funeral was over we left Ramsgate sister, who was seventeen, was placed as parlor boarder at a reputable school in London, my other sister and myself . . were put to a school in Dedham and here we remained for two years. My father had Tom always with him until he was of proper age to be placed at school. Journal of Sarah Motte Drayton. Year Boole of Charleston, 1883', p. 457. — ... ... .... . J \ South Carolina Gazette of May 19,, 1790. j| Dewhurst’s History of St. Augustine. — 12 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. marsh land. This, after his removal to Florida, he conveyed to his uncle, Hon. John Drayton, in three tracts as one plan¬ tation, aggregating seven hundred and seventy-nine acres,. 4 June, 1774, his wife Mary joining in the deed.* Judge Drayton married, first, 4 October, 1759, Mary Motte, daughter of Jacob Motte,f Esq., by his wife Elizabeth Mar¬ tin,t born at Charleston, 18 January, 1739/40; died at Rams¬ gate, England, 19 May, 1778. He married, secondly, about 1780, Mary Gates. Children of William and Mary (Motte) Drayton: i. ii. WILLIAM,0 b. 6 July, 1760; d. 9 May, 1764. ELIZABETH, b. 16 Aug., 1761. iii. JACOB, b. 20 Nov., 1762; d. unmarried in Philadelphiaÿ 11 Aug., 1804; lieutenant in South Carolina Continental Line during the Revolution; member of the State Society of the Cincinnati; attorney-at-law at Charleston and clerk of the Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas. iv. HANNAH, b. 18 March, 1764. v. MARY CHARLOTTE, b. 19 Aug., 1766; m. Daniel Wilson and had issue: 1. Mary Wilson, m. Dr. Warley. 2. Daniel Wilson. 3. William Wilson. vi. WILLIAM PERCIVAL, b. 30 Sept., 1768; d. 23 May, 1769. vii. SARAH MOTTE,11 b. 29 May, 1773; d. at Philadelphia, 9 July,. 1843. viii. THOMAS, b. 1775; d. 1 July, 1794. 12. ix. WILLIAM, b. 30 Dec., 1776; d. 24 May, 1846; m. (1) Ann Gadsden; (2) Maria Miles Heyward. Child of William and Mary (Gates) Drayton: x. MARY ANN,® b. 31 Dec., 1781. * THE ASHLEY RIVER : ITS SEATS AND SETTLEMENTS, by the Hon. Henry A. M. Smith, in the South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, vol. xx, pp. 94-97. f JACOB MOTTEJ Esq., thirty years King’s Receiver, or Treasurer of South Carolina, died on Sunday, 17 June, 1770, aged sixty-nine years, six months and eighteen days, and was interred in St. Philip’s churchyard, Charleston. His father, John Abraham Motte, merchant of Anti qua, removed to South Carolina about 1704, was captain of militia and one of the commissioners for founding a Free School in Charleston, for the use of the inhabitants of South Carolina, in 1710, during which year he died. J ELIZABETH (MARTIN) MOTTE, was, according to family tradition, the original “ High Betty Martin, steptoe fine, couldn’t find .a husband to suit her mind.” She however married Jacob Motte, 1 June, 1725 and was the mother of fourteen children.. § “ Of this accomplished gentleman, it may be said that his manners were as mild and amiable, as his knowledge was liberal and extensive. The great purpose of his Irreproachable life was to fulfil every duty with zeal, with justice and with propriety, expressing, ilnvariably the utmost devotion and the most considerate kindness to his immediate relatives, and to others, benevolence, charity and good will without bounds and without display.” > Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser of Aug. 16, 1806. || The copyist of her father’s diary, or journal, covering certain periods of his public career. She also left a journal, or reminiscences, of her own — earlier history. The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 13 9. WILLIAM HENRY5 DRAYTON (Hon. John * Thomas * Thomas,2 Thomas'1), bom at Drayton Hall, in September, 1742, died in Philadelphia, 3 September, 1779. His educa¬ tion was largely obtained at Westminster School, London, and Baliol College, Oxford, after which he, in 1764, returned to South Carolina, read law, was admitted to the bar and became an active writer on political affairs. Few wrote more, or with more appeal, than he during the period which preceded the outbreak of hostilities between the mother country and her American Colonies. At first, he was not in accord with the patriotic associations then forming in the colonies. In 1769, he published a series of letters opposing them which brought forth a vigorous response from Christopher Gads¬ den, John McKenzie and other friends of liberty. Shortly afterward he went to England, re-published there his writ¬ ings, was introduced at Court, received from King George III the appointment of Privy Councillor for the Province of South Carolina, 27 February, 1771, and, returning home, assumed that office, 3 April, 1772. Meanwhile conditions were so shaping themselves as to bring the Revolutionary crisis nearer, and the new councillor was frequently in opposition with the crown officers and judges, and aided in the passage of laws favorable to the colonies that would otherwise have been negatived.* In spite of the jealousy engendered by his course he was, on 25 June, 1774, appointed Associate Judge by his maternal uncle, Lieutenant Governor William Bull. But Judge Draytion’s viewpoint changed with the changing circumstances of the times and he was gradually developed into one of the most ardent patriots produced by the South. Just before the session of the first Continental Congress, in 1774, he brought out a pamphlet, addressed “ to the deputies of North America assembled in the High Court of Congress at Philadelphia.’’ In this, f over the signature of ‘1 Free¬ man,” he stated the grievances of America, drew up a bill of rights, and marked out a line of conduct which that body afterward substantially adopted. So vigorous were the terms * Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vod. II, p. 230. f O’Neall’s Bench and Bar of South Carolina, vol. 1, pp. 13-16. 14 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. of this communication # that he was, in consequence thereof, suspended from the Council and the judgeship, but gained more and more influence in the State. He was elected a member of the Committee of Safety in 1775, was very shortly its president, and was active in advising the seizure of the provincial arsenals and British mails. In the same year he served also as president of the provincial Congress, and in March 1777, after the formation of a temporary State Con¬ stitution, be became chief justice and a privy councillor. During the absence, in 1777, of John Rutledge, President of South Carolina as he was then termed, Chief Justice Dray¬ ton was invested with the powers of the President and those of the Vice President, then also absent. Early in 1778, he was elected a delegate to the Continental Congress, of which he continued an active member until his decease. It was while in attendance upon that body, then sitting in Philadelphia, that his death occurred, at the early age of thirty-seven years. The Pennsylvania Gazette of September 15, 1779 contains a lengthy discription of his obsequies. t He designed one side of the arms and great seal of South Carolina, the other hav* This pamphlet so aroused the ire of his Tory uncle, Lieutenant-Governor William Bull that he wrote to the Earl of Dartmouth as follows : “It is replete with -sentiments so derogatory to the Royal Prerogative and the Authority of Parliament, and the long established Constitution of Government in America, that it cannot fail to excite indignation, while the futility, tautology and triteness of arguments raise contempt.” “ On the fourth day of September Instant, Congress being informed that Mr. William Henry Drayton, one of the Delegates for the State of South Carolina, had died the preceding night, and that circumstances required that his remains should be interred that evening. They Resolved : That Congress would in a body attend the funeral that evening, at six o’clock, as mourners, with a crape around the left arm, and would continue in mourning for the space of one month. . . Accordingly, at six o’clock that evening, the corpse was carried in procession to Christ Church, The President [of Pennsylvania, General Joseph Reed], two members of the Supreme Executive Council, the Judge of the Admiralty, the Attorney -General of Pennsylvania and BrigadierGeneral J-ames Hogan, supported the pall. Besides the President and Min¬ isters of Congress as mourners, the Minister and Consul of France, several civil and military officers of the United States, and a number of inhabitants and strangers of distinction, attended the funeral. After divine service had been performed by the Rev. Mr. White Rector of the Episcopal Churches in this city, and one of the chaplains of Congress the corse was interred in the adjoining cemetery. Mr. Drayton’s age did not exceed thirty-eight years. . . . His literary attainments, acquired by good talents, and an excellent education, -are well known here and in Europe, where several of his political papers have been admired and read in different languages. . . . . The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 15 mg been done by Arthur Middleton, a Signer of the Declara¬ tion of Independence, and he left, in manuscript, a narrative of the events of the Revolution, which was edited and pub¬ lished in two volumes, in 1821, by his son, Governor John Drayton, under the title “Memoirs of the American Revolu¬ tion.” Judge Drayton married in 1764, Dorothy Golightly. Children of William Henry and Dorothy (Golightly) Dray¬ ton, born at Drayton Hall. 13. i. JOHN,® b. 22 June, 1766; d. 22 November, 1822; m. Hester Bose Tldyman. ii. MART, m. 27 Oct., 1791, Thomas Parker, Esq., attorney-at-law. Issue : 1. Thomas 7 Parker of Abbeville, South Carolina, m. Ellen, dau. of Bev. Thomas Frost, and had issue. 2. William Henry Parker, d. s. p. 3. Charles Parker, m. (1) Mary Butledge; (2) Mary Smith, and had issue. 4. Maria Parker, m. Joseph A. Winthrop of Boston, Mass., and had issue. 5. Edwin Parker, d. s. p. iii. WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON, d. s. p. 10. CHARLES 5 DRAYTON, M. D., (Hon. John* Thomas,3 Thomas,2 Thomas 1), was born at Drayton Hall, 22 December, 1743, and died there about 5 September, 3.820. After the! usual preliminary education he studied medicine and was graduated M. D., at the University of Edinburgh, in 1770.* He too supported the Revolutionary cause and was com¬ missioned 16 August, 1775, captain of a company in the South Carolina Artillery Regiment of the Continental Line. At the close of the war he was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, in which society he was recently represented by a great grandson the late Charles H. Drayton of Drayton Hall. In 1784 he was a member of the Assembly from the parish of St. Andrew’s, and, in the following year, 1785, was elected Lieutenant Governor of the State. The Duke de la Rochefoucalt Liancourt, who in the spring of 1796 made an excursion up the Ashley River, thus wrote of Drayton Hall : ‘1 We stopped to dine with Dr. Drayton at Drayton Hall. The house is an ancient building, but con¬ venient and good, and the garden is better laid out, better * “ American Graduates in Medicine at Edinburgh ”, by Samuel Lewis, M. D., of Philadelphia in The New England Historical and Genealogical Re¬ gister, VQI. 42, pp. 159 et seg. 16 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. cultivated and stocked with good trees, than any I have hitherto seen. In order to have a fine garden you have noth¬ ing to do but let the trees remain standing here and there or in clumps, to plant bushes in front of them and arrange the> trees according to their heights. Dr. Drayton’s father who was also a physician, began to lay out the garden on this principle ; and his son who is passionately fond of a country life has pursued the same plan.” . . . .* Dr. Drayton married 24 January, 1774, Hester, second daughter of Hon. Henry Middleton. Children of Charles and Hester (Middleton) Drayton, bom in South Carolina : i. ii. iii. iv. HENRY,® died young. CHARLES, died young. CAROLINE, died young. CHARLOTTE, b. 3 Oct., 1781; d. 5 Feby., 1855; m. Joseph Manigault. Issue: 1. Joseph 7 Manigault, m. Mary, dau. of Daniel E. Heyward, and had issue. 2. Ann Manigault, m. Thomas House Taylor, and had issue. 3. Peter Manigault, d. s. p. 4. Charles Drayton Manigault, m. Emma Horry, and had issue. 5. Gabriel Manigault, m. Ann (Mazyck) Porcher, and had issue. 6. Henry Middleton Manigault, m. Susan Lining, and had issue. 7. Edward Manigault. 8. Arthur Middleton Manigault, m. Mary, dau. of Daniel Huger, and had issue. v. HENRIETTA AUGUSTA, died young. vi. MARIA HENRIETTA, b. 3 Nov., 1783; d. 23 April, 1862; m. Lewis L. Gibbes. Issue : 1. Lewis 7 R. Gibbes, m. in 1848, Anna B. Gibbes and had issue. 2. Charles Drayton Gibbes, m. in 1834, Mary L. Gregory, and had issue. 3. John Gibbes, m. in 1844, Mary Henson, and had issue. 4. Esther Maria Gibbes, married, and died without issue. 5. Nathaniel Bowen Gibbes, d. s. p. 6. Wilmot Gibbes, m. in 1850, Martha McClure, and had issue. 7. Thomas Middleton Gibbes, m. Phebe Engles. 8. Louisa Izard Gibbes. vii. CHARLES, M. D., b. 5 Dec., 1785; m. Mary Shoollred, dau. of James Shoollred by his wife Mary Middleton. Issue: 1. James Shoollred 7 Drayton, m. Louisa E. Effort, d. s. p. 2. William P. Dewees Drayton. 3. Charles Drayton, m. Sarah Martha Parker, dau, of Daniel Robert Parker, and they were the parents of ROBERT DANIEL PARKER S DRAYTON, who died in Dee., 1871, and CHARLES HENRY DRAYTON, the late owner of Drayton Hall, who married Eliza Gaunt and had issue. viii. HENRY, b. 1789. 11. THOMAS5 DRAYTON ( Hon John* Thomas,3 Thomas,21 Thomas1), was born at Drayton Hall, 5 October, 1758; died * Knglish translation published In London, 1790, vol. 1. p. 591. The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 17 at Philadelphia, 25 May, 1825 and was buried in Christ Church grounds. Educated in England, he became a planter in his native State ; inherited from his father, among other real est tte, the “ Magnolia ” and “ Ocean ” planta¬ tions; was a man of affairs, and, in 1785, received the appoint¬ ment of Commissioner or Justice of the Peace for the Charles¬ ton District. A somewhat recent publication, “ Travels of Four Years and a half in the United State of America, 1798-1802,” gives the following brief picture of Thomas Drayton and his wife, the author, John Davis, having been a tutor in their family : “ Though the plantation of Mr. Drayton was immense, his dwelling was only a log-house; a temporary fabric built to reside in during the winter. [He had two residences.] But his table was sumptuous and an elegance of manners presided at it that might have vied with the highest circles of polished Europe. I make the Eulogium or rather exhibit the character of Mr. Drayton in one word, by saying he was a Gentleman ; for under that portraiture I comprehend what¬ ever there is of honour. ‘‘ Nor can I refrain from speaking in panegyric terms of his lady, whose beauty and elegance were her least qualities ; for she was a tender mother, a sincere friend, and walked humbly with her God ! She was indeed deserving the solicitude of her husband who would not suffer the winds of heaven to visit her face too roughly.” Mr. Drayton married Mary, daughter of Algernon Wilson) of St. Paul’s parish. Children of Thomas and Mary (Wilson) Drayton, bom at Magnolia. i. ii. WILLIAM HENRY,® d. July, 1826, without issue. SARAH DANIEL, m. 25 Jan., 1810, Thomas Smith Grimke, b. 26 Sept., 1786; d. 12 Oet., 1854. Issue: 1. Thomas 7 Grimlce, d. 1835; took the surname of Drayton. 2. John Grimke, took the surname of Drayton, d. 2 Apr., 1891 ; m. Julia Ewing of Philadelphia, and had issue; was many years rector of St. Andrew’s Parish, and the owner of Magnolia. Drayton P. Hastie, Esq., of Charleston was of this branch. 3. Theodore Vehon Grimlce, m. Emma Evans of England. 4. James\ Grimke. 5. Benjamin Grimke. 6. Smith Grimke. 7. Nor¬ man Grimke. 18 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. iii. MARIA SARAH. iv. CAROLINE, m. Henry P. Holmes. Issue: 1. Thomas Drayton * Holmes. 2. Henrietta Holmes, m. Thomas Eggleston. 3. Isaac P. Holmes. y. EMMA, d. s. p. vi. SUSAN, m. Barnard Elliott Baker. Issue : 1. Bichard r Baker , M. D. 2. Barnard Baker. 3. Emma Baker. 4. Mary Baker. 5. Henry Baker. 6. Susan Baker, m. Nov., 1855, Allen S. Gibbs. 7. Thomas Baker. 8. Harriet Baker. 9. Edward Baker. 12. WILLIAM 6 DRAYTON (Hon. William,5 Hon. Thomas,4, Thomas,3 Thomas? Thomas 1), was born at St. Augustine, East Florida, 30 December, 1776, and died at Philadelphia, 24 May, 1846. Owing to the premature death of his mother and his own tender years he was brought up as the foster-brother of Robert James Turnbull, the champion of Nullification. He was sent to school in England preparatory to a collegiate course, but the death of his father when he was fourteen) years of age recalled him to Charleston, South Carolina. Eventually he studied law, was admitted to the bar 12 December, 1797, and made rapid progress in the command of a most important and lucrative clientele before 1812. Meanwhile, though preeminently devoted to the legal profes¬ sion, he was drawn to military service by taste and associa¬ tion. On 7 December, 1801, he was commissioned first lieu¬ tenant in the Ancient Battalion of Artillery, being advanced to captain-lieutenant, February, 1804. When the controversy with England, leading up to the war of 1812, had reached the acute stage, Captain Drayton, though, as a federalist op¬ posed to it, offered his service to the government, gave up his lucrative law practice, and was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the Tenth United States Infantry, 12 March, 1812, receiving the Colonelcy of the Eighteenth Infantry, 25 July, following. On 18 December, 1814, he was made Inspector General. Shortly before the war closed, he was associated with Generals Scott and Macomb in the preparation of a system of Infantry Tactics, which was afterward adopted by the War Department. At the time of his resignation, 15 June, 1815, the government was about to offer him a brigadier general’s commission. In 1816, General Jackson urged upon President Monroe his appointment as Secretary of War. The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 19 He resumed his law practice and in 1819 was appointed Recorder of Charleston, holding this judicial office nnt.il 1823. Of him as a judge, Chancellor Dunkin has left this record :* “ For a judicial station, he was eminently well qualified, very clear in his conceptions, a well read lawyer, ripe in judgment, with large experience, especially in commercial causes. He at once imparted to the Court a confidence among the profession, and a popularity with the community which rendered this tribunal a favorite resort, both of lawyer and! suitor. On and off the Bench, he was calm and dignified in, demeanor, and habitually courteous to the Bar. Altogether, he was a model Judge, and it was a privilege to practice be¬ fore him.” In 1824, he was elected to Congress. He took his seat in 1825 and continued therein until 1833, having served four; consecutive terms. During the period of his incumbency the. tariff was even more an issue than now, though nullification was the paramount issue before Congress. Of his attitude toward these questions, a biographer, a South Carolinian by birth, wrote in 1859 : “ Col. Drayton’s course in Congress was such as will now command the respect, even of those who differed with him, He maintained with unflinching fidelity his hostility to the Tariff, but true and faithful as he had ever been to his country, he stood by her in, what he supposed to be, the hostile results of Nullification. He was the friend of Gen. Jackson, and felt, like him, “ the Federal Union must be preserved.” President Jackson offered him the portfolio of war and also the English mission, both of which were declined. With the close of his congressional career he withdrew to private life, and, locating in Philadelphia, spent there his remaining years. In 1839-40, he succeeded Nicholas Biddle as president of the Bank of the United States and endeavored to resuscitate it. Becoming convinced that one only practical course was open to him, albeit unpopular, he placed the remaining assets of the bank in the hands of assignees and shortly there* O’Neall’s Bench and Bar of South Carolina, vol. i, pp. 305-323, contains an exhaustive sketch of Mr. Drayton. 20 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. after retired, thus closing the brilliant but stormy career of that institution. Mr. Drayton was a member of the South Carolina State Society of the Cincinnati and of 4 ‘ the American Philosophical Society. >> # A portrait of him, by Morse, is in the possession of the Philadelphia branch of the family. He was buried at Laurel Hill, where a ‘4 splendid monument * ’ t marks his resting place. The Charleston Mercury, in its issue of May 29, 1864, in its comment on his decease,t said : He was a high expression, not only of ability, but of man¬ hood, chivalry, and personal purity, and deserves to be mourned as one who has left behind him not many his equals in all these claims to reverence. He married, first, Ann Gadsden, daughter of Hon. Thomas Gadsden § by his wife, Martha Fenwick. ’’ His second wife, Maria Miles Hayward, niece of Thomas Heyward, Jr, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence from South Carolina, and daughter of William Heyward, Esq., by his wife Hannah Shubrick,#* was bom 20 October, 1784 and died 17 January, 1862. Children of William and Ann (Gadsden) Drayton, bom in South Carolina. * Colonial Doorways, by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, p. 125. j* Philadelphia as It is in 1852, p. 345. J The Charleston Courier of Mlay 28, 1848, contained a lengthy obituary of Mr. Drayton, § His father, Christopher Gadsden, was a delegate to the Colonial Congress of 17G5 and to the Continental Congress of 1774. Later he was ibrigadiergeneral and lieutenant-governor of South Carolina. || A daughter of Edward Fenwick by his wife Mary Drayton, see p. 8. Daniel Heyward, 1720-1777, of Berkeley Co., South Carolina, father of William, Hey ward, Esq., 1750-1790, was colonel In the Provincial forces, 1760, judge of the Courts and one of the wealthiest planters in the Province. He died at the Eiuhaws, 11 Oct., 1777. His first wife, Maria Miles, whom he married 8 Mar., 1743, died in 1762. (genealogical Chart of the Heywards of South Carolina. ** Thomas Shubrlck, father of Hannah Heyward, a London merchant* came to South Carolina sometime after 1730, with his brother Richard Shubrlck, and settled at Charleston, Richard Shubrlck seems to have re¬ turned to England and Thomas Shubrlck became the 'ancestor of the South Carolina Shubricks. He died 11 Aug., 1779, ae 76 years. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Hon. Jacob Motte by his wife Elizabeth Martin, q. v. Mr. Shubrlck was a member of the second Provincial Congress of South Carolina and Speaker of the Commons House of Assembly, 1776. — The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 21 i. EMMA GADSDEN, T b. 5 Sept., 1805; d. s. p. 1836. 14. ii. THOMAS FENWICK, b. 24 Aug., 1808; m. Catharine Pope. iii. PERCIVAL, b. 26 Aug., 1812 ; d. unmarried in Washington, D. C., 4 Aug., 1865. Entering the navy as midshipman, he was advanced to lieutenant, 28 Eeby., 1838; to commander, 14 Sept., 1855, and captain 16 July, 1862. Attached to the naval observatory in Washington in 1852, he was later as¬ sociated with Commander, afterward Admiral, Earragut in ordnance experiments. He took part in the Paraguay ex¬ pedition of 1858 and in 1860 was in ordnance duty at the Philadelphia navy yard. At the outbreak of the Civil War he obeyed the one clear call of his country and rendered brilliant service in the struggle which followed. He com¬ manded the Pochahontas and Pawnee, and, in the autumn of 1862 was ordered to the new Ericsson monitor Passaic. In this iron-clad he bombarded Port McAllister and was in the first attack on Sumter. Subsequently he was fleet-captain of the West Gulf Squadron, commanded Parragut ’s flag-ship, the Hartford, in the battle of Mobile Bay, 5 Aug., 1864. A few months thereafter he was made chief of the Bureau of Navigation and died while discharging the duties of that office.* There is a portrait of him, in uniform, by Sully. A series of letters written during 1861-1865, and addressed tc* Alexander Hamilton, Jr., of New York, a grandson of the eminent statesman of that name, and to Lydia M. Hoyt, also of New York, were collected and published some years since. iv. WILLIAM SIDNEY, b. 6 Oct., 1813; d. New York City, 8 Feby., 1860; m. 23 Oct., 1850, Silvia Stephanie Livingston, dau. of Mortimer Livingston by his wife Silvia De Grasse Depau, b. 13 June, 1830; d. 16 Nov., 1882, a great-grand¬ daughter of Gen. Morgan Lewis, governor of New York, and a great-great-grand-daughter of Francis Lewis a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Drayton was ap¬ pointed midshipman in the Navy, 16 July, 1832, promoted to lieutenant, 1 April, 1842, served with distinction in the war with Mexico, after which he resigned from the service and removed to New York where he engaged in the shipping business. Issue : 1. Mortimer Livingston s Drayton, died young. 2. Ma-ud Drayton, b. Feby., 1857 ; died unmarried. 3. Percival Langdon Drayton, b. April, 1858, died unmarried. 4. Catharine Livingston Drayton, died young. Children of William and Maria Miles (Heyward) Drayton: WILLIAM HEYWARD, b. 27 Dec., 1817, m. Harriet Coleman. 15. v. vi. EDWARD, died in infancy. vii. JAMES, died young. viii. HANNAH, died young. 16. ix. HENRY EDWARD, b. 25 Feby., 1823; m. (1) Sarah H. Coleman; (2) Mary Brady. 13. JOHN 6 DRAYTON {Hon. William Henry,5 Hon. John* Thomas,3 Thomas,2 Thomas1), born at Drayton Hall, South. Carolina, 22 June, 1766; died at Charleston, 22 November, 1822. Educated at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton Uni* Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 11, p. 230. 22 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. versity, and later in England, he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Charleston. Developing an hereditary interest in public affairs he was elected lieu¬ tenant-governor of South Carolina in 1798, becoming gov¬ ernor by the death of Governor Rutledge, 23 January, 1800. Elected his own successor in December following, he served two years and was elected for the term of 1808-1810. While governor in 1801, he used his influence for the establishment of the State College. On 7 May, 1812, he was appointed by President Madison, judge of the United States Court for the distinct of South Carolina,which office he held at his decease. Besides editing and publishing his father’s Memoirs of the American Revolution, Governor Drayton published iu 1794, Letters Written during a Tour through the Northern and Eastern States, which was later translated into German, and in 1802, A View of South Carolina. He was a member of the Royal Society of Sciences of Gottingen. He married 6 October, 1794, Hester Rose Tidyman, daughter of Philip Tidyman by his wife Hester Rose. She was bom 18 August, 1773 and died 31 August, 1816. Children of John and Hester Rose (Tidyman) Drayton: i. ii. iii. iv. HESTER TIDYMAN, T b. 16 Jan., 1797; d. unmarried, in 1873. MARIA CAROLINE, b. 25 Oct., 1798; d. unmarried, in 1859. SARAH BUTLER, b. 7 June, 1803; d. Dec., 1810. ALFRED ROSE, b. 17 Mar., 1809; d. 6 Jan., 1860; m. 8 Nov., 1832, Martha S., daughter of Charles Elliott Rowand. Issue: 1. Charles s Elliott Bowand Drayton, married and had issue. 2. Henrietta Drayton d. s. p. 3. Hester Drayton, m. J. Reid Boylston. 4. Catharine Somers Drayton, m. William H. Maynard. 5. Martha Drayton, m. - Witherspoon. 6. Mary Drayton, m. - Chandler. 7. Philip Tidyman Drayton, m. - Sanders. 8. Thomas Drayton. HARRIET, b. 25 Jan., 1801. ROSE BUTLER, b. 9 Jan., 1806; m. 26 Nov., 1827, Frederick Augustus Ford, b. 20 Dec., 1805 ; d. 16 Feby., 1880. Issue : 1. Frederick Augustus 8 Ford, b. 4 Oct., 1828 ; d. 1848. 2. John Drayton Ford, b. 23 Feby., 1830; d. 27 Apr., 1883; m. Ellen Lucas, and had issue. 3. William Hutson Ford, b. 29 Oct., 1831; m. 11 May, 1864, Columbia Herndon, and had issue. 4. Jacob Ford, b. 7 Sept., 1833. 5. Thomas Prioleau Ford, b. 6 June, 1835. 6. Charles Edward Ford, b. 5 April, 1837. 7. Bose Drayton Ford, b. 19 Feby., 1839. 8. Hester Tidyman Ford, b. 12 July, 1841. 9. Arthur Peronneau Ford, b. 12 Apr., 1843 ; m. 3 June, 1873, Marian Johnston, dau. Philip J. Porcher, and had issue. 10. Frances Lavinia Ford, b. 12 Apr., 1845; m. Julian C. Woodruff, M. D., and bad issue. 11. Alfred Bose Ford, b. 31 Dec., 1847. , v. vi. * O’Neall’fl Bench and Bar of South Carolina, voJ. 1, pp. 428-431. The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. 23 14. THOMAS FENWICK7 DEAYTON (Hon. William,6 Hon. William,5 Hon. Thomas,4 Thomas,3 Thomas,2 Thomas 1), was bom in South Carolina, 24 August, 1808, and died at Char¬ lotte, North Carolina, 18 February, 1891. Graduated at the United States Military Academy, West Point, in 1828, he was commissiond second lieutenant, Sixth Infantry, U. S. A., July, 1828 ; served on garrison duty ; later on topographical duty, and resigned from the service 15 August, 1836. For a time he engaged in civil engineering work at Charlotte, Louisville and Cincinnati. From 1838 to 1861 he owned and operated a plantation in St. Luke’s parish, South Carolina ; was State Senator from 1853 to 1856, and president of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad Com¬ pany, 1853 to 1861. At the commencement of the Civil war he entered the Con¬ federate service, was commissioned brigadier general, 25 Sep¬ tember, 1861, and commanded the confederate! troops at Hilton Head Island, in the Port Royal expedition, during which his brother, Captain Percival Drayton, commanded a national vessel of war. After the war, General Drayton be¬ came a farmer in Georgia, later in North Carolina, finally removing to Charlotte. In 1878 he was made president of the South Carolina Immigrant Association. He married Cath¬ erine Pope. Children of Thomas Fenwick and Catherine (Pope) Dray¬ ton, bom in South Carolina: JOHN EDWARD,S b. 27 Mar., 1839; m. 17 Oct., 1879, Esther Parsons of Georgia. Issue : 1. Henry Haines ® Drayton, b. Oct., 1880. ii. GEORGE HUGHES, b. 15 Jan., 1841; d. 29 Jan., 1841. iii. ANNA MARIA, b. 22 Mar., 1842; m. 7 Dec., 1864, John G. Thomas. Had issue. iv. WILLIAM SEABROOK, b. 17 Apr., 1845; m. 20 Dee., 1877, Catherine Wallis. Had issue. v. MART EDINGS, b. 15 Oct., 1846; m. 25 April, 1883, Joseph Daniel Pope. Had issue. vi. PERCIVAL, b. 7 Jan., 1849; d. 9 Feby., 1879. vii. EMMA GADSDEN, b. 12 Nov., 1850. viii. THOMAS FENWICK, b. 7 July, 1854; m. April, 1880, Alice Ryan. Issue: 1. Catherine Emma » Drayton. 2. Thomas Fenwick Drayton. i. 15. WILLIAM HAYWARD7 DRAYTON (Hon. William,6 Hon. William,B Hon. Thomas,* Thomas,s Thomas,2 Thomas1), was 24 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. bom in Charleston, South Carolina, 27 December, 1817, and died in Philadelphia, 10 October, 1892. Graduated at St. Mary’s College, Baltimore, in 1836, he adopted the profession of civil engineering, which he how¬ ever exchanged for that of the law, and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia, 22 October, 1842. Henceforth until hia death his energies were mainly devoted to his profession, in which he acquired a high reputation and the abiding respect of his associates of bench and bar. The testimony of the Law As¬ sociation of Philadelphia, as set forth in a minute at the memorial meeting of that body following his decease, is note¬ worthy : “ Mr. Drayton was a man of a very rare type, and unfor¬ tunately there are today very few that follow in the path which he had marked out in life. The kind of integrity that he possessed, the purity of his motives, as well as of his actions, the dignity and courtesy of his manners, his fidelity in the performance of every duty, public and private, commanded the esteem and confidence of the whole community.” He served as a member of City Councils from 1856 to 1863,, and as a member of the Board of City Trusts from 1878, occupying the presidency of the Board from 1884 to 1892» In 1863 he went out with the Gray Reserves becoming ser¬ geant of his Company. A member of the Farmers’ Club and the Law Association, he was a manager of the Children’s. Hospital, president of the Philadelphia Society for Promot¬ ing Agriculture, vestryman of St. James’ Episcopal Church, Philadelphia and later of St. Thomas’ Whitemarsh, where he was sometime the accounting warden. He married, 31 October, 1856, Harriet Coleman, daughter of James Coleman by his wife Harriet Dawson, bom 4 June, 1830, and died 18 November, 1901. Children of William Heyward and Harriet (Coleman) Drayton : i. WILLIAM, s b. 22 July, 1851; d. 27 Feby., 1920; m. 15 April, 1880, Edith Newbold Welsh, dau. of William Welsh, Esq., by his wife Mary Boss Newbold. He was graduated at Trinity College, Hartford; was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, 2 Dec., 1874; State Bepresentative 1878; member of' the Council of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and of the Bittenhouse Club, and a vestryman of St. Thomas’s; The Draytons of South Carolina, and Philadelphia. Whitemarsh. 25 Issue : 1. William 9 Drayton, M. D., m. Frances D. Dunning. 2. Newbold Drayton. 3. Harry Cole¬ man Drayton, captain U. 8. A., m. Marjorie (Elliott) Brock. ii. 4. John Welsh Drayton, m. Charlotte Bush; has issue. HENRY EDWARD, b. 29 Nov., 1853; m. 8 June, 1876, Anna Massey, dau. of Robert V. Massey of Philadelphia by his wife Julia Pratt. Issue: 1. William Heyward 9 Drayton, 3d., m. (1) Phebe S. Voorhees, dau. of Theodore Voorhees, Esq., by his wife Mary E. Chittenden, has issue; m. (2) Grace (Gebbie) Wiederseim. 2. Robert Massey Drayton, m. Anna Rodman Jones, dau. of the late Charles Henry Jones, Esq., has issue. iii. SARAH COLEMAN, unmarried. iv. MARIA HEYWARD, m. 13 April, 1882, Morris James Lewis, M. D. v. ROBERT COLEMAN, b. 16 Sept., 1858; d. 15 Nov., 1915; m. 4 May, 1886, Harriet Ruggies Meigs, dau. of Captain Samuel Emlen Meigs, U. S. A., by his wife Cornelia Rogers. Issue: 1. Rmlen Meigs Drayton. 2. Robert Coleman Drayton-, d. y. 3. Frederick Rogers Drayton. 4. Robert Coleman Drayton; d. y. vi. WILLIAM HEYWARD, b. 22 Nov., 1860; unmarried. vii. HARRIET DAWSON, b. 29 Sept., 1866; unmarried. viii. PERCIVAL, b. 19 July, 1869; m. Caroline Tyson. Issue: 1. Caroline Tyson 9 Drayton. 17. HENRY EDWARD7 DRAYTON, M. D. (Hon. William,9 Hon. William,5 Hon. Thomas,4 Thomas,s Thomas,2 Thomas1), was born at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 February, 1823, and died at Philadelphia, 19 April, 1862. Educated at Bolmar’s Academy, West Chester, Pennsyl¬ vania, and under the tutorage of Dr. Williams, an English clergyman, he studied medicine under Dr. Caspar Morris and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, 4 April, 1845. After visiting many of the European hospitals he began the practice of his profession in Philadelphia. When the Episcopal Hospital was established Dr. Drayton was ap¬ pointed one of its surgeons, which position he continued to fill with marked ability during the remainder of his life, eventually becoming president of its Medical Board. In cer¬ tain of his operations he achieved particular success, one of which in 1859 had never been previously recorded in Phila¬ delphia. Of this it has been said:* “ The boldness, skill, yet perfect coolness with which this operation was performed, won the confidence of his colleagues, and established his posi¬ tion as an operator of the first class.” He had, too, a “ de* Comprehensiive sketch of, by Andrew Nebinger, M. D., In Transactions of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania 3d series, part 2, 1863. , 26 The Draytons of South Carolina and Philadelphia. cided fondness for mechanics and gave his taste indulgence in the invention of apparatuses applicable to surgical pur¬ poses; designing along these lines new inventions and im¬ provements to old ones. For the fine arts he had a very positive taste as was evid¬ enced by his modest collection of meritorious canvasses. He was a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a member of the Medical Society of Philadelphia and other kindred organizations.* Dr. Drayton married, first, 4 June, 1851, Sarah Hand Cole¬ man, daughter of James Coleman by his wife Harriet Daw¬ son and sister of Harriet Coleman, the wife of his brother, William Heyward Drayton. She was bom 27 November, 1828, and died 17 June, 1852. His second marriage, 1 July, 1857, was to Mary, daughter of Patrick Brady, merchant, of Philadelphia, born in Philadelphia, 2 June, 1837, and died at Bar Harbor, Maine, 17 September, 1910. Child of Dr. Henry Edward and Sarah Hand (Coleman) Drayton : i. JAMES COLEMAN, S b. 4 June, 1852; m. October, 1879, Augusta, daughter of William Astor of New York by his wife Caroline Schermerhorn. Issue : 1. Caroline Astor 9 Drayton, m. 2 Peby., 1910, William Phillips, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Netherlands and Lux¬ emburg since March, 1920; * has issue. 2. Henry Coleman Drayton. 3. William Astor Drayton, m. Helen Fargo Squires; has issue. 4. Alida Drayton, d. y. Child of Dr. Henry Edward and Mary (Brady) Drayton: ii. EMILY HEYWARD, S m. 15 Oct., 1879, John Madison Taylor, M. D., son of William Johnson Taylor by his wife Mary E. Bearden; a contributor of over 1000 papers in medical and scientific magazines and the author of various works on medical and applied subjects, f Issue : 1. Edith Moore Taylor, m. 7 Nov., 1908, Albert Mansfield Patterson; had issue. 2. Pereival Drayton Taylor; lieut. U. 8. A. 3. Mabel Heyward Taylor, m. 14 Peby., 1906, Gifford Alexander Oochran; has issue. •Who’s Who in America, 1920-1921, p. 2249. flbid., p. 2791.