Henry Middleton

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Early lifeEdit

Henry Middleton was born in 1717 on the family plantation, "The Oaks", near Charleston, Province of South Carolina. He was the second son of Susan (née Amory) Middleton (1690-1722) and Arthur Middleton (1681–1737), a wealthy planter who had served as an acting governor of South Carolina.<ref name="DAB">Template:Cite book</ref> His grandfather, Edward Middleton, emigrated from England via Barbados.<ref name="middletonplace">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was educated in England before returning to South Carolina to inherit his father's plantation. He became one of the largest landowners in the colony, owning Template:Convert and about 800 slaves.<ref name="DAB" />

Public careerEdit

Middleton served in a variety of public offices in South Carolina. He was a justice of the peace and a member of the Commons House of Assembly, where he was elected speaker in 1747, 1754, and 1755.<ref name="DAB" /> He was a member of provincial council<ref name="Edgar1977">Template:Cite book</ref> but resigned in 1770 in opposition to British policy.<ref name="DAB" />

In 1774, at the outset of the American Revolution, Middleton was selected as a delegate to the Continental Congress.<ref name="McCrady1901">Template:Cite book</ref> He served as that body's president during the last few days of the First Continental Congress, following the departure of Peyton Randolph.<ref>Calvin C. Jillson and Rick K. Wilson, Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774–1789 (Stanford University Press, 1994), 51.</ref> Middleton opposed declaring independence from Great Britain and resigned from the Second Continental Congress in February 1776 when more radical delegates began pushing for independence.<ref name="DAB" /> He was succeeded in Congress by his son Arthur who was more radical than his father and became a signer of the Declaration of Independence.<ref name="DAB" />

After Middleton's return to South Carolina, he was elected president of the provincial congress and, beginning on November 16, 1775, served on the council of safety.<ref name="DAB" /> In 1776, he and his son Arthur helped frame a temporary state constitution.<ref name="DAB" /> In 1779, he became a state senator in the new government.<ref name="DAB" />

When Charleston was captured by the British at the Siege of Charleston in 1780, Middleton accepted defeat and status as a British subject.<ref name="scencyclopedia">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This reversal apparently did not damage his reputation in the long run, because of his previous support of the Revolution, and he did not suffer the fate of having his estates confiscated, as many Loyalists did after the war.<ref name="DAB" />

Personal lifeEdit

In 1741, Middleton was married to Mary Baker Williams (1721–1761), the daughter of John Williams, an early South Carolina planter who began building what is today known as Middleton Place around 1730.<ref name="Cheves1900">Template:Cite book</ref> Together, Henry and Mary were the parents of five sons and seven daughters, seven of whom survived to adulthood, including:<ref name="DAB" />

Arthur Middleton (1742–1787), a signer of the Declaration of Independence who married Mary Izard (1747–1814).
Henrietta Middleton (1750–1792), who married Governor Edward Rutledge.
Thomas Middleton (1753–1797), who married Anne Manigault.
Hester Middleton (1754–1789), who married Charles Drayton.
Sarah Middleton (1756–1784), who married Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
Mary Middleton (1757-1825), who married Peter Smith.
Susannah Middleton (1760–1834), who married Continental Congressman John Parker.

After his wife's death in 1761, Middleton would go on to marry twice more. His second marriage was to Maria Henrietta Bull (1722–1772), daughter of William Bull Sr., the lieutenant governor of South Carolina, in 1762.<ref name="scencyclopedia"/> His second wife's sister, Charlotta (née Bull) Drayton, was the mother of Continental Congressman William Henry Drayton, and her brother, William Bull II, served as governor of South Carolina before leaving the colony in 1782 when British troops were evacuated at the end of the War.<ref name="scencyclopedia"/>

After his second wife's death in 1772, he married for the third time, although it was her fourth marriage, to Lady Mary McKenzie,<ref name="DAB" /> the daughter of George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie, in 1776.<ref name="scencyclopedia"/> Among Lady Mary's brothers were John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod and George Mackenzie. Her father was a Scottish nobleman who followed Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite Pretender. The Earl of Cromartie was tried and sentenced to death, but he obtained a conditional pardon although his peerage was forfeited.<ref>Fraser, William. (1876). The Earls of Cromartie, Their Kindred, Country and Correspondence. Vol. 1. p. cclvi. Edinburgh.</ref>

Middleton died on June 13, 1784, in Charleston.<ref name="DAB" /> He was buried at Goosecreek Churchyard, St. James Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina.<ref name="HMbioguide">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

DescendantsEdit

His grandson, also named Henry (1770–1846), had a long career in politics. He was governor of South Carolina (1810–1812), U.S. Representative (1815–1819), and the minister to Russia (1820–1830). Henry had fourteen children, including Williams Middleton and Edward Middleton.<ref name="DAB" />

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