William Moultrie (1730 - 1805)

Born 23 Nov 1730 in Charlestown, Province of South Carolina

Husband of Damaris Elizabeth (de St. Julin) Moultrie — married 10 Dec 1749 in Charles Town, Province of South Carolina

Descendants

Died 27 Sep 1805 at age 74 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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Preceded by 34th Governor Benjamin Guerard 37th Governor Charles Pinckney

William Moultrie 35th Governor of South Carolina 1785—1787 and 1792—1794

Succeeded by 36th Governor Thomas Pinckney 38th Governor Arnoldus Vanderhorst

Biography

William Moultrie is Notable.

General William Moultrie served with 2nd South Carolina Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

William Moultrie is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A082399.

William Moultrie is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 253597
Rank: Major General / Patriotic Service

William Moultrie - 5th Governor of the State of South Carolina 1785 to 1787 and 1792 to 1794

William Moultrie was a planter and politician who became a general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. As colonel leading a state militia, in 1776 he prevented the British from taking Charleston, and Fort Moultrie was named in his honor.

SC Governors – William Moultrie, 1785-1787 and 1792-1794

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18

MOULTRIE, WILLIAM</b> (1730-1805), American soldier, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 23rd of November 1730. His father, a physician, and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, migrated to Charleston before 1729. The son was elected to the Commons House of the Assembly in 1754, 1769 and 1772; and in 1760 he was captain of a provincial regiment in the expedition under Governor William H. Lyttelton against the Cherokees. Although he was connected by many ties to the British, he espoused the American cause on the outbreak of the War of Independence, and was a member of the first provincial congress (1775) of South Carolina, which in June made him a colonel of the Second South Carolina regiment; and he was a member of the second provincial congress (1775-1776). On Fort Johnson, on James Island in Charleston harbour, he raised what is said to have been the first American battle-flag blue, with a white crescent in the dexter corner, inscribed with the word “Liberty”; the flag was devised by him in September 1775. In March 1776 he took command of a palmetto fort which he had built on Sullivan's Island, off Charleston, which he held against the attack of Admiral Sir Peter Parker on the 28th of June, and which soon after the battle was renamed Fort Moultrie by the General Assembly. He was thanked by Congress, was made a brigadier-general in the continental army in September 1776, and was placed in command of the department of Georgia and South Carolina. He dislodged the British from Beaufort, South Carolina, in February 1779, and in April made it possible for the city of Charleston to put itself into a state of defense by delaying the advance of General Augustine Prevost. He was one of those who advised against the surrender of Charleston, where he commanded the garrison until the arrival of General Benjamin Lincoln. His imprisonment after the surrender of Charleston (May 1780) lasted until his exchange with others for General Burgoyne in February 1782. In October 1782 he was made a major-general. He was governor of South Carolina in 1785-1787 and in 1792-1794. He died in Charleston on the 27th of September 1805.

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JSTOR Early Journal Content, The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine

Publication

Memoirs of the American Revolution : so far as it related to the states of North and South Carolina, and Georgia (1802)

Burial

Fort Moultrie, Sullivan Island, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina

Legacy

• Moultrie County, Illinois is named in his honor.

Sources

• Find A Grave Memorial# 23285
• William Moultrie on Wikipedia
• The Family Magazine (Redfield & Lindsay, 1834-5) Vol. 2, Page 317-9

Contributors

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