Note 237 — Chapter XVI
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This famous South Carolinian was born in 1754. He served under Marion and Sumter during the Revolution; was in Congress 1795–97, 1803–05; entered the army as colonel in 1808; was promoted to a brigadier-generalship in 1809 and stationed at New Orleans, where he was superseded by General James Wilkinson (1812); served on the northern frontier in 1813, and resigned his commission in 1814. When he died, in 1835, he was reckoned the wealthiest planter in the South. Several of his descendants bore the same christian name.—Ed.