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Thomas Heyward, Jr.
b.28 Jul 1746 Old House, Granville, South Carolina, United States
d.6 Mar 1802 Old House, Granville, South Carolina, United States
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m. 20 Apr 1773
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m. 8 May 1786
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Thomas Heyward Jr. (July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as a delegate of the Continental Congress from South Carolina. His loss of a considerable number of slaves led to him being widely proclaimed as a martyr of the revolution. Some sources claim that Heyward had a daughter by one of his slaves, who subsequently had a child with a young white man from a wealthy family. The family forced the couple to give up the child for adoption. That child ultimately became Congressman Thomas E. Miller, a light-skinned black man active in civil rights in the post-war South.
Heyward's granddaughter Elizabeth Mathews Heyward married South Carolina governor James Hamilton. Hamilton in turn was the nephew of another South Carolina signer of the Declaration, Thomas Lynch, Jr.
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