Person:Henry Middleton (5)

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• 2nd President of the Continental Congress
• acquired Middleton Place plantation thru his marriage to Mary Baker Williams
• one of the wealthiest landowners in America, owning 20 plantations of some 50,000 acres and 800 slaves
• 12 children ; 7 surviving to adulthood

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Henry Middleton, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

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   Henry Middleton (1717 – June 13, 1784) was a planter, public official from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the First Continental Congress and served as that body's president for four days in 1774 after the passage of the Continental Association, which he signed. He left the Second Continental Congress before it declared independence. Back in South Carolina, he served as president of the provincial congress and senator in the newly created state government. After his capture by the British in 1780, he accepted defeat and returned to the status of a British subject until the end of the war.
   

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