Person:John Trescot (1)

John Sen Trescot to Thomas Jefferson, 7 September 1813

... John Sen Trescot (d. ca. 1821), physician, was described as a resident of Charleston, South Carolina, when he entered the freshman class of Yale College in 1804. He did not graduate. In 1810 Trescot received a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and he practiced medicine in Charleston for at least a decade starting by 1809. He was a founder of the Antiquarian Society of Charleston in 1813, and he sometimes served as an attending physician at the city dispensary.
Trescot owned fourteen slaves in 1820 (Catalogue Of the Officers and Students in Yale-College, November, 1804 [n.d.];
Directory for the District of Charleston [Charleston, 1809], 102;
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 31 [1907]: 380–1;
Charleston City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 5 Oct. 1810, 6 Oct. 1812, 25 Oct. 1821;
Joseph Folker, A Directory of the City and District of Charleston; and Stranger’s Guide … for the year 1813 [Charleston, 1813], 78;
The Directory and Stranger’s Guide, for the City of Charleston … For the Year 1819 [Charleston, 1819], 91;
John L. E. W. Shecut, Shecut’s Medical and Philosophical Essays [Charleston, 1819], 48; DNA: RG 29, CS, S.C., Charleston Co., 1820). ...

Reports of Cases in Equity: Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals ... By South Carolina. Court of Appeals, James Sanders Guignard Richardson
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[cos1776 Abstract - Carrie's father (Dr. John Sen Trescot) died in intestate in 1820 leaving two young daughters. Carrie's mother (Caroline C. Trescot) married Charles Follin and moved to New Orleans where she died in 1833. Carrie and her husband William H Smith thought that Carrie would inherit a substantial amount after her mother died, but that did not happen. In Feb 1843, Carrie and her husband brought suit against Maynard E. Carrere, administrator of the mother's estate, demanding that he provide an accounting of what Carrie's mother had done with the proceeds from her father's estate and what he had done with what was left over when her mother died. It appears that the court decided that Carrere did not have to produce the accounts and was not found responsible for any loss of perceived value of the estate.]