Person:Thomas Heyward (1)

Signers of U.S. Declaration of Independence

John Adams • Samuel Adams • Josiah Bartlett • Carter Braxton • Charles Carroll • Samuel Chase • Abraham Clark • George Clymer • William Ellery • William Floyd • Ben Franklin • Elbridge Gerry • Button Gwinnett • Lyman Hall • John Hancock • Benjamin Harrison • John Hart • Joseph Hewes • Thomas Heyward • William Hooper • Stephen Hopkins • Francis Hopkinson • Samuel Huntington • Thomas Jefferson • Francis Lightfoot Lee • Richard Henry Lee • Francis Lewis • Philip Livingston • Thomas Lynch • Thomas McKean • Arthur Middleton • Lewis Morris • Robert Morris • John Morton • Thomas Nelson, Jr. • William Paca • Robert Treat Paine • John Penn • George Read • Caesar Rodney • George Ross • Benjamin Rush • Edward Rutledge • Roger Sherman • James Smith • Richard Stockton • Thomas Stone • George Taylor • Matthew Thornton • George Walton • William Whipple • William Williams • James Wilson • John Witherspoon • Oliver Wolcott • George Wythe

How did the British react after he signed the Declaration of Independence?

Vandals or soldiers looted his properties.

Notes

• 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.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Thomas Heyward, Jr., in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

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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.
   

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2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find A Grave
   Thomas Heyward, Jr..

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3. ↑ Park, Lawrence. "Old Boston Families Number Three: The Savage Family", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   Vol. 67:321.

   Elizabeth [Savage], b. 1770... m. at Charleston 8 May 1786, Thomas Heyward b. at "Old House", Granville Co, SC 28 Jul 1746, d. there 17 Apr 1809, son of Daniel and Mary (Miles).