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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Whitmarsh Benjamin Seabrook Governor Note Born: 30 Jun 1793 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Married: 7 Feb 1815 at Charleston, , , South Carolina Died: 16 Apr 1855 at Strawberry Hill Plantation, , St. Luke s Parish, South Carolina Father: Benjamin Whitemarsh Seabrook Mother: Elizabeth Margaret Meggett
WIFE
Name: Margaret Wilkinson Hamilton Born: 28 Feb 1795 at Beaufort, , , South Carolina Died: 30 Dec 1839 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Other Spouses: Josiah Edward Smith Father: Paul Hamilton Governor Mother: Mary Wilkinson
CHILDREN
Name: Archibald Hamilton Seabrook Born: 27 Jan 1816 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: 22 Jul 1894 at McPhersonville, , , South Carolina Wife: Phoebe Caroline Pinckney
Name: Elizabeth Meggett Seabrook Born: 2 Dec 1817 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: 2 Apr 1878 Husband: Edward Wilkinson Mikell
Name: Benjamin Seabrook Born: Oct 1819 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: Jul 1820 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina
Name: Benjamin Whitmarsh Seabrook Born: 25 Jun 1821 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: 10 Feb 1876 at Georgia, , , Wife: Adeline Clifford Strobhart
Name: Mary Hamilton Seabrook Born: 14 Sep 1822 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: 15 Sep 1854 at Gainesvile, , , Georgia
Name: Julia Emma Seabrook Born: 7 Jul 1824 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: 13 Apr 1904 at Charleston, , , South Carolina
Name: Susan Septima Seabrook Born: 31 Jan 1826 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: 26 Aug 1908 at Charleston, , , South Carolina
Name: Paul Hamilton Seabrook Born: 1 Jul 1827 at Edisto Island, , Colleton County, South Carolina Died: 7 Sep 1862 at MANASSAS, , , VIRGINIA Wife: Mary Elizabeth Seabrook
Name: William Meggett Seabrook Born: 25 Oct 1828 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: 31 Jul 1829 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina
Name: Margaret Ann Seabrook Born: 27 Nov 1829 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: 4 Jul 1831 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina
Name: Edward Wilkinson Seabrook Born: 7 Jan 1836 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina Died: 11 Jan 1836 at Edisto Island, , , South Carolina
NOTES
1). SEABROOK, WHITEMARSH BENJAMIN Whitmarsh 1793 !855 . Son of BENJAMIN SEABROOK 1763 1825 son in law of PAUL H AMILTON 1762 1816 . Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook, born 30 June 1793. was the so n of Benjamin Seabrook and Elizabeth Meggett. He attendedt he College of New Jersey Princeton , graduating in 1812. R eturning home, he studied law and may have practiced law br iefly. However, his major interest was agriculture, and i t was as a cotton planter that he earned his living. Seabro ok resided at Gun Bluff plantation on Edisto Island. Accord ing to an 1824 tax return, he owned 475 acres and 44 slave s in St. John Colleton Parish. The slave schedules for 185 0 listed 90 slaves as his property in St. John Colleton. We ll known in agricultural circles, he frequently urged diver sification and rotation of crops and suggested that a poo r cotton yield was due more to planters mismanagement an d neglect than to natural elements. Throughout his life, h e made a number of addresses on the subject, many of whic h were published including A Memoir on the 0rigin, Cultivat ion and Uses of Cotton Charleston, 1844 . His zeal and kno wledge was recognized by his peers, and he was a prime move r in the development of the State Agricultural Society 183 9 a member of several agricultural organizations, he serv ed as corresponding secretary of the Agricultural Society o f St. John Colleton 1823 , president of the United Agricul tural Society 1826 , and vice president 1840 and preside nt 1841 1846 of the State Agricultural Society. Public service for Seabrook was long and varied. Elected t o the House, he represented St. John Colleton in the Twenty first 1814 1815 , Twenty second 1816 1817 , and Twenty t hird 1818 1819 General Assemblies. On 22 November 1819, h e tendered his resignation, but the House refused to accep t it two days later. While in the House he was a member o f the committees on the judiciary 1814 1815 , privileges a nd elections 1816 1819 , free schools 1816 1817 , inlan d navigation 1816 1817 , incorporations 1816 1817 , and v acant offices 1818 1819 .

						

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