Christopher Gadsden General / Mary Hasell

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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
         Name: Christopher Gadsden GeneralMale Note
         Born: 16 Feb 17241724-2-16 at Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina
      Married: 29 Dec 17551755-12-29
         Died: 28 Aug 18051805-8-28 at Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina
       Father: Thomas Gadsden
       Mother: Elizabeth Terrey

WIFE
         Name: Mary Hasell
         Born: Abt 1725
         Died: 27 Jan 1769





CHILDREN
         Name: Elizabeth Gadsden
         Born: Abt 1756 at Charleston, South Carolina
         Died: 
      Husband: Andrew Rutledge


         Name: Thomas Gadsden
         Born: 12 Aug 1757 at South Carolina
         Died: 
         Wife: Martha Fenwick


         Name: Christopher Gadsden
         Born: Abt 1758
         Died: 
         Wife: Ann Wragg


         Name: Mary Gadsden
         Born: Abt 1760
         Died: 1829
      Husband: Joseph Hansborough


         Name: Philip Gadsden
         Born: 11 Oct 1761
         Died: 6 Feb 1824
         Wife: Catherine Edwards





NOTES

1). Christopher Gadsden was a Delegate from South Carolina t o the Constitutional Convention. He was born in Charlesto n and attended schools in England. Employed in a commercia l house in Philadelphia 1742 45, he was a delegate to the S tamp Act Congress that met in New York in 1765 and a Membe r of the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia 1774 76 . He served as an officer in the Continental Army 1776178 3 and participated in the defense of Charleston in 1780. H e attained the rank of Brigadier General. He served as Sout h Carolina s governor 1778 1780 and was elected Governor i n 1781, but declined. He died in Charleston 15 September, 1 805 and is buried in St. Philip s Churchyard. Christopher G adsden and the American Revolution by E. Stanly Godbold an d Robert H. Woody. Knoxville The University of Tennessee P ress, 1982.

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