David Ramsey / Martha Laurens

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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
         Name: David RamseyMale Note
         Born: 2 Apr 17491749-4-2 at Dunmore, PennsylvaniaDunmore, Pennsylvania
      Married: 17871787-1-1 at Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina
         Died: 8 May 18151815-5-8 at Charleston , South CarolinaCharleston , South Carolina

WIFE
         Name: Martha Laurens
         Born: 9 Nov 1759 at Charleston , South Carolina
         Died: 10 Jun 1811 at Charleston , South Carolina
       Father: Henry Laurens
       Mother: Eleanor Delamere Ball





CHILDREN
         Name: Susan Harriett Ramsey
         Born: Abt 1788
         Died: 22 Apr 1833 at Georgetown, South Carolina
      Husband: John Hyrne Tucker


         Name: Martha Henry Laurens Ramsey
         Born: 1789
         Died: 1844


         Name: Frances Henry Laurens Ramsey
         Born: 1790
         Died: 1791


         Name: Catherine Laurens Ramsey
         Born: 1792
         Died: 1876


         Name: Sabina Elliott Ramsay
         Born: 1794
         Died: 1853
      Husband: Henry Laurens Pinckney


         Name: David Laurens Ramsey
         Born: 1795
         Died: 1826
         Wife: Mary Eleanor Pinckney


         Name: Jane Montgomery Laurens Ramsey
         Born: 1796
         Died: 


         Name: Eleanor Henry Laurens Ramsey
         Born: 1797
         Died: 1813


         Name: James Ramsey
         Born: 1798
         Died: 1832
         Wife: Eleanor Laurens


         Name: Maria Lavinia Ramsey
         Born: Abt 1800
         Died: 
      Husband: John Hyrne Tucker





NOTES

1). RAMSAY, David, brother of Nathaniel Ramsey , a Delegate f rom South Carolina born in Dunmore, Lancaster County, Pa. , April 2, 1749 attended the common schools, and was gradu ated from the College of New Jersey now Princeton Universi ty in 1765 was graduated from the medical department of t he University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1773 and b egan practice in Cecil County, Md. settled in Charleston , S.C., in 1773 member of the State house of representativ es 1776 1783 served in the Revolutionary Army as surgeon o f the Charleston Battalion of Artillery, State militia cap tured at the fall of Charleston in May 1780 and imprisone d at St. Augustine, Fla., for eleven months Member of th e Continental Congress 1782 1783 and 1785 1786 and served a s President pro tempore during the last term unsuccessfull y contested the election of William L. Smith to the First C ongress the first contested election case State historia n and author of several historical works member of the Sta te senate of South Carolina and served as president of tha t body for seven years shot by a maniac on May 6, 1815, i n Charleston, S.C., and died in that city May 8, 1815.

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