Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . e enemy on the borders of the low country. Hecontinued in active service during the whole campaign of 1781, and did muchtoward humbling the British posts near Charleston; but ill-health ecmpelled himto leave the army before the close of the war. He was for a long time a mem-ber of the House of Representatives of the United States, and also of the Senatein the earher years of the Republic. Finally, when he retired from public life,he took up his abo
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . e enemy on the borders of the low country. Hecontinued in active service during the whole campaign of 1781, and did muchtoward humbling the British posts near Charleston; but ill-health ecmpelled himto leave the army before the close of the war. He was for a long time a mem-ber of the House of Representatives of the United States, and also of the Senatein the earher years of the Republic. Finally, when he retired from public life,he took up his abode near Bradford Springs, on the High Hills of Santee (nowStatesburg), South Carolina. There he lived until he had almost reached cen-tenary honors. He died there, on the 1st of June, 3 832, when in the ninety-eighth year of his age. When the writer visited that region, in 1849, the houseand plantation of General Sumter were owned by a mulatto named Ellison, aman greatly esteemed. He had purchased ^the freedom of himself and family inern-ly life, and was then the owner of a large estate in laud, and about sixtyslaves. I WILLIAM PINKNEY. 16 i.
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