Elizabeth Grimké Rutledge
BIRTH
Nov 29, 1741
South Carolina
DEATH
June 6, 1792
Charleston, South Carolina
FAMILY
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Rutledge, Elizabeth Grimké
(1741-1792)
Elizabeth Grimké Rutledge (1741-1792) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of John Rutledge. John Rutledge was a public official and lawyer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Elizabeth Grimké Rutledge to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. The recorded birthplace at South Carolina helps place this family connection within the geography of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Including Elizabeth Grimké Rutledge in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
John Rutledge
(1739-1800)
John Rutledge
(1739-1800)
Eliza Rutledge Laurens
(1776-1842)
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DIED:
Charleston, South Carolina
Jun 6, 1792
Elizabeth Grimké Rutledge was born on Nov 29, 1741 in South Carolina. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Grimké Rutledge is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Elizabeth Grimké Rutledge died on Jun 6, 1792 in Charleston, South Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.