Hester Middleton Drayton
(1754-1789)
BIRTH
September 15, 1754
PLACE
DEATH
November 10, 1789
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Mary Mackenzie
(c. 1730-1788)
BROTHER
Arthur Middleton
(1681-1737)
SISTER
Sarah Middleton Pinckney
(1756–1784)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Hester Middleton Drayton (1754–1789), daughter of Henry Middleton and Mary Baker Williams, married physician Charles Drayton. She moved with him to Drayton Hall in 1784. Their children included Charlotte, Maria Henrietta and Charles, whose birth appears in his father’s diary. The same diary records Hester’s death amid accounts of plantation life and enslaved labor. Her marriage is dated 1773 or 1774 in published genealogies; the exact date remains unsettled.
EARLY LIFE
Hester Middleton was born on Sep 15, 1754. 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 Hester Middleton 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. Hester Middleton died on Nov 10, 1789. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Hester Middleton died on Nov 10, 1789. Hester Middleton Drayton, daughter of Henry Middleton and Mary Baker Williams, married physician Charles Drayton. She moved with him to Drayton Hall in 1784. Their children included Charlotte, Maria Henrietta and Charles, whose birth appears in his father’s diary. The same diary records Hester’s death amid accounts of plantation life and enslaved labor. Her marriage is dated 1773 or 1774 in published genealogies; the exact date remains unsettled. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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