Joseph Alston
(1779-1816)
BIRTH
November 10, 1779
PLACE
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
DEATH
September 19, 1816
PLACE
Charleston, South Carolina
FAMILY
FATHER
William Alston
(1756-1839)
SISTER
Rebecca Brewton Hayne
(1792-1853)
WIFE
Theodosia Burr Alston
(1783-1813)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
PENAL REFORM ADVOCATE, PUBLIC EDUCATION ADVOCATE, SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATIVE REAPPORTIONMENT ADVOCATE
DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICAN
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
EPISCOPALIAN
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Joseph Alston (1779-1816) was a planter and estate manager and public official and the spouse of Theodosia Burr Alston. He was born Nov 10, 1779 in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Born in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina and later dying in Charleston, South Carolina, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. He died Sep 19, 1816 in Charleston, South Carolina.
EARLY LIFE
Joseph Alston was born on Nov 10, 1779 in Murrells Inlet, 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.
The available biographical record identifies Joseph Alston with work or public activity as a planter, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Joseph Alston died on Sep 19, 1816 in Charleston, South Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Joseph Alston was a planter and estate manager and public official and the spouse of Theodosia Burr Alston. Joseph Alston was the 44th governor of South Carolina from 1812 to 1814. In 1812, the General Assembly elected Alston to be the Governor of South Carolina for a two-year term, after the removal of Thomas Sumter and Andrew Pickens as candidates. With the War of 1812 raging, Governor Alston called the state militia into service in 1813, to protect military magazines from the British. Joseph Alston died Sep 19, 1816 in Charleston, South Carolina. Joseph Alston died on Sep 19, 1816 in Charleston, South Carolina. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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