Martha Bratton
(c. 1749/1750-1816)
BIRTH
c. 1749-1750
PLACE
Rowan County, North Carolina
NAME
Martha Robertson
DEATH
1816
PLACE
Brattonsville, South Carolina
FAMILY
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RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
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AWARDS
Martha Bratton (c.1750–1816) supported Patriots at her family’s South Carolina plantation. In July 1780 British Legion troops threatened her while searching for her husband, militia officer William Bratton. Tradition credits her with destroying gunpowder and sending the enslaved Watt to warn him before Huck’s Defeat. She cared for wounded men after the fighting. The couple later operated a tavern, while enslaved labor sustained the estate now preserved at Brattonsville.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Martha Bratton’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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 Martha Bratton 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. Martha Bratton died on Jan 16, 1816 in unknown. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Martha Bratton supported Patriots at her family’s South Carolina plantation. In July 1780 British Legion troops threatened her while searching for her husband, militia officer William Bratton. Tradition credits her with destroying gunpowder and sending the enslaved Watt to warn him before Huck’s Defeat. No distinct public profession or office for Martha Bratton is established by the source summary used for this entry. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them. Martha Bratton died in 1816, in Brattonsville, 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.
PARK
Huck's Defeat - Brattonsville
1444 Brattonsville Rd, McConnells, SC 29726
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Martha Bratton of South Carolina, associated with Huck’s Defeat. Some celebrated incidents come from later tradition; the selections include collective biography and related local history. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue — Susan Casey. [Collective biography for younger readers] Find on Amazon
2. The Women of the American Revolution — Elizabeth F. Ellet. [Collective biography; nineteenth-century account] Find on Amazon
3. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence — Carol Berkin. [Collective biography] Find on Amazon
4. The Day It Rained Militia: Huck’s Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May–July 1780 — Michael C. Scoggins. [Related local and military history] Find on Amazon
5. The South Carolina Encyclopedia — Walter Edgar (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
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