Mary Mackenzie
(c. 1730-1788)
BIRTH
c. 1730
PLACE
DEATH
November 21, 1788
PLACE
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Henry Middleton
(1717-1784)
CHILDREN
Henrietta Middleton Rutledge
(1750-1792)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Lady Mary Mackenzie was a Scottish-born daughter of the Earl of Cromartie who came to Charleston in 1757 as Thomas Drayton’s wife. Widowed again after her marriage to John Ainslie, she married Henry Middleton in January 1776. Her goddaughter remembered her as shrewd and capable in business. After Middleton died in 1784, she traveled to Scotland to obtain her share of her father’s estate. She died at sea in 1788 while returning to South Carolina.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Lady Mary Mackenzie’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 Lady Mary Mackenzie 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. Lady Mary Mackenzie died on Nov 21, 1788. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Mackenzie died on Nov 21, 1788. Lady Mary Mackenzie was a Scottish-born daughter of the Earl of Cromartie who came to Charleston in 1757 as Thomas Drayton’s wife. Widowed again after her marriage to John Ainslie, she married Henry Middleton in January 1776. Her goddaughter remembered her as shrewd and capable in business. After Middleton died in 1784, she traveled to Scotland to obtain her share of her father’s estate. She died at sea in 1788 while returning to South Carolina. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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