Rawlins Lowndes
BIRTH
Jan 6, 1721
St Kitts, British West Indies
DEATH
August 24, 1800
Charleston, South Carolina
FAMILY
FATHER:
Charles Lowndes
(?-1736)
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Lowndes, Rawlins
(1721-1800)
Rawlins Lowndes was a South Carolina lawyer and Patriot politician who served as president of the state in 1778–1779. He helped guide the wartime government but later opposed ratification of the United States Constitution.
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WIFE
Sarah Jones Lowndes
(1757-1801)
William Lowndes
(1652-1724)
Thomas Lowndes
(1766-1843)
James Lowndes
(1855-1882)
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DIED:
Charleston, South Carolina
Aug 24, 1800
Rawlins Lowndes was born on Jan 6, 1721 in St Kitts, British West Indies. 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 Rawlins Lowndes with work or public activity as a lawyer, 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. Rawlins Lowndes died on Aug 24, 1800 in Charleston, South Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.