Rebecca Brewton Hayne
(1792-1853)
BIRTH
February 7, 1792
PLACE
NAME
Rebecca Brewton Alston
DEATH
January 25, 1853
PLACE
Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
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Rebecca Brewton Alston Hayne was born in South Carolina in 1792, a daughter of William Alston and Mary Brewton Motte. She married politician Robert Young Hayne in 1820 and had sons William Alston and Arthur. Samuel F. B. Morse painted her portrait around the time of the marriage; it is now in the Chrysler Museum. She died in 1853. Family accounts disagree on her birthday, and university research identifies her among Hobcaw’s enslavers, documenting her ties to slavery.
EARLY LIFE
Rebecca Brewton Alston Hayne was born on Feb 7, 1792. 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 Rebecca Brewton Alston Hayne 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. Rebecca Brewton Alston Hayne died on Jan 25, 1853. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Rebecca Brewton Alston Hayne died on Jan 25, 1853, in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. Rebecca Brewton Alston Hayne was born in South Carolina in 1792, a daughter of William Alston and Mary Brewton Motte. She married politician Robert Young Hayne in 1820 and had sons William Alston and Arthur. Samuel F. B. Morse painted her portrait around the time of the marriage; it is now in the Chrysler Museum. She died in 1853. Family accounts disagree on her birthday, and university research identifies her among Hobcaw’s enslavers, documenting her ties to slavery. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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