Colonel Thomas Middleton
(c. 1719-1766)
BIRTH
c. 1719
PLACE
DEATH
December 17, 1766
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Arthur Middleton
(1681-1737)
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RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Thomas Middleton (1719–1766) was a South Carolina planter, merchant and assemblyman, the son of Arthur Middleton and Sarah Amory. He moved from Goose Creek into Charleston trade and helped found its Library Society in 1748. His later Beaufort partnerships participated in the slave trade. A provincial colonel, he commanded South Carolina troops in the 1761 Cherokee war. He married Mary Bull and later Anne Barnwell; his daughter Sarah married Benjamin Guerard.
EARLY LIFE
Col. Thomas Middleton, Esq. was born 1719. The external genealogical record identifies Arthur Middleton and Susan Amory as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Col. Thomas Middleton, Esq. is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Col. Thomas Middleton, Esq. died Dec 17, 1766. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Thomas Middleton died on Dec 17, 1766. Thomas Middleton was a South Carolina planter, merchant and assemblyman, the son of Arthur Middleton and Sarah Amory. He moved from Goose Creek into Charleston trade and helped found its Library Society in 1748. His later Beaufort partnerships participated in the slave trade. A provincial colonel, he commanded South Carolina troops in the 1761 Cherokee war. He married Mary Bull and later Anne Barnwell; his daughter Sarah married Benjamin Guerard. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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