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David Ramsay, the son of James and Jane (Montgomery) Ramsay, was born April 2, 1749 in Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Nathaniel Ramsay was his brother.
David graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1765, tutored in a Maryland family for two years, then began the study of medicine. He received his degree from the College of Pennsylvania in 1772.
He practised a year in Maryland and in 1773 went to Charleston. He bore a letter from his preceptor and friend, Dr. Benjamin Rush, who declared that he was "far superior to any person we ever graduated at our college. "
He appears to have been successful in his practice from the start, but politics immediately began to absorb much of his abundant energy. From 1776 to the end of the war he represented Charleston in the legislature.
In August 1780 he was, with thirty-two other leaders, exiled to St. Augustine. On his release a year later he was returned to the House of Representatives. During most of 1782 and 1785, however, he was a delegate in the Continental Congress. He was regular in attendance and supported the moves for strengthening the powers of the central government.
From 1784 to 1790 he served in the state House of Representatives. In 1792, 1794, and 1796 he was elected to the state Senate, and for the three terms was president of that body. He then retired from political life.
Throughout this period he appears as a moderate Federalist, representative of the coast country group, a man of ability, integrity, and influence. Meanwhile he was busy in speculation and investment, which, he fondly hoped, would be of great advantage to the public and to himself, but "want of judgment in the affairs of the world was the weak point of his character. "
Sales of lands, complicated mortgages and agreements came in bewildering confusion, both before and after his bankruptcy in 1798, and he who a few years before had steadily opposed leniency to debtors was now fain to compound a debt by pledging his professional services for a period of years to sundry tradesmen of Charleston. How faithfully he followed Dr. Rush in his abuse of the human body by incessant bleeding and administering of calomel and jalap are fairly indicated by his Eulogium upon Benjamin Rush, M. D. (1813). But his permanent contribution to medicine was not inconsiderable.
His Review of the Improvements, Progress and State of Medicine in the XVIIIth Century, a scholarly treatise, was one of several medical studies (see Carnes Weeks, "David Ramsay, " in Annals of Medical History, September 1929). It is as historian, however, that Ramsay is best known. A ready writer and a careful observer, of encyclopedic memory and intense patriotism, he early set himself to the work for which his gifts and position fitted him.
His History of the Revolution of South Carolina was in considerable part copied from the Annual Register, and in such manner as to justify the charge of plagiarism, but a great part consisted of the conclusions of a patriotic but judicious eye-witness, and of South Carolina papers published then for the first time. He proceeded next to write a History of the American Revolution, but as he moved farther from South Carolina he leaned more heavily upon the Register.
The first volume of his History of South Carolina was in part taken from Alexander Hewat, and in part from his own preceding work, but the second, comprising a survey of South Carolina life, is still of great value. His Life of George Washington (1807) was a mere political and military narrative, but was very popular. The History of the United States was part of a far more ambitious project which was to contain the "quintessence" of other histories.
The larger work, Universal History Americanized, was published in nine volumes in 1819, with the History of the United States forming Volumes X to XII. The author did not live to see his grand design in print, for on May 6, 1815, he was shot by a maniac and died two days later.
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In the legislature he opposed the issuing of paper money, the easing of the obligations of debtors, the importation of slaves, and the weakening of the tidewater control of the legislature.
Ramsay was three times married: in February 1775 to Sabina Ellis, daughter of a Charleston merchant, who died the next year; in 1783 to Frances Witherspoon, a daughter of John Witherspoon, who died in 1784, and on January 23, 1787, to Martha, daughter of Henry Laurens, who died June 10, 1811.