Background
After her death he was married on Jan. 5, 1762, to Eleanor Austin, daughter of George Austin, by whom he had four sons and two daughters.
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John Moultrie
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The father was educated at Edinburgh and emigrated to Charlestown about 1728, where on Apr. 22 of that year he married Lucretia Cooper.
The son also went to Edinburgh and was graduated M. D. in 1749, his thesis being De Febre Maligna Biliosa Americæ.
Career
In 1761 he accompanied Lieut. -Col.
James Grant's expedition against the Cherokees.
Among the latter was his residential plantation, "Bella Vista, " four miles south of St. Augustine, where his artificers erected a large stone mansion and numerous other buildings, laid out a park and garden, and planted a great number of fruit trees of various kinds.
Inaugurated in August, he sold his plantations near Charlestown, and brought eighty more slaves to Florida.
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Both antagonists sent their complaints to Lord Dartmouth, who in a few weeks communicated notice of the appointment of Col. Patrick Tonyn as governor.
Retaining his post after Tonyn's arrival, Mar. 1, 1774, he prejudiced his successor against the Drayton-Turnbull faction and obtained from him many grants of land.
With the outbreak of the Revolution, which cut off supplies from the neighboring colonies, Moultrie induced his fellow-planters to raise more provisions.
In 1787 he was awarded £4, 479 116.
of his claim of £9, 432 for losses.
He seems to have passed his closing years obscurely in Oxfordshire and in Shropshire, where, in St. Andrews Parish, in Shifnal, he was buried.
Three of his brothers, Alexander, Thomas, and William [q. v. ], fought in the Continental Army.
[W. H. Siebert, Loyalists in East Fla. , 1774 to 1785 (1929), vol.
II; S. C. Hist.
and Geneal.
Mag. , Oct. 1904, Apr. 1924; Colonial Office Papers, 5/540, 5/545, 5/552, 5/553, 5/562, 5/563; S. C. Gazette, June 5, 1755, April 1, 1761, Aug. 25-Oct.
1, 1764, Aug. 3-10, 1765, Apr. 7, May 9, 23, 30, Oct. 24, 31, 1771; manuscript Minutes of the Council of East Fla. , Aug. 7, 1771, to July 6, 1772, July 20, Aug. 2, 20, 1773; Carita Doggett, Dr. Andrew Turnbull and the New Smyrna Colony of Fla. (1919); Gentleman's Mag. , Mar. 1798. ]
Politics
Moultrie, John, , South Carolina 1729 1798 Male Lieutenant Governor Loyalist Physician physician, lieutenant-governor of East Florida, and Loyalist, was the eldest of six sons of Dr. John Moultrie, an eminent physician of Charlestown (Charleston), S. C. , and descendant of an ancient Scotch family whose seat was Seafield Tower on the Firth of Forth, County Fife.
Connections
At the end of the war he shipped his slaves to the Bahamas, sold his live stock and effects, and in July 1784, sailed with his family for England, where they became dependent upon his wife's life annuity of £500.
- Father:
- Lucretia
- married:
- Dorothy
- married:
- Lucretia
- Daughter:
- Dorothy
- children:
- James
- Brother:
- James
He returned to Charlestown and on Apr. 30, 1753, was married to Dorothy Dry, widow of John Morton, by whom he had a daughter.
He returned to Charlestown and on Apr. 30, 1753, was married to Dorothy Dry, widow of John Morton, by whom he had a daughter.
For James's children John Moultrie took up grants of land totaling some three thousand acres and for himself others amounting to more than fourteen thousand.
When Grant formed the government of East Florida in the autumn of 1764 he appointed Moultrie and his brother James, then acting attorney-general of South Carolina, members of his council.
