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William Henry Drayton was born in September 1742 near Charleston, South Carolina, United States. He was the son of John and Charlotte (Bull) Drayton.
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Title: A charge on the rise of the American empire. Author: William Henry Drayton Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP01024000 CollectionID: CTRG93-B576 PublicationDate: 17760101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Collation: 25 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
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William Henry Drayton was born in September 1742 near Charleston, South Carolina, United States. He was the son of John and Charlotte (Bull) Drayton.
Having completed his education in England, at Westminster School and Oxford, Drayton returned to South Carolina.
Entering the Assembly in 1765, Drayton found himself out of accord with the rising opposition to British administration. In 1769 he contributed a number of able articles to the press, denouncing the non-importation movement, and defending the right of the individual to ignore rules set up without legal authority. Unable to check the popular movement, and having become personally unpopular, Drayton then went to England, where he was received at Court as a promising champion of British rights. Drayton returned to Carolina to sit with his father and his uncle Thomas on the Council of the province ( 1772—75 ), and to serve as assistant judge. Appointed to the latter office by his uncle, Lieutenant-Governor William Bull, the young Carolinian soon realized that, according to custom, he would be superseded by a stranger from abroad. He indignantly denounced this practise in a charge to the grand jury which Lord North brought to the attention of Parliament.
He also published A Letter from “Freeman” of South Carolina to the Deputies of North America (1774), in which he denied the right of Parliament to legislate for America, and proposed the establishment of a federal system. He suggested that an assembly for North America be empowered to tax the colonies for the Crowm and pass general legislation, each province being left to regulate its own internal affairs. Suspended from the Council, Drayton embraced the American cause with zeal.
A member of all the important revolutionary bodies in the province, and chairman of several, he performed valuable service in the spring of 1775 in preparing for armed resistance. In the summer he made a tour of the back country, trying to win the inhabitants to the American cause. His mission, however, wras largely a failure, as this section felt itself more oppressed by the low country than by England.
On his return to Charleston, Drayton was elected president of the provincial Congress, November 1, 1775. He assumed the leadership of the progressives, and with great boldness and energy proceeded to involve the province in war. In the revolutionary councils he always urged the most aggressive measures upon his more conservative associates. Having been elected chief justice under the constitution of March 1776, Drayton delivered a series of charges to the grand juries which set Carolinians to thinking of independence, rather than of reconciliation with England. His zeal sometimes misled him, as w'hen he attempted to persuade the Georgians to agree to a union with South Carolina. He desired a military commission, but conservative leaders preferred to make use of him as a commissioner to treat wdth neighboring states and the Indians, or to answer British offers of peace. Although a man of action rather than a deep political thinker, Drayton’s speech in the Assembly on January 20, 1778, shows that he foresaw the operation of sectional forces in the United States, and wished to safeguard the interests of the South.
Still chief justice of South Carolina, he represented the state in the Continental Congress from March 30, 1778, until his death from typhus fever, in September 1779. With the exception of Gouverneur Morris, Drayton was a member of more committees during this period than any other man. His reply to the British peace commission of 1778 was widely read.
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Drayton was out of accord with the rising opposition to British administration. A radical in his opposition to Great Britain and the Loyalists, Drayton was not a social radical, although he promoted the adoption of the state constitution of 1778, which involved the disestablishment of the Church.
On March 29, 1764 Drayton married Dorothy Golightly, an heiress, and became a planter.
