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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
John Huger was born 5 June, 1744 at Limerick Plantation on the Cooper River of South Carolina. His father’s ample estate provided the funds for education and foreign travel.
Huger returned from England in Dec. 1766 and married Charlotte Motte on March 15, 1767. They had three children. From his father he inherited considerable property in Charleston, SC and plantations The Cypress of 3,425 acres and The Hagan that grew to 4,965 acres at the time of his death in Charleston, SC, January 22, 1804. The plantations included ownership of over 400 slaves. He was a compassionate master to his slaves and it is recorded that he admonished his children “to regard my Negroes as humble friends and their own fellow creatures and to treat them with all humanity and compassion which existing circumstances can admit of.”
Huger’s public career began at age 16 when he was commissioned Lieutenant in the SC militia and participated in the Cherokee campaign, 1761 , a Captain of the Charleston Volunteers in the 1770’s but was more active in the political aspects of the Revolution.
An elected member of the 28th (1768), 29th (1769-71) and 33rd (1773-75) Royal Assemblies, representing his home Parish of St. Thomas and St. Dennis, he was elected to the first and second Provincial Congresses and on March 27, 1776 was elected Secretary of the Colony and subsequently elected as the first Secretary of State of South Carolina by the State Constitution of 1778, serving until 1783. He served in the South Carolina Senate 1787-1790 and represented his Parish at the state convention to ratify the Constitution in 1788.
After the Revolution John Huger spent most of his time in Charleston, SC where he held offices in the South Carolina Society, an active member of St. Michael’s Church (Episcopal) and was President of the Mount Sion Society whose purpose was to establish a school in the Camden District.
Additional biography submitted by James Edward Mitchell, #165184. TX Society, Bernardo de Galvez # 1 Chapter:
John was born 5 Jun 1744, at his parents Limerick Plantation mapped at Cooper River, Cordesville, Berkeley County (Co.) South Carolina (SC). John Huger was a 3rd son of Daniel Huger (1688-1754) and his wife, Mary Cordes, a 2nd marriage, a daughter of Isaac Cordes.
His early education was provided for by his parents at Limerick Plantation. John and his brothers were members of the Episcopal Church congregation at Charleston, SC from an early age.
John’s brothers included Daniel, b. 20th Feb 1742; Isaac, b. 19th Mar 1743; d. 17th Oct 1797; Brig Gen’l in the Revolutionary Army; m. 23 Mar 1762, Eliz. Chambers and, Benjamin, b. 30th Dec 1746; d. 11th May 1779; Major in the Revolutionary Army; Member of the House Assembly and provincial Congress; source, Colonial Families of the USA, Vol VII, 1607-1775 for John Huger, pg 310.
John’s older brother, Isaac Huger was commissioned as a company captain at age 18 in Col Thomas Middleton’s Provincial SC Rgt. Both, Isaac and John were proudly commissioned as militia officers in the Cherokee expedition of 1760-61.
After John’s 18th birthday, he was apprenticed to study law at Charleston, SC. By 1775, John, age 31 served as a company captain raised for Berkeley County in the (1st) SC Rgt., commanded by his older brother, Lieut Col Isaac Huger; see,
http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/huger-john
He was elected South Carolina’s 1st Secretary of State under the authority of the new state constitution; Ibid.
John married 1st Charlotte Motte on 16 Mar 1767 at Charleston County, SC; and 2nd Ann (Brown) Cusak on 11 Jan 1785 at Charleston. John’s death was recorded at age 60, in Charleston on 22 Jun 1804 following a will probated at Court in Charleston District, SC, dated the 22nd of February in 1804; source, South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980 for John Huger, Charleston, Letters of Testamentary 1800-1807, pg 260.
He was recorded buried at the Daniel Huger Limerick Plantation Cemetery on Hwy 402, Limerick, Berkeley Co., and SC; see, Find A Grave Memorial# 39569517
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