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The Forgotten Signer of South Carolina | Charleston News
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, meet South Carolina’s four Declaration signers—Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, and Edward Rutledge. Heyward, a Charleston-born rice planter and London-educated lawyer, signed the document at just 29, risking everything for independence. He fought in the war, was captured during the Siege of Charleston, and later served as a judge. The house he once lived in now welcomes visitors as the Heyward-Washington House, where George Washington stayed in 1791—and it still holds the oldest surviving kitchen in Charleston. But Heyward’s…
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