Guerard, Benjamin, approximately 1733-1788
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Charleston and St. Helena Parish, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, and politician. He was a member of the South Carolina Privy Council from 1782 to 1785, and in February 1783 became Governor of South Carolina.
From the description of Circular letter, 1783 April 2. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36865465
Charleston and St. Helena Parish, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, and politician. He served as Governor of South Carolina from 1783 to 1785.
From the description of Letter : Charleston, [S.C.] to Major Vanderhorst, 1784 July 27. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36865619
Attorney, plantation owner, and governor of S.C., 1783-1785, of Charleston, Goose Creek, and St. Helena Island, S.C.; Guerard served as a member of the South Carolina Privy Council from 1782 to 1785, and in February 1783 became Governor of South Carolina; married, 1766, to first wife Sarah Middleton, and later, 1786, he wed Marianne Kennan.
From the description of Benjamin Guerard papers, 1783-1786. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 643296275
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Subjects:
- Slavery
- Land grants
- Plantation management
- Requisitions, Military
- Rice
- Slave trade
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- United States (as recorded)
- South Carolina (as recorded)
- South Carolina (as recorded)
- South Carolina (as recorded)
