Simons, Keating, 1753-1834
Biographical notes:
Planter and merchant of Lewisfield Plantation, Charleston and Berkeley Counties, S.C.; served in S.C. House, St. John Berkeley district, 1776, 1779-1780, 1785-1786; president, Bank of S.C., 1796-1832; son of Benjamin Simons (1713-1772) and Catherine Chicken Simons; husband of Ann Cleland Kinloch and Eleanor Ball Simons (d. 1827); father, of Keating Lewis Simons (1775-1819), Sedgewick Lewis Simons (1788-1834), Thomas Grange Simons (1789-1863), and six other children.
From the description of Keating Simons papers, 1758-1855. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 42648634
Charleston, S.C. factor.
From the description of Letter : to John Taylor, 1817 Jan. 21. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36865735
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Subjects:
- African Americans
- Cotton trade
- Plantation management
- Plantation owners
- Slave trade
Occupations:
- Commission merchants
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- South Carolina--Charleston County (as recorded)
- South Carolina (as recorded)
- South Carolina--Charleston (as recorded)
- Berkeley County (S.C.) (as recorded)
- Charleston (S.C.) (as recorded)
- South Carolina--Berkeley County (as recorded)