Middleton, Thomas, 1753-1797.

Thomas Middleton, son of Henry Middleton (1717-1784) and grandson of Arthur Middleton (1681-1737), was a planter on the Combahee River, which forms the border between Colleton and Beaufort counties, S.C.

From the description of Thomas Middleton plantation book, 1734-1813 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 22757988

Thomas Middleton, son of Henry and Mary Williams Middleton was born in Charleston, S.C., in 1753. Members of the Middleton family were wealthy merchants and planters and prominent in South Carolina politics from the late seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Thomas Middleton's father was briefly president of the First Continental Congress in 1794. His brother, Arthur, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Middleton married Anne, daughter of Peter Manigault, and owned plantations on the Combahee River, which forms the border between Colleton and Beaufort counties, S.C. He was a member of the South Carolina Congress, 1774-1776. He died in 1797.

From the guide to the Thomas Middleton Plantation Book, ., 1734-1813, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)