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See also:GADSDEN, See also:CHRISTOPHER (1724-1805) , See also:American patriot, was See also:born in See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina, in 1724. His See also:father, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Gadsden, was for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:collector for the See also:port of Charleston. Christopher went to school near See also:Bristol, in See also:England, returned to See also:America in 1741, was afterwards employed in a counting See also:house in See also:Philadelphia, and became a See also:merchant and planter at Charleston. In 1759 he was See also:captain of an See also:artillery See also:company in an expedition against the Cherokees. He was a member of the South Carolina legislature almost continuously from 176o to 178o, and represented his See also:province in the See also:Stamp See also:Act See also:Congress of 1765 and in the See also:Continental Congress in 1774-1776. In See also:February 1776 he was placed in command of all the military forces of South Carolina, and in See also:October of the same
See also:year was commissioned a brigadier-See also:general and was taken into the Continental service: but on See also:account of a dispute arising out of a conflict between See also:state and Federal authority resigned his command in 1777. He was See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of his state in 1780, when Charleston was surrendered to the See also:British. For about three months following this event he was held as a prisoner on See also:parole within the limits of Charleston; then, because of his See also:influence in deterring others from exchanging their paroles for the privileges of British subjects, he was seized, taken to St See also:Augustine, See also:Florida, and there, because he would not give another parole to those who had violated the former agreement affecting him, he was confined for See also:forty-two See also:weeks in a See also:dungeon. In 1782 Gadsden was again elected a member of his state legislature; he was also elected governor, but declined to serve on the ground that he was too old and infirm; in 1788 he was a member of the See also:convention which ratified for South Carolina the Federal constitution; and in 1790 he was a member of the convention which framed the new state constitution. He died in Charleston on the 28th of See also:August 1805. From the time that Governor Thomas See also:Boone, in 1762, pronounced his See also:election to the legislature improper, and dissolved the House in consequence, Gadsden was hostile to the British See also:administration. He was an ardent See also:leader of the opposition to the Stamp Act, advocating even then a separation of the colonies from the See also:mother See also:country; and in the Continental Congress of 1774 he discussed the situation on the basis of inalienable rights and liberties, and urged an immediate attack on General Thomas See also:Gage, that he might be defeated before receiving reinforcements.
End of Article: GADSDEN, CHRISTOPHER (1724-1805)
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