David Ramsay
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David Ramsay (April 2, 1749 – May 8, 1815) was an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina.
He was one of the first major historians of the American Revolutionary War.
He served in the South Carolina legislature until he was captured by the British until the Revolution was fought over by the British.
He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782–1783 and again in 1785–1786.
He served in the state House and Senate until retiring from public service.
He was killed in 1815 by a mentally ill man who Ramsay had examined as a physician.
Early life and family
David Ramsay was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the son of a Scottish immigrant. Nathaniel Ramsey, a congressman and a brother-in-law of painter Charles Willson Peale, was his brother.
He attended Princeton University and graduated in 1765. He earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an honorary degree in 1780 despite being detained by the British. Ramsay landed in Charleston, South Carolina, where he established a large practice as a physician.
Ramsay's first two marriages were short, with one of them ending with his wife's death after one year. Sabina Ellis (b. 1775) married Sabina Ellis (b. 1771). He married Frances Witherspoon (b. 1753) and married him in 1783. (1759): The colony of Georgia (1759). His second wife was the daughter of John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and president of Princeton (then the College of New Jersey).
Martha Laurens (1759–1811), the daughter of Henry Laurens, a wealthy Charleston planter and Revolutionary War statesman who had been president of the Second Continental Congress, died on January 28, 1787. Ramsay also became a South Carolina governor Charles Pinckney, Ralph Izard, John Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, Daniel Huger, and Lewis Morris through his marriage. David and Martha Laurens Ramsay had eleven children, eight of whom lived to adulthood.
