Thomas Heyward Jr.

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Thomas Heyward Jr. (July 28, 1746 – March 6, 1809) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a delegate of South Carolina. He was born in St. Luke's Parish (now known as Jasper County), South Carolina, and educated at home before heading to England to study law, where he served as a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775 and the following year signed the Declaration of Independence. Heyward returned to South Carolina in 1778 to serve as a judge.

During the siege of Charleston, he was taken prisoner by the British.

After the war, he continued to serve as a judge, retiring from the bench in 1798. He is buried in Old House Plantation near Ridgeland, South Carolina's Old House Plantation.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 in Ridgeland, South Carolina. Thomas Heyward Academy is named after him.

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Life

Heyward was born in St. Luke's Parish (now known as Jasper County), South Carolina, and the son of Mary (Miles) and Daniel Heyward. He was educated at home and then went to England to study law, where he was a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1775 and in the year after he was the last delegate to sign the Declaration of Independence.

In 1778, Heyward returned to South Carolina to serve as a judge. He presided over a trial in which several people were suspected of treason; they were found and executed within view of the British borders. During the siege of Charleston, he was arrested by the British and was in charge of a militia force. British troops took him from his Charleston home (now owned by the Charleston Museum) on 87 Church Street and arrested him in the Old Exchange Building on August 27, 1780. All of his slaves were confiscated, and although he later regained some of them, 130 were permanently confiscated and relocated to sugar plantations in Jamaica, a loss of $50,000 per person. It was during this slave run that culminated in him being named by the newspaper as a martyr of the revolution. Hours after being arrested, he and 28 other "ringleaders of the rebellion" were relocated to a guard ship in the harbor. They were taken to St. Augustine, Florida, and remained there for about 11 months before being released in a prisoner swap. Heyward converted a common English song, "God Save the King," into "God Save the Country" while in jail.

He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1784. After the war, he continued to serve as a judge, retiring from the bench in 1798. He is buried in Old House Plantation near Ridgeland, South Carolina. In 1997, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

A group affiliated with the White Citizen's Council founded Thomas Heyward Academy in Ridgeland, South Carolina, in 1970, when the Supreme Court ordered that public schools be integrated.

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