Brig. General Richard Richardson, Sr.

  Notes and Events:

• Note. Few men played a more important part in the provincial history of South Carolina. He was repeatedly a member of Assembly, a delegate to the Provincial Congress of Jan 1775, a member of the Legislative Council in Mar 1776, etc.; he was Colonel of the militia as early as 1757; was in the Cherokee wars of 1760 and 1761, in command of a regiment, was in command of the militia and regulars in the famous "Snow campaign" against the Tories at Ninety-Six, in the winter of 1775; assisted at the defeat of the British fleet at Charleston, in June 1776, and commanded the State militia at Purrysburg, in Dec. 1778, having been appointed Brigadier General 25 Mar 1778. At the surrender of Charleston in 1780 he was taken prisoner and paroled. Later Cornwallis offered him titles and offices under the Crown, or close confinement, he chose the latter and he was imprisoned. His health failing, he was sent home and soon died.