Arthur Middleton
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Arthur Middleton was a Founding Father of the United States, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a representative from South Carolina in the Second Continental Congress.
Portrait by Benjamin West, 1771
The tomb of Arthur Middleton at Middleton Place
Edward Rutledge
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Edward Rutledge was an American Founding Father and politician who signed the Continental Association and was the youngest signatory of the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th gov
Arthur Middleton
…in the defense of Charleston. After the city's fall to the British in 1780, he was sent as a prisoner of war to St. Augustine, Florida (along with Edward Rutledge and Thomas Heyward Jr.), until exchanged in July the following year. Middleton died on January 1, 1787, at age 44 and was buried in the family tomb in…
1791 oil painting of Rutledge by James Earl
Rutledge is standing on the far right in John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence.
The Edward Rutledge House in Charleston