Gadsden, Christopher

Born: Feb 16, 1723 AD
Died: 1805 AD, at 82 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: General, Patriot, Politician

1723 - Born on the 16th of February at Charleston, South Carolina.

Christopher was sent to school near Bristol, in England.

1741 - Returned to America to go to work in a counting house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1747 - Entered into mercantile ventures on his own account.

1759 - Served as captain of a militia company during the expedition against the Cherokee Indians.

1760 - Elected to the colonial assembly and began a long friction with autocratic Royal Governors.

1765 - The assembly made him one of their delegates to the Stamp Act Congress called to protest the Stamp Act.

Became one of the founders and leaders of the Charleston Sons of Liberty.

1774-1776 - South Carolina delegate to Continental Congress.

1775 - Risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the militia.

- Colonel of the 1st South Carolina regiment of militia.

1776 - South Carolina President John Rutledge named him a Brigadier General in charge of the state's military.

- Creator and eponym of Gadsden flag 1776 (bearing rattlesnake and motto "Don't tread on me", presented to South Carolina Provincial Congress 1776).

1778 - Member of the South Carolina convention that drafted a new state constitution.

- Named the Lieutenant Governor, to replace Henry Laurens who was away at the Continental Congress.

1781 - Elected South Carolina Governor but declined the post.

1805 - He died from an accidental fall on 15th of September in Charleston, and is buried there in St. Phillip's Churchyard.

Page last updated: 2:49pm, 12^th Dec '06

	The writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805 by Christopher Gadsden (Unknown Binding - Jul 5, 1966)
	The New Haven area and the municipal income tax (Working paper - Yale University, Center for the Study of the City and its Environment) by Christopher Gadsden (Unknown Binding - Jul 5, 1973)
	In memoriam: Tributes to the memory of the Rev. C.P. Gadsden, late rector of St. Luke's church, Charleston, S.C by James Habersham Elliott (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970)
	A discourse,: Delivered at the request of the American revolution society, before that society, and the state Society of the Cincinnati, on the death of ... Americana from Sabin's Dictionary ... ]) by Nathaniel Bowen (Unknown Binding - Jul 5, 2008)
	A discourse on the decease of the Right Reverend Christopher Edwards Gadsden: Preached in St. Philip's Church, Charleston by John Barnwell Campbell (Unknown Binding - Jul 5, 2008)
	A sermon, preached at St. Philip's Church, August 21, 1825, by Christopher Edwards Gadsden (Unknown Binding - Jul 5, 2008)