Barnard Elliott (abt. 1740 - 1778)

Born about 1740 in Province of South Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Bellinger Elliott — married 27 Apr 1766 in Province of South Carolina

Husband of Susannah (Smith) Elliott — married Jan 1776 in Charleston, South Carolina

Descendants

Died 25 Oct 1778 at about age 38 in Charleston District, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Barnard Elliott was a South Carolina colonist.

Lieutenant-colonel Barnard Elliott served with 4th South Carolina Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Barnard Elliott was the son of Barnard Elliott, planter, Province of South Carolina, and Elizabeth Boisgard. A minor when his father died in 1758, he inherited a plantation at Horse Savannah in Colleton County, and in 1768 he expanded his holdings by purchasing Bellevue Plantation in St. Bartholomew's Parish. He also owned two tracts on the frontier of the province.^[1]

He was educated in England and upon his return married Mary Bellinger Elliott, daughter of Thomas Law Elliott and Mary Bellinger on 27 April 1766.^[2] After his wife's death in 1774 he then married Susannah Smith, daughter of Benjamin Smith and Ann Loughton in January 1776.^[3] They had one son, Barnard Elliott Jr.^[1]

Barnard represented Prince William Parish in the Commons House of Assembly in 1769-1771. He was appointed to the Royal Council on 1 May 1771 by the king; he resigned on 10 May 1775. He subsequently served in the First Provincial Congress from Saxe Gotha in 1775 and the General Assembly for St. Philip and St. Michael's Parish in 1776-1778.^[1]

In June 1775 he was a captain in Colonel William Moultrie's Second South Carolina Regiment and led a recruiting campaign in the backcountry. ^[4]When the Fourth Regiment (Artillery) of the South Carolina Line was created, he was elected major 2 Nov 1775. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 25 October 1776 and on 8 July 1777 was given command of Fort Johnson in Charleston Harbor.^[1]

Barnard died 25 Oct 1778 and was interred two days later in St Philip's Church with full military honors. In the funeral cortege were members of the Second Regiment carrying the silk regimental flags which Susannah Smith Elliott had made for the unit, officials of the state government, and representatives of the Masons of which he had been provincial grand master 1777-1778.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Edgar, Walter B. and N. Louise Bailey. Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Volume II: the Commons House of Assembly 1692-1775 (1977), pp. 217-19
2. ↑ Webber, Mabel L., "Records from the Elliott-Rowand Bible. Accompanied by an Account of the First Thomas Elliott and of Some of His Descendants" The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 1910), p. 59 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575259?seq=3
3. ↑ “Records Kept by Colonel Isaac Hayne (Continued).” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 11, no. 3 (1910): 160 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575274.
4. ↑ Elliott, Bernard, and Joseph W. Barnwell. “Bernard Elliott’s Recruiting Journal 1775.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 17, no. 3 (1916): 95–100. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569395.

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