Col. Miles Brewton (1731-1775)
Merchant & Slave Trader of Charleston; Member of the Commons & Council of Safety
He made an opportune marriage and went on to own eight ships, becoming South Carolina's largest slave trader & with it one of its wealthiest men. By the time of the Revolutionary War, he owned several plantations (growing rice & indigo), including Mount Joseph in today's Calhoun County. He was elected a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress. In August, 1775, while traveling with his family in that capacity to Philadelphia, their ship went down and they were all drowned at sea.
