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Lachlan McIntosh (March 17, 1725 – February 20, 1806) was a Scottish American military and political leader during the American Revolution and the early United States. In a 1777 duel, he fatally shot Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence ten months earlier.
BUTTON GWINNETT, president (the equivalent of governor) of Georgia, was born in Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire, England in about 1735. His education was attained at the King’s School in Gloucester. Around 1762 he immigrated to America, settling first in Savannah, Georgia. In 1765 he moved to St. Catherine’s Island, where he established a plantation. Gwinnett first …
May 12, 2024 · Button Gwinnett (born c. 1735, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died May 16, 1777, St. Catherine’s Island, off Savannah, Ga., U.S.) was an American merchant, patriot, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, known chiefly because his autographs are of extreme rarity and collectors have forced their value to a high figure. (In 2001 one of his 36 autographs sold at public auction for ...
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Button Gwinnett was the son of a Welsh clergyman, the Reverend Samuel Gwinnett, and his English wife Anne. Button was born in Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire in England.
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Button Gwinnett, baptisé le 10 avril 1735 et mort le 19 mai 1777, fut le second signataire de la Déclaration d'indépendance des États-Unis en tant que représentant de la Géorgie.
