Re: Samuel & Elizabeth Maverick
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Samuel & Elizabeth Maverick
Lou Pistorius 10/02/04
Lou - I know them well.They are my ggggrandparents.Here's a little info.If you need more, lemmeno:
1. Samuel Maverick was born on December 30, 1772 in Charleston, South Carolina.He died on April 28, 1852 in Pendleton, Oconee County, South Carolina.He started his career as a merchant at the age of 10, selling molasses candy.He shipped the first bale of cotton from America to Europe. In the decade between his twentieth and thirtieth birthdays, 1792-1802, he made a fortune importing goods from England, Holland, Germany, Cuba and France.
Telling of his early life, Samuel wrote:"Capt. I. L. Tilden, an old and respected acquaintance of my grandfather, Joseph Turpin, continually came to our house in Tradd Street, Charleston, on his way to Bordeaux in France, and used to return to Charleston to sell his cargos, for he owned ship and cargo, and was a rich man in those days.He, seeing that I was a trading character like himself, tole me that he would carry a venture for me to Bordeaux, and I sent 5 crowns by him the first voige, and afterwards more, and directed him to buy ostrich feathers, ladies' fans and umbrellas, which he did, and I made a handsum profit, - sold them for more than double the cost.There was no duty on importing goods in those days, or very little, and my Uncle William Turpin, which whom I lived as a shop boy, allowed me to sell tar by retail to the waggoners to grease their waggons and in December 1792 i sent an adventure to Bordeaux of 65 French Crowns, but this I lost by the French Revolution,.The merchants' property was confiscated, and on 1 January 1793 I took stock,.I had gained after losses and paying for schooling and clothing 12/0/1, and Wadsworth and Turpin then owed me for nine months wages 25/0/9 so by my own exertion 37/8/1, which is $161.31, fair and square, and I well recollect that I was delighted with the future prospect, and although I have met with sad accidents in trade since, and by loss of stock in the National Bank, yet the idea of independence is the thing by one's own industry, no matter how small or how great; and to trust in the providence of god is a kingdom of itself."
After "some mercantile miscarriage" caused him to close his business,Samuel "withdrew" to the Pendleton District in northwest South Carolina.He called his place Montpelier after his ancestor, Margaret Coyer's, home in southern France.(She was a Huguenot, banned from France.)Montpelier burned down in 184?.
At a public meeting Samuel made a strong speech against the doctrine of nullification espoused by John C. Calhoun.During the speech he was questioned and interrupted in a rude and noisy manner by a young man in the audience, whereupon his son, Samuel Augustus, challenged the heckler to a duel, wounded him slightly, then took him to the Maverick home and cared for him until his recovery.
Samuel was the only child of Samuel and Lydia's who left descendants.
He was married to Elizabeth Anderson (daughter of General Robert Anderson and Anne Thompson) on October 5, 1802 in Pendleton District, South Carolina.Elizabeth Anderson was born on August 27, 1783.She died on September 27, 1818 in Pendleton, Oconee County, South Carolina.Samuel Maverick and Elizabeth Anderson had the following children:
+2 i.Samuel Augustus Maverick (born on July 23, 1803).
3 ii.Ann Caroline Maverick6 was born on March 23, 1805.She died on September 2, 1809 in Boundary Street House, Charleston.She died of yellow fever.
4 iii.Robert Maverick3,6 was born on September 15, 1806.He died on September 15, 1806.6He lived less than a day, victim of his mother's recent fall from a carriage.
+5 iv.Mary Elizabeth Maverick (born on December 23, 1807).
+6 v.Lydia Ann Maverick (born on June 28, 1814).
SOURCES
1.Mary Ann Adams Maverick.Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick.reprinted by University of Nebraska Press in 1989 with introduction by Sandra L. Myres.
2.C. Stanley Banks.NORTH SAN ANTONIO TIMES:reprint of an article.August 12 and 19, 1971.
3.Paula Mitchell Marks.Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas:the story of Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick, #30 Centennial Series.Texas A&M University Press, College Station,1989.
4.R. W. Simpson.History of Old Pendleton District.Bradford Publishing Company, P. O. Box 236, Covington, Tennessee 38019.
5.James Slayden Maverick.Maverick Ancestors.January 1, 1965; April 1, 1969.
6.Frederick C. Chabot.With the Maker of San Antonio:Genealogies of the early Latin, Anglo-American, and German Families.Artes Graficas, San Antonio, Texas, copyright 1937.
7.Mary Maverick Genealogical Circle, compiled by Robert Fortune, Genealogist.
8.Pennsylvania Vital Records.Page 473 of Vol. II:A Registry of marriages performed by James Power, DD, of Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland.