Henry William DeSaussure (1763–1839)
DeSaussure and Bushrod Washington, both Federalists, exchanged letters over the War of 1812, the Hartford Convention, the New York Bar, and other matters.
Henry William DeSaussure was born on 16 August 1763 at Pocotaligo, Beaufort District, South Carolina. As a sixteen-year-old, he defended Charleston during the Revolutionary War. The British captured and imprisoned DeSaussure before exiling him to Philadelphia, where he studied law and gained admittance to the Pennsylvania Bar. In 1785 he returned to South Carolina, married Elizabeth Ford (1767–1821), and opened a legal practice.
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Kevin M. Gannon, "DeSaussure, Henry William (August 16, 1763–March 26, 1839)," South Carolina Encyclopedia.
DeSaussure Family Papers, 1716–1938, The South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston.
"To James Madison from Henry William DeSaussure, 1 September 1804," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-08-02-0002. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 8, 1 September 1804 – 31 January 1805 and supplement 1776 – 23 June 1804, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, Anne Mandeville Colony, Angela Kreider, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Wendy Ellen Perry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, pp. 2–4.]
"Former Directors of the United States Mint," United States Mint.
Henry William DeSaussure at Charleston.gov.
Henry William DeSaussure at Find a Grave.
Henry William de Saussure at FamilySearch.