2022-11 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/18/2022
DeSaussure, Wilmot Gibbes (1822-1886) was in command of the state troops that took possession of Fort Moultrie when Maj. Anderson evacuated it in December 1860, as lieutenant colonel was in command of the artillery on Morris Island during the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April 1861, and was treasurer, and subsequently adjutant and inspector general, of South Carolina. He was president of the state society of the Cincinnati, the St. Andrews society, the Charleston library society, the St. Cecilia society, and the Huguenot society of South Carolina. Document Signed as witness, "Wilmot G. DeSaussure", on State of South Carolina land transfer document, 15" x 20" whereby Lewis Trapmann buys "a piece of land with two story wooden House ... on Charleston Neck..." for Ten thousand dollars, from Ann Creighton, March 17, 1841. The DeSaussure signature is in the lower left margin. Document has clean fold splits.
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