History of Pocotaligo, (Jasper County) South Carolina United States of America

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Henry William De saussere, jurist, was born in Pocotaligo, S.C., Aug. 16, 1763; son of Daniel De Saussure, a Revolutionary patriot and president of the state senate, 1790-91; and grandson of Henry De Saussure, of an ancient family of Lorraine, France, who immigrated to America in 1730 and settled in South Carolina. Henry William, although but seventeen years of age, volunteered in the siege of Charleston, was captured, confined in the British prisonship for two months and sent to Philadelphia to be exchanged. He remained in that city, studied law under Jared Ingersoll and gained admission to the Philadelphia bar in 1784 and to that of Charleston in 1785. He was a delegate to the South Carolina state constitutional convention in October, 1789, and a member of the legislature in 1791. President Washington appointed him director of the U.S. mint in 1794, and he produced the first gold coin issued by the United States government. He resigned the office in 1795, returned to the practice of law, and in 1808 was elected chancellor of the state of South Carolina. In the twenty years following 1809 he delivered 1314 of the 2888 decrees of the circuit court of equity and the state court of appeals. He resigned in 1838. He published Reports of the Court of Chancery and Courts of Equity in South Carolina from the Revolution till 1813 (4 vols., 1817-19). He died in Charleston, S.C., March 29, 1839.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Pocotaligo, (Jasper County) South Carolina

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