Ralph Izard

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard, 1775

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Izard
Portrait by John Singleton Copley, 1775

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Ralph Izard, 1793

QUICK FACTS
BORN:
23 January 1741/42 at The Elms family estate near Charleston, South Carolina
  DIED:
30 May 1804 at The Elms
  • Buried in the churchyard of St. James Goose Creek Episcopal Church, outside of Charleston, South Carolina.
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Portrait to come. See entry in Wikipedia.

 

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Continental Congress
Financier
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South Carolina

But with the British army evacuated [from Philadelphia in 1778] and the Patriots now in charge, Philadelphia Loyalists were doubly vulnerable to censure and punishment for siding with the Crown and for having consorted with the enemy. The Philadelphia Assembly Appointed [Charles Willson] Peale and four others to be Commissioners of Forfeited Estates, and for that the commissioners would receive a 5 percent commission. Peale’s group had extraordinary power to interrogate suspected traitors, break into houses, remove property, and sell off estates. Writs were issued to seize 118 estates ...

— Paul Staiti
Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painter’s Eyes (2016)