Andrew DEVEAUX, IV^{[1, 2]}

1758 - 1812  (54 years)

• Name	Andrew DEVEAUX
  Suffix	IV
  Birth	30 Apr 1758
  Gender	Male
  HIST	Deveaux, Andrew, IV April 30, 1758–July 11, 1812 Deveaux and his Loyalist partisans are believed to have been responsible for burning the Prince William Parish church at Sheldon in April 1779. Deveaux was commissioned as a major in the South Carolina Loyalist militia known as the “Royal Foresters” and served the British army occupying South Carolina for the next three years. Loyalist. Deveaux was born in Beaufort on April 30, 1758. His father was Andrew Deveaux III, a wealthy planter and cattleman on Port Royal Island, and his mother was Catherine Barnwell, a granddaughter of “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell. His father was prominent in local politics as a member of the St. Helena’s Parish vestry and as commissioner to build the first Beaufort District courthouse in 1769. He was also a well-known Loyalist who was among the delegation of Beaufort men who encouraged Governor Charles Montagu to move the colonial capital from Charleston to Beaufort in 1772. With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775, Andrew Deveaux III was subjected to insults and harassment by the local patriot sympathizers. This prompted Andrew Deveaux IV to form a body of Loyalist ruffians, who disrupted patriot meetings in Beaufort whenever possible. This local rivalry continued for several years until the arrival of British troops from Savannah on Port Royal Island in February 1779. Deveaux assisted the British landing and joined the invading army. Deveaux and his Loyalist partisans are believed to have been responsible for burning the Prince William Parish church at Sheldon in April 1779. Deveaux was commissioned as a major in the South Carolina Loyalist militia known as the “Royal Foresters” and served the British army occupying South Carolina for the next three years. He was second in command of the Loyalist garrison at Fort Balfour in Beaufort District in 1781. In 1782 he was among the British occupation garrison in Charleston. He led several daring and successful waterborne raids among the Sea Islands and actually occupied Beaufort for two weeks in March 1782. When the British evacuated Charleston in December 1782, Deveaux, now a lieutenant colonel, left with them. His father’s estates were confiscated, and most of his family became refugees in St. Augustine, Florida. In 1783 Deveaux raised a small army of volunteers from the Carolina Loyalist refugees in Florida and outfitted six small-armed vessels at his own expense. With this little fleet he sailed to Nassau, Bahamas, which was then occupied by seven hundred Spanish soldiers from Cuba. Nassau had been captured from the British in 1782 by a combined American and Spanish fleet. Deveaux successfully blockaded the harbor and by daring maneuvers forced the surrender of superior Spanish forces. By this conquest Deveaux was made de facto governor of the Bahamas from April to September 1783. By the terms of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the Bahama Islands remained part of the British Empire and southern Loyalists were given large grants of Bahamian lands. The Bahamian Loyalists took over the politics of the colony, populated the islands with their slaves, and began growing a crop later known in America as Sea Island cotton. Deveaux traveled to London, where he was awarded half-pay as a lieutenant colonel in the British army for his service to the crown. He then moved to New York, where he married a wealthy heiress, Anna Maria Verplanck. They settled at Red Hook, Duchess County, New York. Deveaux died in New York City on July 11, 1812, as a result of injuries sustained in a fall from a balcony. Rowland, Lawrence S., Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers. The History of Beaufort County. Vol. 1, 1514–1861. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. Saunders, Gail. Bahamian Loyalists and Their Slaves. London: Macmillan, 1983. –––. Slavery in the Bahamas, 1648–1838. Nassau: D. G. Saunders, 1985. Siebert, Wilbur H. Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785: The Most Important Documents Pertaining Thereto, Edited with an Accompanying Narrative. 2 vols. DeLand: Florida State Historical Society, 1929. Written by Lawrence S. Rowland Citation Information The following information is provided for citations. Title Deveaux, Andrew, IV Coverage April 30, 1758–July 11, 1812 Author Lawrence S. Rowland Keywords Loyalist, form a body of Loyalist ruffians, “Royal Foresters”, Sea Islands, de facto governor of the Bahamas, Sea Island cotton Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies URL https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/deveaux-andrew-iv/ Access Date March 13, 2023 Original Published Date May 17, 2016 Date of Last Update July 21, 2022 I hope the following article is about this Andrew DeVeaux IV- the time line fits. If not then the following article isn’t about this Andrew DeVeaux IV. jkh This month in S.C. History Feb. 3, 1779: The Battle of Port Royal Island "The Plan of Port Royal" from a 1776 map by John Gascoigne. This map is part of the collections of the South Carolina Historical Society. PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE S.C. HISTORICAL SOCIETY Posted Saturday, February 25, 2023 6:00 am BY THE S.C. HISTORICAL SOCIETY After the British took Savannah, Georgia, in December 1778, they decided to establish a base to the north, on Port Royal Island, South Carolina. They hoped this action would enable them to cut the supply line of the American troops commanded by Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, who were stationed at Purrysburg. Port Royal Island was defended by a small garrison of roughly 20 men stationed at Fort Lyttleton who were commanded by Capt. John DeTreville. British Gen. Augustine Prevost sent British Maj. James Gardiner with about 200 men from Savannah to Hilton Head Island. The British soldiers were transported on the HMS Vigilant, an unseaworthy ship that was used as a floating battery and towed by men in longboats. In the first volume of "The History of Beaufort County," the authors point out that passage of such a large ship through the backwaters would have required the knowledge of someone familiar with the area. They suggest that Andrew DeVeaux IV, who defected to the British after the fall of Savannah, assisted the British as they sailed to Hilton Head and on up the Broad River to Port Royal Island. They anchored near the plantation of Gen. Stephen Bull, and Gardiner sent Capt. Patrick Murray to scout the island while the British ships bombarded the plantations along the river. Murray and his men set fire to several properties, including buildings owned by Thomas Heyward Jr. Because of his concern that Fort Lyttleton might fall to the British, Capt. DeTreville ordered the fort's cannons spiked and the bastion blown up on Jan. 31. He was unaware that on that same day, Gen. William Moultrie arrived at the Port Royal Ferry with about 300 men. Moultrie's artillery units were commanded by Thomas Heyward Jr. and Edward Rutledge. The following day the troops moved into Beaufort. On Feb. 2, Heyward and Col. Bernard Beekman were sent to defend the northern side of the town. As they took their positions, Gardiner and his men landed at DeVeaux's plantation. From there, British scouts moved toward the Beaufort Ferry, where they had a brief skirmish with the Beaufort Militia. They then attacked Stephen Bull's plantation and burned the buildings. Once his scouts discovered the presence of Moultrie's troops in Beaufort, Gardiner turned his forces to advance. On Feb. 3, Moultrie learned of the British action from the previous day. He marched his troops out of town, joining with the detachments of Col. Beekman and Capt. Heyward. The small forces met on top of Gray's Hill, where the British occupied a tree line and the Americans were positioned in an open field. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the British advanced with fixed bayonets. Moultrie's artillery fired and forced the British to retreat, but they regrouped and exchanged fire for about 45 minutes. Both sides were low on ammunition, and Gardiner ordered a retreat. As the British fell back, Capt. John Barnwell's cavalry captured 26 men, but the British defended themselves and took all but eight back. Both sides lost seven men in the conflict, and, with the destruction of Fort Lyttleton by the patriots, the battle did not advance the American effort significantly. However, it did boost morale as reports of the victory spread throughout the colonies, and it also deterred the British as they sought a route to capture Charleston.  [1, 2]
  HIST	Deveaux, Andrew, IV April 30, 1758–July 11, 1812 Deveaux and his Loyalist partisans are believed to have been responsible for burning the Prince William Parish church at Sheldon in April 1779. Deveaux was commissioned as a major in the South Carolina Loyalist militia known as the “Royal Foresters” and served the British army occupying South Carolina for the next three years. Loyalist. Deveaux was born in Beaufort on April 30, 1758. His father was Andrew Deveaux III, a wealthy planter and cattleman on Port Royal Island, and his mother was Catherine Barnwell, a granddaughter of “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell. His father was prominent in local politics as a member of the St. Helena’s Parish vestry and as commissioner to build the first Beaufort District courthouse in 1769. He was also a well-known Loyalist who was among the delegation of Beaufort men who encouraged Governor Charles Montagu to move the colonial capital from Charleston to Beaufort in 1772. With the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775, Andrew Deveaux III was subjected to insults and harassment by the local patriot sympathizers. This prompted Andrew Deveaux IV to form a body of Loyalist ruffians, who disrupted patriot meetings in Beaufort whenever possible. This local rivalry continued for several years until the arrival of British troops from Savannah on Port Royal Island in February 1779. Deveaux assisted the British landing and joined the invading army. Deveaux and his Loyalist partisans are believed to have been responsible for burning the Prince William Parish church at Sheldon in April 1779. Deveaux was commissioned as a major in the South Carolina Loyalist militia known as the “Royal Foresters” and served the British army occupying South Carolina for the next three years. He was second in command of the Loyalist garrison at Fort Balfour in Beaufort District in 1781. In 1782 he was among the British occupation garrison in Charleston. He led several daring and successful waterborne raids among the Sea Islands and actually occupied Beaufort for two weeks in March 1782. When the British evacuated Charleston in December 1782, Deveaux, now a lieutenant colonel, left with them. His father’s estates were confiscated, and most of his family became refugees in St. Augustine, Florida. In 1783 Deveaux raised a small army of volunteers from the Carolina Loyalist refugees in Florida and outfitted six small-armed vessels at his own expense. With this little fleet he sailed to Nassau, Bahamas, which was then occupied by seven hundred Spanish soldiers from Cuba. Nassau had been captured from the British in 1782 by a combined American and Spanish fleet. Deveaux successfully blockaded the harbor and by daring maneuvers forced the surrender of superior Spanish forces. By this conquest Deveaux was made de facto governor of the Bahamas from April to September 1783. By the terms of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the Bahama Islands remained part of the British Empire and southern Loyalists were given large grants of Bahamian lands. The Bahamian Loyalists took over the politics of the colony, populated the islands with their slaves, and began growing a crop later known in America as Sea Island cotton. Deveaux traveled to London, where he was awarded half-pay as a lieutenant colonel in the British army for his service to the crown. He then moved to New York, where he married a wealthy heiress, Anna Maria Verplanck. They settled at Red Hook, Duchess County, New York. Deveaux died in New York City on July 11, 1812, as a result of injuries sustained in a fall from a balcony. Rowland, Lawrence S., Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers. The History of Beaufort County. Vol. 1, 1514–1861. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. Saunders, Gail. Bahamian Loyalists and Their Slaves. London: Macmillan, 1983. –––. Slavery in the Bahamas, 1648–1838. Nassau: D. G. Saunders, 1985. Siebert, Wilbur H. Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785: The Most Important Documents Pertaining Thereto, Edited with an Accompanying Narrative. 2 vols. DeLand: Florida State Historical Society, 1929. Written by Lawrence S. Rowland Citation Information The following information is provided for citations. Title Deveaux, Andrew, IV Coverage April 30, 1758–July 11, 1812 Author Lawrence S. Rowland Keywords Loyalist, form a body of Loyalist ruffians, “Royal Foresters”, Sea Islands, de facto governor of the Bahamas, Sea Island cotton Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies URL https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/deveaux-andrew-iv/ Access Date March 13, 2023 Original Published Date May 17, 2016 Date of Last Update July 21, 2022 I hope the following article is about this Andrew DeVeaux IV- the time line fits. If not then the following article isn’t about this Andrew DeVeaux IV. jkh This month in S.C. History Feb. 3, 1779: The Battle of Port Royal Island "The Plan of Port Royal" from a 1776 map by John Gascoigne. This map is part of the collections of the South Carolina Historical Society. PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE S.C. HISTORICAL SOCIETY Posted Saturday, February 25, 2023 6:00 am BY THE S.C. HISTORICAL SOCIETY After the British took Savannah, Georgia, in December 1778, they decided to establish a base to the north, on Port Royal Island, South Carolina. They hoped this action would enable them to cut the supply line of the American troops commanded by Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, who were stationed at Purrysburg. Port Royal Island was defended by a small garrison of roughly 20 men stationed at Fort Lyttleton who were commanded by Capt. John DeTreville. British Gen. Augustine Prevost sent British Maj. James Gardiner with about 200 men from Savannah to Hilton Head Island. The British soldiers were transported on the HMS Vigilant, an unseaworthy ship that was used as a floating battery and towed by men in longboats. In the first volume of "The History of Beaufort County," the authors point out that passage of such a large ship through the backwaters would have required the knowledge of someone familiar with the area. They suggest that Andrew DeVeaux IV, who defected to the British after the fall of Savannah, assisted the British as they sailed to Hilton Head and on up the Broad River to Port Royal Island. They anchored near the plantation of Gen. Stephen Bull, and Gardiner sent Capt. Patrick Murray to scout the island while the British ships bombarded the plantations along the river. Murray and his men set fire to several properties, including buildings owned by Thomas Heyward Jr. Because of his concern that Fort Lyttleton might fall to the British, Capt. DeTreville ordered the fort's cannons spiked and the bastion blown up on Jan. 31. He was unaware that on that same day, Gen. William Moultrie arrived at the Port Royal Ferry with about 300 men. Moultrie's artillery units were commanded by Thomas Heyward Jr. and Edward Rutledge. The following day the troops moved into Beaufort. On Feb. 2, Heyward and Col. Bernard Beekman were sent to defend the northern side of the town. As they took their positions, Gardiner and his men landed at DeVeaux's plantation. From there, British scouts moved toward the Beaufort Ferry, where they had a brief skirmish with the Beaufort Militia. They then attacked Stephen Bull's plantation and burned the buildings. Once his scouts discovered the presence of Moultrie's troops in Beaufort, Gardiner turned his forces to advance. On Feb. 3, Moultrie learned of the British action from the previous day. He marched his troops out of town, joining with the detachments of Col. Beekman and Capt. Heyward. The small forces met on top of Gray's Hill, where the British occupied a tree line and the Americans were positioned in an open field. At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the British advanced with fixed bayonets. Moultrie's artillery fired and forced the British to retreat, but they regrouped and exchanged fire for about 45 minutes. Both sides were low on ammunition, and Gardiner ordered a retreat. As the British fell back, Capt. John Barnwell's cavalry captured 26 men, but the British defended themselves and took all but eight back. Both sides lost seven men in the conflict, and, with the destruction of Fort Lyttleton by the patriots, the battle did not advance the American effort significantly. However, it did boost morale as reports of the victory spread throughout the colonies, and it also deterred the British as they sought a route to capture Charleston.
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  Death	11 Jul 1812  [2]
  Person ID	I279134	Singleton and Related Families
  Last Modified	12 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Andrew DEVEAUX, III,   b. 10 Nov 1736   d. 1824 (Age 87 years)
  Mother	Catherine BARNWELL,   b. 3 Jul 1740
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  [S30707] This Month in S.C. - Feb.3, 1779: The Battle of Port Royal Island. [S30708] .