Talk:Thomas Heyward Jr.

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Jacona in topic Category:American slave owners

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The article currently contains a block of unformatted text. It was a cut and paste taken from the web at Colonial Hall. I've provided the link rather than repeat the text. Colonial Hall in turn rekeyed (with some spelling updates) the entry from Goodrich's Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence from 1856.

I am about to delete the block. In general, I've found Goodrich to have a lot of glowing descriptions of personality, but its not always accurate. Then I'll get at least a bit of expansion to the remaining article. Anybody who wants to review the deleted material, please use the link given above. Thanks, Lou I 09:23, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Thomas Heyward, Jr.

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I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Thomas Heyward, Jr.'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "nris":

  • From National Register of Historic Places: "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  • From Richard Henry Lee: "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  • From William Paca: "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  • From Battle of Beaufort: "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT 15:04, 1 June 2014 (UTC)Reply


Taken Prisoner

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This article makes no mention of the fact that he was taken prisoner by the British and taken to St. Augustine Florida and kept there as a prisoner of war. It also makes no mention that his return to South Caroline was due to being rescued by a Florida merchant and smuggled aboard that merchant's ship and that is how he returned to S.C. The article only says that he left S.C and then returned. As soon as I can find a source that Wiki would consider acceptable I will be changing the article unless someone beats me to it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.144.213.97 (talk) 20:38, 24 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

Category:American slave owners

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No mention of slave-owning. I feel that this category should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 14:03, 16 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

The Heyward family was at one time the largest slaveholder in the United States. I think that qualifies as notable. I added a source. Thanks, User:Valetude! Jacona (talk) 14:16, 16 April 2021 (UTC)Reply