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Arthur Middleton, of Charleston, South Carolina, was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. His parents were Henry Middleton and Mary Baker Williams, both of English descent.

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Edward Rutledge was an American politician, and youngest signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th Governor of South Carolina.

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Thomas Heyward Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and of the Articles of Confederation as a representative of South Carolina.

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Thomas Lynch Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina; his father was unable to sign the Declaration of Independence because of illness.

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managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

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those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal

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John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

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declaration of independence or declaration of statehood is an assertion by a defined territory that it is independent and constitutes a state.

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General Meeting in Charlestown on July 6, 1774 they elected five delegates to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia

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Henry Middleton was a planter and public official from South Carolina. A member of the colonial legislature, during the American Revolution he attended the Continental Congress and served as that body's presiding officer for a few days in 1774.

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he Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.

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was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.

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granted a trade monopoly with the East Indies by Queen Elizabeth I

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The Intolerable Acts(also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774

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Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain

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Sons of Liberty was an organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government

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revoke or annul (a law or congressional act)

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boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for social, political, or environmental reasons

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stamp act congress or First congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America

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An indirect tax(such as sales tax, per unit tax, value added tax (VAT), or goods and services tax (GST)) is a tax collected by an intermediary (such as a retail store) from the person who bears the ultimate economic burden of the tax (such as the consumer).

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a tax, such as income tax, that is levied on the income or profits of the person who pays it, rather than on goods or services.

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a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports

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an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents)

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British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market

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Cherokee War, was also known from the Anglo-European perspective as the Cherokee War, the Cherokee Uprising, or the Cherokee Rebellion

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The Seven Years' War was a global conflict fought between 1756 and 1763.

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The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63