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 | | William Lowndes was known through the length and breadth of Great Britain as "Ways and Means Lowndes." He married first, in 1677, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Roger Harsnett and, by her, who died in 1680, had a son, (1) Robert Lowndes, baptized in 1678 at Winslow. |
 | | Rawlins Lowndes, was chosen a member of the Committee of Safety, and when South Carolina declared her independence of the Crown, Mr.Lowndes, who had been one of a committee of eleven to devise a plan of government, was chosen a member of the legislative council. |
 | | William Lowndes of SC, who at the time of his death was the nominee of his native state for the office of President of the United States, was born February 11, 1782, on the Horseshoe Plantation, St. Bartholomew's parish, Colleton, S.C., and died at sea October 27, 1822. |
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