Mary Brewton Motte

1769 - 1838  (69 years)

• Name	Mary Brewton Motte  [1]
  Birth	1769	Georgetown, Scott, Kentucky, United States   [1]
  Gender	Female
  FSID	LVDD-MLB
  Burial	1838	Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States   [1]
  Death	22 Nov 1838	South Carolina, United States   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I46071	footsteps | Brewton, Hayne, Lady Godiva, Charlamagne, Conqueor, Robert Capet II
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	Jacob Motte, II,   b. 15 Oct 1729, Charleston, South Carolina, United States d. 20 Jan 1780, Charleston, South Carolina, United States (Age 50 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Rebecca Brewton,   b. 15 Jun 1737, Charleston, South Carolina, United States d. 10 Jan 1815, Clarendon, South Carolina, United States (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	11 Jun 1758	Charleston, South Carolina, United States
  Family ID	F505	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Algernon Alston, Senator ,   b. 23 Aug 1756, Waccamaw, Georgetown, South Carolina, United States d. 26 Jun 1839, Pawleys Island, Georgetown, South Carolina, United States (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	1791
  Children	+ 1. Rebecca Brewton Alston,   b. 7 Feb 1792, Charleston, South Carolina, United States d. 25 Jan 1853, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F25417	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1769 - Georgetown, Scott, Kentucky, United States Burial - 1838 - Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States Death - 22 Nov 1838 - South Carolina, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Mary Brewton reached 69 years of age and died in South Carolina on November 22, 1838. From Margaret Hayne's book "Items of Family History" written 1902, we find; "In 1791 William Alston married Rebecca Motte's daughter, the lovely Mary Brewton. In 1791 he bought from his mother-in-law the old Brewton home on King street that Miles Brewton had built, where Mary had spent so many happy years of her youth." "This house served as headquarters of Lord Rawdon during Revolutionary times. This historical house passed into the possession of Mrs. Alston's daughter, Mrs. William B. Pringle." "Mary Brewton, wife of Colonel William Alston, and Lucy, wife of Colonel Frank Huger, widely known as one of the liberators of Lafeyette from Olmutz Prison.”

  
  

• Sources

  [S766] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Record for Rebecca Brewton Alston https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1030&h=282500459620&indiv=try [S1] California Birth Index, 1905-1995, accessed 28 Nov 2024), entry for Mary Brewton Motte, person ID LVDD-MLB. (Reliability: 3).