Huger

1775 he was a member of the Provincial Con-
gress, which, after adopting the "Association"
recommended by the Continental Congress, ap-
pointed him as one of a committee to exchange
rice for other commodities during the period of
boycott. He and his brother Daniel were elected
to the Provincial Congress in November 1778,
although his military duties probably prevented
his performing much service in that body. On
June 17, 1775, he had been commissioned lieu-
tenant-colonel of the ist South Carolina Regi-
ment, which the Provincial Congress resolved
to raise after the battle of Lexington. On Sept
16, 1776, he was promoted to be colonel of the
5th Continental Regiment, and on Jan. 9, 1779,
he became brigadier-general of the southern
army. He made an able attempt to defend Geor-
gia from the invasion of Campbell and Prevost
In June 1779 he commanded the left wing at the
battle of Stono Ferry, where he was severely
wounded, but in October of that year was able to
lead the South Carolina and Georgia troops in
an unsuccessful attack on Savannah. During the
siege of Charleston he attempted to cut off Brit-
ish supplies with a party of skirmishers, which
was, however, surprised and routed by Tarleton
at Monks Corner. He then joined Greene's
army, in which he commanded the Virginians at
Guilford Court House, where he was again
wounded, and at the battle of Hobkirk's Hill he
commanded the right wing. At the end of the
war he was sent to the General Assembly of
South Carolina that met in January 1782. In
August 1783 he was elected first vice-president
of the South Carolina branch of the Society of
the Cincinnati. On March 23,1762, he married
Elizabeth Chalmers by whom he had eight chil-
dren.

[Yates Snowden, Hist, of $. C. (1920), vol, I; The
South in the Building of the Nation, vol. XI (1909) I

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(1903), vol. I; David Ramsay, The Hist, of the Revolu-
tion of S. C. (1785), vol. I; Edward McCrady, The Hist,
of S. C. in the Revolution (1901) ; A. E. Hirsch, The
Huguenots of Colonial S. C. (1938) ; Trans. Huguenot
Soc. of S. C., no. 4 (1897); Records of the Probate
Court, Charleston; D. E. H. Smith and A. S. Salley. Jr.,
Reg. of St. Philip's Parish (1927) ; S. C. Hist, and Gen-
eal. Mag., Oct. 1909, Jan. 1911, Apr. 1914; City Gazette
and Daily Advertiser (Charleston), Nov. 2, 1797; W.

G. DeSaussure, The Original Institution of the General
Soc. of the Cincinnati (1880).] J.G.V-D.

HUGER, JOHN (June 5,1744-Jan. 22,1804),
Revolutionary leader, the third son of Daniel
and Mary (Cordes) Huger and the brother of
Isaac Huger [<?,#.], was born at Limerick plan-
tation, S. C. He was probably educated in Eng-
land. In 1760 he served as ensign in the Chero-
kee War and just before the Revolution was a
member of the commons house of the Provincial

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Congress. At the outbreak of the Revolution,
with twelve others, he was chosen a member of
the colonial Council of Safety, which was the
Revolutionary executive government of the col-
ony and was invested with supreme power over
military affairs, including the power "to certify
commissions, to suspend officers, and to order
courts-martial for their trial; and to have the
direction, regulation, maintenance and ordering
of the army, and of all military establishments
and arrangements, and to draw on the treasury
for the demands of the publick service" (Ram-
say, post, I, 38). When the new state constitu-
tion was adopted he became the first secretary
of state. His duties were of the most varied
character. We find him countersigning military
and naval commissions, letting contracts for
building or purchasing frigates, and issuing proc-
lamations against counterfeiters of state and con-
tinental currency (South Carolina Historical and
Genealogical Magazine, Oct. 1908, p. 192). For
some years he served as intendant of the city of
Charleston. He was married twice: first on
Mar. 15, 1767, to Charlotte Motte, daughter of
the treasurer of the province, and, second, to
Mrs. Anne (Broun) Cusack on Jan. n, 1785.
These marriages brought five sons and three
daughters. Of his children the most distinguished
was Alfred (1788-1872), who was a Unionist dur-
ing the Nullification struggle and, afterward, the
postmaster at Charleston for a generation. Like
other members of the Huger family, John Huger
had a good deal of wealth. He was able in his
will to provide a plantation for each of his four
surviving sons, and possessed in addition a
house in Charleston and numerous slaves (Will
Book, D. p. 431, Probate Court),

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(2 vols.j 1785); John Drayton, Memoirs of the Am.
Revolution (2 vols., 1821); 5*, C. Hist, and GeneaL
Mag., Oct, 1903, Oct. 1908, July 1919 ; W. M. Clemens,
N. and S. C. Marriage Records (19*7); A, S, Salley,
Jr., Marriage Notices in the S. C. Gasette (1903); D.
E, H. Smith and A. S. Salley, Jr., Reg. of St. Philip't
Parish. (1927); Trans. Huguenot Soc. of S. C., no. 4
(1897); Records of the Probate Court, Charleston.]

J.G.V-D.

HUGGINS, MILLER JAMES (Apr. 19,
i879-Sept. 25, 1929), professional baseball play-
er, son of James Thomas Huggins and Sarah
(Reid) Huggins, was born and grew up in Cin-
cinnati, Ohio. He was the third child in a family
of four children and the youngest boy. He went
through public school and high school in Cin-
cinnati and entered the University of Cincinnati,
graduating from the law school of that institu-
tion in 1902 and being admitted to the bar at
Columbus, Ohio, the same year.
At an early age he displayed tmusual skin at

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