Marriage and Family
About 1804 William Drayton married Anna Gadsden (d. 1814), a cousin once removed. They had four children:
- Emma Gadsden (c.1804 -1840)
- Thomas Fenwick (1809-1891); married Catherine Pope of Edisto.
- Percival (1812-1865), became a career US Naval officer
- William Sidney (b. c.1814-1860), became a naval officer and shipping businessman.
After Anna's death, in 1817 Drayton married Maria Heyward. Two of their five children survived to adulthood. Maria Heyward Drayton was also close to her young stepchildren.:
- William Heyward, became a lawyer in Philadelphia.
- Henry Edward, became a doctor in Philadelphia. The two younger Drayton brothers married the sisters Harriet and Sarah Coleman, respectively.
Thomas Drayton, a West Point graduate, stayed in South Carolina when the family moved north and bought a plantation at Hilton Head. He resigned from the US Army to join Confederate forces after secession. He and his brother Percival "commanded opposing forces" in the battle of Port Royal, South Carolina, when Union forces captured the forts.
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