John Mccreary (November 4, 1833) was a

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Biography

Early life

John McCreary was born in approximately 1761 near Fishing Creek Lake, about eighteen miles from Chester in the

Province of South Carolina Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies. The monar ...

. He received his schooling from private tutors.

Career

He became a surveyor. He also engaged in agricultural pursuits, and he ran a Southern plantation in South Carolina. Later, he served in the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the

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from 1794 to 1799 and 1802. He was elected as a

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to the Sixteenth Congress, where he served from March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1821. He resumed agricultural pursuits and surveying.

Death

He died on his plantation in South Carolina on November 4, 1833. He was buried in the Richardson Church Cemetery,

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