David Ramsay
Born April 2, 1749Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaDied May 8, 1815Charleston, South Carolina
Physician, politician, historian
"[American colonists believed that] all government w...
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David Ramsay (1749-1815) was a second-line political figure of the American Revolution but a first-rate and most important contemporary historian of that epoch.David Ramsay was born in Pennsylvania on...
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David Ramsay was the premier historical interpreter of the American Revolution to the generation that lived through it and the first post-Revolutionary historian of South Carolina. His ambition was to...
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