A wealthy ship owner and merchant who built a home at 64 South Battery, Charleston, in 1772, William Gibbes was the son of William and Alice Culcheth Gibbes. He was a member of the first and second Provincial Congresses, and a South Carolina state legislator. A member of the Committee of Five in the Council of Safety at the start of the Revolutionary War, he was also a member of the Committee of Secret Service which gathered war information. His family was evicted from their house when the British captured Charleston in 1780.
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This text is adapted from Martha Severens "The Miniature Portrait Collection of the Carolina Art Association" published by the Carolina Art Association, 1984
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