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url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barnwell_(senator)
name: John Barnwell
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John Barnwell (July 15, 1748 – August 27, 1800) was a soldier and public
official from South Carolina. He was the son of Nathaniel Barnwell and Mary
Gibbes. During the American Revolution, he served in the South Carolina
Provincial Congress (1775–1776) and the first South Carolina General Assembly
(1776). As a major in the South Carolina militia during the American
Revolutionary War, he was captured at Charlestown in 1780 and was later
released in a prisoner exchange. He was appointed a general in the South
Carolina militia after the war.