page_title: Rawlins Lowndes
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Rawlins Lowndes / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs. Rawlins Lowndes (Sarah Jones) (1756/57–1801) Title: Mrs. Rawlins Lowndes (Sarah Jones) (1756/57–1801) Date: circa 1773 Artist: Jeremiah Theus Dimensions: 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm) Frame: 30 3/4 x 24 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (78.1 x 62.2 x 5.7 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina and Joseph Garnier Object Number: 70.54.1
context_page_description: Rawlins Lowndes was an American lawyer, planter and politician who became involved in the patriot cause after election to South Carolina's legislature, although he opposed independence from Great Britain. Lowndes served as president/governor of South Carolina during the American Revolutionary War, and after the war opposed his state's ratification of the U.S. Constitution because it would restrict the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Lowndes also served as a state legislator and mayor of Charleston before his death. Two of his sons, Thomas and William Lowndes, would serve in the U.S. Congress.
context_section_description: Rawlins Lowndes himself married three times. His first marriage, on August 15, 1748, was to Amarintihia Elliott, daughter of Thomas Elliot of Rantoules plantation on the Stono River, but she died in January 1750. Lowndes next married Mary Cartwight of Charleston on December 23, 1751, and they had ten children, several of which died as children. His sons Thomas (b. 1766) and William (b. 1782) would both follow their father's careers as lawyers, legislators and planters. Three daughters lived to marry and two had children: Amarintha Lowndes Sanders Champney, Harriett Lowndes Brown and Sarah-Ruth Lowndes Brown. Rawlins Lowndes' final marriage was to Sarah Jones, the mother of William Jones Lowndes; the widow only survived her husband by months, dying in a carriage accident while riding with her son, who survived.
caption: Sarah Jones Lowndes, portrait by Jeremiah Theus
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