 while serving as a company commander in the military. His doctors ordered him to seek a cure in the West Indies, and on the voyage, he and his young bride were drowned at sea. Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, and Thomas Hayward Jr., the other three South Carolina signers, were taken by the British in the seas of Charleston. They were carried as prisoners of war to St. Augustine, Florida, where they were singled out for indignities.