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About Rebecca Motte portrayed by Chris Weatherhead
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Rebecca Brewton Motte was raised in a wealthy family in Charleston and, along with her brother, Miles Brewton, became a passionate patriot by 1770. She and her husband, Jacob Motte (descended from Huguenots), began courageously supplying the newly gathered Continental army in 1775. Rebecca continued to do so after Jacob died early in 1780, even cleverly hiding her daughters in the attic from British officers during their occupation of her Charleston home following the invasion of Charleston on May 12 of that year. Later in 1780 the British allowed her to move to her other home on the Congaree River which, ironically, the Redcoats seized also, calling it Fort Motte. In 1781, Francis Marion (the Swamp Fox), Henry “Lighthorse Harry” Lee and Patriot forces arrived to fight. The enterprising Rebecca offered surprising tools to destroy the British garrison and force surrender of her occupied country home. She emerged as one of South Carolina’s bravest, most undaunted and wittiest individuals.