Colonel Joseph Glover (1719-1783) was a planter, assemblyman, vestryman, and soldier. Though born in North Carolina, he lived most of his life in St Bartholomew’s Parish, which would later become Colleton County, South Carolina.
During the French and Indian War, he was the Colonel of the Round O militia, and then of the Colleton County Regiment of militia. Prior to the Revolution, he and his family left the malarial Lowcountry each summer, sailing to healthy Rhode Island. Colonel Glover owned a three-mast ship for these journeys.
As the American Revolution began, the Council of Safety continued his rank and position as Colonel of the Colleton County Regiment of Foot. He was appointed Senior Officer in charge of munitions west of the Edisto River. He is said to have altered his sailing ship to a ship of war. Later the ship was dismantled and sunk in the channel of the Charles Town harbor on March 8, 1780, to help prevent the British fleet from entry. His Regiment of Foot served faithfully through those times that tried men’s souls.
In 1781, Colonel Glover was elected as a representative from St. Bartholomew’s Parish to the new South Carolina Legislature. At the War’s conclusion, Colonel Glover retired to his recent purchase, Grove Hall, near Goose Creek, where he died on August 4, 1783.
New description donated by Dr. David Hiott – 2014