Colonel John Laurens
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Col. John Laurens, former aide of Washington and envoy to France, was killed Aug. 27, 1782, near Tar Bluff on Combahee River in one of the last battles of the Revolutionary War and buried temporarily 7 miles east in the Stock family cemetery. "For injured rights he fell and equal laws, the noble victim of a noble cause.
" Erected 1995 by Colleton County Historical Society, replacing a marker originally erected in 1960
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