John Auchincloss Inglis

John Auchincloss Inglis was born about 1813, in Baltimore, Maryland.  He married Charlotte Laura Prince (born about 1811 in South Carolina, daughter of Lawrence Prince and Charlotte Benton).  They were the parents of six children: William Cowper Inglis; John A. Inglis, Jr.; Lawrence Charles Inglis, who married Meta McIver; James Henry Inglis; John H. Inglis; and Laura Prince Inglis.

Before 1845, he relocated to Cheraw in Chesterfield District, South Carolina.  There he was ordained an Elder in the Presbyterian Church and was Principal of the Cheraw Academy.  He shared an office with fellow lawyer Judge Henry McIver at one time on Front Street. 

He was one of the three Delegates from Chesterfield County to attend the South Carolina Secession Convention and was the Chairman of the committee who adopted the Ordinance and submitted it for the approval on his fellow Delegates.  During the war, Chancellor Inglis served four years in the Confederate government of a Junior Associate Justice of the State Court of Appeals.   

When Sherman and the U.S. troops were in Chesterfield County, because of their belief that he authored the Ordinance (which he denied) a Bounty of $10,000 was placed on him dead or alive.  He had fled with his daughter before the arrival of the Union Army which left General Sherman so angry he sent his men to burn down the Inglis family summer house located about one miles south of Cheraw. 

In 1868, Inglis returned to Baltimore, Maryland where he died in 1878.