Founding Mothers' Day recognizes SC women's contributions to Revolutionary War • SC Daily Gazette

Founding Mothers' Day recognizes SC women's contributions to Revolutionary War • SC Daily Gazette

Retired Gen. Will Grimsley, chairman of the SC250 commission, speaks in front of a stone showing where Rebecca Motte's home once stood on Monday, May 12, 2025. (Photo by Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)FORT MOTTE — When Patriots told Rebecca Brewton Motte on May 12, 1781, they needed to set fire to her house, which British soldiers had turned into a supply depot, she gave them the arrows to do so, historian Peggy Pickett told about two dozen histo…