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| battles = | battles_label = | awards = | relations = | laterwork = | signature = }} Percival Drayton (25 August 1812—4 August 1865) was a career United States Navy officer who served during the American Civil War. He commanded naval forces against Confederate forts defended by his brother Thomas F. Drayton in the capture of Port Royal, South Carolina in 1861. He died after the war in Washington, DC. ==Biography== Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Percival Drayton was the son of Anna Gadsden and William Drayton, a prominent lawyer and US Representative. He had an older brother Thomas F. Drayton. In 1833 the family relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania following the Nullification Crisis, as William Drayton was a unionist. He was appointed as president of the Second Bank of the United States. Thomas, already grown, stayed in South Carolina. William Drayton was a descendant of what had been a large landholding family in South Carolina. In the 1770s, his father William Drayton Sr had sold his property in South Carolina to his uncle John Drayton, after being appointed in the 1770s as chief justice of the Province of East Florida.〔("Drayton Family Papers" ), including correspondence from 1783–1896, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, accessed 1 May 2012〕 John Drayton's branch consolidated the holdings at Magnolia Plantation. After the American Revolutionary War, William Drayton, Sr. returned to South Carolina with his family and became prominent in its politics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Percival Drayton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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