Eveleigh, Nicholas

Nicholas Eveleigh (c. 1748 - 1791) was born in Charleston, but moved to England in 1755, where he grew up and attended school there and later in Edinburgh. He returned to America in 1774, when he joined the Second South Carolina Regiment and attained rank of colonel and deputy adjutant general of South Carolina and Georgia in 1778. He retired within a month to focus on agricultural pursuits. He went on to serve in the South Carolina Assembly, the Confederation Congress, and the South Carolina state legislative council. In September 1789, George Washington named him first comptroller of the U.S. Treasury. He remained in the position until his death in Philadelphia in 1791. It is not sure how he and William Short first met, but it appears they had a cordial relationship, with Short expressing his regard for Eveleigh's family.