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Early Land Grants and
Landowners on Wadmalaw Island S.C.
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Compiled by: Jean Epting Blackmon of Roswell, Georgia.
Hard Cover 8.5 x 11 640 pages
with extensive Index.
978-1-934243-02-2. 1-934243-02-7.
Copyright 2007.
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Table_of_Contents
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This book (or compilation of
records) is the result of an effort to identify the 17th and 18th
century land grantees on Wadmalaw Island, S.C. and follow the successive
transfers of their property into the 19th century. Many of the
Wadmalaw plantation owners lived on nearby islands or in Charleston, S.C.,
although others lived directly on Wadmalaw itself. The compiler developed a
fascination about who the early owners were, what happened to them, and
whether each successive owner might (or might not) have been connected by
family relations.
This is a research book and does not read like a novel. The
reader will find himself or herself flipping from one section to another to
obtain a more complete story about a particular grant or family. Plats,
illustrations, and some family charts drawn by the compiler to "keep track of
the story and family lines" are presented in the book in hopes that they will
also be helpful to the reader. At least 200 of these images are included in
the book along with the text.
Jean E. Blackmon is a native of South Carolina and a
graduate of the University of Georgia. Her fascination for family research
developed in the 1980s after relocating to the Atlanta area. Fortunately, a
friend advised her to "follow the land," for that was where many family
histories lay. Indeed, the land records often hold clues about family
relationships that researchers miss if they ignore these valuable resources.
While Jean enjoys the puzzle-solving aspect of her research, she is equally
pleased when other family historians glean a new fact or valuable tidbit from
her discoveries. It is with that spirit that she compiled her latest findings
about the early landowners on Wadmalaw Island, S.C.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my husband Fred Blackmon for his
patience and understanding during the several years I had my head stuck in the
microfilm reader or computer and didn’t hear a word he said. I would also like
to thank him for making copies of records for me, for making sure I got to
Charleston and Columbia to research, and for seeing that I had all the
resources I needed for my research.
I would like to thank my sister Anne Epting for introducing
me to the quiet beauty of Wadmalaw Island and for piquing my interest in the
ancient landowners there. I would also like to thank my brother-in-law Bill
Capehart for his help with various facts and facets of this project.
I greatly appreciate the tireless efforts of, and the
volumes of information found in, the publications of Brent H. Holcomb, Clara
Langley, and Caroline T. Moore. Without their books of abstracted records of
Charleston County, this project would have been impossible!
A special word needs to be said about Mr. John McCrady,
deceased, who collected and saved countless plats throughout his life. Copies
of the plats are now in the possession of the South Carolina Department of
Archives and History, and many of the originals are in the Charleston County
Register of Mesne Conveyances (RMC) office in their Archives room. These plats
are invaluable to untold numbers of researchers!
Susan Bates, Tommy Longshore, and Dr. Carl Nichols are due
special acknowledgement and thanks for the inspiration of using aerial
photographs and for superimposing ancient plats onto modern-day maps as a
teaching tool.
I have greatly appreciated the staff in the copying
department and the main office of the Charleston County RMC for their help
with this project. Bob McIntyre and Nancy Wagner were two of many who were
especially helpful. The staff in the Probate Judge’s office were also very
friendly and kind. The GIS Coordinator for Charleston County, Brenda Wheatley,
could not have been nicer, and I thank her for her cheerful help during my
process of obtaining permission to use portions of the Charleston County Tax
maps in this publication. I am also grateful to Walt Martin, GIS and ITS
Technology Support Director, for his time and efforts in helping me to arrange
the details.
Special thanks are due the staff at the South Carolina
Department of Archives and History for helping me with interesting tidbits of
information to enhance the understanding of the Colonial times. Most notable
were Marion Chandler, Robert McIntosh, Wade Dorsey, Paul Begley, Patrick
McCawley, and Steve Tuttle. It is always a pleasure to research there,
surrounded by such helpful people.
I am forever indebted to Columbia, S.C. genealogist Linda
Smith who has helped me many times by sending records and information from her
resources.
Jean E. Blackmon
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Table of Contents
Map of Early Land Grants on Wadmalaw Island
Map of Several Plantations on Wadmalaw Island
Map of Wadmalaw Island ca. 1715
Miscellaneous Plat of a Portion of Wadmalaw Island, late 1700s –mid 1800s
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Interesting Facts and Terms from the Colonial Period
John Jones’ 200 Acre Grant January 14, 1695
John Jones’ 100 Acre Grant January 14, 1695
James Williams’ 50 Acre Grant May 16-18, 1695
Joseph Blake’s 200 Acre Grant August 13, 1695
The Plat
Thomas Jones’ 300 Acre Grant September 9, 1696
Plat August 6, 1696
John Freer’s 200 Acre Grant January 2, 1697
James Williams’ 200 Acre Grant July 14, 1697
John Morton’s 200 Acre Grant November 1, 1697
John Morton’s Plat February 7, 1699
William Wells’ 200 Acre Grant April 22, 1698
and
William Wells’ 700 Acre Grant May 17, 1701
William Winter’s 200 Acre Grant April 22, 1698
John Bailey’s 48,000 Acre Grant August 16, 1698
Moses Wilson’s 150 Acres from John Bayly October 16 & 17, 1729
Moses Wilson’s 1729 Plat
Mrs. Thomas Fickling’s 1798 Plat (once Wilson’s 1729 grant)
Noah H. Blencoe’s 190 Acres from John Bailey
William Green’s 150 Acre Grant September 16, 1698
Joseph Morton’s 200 Acre Grant August 16, 1698
Robert Seabrook’s 1,800 Acre Grant ca. 1699-1700
Richard Underwood’s 680 Acre Grant January 11, 1700
Richard Underwood’s 290 Acre Grant September 28, 1704
Peter Brown’s Land on Wadmalaw
Joseph Morton’s 2,700 Acre Grant March 29, 1700
The plat of Joseph Morton’s Grant
Peter Porcher’s Land (Part of Morton’s original Grant)
The Plat showing the location of Peter Porcher’s Land
Bonum Sams’ 230 Acre Grant March 29, 1700
Samuel Davis’ 300 Acre Grant August 17, 1700
Samuel Davis’ 120 Acre Grant August 28, 1701
Henry Walker’s 250 Acre Grant August 28, 1701
Joseph Cattel, landowner on Wadmalaw in 1702
Edmund Jarvis’ 220 Acre Grant May 10, 1702
The Allen Tract, 146 Acres
Edmund Jarvis’ 330 Acre Grant May 10, 1702
150 + 80-acre tracts Original Grantee unknown
Fishing Creek
Thomas Manning’s Land
John Hix/Hicks’ 270 Acre Grant May 14, 1707
Samuel Shaddock’s 480 Acre Grant August 27, 1702
James Williams’ 610 Acre Grant August 14, 1702
James Williams’ 100 Acre Grant August 14, 1702
John Stanyarn’s 300 Acre Grant September 18, 1703
Plat containing John Stanyarn’s 1703 Grant
James Williams’ 630 Acre Grant May 4, 1704
The plat
Bonam Sams’ 250 Acre Grant May 5, 1704
Plat, July 10, 1703
William Nash’s 503 Acre Grant May 5, 1704
Henry Walker’s 400 Acre Grant December 15, 1705
Thomas Stanyarn’s 500 Acre Grant December 15, 1705
Thomas Stanyarn’s 500 acre Plat, July 10, 1704
James Yonge / Young’s 400 Acre Grant January 5, 1704/1705
Daniel Nash’s 300 Acre Grant January 12, 1705
Samuel Davis’ 500 Acre Grant January 12, 1705
William Green’s 500 Acre Grant March 14, 1705
William Denham’s 248 Acre Grant September 15, 1705
James Young’s 400 Acre Grant February 5, 1705/6
Richard Freeman’s (unstated acreage) May 14, 1707
William Freeman’s 200 Acre Grant July 13, 1711
William Freeman’s 200 Acre Grant July 23, 1711
Christopher Harrison’s 250 Acre Grant May 14, 1707
John Goble’s 400 Acre Grant May 14, 1707
John Goble’s 400-acre plat
Bonam Sames’ (sic, Sams’) 170 Acre Grant July 23, 1711
Bonam Sames’ (sic, Sams’) 200 Acre Grant July 23, 1711
Thomas Nash’s 166 Acre Grant December 23, 1711
Certificate of Admeasurement
Arthur Hall’s 370 Acre Grant July 23, 1711
Certificate of Admeasurement
Arthur Hall’s 600 Additional Acres at BugbyWilliam Adams’ 400 Acre Grant
(before 1714) on Wadmalaw
James LaRoche’s 48 Acre Grant March 21, 1715
Henry Bowen’s 500 Acre Grant March 5, 1717
Plat to Henry Bowen June 10, 1718
Thomas Ladson’s 205 Acre Grant ca. 1717
Plat
Paul Hamilton’s 1,060 Acre Grant September 30, 1736
Plat
Jonathan Thomas’ 182 Acre Grant July 13, 1737
Plat dated April 15, 1737
Henry Young’s 700 Acre Grant May 24, 1745
Plat 1744|
Bess, the First African American Landowner on Wadmalaw
Jonathan Davies’ 150 Acre Grant November 24, 1764
Peter Hearne’s 500 Acre Grant June 23, 1774
John Laroch’s 100 acre Grant February 5, 1787
James LaRoche’s 220 Acre Grant Feb. 5, 1786-7 and Plat
John LaRoch’s 138 Acre Grant [?] 1786
Isaac Youngblood’s 75 Acre Grant 1787
Bugby Plantation or Bugby’s Hole
Section Two, Wadmalaw Island Landowners
Adams Family. . .Nathaniel Adams [#3]. . .Barnard Adams. . .The Men Named
William Adams. . .Allen Family. . .Bailey Family. . .Battoon Family. . .Bennet
Family. . .Brickett Family. . .Carson Family and Allied Families. . .Christie
Family. . .Clark Family. . .Cole Family. . .Davis Family. . .Dear Family. .
.Dunwoody Family and Thompson Family. . .Fendin Family. . .Ferguson Family. .
.Fickling Family. . .The men named George Fickling. . .Foreshaw Family. .
.Freeman Family. . .Freer Family. . .Green Family. . .Grimball Family
[abbreviated]. . .Hamilton Family. . .Hall Family [abbreviated]. . .Hart
Family. . .Hext Family [abbreviated]. . .Humphreys Family. . .Jarvis Family. .
.Jenkins Family. . .Benjamin Jenkins [#1]. . .Jones Family Land History
(abbreviated). . .Ladson Family. . .LaRoche Family. . .Legare Family. .
.Livingston Family. . .Lowrey Family. . .McCullough Family. . .McDowell
Family. . .McGilvery Family. . .McLeod Family. . .Morton Family and Middleton
Family. . .Nash Family. . .Nisbett Family or Nesbitt Family. . .Patterson
Family. . .Phipps Family. . .Porcher Family. . .Purchell or Purcell Family. .
.Reynolds Family. . .Rippon Family. . .Sams Family. . .Schaffer Family. .
.Seabrook Family [abbreviated]. . .Sealy Family. . .Shaddock Family. . .Smelie
Family. . .Sosnowski Family. . .Stanyarne Family. . .Stiles Family. . .Thomas
Family. . .Todd Family. . .Townsend Family. . .Underwood Family. . .Upham
Family. . .Weatherly Family. . .Wescoat Family. . .Weston Family. . .Whaley
Family. . .Whitridge Family. . .Wilkinson Family. . .Williams Family. .
.Wilson Family. . .Winborn Family. . .Young Family. . .
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Adm/o = administrator (or administratrix) of
b/o = brother of
b-i-l/o = brother in law of
CCDB = Charleston County Deed Book
CCWB = Charleston County Will Book
cous/o = cousin of
DB = Deed Book
D. S. = Deputy Surveyor
Ex/o =Executor (or executrix) of
Honb’l =Honorable
g/d =granddaughter
gd/o =granddaughter of
g/s = grandson
gs/o grandson of
Mem = Memorials
"nee" – used before a surname to indicate that it is the maiden name of a
woman
neph = nephew
neph/o = nephew of
RMC = Register of Mesne Conveyances [Charleston, S.C.]
R of D = Relinquishment of Dower
Rt. Hon = Right Honorable
SCDAH = South Carolina Department of Archives and History
s-i-l/o = son in law of
sis = sister
sis/o = sister of
surviv/o = survivor of
Surv’r = Surveyor
unc/o = uncle of
Vol. = Volume
wid/o = widow of
w/o = wife of
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