Basic Information

• Location – Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County

• Origin of name –

• Other names –

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1798 – Earliest known date of existence

  Thomas Webb married Lydia Davant on January 18. They chose to make their home on Lot 22 of Bayley's Barony and called it Marshlands Plantation (Neuffer, bk. 3, vol. 19, p. 44).
  

• 1814 – House built

• 1816 – Thomas Webb died. His wife and son, Samuel, continued to operate the plantation (Neuffer, bk. 3, vol. 19, p. 44).
  

• 1820 – Around this time, William Fripp Chaplin purchased Marshlands from the Estate of Thomas Webb. The plantation included 400 acres which he added to his other plantation known as Chaplin (Neuffer, bk. 3, vol. 19, p. 38).
  

• 1864/65 – All of William Fripp Chaplin's plantations were confiscated and given to ex-slaves (Neuffer, bk. 3, vol. 19, p. 44).
  

• 1940 – House restored

Land

• Number of acres – 400 in 1820

• Primary crop –

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Brantley; Brisbane; William Fripp Chaplin; Davant; Harvey; Thomas Webb
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

Web Resources

Print Resources

• Initial references: 1, 49

• Claude Henry Neuffer (editor), Names in South Carolina, 1943-1983 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company).
  

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