Tomotley Plantation - Sheldon Beaufort County South Carolina SC - Tomotley Barony


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Tomotley Plantation – Sheldon – Beaufort County

Tomotley Plantation Avenue of Oaks - Beaufort County, South Carolina SC
Tomotley Plantation – Christmas Day, 2005
Photograph courtesy of Lisa & Scott Rance

Basic Information
  • Location – Sheldon, Prince William Parish, Beaufort County

    Cotton Hall Road, 1½ miles northeast of US 17 (entrance on right side of Cotton Hall Road close to intersection of Old Sheldon Road)

  • Origin of name –

  • Other names – Part of Tomotley Barony

  • Current status – Privately owned

Timeline
  • May 7, 1698 – Earliest known date of existence

    Created by patent

  • 1706 – Captain Edmund Bellinger, the original owner, died.

  • 1739 – Edmund Bellinger's grandson (also named Edmund) died. Tomotley Barony was then divided among 14 different family members and other heirs.

  • 1820 – Avenue of oaks planted by Patience Wise Blackett Izard.

  • 1865 – Sherman's troops burned the original plantation house.

  • 1910 – R.H. McCurdy constructed the existing house.

Land
  • Number of acres – 1,400 in 1864

  • Primary crop – Cotton and rice

  • The avenue of oaks was planted by Patience Wise Blackett Izard circa 1820.

Owners
  • Chronological order – Bellinger, DeVeaux, Izard, Eustis, Bull, Pringle, Hutson, Martin, Havenmeyer, McCurdy, Pringle, Billy and Barbara Mixon (1990)

Slaves
  • Number of slaves – 56 in 1761; 68 in 1788; 138 in 1860

Buildings
Web Resources
Print Resources
  • Initial references: 1, 4, 8, 23

  • Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin – 1860 (Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 583-587.

Contact Information
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