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

• Telephone:

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