Basic Information

• Location – Western branch of the Cooper River, Moncks Corner, St. John's Berkeley Parish, Berkeley County

  Located on Old US 52 on Exeter Plantation Road
  

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Berkeley Country Club and subdivisions
  

Timeline

• 1678 – Earliest known date of existence

  Sir Peter Colleton received a land grant of 12,000 acres. The property became known as the Fairlawn Barony.
  

• 1726 – A tract of land from the Barony, known as Exeter, was leased to Hugh Butler by Sir John Colleton (son of Sir Peter).

• 1726-1738 – House was built

  Hugh Butler built a house on Exeter. The house did not belong to him since he built on leased lands.
  

• 1767 – Sir John Colleton (grandson of Sir John) sold 988 acres known as Exeter to Mary Broughton.
  

• 1842 – T.O. Dawson owned the plantation
  

• 1902 – Mr. J.S. Jones, Sr. bought the plantation
  

Land

• Number of acres – 12,000 in 1678; 988 in 1767

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Mary Broughton (1767), Hugh Butler (1726), Sir John Colleton (1726), Sir Peter Colleton (1678), Dawson, Graves, Charles A. Jones. J.S. Jones Sr. (1902), J. W. Jones, Mazyck, Morris, M. J. Motte, Simons
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• Exeter Plantation: Butler and Colleton Families: Click Here

Print Resources

• J. Russell Cross, Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1985)
   Order Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley

• 30-15 Plantation File, held by the South Carolina Historical Society

• Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
   Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
   Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
  

• John Beaufain Irving, A Day on Cooper River (1842) (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010)
  
  

• Samuel Gaillard Stoney, Plantations of the Carolina Low Country (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1990)
  
  

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995)
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860