Basic Information

• Location – Fort Motte, St Matthews Parish, Calhoun County
  

  Located near Fort Motte in the vicinity of Lang Syne Road
  

• Origin of name – Named by Langdon Cheves to remind him of the carefree days of his childhood
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• 1824 – Earliest known date of existence

  Andrew Heatly, an early owner (he may have been the original owner), died and left the estate to his three sisters. One sister, Anne Heatly Lovell, bought out the other two sisters and joined their property with hers.
  

• ? – Joseph and Sophia Heatly Dulles purchased the property.
  

• ? – Langdon Cheves acquired the plantation through marriage to the Dulles' daughter, Mary Elizabeth Dulles.
  

  An 1836 plat shows Cheves as the owner of Lang Syne and Goshen plantations. The combined acreage was 2,703 (Neuffer, bk. 1, vol. 12, p. 45).
  

  It has been said that Langdon Cheves named the plantation Lang Syne because it represented an escape from his arduous duties as Congressman in Washington and President of the United States Bank in Philadelphia and reminded him of his carefree youth (Neuffer, bk. 1, vol. 12, p. 45).
  

• ? – The Peterkin family purchased the plantation.
  

  One of the residents of the plantation was Julia Mood Peterkin. She married William George Peterkin who had inherited the property. Julia Peterkin was a writer of fiction, but she used the residents of the plantation as her characters.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Langdon and Mary Elizabeth Dulles Cheves; Joseph and Sophia Heatly Dulles; Andrew Heatly; Anne Heatly Lovell; William George Peterkin; William Peterkin
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• Daniel Marchant Culler, Orangeburg District 1768-1868 History and Records (Spartanburg, SC: The Reprint Company, 1995), pp. 320-321.
  

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