Friends Neck Plantation – Camden – Kershaw County

Basic Information

• Location – South of Camden, Wateree River, Kershaw County

• Origin of name – This area was named for one of the many necks formed by the curves in the Wateree River. It was settled in 1750 by Irish Quakers (2, XI: 2) (3, p. 168)
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1774 – Aaron Loocock owned the plantation and asked Joshua [Inglish] English to manage it. English owned nearby Waterees Plantation while Loocock had his main holdings in the Goose Creek area (1, p. 97).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Paulette Forman from:
   Thomas J. Kirkland and Robert MacMillan Kennedy, Historic Camden, Part One: Colonial and Revolutionary (Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1905)
    Order Historic Camden, Part One: Colonial and Revolutionary

2. 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
   

3. Nancy Capace, Encyclopedia of South Carolina (St. Clair Shores, MI: Somerset Publishers, Inc., 2015 - Second Edition)