McTureous Plantation – Beaufort County

Basic Information

• Location – Beaufort County

• Origin of name – Name of original owner

• Other names – McTureus Plantation

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – Thomas Aston Coffin, as manager of his father's estate on behalf of the siblings, purchased McTureous to expand the family's holdings which, at the time, also included Coffin Point Plantation and Cherry Hill Plantation.
  

• 1861 – The Coffins abandoned all their Beaufort County holdings when they left the area fleeing the advancing Union troops.
  

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – 200 acres when Coffin family purchased

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Coffin family (?-1861), McTureous

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

References & Resources

1. News & Courier Newspaper (predecessor to the Charleston Post & Courier) February 26, 1933 issue reprint of Free South April 4, 1863 listing of St. Helena Island plantation sales prior to the Civil War
   

2. Rupert Sargent Holland, editor, Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne: Written From the Sea Islands of South Carolina (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library, 2009)
    Order Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne: Written From the Sea Islands of South Carolina
   

3. Robert B. Cuthbert and Stephen G. Hoffius, editors, Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin (Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2009)
    Order Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin