Recess Plantation – Beaufort County

Basic Information

• Location – St. Peter's Parish, Beaufort County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1907 – Claude W. Kress purchased several plantations including Recess. His holdings would be called Buckfield Plantation (Northern Money, Southern Land, p. 181).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Claude W. Kress, Allen S. Izard

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• ?

Print Resources

• 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
  

• 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)