Chinners Plantation – Pineville – Berkeley County

Basic Information

• Location – On Outside Creek, of the Santee River, near Pineville, Berkeley County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Part of Lifeland Plantation

Timeline

• 1697 – Earliest known date of existence (2) (3)
  

  Thomas Chinners, a french Huguenot and Indian Trader, received a land grant for 200 acres (2) (3).
  

• ? – House built

• 1704-1718 – Thomas Chinners received another grant of 1,233 acres (3).
  

• 1743 – Thomas Chinners died leaving two sons, Abraham and Isaac. Isaac seems to have left the area as he received a land grant in Horry County in 1736. Son Abraham stayed in Berkeley County and seems to have inherited his father's plantation (3).
  

• 1757 – Benjamin Mazyck acquired land from Abraham Chinners that was recorded as "lands t west heretofore of Thomas Chinners" (3).
  

• 1773 – Map of the area shows Chinners Plantation (1, p. 128) (2).
  

• Prior to 1775 – Chinners Plantation was abandoned before the American Revolutionary War (1, p. 205).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 200 in 1697; 1,233 early 1700s (2) (3)
  

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

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

2. Information contributed by descendant Sloane Chinners.
   

3. Chinners Family Tree