Distillery Plantation – Mount Pleasant – Charleston County

Basic Information

• Location – Mount Pleasant, Christ Church Parish, Charleston County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• 1775 – A mortgage was issued for Distillery Plantation. It seems Allaro Belin took out a mortgage on the plantation with Alexander Rose (1).
  

• 1792 – Alexander Rose sued Allaro Belin. The dispute seems to stem from Allaro Belin never properly filling the mortgage documents and then trying to sell the plantation without the knowledge of Alexander Rose. Rose further asks the court to find in his favor so he can be left in "in peaceable enjoyment of the premises, Distillery Plantation" (1).
  

• ? – John Torrans co-owned the plantation with Alexander Rose (2).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 20; names can be found on:
  Image of original document | Transcript - both open as PDF (2)
  

References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Albert N Balzano from the following documents:
   1 | 2 | 3 | 4 - all open as PDF
   

2. Information and the following documents contributed by Margaret Seidler, whose fifth great-grandfather, John Torrans, co-owned the plantation:
   – Brent H. Holcomb, abstractor, South Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1776-1783 (Columbia, SC: SCMAR, 1993), page 24
   – Letter from John Torrans to Alexander Rose listing the names of 20 slaves: Image of original document | Transcript - both open as PDF