Fettersea Plantation – Charleston County

Basic Information

• Location – East Bank, Ashley River, Charleston County

  North of Stony Point

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – Feteressa, Feteressa (1, pp. 25, 27)

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1677 – Earliest known date of existence (2)

  Granted to Thomas Rose (2)

• 1791 – Dr. Alexander Barron acquired the plantation (2)

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

• It is believed Dr. Alexander Barron developed a grand garden (Trinkley and Hacker, p. 27).
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Dr. Alexander Barron (1791), Thomas Rose (1677)

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Resources

1. A Context For the Study of Lowcountry Gardens - PDF - Michael Trinkley and Debi Hacker, 2007, for the Chicora Foundation.
   
   
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
    Excerpt from Vol. XV, Winter 1968, Page 49