Amsterdam Plantation – Combahee River – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Cuckolds Creek, a branch of the Combahee River, St. Bartholomew's Parish, ACE Basin, Colleton County

• Origin of name – Nathaniel Heyward gave Dutch names to several of his plantations after visiting Holland.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1760 – Earliest known date of existence

  Part of royal grant to Daniel Heyward

• No house built – The plantation consisted of working fields only. Charles Heyward made his home at Rose Hill Plantation.
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Rice

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Gignilliant, Charles Heyward, Daniel Heyward, Duncan Clinch Heyward, Edward Barnwell Heyward, Nathaniel Heyward, Thomas Heyward, Mills
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995), pp. 9-12.
   Order Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860