Field's Point Plantation – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Combahee River, St Bartholomew Parish Colleton District, Colleton County

• Origin of name – Named for the Field family which owned the plantation (2, Vol. X11: 12)
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

• Prior to 1790 – John Cato Field acquired the plantation (3, p. 63).
  

• 1800s – After being widowed for the third time, Isabella Caroline Field, Jenkins, Chaplin, Field, Baker moved her sons to Field's Point Plantation which she had inherited from her father John Cato Field (3, p. 63).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Covel, Field, Pratt

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

References & Resources

1. 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
   

2. Lucius G. Fishburne, Plantation Notes, St. Bartholomew's Parish, 1960, held by the South Carolina Historical Society
   

3. Information contributed by Barbee Moore from:
   Theodore Rosengarten, Tombe: Portrait of a Cotton Planter. With the Plantation Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890) (New York, NY: William Morrow, 1986)