Tipseeboo Plantation – Dorchester County

Basic Information

• Location – North side of Ashley River, Dorchester County

• Origin of name – Believed to be a Cusabo word meaning 'Clear Spring' (Rosengarten, p. 102).

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1675-1679 – Earliest known date of existence when Thomas Butler was granted various plots of land along the Ashley River (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 21)

• ? – House built

• 1704 – Richard Butler was given 350 acres by his father Thomas Butler on July 17th (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 21)

• 1714 – Richard received a grant on February 17th for an additional 170 acres (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 21)

• 1747 – Per the will of Richard Butler, the plantation was sold after his death. Dr. William Brisbane purchased Tipseeboo on August 21st (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 22)

• 1769 – Dr. Brisbane and his wife Eunice conveyed the 520 acre property to Stephen Drayton on December 29th (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 22)

• 1771 – On September 10th, the Brisbanes conveyed the plantation to Henry Perronneau (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 22)

• ? – Richard Butler's daughter Mrs. Mary Hyrne purchased back Tipseeboo (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 22)

• 1795 – Before her death, Mary had the property surveyed. The finding was that Tipseeboo contained a total of 885 acres. Mary had it divided into two pieces. The northern half contained 411 acres which she willed to her daughter Sarah Simons, wife of Col. James Simons. The southern section, of 474 acres, was left to her daughter Harriett Baker (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 22)

  Col. Simons took possession of his wife's part of Tipseeboo and added it to 257 acres he had previously purchased, calling the combined property Clear Spring Plantation (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 22-23)

• ? – The northern part of the plantation owned by Harriett Baker would retain the name Tipseeboo and would later belong to her daughter Mary Butler Baker (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 23)

• 1846 – Mary sold the plantation to her brother Richard Bohun Baker who also owned Archdale Hall Plantation (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 23)

• 1863 – Richard Bohun Baker died leaving Tipseeboo to his nephew Henry Hyrne Baker (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 26)

Land

• Number of acres – 350 in 1704, 520 in 1714, 885 in 1795 (South Carolina Historical Magazine, p. 21-22)

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Chronological list – Thomas Butler (1679-1704), Richard Butler (1704-1747), Dr. William and Eunice Brisbane (1747-1769), Stephen and Elizabeth Drayton (1769-1771), Henry Perronneau (1771-?), Mary Butler Hyrne, Sarah Simons and Harriett Baker (1795-?), Mary Butler Baker (?-1846),

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

• South Carolina Historical Magazine, Volume 19

Print Resources

• Legare Walker, Dorchester County (Published by J.W. Parker, 1979)
  

• Theodore Rosengarten and Dale Rosengarten editors, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002)