Midway Plantation – Wedgefield – Sumter County

Basic Information

• Location – Wedgefield, St. Mark's Parish, Sumter County

  SC 261

• Origin of name – Named so because it was midway between the older place, Woodlawn Plantation, owned by Mr. Orlando Rees, and Oakley Plantation, the home of Mr. William Rees.
  

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• ? – House built

  Was occupied by J. J. Pringle Smith of Charleston during whose occupancy it was destroyed accidently by fire.
  

• 1754 – Matthew Singleton owned the plantation this year, the year his son John Singleton was born (American Revolution Roster).
  

• ? – Major John Singleton (b. 1754, d. 1820) grew indigo, cotton, and peanuts as well as bred and raced horses on Midway (American Revolution Roster).
  

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – Indigo, cotton, and peanuts by John Singleton (American Revolution Roster)
  

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Broun, Mayrant, Orlando Rees, Waites W. Rees, William Rees, Matthew Singleton (1754), Major John Singleton, J. J. Pringle Smith
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Elmer O. Parker, American Revolution Roster, Fort Sullivan (later Fort Moultrie), 1776-1780 (Fort Sullivan Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1976)
   Order American Revolution Roster, Fort Sullivan (later Fort Moultrie), 1776-1780

• 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
  

• Cassie Nicholes, Historical Sketches of Sumter County Volume II (Sumter, SC: Sumter County Historical Commission 1981)
  
  

• Thomas Sebastian Sumter, Stateburg and its People (Sumter, SC: Sumter Printing Company, 1949)
   Order Stateburg and its People