Beaufort County, South Carolina African Americans

United States South Carolina  Beaufort County  African Americans


 * From 1800 to 1868 this Beaufort County was also known by the alias of Beaufort District.
 * Not to be confused with the overarching Beaufort District 1768-1800.

County in South Carolina.

United States African Americans South Carolina African Americans


 * Beaufort, S.C. Slave Manifests (Outbound) (National Archives at Atlanta)
 * Davis, John Martin. "Bankless in Beaufort: A Reexamination of the 1873 Failure of the Freedmans Savings Branch at Beaufort, South Carolina," The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 104, No. 1 (Jan., 2003), 25-55. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Heinegg, Paul. "'Other Free' Heads of Household in the 1790 South Carolina Census, by County," Free African Americans.com. [Includes free blacks in Beaufort District.]

For a local white minister's perspective of slaves 15 years before the Civil War broke out, see:


 * Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution: In a Correspondence Between the Rev. Richard Fuller of Beaufort, S.C., and the Rev. Francis Wayland of Providence, R.I. New York: Lewis Colby, 1845. Digital version at Google Books.

Known plantations South Carolina Plantations:


 * Alexandria - Yemassee
 * Ann Fripp
 * Ann Perryclear
 * Ash
 * Ashdale
 * Auldbrass - Yemassee


 * Baker Cherry Hill - Port Royal
 * Baker Place
 * Barnwell - also called Belfair
 * Barnwell's Island
 * Battery Creek
 * Battery - Port Royal
 * Beech Hill
 * Belfair - also called Barnwell
 * Bell Place - Port Royal
 * Ben Chaplin Place
 * Benjie's Point
 * Bermuda - St Helena Island
 * Bethel Retreat
 * Big Island - Lady's Island
 * Bindon - Yemassee
 * Blandford
 * Bloody Point - Daufuskie Island
 * Blue House
 * Blue Mud
 * Bluff
 * Bluff Farm
 * Boggy Gut
 * Bolan Hall
 * Bolus Point
 * Bonny Hall - Yemassee
 * Braddock's Point - Hilton Head Island
 * Branford
 * Brays Island - Brays Island
 * Brewton - Yemassee
 * Brewton Hall
 * Briars
 * Brickyard - Beaufort
 * Brickyard Point - Beaufort
 * Broad Creek
 * Buckfield - Yemassee
 * Burlington
 * Button Hill - Port Royal


 * Calibogia - Hilton Head Island
 * Campbell Pino Land
 * Campbell's Place
 * Caper's Island
 * Capers Place - Lady's Island
 * Castle Hill
 * Cedar Grove
 * Chaplin - Hilton Head Island
 * Cheeha
 * Cherry Hill - St Helena Island
 * Chisolm - Wiggins
 * Clarendon - Grays Hill
 * Clay Hall
 * Club House - Port Royal
 * Clydeside
 * Coffin Point - St Helena Island
 * Coggins Point - Hilton Head Island
 * Colleton Neck
 * Combahee
 * Conyers - Hilton Head Island
 * Cooper River
 * Coosaw - Chisolm Island
 * Coosaw Island
 * Corn Island - St Helena Island
 * Corner Farm
 * Cottage
 * Cotton Grove
 * Cotton Hall - Yemassee
 * Cotton Hope - Hilton Head
 * Cotton River
 * Croft Place
 * Cypress Vale


 * Daniel Pope Place
 * Dataw - Dataw Island
 * Dathaw Inlet
 * Dathaw Point
 * DeSaussure
 * Delta
 * Devil's Elbow Barony - Bluffton - also called Oketee Barony
 * Distant Island
 * Doctors
 * Dr. Jenkins Place - St Helena Island


 * Eddings Point
 * Eden
 * Edgerly
 * Edward Capers Place
 * Edward Cuthbert Place
 * Eigleberger
 * Elliott Place No
 * Ellis Cherry Hill
 * Ellis Place
 * Eustis - Lady's Island


 * Fairfield - Hilton Head Island
 * Fairlawn
 * Farm
 * Feliciana - St Helena Island
 * Fendon Place
 * Ferguson
 * Ferry
 * Fickling
 * Fickton
 * Fife
 * Fish Haul - Hilton Head Island
 * Foot Point - Spring Island
 * Frank Pritchard Place
 * Fripp - St Helena Island
 * Fripp Island - St Helena Island
 * Fripp's Point Place
 * Frogmore - St Helena Island
 * Fuller Hermitage
 * Fuller Place
 * Fyler


 * Gabriel Capers Place
 * Garden's
 * Good Hope
 * Gowrie
 * Grasslawn - Hilton Head Island
 * Gray Hill
 * Green Point
 * Grove Hall


 * Habersham Place
 * Haigs Point - Daufuskie Island
 * Halfway House
 * Hamilton Fripp
 * Hammock
 * Hampden Hall
 * Hap Hazzard
 * Harbor Island
 * Hayfield
 * Hazell Farm
 * Helenaville
 * Henry Fuller
 * Henry McTurens Place - St Helena Island
 * Henry Stuart Place - St Helena Island
 * Hermitage - St Helena Island
 * Heyward Hall
 * Hobonny - Yemassee
 * Hog Bluff - Spring Island
 * Home Place - Hilton Head Island
 * Homestead
 * Honey Horn - Hilton Head Island
 * Hope Place
 * Hunting Island
 * Huspah - Sheldon


 * Indian Hill
 * Indigo - Okatie - also called Oldfield, Wigg's Bluff
 * Ingleside
 * Inlet
 * Inverary
 * Isaac Fripp
 * Island


 * James Chaplin Place
 * James Fripp Place
 * Jenkins
 * Jenkins Island - Hilton Head Island
 * Jenkins Pine Land
 * Jericho
 * Joe Johnson Place
 * John F. Chaplin Place
 * John Fripp Big House
 * John Johnson Place


 * Lands End - St Helena Island
 * Laurel Bay - Port Royal
 * Laurel Hill - St Helena Island
 * Lawrence Fripp
 * Leamington - Hilton Head Island
 * Little Baynard
 * Littlewood Point
 * Lloyd Field
 * Lonesome Hill
 * Longwood Place
 * Lucy Point


 * Magnolia
 * Marabuoy - Hilton Head Island
 * Marion Chaplin Place
 * Marshlands - Hilton Head Island
 * Martinangele
 * Mary Field - Daufuskie Island
 * Mary Jenkins - St Helena Island
 * Mary's Island
 * Mathews
 * McTureus
 * Means
 * Melrose - Daufuskie Island
 * Middleton Stuart Place
 * Mistle Grove
 * Moreland
 * Morgan Island
 * Moss Creek
 * Mount Alexander - Yemassee
 * Mount Pleasant - Yemassee
 * Muddy Creek - Hilton Head Island
 * Mulberry Grove
 * Mulberry Hill
 * Murkle Bush
 * Myrtle Bank - Hilton Head Island
 * Myrtle Bush - Port Royal
 * Myrtle Grove - Sheldon


 * Nemours
 * New Point - White Hall
 * New Port
 * New River Rice
 * Newberry
 * Newburg - Daufuskie Island
 * Nieuport


 * Oak Mulligan
 * Oak Point
 * Oakland
 * Oaklawn
 * Oakridge and Ackleburger
 * Oaks - Frogmore
 * Ocean
 * Ocean Landing
 * Octagon
 * Oglethorpe
 * Oketee Barony - Bluffton - also called Devil's Elbow Barony
 * Old Brass - Yemassee
 * Old Combahee - Yemassee
 * Oldfield - Okatie - also called Indigo, Wigg's Bluff
 * Old Fort - Beaufort
 * Old House
 * Oliver Fripp Place
 * Orange Grove - St Helena Island
 * Orangeburg
 * Osward Place
 * Otahletee
 * Otterburn


 * Palmetto Hill
 * Palmetto Island
 * Palmyra
 * Parsonage
 * Paul Chaplin Place
 * Pennyworth Island
 * Perryclear Point - Port Royal
 * Perry Place
 * Phillip's Island
 * Pickpocket Tract
 * Pigeon Point
 * Pinckney Retreat - Beaufort - also called Retreat
 * Pinckney's Island
 * Pine Barren
 * Pine Island - Frogmore
 * Pineland
 * Pineland Place
 * Pineland Tract
 * Pleasant Hill - Yemassee
 * Point
 * Point Comfort - Hilton Head Island
 * Point Place
 * Polawana
 * Polly's Grove
 * Pope
 * Poplar Grove
 * Porter Place
 * Possum Point
 * Pritchard Island
 * Pritchard Place
 * Proctor


 * Recess
 * Red House
 * Rephaim - Bluffton
 * Republican Hall - Hilton Head Island
 * Rest Park - Hilton Head Island
 * Retreat - Beaufort - also called Pinckney Retreat
 * Rhett Place
 * Rice Hope
 * Rice Park
 * Richfield
 * Riverside
 * Road
 * Robert Ellis
 * Robert Fuller Place
 * Rose Hill - Bluffton
 * Rumwell Place
 * Rythewood Pine Land


 * Salem
 * Sams Pine Place
 * Sand Hill - Hilton Head Island
 * Sara Ellis Place
 * Scott Place
 * Sea Pines - Hilton Head Island
 * Seabrook - Hilton Head Island
 * Seaside - St Helena Island
 * Sheldon Hall
 * Shell Point
 * Shipyard
 * Skull Creek - Hilton Head Island
 * Spanish Wells - Hilton Head Island
 * Spotsylvania
 * Spring Hill
 * Spring Island
 * Springfield - Hilton Head Island
 * St Quintal
 * Stoney Baynard - Hilton Head Island
 * Stoney Crest
 * Store
 * Strawberry Hill
 * Street
 * Swamp Place


 * Talbird Place
 * Tar Bluff
 * Thomas B. Chaplin Place
 * Thompson Place
 * Ticton
 * Tipperary - Bluffton
 * Tom Baynard Place
 * Tombee - St Helena Island
 * Tommy John - Gardens Corner
 * Tomotley - Sheldon
 * Trimblestone
 * True Blue - Keans Neck
 * Turkey Hill
 * Twickenham - Yemassee
 * Two Oaks - Hilton Head Island


 * Vernezobie
 * Village Farm


 * Wallace Place
 * Walnut Hill - Hilton Head Island
 * Wassaw Island
 * Westocken
 * Whitehall - Lady's Island
 * Wigg Place
 * Wigg's Bluff - Okatie - also called Indigo, Oldfield
 * William Barnwell - Port Royal
 * William Perryclear Place - Port Royal
 * Williams Place
 * Winterdale
 * Woodlands - St Helena Island
 * Woodlawn
 * Woodstock - Port Royal
 * Woodward - Port Royal Island
 * Wrightfield