1. Baynard: Spanish Wells, Muddy Creek, and Braddock Point
2. Chaplins: Chaplin’s, Marshlands
3. Drayton: Fish Haul, Pine Barrens
4. Elliott. Myrtle Bank, also known as The Point
5. Ficklings: Possum Point, Shipyard
6. Gardner: Gardner’s
7. Graham: Honey Horn
8. Jenkins: Jenkin’s Island
9. Kirk: Cherry Hill
10. Lawton: Caligogue
11. Matthews: Sand Hill, Folly Field
12. Popes: Cotton Hope, Coggins Point, Point Comfort, Leamington, Piney Woods
13. Pineland)
14. Seabrook: Seabrook’s
15. Scott: Grasslawn
16. Stoneys: Fairfield, Shipyard or Brickyard, Otter Hole, Honey Horn
17. Stuart: Stuart, Otter Hole or Otter Hall
18. Wills or Wells: Possibly earlier owners of Possum Point

Sources:

• Burke, Nancy, and Lyman Wooster. Hilton Head Island Antebellum Plantations. Hilton Head Island, SC, The Heritage Library, 2008.
• Holmgren, Virginia C. Hilton Head, a Sea Island Chronicle. Hilton Head Island, Hilton Head Island Publishing Company, 1959.

Plantations in 1863

A notice in The New South on November 6, 1863 announced the sale of these plantations at auction for failure of the owners to pay the direct tax authorized by Congress. While the names are slightly different the list basically coincides with the above list of plantations.

For mor information about each plantation, see our Hilton Head Plantations webpage.