Locksley Hall Plantation, Charleston County, South Carolina

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Edisto Island, Charleston, South Carolina
Surnames/tags: Edings Slavery Black_Heritage

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Contents 1 Background 1.1 Plantation Owners 1.2 Slaves 1.3 Freedmen 2 Sources

Background

Locksley Hall Plantation^[1][2] is located on the southwest edge of Edisto Island, Charleston County South Carolina. Today Locksley Hall Plantation is called Seaside Plantation. ^{[3] [4]}

The plantation began with a grant of land to the immigrant William Eddings who came from Scotland to South Carolina about 1692.^[5] The property began as 4 properties gained in the very early 1700's.^[6] The Edings family gained more property from Henry Bower of Edisto Island in 1707.^[7] The Edings family property would in the future be known as Locksley Hall Plantation.^[5]

In 1783 Benjamin Edings gave all his property on Edisto Island as a gift to his two sons William and Joseph Edings.^[8][9] In 1802 Benjamin's son William purchased additional acres^[10] enlarging Locksley Hall Plantation. At his death William left his property to his son John Evans Edings Sr. However William's brother, Joseph Edings, seems to have ended up with the plantation instead, possibly due to the death of William's son John Evans Edings Sr. William Edings, the son of his brother Joseph Edings, died in 1858. The property again changed hands, this time to John Evans Edings Jr.

After the Civil War, in 1867, John Evans Edings Jr. applied to have his land returned to him. In the Freedmen's Bureau application it was called Edingsville. Edings rented acres of planting land to 33 freed men and women, requiring a fixed quantity of seed cotton and corn from each acre planted by the freedmen.^[11]

Plantation Owners

• William Eddings (d.1712)
• William Edings (d.1756)
• William Edings (d.1767)
• Benjamin Edings (d.1784)
• William Edings (1766-1836)
• John Evans Edings Sr. (d.1839/40?
• William Edings (1809-1858) - son of Joseph Edings^[12]
• John Evans Edings Jr. (1832-1883)

Slaves

For more information please see the following pages for each slave owner:

• Slaves of William Edings 1756
• Slaves of William Edings 1767
• Slaves of Benjamin Edings 1784
• Slaves of William Edings 1836
• Slaves of John Evans Edings 1842
• Slaves of William Edings 1858

Freedmen

The following Free persons are listed as having a rental contract with J. Evans Edings Jr on his Seaside Place (Seaside Plantation) property Feb1867 to Jan 1868. It is unknown how they are related or if they were enslaved on the property of John Evans Edings before the war.^[13]

• Primus Morrison
• Roger Taylor
• Ned Wilkinson (No 1)
• John Kelly
• Jacob Watson
• Chloe Johnson
• Domo? Brown
• Ned Wilkinson (No 2)
• Paddy Johnson
• Sey Jenkins
• Caesar Cyrus
• Prince Weston
• Jacob White
• Peter Brown
• Prince Singleton
• Adam Mack
• George Nelson (No 1)
• George Nelson (No 2)
• Will Williams
• Thos Wilkinson
• Rachel White
• Washington Ranger
• Jeffrey Buncombe
• Alfred Smith
• Robert Seabrook
• Charles Williams
• April Fraser
• Major Wilkinson
• Tony Geddees
• Rosannah Robertson
• Joseph Wilkinson
• Martha Johnson & daughter

Free man, Thomas Beckett, is listed as having a rental contract with J. Evans Edings Jr on his Seabrook Place (Seabrook Landing) property Feb1867 to Jan 1868.^[14]

The following Free persons are listed as having a contract with J. Evans Edings on one of his Edisto Island properties (unspecified property):^[15] The name of Thomas Beckett is on this list as it was on the above list, making this list most likely a contract for labor on the Seabrook Place.

• Dick Bowman
• Wm Wright
• Hector King
• Ned Wright
• Cain Myzek
• Andrew Mitchell
• Peter McMason?
• Ratcliff Pinckney
• Spencer Mitchell
• Miley White
• Bella Sanders
• John Lawrence
• Thomas Becket
• Sam Beering

The following Free persons are listed as living on J. Evans Edings Brick House property in 1866. There were 17 valid and 6 invalid "Possessory Titles" for this property. The note states that no contract has been made on this place and the people have not waived their rights to the land under their Possessory Titles.^[16]

• Tony Getters, came on the land Feb 1865
• Wrenty Gordon, came on the land Feb 1865
• William Howard, came on the land Mar 1865
• April Edings, came on the land Feb 1865
• Clarinda Edings, came on the land Feb 1865
• Princess Morrison, came on the land Jan 1865
• Rachel White, came on the land Feb 1865
• Cyrus Jenkins, came on the land Feb 1865
• Ned Wilcoxon, came on the land Apr 1865
• Jacob White, came on the land Mar 1865
• Sil Edings, came on the land Mar 1865
• Peter Brown, came on the land Mar 1865
• Jeffrey Buncomb, came on the land Jan 1865
• Adam Mack, came on the land Mar 1865
• Dick Richards, came on the land Jan 1865
• Major Gadson, came on the land Mar 1865
• Sancho Edings, came on the land Mar 1865

Sources

1. ↑ https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/439099fb-4f5c-49ea-b9b4-6245a604072f
2. ↑ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Eerie_South_Carolina/5keACQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Locksley+Hall+Plantation+South+Carolina&pg=PT56&printsec=frontcover
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaside_Plantation_House
4. ↑ http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/charleston/S10817710115/index.htm
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Edings of Edisto Island, by William Garnett Chisolm, Leesburg, VA, compiled between 1941-1955 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5802c4d9414fb5e45ce4dc44/t/5cf29a4129215a0001e11d7a/1559403082510/Pope+Family+8.pdf
   • p.1-2/img 2-3
6. ↑ Memorials of seventeenth and eighteenth century South Carolina land titles and index to auditor general memorials, 1731-1775: "Memorials of seventeenth and eighteenth century South Carolina land titles and index to auditor general memorials, 1731-1775"
   Catalog: Memorials of seventeenth and eighteenth century South Carolina land titles and index to auditor general memorials, 1731-1775 Memorial books, v. 3-4
   Film number: 008621904 > image 304 of 1183
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C34L-L9C4 (accessed 26 April 2023)
   • Memorial Property Book 3 p.277-278
7. ↑ Memorials of seventeenth and eighteenth century South Carolina land titles and index to auditor general memorials, 1731-1775: "Memorials of seventeenth and eighteenth century South Carolina land titles and index to auditor general memorials, 1731-1775"
   Catalog: Memorials of seventeenth and eighteenth century South Carolina land titles and index to auditor general memorials, 1731-1775 Memorial books, v. 3-4
   Film number: 008621904 > image 305 of 1183
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C34L-L34K (accessed 26 April 2023)
   • Memorial Property Bk 3 p. 278
8. ↑ Charleston city, Charleston County and South Carolina miscellaneous land records, 1719-1873; index to land records, 1719-1898: "Charleston city, Charleston County and South Carolina miscellaneous land records, 1719-1873; index to land records, 1719-1898"
   Catalog: Charleston city, Charleston County and South Carolina miscellaneous land records, 1719-1873; index to land records, 1719-1898 Land records, v. M5-N5 1784-1786
   Film number: 008139647 > image 599 of 695
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSK3-NQM4-X (accessed 27 April 2023)
   • Deed BK N5 p.496, 4 Jan 1783
9. ↑ Edisto Island, A Family Affair By Amy S. Connor, Sheila L. Beardsley, Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society, 1998 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Edisto_Island/jsQM1BH37W4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Locksley+Hall+Plantation&pg=PA34&printsec=frontcover
   • p.34
10. ↑ Deed Bk L7 p.85
11. ↑ Edings Plantation Edisto Island, 1861 to 2006, Ruin, Recovery and Rebirth, By Charles Spencer, 2008 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Edisto_Island_1861_to_2006/1gSACQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Slaves+of+Locksley+Hall+Plantation&pg=PT105&printsec=frontcover
    • p.164
12. ↑ 1849 Deed Bk B12 p.473
13. ↑ South Carolina, Freedmen'...Office Records, 1865-1872: "South Carolina, Freedmen'...Office Records, 1865-1872"
    Catalog: Records of the field offices for the state of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
    Image path: South Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 > Berkley district > Roll 62, Labor contracts, A-M, 1868 > image 22 of 32; citing NARA microfilm publication M1910 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
    FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-99ZG-8X6R (accessed 3 May 2023)
    • Freedmen Bureau Contract for Seaside Plantation, 2 pages
14. ↑ South Carolina, Freedmen'...Office Records, 1865-1872: "South Carolina, Freedmen'...Office Records, 1865-1872"
    Catalog: Records of the field offices for the state of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
    Image path: South Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 > Berkley district > Roll 62, Labor contracts, A-M, 1868 > image 25 of 32; citing NARA microfilm publication M1910 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
    FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-89ZG-8XR1 (accessed 3 May 2023)
    • Freedmens Bureau Contract rental agreement on Seabrook Place, 2 pages
15. ↑ South Carolina, Freedmen'...Office Records, 1865-1872: "South Carolina, Freedmen'...Office Records, 1865-1872"
    Catalog: Records of the field offices for the state of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 Reports of the number of persons issued rations, medicines, and clothing, Sept. 1865-Dec. 1867; Monthly reports of lands, Sept.-Nov. 1865, June 1866-Feb. 1867; Register of complaints, Sept. 1866-Nov. 1867; Register of contracts, Dec. 1865-May 1866; Docket of Superior Provost Court at Summerville, May 1866; Labor contracts for the Colleton District, June 1865-Feb. 1868; Miscellaneous records, 1866-1868 [NARA M1910 roll 103].
    Image path: South Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 > Summerville (subassistant commissioner) > Roll 103, Labor contracts for the Colleton District, Jun 1865-Feb 1868 > image 311 of 862; citing NARA microfilm publication M1910 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
    FamilySearch Image: 3QSQ-G9ZG-YR3G (accessed 3 May 2023)
    • Freedmen work contract unknown plantation
16. ↑ United States, Freedmen's...t Commissioner, 1865-1872: "United States, Freedmen's...t Commissioner, 1865-1872"
    Catalog: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the state of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870 Unregistered Applications for Restoration of Property, A-K 1865-1868. (NARA Series M869, Roll 30)
    Image path: United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872 > South Carolina > Roll 30, Unregistered applications for restoration of property, A-K, 1865-1868 > image 398 of 742; citing multiple NARA microfilm publications; Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861 - 1880, RG 105; (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1969-1980).
    FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C9TZ-835C-N (accessed 28 April 2023)