Meggett Place Plantation, Charleston County, South Carolina

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Edisto Island, Charleston, South Carolina
Surnames/tags: slavery black_heritage Edisto Island

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Contents 1 Background 1.1 Owners 1.2 Slaves 2 Sources

Background

Part of Scanawah Island on Edisto Island, Meggett Place was originally part of a large (over 1,000 acre) parcel that was subsequently partitioned. Laurel Hill and Brookland Plantations were sold off. The plantation staying in the Meggett family for over 100 years, then was passed to other families, and eventually returned to the family.^[1]

Owners

• John Kennaway(Kennerway) to Thomas Rake^[2]
• Thomas Rake (his profile will be made by Michelle's PATH Mentee) to Ralph Bayly (Bailey)^[3][4]
• Ralph Bailey (and William Scott?) to John Meggott^[5]
• William Meggett
• John Meggett^[6]
• James Meggett^[7]
• William Meggett^[8]
• William Crosskeys Meggett^[9]
• Martha Mary Murray Meggett (nothing connects her as an owner)
• William Fripp Meggett^[9]
• William Mikell Bailey MD (1816 - 1868))^[9]
• William Murray
• Joseph James Murray MD

Slaves

• Slaves of William Meggett 1726
• Slaves of James Meggett 1745
• Slaves of William Meggett 1785
• Slaves of William C. Meggett 1829

Sources

1. ↑ Spencer, Charles, Edisto Island 1663 to 1860: Wild Eden to Cotton Aristocracy Charleston, SC: The History Press (2012), p. 156
2. ↑ 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. 5-6
   Film number: 008621905 > image 145 of 1057
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C34L-79BL-T (accessed 22 May 2023)
   • sold to Thomas Rake, Memorial Bk 5 p.90
3. ↑ 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 955 of 1183
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C34L-L9MB (accessed 22 May 2023)
   • Memorial Deed Bk 4 p.330 Thomas Rake to Ralph Bayly
4. ↑ 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. 5-6
   Film number: 008621905 > image 754 of 1057
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C34L-79GT-X (accessed 22 May 2023)
   • Ralph Bailey, Memorial Deed Bk 6 p.249
5. ↑ 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 507 of 1183
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C34L-LSWJ (accessed 22 May 2023)
   • Bailey to Meggett Memorial Deed Bk 3 p.480
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 507 of 1183
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C34L-LSWJ (accessed 23 May 2023)
   • John Meggett, Memorial Deed Bk 3 p.480 3 May 1733
7. ↑ A memorial deed for 350 acres adjoining Edisto Island, dated 21 Jul 1743, property left to James Meggett by his father, butting to the land of Archibald Calder, marshes, and the Pon Pon River; also 180 acres of land left to him by the death of his mother, Mary Stuart?, also butting to the land of Archibald Calder, marshes, and the Pon Pon River, formerly purchased by his father William Meggett. 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. 7-8
   Film number: 008621906 > image 453 of 1186
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C34L-WSQF-J (accessed 23 May 2023)
   • Memorial Deed Bk 7 p.406 James Meggett, same property his brother John was registering in 1733
8. ↑ Wills and miscellaneous probate records, 1671-1868: "South Carolina Probate Re... Bound Volumes, 1671-1977"
   Catalog: Wills and miscellaneous probate records, 1671-1868 Wills v. 5 1740-1747
   Image path: South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977 > Charleston > Wills, 1740-1747, Vol. 005 > image 553 of 715; citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
   FamilySearch Image: 939L-VZYR-B (accessed 23 May 2023)
   • 1745 will of James Meggett
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} 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. B14-E14 1856-1867
   Film number: 008300049 > image 287 of 831
   FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-CSR8-69Z5-2 (accessed 5 June 2023)
   • William C. Meggett to William F. Meggett, to William M. Bailey, 1851 Deed Bk M12 p.137