Millford Plantation, Clarendon County, South Carolina

Date: 1839 [unknown]
Location: Pinewood, Sumter, South Carolina, United States
Surnames/tags: Manning Slavery black_heritage

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Introduction

Millford Plantation, aka Manning's Folly, was built on land inherited by John Lawrence Manning from his grandfather, Richard Richardson. Originally in Sumter County, the county line moved to Clarendon County in 1855. The city of Manning became the county seat and was named for John Lawrence Manning, the largest slave owner in South Carolina and the 6th largest in the country in 1860.

The plantation was built between 1839 and 1841 for John L. Manning and his wife, Susan Frances Hampton Manning. It was built by Nathaniel F. Potter of Providence, Rhode Island and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Susan Frances (Hampton) Manning was the daughter of General Wade Hampton (one of the largest slave owners in the United States) and his wife, Mary Cantey.

He also had a plantation/estate in Louisiana. The Register of Freedmen lists 17 freed men, women and children with the last name of Singleton, all formerly enslaved on the Manning estate in Ascension Parish, LA. On that list, the current employers are named Fowle & Baxter.^[1]

Owners

John Laurence Manning

Sources

1. ↑ https://archive.org/details/recordsoffieloui0029unit/page/n223/mode/1up?view=theater

• Milford Plantation Wikipedia
• "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKRW-RMZM : 16 October 2019), Jno L Manning, 1860.
• https://south-carolina-plantations.com/sumter/milford.html#3