Location: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Surnames/tags: Prioleau Slavery Black_Heritage
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Background
Samuel Prioleau lived in the Charleston area of South Carolina. He died 3 January 1792.[1] His will was written 2 Feb 1779 and proven 11 Jan 1792. Family members mentioned are his sons Samuel, Philip, and Hext Prioleau, daughters Ann, Martha, and Elizabeth Prioleau, daughter Mary Magdalen Grimball, and son-in-law Thomas Grimball, Jr.[2]
Plantations
1767 Advertisement for an overseer for his plantation.[3]
- The Medway, or also called the Back River estate. It grew rice and manufactured bricks.[4]
- The Prioleau Plantation[5]
- Oak Grove[6]
- Retreat[6](this may be the same as his grandson's Sportsman's Retreat Plantation)
Slaves
- Some of these enslaved are in his father Samuel's estate[7]
In 1792 Samuel Prioleau had a number of enslaved persons listed in his probate inventory. There was a line between each of these groups, probably family groups.[4]
- Abraham
- Mertilla wife
- Tenny daughter
- Colty grandson
- Dye, mother
- Prince, son
- Scipio, son
- Amy, daughter
- Fatima, daughter
- Cooba, grandchild
- Sary, grandchild
- Honesty, grandchild
- Sary, mother
- Tom, son
- Isaac, son
- Quasheba, daughter
her 2 children
- Judy
- Sary
- Will
- Molly
their 5 children
- Phebe
- Patience
- Monday
- Sampson
- Dye
- Phebe
- Carolina, her son
- Satira his wife
- Patty their child
- Friday
- Minty, his wife
- Sophia
- Quaccoo, son
- Rose, daughter
- Old Jack
- Old Rose
- Smart
- Old Venus
- Grace
- Sue, daughter
- Polydore, son
- Roderick, grandson
- Old Sylvia
- Beck, dau
- Sylvia, dau
- John, son
- Philip, husband
- Murriah, child
- Little Abraham
- Old Chloe, his wife
- Chloe
- Clarinda, dau
- Old Jehu
- Old Cesar
- Adam
- Thomas
- Taffy & his wife
- Peggy
- Ned & his wife
- Celia & 3 children
- Ned
- Peggy
- Charles
- Dick & his wife
- Chloe and children
- Binah
- Beck
- August & his wife
- Beck
- Discount & his wife
- Murriah
Sources
- ↑ FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35436826/samuel-prioleau
- ↑
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. 24 1786-1793 Wills v. 25-26 1793-1800
Image path: South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977 > Charleston > Wills, 1786-1793, Vol. 024 > image 207 of 1087; Citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia.
FamilySearch Image (accessed 11 March 2022)- 1792 transcription of Samuel Prioleau's will
- ↑ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97429525/1767-prioleau-advert-for-overseer/ The South-Carolina Gazette; and Country Journal, Charleston, South Carolina, 20 Oct 1767, Tue, Page 4
- Overseer needed for brickmaking
- ↑ 4.0 4.1
South Carolina Probate Re...d Loose Papers, 1732-1964:
"South Carolina Probate Re...d Loose Papers, 1732-1964"
Catalog: Charleston District, South Carolina estate inventories, 1732-1844 1783-1810
Image path: South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964 > Charleston > Probate Court, Estate inventories > 1787-1793 > No File Description Available > image 527 of 1123
FamilySearch Image (accessed 11 March 2022)- 1792 inventory of Samuel Prioleau
- ↑ The Chicken Trilogy https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Chicken_Trilogy/H8xHDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Samuel+Prioleau+Back+River+plantation&pg=PT175&printsec=frontcover Rose, Jennie Haskell., Heitzler Ed. D., Michael J.. The Chicken Trilogy: The Chicken Family Trials and Tribulations in the Carolina Frontier. United Kingdom: AuthorHouse, 2017.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Charleston and Charleston Neck Original Grantees https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27569444.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Af50ae26995c6c5412930ef637543a7f8&ab_segments=&origin=
- p.62
- ↑ if you profile these slaves please see his father's estate so as not to duplicate slaves
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