The Blessing Plantation

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Huger, Berkeley, South Carolina, United States
Surnames/tags: Ball Slavery Black_Heritage

Index of Ball Plantations

Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Owners 1.2 Inventory of Slaves of Jordan Myrick 10 Dec 1834 1.3 Blessing Cemetery 2 Sources

Introduction

1682 is the earliest known date of existence; Jonah Lynch received a grant for 780 acres. He called his property Blessing after the ship that brought him to the new colonies .

Jordan Myrick owned The Blessing and an inventory of his slaves was done on 10 Dec 1834. James Poyas might have purchased it before the inventory was done.

In 1834, James Poyas and his wife Charlotte Bentham purchased the plantation. They built a two-and-a-half-story rectangular frame plantation house.

[Laurens-2|Henry Laurens]] purchased the Blessing [Date unknown] and then proceeded to purchase Cherry Hill and Cedar Hill. While in the possession of the Laurens family the plantations were once again divided.^[1] By 1860, all three plantations were owned by William James Ball.

Owners

Jonah Lynch (1682)

Jordan Myrick (bef. 1834)

James Poyas (1834)

Henry Laurens  ?

William James Ball (owned 1860)

Inventory of Slaves of Jordan Myrick 10 Dec 1834

^[2]

Name	Value	Sub-total/Total
Tom	$483
Delia	$70
Bina	$400
Rachel	$250
Flora	$150
Little Delia	$100
Boy Hamilton/child	$50
Jeffry/child	$50
Nat, Carpenter	$500
Fanny	$400
Sirry/child	$100
Sucky	$150
Venus	$400	$3,103
Mary	$100
Elisabeth	$50
Toney	$75
Fendes	$400
Fendes child, Diana	$50
Scilla	$1
Adam	$400
Sindy	$400
Jim	$50
Linny	$400
Brutus	$150	$2,076
Cassandra	$150
Nancy	$75
Sambo	$400
Tom	$500
Aberdeen	$500
Billy	$400
Diana	$400
Cyrus	$400
Marcia	$200
Cain	$50
Harriet	$300
Billy	$500	$3,875
Lucretia	$1
Jack	$500
Willoughby	$400
Henry	$50
Rhina	$350
Anny	$300
Mary	$250
Sue	$250
Hagar	$200
Nelly	$150
Sam	$100
Rose	$100
Isaac	$400
Anthony	$1	$3,052
Inventory of Slaves at Richmond - 10 Dec 1834
Handy	$500
Catherine	$200
Rachel	$400
Ben	$275
Alvira	$200
Cyrus	$300
Harry	$400
Mark	$250
Clifford	$500
Henry	$300
Betty	$300
York	$500	$4,125
	Total:	$16,231

Blessing Cemetery

Blessing Plantation African-American Cemetery, Cooper River Historic District^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://south-carolina-plantations.com/berkeley/blessing.html
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-JJRT-J?i=27&cc=1911928
3. ↑ http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/berkeley/S10817708004/pages/S1081770800411.htm

• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-JJRG-V?i=28&cc=1911928
• https://south-carolina-plantations.com/berkeley/blessing.html