Overview

Location

Cooper River, Charleston Co., SC

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Laurens

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

Mepkin Plantation (Berkeley Co., SC)

Associated Free Persons

• John B. Laurens - owner
• Caroline Laurens - wife of John B. Laurens

Associated Enslaved Persons

• Morris Collins - Freedmen's Bank Record states that Morris was born at Cedar Hill. Document Image: http://www.africanaheritage.com/quickbrowseatt.asp?DocumentID=2166

Research Leads and Plantation Records

Caroline Olivia Laurens Diary

Manuscripts Department Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION #3483-z, CAROLINE OLIVIA LAURENS DIARY. Diary containing monthly entries concerning the health, personal activities, and children's development in the family of John B. Laurens, planter near Charleston, S.C., and his wife Caroline. The Laurens lived first at Mepkin Plantation on the Cooper River and then moved to Cedar Hill.

http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/l/Laurens,Caroline_Olivia

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Caroline Olivia Laurens Diary. Manuscripts Department Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/l/Laurens,Caroline_Olivia

• Collins,Morris. Freedmen's Savings and Trust Account Record, Charleston County, SC, 1871. Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, NARA Microfilm Publication M816, Reel 22. Image: http://www.africanaheritage.com/quickbrowseatt.asp?DocumentID=2166 Transcription: http://www.africanaheritage.com/uploads/3070/CollinsMorrisFBRchtr.txt

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