Overview

Location

St. Helena Island, Beaufort Co., SC

Date Constructed/ Founded

not determined

Associated Surnames

Chaplin

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

Paul Chaplin Plantation (Beaufort Co., SC), Tombee Plantation (Beaufort Co., SC)

Associated Free Persons

• Paul Chaplin - plantation owner; uncle of Thomas B. Chaplin (owner of Tombee Plantation)

Associated Enslaved Persons

1845-1858 Slaves of Paul Chaplin

Named in the plantation journal of Thomas B. Chaplin

• Aaron - William J. Jenkins (owner of William Jenkins Plantation) took possession of Aaron in 1851
• June - wife Eliza lived at Tombee Plantation (m.1849)

1845 Slaves of Paul Chaplin

From "Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter" by Theodore Rosengarten

• 34 slaves

1850 Slaves of Paul Chaplin

From "Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter" by Theodore Rosengarten

• 38 slaves

1860 Slaves of Paul Chaplin

From "Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter" by Theodore Rosengarten

• 75 slaves

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Rosengarten, T. Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter. William Morrow & Company, Inc. New York, NY. 1986.

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