By Jeannette Holland Austin
Settlement of Goose Creek began ca 1671 with planters from Barbados bringing slave labor into the area. Some notable Goose Creek Plantations included Medway, Yeamans Hall, Windsor Hill, The Elms, Otranto, Martindales, The Oaks,Crowfield, Liberty Hall, Howe Hall and Brick Hope.
The Oaks Plantation
Berkeley County Wills
Berkeley County was formed in 1682 from the parishes of St. John
Berkeley, St. James Goose Creek, St. James Santee, St. Stephen, St.
Thomas and St. Denis. It was named for two of the Lords Proprietors of
Carolina, Lord John Berkeley (died 1678) and Sir William Berkeley (d.
1677). Berkeley county is referenced many times in the old deed
records, but one needs to be aware of the fact that in 1769 it became
part of Charleston District, and that it did not become a separate
county again until 1882. This is why you see many of the Charleston
County deeds headed up Berkeley County. During the late seventeenth
century English and French Huguenot planters and their African slaves
settled the area, establishing large rice plantations which are now
covered by the waters of Lake Moultrie. Earliest settlers: General William Moultrie (1730-1805), General Francis Marion (1732-1795), known as Swamp Fox, Henry Laurens (1724-1792), president of the Continental Congress but a resident of Mepkin Plantation.
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