Basic Information

• Location – Spring Island, Colleton River, Beaufort County

• Origin of name – ?

• Other names – ?

• Current status – ?

Timeline

• 1718 – Earliest known date of existence

  Sir John Colleton was granted 12,000 acres which he called Devil's Elbow Barony (Northern Money Southern Land, p. 12).
  

• 1777 – Sir John Colleton died. The large land holding had remained together up until his death. (Northern Money Southern Land, p. 12).
  

• ? – The Colleton family sold 6,000 acres of the barony (Northern Money Southern Land, p. 68).
  

• ? – House built

Land

• Number of acres – ?

• Primary crop – ?

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Colcock, Colleton (1718-1777), James M. Eason (1864), Charles T. Lowndes
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• ?

Web Resources

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Print Resources

• Initial references: 4, 67

• Northern Money Southern Land, The Lowcountry Plantations Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin edited by Robert B. Cuthbert and Stephen G. Hoffius, Publisher, The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C.

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