— Brabant Plantation © Gazie Nagle —

Basic Information

• Location – French Quarter Creek, eastern branch of the Cooper River, St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, Berkeley County

  Located near the intersection of SC 41 and Cainhoy Road on Clements Ferry Rd
  

• Origin of name – For one of the original, large land owner

• Other names – Pagett's Landing, Brickyard Landing

• Current status – Residential housing

Timeline

• 1696 – Earliest known date of existence when Lewis Juin was issued a land grant for 200 acres

  Several smaller land grants have been combined to create Brabant Plantation with the plantation taking its name from the largest land owner. These smaller land grants were issued as follows:
  –   1696 – 200 acres to Lewis Juin
  –   1704 – 210 acres to James Belin
  –   1704 – 299 acres to Francis Pagett
  –   1704 – 200 acres to Julien Carteau
  –   1705 – 150 acres to Philip Norman
  –   1707 – 200 acres to Anthony Poitevin
  –   1709 – 500 acres to Daniel Brabant
  –   1710 – 26 acres to Daniel Brabant
  –   1713 – 150 acres to Peter Potevin
  –   1714 – 390 acres to Francis Pagett
  –   1719 – 70 acres to Francis Pagett
  –   1719 – 52 acres to Francis Pagett
  (History of Brabant Plantation)
  

• ? – House built

• 1730 – Francis Pagett died. He had previously married the widow of Lewis Juin and left their combined land holdings to their three sons Francis, Peter, and John (History of Brabant Plantation).
  

• ? – John Pagett would over time acquire 2,528 acres of the original land grants and added additional acres to grow the plantation to a total of 3,600 acres (History of Brabant Plantation).
  

• ? – After John's death, his estate was divided among many heirs. It is not clear how his estate was divided but John's sister Elizabeth appears to have inherited Brabrant (History of Brabant Plantation).
  

• ? – Elizabeth Pagett married Bishop Robert Smith. They had no children (History of Brabant Plantation).
  

• ? – Upon Elizabeth's death, her husband took control of the plantation (History of Brabant Plantation).
  

• 1801 – Smith's oldest son, Robert, inherited Brabant at his father's death. Robert sold off pieces of the plantation (History of Brabant Plantation).
  

• ? – Lord Cornwallis set-up his headquarters at Brabant during the British siege of Charles Town during the American Revolutionary War (History of Brabant Plantation).
  

• 1852 – Smith descendants sold their remaining land to Dr. Edmund Ravenel. Ravenel also acquired other pieces that had been sold off plus additional properties including Grove Plantation and Moreland Plantation (History of Brabant Plantation).
  

• Late 1860s – The house was destroyed by fire after it had been abandoned during the Civil War (History of Brabant Plantation).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 3,600 under John Pagett

• Primary product – Brick manufacturing (History of Brabant Plantation)

Owners

• Chronological list – Lewis Juin (1696-?), James Belin (1704-?), Francis Pagett (1704-1730), Julien Carteau (1704-?), Philip Norman (1705-?), Anthony Poitevin (1707-?), Daniel Brabant (1709-?), Peter Potevin (1713-?), Francis Pagett (1714-?), Francis, Peter. and John Pagett (1730-?), Elizabeth Pagett, Bishop Robert Smith (?-1801), Robert Smith (1801-?), Dr. Edmund Ravenel (1852-?)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – ?

Buildings

• The house was a two and a half story frame building (History of Brabant Plantation)

Web Resources

• History of Brabant Plantation: Click here

Print Resources

• Claude Henry Neuffer, editor, Names in South Carolina, Volume I through 30 (Columbia, SC: The State Printing Company)
   Order Names in South Carolina, Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965
   Order Names in South Carolina, Index XIII-XVIII
  

• John Beaufain Irving, A Day on Cooper River (1842) (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010)
  
  

• SC Highway Historical Marker Guide - online database by the SC Department of Archives & History
  

• J. Russell Cross, Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Company, 1985)
   Order Historic Ramblin's through Berkeley

• News & Courier Newspaper (predecessor to the Charleston Post & Courier) February 26, 1933 issue reprint of Free South April 4, 1863 listing of St. Helena Island plantation sales prior to the Civil War