Basic Information

• Location – Clarks Sound, James Island, St Andrews Parish, Charleston County
  

  Located off Fort Johnson Road
  

• Origin of name –

• Other names – Lawton's

• Current status – Privately owned

Timeline

• ? – Earliest known date of existence

• 1802 – Winborn Lawton purchased 95¾ acres from Gracia Rivers. In the sale it states that the land he purchased was part of the dower of Mary Rivers, Gracia's wife.
  

• 1843 – Winborn Lawton appears to have sold the plantation to James M. Lawton either at this time or earlier. James M. Lawton mortgaged the plantation through Winborn Lawton.
  

  To read a copy of the mortgage aggrement, click here.
  

• 1859 – James M. Lawton sold to the plantation to Ephriam M. Clark. Clark paid $12,000 for 368 acres.
  

  To read a copy of the deed, click here.
  

• 1867 – Current home built

Land

• Number of acres –

• Primary crop – Sea island cotton

Owners

• Alphabetical list – Ephraim M. Clark; Captain William and Mary Davis; James M. Lawton; Winorn Lawton; Cecil Oswald; Garcia Rivers
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves –

Buildings

• In the 1930s there was a corn crib and a dairy building on the property. There was also a cotton gin house at one time.
  

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