Buckner Plantation – Combahee River – Colleton County

Basic Information

• Location – Chehaw Neck, Combahee River, St. Bartholomew's Parish, Colleton County

• Origin of name – Once owned by the Buckner family

• Other names – ?

• Current status – Became part of Middleton's Plantation in 1850
  

Timeline

• 1762 – Earliest known date of existence

  Mr. Fletcher was given a grant (2, p. 341).
  

• ? – House built

• ? – Mr. Veitch acquired the property (1).
  

• ? – Henry Veitch inherited the property from his father (1).
  

• 1811 – Margaret Morrison Veitch inherited the plantation and 18 slaves (see below for their names) from her husband Henry Veitch upon his death (1).
  

• 1814 – Margaret Veitch married Benjamin Heape Buckner and the plantation was part of her marriage dowry (1).
  

• 1820 – Benjamin and Margaret Buckner sold the property to William Murray (1).
  

• ? – William Murray passed away.
  

• 1850 – Oliver Hering Middleton purchased two tracts, Buckner and Oak Hill, from the heirs of William Murray. Middleton combined these two tracts along with property his wife Susan Chisolm Middleton had inherited to create Middleton's Plantation (1) (2, p. 341).
  

Land

• Number of acres – 200 in 1850 (2, p. 341)
  

• Primary crops – Rice, tobacco, cotton, vegetables (1)
  

Slaves

• Number of slaves – 18 in 1811 (1)
  

  Henry Veitch bequeathed his slaves to his wife Margaret at the time of his death. Margaret's marriage dowry to Benjamin Buckner of 1814 listed these slaves:
  

  Suash Scisio Betty Clarissa Buck Dolly Nestor Ceasus Sary

  Sue Jack Stephen Dianah Judy Sophia Stephen, a boy Tina Toney

References & Resources

1. Information contributed by Gail Black, a Buckner family descendant; includes documentation held by the South Carolina Historical Society.

2. Suzanne Cameron Linder, Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin - 1860 (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995)
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